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312 — Constantine the Great enters Rome after his victory at the ...
437 — Valentinian III, Western Roman Emperor, marries Licinia ...
1390 — First trial for witchcraft in Paris leading to the death of ...
1467 — Battle of Brustem: Charles the Bold defeats Prince-Bishopric ...
1611 — Russian homage to the King of Poland, Sigismund III Vasa.
1621 — The London Pageant of 1621 celebrates the inauguration of ...
1658 — Second Northern War: Naval forces of the Dutch Republic defeat ...
1665 — Portuguese forces defeat the Kingdom of Kongo and decapitate ...
1675 — Leibniz makes the first use of the long s (∫) as a symbol of ...
1792 — Mount Hood (Oregon) is named after Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount ...
1863 — American Civil War: Battle of Wauhatchie: Forces under Union ...
1863 — Eighteen countries meet in Geneva and agree to form the ...
1888 — The Convention of Constantinople is signed, guaranteeing free ...
1914 — World War I : the Ottoman Empire enters the war on the side of ...
1918 — World War I: the German High Seas Fleet is incapacitated when ...
1923 — Turkey becomes a republic following the dissolution of the ...
1929 — Black Tuesday: The New York Stock Exchange crashes, ending the ...
1941 — The Holocaust: In the Kaunas Ghetto, over 10,000 Jews are shot ...
1944 — World War II: The Soviet Red Army enters Hungary.
1944 — World War II: The Dutch city of Breda is liberated by 1st ...
1948 — Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Safsaf massacre: Israeli ...
1953 — BCPA Flight 304 DC-6 crashes near San Francisco.
1955 — The Soviet battleship Novorossiysk sinks after probably ...
1956 — Suez Crisis begins: Israeli forces invade the Sinai Peninsula ...
1957 — Israel's prime minister David Ben-Gurion and five of his ...
1960 — An airplane carrying the Cal Poly football team crashes on ...
1964 — Biggest jewel heist in American history when Murph the Surf ...
1964 — The United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar is renamed to ...
1967 — Montreal's World Fair, Expo 67, closes with over 50 ...
1969 — The first-ever computer-to-computer link is established on ...
1972 — The three surviving perpetrators of the Munich massacre are ...
1980 — Demonstration flight of a secretly modified C-130 for an Iran ...
1985 — Major General Samuel K. Doe is announced as the winner of the ...
1986 — British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher opens the last ...
1991 — The American Galileo spacecraft makes its closest approach to ...
1994 — Francisco Martin Duran fires over two dozen shots at the White ...
1998 — The Gothenburg discothèque fire in Sweden kills 63 and injures ...
1998 — Hurricane Mitch, the second deadliest Atlantic hurricane in ...
1998 — ATSC HDTV broadcasting in the United States is inaugurated ...
1998 — Space Shuttle Discovery blasts off on STS-95 with 77-year-old ...
1998 — In South Africa, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission ...
1999 — A large cyclone devastates Odisha, India.
2002 — A fire destroys a luxurious department store in Ho Chi Minh ...
2004 — The Arabic-language news network Al Jazeera broadcasts an ...
2005 — Bombings in Delhi, India kill 67 and injure over 200 people.
2006 — ADC Airlines Flight 053 crashes after takeoff from Nnamdi ...
2008 — A pair of deadly earthquakes hits Baluchistan, Pakistan, ...
2008 — Delta Air Lines merges with Northwest Airlines, creating the ...
2012 — Hurricane Sandy hits the east coast of the United States, ...
2014 — A mud slide; the 2014 Badulla landslide, in south-central Sri ...
2015 — China announces the end of its one-child policy after 35 years.
2018 — A Boeing 737 MAX plane crashes after taking off from Jakarta, ...
2020 — Jeremy Corbyn, former Leader of the Labour Party and of the ...
2022 — At least 100 people are killed and over 300 are injured by a ...
2022 — At least 156 die at a crowd crush during a Halloween ...