1528 Treaty of Gorinchem signed between Holy Roman EmperorCharles V and Duke Charles of Guelders

1536 KingChristian III of Denmark & Norway leads reform in Catholic possessions

1634 King of EnglandCharles I levies the "Ship Money" tax on all English and Welsh counties

1714 Georg Ludwig von Hannover crowned as Britain's KingGeorge I at Westminster Abbey

1839Margaret Fuller is appointed editor of new US Transcendental Magazine "The Dial"

1877Franz Schubert's 2nd Symphony in B premieres in London, England by Crystal Palace Orchestra, conducted by Alfred Manns

1889Gerhart Hauptmann's play "Vor Sonnenaufgang" (Before Dawn) premieres in Berlin to a scandalous reception

1905 Russian TsarNicholas II allows the Poles to speak Polish to help quell the revolution in the Kingdom of Poland

1908 KingLeopold II sells Congo to Belgium

1911Helen Hayes Theater (Folies Bergere) opens at 210W 46th St, NYC

1911 NorwegianRoald Amundsen sets out a race to the South Pole

1917 US suffragetteAlice Paul begins a seven-month jail sentence for peacefully picketing in support of the Women's Suffrage (right to vote) Amendment at the White House in Washington, D.C.

1918 In order to secure a WWI armistice, Germany agrees to further concessions

1928 Wien Alaska Airways, Inc. incorporated; the first airline in Alaska and one of the 1st in the US withNoel Wien as president

1931Frankie Frisch of the Cards named MVP

1934 MLB All-Star team led by Connie Mack and includingBabe Ruth,Jimmie Foxx andLou Gehrig sails to Japan for 18-game series against Big-Six University League

1934Richard Strauss completes his opera "Die Schweigsame Frau" (The Silent Woman)

1935 Communist forces end their Long March at Yan'an, in Shaanxi, China, bringingMao Zedong to prominence

1935 Detroit Tigers future Baseball Hall of Fame first basemanHank Greenberg is named AL MVP by the BWAA; Boston Red Sox pitcherWes Ferrell is runner-up

1936Carl Hubbell, 26-6, edges out Dizzy Dean, 24-13, for MVP honors in NL

1939 "All the Things You Are" recorded byTommy Dorsey Orchestra

1939 PopePius XII publishes his 1st encyclical Summi pontificatus

1944 US forces under GeneralDouglas MacArthur return to the Philippines with the landing of the US 6th army on Leyte

1947 Robinson Jeffers' play "Medea" adapted fromEuripides premieres in NYC

1950 ChemistsArcher John Porter Martin and James Lovelock give the first demonstration of gas chromatography at a meeting of the Biochemical Society. The technique is rapidly adopted by the petrochemical industry.

1955 "The Return of the King," the third and final volume of "TheLord of the Rings" byJ. R. R. Tolkien, is published by George Allen & Unwin in London

1955 Calypso singerHarry Belafonte records his signature tune "Day-O" (Banana Boat Song) in NYC

1957Walter Cronkite begins hosting weekly documentary

1959Clark Griffith of Senators says team will not move the franchise

1960 Ralph Houk, 41, replacesCasey Stengel as Yankee manager

1962Peter, Paul and Mary's debut folk album "Peter, Paul and Mary" reaches No. 1 on US album charts

1963Alec Douglas-Home's Conservative Party forms British government

1963Jim Brown sets NFL single-season rushing record, 1,863 yds

1963 South Africa begins trial ofNelson Mandela & 8 others on conspiracy charges

1966 Nobel Prize for Literature awarded jointly to Jewish writers Shmuel Yosef Agnon andNelly Sachs

1968 American sprinterJim Hines anchors US men's 4 x 100m relay team to win his second gold medal at the Mexico City Olympics; with teammates Charles Greene, Mel Pender & Ronnie Ray Smith sets world record 38.24s

1971 US SenatorEdward Kennedy calls for a withdrawal of British troops from Northern Ireland and all-party negotiations to establish a United Ireland

1971 West German ChancellorWilly Brandt is awarded Nobel Peace Prize

1972 John Betjeman is appointed British Poet Laureate byQueen Elizabeth II

1972Queen Juliana visits Yugoslavia

1973 Mariette Hartley appears on "TheBob Newhart Show" in the episode "Have You Met Miss Dietz?"

1973Queen Elizabeth II opens the Sydney Opera House at Bennelong Point in Sydney, Australia, after 14 years of construction

1973 US President Nixon proclaimsJim Thorpe to have been the greatest athlete of the 1st half of the 20th century

1977David Mamet's "Life in the Theater" premieres in NYC

1979Bob Dylan make his only appearance on "Saturday Night Live" performing three songs from his album Slow Train Coming: ‘When You Gonna Wake Up’, ‘Gotta Serve Somebody’ and ‘I Believe in You’'

1979John F. Kennedy Library dedicated in Boston, Massachusetts

1980 Geffen Records release their first album,Donna Summer's "The Wanderer"

1982Billy Martin fired as manager of Oakland A's

1984 Islander'sMike Bossy's 30th career hat trick, in his 6th career 4-goal game, an 8-3 win over visiting Los Angeles Kings

1991 Brazilian McLaren driverAyrton Senna clinches his 2nd straight, and 3rd overall F1 World Drivers Championship by finishing 2nd in the Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka

1996Wasim Akram (257) & Saqlain Mushtaq gets cricket Test record 313 for 8th wicket, vs Zimbabwe at Sheikhupura

1998 ComedianRichard Pryor receives the first-ever Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor

2002 Motoring TV series "Top Gear" premieres on the BBC, starringJeremy Clarkson,Richard Hammond, and Jason Dawe (replaced after the first season by James May)

2011 The former leader of Libya,Muammar Gaddafi, and his son Moatassem Gaddafi are killed shortly after the battle of Sirte (2011) while in the custody of NTC fighters.

2014Joko Widodo becomes President of Indonesia

2015 US Vice PresidentJoe Biden confirms he will not run for President in 2016