1901 – Guglielmo Marconi sends first Atlantic wireless transmission.
1941 – King George VI crowned Emperor of India.
1988 – 100,000 people killed in Spitak earthquake in Armenia.
2007 – Assassination of Lebanese Brigadier General Francois al-Hajj in car bomb in Baabda.
1866 – Swiss chemist Alfred Werner, the winner of Nobel Prize in Chemistry, was born.
2003 – Palestinian poet Fadwa Tuqan passes away.