Year 484 » Huneric dies and is succeeded by his nephew Gunthamund, who becomes king of the Vandals. During his reign the Catholicism named Catholics are free from persecutions.
Year 558 » Chlothar I is crowned List of Frankish kings named King of the Franks.
Year 562 » Hagia Sophia in Constantinople reopened with a rebuilt dome after a series of earthquakes caused the original to collapse.
Year 679 » King Dagobert II is murdered while hunting.
Year 962 » Arab–Byzantine wars: Under the future List of Byzantine emperors Emperor Nikephoros II Phokas Nicephorus Phocas, Byzantine army Byzantine troops storm the city of Aleppo.
Year 1572 » Theologian Johann Sylvan executed in Heidelberg for his heresy e.g heretical Nontrinitarianism known as Antitrinitarian beliefs.
Year 1688 » As part of the Glorious Revolution, King James II of England flees from England to Paris, France after being deposed in favor of his nephew, William III of England called William of Orange and his daughter Mary II of England known as Mary.
Year 1783 » George Washington resigns as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army at the Maryland State House in Annapolis, Maryland.
Year 1793 » The Battle of Savenay: a decisive defeat of the House of Bourbon known as royalist counter-revolutionaries in War in the Vendée during the French Revolution.
Year 1823 » 'A Visit from St. Nicholas', also known as 'The Night Before Christmas', is published anonymously.
Year 1876 » First day of the Constantinople Conference which resulted in agreement for political reforms in the Balkans.
Year 1893 » The opera 'Hansel and Gretel (opera) or Hansel and Gretel' by Engelbert Humperdinck is first performed.
Year 1913 » The Federal Reserve Act is signed into law by President of the United States named President Woodrow Wilson, creating the Federal Reserve System.
Year 1914 » World War I: Australian and New Zealand troops arrive in Cairo, Egypt.
Year 1919 » Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919 becomes law in the United Kingdom.
Year 1921 » Visva-Bharati University is inaugurated.
Year 1936 » Colombia becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires Convention or Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
Year 1938 » Discovery of the first modern coelacanth in South Africa.
Year 1940 » World War II: Greek submarine Papanikolis (Y-2) sinks the Italian motor ship 'Antonietta'.
Year 1941 » World War II: After Battle of Wake Island named 15 days of fighting, the Imperial Japanese Army occupies Wake Island.
Year 1947 » The transistor is first demonstrated at Bell Labs known as Bell Laboratories.
Year 1948 » Seven Empire of Japan or Japanese convicted of war crimes by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East are executed at Sugamo Prison in Tokyo, Japan.
Year 1954 » First successful Kidney transplantation known as kidney transplant is performed by J. Hartwell Harrison and Joseph Murray.
Year 1968 » The 82 sailors from the USS Pueblo AGER-2 6 are released after eleven months of internment in North Korea.
Year 1970 » The List of tenants in One World Trade Center North Tower of the World Trade Center in Manhattan, New York City New York, New York is topped out at convert 1368 ft m, making it the tallest building in the world.
Year 1970 » The Democratic Republic of the Congo officially becomes a single-party state.
Year 1972 » The 16 survivors of the 1972 Andes flight disaster named Andes flight disaster are rescued after 73 days, having survived by cannibalism.
Year 1972 » A 1972 Nicaragua earthquake called 6.5 magnitude earthquake strikes the Nicaraguan capital of Managua killing more than 10,000.
Year 1979 » Soviet war in Afghanistan: Soviet Union forces occupy Kabul, the Afghanistan named Afghan capital.
Year 1982 » The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces it has identified dangerous levels of Dioxins and dioxin-like compounds e.g dioxin in the soil of Times Beach, Missouri.
Year 1986 » 'Rutan Voyager known as Voyager', piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, lands at Edwards Air Force Base in California becoming the first aircraft to fly non-stop around the world without aerial refueling or aerial or ground refueling.
Year 2002 » An General Atomics MQ-1 Predator Iraq e.g MQ-1 Predator is shot down by an Iraqi Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 called MiG-25.
Year 2003 » PetroChina Chuandongbei natural gas field explosion, Guoqiao, Kai County, Chongqing, China, killing at least 234.
Year 2007 » An agreement is made for the Kingdom of Nepal to be abolished and the country to become a federal republic with the List of Prime Ministers of Nepal named Prime Minister becoming head of state.
Year 2010 » A monsoonal trough crosses the northeastern coast of Australia from the Coral Sea, bringing 2010–11 Queensland floods or mass flooding across Queensland.