1556 - A major yirdquauk strikes Shaanxi, Cheenae, killin an estimatit 800,000 fowk.
1719 - The Principality o Liechtenstein is creatit.
1896 - Wilhelm Röntgen discovers X-rays.
1909 - A magnitude 7.3 yirdquauk in Iran kills 5,500 fowk.
1950 - The Israeli Knesset declares Jerusalem tae be the caipital ceety.
1960 - The Bathyscaphe Trieste, wi Jacques Piccard an Don Ward dives 10,911 metres unner the Paceefic Ocean.
1973 - The Eldfell volcanae on the Icelandic island o Heimaey erupts.
1973 - Richard Nixon propales peace accord wi Vietnam.
1997 - Madeleine Albright becomes the first female Unitit States Secretar o State.
2005 - Viktor Yushchenko becomes Preses o Ukraine.
2006 - Stephen Harper is electit Prime meenister o Canadae.
2012 − Cheenae new year an scheduled new muin.
2015 - Salman becomes King o Saudi Arabie.
2019 - Juan Guaidó declares hissel tae be Interim Preses o Venezuela.
2019 - Umwhile Peruvian Preses Alberto Fujimori is sent back tae gaol.
2020 - COVID-19 pandemic: The Cheenese ceety o Wuhan, whaur the ootbrak stairtit, is placit unner lockdoon measures.
2020 - COVID-19 pandemic: Nepal, Singapore an Vietnam record their first COVID-19 cases.

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