memorabilia
16th century
1594: King Sigismund III of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is crowned King of Sweden in Uppsala.
1600: The U-Napuna volcano in Peru erupts in the largest volcanic eruption ever recorded in South America.
19th century
1878: The Kingdom of Bulgaria becomes independent.
1878: Thomas Edison obtains a patent for a phonograph.
1881: Kansas becomes the first state in the United States to ban the sale of alcohol products.
20th century
1916: During World War I, the Germans launch a fierce attack on the French city of Verdun.
1942: Japanese Naval Aviation launches an airstrike on the Australian port of Darwin, the first attack of Japanese aircraft on the Australian mainland.
1942: U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066 authorizing the forced deportation of more than 112,000 Japanese-Americans and Japanese living in the United States to internment camps.
1945: The Battle of Iwo Jima begins when U.S. Marines land on Iwo Jima and attack the Japanese defenders.
1968: London Bridge across the River Thames is demolished.
1972: Asama Sanso Incident in Japan: The United Red Army enters Karuizawa Asama Villa and takes hostages.
1979: The Chinese National Commission for UNESCO is established.
1980: The United States again expresses its firm boycott of the Moscow Olympics.
1986: The Soviet Mir space station is launched, becoming the first space station for long-term research.
21st century
2008: Toshiba Corporation of Japan officially announces the termination of the HD DVD business.
born
703: An Lushan, whose original surname was Kang, and whose name was Yin Jishan, was one of the main initiators of the Anshi Rebellion, and established the Yan regime, with the era name Shengwu. (died 757)
1473 – Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish astronomer (d. 1543)
1859 Alenius, Swedish physicist, winner of the 1903 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (died 1927)
1865 : Sven Hedin, Swedish explorer, discoverer of the ancient city of Loulan (died 1952)
1899 : Luzio Fontana, Italian painter and sculptor (died 1968)
1901: Yu Dafu, plant pathologist (died 1993)
1942: Howard Stringer, British entrepreneur, former chairman of Sony Japan
1943: Homer Haekane, NASA engineer and writer
1947: Lin Huaimin, Taiwanese dancer, founder of Cloud Gate Dance Collection
1947: Tin Pei, Hong Kong actor
1952 : Ryu Murakami, Japanese novelist and film director
1953: Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, 55th President of Argentina
1957: Falco, Austrian rapper (died 1998)
1979: Lee Dyong-hee, South Korean actor
1979: Kaka, Brazilian footballer
1980: Ma Lin, Chinese male table tennis player
1980: Jane Peijian, Hong Kong entertainer, runner-up in the Miss Hong Kong 2000 contest
1981: Vitas, Russian male singer
1983 Mika Nakajima, Japanese singer
1986: Guo Caijie, Taiwanese singer and actress
1986: Hisano Mizumo, Japanese actress and photo album model
1986: Jiang Yan, Chinese actress
1987: Shum Kit Yee, Hong Kong actress
1987: Heo Yee-jae, South Korean actress
1988: Freedom of entry, Japanese actor and voice actor
1988: Pan Shiqi, Chinese actress
1989: Yang Shanzhi, Hong Kong female voice actress
1991 Christopher Kramer, german national football player
1993: Victoria Justi, American actress, singer-songwriter and dancer
1998: Kim Young-woo, member of the Korean boy idol group NCT
2002: Huang Minghao, member of the Chinese boy idol group NINE PERCENT and Lehua Seven Sons NEXT
die
1938: Zhang Tingyu, general of the National Revolutionary Army (b. 1902)
1951: Kidd, novelist, winner of the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature (born 1869)
1993 : Mohd Hancha, Designer of the Malaysian Flag (born 1918)
1997: Deng Xiaoping, politician, military figure, chief architect of reform, opening up, and socialist modernization (b. 1904)
2008: Shen Dianxia, veteran Television artist in Hong Kong (born 1945)
2010: Ling Liwen, Hong Kong television artist (born 1941)
2011: Yuan Xuefen, Yue opera performance artist (b. 1922)
2019: Karl Lagerfeld, known as "Galeries Lafayette", German designer, lead designer and creative director of French fashion brand Chanel (born 1933)