1689: Japanese poet Matsuo Bashō leaves Edo on his epic 150-day journey to Honshu Island in Japan, which he writes about in the literary masterpiece “Oku no Hosomichi” (The Narrow Road to the Deep North)

1862: Belgian-French engineer Étienne Lenoir builds the first automobile with an internal-combustion engine

1868: US Senate fails to impeach President Andrew Johnson by one vote

1920: French heroine Joan of Arc is canonized as a saint by Pope Benedict XV

1943: Operation Chastise: No. 617 Squadron RAF begins the famous Dambusters Raid, bombing the Möhne and Eder dams in the Ruhr Valley with bouncing bombs

1944: First of over 180,000 Hungarian Jews reaches Auschwitz

1989: Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping meet in Beijing and formally end a 30-year rift

2013: Human stem cells are successfully cloned

Source: Onthisday.com