On this date

1514 — Mary Tudor, the 18-year-old sister of Henry VIII, became Queen consort of France upon her marriage to 52-year-old King Louis XII, who died less than three months later. 1776 — A group of Spanish missionaries settled in present-day San Francisco. 1888 — The public was first admitted to the Washington Monument. 1914 — The Belgian city of Antwerp fell to German forces during World War I. 1936 — The first generator at Boulder (later Hoover) Dam began transmitting electricity to Los Angeles. 1946 — The Eugene O’Neill drama “The Iceman Cometh” opened at the Martin Beck Theater in New York. 1975 — Soviet scientist Andrei Sakharov was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. 1985 — The hijackers of the Achille Lauro cruise liner surrendered two days after seizing the vessel in the Mediterranean. (Passenger Leon Klinghoffer was killed by the hijackers during the standoff.) 1995 — A sabotaged section of track caused an Amtrak train, the Sunset Limited, to derail in Arizona; one person was killed and about 80 were injured. (The case remains unsolved.) 2007 — France’s Albert Fert and German Peter Gruenberg won the 2007 Nobel Prize in physics for a discovery that let computers, iPods and other digital devices store reams of data on ever-shrinking hard disks. 2009 — President Barack Obama was named the recipient of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize for what the Norwegian Nobel Committee called “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.”