1520 – Suleiman the Magnificent succeeds his father Selam I as Ottoman Sultan (rules till 1566)
1846 – Anesthetic ether used for 1st time by American dentist Dr William Morton who extracts a tooth
1862 – Prussia Minister President Otto von Bismarck’s delivers his “Blood & Iron” speech
1938 – Treaty of Munich signed by Hitler, Mussolini, Daladier and Chamberlain, forces Czechoslovakia to give territory to Germany
1946 – 22 Nazi leaders, including Joachim von Ribbentrop and Hermann Goering, are found guilty of war crimes and sentenced to death or prison at the Nuremberg war trials
1965 – In Indonesia a group of army conspirators known as the September 30th Movement began an abortive coup, and by the following morning they had kidnapped and murdered six army generals; the movement claimed that it had seized power to forestall a coup against President Sukarno by a council of generals.
2005 – The Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten printed satiric cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, provoking violent protests by Muslims worldwide.
1990 – The Dalai Lama unveils the Canadian Tribute to Human Rights in Canada’s capital city of Ottawa
1999 – Japan’s worst nuclear accident at a uranium reprocessing facility in Tōkai-mura, northeast of Tokyo.
2012 – Two opposition Venezuelan politicians are shot dead a week before the presidential election
2019 – 315 billion-tonne iceberg named D28 calves from Amery ice shelf, Antarctica
2020 Spanish government orders a COVID-19 lockdown in Madrid and surrounding areas after a rapid rise in cases
2020 California becomes the 1st US state to pass a law allowing for reparations for black residents and descendants of slaves
Births & Deaths:
1924 – American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright Truman Capote, who was perhaps best known for the novel In Cold Blood (1965), was born.
1955 – American actor James Dean, who became a symbol of the confused, restless, and idealistic youth of the 1950s, died in an automobile crash as he drove to a car rally in Salinas, California.
Film & TV:
1950 – Radio’s “Grand Ole Opry” is broadcast on TV for 1st time
1960 – “The Flintstones” the first animated sitcom created by Hanna-Barbera premieres on ABC in the US
Music:
1791 – Mozart’s opera “Magic Flute” premieres in Vienna
Sport:
1934 – Babe Ruth’s final game as a Yankee, goes 0 for 3
