Oscar Wilde
- 1043 – Edward the Confessor was crowned King of England, the last king of the House of Wessex.
- 1895 – The libel trial instigated by Irish author Oscar Wilde (pictured) began, eventually resulting in Wilde's arrest, trial and imprisonment on charges of gross indecency.
- 1922 – Joseph Stalin became the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
- 1946 – Imperial Japanese Army officer Masaharu Homma was executed for war crimes relating to the Bataan Death March.
- 1996 – A US Air Force CT-43 crashed into a mountainside while attempting an instrument approach to Dubrovnik Airport in Dubrovnik, Croatia, killing Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown and all the other 34 people on board.
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