1520 – Ferdinand Magellan begins crossing Pacific Ocean.
1914 – Turkish forces attack Russian ports on the Black Sea, Russia, Britain and France retaliate by declaring war on Turkey.
1940 – Italian troops invade Greece from Albania .
1954 – Western European Union was founded.
1971 – Assassination of Jordanian Prime Minister Wasfi al-Tal in Cairo.
1990 – John Major becomes Britain’s PM .
1994 – Norway votes against joining European Union.
1908 – French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss was born.