On Jan. 9, 1522, Adrian of Utrecht was elected Pope Adrian VI. He was the only Dutch pope and the last non-Italian pope until John Paul II.
In 1913 Richard M. Nixon, later the 37th president, was born in Yorba Linda, Calif.
In 1945, American forces began invading Lingayen Gulf on the Philippine island of Luzon in World War II (this sentence as published has been corrected in this text).
In 1957 Anthony Eden resigned as Britain’s prime minister. He would be succeeded by Harold Macmillan.
In 1964 anti-U.S. riots began in the Panama Canal Zone, leaving 21 Panamanians and three American soldiers dead.
In 1973 white-ruled Rhodesia closed its border with Zambia to try to cut off black guerrilla forces.
In 1980 Saudi Arabia beheaded 63 people for their involvement in a November 1979 raid on the Grand Mosque in Mecca.
In 1990 the space shuttle Columbia was launched on a 10-day mission that included the retrieval of a drifting scientific satellite.
In 1993 seven employees of a Brown’s Chicken and Pasta franchise in Palatine were found shot to death inside the restaurant after it had been closed for the night. The crime remains unsolved.
In 1994 President Clinton began the first European trip of his administration in Brussels, where, on the eve of a NATO summit, he warned of a rising mood of nationalism in Russia that he said threatened the march of democracy in Eastern Europe.
In 1997 a Comair commuter plane crashed 18 miles short of Detroit Metropolitan Airport, killing all 29 people aboard.
In 1998 a two-day ice storm, the worst in Canadian history, caused millions of dollars’ damage and about a dozen deaths across eastern Canada. Several other people died in New England.
