1910 - Korea was annexed by Japan after five years of signing the protectorate treaty.
1922 - Irish politician and Sinn Féin leader Michael Collins was killed in an ambush set by Irish opponents. He was one of the signatories of the Anglo-Irish Treaty in 1921.
1973 - Henry Kissinger was appointed as U.S. Secretary of State.
1978 - Kenyan President Jomo Kenyatta passed away at the age of 80. His exact birth date was not determined.
1998 - Protesters in Khartoum attacked the British embassy after Prime Minister Tony Blair expressed his support for U.S. military strikes in Sudan and Afghanistan.
2002 - A painting by the Venetian artist Titian, worth over £5 million ($7.6 million), was found in a plastic bag in a street in London seven years after it was stolen from Longleat House in West England.
2006 - All 170 passengers and crew members on board a Russian Tu-154 aircraft were killed when it crashed in Ukraine.
2010 - Thirty-three Chilean miners, trapped underground for 17 days, managed to send a message to the surface, marking their first contact with rescuers.
2010 - Kenyan David Lekuta Rudisha set a new world record in the men's 800-meter race.
2012 - Clashes over grazing and water land resulted in dozens of fatalities in Kenya.
