627: Battle of Nineveh: Byzantine Emperor Heraclius defeats Sassanid forces during the Byzantine-Sassanid War

1925: Constituent Assembly of Iran votes 257 to 3 to amend the constitution, officially overthrowing the Qajar dynasty and bestowing the crown upon Reza Shah Pahlavi

1946: United Nations accepts six Manhattan blocks as a gift from John D. Rockefeller Jr.

1964: Kenya becomes an independent republic with Jomo Kenyatta as its first president

2000: US Supreme Court issues its 5–4 decision in Bush v. Gore, resolving the recount dispute in Florida’s 2000 presidential election in George W. Bush’s favor and effectively awarding him the presidency over Al Gore

2015: COP21 climate change summit in Paris reaches an agreement between 195 countries to limit the rise in the global average temperature to less than 2°C above pre-industrial levels

2019: British general election is won by Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party in a landslide victory with an 80 seat majority, while the Scottish National Party wins 48 of 59 seats in Scotland

Source: Onthisday.com