1603: Scottish King James VI, son of Mary, Queen of Scots, becomes King James I of England in succession to Elizabeth I, uniting the English and Scottish crowns

1837: Canada grants its Black citizens the right to vote

1882: German scientist Robert Koch discovers and describes the tubercle bacillus, which causes tuberculosis (Mycobacterium tuberculosis), establishing germ theory

1976: Argentine President Isabel Martínez de Perón is deposed in a military coup headed by Jorge Rafael Videla

1999: NATO commences an air bombardment against Yugoslavia during the Kosovo War, the first attack by NATO on a sovereign country

2020: Indian PM Narendra Modi orders a 21-day lockdown for the country’s 1.3 billion people to address COVID-19

Source: Onthisday.com