Ignacy Jan Paderewski
- 1657 – Citizens of New Netherland presented the Flushing Remonstrance to Director-General Peter Stuyvesant, requesting an exemption to his ban on Quaker worship.
- 1845 – John L. O'Sullivan, in his newspaper the New York Morning News, argued that the United States had the right to claim the entire Oregon Country "by the right of our manifest destiny".
- 1918 – A public speech by famed Polish pianist Ignacy Jan Paderewski (pictured) in Poznań sparked the Greater Poland Uprising against Germany.
- 1979 – Soviet war in Afghanistan: Soviet troops stormed Tajbeg Palace outside Kabul and killed Afghan President Hafizullah Amin and his 100–150 elite guards.
- 2008 – In response to rocket attacks from Palestinian armed groups, Israel launched a surprise attack against the Gaza Strip, opening the three-week Gaza War.
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