1700: Great Northern War begins in Northern Europe between Denmark–Norway, Saxony, Russia, and the Swedish Empire

1912: The last Qing Emperor of China, Puyi (age 6), abdicates after losing the support of the Chinese people and thus the “mandate of heaven”

1947: French fashion designer Christian Dior presents his first influential collection, named the “New Look”

1999: US President Bill Clinton acquitted by the Senate in his impeachment trial

2001: NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft lands in the “saddle” region of 433 Eros, becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid

2013: North Korea allegedly conducts its third nuclear test, claiming it is a nuclear device that can be weaponized

2016: Pope Francis meets Patriarch Kirill in Havana in the first meeting between the heads of the Catholic and Russian Orthodox Churches in nearly 1,000 years

Source: Onthisday.com