1661 Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England is ritually executed after having been dead for two years.
1835 Richard Lawrence misfires at President Andrew Jackson in Washington, D.C. in first attempted assassination of a US President.
1862 USS Monitor, the US Navy's first ironclad warship launched.
1895 SS Elbe sinks after collision in North Sea, 332 killed.
1933 President Paul von Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler as Reich Chancellor of Germany who forms a government with Franz von Papen.
1933 After Paul von Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Germany, his former WWI colleague General Erich Ludendorff sends a letter to him stating "this accursed man will cast our Reich into the abyss and bring our nation to inconceivable misery"
1939 Adolf Hitler threatens Jews during his speech to the German Reichstag (Parliament)
1943 6 British Mosquitos bomb Berlin in daylight.
1943 Adolf Hitler promotes Friedrich Paulus, commander of the 6th Army, to Field Marshal in the hope that he will not surrender.
1943 USS Chicago sinks in Pacific Ocean.
1945 "Wilhelm Gustloff" torpedoed off Danzig by Soviet sub-c 9,400 die.
1945 American Rangers and Filipino resistance fighters liberate over 500 Allied POWs from Japanese at Cabanatuan.
1965 State Funeral of Winston Churchill at St Paul's Cathedral in London. Then world's largest ever state funeral.
1969 The Beatles perform their last live gig, a 42 minute concert on the roof of Apple Corps HQ in London.
1972 Bloody Sunday: 27 unarmed civilians are shot (14 are killed) by the British Army during a civil rights march in Derry, Northern Ireland; this is the highest death toll from a single shooting incident during 'the Troubles'
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