1684 - Advert in a tavern in Ludgate Hill, London, to view a rhinoceros is published; it is the first rhinoceros in Europe since 1515
1923 - Saxony receives a Social Democratic and Communist coalition government
1960 - 16 California Poly football team members die in a plane crash in Toledo
2002 - Hungarian writer and Holocaust survivor Imre Kertész is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature
2009 - After closing borders for nearly 200 years, Armenia and Turkey sign protocols in Zurich to reopen their borders

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