1. 1932 - Actress Elizabeth Taylor is born
2. 1933 - The German Reichstag building in Berlin is destroyed by fire
3. 1951 - The 22nd Amendment to the US Constitution is ratified, limiting the President to two terms in office
4. 1963 - Antoine Argoud, President De Gaulle's arch enemy and a former colonel in the French Army, is charged with an assassination attempt
5. 1964 - The Italian government announces that it is accepting suggestions on how to save the Leaning Tower of Pisa from collapse
6. 1991 - Kuwait is liberated in the Gulf War
7. 1991 - James Brown is paroled from prison after serving two years. He had been sentenced to six years in prison after leading police on an interstate car chase.
8. 1997 - Divorce becomes legal in the predominantly Catholic country of Ireland
9. 1998 - Queen Elizabeth II agrees to a proposal to end male preference when determining succession, which means that a Monarch's first-born daughter could claim the throne even if a son was born later
10. 2004 - Cult leader Shoko Asahara is sentenced to death for the Sarin gas attacks in Tokyo
11. 2008 - The biggest earthquake ( 5.2 magnitude ) in the UK for nearly 25 years shakes homes in Newcastle, Yorkshire, London, Cumbria, the Midlands, Norfolk and also parts of Wales
Source: BBC, Wikipedia, historyorb.com, infoplease.com, history.co.uk, brainyhistory.com, on-this-day.com
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