Rajyotsava (Formation Day) in Karnataka, India (1956)
1214 – Byzantine–Seljuq wars: Seljuq Turks captured the important port city of Sinope.
1914 – World War I: The first contingent of the First Australian Imperial Force departed Albany.
1941 – American photographer Ansel Adams shot Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, one of his most famous photographs.
1959 – After being struck in the face with a hockey puck, Jacques Plante played the rest of the game wearing a face mask (pictured), now mandatory equipment for goaltenders in ice hockey.
1998 – The European Court of Human Rights was instituted as a permanent court with full-time judges to monitor compliance by the signatory parties of the European Convention on Human Rights.
Source: Duta
UCJ, UNILORIN.
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