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8 — Roman Empire general Tiberius defeats the Dalmatae on the river ...
435 — Deposed Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Nestorius, ...
881 — Battle of Saucourt-en-Vimeu: Louis III of France defeats the ...
908 — Battle of Eisenach: An invading Hungarian force defeats an East ...
1031 — Olaf II of Norway is canonized as Saint Olaf by Grimketel, the ...
1057 — Frederick of Lorraine elected as Pope Stephen IX.
1342 — The Siege of Algeciras commences during the Spanish ...
1492 — Christopher Columbus sets sail from Palos de la Frontera, ...
1527 — The first known letter from North America is sent by John Rut ...
1601 — Long War: Austria captures Transylvania in the Battle of ...
1645 — Thirty Years' War: The Second Battle of Nördlingen sees ...
1678 — Robert LaSalle builds the Le Griffon, the first known ship ...
1778 — The theatre La Scala in Milan is inaugurated with the première ...
1795 — Treaty of Greenville is signed, ending the Northwest Indian ...
1811 — First ascent of Jungfrau, third highest summit in the Bernese ...
1829 — The Treaty of Lewistown is signed by the Shawnee and Seneca ...
1852 — Harvard University wins the first Boat Race between Yale ...
1859 — The American Dental Association is founded in Niagara Falls, ...
1900 — The Firestone Tire and Rubber Company is founded.
1903 — Macedonian rebels in Kruševo proclaim the Kruševo Republic, ...
1907 — Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis fines Standard Oil of Indiana a ...
1914 — World War I: Germany declares war against France, while ...
1921 — Major League Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis ...
1936 — A fire wipes out Kursha-2 in the Meshchera Lowlands, Ryazan ...
1936 — Jesse Owens wins the 100 metre dash, defeating Ralph Metcalfe, ...
1940 — World War II: Italian forces begin the invasion of British ...
1946 — Santa Claus Land, the world's first themed amusement ...
1948 — Whittaker Chambers accuses Alger Hiss of being a communist and ...
1949 — The Basketball Association of America and the National ...
1958 — The world's first nuclear submarine, the USS Nautilus, ...
1959 — Portugal's state police force PIDE fires upon striking ...
1960 — Niger gains independence from France.
1972 — The United States Senate ratifies the Anti-Ballistic Missile ...
1975 — A privately chartered Boeing 707 strikes a mountain peak and ...
1977 — Tandy Corporation announces the TRS-80, one of the ...
1981 — Senegalese opposition parties, under the leadership of Mamadou ...
1997 — The tallest free-standing structure in the Southern ...
1997 — Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre in Algeria: A total of 116 ...
2004 — The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens after being ...
2005 — President of Mauritania Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya is ...
2007 — Former deputy director of the Chilean secret police Raúl ...
2010 — Widespread rioting erupts in Karachi, Pakistan, after the ...
2014 — The genocide of Yazidis by ISIL begins.
2014 — A 6.1 magnitude earthquake kills at least 617 people and ...
2018 — Two burka-clad men kill 29 people and injure more than 80 in a ...
2019 — Twenty-three people are killed and 22 injured in a mass ...
2019 — Six hundred protesters, including opposition leader Lyubov ...
2023 — Worst floods hit major parts of Slovenia.