James Doolittle 1896 - Aviater, World War II hero
- 1911 - Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen became the first man to reach the South Pole. He reached the destination 35 days ahead of Captain Robert F. Scott.
- 1945 - Josef Kramer, known as "the beast of Belsen," and 10 others were executed in Hamelin for the crimes they committed at the Belsen and Auschwitz Nazi concentration camps.
- 1988 - The first transatlantic underwater fiber-optic cable went into service.
- 1995 - AIDS patient Jeff Getty received the first-ever bone-marrow transplant from a baboon.
- 2001 - European Union leaders agreed to dispatch 3,000-4,000 troops to join an international peacekeeping force in Afghanistan.
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