1860-Famous debate on Charles Darwin's theory of evolution held at the Oxford University Museum and dominated by arguments between Thomas Henry Huxley and Bishop Samuel Wilberforce
1905-In Russia, the "Potemkin" arrives at Odessa, where sailors take the bodies of dead crewman ashore; sailors join civilians in revolutionary actions of the "1905 Revolution"
1908-A giant fireball, most likely caused by the air burst of a large meteoroid or comet flattens 80 million trees near the Stony Tunguska River in Yeniseysk Governorate, Russia, in the largest impact event in recorded history
1934-Adolf Hitler stages a bloody purge of the Nazi party in the "Night of the Long Knives"
1997-British lease on the New Territories in Hong Kong expires, established by the Second Convention of Peking