2007- Former President of Russia Boris Nikolayevich Eltsin passed away.
1954 - Rajendra Arlekar, newly appointed Governor of Himachal Pradesh, was born.
1858- Pandita Ramabai, an eminent Indian scholar and social reformer, was born.
1927 - Ustad Annapurna Devi, the only woman to play the surbahar instrument, was born.
1935 – The Polish Constitution of 1935 is adopted.
1918 – World War I: The British Royal Navy raids the Belgian port of Bruges-Zeebouges.
1946 – Manuel Roxas is elected the last President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines.
1951 – Cold War: American journalist William N. Otis is arrested for espionage by the Communist government of Czechoslovakia.