01) 829 – Theophilos succeeds his father Michael II as Byzantine Emperor.
02) 1263 – The battle of Largs is fought between Norwegians and Scots.
03) 1528 – William Tyndale, the renowned English Reformer and Bible translator published his famous work The Obedience of a Christian Man
04) 1780 – John André, British Army officer of the American Revolutionary War, is hanged as a spy by American forces.
05) 1835 – The Texas Revolution begins with the Battle of Gonzales: Mexican soldiers attempt to disarm the people of Gonzales, Texas, but encounter stiff resistance from a hastily assembled militia.
06) 1925 – John Logie Baird performs the first test of a working television system.
07) 1958 – Guinea declares its independence from France.
08) 1959 – The anthology series The Twilight Zone premieres on CBS television.
09) 1967 – Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first African-American justice of United States Supreme Court.
10) 1990 – Xiamen Airlines Flight 8301 is hijacked and lands at Guangzhou, where it crashes into two other airliners on the ground, killing 128.
11) 2005 – Ethan Allen boating accident: The Ethan Allen tour boat capsizes on Lake George in Upstate New York, killing twenty people.
12) 2007 – President Roh Moo-hyun of South Korea walks across the Military Demarcation Line into North Korea on his way to the second Inter-Korean Summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-il.
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