1582: Celebrating Fool's Day started in France.
1793: Unsen volcano erupted in Japan. About 53,000 people died.
1891: Telephone contact started between Paris, the capital of France and London, the capital of Britain.
1924: Adolf Hitler was sentenced to five years in prison for participating in the Beer Hall Revolution. he was in jail for only 9 months
1933: Establishment of Indian Air Force in Karachi, Pakistan.
1936: Establishment of Orissa (Odisha) state in India. Earlier it was known as Kalinga and Utkal.