| 1595 | King Henry IV of France declares war against Spain. |
| 1946 | The first meeting of the United Nations Security Council takes place. |
| 1991 | The Gulf War started as soon as the US, UK, France forces attacked Iraq. |
| 1995 | Hundreds of people died due to earthquake in Kobe city of Japan. |
| 1895 | French President Casimir Perrier resigns. |
| 2008 | The Central Government approved a scheme of Rs 1800 crore for providing jobs to the disabled. |
| 2009 | Randhir Singh, the general secretary of the Indian Olympic Association, resigned from his post. |
| 2010 | The Supreme Court of India has given a pro-active definition of the right to self-defense in the event of unlawful assault, saying that people who follow the law do not have to be cowardly. Its two-member bench set a 10-point directive on the right to self-defense, stating that a person cannot be criminalized under these circumstances, even if he had caused the attacker's death. |
| 1923 | Juan de la Cieva invented rotary wind aircraft with no rotary power. |