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951 — Emperor Li Jing sends a Southern Tang expeditionary force of ...
1272 — While travelling during the Ninth Crusade, Prince Edward ...
1491 — An auto-da-fé, held in the Brasero de la Dehesa outside of ...
1532 — Francisco Pizarro and his men capture Inca Emperor Atahualpa ...
1632 — King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden was killed at the Battle of ...
1776 — American Revolutionary War: British and Hessian units capture ...
1793 — French Revolution: Ninety dissident Roman Catholic priests are ...
1797 — The Prussian heir apparent, Frederick William, becomes King of ...
1805 — Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Schöngrabern: Russian forces under ...
1822 — American Old West: Missouri trader William Becknell arrives in ...
1828 — Greek War of Independence: The London Protocol entails the ...
1849 — A Russian court sentences writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky to death ...
1855 — David Livingstone becomes the first European to see the ...
1857 — Second relief of Lucknow: Twenty-four Victoria Crosses are ...
1860 — Fisgard Lighthouse, built in the Colony of Vancouver Island, ...
1863 — American Civil War: In the Battle of Campbell's Station, ...
1871 — The National Rifle Association of America receives its charter ...
1885 — Canadian rebel leader of the Métis and "Father of ...
1904 — English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for ...
1907 — Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory join to form Oklahoma, ...
1914 — The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens.
1920 — Qantas, Australia's national airline, is founded as ...
1933 — The United States and the Soviet Union establish formal ...
1938 — LSD is first synthesized by Albert Hofmann from ergotamine at ...
1940 — New York City's "Mad Bomber" George Metesky ...
1940 — The Holocaust: In occupied Poland, the Nazis close off the ...
1940 — World War II: In response to the leveling of Coventry by the ...
1944 — The Jussi Awards, the Finnish film award ceremony, is held for ...
1944 — World War II: In support of the Battle of Hürtgen Forest, the ...
1945 — UNESCO is founded.
1959 — Aeroflot Flight 315 crashes on approach to Lviv Airport, ...
1959 — National Airlines Flight 967 explodes in mid-air over the Gulf ...
1965 — Venera program: The Soviet Union launches the Venera 3 space ...
1966 — The Temptations release their Greatest Hits album, which goes ...
1967 — Aeroflot Flight 2230 crashes near Koltsovo Airport, killing ...
1973 — U.S. president Richard Nixon signs the Trans-Alaska Pipeline ...
1973 — Skylab program: NASA launches Skylab 4 with a crew of three ...
1974 — The Arecibo message is broadcast from Puerto Rico.
1979 — The first line of Bucharest Metro (Line M1) is opened from ...
1981 — Aeroflot Flight 3603 crashes during landing at Norilsk ...
1988 — In the first open election in more than a decade, voters in ...
1988 — The Supreme Soviet of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic ...
1989 — El Salvadoran army troops kill six Jesuit priests and two ...
1990 — Pop group Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy Award ...
1992 — The Hoxne Hoard is discovered by metal detectorist Eric Lawes ...
1997 — After nearly 18 years of incarceration, China releases Wei ...
2002 — The first cases of the 2002–2004 SARS outbreak are traced to ...
2004 — Half-Life 2 is released, a game winning 39 Game of the Year ...
2005 — Following a 31-year wait, Australia defeats Uruguay in a ...
2009 — Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on ...
2020 — A Vega rocket carrying SEOSat-Ingenio and TARANIS fails after ...
2022 — Artemis Program: NASA launches Artemis 1 on the first flight ...