1917 President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress to declare war against Germany
1836 Spain recognized the independence of Mexico by signing the Santa María–Calatrava Treaty
1996 Sri Lanka won the Cricket World Cup
1994 The implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement
1895 German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen discovered X-Rays
1901 Guglielmo Marconi sent and received the first wireless message across the Atlantic Ocean
1804 Haiti declared its independence from France
1807 Innovation of the steamboat
1999 The Euro became the official currency in 11 European countries
1863 President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation
1990 Panamanian dictator Noriega surrendered to the United States
1997 The United Kingdom returned Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China
1949 Queen Juliana of the Netherlands signed the papers to grant independence to Indonesia
1945 International Monetary Fund was formally established by 29 member countries
1965 United States President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law
2018 WHO officially announced it will categorize gaming addiction as a mental health condition