The covering of the Senne
- 1689 – Glorious Revolution: Mary Stuart and her husband William III of Orange were proclaimed co-rulers of England and Ireland.
- 1867 – Work began on the covering of the Senne (pictured), burying the polluted main waterway in Brussels to allow urban renewal in the centre of the city.
- 1913 – Thubten Gyatso, the 13th Dalai Lama, declared the independence of Tibet from Qing China.
- 1960 – African American college students staged the first of the Nashville sit-ins at three lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee, part of a nonviolent direct action campaign to end racial segregation.
- 2012 – The first Vega rocket was launched by the European Space Agency.
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