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220 — Emperor Xian of Han is forced to abdicate the throne by Cao ...
361 — Julian enters Constantinople as sole Roman Emperor.
861 — Assassination of the Abbasid caliph al-Mutawakkil by the ...
969 — Byzantine Emperor Nikephoros II Phokas is assassinated by his ...
1041 — Michael V, adoptive son of Empress Zoë of Byzantium, is ...
1239 — Treaty of Benavente: the heiresses of the Kingdom of León ...
1282 — Battle of Orewin Bridge: Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, the last native ...
1602 — A surprise attack by forces under the command of Charles ...
1640 — The Root and Branch petition, signed by 15,000 Londoners ...
1675 — Antonio de Vea expedition enters San Rafael Lake in western ...
1688 — Glorious Revolution: James II of England, while trying to flee ...
1792 — French Revolution: King Louis XVI of France is put on trial ...
1815 — The U.S. Senate creates a select committee on finance and a ...
1816 — Indiana becomes the 19th U.S. state.
1862 — American Civil War: The Battle of Fredericksburg begins as the ...
1868 — Paraguayan War: Brazilian troops defeat the Paraguayan Army at ...
1899 — Second Boer War: In the Battle of Magersfontein the Boers ...
1901 — Guglielmo Marconi transmits the first transatlantic radio ...
1905 — A workers' uprising occurs in Kyiv, Ukraine (then part of ...
1907 — The New Zealand Parliament Buildings are almost completely ...
1913 — More than two years after it was stolen from the Louvre, ...
1917 — World War I: British General Edmund Allenby enters Jerusalem ...
1920 — Irish War of Independence: In retaliation for a recent IRA ...
1925 — Roman Catholic papal encyclical Quas primas introduces the ...
1927 — Guangzhou Uprising: Communist Red Guards launch an uprising in ...
1931 — Statute of Westminster 1931: The British Parliament ...
1934 — Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, takes his ...
1936 — Abdication Crisis: Edward VIII's abdication as King of ...
1937 — Second Italo-Ethiopian War: Italy leaves the League of Nations.
1941 — World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy suffers its first ...
1941 — World War II: Poland declares war on the Empire of Japan.
1941 — World War II: Germany and Italy declare war on the United ...
1946 — The United Nations International Children's Emergency ...
1948 — Arab–Israeli War: The United Nations passes General Assembly ...
1958 — French Upper Volta and French Dahomey gain self-government ...
1960 — French forces crack down in a violent clash with protesters in ...
1962 — Arthur Lucas, convicted of murder, is the last person to be ...
1964 — Che Guevara speaks at the United Nations General Assembly in ...
1972 — Apollo 17 becomes the sixth and final Apollo mission to land ...
1978 — The Lufthansa heist is committed by a group led by Lucchese ...
1980 — The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and ...
1981 — El Mozote massacre: Armed forces in El Salvador kill an ...
1988 — A Soviet Air Force Il-76 aircraft crashes while participating ...
1990 — Several fatal collisions in the 1990 Interstate 75 fog ...
1990 — Demonstrations by students and workers across Albania begin, ...
1993 — A block of the Highland Towers condominium complex collapses ...
1994 — A bomb explodes on Philippine Airlines Flight 434, en route ...
1994 — First Chechen War: Russian president Boris Yeltsin orders ...
1997 — The Kyoto Protocol, an agreement committing countries to ...
1998 — Thai Airways Flight 261 crashes near Surat Thani Airport, ...
1999 — SATA Air Açores Flight 530M crashes into Pico da Esperança on ...
2001 — China joins the World Trade Organization (WTO).
2005 — Cronulla riots: Thousands of White Australians demonstrate ...
2005 — The Buncefield Oil Depot catches fire in Hemel Hempstead, ...
2006 — Felipe Calderón, the president of Mexico, launches a ...
2006 — The International Conference to Review the Global Vision of ...
2007 — Insurgency in the Maghreb: Two car bombs explode in Algiers, ...
2008 — Bernie Madoff is arrested and charged with securities fraud in ...
2009 — Finnish game developer Rovio Entertainment releases the hit ...
2012 — At least 125 people are killed and up to 200 injured in ...
2017 — New York City Subway bombing: A pipe bomb partially detonates ...
2019 — The results of the 2019 Bougainvillean independence referendum ...
2020 — The Food and Drug Administration issues an Emergency Use ...