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671 — Emperor Tenji of Japan introduces a water clock (clepsydra) ...
1190 — Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowns in the river ...
1225 — Pope Honorius III issues the bull Vineae Domini custodes in ...
1329 — The Battle of Pelekanon is the last attempt of the Byzantine ...
1358 — Battle of Mello: The peasant forces of the Jacquerie are ...
1523 — Copenhagen is surrounded by the army of Frederick I of ...
1539 — Council of Trent: Pope Paul III sends out letters to his ...
1596 — Willem Barents and Jacob van Heemskerk discover Bear Island.
1619 — Thirty Years' War: Battle of Záblatí, a turning point in ...
1624 — Signing of the Treaty of Compiègne between France and the ...
1692 — Salem witch trials: Bridget Bishop is hanged at Gallows Hill ...
1719 — Jacobite risings: Battle of Glen Shiel.
1782 — King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke (Rama I) of Siam (modern day ...
1786 — A landslide dam on the Dadu River created by an earthquake ten ...
1793 — French Revolution: Following the arrests of Girondin leaders, ...
1793 — The Jardin des Plantes museum opens in Paris. A year later, it ...
1805 — First Barbary War: Yusuf Karamanli signs a treaty ending the ...
1829 — The first Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the ...
1838 — Myall Creek massacre: Twenty-eight Aboriginal Australians are ...
1854 — The United States Naval Academy graduates its first class of ...
1861 — American Civil War: Battle of Big Bethel: Confederate troops ...
1863 — During the French intervention in Mexico, Mexico City is ...
1864 — American Civil War: Battle of Brice's Crossroads: ...
1868 — Mihailo Obrenović III, Prince of Serbia is assassinated.
1871 — Sinmiyangyo: Captain McLane Tilton leads 109 US Marines in a ...
1878 — League of Prizren is established, to oppose the decisions of ...
1886 — Mount Tarawera in New Zealand erupts, killing 153 people and ...
1898 — Spanish–American War: In the Battle of Guantánamo Bay, U.S. ...
1916 — The Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire was declared by ...
1918 — The Austro-Hungarian battleship SMS Szent István sinks off the ...
1924 — Fascists kidnap and kill Italian Socialist leader Giacomo ...
1935 — Chaco War ends: A truce is called between Bolivia and Paraguay ...
1935 — Dr. Robert Smith takes his last drink, and Alcoholics ...
1940 — World War II: Military resistance to the German occupation of ...
1940 — World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt denounces ...
1940 — World War II: Fascist Italy declares war on France and the ...
1942 — World War II: The Lidice massacre is perpetrated as a reprisal ...
1944 — In baseball, 15-year-old Joe Nuxhall of the Cincinnati Reds ...
1944 — World War II: In Distomo, Boeotia, Greece, 228 men, women and ...
1944 — World War II: Six hundred forty-three men, women and children ...
1945 — Australian Imperial Forces land in Brunei Bay to liberate ...
1947 — Saab produces its first automobile.
1957 — John Diefenbaker leads the Progressive Conservative Party of ...
1960 — Trans Australia Airlines Flight 538 crashes near Mackay ...
1963 — The Equal Pay Act of 1963, aimed at abolishing wage disparity ...
1964 — United States Senate breaks a 75-day filibuster against the ...
1967 — The Six-Day War ends: Israel and Syria agree to a cease-fire.
1977 — James Earl Ray escapes from Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary ...
1980 — The African National Congress in South Africa publishes a call ...
1982 — Lebanon War: The Syrian Arab Army defeats the Israeli Defense ...
1987 — June Democratic Struggle: The June Democratic Struggle starts ...
1990 — British Airways Flight 5390 lands safely at Southampton ...
1991 — Eleven-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard is kidnapped in South Lake ...
1994 — China conducts a nuclear test for DF-31 warhead at Area C ...
1996 — Peace talks begin in Northern Ireland without the ...
1997 — Before fleeing his northern stronghold, Khmer Rouge leader Pol ...
1999 — Kosovo War: NATO suspends its airstrikes after Slobodan ...
2001 — Pope John Paul II canonizes Lebanon's first female saint, ...
2002 — The first direct electronic communication experiment between ...
2003 — The Spirit rover is launched, beginning NASA's Mars ...
2008 — Sudan Airways Flight 109 crashes at Khartoum International ...
2009 — Eighty-eight year-old James Wenneker von Brunn opens fire ...
2018 — Opportunity rover, sends it last message back to Earth. The ...
2024 — A plane crash in Malawi leaves 10 people dead, including the ...
2025 — Eleven people are killed, including the perpetrator, and ...