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823 — Lothair I is crowned King of Italy by Pope Paschal I.
919 — The second Fatimid invasion of Egypt begins, when the Fatimid ...
1242 — During the Battle on the Ice of Lake Peipus, Russian forces, ...
1536 — Charles V makes a Royal Entry into Rome, demolishing a swath ...
1566 — Two hundred Dutch noblemen, led by Hendrick van Brederode, ...
1614 — In Virginia, Native American Pocahontas marries English ...
1621 — The Mayflower sets sail from Plymouth, Massachusetts on a ...
1792 — United States President George Washington exercises his ...
1795 — Peace of Basel between France and Prussia is made.
1818 — In the Battle of Maipú, Chile's independence movement, ...
1862 — American Civil War: The Battle of Yorktown begins.
1879 — Bolivia declares war on Chile, and Chile declares war on Peru, ...
1902 — A stand box collapses at Ibrox Park (now Ibrox Stadium) in ...
1910 — The Transandine Railway connecting Chile and Argentina is ...
1922 — The American Birth Control League, forerunner of Planned ...
1932 — Dominion of Newfoundland: Ten thousand rioters seize the ...
1933 — Andorran Revolution: The Young Andorrans occupy the Casa de la ...
1933 — U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs two executive ...
1936 — Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak: An F5 tornado kills 233 ...
1938 — Spanish Civil War: Two days after the Nationalist army ...
1942 — World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy launches a ...
1942 — World War II: Adolf Hitler issues Fuhrer Directive No. 41 ...
1943 — World War II: United States Army Air Forces bomber aircraft ...
1945 — Cold War: Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito signs an agreement ...
1946 — A Fleet Air Arm Vickers Wellington crashes into a residential ...
1946 — Soviet troops end their year-long occupation of the Danish ...
1949 — A fire in a hospital in Effingham, Illinois, kills 77 people ...
1951 — Cold War: Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are sentenced to death ...
1956 — Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro declares himself at war with ...
1958 — Ripple Rock, an underwater threat to navigation in the Seymour ...
1966 — During the Buddhist Uprising, South Vietnamese Prime Minister ...
1971 — In Sri Lanka, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna launches a revolt ...
1974 — Carrie, the first novel by American author Stephen King, is ...
1976 — In China, the April Fifth Movement leads to the Tiananmen ...
1977 — The US Supreme Court rules that congressional legislation that ...
1983 — The People's Armed Police is officially founded
1991 — The Space shuttle Atlantis launches on STS-37 to deploy the ...
1991 — An ASA EMB 120 crashes in Brunswick, Georgia, killing all 23 ...
1992 — Peace protesters Suada Dilberovic and Olga Sučić are killed on ...
1992 — Alberto Fujimori, president of Peru, dissolves the Peruvian ...
1998 — In Japan, the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge opens to traffic, becoming ...
1999 — Two Libyans suspected of bringing down Pan Am Flight 103 in ...
2007 — The cruise ship MS Sea Diamond strikes a volcanic reef near ...
2009 — North Korea launches its controversial Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2 ...
2010 — Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-131 to resupply the ...
2010 — Twenty-nine coal miners are killed in an explosion at the ...
2010 — Up to 50 people are killed and another 100 injured in two ...
2018 — Agents with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid ...