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19 — The Roman general Germanicus dies near Antioch. He was convinced ...
680 — The Battle of Karbala marks the martyrdom of Husayn ibn Ali.
732 — Charles Martel's forces defeat an Umayyad army near Tours, ...
1471 — Sten Sture the Elder, the Regent of Sweden, with the help of ...
1492 — The crew of Christopher Columbus's ship, the Santa Maria, ...
1575 — Roman Catholic forces under Henry I, Duke of Guise, defeat the ...
1580 — Over 600 Papal troops land in Ireland to support the Second ...
1760 — In a treaty with the Dutch colonial authorities, the Ndyuka ...
1780 — The Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000–30,000 in the ...
1814 — War of 1812: The United States Revenue Marine attempts to ...
1845 — In Annapolis, Maryland, the Naval School (later the United ...
1846 — Triton, the largest moon of the planet Neptune, is discovered ...
1868 — The Ten Years' War begins against Spanish rule in Cuba.
1903 — The Women's Social and Political Union is founded in ...
1911 — The day after a bomb explodes prematurely, the Wuchang ...
1913 — U.S. President Woodrow Wilson triggers the explosion of the ...
1918 — RMS Leinster is torpedoed and sunk by UB-123, killing 564, the ...
1920 — The Carinthian plebiscite determines that the larger part of ...
1928 — Chiang Kai-shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China.
1933 — A United Airlines Boeing 247 is destroyed by sabotage, the ...
1935 — In Greece, a coup d'état ends the Second Hellenic ...
1938 — Abiding by the Munich Agreement, Czechoslovakia completes its ...
1945 — The Double Tenth Agreement is signed by the Communist Party ...
1954 — The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Sultanate of Muscat, ...
1957 — The Windscale fire results in Britain's worst nuclear ...
1957 — U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologizes to Ghanaian ...
1963 — The Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty comes into effect.
1963 — France cedes control of the Bizerte naval base to Tunisia.
1964 — The Tokyo Summer Olympics opening ceremony is the first to be ...
1967 — The Outer Space Treaty comes into force.
1969 — King Crimson releases their debut album, In the Court of the ...
1970 — Canada's October Crisis escalates when Quebec Vice ...
1970 — Fiji becomes independent.
1971 — Aeroflot Flight 773 is destroyed by a bomb over Moscow Oblast, ...
1973 — U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew resigns after being charged ...
1975 — Papua New Guinea joins the United Nations.
1979 — The Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant began operations in ...
1980 — The Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front is founded in El ...
1980 — The 7.1 Mw El Asnam earthquake shakes northern Algeria, ...
1985 — US Navy aircraft intercept an Egyptian airliner carrying the ...
1986 — A 5.7 Mw San Salvador earthquake shakes El Salvador, killing ...
1997 — Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 2553 crashes and explodes in ...
1998 — A Lignes Aériennes Congolaises jetliner is shot down by rebels ...
2002 — Iraq War: The United States Congress approves the ...
2007 — Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor becomes the first Malaysian in space ...
2009 — Armenia and Turkey sign the Zurich Protocols, intended to ...
2010 — The Netherlands Antilles are dissolved as a country.
2015 — Twin bomb blasts in the Turkish capital Ankara kill 109 and ...
2018 — The National Fire and Rescue Administration is founded, ...
2018 — Hurricane Michael makes landfall in the Florida Panhandle as a ...
2022 — Ben S. Bernanke, Douglas W. Diamond and Philip H. Dybvig are ...