1325-According to legend, Tenochtitlan is founded on this date on an island in what was then Lake Texcoco in the Valley of Mexico
1890-German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck resigns after 19 years after a disagreement with German Emperor Wilhelm II
1922-British magistrates in India sentence Mahatma Gandhi to six years imprisonment for disobedience
1940-Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler meet at Brenner Pass where the Italian dictator agrees he will, in due course, join Germany's impending war effort in the west
1965-Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov leaves his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes and becomes the first person to conduct a spacewalk
1990-In the largest art heist in US history, 13 works of art worth over $500 million are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston