Events
1492 – The first grammar of the Spanish language is presented.
1581 – The English Parliament outlaws Catholicism.
1605 – The first edition of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (Book One of Don Quixote) by Miguel de Cervantes is published.
1900 – The United States Senate accepts the Anglo-German treaty of 1899 in which the United Kingdom renounces its claims to the Samoan islands.
1945 – Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker.
1991 – The Coalition Forces go to war with Iraq, beginning the Gulf War (U.S. Time).
2001 – US President Bill Clinton awards former President Theodore Roosevelt a posthumous Medal of Honor for his service in the Spanish–American War.
Births
1093 – Isaac Komnenos, son of Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos (d. after 1152)
1245 – Edmund Crouchback, son of Henry III of England (d. 1296)
1409 – René I of Naples (d. 1480)
1477 – Johannes Schöner, German astronomer and cartographer (d. 1547)
1501 – Anthony Denny, confidant of King Henry VIII of England (d. 1559)
1516 – Bayinnaung, King of Burma (d. 1581)
