1575 – French Roman Catholics and Huguenots sign treaty
1576 – Eighty Years’ War: Pacification of Ghent – 17 Dutch provinces sign anti-Spanish covenant
1598 – Spanish troops under Bernardino de Mendoza conquer Doetinchem
1798 – Irish revolutionary Wolfe Tone is sentenced to death by hanging for his part in the Irish Rebellion of 1798. Tone requests to be shot instead so as to die a soldier’s death.
1873 – Ciro Pinsuti’s opera “Il mercante di Venezia”, based on William Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice” is first performed, at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Italy
1967 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1990 – Unconfirmed rumors emerge that Bush might announce an airlift of supplies to US embassy in Kuwait, which could ultimately trigger a military clash
2017 – In unprecedented move, Indian officials close all Delhi schools for rest of the week due to smog