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986 — Byzantine–Bulgarian wars: Battle of the Gates of Trajan: The ...
1186 — Georgenberg Pact: Ottokar IV, Duke of Styria and Leopold V, ...
1386 — Karl Topia, the ruler of Princedom of Albania, forges an ...
1424 — Hundred Years' War: Battle of Verneuil: An English force ...
1488 — Konrad Bitz, the Bishop of Turku, marks the date of his ...
1498 — Cesare Borgia, son of Pope Alexander VI, becomes the first ...
1549 — Battle of Sampford Courtenay: The Prayer Book Rebellion is ...
1560 — The Catholic Church is overthrown and Protestantism is ...
1585 — A first group of colonists sent by Sir Walter Raleigh under ...
1585 — Eighty Years' War: Siege of Antwerp: Antwerp is captured ...
1597 — Islands Voyage: Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, and Sir ...
1668 — The magnitude 8.0 North Anatolia earthquake causes 8,000 ...
1717 — Austro-Turkish War of 1716–18: The month-long Siege of ...
1723 — Ioan Giurgiu Patachi becomes Bishop of Făgăraș and is ...
1740 — Pope Benedict XIV, previously known as Prospero Lambertini, ...
1784 — Classical composer Luigi Boccherini receives a pay rise of ...
1798 — The Vietnamese Catholics report a Marian apparition in Quảng ...
1807 — Robert Fulton's North River Steamboat leaves New York ...
1808 — The Finnish War: The Battle of Alavus is fought.
1827 — Dutch King William I and Pope Leo XII sign concord.
1836 — British parliament accepts registration of births, marriages ...
1862 — American Civil War: Major General J. E. B. Stuart is assigned ...
1862 — American Indian Wars: The Dakota War of 1862 begins in ...
1863 — American Civil War: In Charleston, South Carolina, Union ...
1864 — American Civil War: Battle of Gainesville: Confederate forces ...
1866 — The Grand Duchy of Baden announces its withdrawal from the ...
1876 — Richard Wagner's Götterdämmerung, the last opera in his ...
1883 — The first public performance of the Dominican Republic's ...
1896 — Bridget Driscoll became the first recorded case of a ...
1907 — Pike Place Market, one of the oldest continuously operated ...
1914 — World War I: Battle of Stallupönen: The German army of General ...
1915 — A Category 4 hurricane hits Galveston, Texas with winds at 135 ...
1915 — Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched in Marietta, Georgia, USA ...
1916 — World War I: Romania signs a secret treaty with the Entente ...
1918 — Bolshevik revolutionary leader Moisei Uritsky is assassinated.
1942 — World War II: U.S. Marines raid the Japanese-held Pacific ...
1943 — World War II: The Royal Air Force begins Operation Hydra, the ...
1943 — World War II: First Québec Conference of Winston Churchill, ...
1943 — World War II: The U.S. Seventh Army under General George S. ...
1943 — World War II: The U.S. Eighth Air Force suffers the loss of 60 ...
1945 — Evacuation of Manchukuo: At Talitzou by the Sino-Korean ...
1945 — The novella Animal Farm by George Orwell is first published.
1945 — Sukarno and Mohammad Hatta proclaim the independence of ...
1947 — The Radcliffe Line, the border between the Dominions of India ...
1949 — Matsukawa derailment: Unknown saboteurs cause a passenger ...
1949 — The 6.7 Ms Karlıova earthquake shakes eastern Turkey with a ...
1950 — Korean War: Forty-two American prisoners of war were massacred ...
1953 — First meeting of Narcotics Anonymous takes place, in Southern ...
1955 — Hurricane Diane made landfall near Wilmington, North Carolina, ...
1958 — Pioneer 0, America's first attempt at lunar orbit, is ...
1959 — Quake Lake is formed by the magnitude 7.2 1959 Hebgen Lake ...
1960 — Aeroflot Flight 036 crashes in Soviet Ukraine, killing 34.
1962 — Peter Fechter is shot and bleeds to death while trying to ...
1969 — Category 5 Hurricane Camille hits the U.S. Gulf Coast, killing ...
1970 — Soviet Union Venera program: Venera 7 launched. It will become ...
1976 — A magnitude 7.9 earthquake hits off the coast of Mindanao, ...
1977 — The Soviet icebreaker Arktika becomes the first surface ship ...
1978 — Double Eagle II becomes first balloon to cross the Atlantic ...
1985 — The 1985–86 Hormel strike begins in Austin, Minnesota.
1988 — President of Pakistan Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq and U.S. Ambassador ...
1991 — Strathfield massacre: In Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, ...
1998 — Lewinsky scandal: US President Bill Clinton admits in taped ...
1999 — The 7.6 Mw İzmit earthquake shakes northwestern Turkey with a ...
2004 — The National Assembly of Serbia unanimously adopts new state ...
2005 — Over 500 bombs are set off by terrorists at 300 locations in ...
2005 — The first forced evacuation of settlers, as part of Israeli ...
2008 — American swimmer Michael Phelps becomes the first person to ...
2009 — An accident at the Sayano-Shushenskaya Dam in Khakassia, ...
2015 — A bomb explodes near the Erawan Shrine in Bangkok, Thailand, ...
2017 — Barcelona attacks: A van is driven into pedestrians in La ...
2019 — A bomb explodes at a wedding in Kabul killing 63 people and ...