• 1080 – On the death of his brother Harald III, Canute IV,
who later became the first Dane to be canonized, became King of Denmark.
• 1349 – Fall of the Bavand dynasty, and rise of the Afrasiyab
dynasty.
• 1907 – Brazil became the third country in the world to start
construction on a dreadnought battleship, sparking a vastly expensive South
American naval arms race.
• 1973 – George Lucas began writing a 13-page film treatment
entitled The Star Wars.
• 2014 – NASA's Kepler confirms the discovery of the first
Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of another star.
