ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY

1430 Philip the Good, the Duke of Burgundy, establishes the Order of the Golden Fleece, the most prestigious, exclusive, and expensive order of chivalry in the world.

1645 Archbishop William Laud is beheaded for treason at the Tower of London.

1806 Two British brigades occupy Cape Town after the defeat of General JW Janssens at the Battle of Blaauwberg, at Papendorp (presently Woodstock). It is the second and final surrender of the Cape to the British.

1900 Mafeking siege: Barolong chief Wessel Montshiwa advises his people not to assist the British during the Siege of Mafeking. Lord Frederick Roberts arrives at the Cape, replacing Sir Redvers Buller as commander-in-chief of the British forces in South Africa. General Kitchener as his chief-of -staff accompanies him.

1920 The Treaty of Versailles takes effect, officially ending World War I. The League of Nations holds its first meeting in London.

1946 The League of Nations dissolves and is replaced by the UN.

1962 Nasa announces plans to build the C-5 rocket launch vehicle, which became known as the Saturn V Moon rocket, which launched every Apollo Moon mission.

1966 The Tashkent Declaration is between India and Pakistan, ending the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.

1972 Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns to the newly independent Bangladesh as president after spending more than nine months in prison in Pakistan.

2007 A general strike begins in Guinea in an attempt to get President Lansana Conté to resign.

2013 More than 100 people are killed and 270 injured in several bomb blasts in Pakistan.

2015 A traffic accident between an oil tanker and a bus en route to Shikarpur from Karachi, Pakistan, kills at least 62 people.