Cave of Swallows
- 1657 – Citizens of New Netherland presented the Flushing Remonstrance to Director-General Peter Stuyvesant, requesting an exemption to his ban on Quaker worship.
- 1831 – Aboard HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin left Plymouth, England, on what became a historic expedition to South America that made his name as a naturalist.
- 1916 – German Togoland, occupied by the Allies in World War I was partitioned between Britain and France.
- 1966 – The Cave of Swallows (pictured), the largest known cave shaft in the world, was discovered in Aquismón, San Luis Potosí, Mexico.
- 2007 – Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto was assassinated while she was leaving a political rally of Pakistan Peoples Party supporters at Liaquat National Bagh in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
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