2002 - Mike Tyson (left) will have to answer questions about the brawl he triggered with undisputed champion Lennox Lewis during a news conference if he is to be issued a boxing licence, the Nevada State Athletic Commission said. The mass brawl took place in Las Vegas as the two fighters were attending a news conference to announce the final details of their proposed world heavyweight title match-up.
Other important events
1528 - England and France declare war on Holy Roman Emperor Charles V.
1655 - Oliver Cromwell dissolves Britain’s Parliament.
1771 - Spain agrees to cede Falkland Islands to Britain.
1811 - France’s Napoleon Bonaparte annexes Oldenburg and alienates Russia’s Czar Alexander.
1817 - English freighter Diana sinks off Malaysia.
1905 - The Russian Czar’s troops massacre more than 100 peaceful protesters in front of the St Petersburg palace.
1922 - Pope Benedict XV dies. He is succeeded by Pius XI.
1924 - Ramsay MacDonald takes office as Britain’s first Prime Minister from the Labour Party.
1949 - Chang Kai-Shek resigns as President of China, following Nationalist Party reversals.
1956 - Thirty die in a train crash in Los Angeles.
1957 - Israeli forces complete withdrawal from Sinai Peninsula, but remain in Gaza Strip.
1964 - Kenneth Kaunda becomes premier of North-Rhodesia (now Zambia)
1970 - The first regularly scheduled commercial flight of the Boeing 747 begins in New York City and ends in London some 6 1/2 hours later.
1986 - Three Sikhs convicted for assassination of India’s Prime Minister Indira Gandhi are sentenced to death.
1992 - Roberta Bondar became the first Canadian woman in space, aboard the US space shuttle Discovery.
1995 - Two suicide bombers kill 19 people and wound more than 60 in Beit Lid junction, near occupied Jerusalem.
2002 - Israeli troops backed by tanks and helicopters seize Palestinian-controlled West Bank city of Tulkarem.
2006 - Evo Morales becomes President of Bolivia.
2008 - Iraq’s parliament passes a new law to change the country’s flag belonging to the Saddam Hussain era.
2010 - Astronaut Timothy Creamer sends the first Twitter message from space aboard the International Space Station.
2015 - The British government begins a historic transfer of power to Scotland.
2016 - Four die in school shooting in La Loche, Saskatchewan in Canada.
