Year 538 » Vitiges, Germanic king king of the Ostrogoths ends his Siege of Rome (537–538) siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving the city in the hands of the victorious Byzantine Empire Byzantine general, Belisarius.
Year 1550 » Several hundred Spanish Empire known as Spanish and indigenous troops under the command of Pedro de Valdivia defeat an army of 60,000 Mapuche at the Battle of Penco during the Arauco War in present-day Chile.
Year 1622 » Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier, founders of the Jesuits, are canonized as saints by the Catholic Church.
Year 1811 » Peninsular War: A day after a successful rear guard action, Marshal of France or French Marshal Michel Ney once again successfully delayed the pursuing Anglo-Portuguese force at the Battle of Redinha.
Year 1864 » American Civil War: The Red River Campaign begins as a US Navy fleet of 13 Ironclads and 7 Gunboats and other support ships enter the Red River.
Year 1885 » Tonkin Campaign: French Third Republic known as France Bắc Ninh Campaign e.g captures the citadel of Bắc Ninh.
Year 1894 » Coca-Cola is bottled and sold for the first time in Vicksburg, Mississippi, by local soda fountain operator Joseph Biedenharn.
Year 1910 » Greek cruiser Georgios Averof is launched at Livorno.
Year 1912 » The Girl Guide and Girl Scout called Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the United States.
Year 1913 » Canberra Day: The future capital of Australia is officially named Canberra. (Melbourne remains temporary capital until 1927 while the new capital is still under construction.)
Year 1918 » Moscow becomes the capital of Russia again after Saint Petersburg held this status for 215 years.
Year 1921 » İstiklal Marşı was adopted in TBMM(Turkish grand national assembly).
Year 1922 » Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan formed The Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic
Year 1928 » In California, the St. Francis Dam fails; the resulting floods kill over 600 people.
Year 1930 » Mahatma Gandhi leads a 200-mile march, known as the 'Salt Satyagraha Salt March', to the sea in defiance of United Kingdom British opposition, to protest the British Empire British monopoly on salt
Year 1933 » Great Depression: Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses the nation for the first time as President of the United States. This is also the first of his "fireside chats".
Year 1934 » Konstantin Päts and General Johan Laidoner stage a coup in Estonia, and ban all political parties.
Year 1938 » 'Anschluss:' Nazi Germany called German troops occupy Austria.
Year 1940 » Winter War: Finland signs the Moscow Peace Treaty (1940) or Moscow Peace Treaty with the Soviet Union, ceding almost all of Finnish Karelia. Finnish troops and the remaining population are immediately evacuated.
Year 1947 » The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of Communism.
Year 1961 » First Winter Ascent of the Eiger north face 1960s or Eiger north face.
Year 1967 » Suharto takes over from Sukarno to become List of Presidents of Indonesia or Acting President of Indonesia.
Year 1968 » Mauritius achieves independence from the United Kingdom.
Year 1992 » Mauritius becomes a republic while remaining a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
Year 1993 » The Blizzard of 1993 Snow begins to fall across the eastern portion of the US with tornadoes, thunder snow storms, high winds and record low temperatures. The storm lasts for 30 hours.
Year 1993 » North Korea nuclear weapons program: North Korea says that it plans to withdraw from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and refuses to allow inspectors access to its nuclear sites.
Year 1993 » Several 1993 Mumbai bombings e.g bombs explode in Bombay (Mumbai), India, killing about 300 and injuring hundreds more.
Year 1994 » The Church of England ordains its first female priests.
Year 1999 » Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO.
Year 2003 » Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia, is Assassination of Zoran Đinđić named assassinated in Belgrade.
Year 2005 » Karolos Papoulias becomes President of Greece.
Year 2009 » Financier Bernard Madoff pleads guilty in New York to scamming $18 billion, the largest in Wall Street history.
Year 2014 » An 2014 East Harlem apartment buildings explosion named explosion in the New York City neighborhood of East Harlem kills 8 and injures 70 others.