J.C. Penney’s opened their first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
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The Battle of Forum Gallorum took place to besiege Julius Caesar's assassin, Decimus Junius Brutus.
The children's cooking show, Matilda and the Ramsay Bunch, premiered on CBBC in the UK.
5,200 Jews from Athens arrived at Auschwitz.
The Titanic collided with an iceberg off the coast of Newfoundland at 23:40 and started to sink.
Demonstrations broke out in Tbilisi, Georgia, after attempts by the USSR to repress the Georgian language.