| 1865 | The US House of Representatives passed legislation outlawing slavery. |
| 1953 | More than 1,800 people died in North Sea floods in the Netherlands alone. |
| 1956 | Guy Mollet Fransa başbakanı oldu. |
| 1971 | Another step in manned lunar journeys: Apollo 14 was launched. Mission astronauts: Alan B. Shepard Jr., Edgar D. Mitchell and Stuart A. Roosa. |
| 1990 | USSR chess champion Gary Kasparov became the world chess champion by defeating his compatriot Anatoli Karpov. |
| 1990 | The first McDonald's opened in Moscow. |
| 1996 | A truck loaded with explosives crashed into the gates of the central bank in Colombo (Sri Lanka) and exploded: at least 86 people died and 1,400 people were injured. |