Mary of Guise
- 1560 – The Treaty of Berwick was signed, setting the terms under which an English fleet and army could enter Scotland to expel French troops defending the Regency of Mary of Guise (pictured).
- 1870 – The current flag of Japan was first adopted as the national flag for Japanese merchant ships.
- 1940 – American biochemists Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discovered the radioactive isotope carbon-14, which today is used extensively as the basis of the radiocarbon dating method to date archaeological, geological, and hydrogeological samples.
- 1996 – The media franchise Pokémon was launched with the release of the first version of the video game Pocket Monsters Aka and Midori.
- 2015 – Russian statesman and politician Boris Nemtsov was assassinated in central Moscow while returning from a meal out.
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