1. 1016 - King Canute of Denmark becomes the heir of Edmund Ironside, King of England, with victory at Ashingdon
2. 1685 - Louis XIV revokes the Edict of Nantes, effectively banning Protestantism in France
3. 1922 - The British Broadcasting Company ( a commercial company ) is formed with a share capital of £100,000. The company is dissolved in 1926 and all assets are transferred to the British Broadcasting Corporation, or the BBC as it is now known
4. 1931 - American inventor Thomas Edison dies. Amongst his thousands of inventions the most well known include the practical electric light bulb
5. 1957 - The British Queen meets President Eisenhower during the first visit by a British monarch to the White House
6. 1963 - Lord Home, a Scottish Conservative aristocrat, becomes the new British Prime Minister
7. 1967 - The Soviet Union sends a space probe beneath the cloud cover around Venus for the first time
8. 1968 - John Lennon and his girlfriend, Yoko Ono, are arrested in London for possession of marijuana
9.1968 - The U.S. Olympic Committee suspends two black athletes for giving a 'black power' salute during a victory ceremony at the Mexico City games
10. 1976 - The funeral of Mafia boss Carlo Gambino takes place in New York
11. 1989 - The Communist leader of East Germany, Erich Honecker, is forced to step down as leader of the country after a series of health problems
Source: BBC, Wikipedia, historyorb.com, infoplease.com, history.co.uk, brainyhistory.com, on-this-day.com, thepeopleshistory
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