** Second Court of Appeals of Texas

** Second son: Prince Okinobu ( 興信法親王 ) ( Buddhist Priest )

** Second son: Imperial Prince Ohito ( 緒仁親王 ) ( Emperor Go-En ' yū )

** Second daughter: Imperial Princess Kenshi ( 見子内親王 )

** Second son: Imperial Prince Dōchō ( 道朝法親王 )

** Second Intermediate Period: ca.

** In a 2011 episode of Misfits, an alternate reality where Germany won the Second World War, depicts Britain and the gang under the rule of the Nazi occupation force.

** The Second Battle of Trenton

** The third period of the Second Vatican Council opens.

** Second Vatican Council: The third period of the Catholic Church's ecumenical council closes.

** The Second Congo War starts in 1998 in central Africa and includes 50 different cultures and 7 different nations.

** The Second Chechen War ( 1999 – ongoing ) – the war was launched by the Russian Federation starting 26 August 1999, in response to the Invasion of Dagestan and the Russian apartment bombings which were blamed on the Chechens.

** Second Red Scare: Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage.

** The Reichstag passes a statement stating that Hitler, s second-in-command Reichsmarshall Hermann Göring should be appointed as Hitler, s succesor as Führer should Hitler die in the middle of the Second World War. Rudolf Hess is to be appointed in Göring, s place should anything befall Göring.

** President José P. Laurel issues an Executive Proclamation putting an end to the Second Philippine Republic, thus putting an end to his term as President of the Philippines.

** The second period of the Second Vatican Council in Rome opens.

** Second Boer War: The British House of Commons ' vote of censure over the British government's handling of the war is defeated.

** Second Boer War: British military leaders accept the unconditional notice of surrender from Boer General Piet Cronje.

** Second Boer War: The British Army relieves the Siege of Mafeking.

** A referendum in Greece favors the formation of the Second Hellenic Republic.

** WWII: " Second Great Fire of London " – Luftwaffe carries out a massive incendiary bombing raid, starting 1, 500 fires.

** The first period of the Second Vatican Council closes.

** The Second Republic of Poland adopts the March Constitution.

** Second ODECA charter, signed on 12 December 1962, effective.

** The Second Vatican Council closes.

** Moscow International Film Festival Grand Prize

** Moscow International Film Festival Grand Prize

** Festival de Cannes Special 40th Anniversary Prize

** Japan Art Association's Praemium Imperiale ( equivalent of the Nobel Prize in the visual arts )

** Knuth Prize, a prize for outstanding contributions to the foundations of computer science

** San Sebastian Festival Winner of the FIPRESCI Prize

** Henry Way Kendall, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1926 )

** Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1921 )

** Carl Ferdinand Cori, Austrian-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( b. 1896 )

** Paul Dirac, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1902 )

** Arthur Kornberg, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( d. 2007 )

** James Tobin, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 2002 )

** Jerome Karle, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

** Franco Modigliani, Italian-born economist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 2003 )

** Paul D. Boyer, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

** Anwar Sadat, President of Egypt, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( d. 1981 )

** John Kendrew, British molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry ( d. 1997 )

** John Bennett Fenn, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 2010 )

** John Cornforth, Australian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

** Rodney Robert Porter, English biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( d. 1985 )

** Polykarp Kusch, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1911 )

** William Golding, English writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1911 )

** Severo Ochoa, Spanish-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( b. 1905 )

** Wolfgang Paul, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1913 )

** John Bardeen, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1991 )