1509: Emperor Krishnadeva Raya is crowned, marking the beginning of the regeneration of the Vijayanagara Empire in Southern India

1609: Venetian senate examines Galileo Galilei’s telescope

1786: US Congress unanimously chooses the dollar as the monetary unit for the United States of America

1925: 1st national march of Ku Klux Klan (between 25,000 and 40,000 marchers) in Washington, D.C.

1945: USSR establishes a communist government in North Korea

1974: US President Richard Nixon announces he will resign at 12pm the next day

1988: Ceasefire between Iran & Iraq takes effect after 8 years of war

Source: Onthisday.com