This Day In History
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138 - The Emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius, effectively making him his successor
1497 - Italians troops reconquer Taranto on France 1910 - Dalai Lama flees Tibet for British India to escape Chinese troops
1916 - Battle of Verdun: German troops conquer Fort Douaumont without firing a shot, the largest and highest fort defending the city of Verdun during World War I
1921 - Tbilisi, capital of the Democratic Republic of Georgia, occupied by Bolshevist Russia
1921 - The Living Buddha, Hutuktu, is crowned King of Mongolia as the country declares independence from China
1925 - Diplomatic relations between Japan and the Soviet Union established
1930 - Check photographing device patented
1932 - Austrian immigrant Adolf Hitler gets German citizenship
1945 - US aircraft carriers attack Tokyo
1954 - Abdul Nasser appointed Egyptian premier 1956 - Nikita Khrushchev denounces Joseph Stalin at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
1962 - India Congress Party wins elections
1964 - Muhammad Ali [Cassius Clay] TKOs Sonny Liston in 7 for his first world heavyweight championship title
1966 - Syrian military coup under General Hafiz alAssad
1969 - Mariner 6 launched for fly-by of Mars
1979 - Soyuz 32 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station is launched
1986 - Thousands of Egyptian military police riot, destroy 2 luxury hotel
1988 - South Korea adopts constitution
1989 - 1st independent blue-collar labor union in Communist Hungary forms
1989 - Javed Miandad scores 271 v NZ at Eden Park 1990 - Australia beat Pakistan 2-0 to win cricket's World Series Cup
1992 - Khojaly massacre: about 613 civilians killed by Armenian armed forces during the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan
1994 - Israeli extremist Baruch Goldstein massacres 30 Palestinians in Hebron
2009 - BDR massacre in Pilkhana, Dhaka, Bangladesh. 74 People are being killed, including more than 50 Army officials, by Bangladeshi Boarder Guards inside its headquarter.
2012 - Syrian Army kills 100 civilians in artillery shelling of Homs and Hama
2012 - World Health Organization removes India from the list of polio endemic countries.
2013- Cuban President Raúl Castro announces he will not seek another term in 2018
2013- Italy Common Good, a centre left alliance, wins the Italian general election
2014- 50 students are killed in a Boko Harem attack on a college in Buni, Nigeria
2014- Hundreds of pro-Russian protesters block the Crimean parliament and demand a referendum on Crimea's independence
2017- Tom Perez is elected Chair of the Democratic National Committee
2018- 2-man bobsleigh champions Francesco Friedrich and Thorsten Margis of Germany win their 2nd gold medals of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics as part of the German 4-man team
2018- 68th Berlin International Film Festival: Romanian film "Touch Me Not" wins the Golden Bear 2018- China briefly bans the letter 'N' as part of widespread censorship efforts
2018- Norwegian cross-country skier Marit Bjørgen wins gold in women's 30k at Pyeongchang Winter Olympics; brings her total Games medal haul to 15, most won by any athlete in Winter Games history 2018- Russian national team, competing under the name of Olympic Athletes from Russia (OAR), wins Olympic ice hockey gold medal in Pyeongchang; beat Germany, 4-3 in overtime in the final
2018- Winter Olympics: Marit Bjoergen (Norway) becomes the most successful winter athlete of all