1412-The Medici family is appointed official banker of the Papacy
1547-Ivan the Terrible, aged 17, crowns himself the first tsar of Moscow
1605-The first edition of "El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha" (Book One of Don Quixote) by Miguel de Cervantes is published in Madrid
1868-Refrigerator car patented by William Davis, a fish dealer in Detroit
1793-French King Louis XVI sentenced to death by the National Convention during the French Revolution
1941-U.S. vice admiral Bellinger warns of an assault on Pearl Harbor
1944-General Eisenhower takes command of Allied Invasion Force in London
1989-USSR announces plan for 2-year manned mission to Mars
2001-Congolese President Laurent-Désiré Kabila is assassinated in his office by one of his own bodyguards
2002-U.N. Security Council unanimously establishes an arms embargo and freezes assets of Osama bin Laden, Al-Qaida, and the members of the Taliban