- 1412 Concord of Alcañiz between Catalonia and Aragon to designate a king for the Crown of Aragon.
- 1564 Galileo Galilei (d. 1642) is born in Pisa.
- 1854 Dostoyevsky is enlisted as a private soldier after serving time in Siberia.
- 1856 Compulsory postage for correspondence is decreed in Spain.
- 1898 The US cruiser Maine explodes in the port of Havana triggering the Spanish–American War.
- 1933 Failed assassination attempt on President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Miami.
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