- 1806 – War of the Fourth Coalition: Believing they were massively outnumbered, the 5,300-man German garrison at Stettin, Prussia (now Szczecin, Poland),surrendered to a much smaller French force without a fight.
- 1863 – Seventeen-year-old Danish Prince Vilhelm arrived in Athens to become George I (pictured), King of Greece.
- 1888 – King Lobengula of Matabeleland granted the Rudd Concession to agents of Cecil Rhodes, setting in motion the creation of the British South Africa Company.
- 1961 – The Soviet hydrogen bomb Tsar Bomba, the largestnuclear weapon ever detonated, was set off over Novaya Zemlya Island in the Arctic Ocean as a test.
- 1991 – The Madrid Conference, an attempt by the international community to start a peace process through negotiations involving Israel and the Arab countries, convened in Madrid.
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