1520 ~ Ferdinand Magellan became the first to sail from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific.
1632 ~ Birthday of Jean-Baptiste Lully, Composer.
1820 ~ Birthday of Friedrich Engels, social philosopher.
1859 ~ Death of Washington Irving, writer.
1905 ~ Irish nationalist
Arthur Griffith founded Sinn Féin with a goal of independence for all of Ireland.
1939 ~ Death of James A Naismith, creator of
basketball.
1954 ~ Death of Enrico Fermi, Physicist.
1969 ~ The
Rolling Stones released the classic album
Let It Bleed.
1989 ~ Velvet Revolution - The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia gave up its monopoly on political power.
2000 ~ The eighth tar drop falls in the University of Queensland
pitch drop experiment.