1633 - Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition.
1668 - Spain recognizes Portugal as an independent nation.
1852 – Was born Johan Роден е Johan Ludvig Emil Dreyer, Danish-Ireland astronomer.
1955 - Israel obtains 4 of the 7 Dead Sea Scrolls.
1990 - An agreement is reached on a two-stage plan to reunite Germany.
2001 - El Salvador Earthquake (2001); killing at least 400.
2004 - The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announces the discovery of the universe's largest known diamondwhite dwarf star BPM 37093. Astronomers named this star "Lucy" after The Beatles' song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds".
2011 - For the first time in more than 100 years the Umatilla, an American Indian tribe, are able to hunt and harvest a bison just outside Yellowstone National Park, restoring a centuries-old tradition guaranteed by a treaty signed in 1855.
