- 1804 - Napoleon Bonaparte was crowned as Emperor of the French at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.
- 1915 - Albert Einstein published the general theory of relativity.
- 1942 - Led by Enrico Fermi, a Manhattan Project team at the University of Chicago initiated the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.
- 1961 - Cuban leader Fidel Castro declared that he is a Marxist-Leninist and that Cuba was going to adopt Communism.
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