930 - The oldest parliament in the world, Alþingi, the Parliament of Iceland was founded.
1776 - The final version of the Declaration of Independence was submitted to the Continental Congress
1794 - Russian Empress Catherine II Great gives permission to the Jews to settle in Kiev.
1888 - Frederick Douglass is the first Afro-American nominee of the United States.
1894 - The International Olympic Committee in Sorbonne, Paris, was founded at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
1982 - The lowest South Pole temperature is recorded at -82.2 ° C (-117 ° F).
