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33 — Heartbroken by the deaths of her sons Nero and Drusus, and ...
320 — Pappus of Alexandria, Greek philosopher, observes an eclipse of ...
614 — King Chlothar II promulgates the Edict of Paris (Edictum ...
629 — Dagobert I is crowned King of the Franks.
1009 — The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a Christian church in ...
1016 — The Danes defeat the English in the Battle of Assandun.
1081 — The Normans defeat the Byzantine Empire in the Battle of ...
1166 — Michael the Syrian, one of the most important Syriac ...
1281 — Pope Martin IV excommunicates King Peter III of Aragon for ...
1356 — Basel earthquake, the most significant historic seismological ...
1540 — Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto's forces destroy ...
1561 — In Japan the fourth Battle of Kawanakajima is fought between ...
1565 — Ships belonging to the Matsura clan of Japan fail to capture ...
1597 — King Philip II of Spain sends his third and final armada ...
1599 — Michael the Brave, Prince of Wallachia, defeats the Army of ...
1630 — Frendraught Castle in Scotland, the home of James Crichton of ...
1648 — Boston shoemakers form the first American labor organization.
1748 — Signing of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ends the War of the ...
1775 — American Revolutionary War: The Burning of Falmouth (now ...
1775 — African-American poet Phillis Wheatley is freed from slavery.
1779 — American Revolutionary War: The Franco-American Siege of ...
1851 — Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is first published as The ...
1860 — The Second Opium War finally ends at the Convention of Peking ...
1867 — United States takes possession of Alaska after purchasing it ...
1887 — Johannes Brahms conducts the premiere of his Double Concerto, ...
1898 — The United States takes possession of Puerto Rico from Spain.
1900 — Count Bernhard von Bülow becomes chancellor of Germany.
1912 — First Balkan War: King Peter I of Serbia issues a declaration ...
1914 — The Schoenstatt Apostolic Movement is founded in Germany.
1921 — The Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic is formed as ...
1922 — The British Broadcasting Company (later Corporation) is ...
1929 — The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council overrules the ...
1944 — World War II: The state funeral of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel ...
1944 — World War II: Soviet Union begins the liberation of ...
1945 — Argentine military officer and politician Juan Perón marries ...
1945 — A group of the Venezuelan Armed Forces, led by Mario Vargas, ...
1945 — The USSR's nuclear program receives plans for the United ...
1954 — Texas Instruments announces the Regency TR-1, the first ...
1963 — Félicette, a black and white female Parisian stray cat, ...
1967 — The Soviet probe Venera 4 reaches Venus and becomes the first ...
1977 — German Autumn: A set of events revolving around the kidnapping ...
1978 — Based on the world's first children's art museum, ...
1979 — The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) begins allowing ...
1989 — The Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on STS-34 to deploy the ...
1991 — The Supreme Council of Azerbaijan adopts a declaration of ...
1992 — Merpati Nustantara Airlines Flight 5601 crashes into Mount ...
2003 — Bolivian gas conflict: Bolivian President Gonzalo Sánchez de ...
2007 — Karachi bombing: A suicide attack on a motorcade carrying ...
2019 — Riots in Chile's capital Santiago escalate into open ...
2019 — NASA Astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch take part in ...