1520: Martin Luther publicly burns Pope Leo X’s papal bull ‘Exsurge Domine’ which demanded that Luther recant his writings

1684: Isaac Newton’s derivation of Kepler’s laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper “De motu corporum in gyrum” (On the motion of bodies in an orbit), is read to the Royal Society by Edmond Halley.

1799: The metric system is first adopted in France

1901: First Nobel Peace Prizes awarded, first recipients Red Cross founder Jean Henri Dunant and peace activist Frederic Passy

1936: Edward VIII signs Instrument of Abdication, giving up the British throne to marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson

1964: Nobel Peace Prize presented to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Oslo, Norway

Source: Onthisday.com