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| 1287 - St. Lucia's flood: The Zuider Zee sea wall in the Netherlands collapses, killing over 50,000 people. |
| 1542 - Princess Mary Stuart becomes Queen Mary I of Scotland. |
| 1769 - Dartmouth College is chartered by King George III of England. |
| 1896 - The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company. |
| 1900 - Quantum Mechanics: Max Planck presents a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law. |
| 1902 - The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from Ocean Beach, San Francisco to Honolulu, Hawaii. |
| 1911 - Roald Amundsen's team, comprising himself, Olav Bjaaland, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel, and Oscar Wisting, becomes the first to reach the South Pole. |
| 1939 - Winter War: The Soviet Union is expelled from the League of Nations. |
| 1946 - The UN General Assembly votes to establish its headquarters in New York City. |
| 1947 - The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) is founded in Daytona Beach, Florida. |
| 1958 - The 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition becomes the first-ever to reach The Pole of Relative Inaccessibility in the Antarctic. |
| 1959 - The Motown record label is founded in Detroit, Michigan by Berry Gordy. |
| 1962 - NASA's Mariner 2 becomes the first spacecraft to fly by Venus. |
| 1962 - The Mona Lisa is assessed at US$100 million, the highest insurance valuance for a painting in history. |
| 1979 - First release of the album London Calling by The Clash. |
| 1981 - Arab-Israeli conflict: Israel's Knesset passes The Golan Heights Law, extending Israeli law to the area of the Golan Heights. |
| 1999 - Charles M. Schulz, creator of the comic strip Peanuts, announces his retirement. |
| 2000 - The "Texas 7" rob a Radio Shack store in Pearland, Texas, stealing police radio scanners. |
| 2003 - The La Fenice opera house in Venice, Italy, rebuilt following arson, is reopened. |
| 2003 - President of Pakistan Pervez Musharaf narrowly escaped an assassination attempt. |
| 2005 - The Roads and Traffic Authority of New South Wales, Australia starts to issue NSW Photo Card. |
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