These are some of the notable events to have happened on this date throughout history. 

1413, Henry V becomes King of England.

1788, A fire destroys 856 buildings in New Orleans, Louisiana and leaves most of the town in ruins.

1857, An earthquake in Tokyo kills more than 100,000.

1871, Bismark opened the first parliament of the newly founded German Reich.

1905, Albert Einstein publishes his theory of relativity.

1908, Henri Farman, French aviator took up the first passenger and flew over Paris, France.

1917, Tsar Nicholas was arrested by Russian revolutionaries.

1933, The ceremonial opening of the first Parliament of Nazi Germany with Adolf Hitler as Chancellor, was held at the Garrison Church, Potsdam.

1946, In Britain, Aneurin Bevan announced the government's proposals for a National Health Service. Doctors immediately announced the setting up of a fighting fund to oppose legislation, fearing a loss of earnings.

1952, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah was elected the first African Prime Minister south of the Sahara, when he won the Gold Coast.

1958, Michael Todd, Film producer and third husband of Dame Elizabeth Taylor, died.

1961, The Beatles played Liverpool's Cavern Club for the first time.

1963, Convicts spent their last night at Alcatraz Prison in San Francisco Bay, California. In its 29 years as a penitentiary, it housed Al Capone as well as the famous Birdman of Alcatraz.

1965, Martin Luther King Jr. leads the civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery in Alabama.

1969, John Lennon and his new wife Yoko Ono staged their Beds In Peace at the Amsterdam Hilton.

1980, "Who shot JR?" became a household question after the season finale of Dallas aired in which character J.R. Ewing is shot by an unseen assailant.

1985, English actor Sir Michael Redgrave died, one day after his 77th birthday.

1989, Bob Hawke, then Australian Prime Minister, cried on television after confessing to adultery. He said in a national broadcast that he'd stopped womanizing and thanked his wife for her support.

1990, A massive poll tax demonstration in London's Trafalgar Square turned into a riot. A total of 417 people were injured, 341 arrested.

1992, Canadian-born actor John Ireland died.

1997, A study showed that newborn babies whose mothers smoke during pregnancy spend the first days of their life going through withdrawal.

2002, In Pakistan, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh along with three other suspects are charged with murder for their part in the kidnapping and killing of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.

2005, Student Jeffrey Weise, 16, killed ten people, including his grandfather during a massacre at his home and school in Red Lake, Minnesota.