• 1566 – A covenant
of nobles in the Habsburg Netherlands presented Governor Margaret of Parma a
petition to suspend the Spanish Inquisition in the Netherlands.
• 1847 – Britain's
first civic public park, Birkenhead Park in
Birkenhead, Merseyside, opened.
• 2009 – The North
Korean satellite Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2 was launched from the Tonghae Satellite
Launching Ground and passed over Japan, sparking concerns by other nations that
it may have been a trial run of technology that could be used to launch
intercontinental ballistic missiles.
