1924 – Italian Fascist Mussolini orders the suppression of opposition newspapers
1935 – CPH becomes Dutch Communist Party
1967 – “Henry, Sweet Henry” closes at Palace Theater NYC after 80 performances
1969 – Congo-Brazzaville becomes People’s republic, under major Ngouabi
2004 – Official opening of Taipei 101, then the tallest skyscraper in the world, at a height of 509 metres (1,670 feet)
2014 – Beji Caid Essebsi is sworn in as Tunisia’s 1st ever freely elected President
1720 – [Bonnie Prince] Charles Edward Stuart, English pretender to throne (Jacobite rebellion), born in Rome (d. 1788)
1738 – Charles Lord Cornwallis, soldier/statesman “fire when ready Gridley”
1928 – Siné, French cartoonist
1940 – Mani Neumeier, German musician (Guru Guru)
1946 – Barbara Carrera, actress (Angelica-Dallas), born in Managua, Nicaragua
1982 – Craig Gordon, Scottish footballer
335 – St. Silvester I, Catholic Pope, dies in office
1424 – Thomas Beaufort, 1st Duke of Exeter, English military leader
1647 – Giovanni Maria Trabaci, composer, dies
1799 – Jean-François Marmontel, French historian and writer (b. 1723)
1997 – Floyd Cramer, pianist (Nashville Sound), dies of cancer at 64
2007 – Bill Idelson, American actor (b. 1919)