1622 French KingLouis XIII and leader of the Huguenots Duke Henry II of Rohan sign the Treaty of Montpellier ending hostilities

1685 French KingLouis XIV revokes the Edict of Nantes, canceling the rights of French Protestants

1775 African-American poetPhillis Wheatley freed from slavery

1776Tadeusz Kościuszko receives a commission from US Congress as a colonel of engineers in the Continental Army

1790Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling is granted permission to enroll at the Tübinger Stift at an earlier age than usually permitted

1855Franz Liszt's symphonic poem "Prometheus" premieres

1867 US takes formal possession of Alaska from Russia, after paying $7.2 million in the Alaska Purchase

1869Henrik Ibsen's play "De Unges Forbund" (The League of Youth) premieres in Christiania (Oslo), Norway

1904Gustav Mahler's 5th symphony premieres in Cologne, Germany

1910E. M. Forster publishes his novel "Howards End"

1912 Black boxerJack Johnson arrested for violating the Mann Act for "transporting women across state lines for immoral purposes" due to his relationship with white woman Lucille Cameron, allegedly a prostitute. Later convicted by an all-white jury and sentenced to a year in prison.

1912 The Treaty of Lausanne ends the Italo-Turkish War; Italy annexes Libya

1919David Beatty is created 1st Earl Beatty, Viscount Borodale, and Baron Beatty of the North Sea and Brooksby

1921Charles Strite granted US patent #1,394,450 for his invention, the automatic pop-up toaster

1924Harold "Red" Grange, finest collegiate football game (4 long TD runs)

1925 Salt Lake City (PCL)Tony Lazzeri hits his 60th HR of the season

1926 Frankfurter Zeitung publishesLenin's political testament

1931 GangsterAl Capone is convicted on five of the 23 counts of tax evasion against him, later fined $50,000 and sentenced to 11 years in jail

1942Hitler orders captured allied commandos to be killed

1944 Allied generalsDwight D. Eisenhower,Omar Bradley andBernard Montgomery confer in Brussels, Belgium

1945Paul Robeson wins Spingarn Medal for singing and acting achievements

1946Aaron Copland's 3rd Symphony first performance, with the Boston Symphony Orchestra led by Serge Koussevitzky

1955 "Track & Field" magazine namesJesse Owens all-time track athlete

1955 The antiproton (antiparticle of the proton) is discovered at University of California by physicists Emilio Segrè andOwen Chamberlain - wins 1959 Nobel Prize for Physics

1957 "TheFrank Sinatra Show" television variety/drama anthology series debuts on ABC; the singer-actor is given almost complete control of the program

1960Casey Stengel retired by NY Yankees (won 10 pennants in 12 years)

1961 Film adaptation of the 1957 Broadway musical "West Side Story", directed by Robert Wise andJerome Robbins, and starringNatalie Wood, premieres (Academy Award - Best Picture, 1962)

1961 NY's Museum of Modern Art displaysHenri Matisse's picture "Le Bateau" upside down, takes 47 days and 116,000 people before someone notices[1]

1962James Watson (US),Francis Crick (UK) andMaurice Wilkins (UK) win the Nobel Prize for Medicine for their work in determining the structure of DNA[1]

1962Tony Sheridan & Beat Brothers (also known as The Beatles) record "Let's Dance" in Hamburg, Germany

1962 US PresidentJohn F. Kennedy meets Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrei Gromyko

1966 "Persona", Swedish film directed byIngmar Bergman, starring Bibi Andersson and Liv Ullmann, is released

1967 Walt Disney's animated musical adaptation ofRudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Book" film is released; cast features voices of Phil Harris, Louis Prima, Sterling Holloway, and Sebastian Cabot

1968 Police find 219 grains of cannabis resin inJohn Lennon andYoko Ono's apartment, they are fined £150 for marijuana possession

1968 US Olympic Committee suspends Tommie Smith andJohn Carlos for giving the Black Power salute to protest racism and injustice against African-Americans during Olympic medal ceremony

1969 British singerRod Stewart joins rock band Small Faces

1974 American R&B singerAl Green's girlfriend, Mary Woodson, dies by suicide at his Memphis home, after assaulting him with a pot of boiling grits at 29

1974 Chicago BullsNate Thurmond, in his debut with the team, becomes 1st in NBA player to complete a quadruple double: 22 points, 14 rebounds, 13 assists, and 12 blocks

1974 The Country Hams release instrumental single "Walking in the Park with Eloise", written by James McCartney, and produced by his sonPaul McCartney: the group consisted of Wings with guests Chet Atkins and Floyd Cramer

1975 Simon & Garfunkel reunite on "Saturday Night Live", sing "My Little Town"

1976 Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to AmericanWilliam Lipscomb

1979 Iran'sAyatollah Khomeini orders mass executions to stop

1988 "Roseanne" TV comedy starringRoseanne Barr,John Goodman and Laurie Metcalf premieres in the US on ABC

1989 East German communist leaderErich Honecker resigns

1991 "My Own Private Idaho" directed and written by Gus van Sant starringRiver Phoenix andKeanu Reeves is released

1991 Revival ofFrank Loesser's 1956 musical "The Most Happy Fella" closes at NY State Theater, NYC, after a limited run by the New York City Opera

1997 The groundbreaking Guggenheim Museum, designed byFrank Gehry, is inaugurated by KingJuan Carlos I in Bilbao, Spain

2000 Zack de la Rocha announces he is leaving rock bandRage Against the Machine

2007 After 8 years in exile,Benazir Bhutto returns to Pakistan. The same night, suicide attackers blow themselves up near Bhutto's convoy, killing over 100, including 20 police officers. Bhutto escapes uninjured.

2009 QBTom Brady throws five second quarter touchdowns against the Tennessee Titans, an NFL record for touchdown passes in one quarter

2012Mary-Kate Olsen andAshley Olsen are honoured for their work with fashion label The Row at the WSJ Magazine's Innovator Of The Year Awards in New York City

2015Rashid Khan makes his One Day International (ODI) debut for Afghanistan against Zimbabwe

2017 19th Chinese Communist Party congress opens in Beijing with PresidentXi Jinping delivering 3hr 23min speech heralding “new era”

2019 The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, the World Economic Forum, and the Bill andMelinda Gates Foundation co-host "Event 201", a table-top panel exercise on dealing with a fictional high-level pandemic exercise in New York City[1]

2021 Marvel film "Eternals" directed byChloé Zhao, starring an ensemble cast including Gemma Chan,Richard Madden andAngelina Jolie premieres in Los Angeles

2022 The Girl Scouts of the USA announces receipt of donations totaling $84.5 million from American philanthropistMacKenzie Scott

2023 Climate activistGreta Thunberg arrested at a demonstration outside an oil conference in London

2023 US PresidentJoe Biden makes brief visit to Tel Aviv, Israel in attempt to ease tensions, pledging support for Israel but also urging caution[1]