• 1282 – Sicilians began to rebel against the rule of the Angevin King Charles I of Naples, starting the War of the Sicilian Vespers.


• 1842 – American physician Crawford Long became the first person to use diethyl ether as an anesthetic in a surgical procedure.

• 1899 – A committee of the German Society of Chemistry invited other national scientific organizations to appoint delegates to form the International Committee on Atomic Weights.

• 1950 – Usmar Ismail  began filming Darah dan Doa, formally recognised as the first Indonesian film.