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533 — Vandalic War: Byzantine general Belisarius defeats the Vandals, ...
687 — Pope Sergius I is elected as a compromise between antipopes ...
1025 — Constantine VIII becomes sole emperor of the Byzantine Empire, ...
1161 — Jin–Song wars: Military officers conspire against the emperor ...
1167 — Sicilian Chancellor Stephen du Perche moves the royal court to ...
1256 — Mongol forces under Hulagu enter and dismantle the Nizari ...
1270 — The Nizari Ismaili garrison of Gerdkuh, Persia surrender after ...
1467 — Stephen III of Moldavia defeats Matthias Corvinus of Hungary, ...
1546 — The town of Ekenäs (Finnish: Tammisaari) is founded by King ...
1651 — Castle Cornet in Guernsey, the last stronghold which had ...
1778 — American Revolutionary War: British and French fleets clash in ...
1791 — The United States Bill of Rights becomes law when ratified by ...
1836 — The U.S. Patent Office building in Washington, D.C., nearly ...
1862 — American Civil War: The Battle of Fredericksburg ends in a ...
1864 — American Civil War: The Battle of Nashville begins at ...
1869 — The short-lived Republic of Ezo is proclaimed in the Ezo area ...
1871 — Sixteen-year-old telegraphist Ella Stewart keys and sends the ...
1890 — Hunkpapa Lakota leader Sitting Bull is killed on Standing Rock ...
1893 — Symphony No. 9 ("From the New World" a.k.a. the ...
1899 — British Army forces are defeated at the Battle of Colenso in ...
1903 — Italian American food cart vendor Italo Marchiony receives a ...
1905 — The Pushkin House is established in Saint Petersburg, Russia, ...
1906 — The London Underground's Great Northern, Piccadilly and ...
1914 — A gas explosion at Mitsubishi Hōjō coal mine, in Kyushu, ...
1914 — World War I: The Serbian Army recaptures Belgrade from the ...
1917 — World War I: An armistice between Russia and the Central ...
1933 — Anarchist insurrection suppressed in Zaragoza, Spain.
1939 — Gone with the Wind (highest inflation adjusted grossing film) ...
1941 — The Holocaust in Ukraine: German troops murder over 15,000 ...
1942 — World War II: The Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, ...
1943 — World War II: The Battle of Arawe begins during the New ...
1944 — World War II: a single-engine UC-64A Norseman aeroplane ...
1945 — Occupation of Japan/Shinto Directive: General Douglas ...
1960 — King Mahendra of Nepal suspends the country's ...
1960 — Richard Pavlick is arrested for plotting to assassinate U.S. ...
1961 — Eichmann trial: Adolf Eichmann is sentenced to death after ...
1965 — Project Gemini: Gemini 6A, crewed by Wally Schirra and Thomas ...
1967 — The Silver Bridge collapses, killing 46 people.
1970 — Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 successfully lands on Venus. It is ...
1973 — The American Psychiatric Association votes 13–0 to remove ...
1973 — John Paul Getty III, grandson of American billionaire J. Paul ...
1978 — U.S. President Jimmy Carter announces that the United States ...
1981 — A suicide car bombing targeting the Iraqi embassy in Beirut, ...
1989 — Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on ...
1993 — The Troubles: The Downing Street Declaration is issued by ...
1997 — Tajikistan Airlines Flight 3183 crashes in the desert near ...
2000 — The third reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is shut ...
2001 — The Leaning Tower of Pisa reopens after 11 years and ...
2005 — Introduction of the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor into USAF ...
2010 — A boat carrying 90 asylum seekers crashes into rocks off the ...
2013 — The South Sudanese Civil War begins when opposition leaders ...
2014 — Gunman Man Haron Monis takes 18 hostages inside a café in ...
2017 — A 6.5Mw earthquake strikes the Indonesian island of Java in ...