1265 _ First English Parliament called into session by Earl of Leicester
1783 _ Hostilities cease in Revolutionary War
1807 _ Napoleon convenes the great Sanhedrin, Paris
1841 _ China cedes Hong Kong to the British
1892 _ First basketball game played (Massachusetts)
1921 _ Turkey declared in remnants of the Ottoman Empire
1925 _ USSR and Japan sign treaty of Peking
1939 _ Hitler proclaims to German parliament to exterminate all European Jews
1945 _ FDR sworn in for an unprecedented fourth term as President
1980 _ President Jimmy Carter announces U_S_ boycott of Olympics in Moscow