1. 1782 - The Spanish capture Minorca from the British
2. 1811 - After George III is declared insane, the Prince of Wales becomes Prince Regent of England, and later George IV
3. 1952 - The first 'Don’t Walk' sign is installed in New York City
4. 1953 - The Walt Disney’s film Peter Pan opens at the Roxy Theatre in New York City
5. 1961 - The first issue of the Sunday Telegraph is published
6. 1971 - Apollo 14 commander Alan B. Shepard Jr. becomes the fifth person to walk on the moon with astronaut Edgar D. Mitchell
7. 1982 - Great Britain imposes economic sanctions against Poland and Russia in protest against martial law in Poland
8. 1998 - Elton John and Stevie Wonder perform at the White House
9. 1999 - Mike Tyson is sentenced to a year in jail for assaulting two people after a car accident
10. 2001 - Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman announce their separation
11. 2003 - U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell urges the U.N. Security Council to move against Iraq, saying that Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction and was harboring terrorists
Sources: BBC, Wikipedia,historyorb.com, infoplease.com, history.co.uk,brainyhistory.com, on-this-day.com, thepeoplehistory, onthisdayinhistory.com
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