1480.- Fernando Magellan, a Portuguese navigator serving in Spain, was born in Sabrosa, Italy. Sailing along South America and across the Strait of Fiery Earth, which later bore his name, he reached the Pacific Ocean on March 16, 1521 in the Philippine Islands. He died fighting the natives of Macatan Island on April 27, 1521.

1521.- Portuguese sailor Fernando Magellan has reached the Pacific Ocean off the Philippine Islands.

1534.- England severed all ties with the Roman Catholic Church.

1736.- Italian composer Giovanni Battista Pergolesi has died. Work: the opera "The Maid".

1751.- American statesman James Madison, "father of the American constitution," president of the United States from 1809 to 1817, was born. They co-authored "Federalist Acts" with Alexander Hamilton and John James to gain support for the ratification of a constitution that introduces a stronger union of US federal states instead of a confederation.

1787.- Georg Simeon Ohm, a German physicist, was born. He discovered the relationship between electricity and electromotive force, named after him ohm's law. He made significant contributions to acoustics, crystal optics, and mathematics. "Ohm" is a unit for measuring electrical resistance in the international system of measures. He died in 1854.

1808.- Taking advantage of Sweden's involvement in the war with Napoleon, Russian Tsar Alexander I conquered Finland and declared it a Russian province.

1851.- Spain entered into a concordat with the Vatican, according to which the Roman Catholic faith became the only religion in the country.

1859.- Russian physicist and electrical engineer Alexander Stepanovich Popov was born, who discovered and established the first radiotelegraphic connection. He made the first radio receiver, in front of the Italian inventor Guillemo Marconi.

1920.- Entente troops occupied Constantinople, then the capital of Turkey, defeated in World War I.

1925.- August von Wassermann, a famous German physician, bacteriologist, who first introduced the method of examining blood in 1906, died in Berlin. He was born in 1866.

1930.- Spanish General Miguel Primo de Rivera and Orbaneh, the pro-fascist dictator of Spain from September 1923 to January 1930, died. His regime tried to unite Spain under the motto "one country, one religion, one monarchy", but failed to create an acceptable political system. He resigned under pressure from the military, from which he did not receive support.

1934.- The Italian-Hungarian-Austrian Danube Bloc was signed in Rome, supporting Italy's expansionist policy towards the "Little Entente" - Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and Romania.

1935.- Germany has completely rejected the disarmament clause provided for in the Treaty of Versailles, which ended World War I.

1939.- Slovakia, a day after German troops occupied the Czech Republic, was declared an "independent state" under the direction of Adolf Hitler, destroying Czechoslovakia.

1940.- Selma Otilia Lovisa Lagerleff, a Swedish writer and novelist, died in Morbaka. Her novels The Josta Burling Saga, Invisible Relationships, Nils Holgerson's Wonderful Journey and others are well known. In 1909 she received the Nobel Prize for Literature. She was born in Morbaka on November 20, 1858.

1941.- Italian film director Bernardo Bertolucci was born. Movies: "Before the Revolution", "Partner", "Conformist", "The Last Tango in Paris", "The Twentieth Century", "Moon", "Funny Man", "1900", "The Last Chinese Emperor".

1956.- Irena Jolio-Curie, daughter of Pierre and Marie Curie, inventors of radium, died in Paris. Irena Jolio-Curie and her husband Jean-Frédéric Jolio won the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. She was born in Paris on September 12, 1897.

1956.- The first issue of the newspaper "Narodna Prosveta", a newspaper of the cultural-educational and social life, was published in Skopje.

1962.- The first Soviet satellite in the Cosmos series was launched.

1968.- US troops in the Vietnam War massacred at least 500 Vietnamese civilians in the village of Mi Lai, including children and women, including many pregnant women. For this crime, although the whole world was disgusted, none of the perpetrators were punished.

1978.- The terrorist organization "Red Brigades" in Rome kidnapped former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro. He was held hostage by terrorists until May 1978, when he was killed.

1987.- The first electric train on the main railway section Skopje - Gevgelija started from the Railway Station in Skopje.

1999.- The European Commission has submitted a collective resignation, for the first time since the establishment of this executive body of the European Union.

2005.- The Israeli army handed over the city of Jericho to Palestinian rule.

2008.- The head of the Russian Orthodox Church abroad, Metropolitan Laurel (Vasily Mikhailovich Shkurla), has died in Jordanville, USA. The Russian Orthodox Church Abroad was established in Sremski Karlovci in 1922. Laurel was born in 1927 in Ladomor, Praрашеevo Russia (now part of Slovakia).

2009.- Petar Bacho, Hungarian film director, has died. He gained fame first with the film "Witness" in 1969, and then with the sequel "Witness Again" in 1994. He has won numerous film awards and is considered one of the greatest Hungarian directors of the 20th century.

2011.- The Russian Soyuz shuttle with a crew of three astronauts landed safely at the spaceport in Kazakhstan. The crew of the Soyuz spacecraft consisted of American astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian astronauts Oleg Skripochka and Alexander Kaleri. Soyuz returned to space after five months attached to the International Space Station.