Notable events
- 1776: Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense, a pamphlet that helped spark the American Revolutionary War
- 1863: The Metropolitan line, the world’s first underground railway service, opens in London
- 1920: The Treaty of Versailles officially ends World War I
- 1929: The first Adventures of Tintin comic book is published
- 1946: The first United Nations General Assembly opens
- 1971: Coco Chanel, the French fashion designer and founder of the Chanel Company, dies at the age of 87
- 2013: Magnus Carlsen achieves the highest FIDE rating of all time in chess.
