1.  1793: King Louis XVI of France was executed by guillotine in Paris.
2.  1824: The British explorer James Cook landed at Waimea, on Kauai island, becoming the first European to visit Hawaii.
3.  1885: Canadian rebel leader of the Métis and “Father of Manitoba”, Louis Riel, was executed for treason.
4.  1910: Japan rejected the American proposal to neutralize ownership of the Manchurian Railway.
5.  1919: The German Krupp plant began producing guns under the U.S. armistice terms.
6.  1930: An international arms control meeting opened in London.
7.  1942: In North Africa, German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel launched a drive to push the British eastward.
8.  1943: A Nazi daylight air raid killed 34 in a London school.
9.  1951: Communist troops forced the UN army out of Inchon, Korea, after a 12-hour attack.
10.  1958: The Soviet Union called for a ban on nuclear arms in Baghdad Pact countries.
11.  1960: The Reserve Bank of Australia, the country’s central bank and banknote-issuing authority, was established.
12.  1964: Carl T. Rowan was named the director of the United States Information Agency (USIA).
13.  1968: In Vietnam, the Siege of Khe Sanh began as North Vietnamese units surrounded U.S. Marines based on the hilltop headquarters.
14.  1970: The self-proclaimed Republic of Biafra in southeastern Nigeria surrendered to the federal government less than three years after declaring independence, ending the Nigerian Civil War.
15.  1974: The U.S. Supreme Court decided that pregnant teachers could no longer be forced to take long leaves of absence.
16.  1976: Leonid Brezhnev and Henry Kissinger met to discuss the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT).
17.  1977: President Carter urged 65 degrees as the maximum heat in homes to ease the energy crisis.
18.  1985: The Battle of Bakhamra took place, where the Abbasid Caliphate defeated the Alid rebels led by Ibrahim ibn Abdallah.
19.  1993: Actress Audrey Hepburn died in Switzerland.
20.  1993: Congressman Mike Espy of Mississippi was confirmed as Secretary of the Department of Agriculture.
21.  2000: Bill Clinton became the first U.S. President to visit Vietnam since the end of the Vietnam War.
22.  2007: The Concorde supersonic passenger jet began commercial service with flights from London to Bahrain and Paris to Rio de Janeiro.
23.  2013: Earth-like calcium-rich deposits were found on Mars by NASA’s Curiosity Rover.
24.  2018: In the “Minneapolis Miracle”, American football player Stefon Diggs caught a 61-yard touchdown pass that secured the Minnesota Vikings’ victory in the National Football Conference divisional playoff game.
25.  1919: The League of Nations rejected Japanese terms for settlement with China.
26.  1921: J.D. Rockefeller pledged $1 million for the relief of Europe’s destitute.
27.  1925: Benny Hill, British comedian, was born.
28.  1933: The League of Nations rejected Japanese terms for settlement with China.
29.  1941: The United States lifted the ban on selling arms to the Soviet Union.
30.  1955: The popular board game Scrabble went on sale in the UK.
31.  1960: The first woman lawyer in the colonies, Margaret Brent, was denied a vote in the Maryland Assembly.
32.  1970: The USS Nautilus, the world’s first operational nuclear-powered submarine, was launched in Groton, Connecticut.
33.  1977: Miami, Florida, received snow for the first and last time ever.
34.  1985: The Swiss Anabaptist Movement was born when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and others baptized each other in the home of Manz’s mother in Zürich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union.
35.  1993: The first official basketball game was played in Springfield, Massachusetts, by YMCA students of the game’s inventor, James A. Naismith.
36.  1997: Voters in Wales narrowly approved the creation of a Welsh assembly.
37.  2000: The first Monte Carlo Rally took place, establishing a tradition in motorsport.
38.  2004: The Iranian hostage crisis ended when Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini released 52 Americans who had been held hostage for 15 months.
39.  2010: The construction for the San Agustin Church in Manila was officially completed.
40.  2013: Earth-like calcium-rich deposits were found on Mars by NASA’s Curiosity Rover.
41.  2018: In the “Minneapolis Miracle”, American football player Stefon Diggs caught a 61-yard touchdown pass that secured the Minnesota Vikings’ victory in the National Football Conference divisional playoff game.
42.  1910: Japan rejected the American proposal to neutralize ownership of the Manchurian Railway.
43.  1919: The German Krupp plant began producing guns under the U.S. armistice terms.
44.  1930: An international arms control meeting opened in London.
45.  1942: In North Africa, German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel launched a drive to push the British eastward.
46.  1943: A Nazi daylight air raid killed 34 in a London school.
47.  1951: Communist troops forced the UN army out of Inchon, Korea, after a 12-hour attack.
48.  1958: The Soviet Union called for a ban on nuclear arms in Baghdad Pact countries.
49.  1960: The Reserve Bank of Australia, the country’s central bank and banknote-issuing authority, was established.
50.  1964: Carl T. Rowan was named the director of the United States Information Agency (USIA).