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- 1913 – British House of Commons accepted Home Rule for Ireland.
- 1919 – The U.S. Constitution prohibited the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors.
- 1920 – The Budapest food shortage caused deaths totaling 968 of every 1,000 babies born in Vienna.
- 1920 – 1st assembly of the League of Nations is held in Paris
- 1938 – The 1st jazz concert was held at Carnegie Hall, performed by Benny Goodman and his band.
- 1942 – The United States took two steps towards the defense of the Panama Canal and Central America.
- 1958 – A grasshopper plague caused serious damages across Colorado and Neighboring States.
- 1963 – The opening of the Los Angeles night club and music venue The Whiskey A-Go-Go.
- 1969 – An agreement was made to start Vietnam peace talks.
- 1973 – Chauncey Browning, Jr. returned as Attorney General, and was sworn in by Judge Thornton Berry.
- 1979 – The Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, was forced to flee the country.
- 1992 – The end of the civil war in El Salvador.
- 1995 – Avalanches following heavy rain sweep two buses off the highway in India.
- 2001 – The fuel supply tanker ‘Jessica’ ran aground on the Island of San Cristobal in the Galapagos Islands, leading to fears of an ecological disaster to the Archipelago.
- 2005 – Romanian university lecturer, Adriana Iliescu, broke the record for the world’s oldest birth mother after giving birth at age 66.
- 2006 – Ellen Sirleaf Johnson was sworn in as Liberia’s new president, becoming Africa’s first female elected head of state.
- 2006 – The number of victims dying from the H5N1 strain of Bird Flu increased, with deaths reported in Indonesia and Turkey.
- 2009 – The Bank Of America was set to receive $20bn in fresh US government aid and $118bn worth of guarantees against bad assets.
- 2013 – A suicide attack in northern Iraq killed at least ten people and injured another ninety people outside a political office.
- 2014 – The first session of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon opened, nearly nine years after the assassination of Lebanon’s former Prime Minister, Rafik Hariri.