1138 – Lý Anh Tông is enthroned as emperor of Vietnam at the age of two, beginning a 37-year reign.
1499 – Publication of the Catholicon, written in 1464 by Jehan Lagadeuc in Tréguier; this is the first Breton dictionary as well as the first French dictionary.
1605 – Guy Fawkes is arrested.
1768 – Treaty of Fort Stanwix is ratified, the purpose of which is to adjust the boundary line between Indian lands and white settlements set forth in the Royal Proclamation of 1763 in the Thirteen Colonies.
1811 – Salvadoran priest José Matías Delgado, rings the bells of La Merced church in San Salvador, calling for insurrection and launching the 1811 Independence Movement.
1831 – Nat Turner, American slave leader, is tried, convicted, and sentenced to death in Virginia.
1862 – Abraham Lincoln removes George B. McClellan as commander of the Army of the Potomac.
1872 – In defiance of the law, suffragist Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time, and is later fined $100.
1895 – George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
1912 – Woodrow Wilson is elected the 28th President of the United States, defeating incumbent William Howard Taft.
1916 – The Everett massacre takes place in Everett, Washington as political differences lead to a shoot-out between the Industrial Workers of the World organizers and local police.
1925 – Secret agent Sidney Reilly, the first “super-spy” of the 20th century, is executed by the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union.
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Wittgenstein family in Vienna, 1917
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1940 – Franklin D. Roosevelt is the first and only President of the United States to be elected to a third term.
1955 – After being destroyed in World War II, the rebuilt Vienna State Operareopens with a performance of Beethoven’s Fidelio.
1931 – Leonard Herzenberg, American immunologist, geneticist, and academic (d. 2013)
1941 – Art Garfunkel, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1981 – Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, 16th Karmapa, Tibetan spiritual leader (b. 1924)