1. In 1531, Henry VIII was recognized as the supreme head of the Church of England by the Convocation of Canterbury.

2. In 1586, Johan van Oldenbarnevelt became the Dutch chief legal advisor.

3. In 1641, the Ming Dynasty geographer and traveler Xu Xiake died.

4. In 1658, the Peace of Roskilde was signed between Sweden and Denmark.

5. In 1669, a coach carrying King Charles II and other members of the royal family overturned in the dark at Holborn.

6. In 1673, Charles II agreed to withdraw his Declaration of Indulgence to get financial aid from Parliament for the war against the Dutch.

7. In 1702, Anne became the last Stuart monarch of Great Britain.

8. In 1706, the Wiener Stadtbank in Vienna was established.

9. In 1711, Antoine de Guiscard tried to assassinate British Premier Harley.

10. In 1711, the Marquis de Guiscard stabbed Sir Robert Harley in the British cabinet.

11. In 1712, physician, naturalist and Quaker John Fothergill was born.

12. In 1722, Afghan monarch Mir Mahmud occupied Persia.

13. In 1746, the Duke of Cumberland's troops occupied Aberdeen.

14. In 1748, a British naval squadron captured Port Louis, Saint-Domingue from the French.

15. In 1754, the Marquis of Ensenada became the premier of Spain.

16. In 1766, Willem V became the governor of the United Provinces.

17. In 1777, regiments from Ansbach and Bayreuth mutinied in Ochsenfurt.

18. In 1782, Pennsylvania militiamen murdered patriot allies.

19. In 1782, the Gnadenhutten massacre occurred, where Ohio militia killed 90 Native Americans.

20. In 1799, Napoleon Bonaparte's forces captured the city of Jaffa from the Ottoman Empire.

21. In 1801, the British drove French forces from Abukir, Egypt.

22. In 1817, the New York Stock Exchange was founded.

23. In 1838, the US Mint in New Orleans began operation.

24. In 1841, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. was born in the United States.

25. In 1844, King Oscar I ascended to the throne of Sweden-Norway.

26. In 1854, Commodore Matthew C. Perry made his second trip to Japan.

27. In 1854, the first train crossed the first US railway suspension bridge at Niagara Falls.

28. In 1857, British seismologist John Milne was hired by the Japanese government.

29. In 1861, St. Augustine, Florida surrendered to Union armies.

30. In 1862, the Battle of Elkhorn Tavern ended with Confederate withdrawal.

31. In 1862, the Confederate ironclad "Merrimack" was launched.

32. In 1865, the Battle of Kingston, North Carolina took place.

33. In 1867, the British North America Act was passed in the House of Commons.

34. In 1884, Susan B. Anthony addressed the US House Judiciary Committee for women's suffrage.

35. In 1887, Everett Horton patented a fishing rod of telescoping steel tubes.

36. In 1894, the state of New York enacted the nation's first dog-licensing law.

37. In 1896, Volunteers of America was formed in New York City.

38. In 1898, Richard Strauss' "Don Quixote" premiered in Keulen.

39. In 1908, Baroness Raymonde de la Roche became the first licensed female pilot.

40. In 1910, French aviatrix Raymonde de la Roche received the world's first female pilot's licence.

41. In 1913, the Internal Revenue Service began to levy and collect income taxes.

42. In 1915, the first US Navy minelayer, Baltimore, was commissioned.

43. In 1917, the Russian "February Revolution" began.

44. In 1917, the US Senate introduced the cloture rule.

45. In 1918, the Russian Bolshevik Party became the Communist Party.

46. In 1920, Denmark and Cuba joined the League of Nations.

47. In 1921, Spanish premier Eduardo Dato Iradier was assassinated.

48. In 1924, a coal mine explosion killed 171 in Castle Gate, Utah.

49. In 1927, Pan American Airlines incorporated.

50. In 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 vanished with more than 200 people aboard.