From www.onthisday/history
- 43 BC Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman orator and politician is assassinated in Formiae
- 185 Emperor Lo-Yang, China sees supernova (MSH15-52)
- 1354 Margaretha van Bavarian's son earl Willem V signs peace treaty
- 1696 Connecticut Route 108, one of the oldest highways in the U.S. is completed to Trumbull.
- 1703 Great storm of 1703 hits Southern England - thousands killed, Royal Navy losses 13 ships and around 1,500 seamen
- 1703 The first Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed in the Great Storm of 1703
- 1724 Tumult of Thorn - religious unrest was followed by the execution of nine Protestant citizens and the mayor of Thorn (Toruń) by Polish authorities.
- 1741 Elisabeth Petrovna becomes tsarina of Russia
- 1646 Princess Louise Henriette (19) of Nassau marries Frederick Henry Elector of Brandenburg
- 1929 Nizari Imam Aga Khan III (52) weds Andrée Joséphine Carron in Aix-les-Bains, France
- 1940 Mexican painters Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo remarry in San Francisco (divorced 1939)
- 1996 Former Tennessee Republican Senator Howard Baker (71) weds retired Kansas GOP Senator Nancy Kassebaum (64) in Washington, D.C.
- And of course, Pearl Harbor was attacked.
