Éamon de Valera
- 1009 – The first known record of the name of Lithuania appeared in an entry in the annals of the Quedlinburg Abbey in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.
- 1842 – The first documented discovery of gold in California occurred at Rancho San Francisco, six years before the California Gold Rush.
- 1932 – Éamon de Valera (pictured), one of the dominant political figures in twentieth-century Ireland, became President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State.
- 1946 – Thirty-three people were killed in a stampede at Burnden Park, a football stadium in Bolton, England.
- 1956 – In Tbilisi, Georgia, Soviet military troops suppressed mass demonstrations against Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev's de-Stalinization policy.
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