the year 1547 Ivan Vasiljevič the Terrible became the tsar of Russia.
In 1601 during the Counter-Reformation the Ljubljana Bishop Tomaž Hren and provincial governor Jurij Lenkovič called on all the people of Ljubljana who adopted the Lutheran faith and told them that they must immediately renounce their new faith otherwise they must leave the city within six weeks and three days. They must not settle in any Hapsburg country; before departure they must sell all their property, give the court one tenth and pay off their debts.
In 1920 in the United States of America a prohibition was introduced just one year after a law was passed which banned drinking, making, selling alcohol.
In 1947 the first Slovenian constitution was passed.
In 1969 student Jan Palach, in protest against Warsaw Pact forces occupying Czechoslovakia that then crushed the reform movement in the country, poured petrol over himself and set himself on fire.
In 1997 in Los Angeles Ennis Cosby is killed. He was the son of actor Bill Cosby. An unknown person killed him while he was changing a tyre on his car.
In 1944 Franc Hvasti, former cyclist, representative, selector and trainer, dies. He is one of the most merited for the development of Slovenian cycling in the last twenty years.
THIS DAY IN MUSIC
1982 - Bucks Fizz shoots to No. 1 on the British singles chart with 'Land Of Make Believe'.
1988 - George Harrison takes 1. Place on the American singles chart with 'Got My Mind Set On You'.
1988 - Belinda Carlisle takes the top spot on the British charts with 'Heaven is a Place on Earth.'
1988 - Tina Turner broke a record in Rio de Janeiro when she gave a concert with an audience of 182,000 people. This is the biggest audience ever at a concert by an independent musician.
1988 - Wet Wet Wet take the No.1 spot on the British album chart with 'Popped In 'Souled Out', and then also "Wishing I Was Lucky" and "Sweet Little Mystery".
BORN ON THIS DAY
1959 – singer Helen Folasade Adu, known as Sade (1984 'Your Love Is King').