1815 Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord takes office as the first prime minister of France.
1893 Daniel Williams performs first successful open heart surgery without anesthesia.
1917 British battleship HMS Vanguard explodes at Scapa Flow (the result of an internal explosion of faulty cordite), killing 804.
1951 US President Harry Truman asks Congress to formally end state of war with Germany.
1962 Andy Warhol’s first West Coast gallery exhibition in the Ferus Gallery of Los Angeles.
1974 Pierre Trudeau’s Liberal Party wins Canadian parliamentary election.
1997 Mike Tyson is banned from boxing for biting Evander Holyfield’s ear.
2014 Spokesperson for Medical Aid for Palestinians claims that at least 7 children have been killed by Israeli air strikes.
