1688 – King James II flees London
1768 – The first of 100 weekly “numbers” of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, which are bound into three volumes in 1771, is published in Edinburgh, Scotland
1913 – Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore becomes the first non-European to be presented with the Nobel Prize for Literature for “Gitanjali”
1939 – KNVB celebrates 50th anniversary
1954 – Linus Pauling wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research into the nature of the chemical bond and its applications
1963 – Karl Ziegler and Giulio Natta receive the 1963 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on the technology of high polymers
1971 – West German Chancellor Willy Brandt receives the Nobel Peace Prize
1994 – 60th Heisman Trophy Award: Rashaan Salaam, Colorado (RB)
