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1158 — The city of Munich is founded by Henry the Lion on the banks ...
1216 — First Barons' War: Prince Louis of France takes the city ...
1276 — While in exile in Fuzhou, away from the advancing Mongol ...
1285 — Second Mongol invasion of Vietnam: Forces led by Prince Trần ...
1287 — Kublai Khan defeats the force of Nayan and other ...
1381 — Richard II of England meets leaders of the Peasants' ...
1404 — Welsh rebel leader Owain Glyndŵr, having declared himself ...
1618 — Joris Veseler prints the first Dutch newspaper Courante uyt ...
1645 — English Civil War: Battle of Naseby: Twelve thousand Royalist ...
1658 — Franco-Spanish War: Turenne and the French army win a decisive ...
1690 — King William III of England (William of Orange) lands in ...
1775 — American Revolutionary War: the Continental Army is ...
1777 — The Second Continental Congress passes the Flag Act of 1777 ...
1789 — Mutiny on the Bounty: HMS Bounty mutiny survivors including ...
1800 — The French Army of First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte defeats the ...
1807 — Emperor Napoleon's French Grande Armée defeats the ...
1821 — Badi VII, king of Sennar, surrenders his throne and realm to ...
1822 — Charles Babbage proposes a difference engine in a paper to the ...
1830 — Beginning of the French colonization of Algeria: Thirty-four ...
1839 — Henley Royal Regatta: the village of Henley-on-Thames, on the ...
1846 — Bear Flag Revolt begins: Anglo settlers in Sonoma, California, ...
1863 — Second Assault on the Confederate works at the Siege of Port ...
1863 — American Civil War: Second Battle of Winchester: A Union ...
1872 — Trade unions are legalized in Canada.
1888 — The White Rajahs territories become the British protectorate ...
1900 — The second German Naval Law calls for the Imperial German Navy ...
1900 — Hawaii becomes a United States territory.
1907 — The National Association for Women's Suffrage succeeds in ...
1919 — John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown depart from St. ...
1926 — Brazil leaves the League of Nations.
1934 — The landmark Australian Eastern Mission returns from its ...
1937 — U.S. House of Representatives passes the Marihuana Tax Act.
1937 — Pennsylvania becomes the first (and only) state of the United ...
1940 — Seven hundred and twenty-eight Polish political prisoners from ...
1940 — The Soviet Union presents an ultimatum to Lithuania, resulting ...
1940 — World War II: The German occupation of Paris begins.
1941 — June deportation: The first major wave of Soviet mass ...
1944 — World War II: After several failed attempts, the British Army ...
1945 — World War II: Filipino troops of the Philippine Commonwealth ...
1949 — Albert II, a rhesus monkey, rides a V-2 rocket to an altitude ...
1950 — An Air France Douglas DC-4 crashes near Bahrain International ...
1951 — UNIVAC I is dedicated by the U.S. Census Bureau.
1954 — U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law that ...
1955 — Chile becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1959 — Disneyland Monorail System, the first daily operating monorail ...
1962 — The European Space Research Organisation is established in ...
1966 — The Vatican announces the abolition of the Index Librorum ...
1967 — Mariner program: Mariner 5 is launched towards Venus.
1972 — Japan Air Lines Flight 471 crashes on approach to Palam ...
1982 — Falklands War: Argentine forces in the capital Stanley ...
1985 — Five member nations of the European Economic Community sign ...
1986 — The Mindbender derails, killing three riders and severely ...
1994 — The 1994 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot occurs after the New York ...
2002 — Near-Earth asteroid 2002 MN misses the Earth by 75,000 miles ...
2014 — A Ukraine military Ilyushin Il-76 airlifter is shot down, ...
2017 — Republican U.S. House Majority Whip Steve Scalise of ...
2017 — The Grenfell Tower fire, a catastrophic fire in a high-rise ...