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218 — Battle of Antioch: With the support of the Syrian legions, ...
452 — Attila leads a Hun army in the invasion of Italy, devastating ...
793 — Vikings raid the abbey at Lindisfarne in Northumbria, commonly ...
1042 — Edward the Confessor becomes King of England – the ...
1191 — King Richard I of England arrives in Acre, beginning the Third ...
1663 — Portuguese Restoration War: Portuguese victory at the Battle ...
1772 — Alexander Fordyce flees to France to avoid debt repayment, ...
1776 — American Revolutionary War: Continental Army attackers are ...
1783 — Laki, a volcano in Iceland, begins an eight-month eruption ...
1789 — James Madison introduces twelve proposed amendments to the ...
1794 — Maximilien Robespierre inaugurates the French ...
1856 — A group of 194 Pitcairn Islanders, descendants of the ...
1861 — American Civil War: Tennessee secedes from the Union.
1862 — American Civil War: A Confederate victory by forces under ...
1867 — Coronation of Franz Joseph as King of Hungary following the ...
1887 — Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,781 for the ...
1906 — Theodore Roosevelt signs the Antiquities Act into law, ...
1924 — British Mount Everest expedition: British mountaineers Andrew ...
1928 — Second Northern Expedition: The National Revolutionary Army ...
1929 — Margaret Bondfield is appointed Minister of Labour. She is the ...
1940 — World War II: The completion of Operation Alphabet, the ...
1941 — World War II: The Allies commence the Syria–Lebanon Campaign ...
1942 — World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy submarines I-21 and ...
1943 — World War II: The two-day Battle of Porta between the Royal ...
1949 — George Orwell's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four is ...
1953 — The United States Supreme Court rules in District of Columbia ...
1953 — An F5 tornado hits Beecher, Michigan, United States, killing ...
1959 — USS Barbero and the United States Postal Service attempt the ...
1961 — Marriage of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent to Katharine Worsley ...
1966 — Topeka, Kansas, United States is devastated by a tornado that ...
1966 — An F-104 Starfighter collides with XB-70 Valkyrie prototype ...
1967 — Six-Day War: The USS Liberty incident: A United States Navy ...
1968 — James Earl Ray, the man who assassinated Martin Luther King ...
1972 — Vietnam War: Nine-year-old Phan Thị Kim Phúc is burned by ...
1982 — VASP Flight 168 crashes in Pacatuba, Ceará, Brazil, killing ...
1982 — Bluff Cove Air Attacks during the Falklands War: Fifty-six ...
1983 — Reeve Aleutian Airways Flight 8 loses one of its propellers in ...
1984 — Homosexuality is decriminalized in the Australian state of New ...
1987 — New Zealand's Labour government establishes a national ...
1992 — GP Express Airlines Flight 861 crashes on approach to Anniston ...
1992 — The first World Oceans Day is celebrated, coinciding with the ...
1995 — Downed U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady is ...
2001 — Mamoru Takuma kills eight and injures 15 in a mass stabbing at ...
2004 — The first Venus Transit in well over a century takes place, ...
2007 — Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on STS-117 carrying two ...
2007 — Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, is hit by the ...
2023 — Former US President Donald Trump is indicted on federal ...