1999 – The U.S. government hands control of the Panama Canal (as well all the adjacent land to the canal known as the Panama Canal Zone) to Panama. This act complied with the signing of the 1977 Torrijos–Carter Treaties.
2019 – The World Health Organization was informed of cases of pneumonia with an unknown cause, detected in Wuhan.[7] This later turned out to be COVID-19, the cause of the COVID-19 pandemic
…and if today is your birthday, Happy Birthday To You! You get to share birthday cake with…
1869 – Henri Matisse, French painter and sculptor (d. 1954)
1899 – Silvestre Revueltas, Mexican violinist, composer, and conductor (d. 1940)