1839-Louis Daguerre demonstrates his 'daguerreotype' photographic process to the French Academy of Science
1847-First San Francisco newspaper published (California Star)
1916-The Ottoman Empire prevails in the Battle of Çanakkale, as the last British troops evacuated
1923-Swaraj political party founded in India with Chittaranjan Das as president and Motilal Nehru its secretary
1941-6,000 Jews murdered in a pogrom in Bucharest, Romania
1943-Nazi SS chief Heinrich Himmler views the Warsaw Ghetto - ordered deportation of 8,000 Jews
1987-Chinese Vietnamese border fights, 1,500 killed
2001-Apple announced iTunes at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco, for organizing and playing digital music and videos