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- 1405 - Timur (Amir Timur, Tamerlane), Turko-Mongol ruler died at 68.
- 1878 - Thomas Edison got patent for his gramophone (phonograph)
- 1906 - Will Keith Kellogg and Charles D. Bolin found the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company, now known as Kellogg's.
- 1914 - USA: 4 year old Charlotte May Pierstorff was mailed by train from Grangeville, Idaho to her grandparents’ house 73 miles.
- 1936 - Spain: Manuel Azana became Prime Minister for the second time.
- 1942 - Australia: 150 Japanese warplanes attacked the city of Darwin.
- 1944 - Germany: 800 British bombers attacked Berlin.
- 1945 - US 5th Fleet with 30,000+ Marines launched invasion of Iwo Jima against the Japanese.
- 2012 - Mexico: 44 people killed in prison brawl between two rival drug cartels in Apocada.
- 2013 - 12 people are killed and 11 are injured after a Yemeni Air Force plane crashes in Sana'a
- 2014 - Ukraine: Government crackdown on protesters killed 26 people.
- 2018 - Syrian government forces bombarded Ghouta, 100+ civilians were killed.
- 2018 - Mozambique: A garbage mound collapsed and killed 17 people in Maputo.
- 2018 - Nigeria: 110 girls were kidnnapped by Boko Haram from a school in Dapchi.
- 2020 - Germany: A gunman opened fire in a bar in Hanau and killed 9 people.