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Legions loyal to the Roman Senate, commanded by Gaius Pansa, defeat ...
69 — Vitellius, commanding Rhine-based armies, defeats Roman emperor ...
966 — Following his marriage to the Christian Doubravka of Bohemia, ...
972 — Otto II, Co-Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, marries Byzantine ...
1395 — Tokhtamysh–Timur war: At the Battle of the Terek River, Timur ...
1471 — In England, the Yorkists under Edward IV defeat the ...
1561 — A celestial phenomenon is reported over Nuremberg, described ...
1639 — Thirty Years' War: Forces of the Holy Roman Empire and ...
1775 — The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in ...
1793 — The French troops led by Léger-Félicité Sonthonax defeat the ...
1816 — Bussa, a slave in British-ruled Barbados, leads a slave ...
1849 — Hungary declares itself independent of Austria with Lajos ...
1858 — The 1858 Christiania fire severely destroys several city ...
1865 — William H. Seward, the U.S. Secretary of State, and his family ...
1865 — U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is shot in Ford's Theatre ...
1881 — The Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight occurs in El Paso, ...
1890 — The Pan-American Union is founded by the First International ...
1894 — The first ever commercial motion picture house opens in New ...
1895 — The 1895 Ljubljana earthquake, both the most and last ...
1900 — The world's fair Exposition Universelle opens in Paris.
1906 — The first meeting of the Azusa Street Revival, which will ...
1908 — Hauser Dam, a steel dam on the Missouri River in Montana, ...
1909 — Muslims in the Ottoman Empire begin a massacre of Armenians in ...
1912 — The British passenger liner RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the ...
1929 — The inaugural Monaco Grand Prix takes place in the ...
1931 — The Second Spanish Republic is proclaimed and King Alfonso ...
1935 — The Black Sunday dust storm, considered one of the worst ...
1940 — World War II: Royal Marines land in Namsos, Norway, preceding ...
1941 — World War II: German and Italian forces attack Tobruk, Libya.
1944 — Bombay explosion: A massive explosion in Bombay harbor kills ...
1945 — Razing of Friesoythe: The 4th Canadian (Armoured) Division ...
1958 — The Soviet satellite Sputnik 2 falls from orbit after a ...
1967 — Gnassingbé Eyadéma overthrows Nicolas Grunitzky and installs ...
1978 — Tbilisi demonstrations: Thousands of Georgians demonstrate ...
1979 — The Progressive Alliance of Liberia stages a protest, without ...
1981 — STS-1: The first operational Space Shuttle, Columbia completes ...
1986 — The heaviest hailstones ever recorded, each weighing 1 ...
1988 — In a United Nations ceremony in Geneva, Switzerland, the ...
1988 — The USS Samuel B. Roberts strikes a mine in the Persian Gulf ...
1991 — The Republic of Georgia introduces the post of President ...
1994 — In a friendly fire incident during Operation Provide Comfort ...
1997 — Pai Hsiao-yen, daughter of Taiwanese artiste Pai Bing-bing is ...
1999 — A severe hailstorm strikes Sydney, Australia causing A$2.3 ...
1999 — NATO mistakenly bombs a convoy of ethnic Albanian refugees. ...
2002 — Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez returns to office two days ...
2003 — U.S. troops in Baghdad capture Abu Abbas, leader of the ...
2003 — The Human Genome Project is completed with 99% of the human ...
2005 — The Oregon Supreme Court nullifies marriage licenses issued to ...
2006 — Twin blasts triggered by crude bombs during Asr prayer in the ...
2014 — Boko Haram abducts 276 girls from a school in Chibok, Nigeria.
2014 — Two bombs detonate at a bus station in Nyanya, Nigeria, ...
2016 — The foreshock of a major earthquake occurs in Kumamoto, Japan.
2022 — 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine: The Russian warship Moskva ...
2023 — The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) is launched by the ...
2024 — Flooding in the Persian Gulf starts, killing 19 in Oman.