1. 1577 - Five ships under the command of Sir Francis Drake leave Plymouth, England, to embark on the circumnavigation of the globe
2. 1642 - New Zealand is discovered by Dutch navigator Abel Tasman
3. 1918 - President Wilson arrives in France, becoming the first U.S. president to visit Europe while in office
4. 1925 - Dick Van Dyke is born
5. 1958 - The search for a monkey fired into space in the nose cone of a Jupiter missile is called off
6. 1966 - The rights to the first four Super Bowls are sold to CBS and NBC for total of $9.5m
7. 1995 - Riots break out in Brixton as hundreds of youths take to the streets in south London attacking police, ransacking shops and burning cars after the death of a man in police custody
8. 1996 - The U.N. Security Council chooses Kofi Annan of Ghana to be the United Nations seventh Secretary-General
9. 2000 - George W. Bush accepts the U.S presidency 36 days after the election; Al Gore, Jr.,concedes
10. 2003 - Saddam Hussein is captured by U.S. forces at a farmhouse in Adwar, near his hometown of Tikrit
11. 2007 - Rupert Murdoch buys Dow Jones & Co.,which includes The Wall Street Journal, for $5bn-plus
Source: BBC, Wikipedia, historyorb.com, infoplease.com, history.co.uk, brainyhistory.com, on-this-day.com
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