Manfred von Richthofen
- 900 – A debt was pardoned by the Datu of Tondo on the island of Luzon, as inscribed on the Laguna Copperplate Inscription, the earliest known written document found in the Philippines.
- 1802 – Twelve thousand Wahhabis from the first Saudi State invaded the city of Karbala, killed several thousand inhabitants, and sacked the city.
- 1863 – After the Ottoman Empire exiled him from Baghdad, Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the Bahá'í Faith, began his twelve-day stay in the Garden of Ridván where he declared his mission as "He whom God shall make manifest".
- 1918 – Manfred von Richthofen (pictured), known as the "Red Baron", was shot down and killed near Vaux-sur-Somme in France, after a career as the most successful fighter pilot of First World War with 80 confirmed air combat victories.
- 1962 – The Century 21 Exposition, the first world's fair in the United States since World War II, opened in Seattle.
Max Weber (b. 1864) · John Maynard Keynes (d. 1946) · Dorothy Eady (d. 1981)
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