Year 211 » Roman Emperor Septimius Severus dies at Eboracum (modern York, England) while preparing to lead a campaign against the Caledonians. He leaves the empire in the control of his two quarrelling sons.
Year 634 » Battle of Dathin: Rashidun army e.g Rashidun forces under Yazid ibn Abi Sufyan defeat the Christian Arabs around Gaza City called Gaza (Palestine).
Year 960 » The coronation of Zhao Kuangyin as Emperor Taizu of Song, initiating the Song Dynasty period of China that would last more than three centuries.
Year 1169 » A 1169 Sicily earthquake called strong earthquake struck the Ionian coast of Sicily, causing tens of thousands of injuries and deaths, especially in Catania.
Year 1789 » George Washington is unanimously elected as the first President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College.
Year 1794 » The French legislature abolishes slavery throughout all territories of the French Republic. It will be reestablished in the French West Indies in 1802.
Year 1797 » The 1797 Riobamba earthquake e.g Riobamba earthquake strikes Ecuador, causing up to 40,000 casualties.
Year 1801 » John Marshall is sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States.
Year 1820 » The Chilean Navy under the command of Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald named Lord Cochrane completes the 2-day long Capture of Valdivia with just 300 men and 2 ships.
Year 1825 » The Ohio Legislature authorizes the construction of the Ohio and Erie Canal and the Miami and Erie Canal.
Year 1846 » The first Mormon pioneers make their exodus from Nauvoo, Illinois, westward towards Salt Lake Valley.
Year 1859 » The Codex Sinaiticus is discovered in Egypt.
Year 1861 » American Civil War: In Montgomery, Alabama, delegates from six break-away U.S. states meet and form the Confederate States of America.
Year 1899 » The Philippine–American War begins with the Battle of Manila (1899) known as Battle of Manila.
Year 1932 » Second Sino-Japanese War: Harbin, Manchuria, Defense of Harbin or falls to Empire of Japan e.g Japan.
Year 1936 » Radium becomes the first radioactive element to be made synthetically.
Year 1941 » The United Service Organization (USO) is created to entertain American troops.
Year 1945 » World War II: The British Indian Army and Imperial Japanese Army begin a series of battles known as the Battle of Pokoku and Irrawaddy River operations.
Year 1945 » World War II: The Yalta Conference between the "Big Three" (Winston Churchill Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin Stalin) opens at the Livadia Palace in the Crimea Soviet Union: 1922.E2.80.931991 Crimea.
Year 1945 » World War II: Santo Tomas Internment Camp is liberated from Japanese authority.
Year 1948 » Ceylon (later renamed Sri Lanka) becomes independent within the Commonwealth of Nations called British Commonwealth.
Year 1966 » All Nippon Airways Flight 60 plunges into Tokyo Bay, killing 133.
Year 1969 » Yasser Arafat takes over as chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
Year 1974 » The Symbionese Liberation Army kidnaps Patty Hearst in Berkeley, California.
Year 1974 » M62 coach bombing: The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) explodes a bomb on a bus carrying off-duty British Armed Forces personnel in Yorkshire, England. Nine soldiers and three civilians are killed.
Year 1975 » 1975 Haicheng earthquake named Haicheng earthquake (magnitude 7.3 on the Richter magnitude scale known as Richter scale) occurs in Haicheng, Liaoning, China.
Year 1976 » In Guatemala and Honduras an 1976 Guatemala earthquake e.g earthquake kills more than 22,000.
Year 1980 » Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini names Abolhassan Banisadr as president of Iran.
Year 1996 » Major snowstorm paralyzes Midwestern United States, Milwaukee e.g Milwaukee, Wisconsin and ties all-time record low temperature at −26 °F (−32.2 °C)
Year 1997 » En route to Lebanon, two Israeli CH-53 Sea Stallion or Sikorsky CH-53 troop-transport helicopters 1997 Israeli helicopter disaster known as collide in mid-air over northern Galilee, Israel killing 73.
Year 1997 » After at first contesting the results, Serbian President Slobodan Milošević recognizes opposition victories in the November 1996 elections.
Year 1998 » An February 4, 1998 Afghanistan earthquake called earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter Scale in northeast Afghanistan kills more than 5,000.
Year 1999 » Unarmed West African immigrant Amadou Diallo (shooting victim) e.g Amadou Diallo is shot dead by four plainclothes New York City police officers on an unrelated stake-out, inflaming race-relations in the city.
Year 2003 » The Bengali Hindus declares the independence of the Republic of Bangabhumi from Bangladesh.
Year 2003 » The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is officially renamed Serbia and Montenegro and adopts a new constitution.
Year 2004 » Facebook, a mainstream online social networking site, is founded by Mark Zuckerberg.
Year 2006 » A PhilSports Arena stampede e.g stampede occurs in the PhilSports Arena called ULTRA Stadium near Manila killing 71.