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