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917 — Liu Yan declares himself emperor, establishing the Southern Han ...
1367 — Swa Saw Ke becomes king of Ava
1590 — An army led by Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma forces Henry ...
1661 — Fall of Nicolas Fouquet: Louis XIV's Superintendent of ...
1697 — War of the Grand Alliance : A French warship commanded by ...
1698 — In an effort to Westernize his nobility, Tsar Peter I of ...
1725 — Wedding of Louis XV and Maria Leszczyńska.
1774 — First Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia.
1781 — Battle of the Chesapeake in the American Revolutionary War: ...
1791 — Olympe de Gouges writes the Declaration of the Rights of Woman ...
1793 — French Revolution: The French National Convention initiates ...
1798 — Conscription is made mandatory in France by the Jourdan law.
1812 — War of 1812: The Siege of Fort Wayne begins when Chief ...
1816 — Louis XVIII of France has to dissolve the Chambre introuvable ...
1836 — Sam Houston is elected as the first president of the Republic ...
1839 — The United Kingdom declares war on the Qing dynasty of China.
1862 — American Civil War: The Army of Northern Virginia crosses the ...
1877 — American Indian Wars: Oglala Sioux chief Crazy Horse is ...
1882 — The first United States Labor Day parade is held in New York ...
1887 — A fire at the Theatre Royal, Exeter kills 186, making it the ...
1905 — Russo-Japanese War: In New Hampshire, United States, the ...
1914 — World War I: First Battle of the Marne begins. Northeast of ...
1915 — The pacifist Zimmerwald Conference begins.
1932 — The French Upper Volta is broken apart between Ivory Coast, ...
1937 — Spanish Civil War: Llanes falls to the Nationalists following ...
1938 — Chile: A group of youths affiliated with the fascist National ...
1941 — Whole territory of Estonia is occupied by Nazi Germany.
1942 — World War II: Japanese high command orders withdrawal at Milne ...
1943 — World War II: In the Pacific Theater, the 503rd Parachute ...
1944 — Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg constitute Benelux.
1945 — Iva Toguri D'Aquino, a Japanese American who broadcast ...
1945 — Cold War: Igor Gouzenko, a Soviet Union embassy clerk, defects ...
1948 — In France, Robert Schuman becomes President of the Council ...
1954 — KLM Flight 633 crashes into the River Shannon in Shannon, ...
1957 — Cuban Revolution: Fulgencio Batista bombs the revolt in ...
1960 — Muhammad Ali (then known as Cassius Clay) wins the gold medal ...
1960 — Poet Léopold Sédar Senghor is the first elected President of ...
1968 — End of the Congress of Carrara, one of the major 20th century ...
1969 — Mỹ Lai Massacre: U.S. Army Lieutenant William Calley is ...
1970 — Vietnam War: Operation Jefferson Glenn begins: The United ...
1972 — Munich massacre: A Palestinian terrorist group called ...
1975 — Sacramento, California: Lynette Fromme attempts to assassinate ...
1977 — Voyager Program: NASA launches the Voyager 1 spacecraft.
1978 — Camp David Accords: Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat begin peace ...
1980 — The Gotthard Road Tunnel opens in Switzerland as the ...
1981 — The first women arrive at what becomes Greenham Common ...
1984 — Western Australia becomes the last Australian state to abolish ...
1984 — STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery lands after its maiden ...
1986 — Pan Am Flight 73 from Mumbai, India with 358 people on board ...
1990 — Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Army soldiers slaughter 158 ...
1991 — The current international treaty defending indigenous peoples, ...
1996 — Hurricane Fran makes landfall near Cape Fear, North Carolina ...
2005 — Mandala Airlines Flight 091 crashes after takeoff from Polonia ...
2012 — An accidental explosion at a Turkish Army ammunition store in ...
2021 — The President of Guinea, Alpha Condé is captured by armed ...
2022 — At least 93 people die and 25 are missing after a magnitude ...
2022 — Liz Truss is declared the winner of the UK Conservative Party ...