1684 - Advert in a tavern in Ludgate Hill, London, to view a rhinoceros is published; it is the first rhinoceros in Europe since 1515
1923 - Saxony receives a Social Democratic and Communist coalition government
1960 - 16 California Poly football team members die in a plane crash in Toledo
2002 - Hungarian writer and Holocaust survivor Imre Kertész is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature
2009 - After closing borders for nearly 200 years, Armenia and Turkey sign protocols in Zurich to reopen their borders
1832 - Theodore Shelton Bowers, Bvt Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Hummelstown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (d. 1866)
1863 - Louis Cyr, French Canadian strongman (lifting 500 pounds (227 kg) with one finger and backlifting 4,337 pounds (1,967 kg)), born in Quebec, Canada (d. 1912)
1942 - Chartchai Chionoi, Thai boxer (WBC/WBA flyweight champion), born in Bangkok, Thailand (d. 2018)
1956 - Amanda Burton, Northern Irish actress (Silent Witness; The Commander), born in Derry, Northern Ireland
1974 - Julio Ricardo Cruz, Argentine soccer forward (22 caps; River Plate, Feyenoord, Bologna, Inter Milan, Lazio), born in Santiago del Estero, Argentina
1714 - Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert, French economist (b. 1646)
1940 - Berton Churchill, Canadian-American actor (I'm Nobody's Sweetheart Now), dies at 63
1942 - Richard von Schaukal, Moravian-Austria poet and writer (Schlemihle), dies at 68
1957 - Karl Genzken, Nazi physician, Chief of the Medical Office of the Waffen-SS, dies at 72
1977 - Angelo Muscat, Maltese-born British actor (The Prisoner, Doctor Who), dies at 47
Former President Jimmy Carter wins the Nobel Peace Prize for his work advocating for human rights, world peace, and economic and social development.