1325

Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec Empire, is founded.

1639

Harvard University is named for clergyman John Harvard.

1707

Holy Roman Empire agrees to Convention of Milan whereby French troops are to leave northern Italy.

1860

Birth of Hugo Wolf, Austrian composer (died 1903). Chiefly a composer of songs, he set the poetry of Goethe and Italian and Spanish writers to music and wrote the opera Der Corregidor.

1906

Death of Susan B Anthony, pioneer and leader of the women's suffrage movement in the United States. In 1888, she organised the International Council of Women.

1938

Austria is declared part of the German Reich.

1954

The Vietnamese resistance army begins a strategic campaign against the French's most fortified entrenched camp in Indochina at Dien Bien Phu, north-western Viet Nam.

1971

The Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Viet Nam denounces the US and Sai Gon forces for continuing the massacre of civilians in South Viet Nam following the slaughter in 1968 of over 500 villagers at My Lai, Quang Ngai Province.

2000

Alcoa Inc settles a government lawsuit by agreeing to spend US$8.8 million to clean up the Mississippi River and reduce pollution.

2001

Foot-and-mouth disease strikes France's vital farm belt.

2002

Angola's government announces a cease-fire in its 27-year civil war against the rebel National Union for the Total Independence of Angola, known as UNITA.

2008

Serbia's president dissolves parliament and calls an early election to determine whether the country aligns itself with the European Union and other Western groups or returns to its isolationist past.

2009

Under pressure from the US and other troubled economies, the Swiss government announces that it will cooperate in international tax investigations, breaking with a long-standing tradition of protecting wealthy foreigners accused of hiding billions of dollar. — AP/REUTERS/VNS