- 1173 Pope Alexander III canonizes Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury
- 1613 Michael Romanov, son of Patriarch of Moscow, elected first Russian Tsar of the house of Romanov
- 1804 1st locomotive, Richard Trevithick’s, runs for the 1st time, along the tramway of the Penydarren Ironworks in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales
- 1916 World War I: Battle of Verdun begins with a German offensive, leads to an estimated 1 million casualties and becomes the longest battle of the entire war (9 months)
- 1922 Britain declares Egypt a sovereign state
- 1972 Richard Nixon becomes the first US President to visit China, normalizing relations between the countries in a meeting with Chinese leader Mao Zedong in Beijing
Source: Onthisday.com
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