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1568 — The Spanish Duke of Alba defeats a Dutch rebel force under ...
1572 — Eighty Years' War: Three thousand Spanish soldiers wade ...
1740 — France, Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony refuse to honour the ...
1774 — American Revolution: The Continental Association, a ...
1781 — The Patent of Toleration, providing limited freedom of ...
1803 — The United States Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase.
1818 — The Convention of 1818 is signed between the United States and ...
1827 — Greek War of Independence: In the Battle of Navarino, a ...
1883 — Peru and Chile sign the Treaty of Ancón, by which the Tarapacá ...
1904 — Chile and Bolivia sign the Treaty of Peace and Friendship, ...
1910 — British ocean liner RMS Olympic is launched.
1935 — The Long March, a mammoth retreat undertaken by the armed ...
1941 — World War II: Thousands of civilians in German-occupied Serbia ...
1944 — World War II: American general Douglas MacArthur fulfills his ...
1944 — Liquefied natural gas leaks from storage tanks in Cleveland ...
1944 — World War II: The Soviet Red Army and Yugoslav Partisans ...
1947 — Cold War: The House Un-American Activities Committee begins ...
1948 — A KLM Lockheed L-049 Constellation crashes on approach to ...
1951 — The "Johnny Bright incident" occurs during a ...
1952 — The Governor of Kenya Evelyn Baring declares a state of ...
1961 — The Soviet Navy performs the first armed test of a ...
1962 — China launches simultaneous offensives in Ladakh and across ...
1973 — The Sydney Opera House is opened by Elizabeth II after 14 ...
1973 — Watergate scandal: "Saturday Night Massacre": United ...
1976 — The Luling–Destrehan Ferry MV George Prince is struck by the ...
1977 — A plane carrying the rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd crashes in ...
1981 — Two police officers and a Brink's armored car guard are ...
1982 — During the UEFA Cup match between FC Spartak Moscow and HFC ...
1986 — Aeroflot Flight 6502 crashes while landing at Kuibyshev ...
1991 — A massive firestorm breaks out in the hills of Oakland and ...
1991 — A 6.8 Mw earthquake strikes the Uttarkashi region of India, ...
1995 — Space Shuttle Columbia launches on STS-73.
2002 — Top Gear, the revived popular British TV motoring magazine, ...
2003 — The Sloan Great Wall, once the largest cosmic structures known ...
2005 — The general conference of the United Nations Educational, ...
2011 — Libyan Crisis: Rebel forces capture Libyan dictator Muammar ...
2017 — Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) declare ...
2022 — Liz Truss steps down as British Prime Minister and leader of ...