1992 - Nigel Mansell’s Formula One career ended in disarray and anger when he and Ayrton Senna crashed out of a thrilling Australian Grand Prix as Gerhard Berger drove to his second victory of the season for McLaren. Mansell, the world champion-elect, led from the start to lap 19 of the 81-lap race when his Williams appeared to be driven into by Senna’s McLaren and both cars bounced off the track into premature retirement. Mansell and Senna had raced closely from the start and it was no surprise to see the Brazilian attempting to pass, but he seemed to lose control of his McLaren and lurched into Mansell. Senna swerved his car slightly sideways but could not avoid a collision, losing his front left wheel in the accident.
Other important events
1793 - Louvre Museum in Paris opens to the public.
1864 - Abraham Lincoln is re-elected President of the United States for a second term.
1889 - Montana becomes the 41st state of the United States.
1892 - Grover Cleveland becomes the first president to win non-consecutive terms in the White House.
1895 - Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen, German physicist, discovers X-rays.
1917 - Vladimir I. Lenin becomes chief commissar in Russia and Leon Trotsky is named premier.
1923 - Adolf Hitler stages unsuccessful coup in Munich, Germany.
1932 - New York Gov. Franklin Delano Roosevelt is elected US president.
1956 - UN General Assembly demands that Soviet troops withdraw from Hungary.
1960 - John F. Kennedy beats Richard M. Nixon for the US presidency.
1966 - Edward W. Brooke of Massachusetts becomes the first black to be elected to the US Senate by popular vote.
1967 - The first BBC local radio station, BBC Radio Leicester, begin broadcasting.
1978 - Amir Abbas Hoveida, Iran’s Prime Minister for most of the past 13 years is arrested.
1990 - US President George Bush orders 200,000 more US troops to the Gulf.
1991 - The European Community and Canada impose economic sanctions on Yugoslavia in an attempt to stop the Balkan civil war.
1992 - Alexander Dubcek, leader of “Prague Spring” reform movement, dies in a Prague hospital.
1995 - Sharjah Natural History Museum opens.
2000 - Al Qasba Canal linking Khalid and Al Khan lagoons opens in Sharjah.
2003 - A car bomb detonates in a residential compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, killing at least 17 people.
2013 - Nigeria wins the Fifa Under-17 World Cup in Abu Dhabi.
2015 - Iran appoints its first woman ambassador since the 1979 Islamic revolution, naming Marzieh Afkham to head its embassy in Malaysia.
2016 - India scraps Rs500 and Rs1,000 notes to tackle corruption.
