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910 — Battle of Augsburg: The Hungarians defeat the East Frankish ...
1206 — The Ghurid general Qutb ud-Din Aibak founds the Delhi ...
1240 — At the instigation of Louis IX of France, an inter-faith ...
1381 — Peasants' Revolt: In England, rebels assemble at ...
1418 — Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War: Parisians slaughter ...
1429 — Hundred Years' War: On the second day of the Battle of ...
1550 — The city of Helsinki, Finland (belonging to Sweden at the ...
1643 — The Westminster Assembly is convened by the Parliament of ...
1653 — First Anglo-Dutch War: The Battle of the Gabbard begins, ...
1665 — Thomas Willett is appointed the first mayor of New York City.
1758 — French and Indian War: Siege of Louisbourg: James Wolfe's ...
1772 — French explorer Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne and 25 of his men ...
1775 — American War of Independence: British general Thomas Gage ...
1776 — The Virginia Declaration of Rights is adopted.
1798 — Irish Rebellion of 1798: Battle of Ballynahinch.
1813 — Capture of USRC Surveyor.
1817 — The earliest form of bicycle, the dandy horse, is driven by ...
1821 — Badi VII, king of Sennar, surrenders his throne and realm to ...
1830 — Beginning of the Invasion of Algiers: Thirty-four thousand ...
1864 — American Civil War, Overland Campaign: Battle of Cold Harbor: ...
1898 — Philippine Declaration of Independence: General Emilio ...
1899 — New Richmond tornado: The ninth deadliest tornado in U.S. ...
1900 — The Reichstag approves new legislation continuing ...
1914 — Massacre of Phocaea: Turkish irregulars slaughter 50 to 100 ...
1921 — Mikhail Tukhachevsky orders the use of chemical weapons ...
1935 — A ceasefire is negotiated between Bolivia and Paraguay, ending ...
1939 — The Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, New York.
1939 — Shooting begins on Paramount Pictures' Dr. Cyclops, the ...
1940 — World War II: Thirteen thousand British and French troops ...
1942 — Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday.
1943 — The Holocaust: Germany liquidates the Jewish Ghetto in ...
1944 — World War II: Battle of Carentan: American paratroopers of the ...
1950 — An Air France Douglas DC-4 crashes near Bahrain International ...
1954 — Pope Pius XII canonises Dominic Savio, who was 14 years old at ...
1963 — The film Cleopatra, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard ...
1963 — NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers is murdered in front of his ...
1964 — Anti-apartheid activist and ANC leader Nelson Mandela is ...
1967 — The United States Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia declares ...
1975 — State of Uttar Pradesh v. Raj Narain: Judge Jagmohanlal Sinha ...
1979 — Bryan Allen wins the second Kremer prize for a man-powered ...
1981 — The first of the Indiana Jones film franchise, Raiders of the ...
1982 — A nuclear disarmament rally and concert is held in New York ...
1987 — Cold War: At the Brandenburg Gate, U.S. President Ronald ...
1987 — The Central African Republic's former emperor Jean-Bédel ...
1988 — Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 046, a McDonnell Douglas MD-81, ...
1990 — Russia Day: The parliament of the Russian Federation formally ...
1991 — Kokkadichcholai massacre: The Sri Lankan Army massacres 152 ...
1991 — In modern Russia's first democratic election, Boris ...
1993 — An election takes place in Nigeria and is won by Moshood ...
1999 — Kosovo War: Operation Joint Guardian begins when a NATO-led ...
2009 — A disputed presidential election in Iran leads to wide-ranging ...
2014 — Between 1,095 and 1,700 Shia Iraqi people are killed in an ...
2016 — Forty-nine civilians are killed and 58 others injured in an ...
2018 — United States President Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un of North ...
2019 — Kassym-Jomart Tokayev is inaugurated as the second president ...
2024 — A fire in a residential building in Mangaf, Kuwait City kills ...
2025 — Air India Flight 171, a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, crashes ...