In 395, Roman Emperor Theodosius I the Great died in Milan. His death led to the final division of the Empire into Western and Eastern.
in 1463, the Saxon Elector Frederick the Third the Wise was born, without whose patronage Martin Luther would undoubtedly have met the fate of Jan Huss and other heretics, and Europe would have had a much more peaceful century and a half (and, perhaps, greater success in repelling the Ottoman aggression on the Christian world)
In 1893, the Queen of Hawaii, Liliuokalani, was overthrown in a bloodless coup organized by a group of merchants and owners of sugar plantations. The Provisional Government of Hawaii has taken a course to join the United States
In 1935, the League of Nations voted for the transfer of the Saar Basin to Germany from March 1, 1935, based on the results of a plebiscite held in Saarland.
In 1945, the troops of the 1st Belorussian Front liberated Warsaw during the Warsaw-Poznan operation
The troops who participated in the battles for the liberation of Warsaw were thanked by the order of the Supreme Soviet of January 17, 1945 and saluted in Moscow with 24 artillery volleys from 324 guns.
By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated June 9, 1945, the medal "For the Liberation of Warsaw" was established.
In 1946, the first meeting of the UN Security Council was held
In 1960, a Soviet self-propelled, tank - landing barge of Project 306 , numbered T-36 , was torn off the mooring by a hurricane wind in the bay of Iturup Island- There were four servicemen of the engineering and construction troops assigned to the barge on board. After a 49-day stay in the ocean without food, they were rescued by the US Coast Guard.
In 1991, at 2:40 a.m., Operation Desert Storm began with a helicopter attack on Iraqi radars. In total, on the 1st day of the war, up to 700 coalition aircraft and helicopters were involved, of which one F/A-18 was lost, shot down, presumably, by an R-40 missile fired by an Iraqi MiG-25 (l-t Zuhair Daoud). The pilot, Lieutenant Commander Scott Spacer, was considered missing for a long time, however, after long investigations, his grave was discovered in 2009.
In 1996, Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman was sentenced to life imprisonment, and sixteen of his accomplices receive long prison terms for attempting to organize a series of terrorist attacks in New York