46 BCE – Julius Caesar defeats Titus Labienus in the Battle of Ruspina.
871 – Battle of Reading: Æthelred of Wessex fights, and is defeated by, a Danish invasion army.
1490 – Anne of Brittany announces that all those who would ally with the King of France will be considered guilty of the crime of lèse-majesté.
1847 – Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the United States government.
1878 – Sofia is emancipated from Ottoman rule.
1896 – Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state.
1958 – Sputnik 1 falls to Earth from orbit.
1959 – Luna 1 becomes the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon.
1990 – In Pakistan's deadliest train accident an overloaded passenger train collides with an empty freight train, resulting in 307 deaths and 700 injuries.
2000 – Two trains on the Røros Line collide in Åsta, Norway, resulting in an explosive fire and 19 deaths.
2004 – Spirit, a NASA Mars rover, lands successfully on Mars at 04:35 UTC.
2013 – A gunman kills eight people in a house-to-house rampage in Kawit, the Philippines.
