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| 1041 - Empress Zoe of Byzantium elevates her adoptive son to the throne of the Eastern Roman Empire as Michael V. |
| 1508 - The League of Cambrai is formed by Pope Julius II, Louis XII of France, Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor and Ferdinand II of Aragon as an alliance against Venice. |
| 1520 - Martin Luther burns his copy of the papal bull Exsurge Domine outside Wittenberg's Elster Gate. |
| 1684 - Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmund Halley. |
| 1836 - Emory College (now Emory University) is chartered in Oxford, Georgia. |
| 1864 - American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea - Major General William T. Sherman's Union Army troops reach Savannah, Georgia. |
| 1869 - The first American chapter of Kappa Sigma is founded at the University of Virginia. |
| 1898 - Spanish-American War: The Treaty of Paris is signed, officially ending the conflict. |
| 1899 - The Delta Sigma Phi fraternity is founded at the City College of New York. |
| 1904 - The Pi Kappa Phi fraternity is founded at the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina. |
| 1906 - U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt wins the Nobel Peace Prize, becoming the first American to win a Nobel Prize of any kind. |
| 1932 - Thailand adopts a Constitution and becomes a constitutional monarchy. |
| 1936 - Abdication Crisis: Edward VIII signs his Instrument of Abdication. |
| 1941 - World War II: The Royal Navy capital ships HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse are sunk by Imperial Japanese Navy torpedo bombers. |
| 1941 - World War II: Battle of the Philippines - Imperial Japanese forces under the command of General Masaharu Homma land on the Philippine mainland. |
| 1948 - The UN General Assembly adopts the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. |
| 1953 - Dr. Albert Schweitzer is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his humanitarian work. |
| 1963 - The United States Air Force's X-20 Dyna-Soar spaceplane program is cancelled by Robert McNamara. |
| 1965 - The Grateful Dead play their first concert, at the Fillmore in San Francisco. |
| 1971 - Jim Hart throws a football for a record 98 yards, the longest recorded throw. |
| 1972 - Major League Baseball's American League votes to adopt the Designated Hitter for the following season. The first to appear in a game was Ron Blomberg of the New York Yankees. |
| 1975 - Activist Andrei Sakharov is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, accepted by his wife, Yelena Bonner. |
| 1981 - The United Nations General Assembly approves Pakistan proposal for establishing nuclear free-zone in South Asia. |
| 1984 - Apartheid: Cleric and activist Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. |
| 1986 - The Holocaust: Elie Wiesel is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. |
| 1986 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan declares the date Human Rights Day in the United States. |
| 1993 - First release of Doom, one of the most popular shoot-em'up PC videogames |
| 2002 - The High Court of Australia hands down its judgement in the internet defamation case of Gutnick v Dow Jones. |
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