1820 – The famous statue, the Venus de Milo, was discovered on the Aegean island of Melos.
1886 – William Ewart Gladstone introduced the first Irish Home Rule Bill into the British House of Commons.
1904 – The French Third Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland signed the Entente cordiale.
1908 – Harvard University voted to establish the Harvard Business School.
1994 - Nirvana lead singer Kurt Cobain, 27, was found dead in his Seattle home of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
1995 - British-born Nicholas Ingram was executed in the electric chair.