Today:
1520 – Martin Luther publicly burned the papal bull “Exsurge Domine,” which threatened him with excommunication, marking a significant moment in the Protestant Reformation.
1684 – Isaac Newton’s derivation of Kepler’s laws, demonstrating planetary motion due to gravitational forces, was read to the Royal Society.
1817 – Mississippi was admitted as the 20th state of the United States.
1868 – The first traffic lights, a manually operated gas-lit signal, were installed outside the Houses of Parliament in London.
1898 – The Treaty of Paris was signed, officially ending the Spanish-American War. Spain relinquished sovereignty over Cuba and ceded Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines to the United States.
1901 – The first Nobel Prizes were awarded, with laureates including Wilhelm Röntgen for physics and Henri Dunant and Frédéric Passy for peace.
1936 – Edward VIII of the United Kingdom signed the Instrument of Abdication, stepping down from the throne to marry Wallis Simpson.
1948 – The United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
1967 – Otis Redding recorded “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay,” just days before his untimely death.
2009 – The New York Times revealed that the U.S. secretly expanded drone attacks in Pakistan to target Taliban leaders.
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