✝️ 869 – The Fourth Council of Constantinople opened to address the schism between the Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches, but failed to resolve the East-West divide. 📜

🍞 1789 – Thousands of women marched on Versailles demanding bread and reforms, forcing the monarchy back to Paris and intensifying the French Revolution. 👑⚔️

🇧🇬 1908 – Bulgaria declared independence from the Ottoman Empire, ending centuries of foreign rule and establishing the modern Bulgarian state. 🎉

📺 1947 – President Truman gave the first televised presidential address, urging Americans to conserve food for post-war Europe, transforming political communication. 🇺🇸

🏚️ 1948 – A massive 7.3 earthquake devastated Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, claiming around 110,000 lives and destroying much of the city. 🌍

🥋 1969 – The first women's judo world championships were held in Osaka, Japan, breaking gender barriers in sports and promoting equality. 🥇🌍

🧬 1974 – David Baltimore and Howard Temin were awarded the Nobel Prize for discovering reverse transcriptase, a major advancement in virology and HIV research. 🏆

💻 1983 – Richard Stallman launched the GNU Project, igniting the open-source software movement that paved the way for Linux and modern tech collaboration. 🌐

📱 2011 – Steve Jobs, visionary behind the iPhone, iPod, and Mac, passed away, leaving a legacy that forever transformed technology and design. 🍏

🔐 2017 – The U.S. banned Kaspersky Lab software from government systems over concerns of espionage, raising tensions in the cybersecurity world. 🛡️