| 1600 | San Marino adopts its written constitution |
| 1871 | A cow overturned a lantern in a barn, causing a fire which led to the 'Great Fire of Chicago' |
| 1932 | The Indian Air Force is established |
| 1945 | President Truman announced that the secret of the atomic bomb would be shared only with Britain and Canada |
| 1952 | A rail disaster occured, near Harrow Middlesex, when three trains collided killing 112 |
| 1967 | The former British Labour Prime Minister Clement Attlee died, aged 84 |
| 1970 | Soviet author Alexander Solzhenitsyn was named winner of the Nobel Prize for literature |
| 1980 | British Leyland launched the 'Mini' car |
| 1981 | President Reagan greeted former Presidents Carter, Ford and Nixon, who were preparing to travel to Egypt for the funeral of Anwar Sadat |
| 1984 | In Kenya, a lightning strike during a football match killed 9 children |
| 1991 | The Croatian Parliament cuts all remaining ties with Yugoslavia |
| 2001 | U.S. President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security |
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