
1825 – After no presidential candidate receives a majority of electoral votes in the election of 1824, the United States House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams President of the United States.

1895 – William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball.
1897 – Invasion of Benin City by British Expedition force, the city is burnt and looted, marks the end of Nigerian Kingdom of Benin formed in the 11th century.

1936 โ Englandโs Imperial Airways begins an East-West trans African route between Khartoun, Sudan and Kano, Nigeria.
1942 – Year-round Daylight saving time is re-instated in the United States as a wartime measure to help conserve energy resources.
1949 โ Holywood actor, Robert Mitchum was jailed in Los Angeles for smoking marijuana.
1959 – The world’s first intercontinental ballistic missile becomes operational in the USSR.
1971 – Satchel Paige becomes the first Negro League player to be voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 14 returns to Earth after the third manned moon landing.
1972 – British government declares state of emergency after month-long coal miners’ strike.
1978 – Winnie Mandela was restricted to a Black township at Brandfort, Orange Free State, was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment for breaking her banning and house arrest order by receiving unauthorised visits by friends and relatives.

1996 – The Irish paramilitary organization IRA ends an 18-month ceasefire by exploding a large bomb in London’s Canary Wharf which left 2 people dead and 39 injured.
2002 – Princess Margaret, the younger sister of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, died peacefully in her sleep at the age of 71 at King Edward VII Hospital. She suffered a stroke and developed heart problems before she could be rushed to hospital.
Famous Birth
Janet Suzman, 85 years
Dame Janet Suzman, DBE, is a South African-born British actress who had a successful early career in the Royal Shakespeare Company, later replaying many Shakespearean roles on television.

Carole King, 82 years
Carole King Klein is an American singer-songwriter and musician who has been active since 1958. One of the most successful female songwriters of the latter half of the 20th century in the US, she wrote or co-wrote 118 pop hits on the Billboard Hot 100.

Alice Walker, 80 years
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist. In 1982, she became the first African American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, which she was awarded for her novel The Color Purple.

Zhang Ziyi, 45
Zhang Ziyi is a Chinese actress and model. She is regarded as one of the Four Dan Actresses of China. After her breakout role in Zhang Yimou’s The Road Home, she gained international recognition for her performance in Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, which was nominated for 10 Academy Awards.
