1497 – Vasco da Gama leads a fleet of four ships with a crew of 170 men from Lisbon to India.
951 – Modern Paris founded.
1889 – First edition of Wall Street Journal Newspaper issued.
1972 – Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani assassinated by Mossad in a car bomb
in Beirut.
1978 – First ascent of Mount Everest first ascended without supplemental oxygen.
2003 – Israeli occupation forces allow Jewish settlers into the al-Aqsa Mosque.
Born today:
1989 – Artemisia Gentileschi, an Italian painter.
Passes away:
1538 – Diego de Almagro, Spanish explorer and traveler.