On this date

1189 — England’s King Richard I (the LionHearted) was crowned in Westminster Abbey. 1658 — Oliver Cromwell, the Lord Protector of England, died in London; he was succeeded by his son, Richard. 1783 — Representatives of the United States and Britain signed the Treaty of Paris, which officially ended the Revolutionary War. 1868 — The Japanese city of Edo was renamed Tokyo. 1914 — Cardinal Giacomo Della Chiesa became pope; he took the name Benedict XV. 1923 — The United States and Mexico resumed diplomatic relations. 1940 — Artie Shaw and his Gramercy Five recorded “Summit Ridge Drive” and “Special Delivery Stomp” for RCA Victor. 1951 — The television soap opera “Search for Tomorrow” made its debut on CBS. 1967 — Nguyen Van Thieu was elected president of South Vietnam under a new constitution. Motorists in Sweden began driving on the right-hand side of the road instead of the left. 1976 — America’s Viking 2 lander touched down on Mars to take the first close-up, color photographs of the red planet’s surface. 1989 — A Cubana de Aviacion jetliner crashed after takeoff in Havana, killing all 126 aboard and 45 people on the ground. 1995 — The online auction site eBay was founded in San Jose, California, by Pierre Omidyar under the name “AuctionWeb.” 2007 — Millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett, 63, went missing after taking off in a single-engine plane in western Nevada. (The wreckage of the plane and traces of his remains were found more than a year later.)