60-St. Paul is thought to have been shipwrecked at Malta
1720-Edmond Halley is appointed as the second Astronomer Royal at the Greenwich Observatory
1763-Treaty of Paris ends the French-Indian War, France agrees to surrender Canada to Great Britain
1824-Simon Bolívar is named dictator by the Congress of Peru
1906-British battleship HMS Dreadnought launches after only 100 days and renders all other capital ships obsolete with its revolutionary design
1952-India holds its first general election; Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru remains in power