1539 - Spain annexes Cuba.
1907 - Kingston earthquake; Jamaica kills more than 1,000.
1911 - Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition makes landfall on the eastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf.
1938 - Norway claims Queen Maud Land in Antarctica.
1969 - USSR launch spaceships "Soyuz-4" and "Soyuz-5" and for the first time in history formed an experimental space station and the astronauts accomplished the transition from one to another spaceship.
2005 - Landing of the Huygens (spacecraft) on Saturn's moon Titan.
