World Bulletin / News Desk
| 1486 | Henry VII marries Elizabeth of York. | |
| 1701 | Frederick III, the elector of Brandenburg, becomes king of Prussia. | |
| 1778 | Captain James Cook discovers the Hawaiian Islands, naming them the 'Sandwich Islands' after the First Lord of the Admiralty, Lord Sandwich. | |
| 1836 | Jim Bowie arrives at the Alamo to assist its Texas defenders. | |
| 1862 | John Tyler, former president of the U.S., is buried at Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond. | |
| 1902 | The Isthmus Canal Commission in Washington shifts its support from Nicaragua to Panama as a favored canal site. | |
| 1910 | Aviator Eugene Ely performs his first successful take off and landing from a ship in San Francisco. | |
| 1916 | The Russians force the Turkish 3rd Army back to Erzurum. | |
| 1942 | General MacArthur repels the Japanese in Bataan. The United States takes the lead in the Far East war criminal trials. | |
| 1945 | The German Army launches its second attempt to relieve the besieged city of Budapest from the advancing Red Army. | |
| 1948 | Gandhi breaks a 121-hour fast after halting Muslim-Hindu riots. | |
| 1962 | The United States begins spraying foliage with herbicides in South Vietnam, in order to reveal the whereabouts of Vietcong guerrillas. | |
| 1964 | Plans are disclosed for the World Trade Center in New York. | |
| 1978 | The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) isolate the cause of Legionnaire's disease. | |
| 1991 | Iraq starts firing Scud missiles at Israeli cities. |
