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1056 — After a sudden gastric illness, Byzantine Empress Theodora ...
1218 — Al-Kamil becomes sultan of the Ayyubid dynasty.
1314 — King Haakon V moves the capital of Norway from Bergen to Oslo.
1420 — The 8.8–9.4 Caldera earthquake shakes Chile's Atacama ...
1422 — King Henry V of England dies of dysentery while in France and ...
1483 — Under the influence of the Ottoman government, patriarch ...
1776 — William Livingston, the first Governor of New Jersey, begins ...
1795 — War of the First Coalition: The British capture Trincomalee ...
1798 — Irish Rebellion: Irish rebels, with French assistance, ...
1813 — Peninsular War: Spanish troops repel a French attack in the ...
1864 — American Civil War: The Battle of Jonesborough, the ...
1876 — Ottoman Sultan Murad V is deposed and succeeded by his ...
1886 — The 7.0 Mw Charleston earthquake strikes southeastern South ...
1888 — Mary Ann Nichols, the first of Jack the Ripper's ...
1895 — German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his navigable ...
1907 — Russia and the United Kingdom sign the Anglo-Russian ...
1918 — World War I: Start of the Battle of Mont Saint-Quentin, a ...
1920 — Polish–Soviet War: A decisive Polish victory in the Battle of ...
1933 — The Integral Nationalist Group wins the 1933 Andorran ...
1935 — In an attempt to stay out of the growing tensions concerning ...
1936 — Radio Prague, now the official international broadcasting ...
1939 — Nazi Germany mounts a false flag attack on the Gleiwitz radio ...
1940 — Pennsylvania Central Airlines Trip 19 crashes near ...
1941 — World War II: Serbian paramilitary forces defeat Germans in ...
1943 — USS Harmon, the first U.S. Navy ship to be named after a black ...
1949 — The retreat of the Democratic Army of Greece into Albania ...
1950 — TWA Flight 903 crashes near Itay El Barud, Egypt, killing all ...
1957 — The Federation of Malaya (now Malaysia) gains its independence ...
1959 — A parcel bomb sent by Ngô Đình Nhu, younger brother and chief ...
1962 — Trinidad and Tobago becomes independent.
1963 — Crown Colony of North Borneo (now Sabah) achieves self ...
1968 — Start of the Congress of Carrara, one of the major 20th ...
1972 — Aeroflot Flight 558 crashes in the Abzelilovsky District in ...
1986 — The Soviet passenger liner Admiral Nakhimov sinks in the Black ...
1986 — Aeroméxico Flight 498 collides with a Piper PA-28 Cherokee ...
1987 — Thai Airways Flight 365 crashes into the ocean near Ko Phuket, ...
1988 — CAAC Flight 301 overshoots the runway at Kai Tak Airport and ...
1988 — Delta Air Lines Flight 1141 crashes during takeoff from ...
1991 — Kyrgyzstan declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
1993 — Russia completes removing its troops from Lithuania.
1994 — Russia completes removing its troops from Estonia.
1996 — Saddam Hussein's troops seized Irbil after the Kurdish ...
1997 — Diana, Princess of Wales, her partner, Dodi Fayed, and driver ...
1999 — A LAPA Boeing 737-200 crashes during takeoff from Jorge ...
1999 — The first of a series of bombings in Moscow kills one person ...
2002 — Typhoon Rusa, the most powerful typhoon to hit South Korea in ...
2005 — The 2005 Al-Aaimmah bridge stampede in Baghdad kills 953 ...
2006 — Edvard Munch's famous painting, The Scream, stolen on ...
2016 — Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff is impeached and ...
2024 — A helicopter crashes in Kamchatka Krai in the Russian Far ...
2025 — An earthquake in eastern Afghanistan kills over 1400 people. 25
2025 — A landslide in the Darfur region of Sudan kills over 1000 ...