These are some of the notable events to have happened on this date throughout history.
1905, Aspirin went on sale in Britain for the first time.
1911, Five-year-old Pu Yi, the last Chinese Emperor, surrendered power in China.
1922, Benito Mussolini formed a Fascist ministry in Rome, Italy.
1938, Orson Welles' radio transmission of the H.G. Wells story War of the Worlds caused panic across America when listeners thought it was a newsflash reporting that Martians had landed in Grovers Mill, New Jersey.
1944, Anne Frank and her sister are deported from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
1945, Jackie Robinson breaks the baseball color barrier as he signs with the Brooklyn Dodgers.
1967, Brian Jones of The Rolling Stones was jailed for nine months for drug offenses.
1970, The Doors singer Jim Morrison was jailed for six months and fined $500 for allegedly exposing himself to a Miami, Florida audience.
1974, Boxing legend Muhammad Ali regained his world heavyweight boxing title when he knocked out George Foreman in the eighth round.
1996, CTI Corporation in Buckner, Missouri, launched a range of false dog testicles, called neuticles, to protect castrated pets' pride.
2002, Run-DMC DJ Jam Master Jay, whose real name is Jason Mizell, was fatally shot in his Queens, New York recording studio.
2005, The rebuilt Dresden Frauenkirche (destroyed in the firebombing of Dresden during World War II) is reconsecrated after a thirteen-year rebuilding project.
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