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1430 — The Ottoman Empire under Murad II captures Thessalonica from ...
1461 — Battle of Towton: Edward of York defeats Queen Margaret to ...
1549 — The city of Salvador, Bahia, the first capital of Brazil, is ...
1632 — Treaty of Saint-Germain is signed returning Quebec to French ...
1792 — King Gustav III of Sweden dies after being shot in the back at ...
1806 — Construction is authorized of the Great National Pike, better ...
1809 — At the Diet of Porvoo, Finland's four Estates pledge ...
1809 — King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden abdicates after a coup ...
1847 — Mexican–American War: United States forces led by General ...
1849 — The United Kingdom annexes the Punjab.
1857 — Sepoy Mangal Pandey of the 34th Regiment, Bengal Native ...
1867 — Queen Victoria gives Royal Assent to the British North America ...
1871 — Royal Albert Hall is opened by Queen Victoria.
1879 — Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Kambula: British forces defeat ...
1882 — The Knights of Columbus is established.
1927 — Sunbeam 1000hp breaks the land speed record at Daytona Beach, ...
1936 — The 1936 German parliamentary election and referendum seeks ...
1941 — World War II: British Royal Navy and Royal Australian Navy ...
1941 — The North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement goes into ...
1942 — The Bombing of Lübeck in World War II is the first major ...
1947 — The Malagasy Uprising against French colonial rule begins in ...
1951 — Hypnosis murders in Copenhagen.
1951 — Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are convicted of conspiracy to ...
1957 — The New York, Ontario and Western Railway makes its final run, ...
1961 — The Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution ...
1962 — Arturo Frondizi, the president of Argentina, is overthrown in ...
1968 — The funeral of Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, started ...
1971 — My Lai massacre: Lieutenant William Calley is convicted of ...
1973 — Operation Barrel Roll, a covert American bombing campaign in ...
1973 — Vietnam War: The last United States combat soldiers leave ...
1974 — Terracotta Army was discovered in Shaanxi province, China.
1974 — NASA's Mariner 10 becomes the first space probe to fly by ...
1979 — Quebecair Flight 255 crashes after takeoff from Québec City ...
1982 — The Canada Act 1982 receives the Royal Assent from Queen ...
1984 — The Baltimore Colts load its possessions onto fifteen ...
1990 — The Czechoslovak parliament is unable to reach an agreement on ...
1999 — A magnitude 6.8 earthquake in India strikes the Chamoli ...
1999 — The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 10,000 mark ...
2001 — A Gulfstream III crashes on approach to Aspen/Pitkin County ...
2002 — In reaction to the Passover massacre two days prior, Israel ...
2004 — The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat certifies ...
2004 — Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and ...
2010 — Two suicide bombers hit the Moscow Metro system at the peak of ...
2013 — At least 36 people are killed when a 16-floor building ...
2014 — The first same-sex marriages in England and Wales are ...
2015 — Air Canada Flight 624 skids off the runway at Halifax ...
2016 — A United States Air Force F-16 crashes during takeoff from ...
2017 — Prime Minister Theresa May invokes Article 50 of the Treaty on ...
2021 — The ship Ever Given was dislodged from the Suez Canal.