- In 1271, Gregory X was elected Pope of Rome.
- In 1364, Pope Urban V issued a decree establishing the Krakow Academy.
- In 1804, the German astronomer Carl Ludwig Harding discovered the third asteroid in the solar system —Juno.
- In 1887, the fifteenth government of Bulgaria was formed, headed by Stefan Stambolov.
- In 1897, the first subway in North America opened in Boston, Massachusetts.
- In 1914, Saint Petersburg changed its name to Petrograd.
- In 1916, during World War I, Bulgaria declared war on Romania.
- In 1920, France created Lebanon, which was under a French protectorate until 1946.
- In 1923, the Great Kanto Earthquake devastated the Tokyo area of Japan, killing over 140,000 and leaving 2.5 million homeless.
- In 1928, Albania was declared a kingdom and Zog I became the first king.
- In 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland, starting World War II.
- In 1969, after a coup d'état in Libya, Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi took power, which he later handed over to People's Committees.
- In 1972 in Reykjavik, Iceland, American Bobby Fischer defeated Russian Boris Spassky to become the world chess champion.
- In 1979, the American spacecraft “Pioneer 11” becomes the first probe to visit Saturn, passing the planet at a distance of 21,000 km.
- In 1985, a joint American-French expedition located the remains of the Titanic.
- In 1991, Uzbekistan declared its independence from the USSR.
- In 1997, 11 miners died in the Bobov Dol mine as a result of an explosion.
Source: manager.bg