1819 – Stamford Raffles founds Singapore as a British trading post
1862 – General Ulysses S. Grant captures Fort Henry in Tennessee
1941 – British troops conquer Bengazi, Libya
1988 – USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
2005 – Tony Blair, now the longest-serving Labour PM, marks 2,838 days as British Prime Minister
2009 – President Barack Obama announces the Economic Recovery Advisory Board, with Paul Volcker as Chairman and Austan Goolsbee as Staff Director and Chief Economist
2012 – Canadian singer Gordon Lightfoot is presented with the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal by the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
2024 – Landslide kills at least 68 with more missing, amid torrential rain, in Maco town, Davao de Oro, southern Philippines