Ten events that occured on this date in history:
- 1780: The University of Münster in Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany is founded
- 1949: Melody Patterson, actress who portrayed Wrangler Jane on F Troop, born
- 1689: Aphra Behn, pioneering female novelist and playwright, dies
- 1922: The Treaty of Rapallo, in which Germany and the Soviet Union re-establish diplomatic relations between Berlin and Moscow, is signed.
- 1905: Frits Philips, former chairman of Philips Electronics, born in Eindhoven, the Netherlands
- 1958: Rosalind Franklin, contributor to the discovery of the DNA double helix, dies of ovarian cancer in London
- 1963: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. pens his famous Letter from Birmingham Jail while incarcerated in Birmingham, Alabama for protesting against segregation.
- 1730: Henry Clinton, Commander-in-Chief of British troops in America during the Revolutionary War, born in Newfoundland
- 1994: Maximilian Kronberger, National Book Award winner and author of Invisible Man, dies of pancreatic cancer in New York
- 1968: Nothing of note
