X-ray of the hand of W. Röntgen's wife
- 1278 – Trần Thánh Tông, the second emperor of Vietnam's Trần dynasty, took up the post of Retired Emperor, but continued to co-rule with his son Trần Khâm for eleven more years.
- 1644 – The Shunzhi Emperor, the third emperor of the Qing dynasty, was enthroned in Beijing after the collapse of the Ming dynasty as the first Qing emperor to rule over China.
- 1895 – German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range known today as X-ray (first radiograph pictured).
- 1966 – Former Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke became the first African American elected to the United States Senate since Reconstruction.
- 1987 – A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb exploded during a Remembrance Sunday ceremony in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, killing at least eleven people and injuring sixty-three others.
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