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Liberation Day in Goa (1961)	Goa: refimprove; Annexation of Goa: unreferenced/refimprove sections
1920 – [[Constantine I of Greece\|Template:Nowrap]] returned as King of the Hellenes after the death of his son [[Alexander of Greece\|Template:Nowrap]] and a referendum.	refimprove section
1932 – The BBC launched its World Service, now the world's largest international broadcaster, as BBC Empire Service.	refimprove section
1941 – Second World War: Six Italian Royal Navy divers on manned torpedoes detonated limpet mines, disabling four vessels, including two Royal Navy battleships.	primary sources
1946 – The First Indochina War began when Viet Minh operatives attacked French military positions and homes in Hanoi.	War: refimprove section; Battle: short
1981 – Sixteen people died when a lifeboat went to the aid of a stricken coaster in heavy seas off the south-west coast of England and was also lost.	refimprove section
1986 – Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev released dissident Andrei Sakharov after six years of internal exile in Gorky.	refimprove section
1998 – The U.S. House of Representatives issued articles of impeachment against President Bill Clinton following the Lewinsky scandal.	refimprove section

1154 – Henry II was crowned king of England in Westminster Abbey, London.
1675 – King Philip's War: In the Great Swamp Fight, the colonial militia of New England and their Pequot allies attacked a Narragansett fort in Rhode Island, killing many warriors and hundreds of non-combatants.
1776 – Thomas Paine published the first in a series of pamphlets entitled The American Crisis, opening with the line: "These are the times that try men's souls."
1956 – British physician and suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams was arrested in connection with the death of Edith Alice Morrell.
1964 – The ruling junta of South Vietnam, led by Nguyễn Khánh, initiated a coup, dissolving the High National Council, a civilian advisory body.
1984 – China and the United Kingdom signed the Sino-British Joint Declaration, agreeing to the transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong to China on Template:Nowrap.
1985 – Aeroflot Flight 101/435 was hijacked by the co-pilot and landed in a cow pasture in China, where he was apprehended.
1997 – Titanic, the third-highest-grossing film of all time, with a worldwide total of more than US$1.8 billion, was released in the United States.
2016 – Andrei Karlov (pictured), Russia's ambassador to Turkey, was assassinated at an art gallery in Ankara.
2022 – Argentina won the 2022 World Cup.

Born/died: | Pope Urban V |d|1370| Vitus Bering |d|1741| Mary Livermore |b|1820| J. M. W. Turner |d|1851| Mileva Marić |b|1875| Grace Marie Bareis |b|1875| Ann Bishop |b|1899| Ashfaqulla Khan |d|1927 Phil Ochs |b|1940| Jake Gyllenhaal |b|1980| Alexis Sánchez |b|1988| Stella Gibbons |d|1989

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1828 – Nullification crisis: American vice president John C. Calhoun's South Carolina Exposition and Protest, written to protest the Tariff of Abominations, was presented to the South Carolina House of Representatives.
1843 – A Christmas Carol (illustration pictured), a novella by Charles Dickens about the miser Ebenezer Scrooge and his transformation after being visited by ghosts, was published.
1983 – The Jules Rimet Trophy, awarded to the winner of the FIFA World Cup, was stolen from the offices of the Brazilian Football Confederation.
1997 – SilkAir Flight 185 crashed into the Musi River in Indonesia, killing 104 people.
2013 – The European Space Agency's spacecraft Gaia was launched with the goal of constructing the largest and most precise star catalogue ever made.