1916 - Grigory Rasputin, the Siberian peasant, mystic, and favourite of Russian Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra, was shot, poisoned and eventually drowned.
1947...
1911 - Sun Yat Sen became the first president of the Chinese Republic.
1940 - German aircraft dropped thousands of incendiary bombs on London's city...
1927 - The Russian Revolutionary leader Leon Trotsky was expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, marking a victory for Josef Stalin in their power...
1908 - American Jack Johnson became the first black boxer to win the world heavyweight title, defeating Canadian Tommy Burns in Sydney.
1972 - Harry...
1942 - An assassin killed Admiral Francois Darlan, a senior figure in France's collaborationist Vichy government.
1989 - Deposed Panamanian strongman General Manuel Antonio Noriega...
1917 - In World War One, peace negotiations opened between the new Russian government and Germany at Brest-Litovsk.
1989 - Samuel Beckett, reclusive Irish writer...
