1520: Suleiman the Magnificent succeeds his father Selam I as Ottoman Sultan (rules till 1566)

1846: Anesthetic ether used for 1st time by American dentist Dr William Morton who extracts a tooth

1862: Prussia Minister President Otto von Bismarck’s delivers his “Blood & Iron” speech

1938: Treaty of Munich signed by Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Édouard Daladier and Neville Chamberlain, forces Czechoslovakia to give territory to Germany. Chamberlain infamously declares “Peace for our time” on his return to London.

1946: 22 Nazi leaders, including Joachim von Ribbentrop and Hermann Goering, are found guilty of war crimes and sentenced to death or prison at the Nuremberg war trials

Source: Onthisday.com