1216.- The English King John Bez died, the young son of Henry II, who in 1215 had to sign the great charter of freedom in England "Magna karta libertatum". The charter limited the king's authority and established basic English constitutional and public rights.

1735.- John Adams was born, the second president of the United States (1797-1801). He died on July 4, 1826.

1745.- Jonathan Swift, the greatest English satirist, one of the most keen critics of human nature and social processes, died in Dublin. His most popular work, the fantasy novel The Gulliver's Travels, is a satire on Britain's political affairs and grows into a mockery of the entire human race and its institutions. His works "Battle of the Books" and "Story of the Barrel" are also known. He was born in Dublin on November 30, 1667.

1864.- The French chemist and industrialist Auguste Limier was born, who together with his brother Luier made the first film camera and established a factory for the production of photographic materials in Lyon. The brothers discovered the process of filming in natural colors and in the Paris café "Grand Café" on December 28, 1895 staged the world's first film screening - "Train entry at the station", "Workers leave the factory".

1972.- The Holterman Grumman, a 235,14-kilogram plate containing 82,11 kilograms of gold, the largest gold found, was found in New South Wales, Australia.

1875.- English physicist Charles Whitstone, pioneer in telegraphy, has died. He invented the method for determining electrical resistance (Whitston Bridge), and also studied electricity, light, and sound.

1899.- Miguel Angel Asturias, a Guatemalan writer, was born in Ciudad Guatemala. His works have a social color because in them he shows the difficult social and economic problems in his country. His famous works are "Mr. President", "Corn People", the "Hurricane" trilogy, then "The Green Pope", "The Eyes of the Buried", "Weekend in Guatemala" and others. In 1966 he received the Lenin Prize for Peace, and in 1967 he received the Nobel Prize for Literature. Died in Madrid, Spain, on June 9, 1974.

1919.- Blagoj Popov was born in Kocani, holder of the "Partisan Memorial 1941", a prominent Macedonian leader for many years, known as a successful president of the Assembly of the City of Skopje during the earthquake in 1963 and the reconstruction of the city and as one of the presidents of the Executive Council of The Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia.

1924.- Dr. Vladimir Brezovski was born in Galichnik, a prominent Macedonian historian, author of hundreds of papers, scientific advisor at the Institute of National History in Skopje. He was best known as the long-time head of the documentation department at the Institute of National History. He died on January 6, 1983.

1931.- English writer David John Moore Cornwall, known as John Le Carré, the master of the modern spy novel, was born. Works: "War in the Mirror", "The Small Town in Germany", "Naive and Sentimental Lover", "Boy, Lady, King, Spy", "The Noble Pupil", "The Panamanian Tailor", "Pure Spy".

1937.- New Zealand physicist of English descent Ernest Rutherford, winner of the 1908 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, one of the founders of modern atomic theories, has died. He was mostly concerned with natural radioactivity and fundamental research in that area, discovering three types of radiation that he labeled as alpha, beta and gamma rays.

1954.- An Anglo-Egyptian agreement was reached to withdraw British troops from the Suez Canal zone within 20 months.

1957.- The Federal Republic of Germany severed diplomatic relations with Yugoslavia because Belgrade recognized the German Democratic Republic. Relations were restored in February 1968, at a time when Willy Brandt was the head of Bonn diplomacy.

1987.- A collision between two passenger trains on the outskirts of Jakarta killed 102 people and injured more than 5.000.

1987.- On the New York Stock Exchange "Dow Jones" the value of the shares during the day fell to a record 508 points, or 22,6 percent, which was remembered as "Black Monday".

1991.- The 800th anniversary of the fresco painting of the church "St. George" in the village of Kurbinovo, Resen region was marked. The painting of the church began on April 15, 1191.

2001.- At least 350 people, most of them Iraqi refugees, were killed when an overcrowded ship sank off the coast of Java off the Indonesian island of Sumatra in the direction of Australia.

2003.- Former Bosnia and Herzegovina President Alija Izetbegovic has died in Sarajevo. In the first multi-party elections in BiH, Izetbegovi бил was elected a member of the Presidency of the Federal Republic of BiH, and on December 19, 1990, the President of the Presidency of the Federal Republic of BiH. He was one of the signatories to the Dayton Peace Accords that ended the war in BiH, along with the presidents of Croatia and Serbia, Slobodan Milosevic and Franjo Tudjman. Izetbegovic was born on August 8, 1925 in Bosanski Shamac.

2003.- Pope John Paul II with the solemn procession that took place in St. Peter's Square in Rome, beatified or proclaimed her Blessed Mother Teresa, which was the last act before her proclamation as a saint.