1600 – Vatican convicts scholar Giordano Bruno to death
1909 – France and Germany sign treaty about Morocco
1923 – Coal mine explosion at Dawson, New Mexico kills 120
1927 – Belgian-Swiss treaty signed
1955 – The Government of Sindh abolished Jagirdari system in the province. One million acres (4000 km²) of land thus acquired is to be distributed among the landless peasants.
1967 – Peter (Asher) and Gordon (Waller) discontinue their singing partnership
1968 – Orangeburg Massacre: highway patrol officers kill 3 students and injure 27 others demonstrating at South Carolina State University, 1st student killing by law enforcement in the US
1976 – Largest crowd at Cleveland Coliseum (Cavs vs Wash-21,130)
1979 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
2014 – Justine and Chloe Dufour-Lapointe claim gold and silver medals in the moguls freestyle skiing event at the Sochi Winter Olympics; first Canadian sisters to stand together on the podium