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70 — After the capture of Herod's Palace the previous day, a ...
617 — Battle of Huoyi: Li Yuan defeats a Sui dynasty army, opening ...
1100 — Election of Antipope Theodoric.
1198 — Philip of Swabia, Prince of Hohenstaufen, is crowned King of ...
1253 — Pope Innocent IV canonises Stanislaus of Szczepanów, who was ...
1264 — The Statute of Kalisz, guaranteeing Jews safety and personal ...
1276 — Pope John XXI is elected Pope.
1331 — Stefan Dušan declares himself king of Serbia.
1334 — The Battle of Adramyttion begins in which a Christian naval ...
1380 — Battle of Kulikovo: Russian forces defeat a mixed army of ...
1504 — Michelangelo's David is unveiled in Piazza della Signoria ...
1514 — Battle of Orsha: In one of the biggest battles of the century, ...
1522 — Magellan–Elcano circumnavigation: Victoria arrives at Seville, ...
1565 — St. Augustine, Florida is founded by Spanish admiral and ...
1655 — Warsaw falls without resistance to a small force under the ...
1727 — A barn fire during a puppet show in the village of Burwell in ...
1755 — French and Indian War: Battle of Lake George.
1756 — French and Indian War: Kittanning Expedition.
1760 — French and Indian War: French surrender Montreal to the ...
1761 — Marriage of King George III of the United Kingdom to Duchess ...
1775 — The unsuccessful Rising of the Priests in Malta.
1781 — American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Eutaw Springs in ...
1793 — French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Hondschoote.
1796 — French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Bassano: French forces ...
1808 — The Treaty of Paris is signed ending the French military ...
1810 — The Tonquin sets sail from New York Harbor with 33 employees ...
1813 — At the final stage of the Peninsular War, British-Portuguese ...
1819 — 1819 Balloon riot occurred at Vauxhall Garden in Philadelphia, ...
1831 — November uprising: The Battle of Warsaw effectively ends the ...
1831 — William IV and Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen are crowned King and ...
1855 — Crimean War: The French assault the tower of Malakoff, leading ...
1860 — The steamship PS Lady Elgin sinks on Lake Michigan, with the ...
1862 — Millennium of Russia monument is unveiled in Novgorod.
1863 — American Civil War: In the Second Battle of Sabine Pass, a ...
1883 — The Northern Pacific Railway (reporting mark NP) was completed ...
1888 — In England, the first six Football League matches are played.
1888 — In London, the body of Jack the Ripper's second murder ...
1888 — The Great Herding (Spanish: El Gran Arreo) begins with ...
1888 — Isaac Peral's submarine is first tested.
1892 — The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited.
1898 — Seven hundred Greek civilians, 17 British guards and the ...
1900 — Galveston hurricane: A powerful hurricane hits Galveston, ...
1905 — The 7.2 Mw Calabria earthquake shakes southern Italy with a ...
1914 — World War I: Private Thomas Highgate becomes the first British ...
1916 — In a bid to prove that women were capable of serving as ...
1921 — Margaret Gorman, a 16-year-old, wins the Atlantic City ...
1923 — Honda Point disaster: Nine US Navy destroyers run aground off ...
1925 — Rif War: Spanish forces including troops from the Foreign ...
1926 — Germany is admitted to the League of Nations.
1933 — Ghazi bin Faisal became King of Iraq.
1934 — Off the New Jersey coast, a fire aboard the passenger liner SS ...
1935 — US Senator from Louisiana Huey Long is fatally shot in the ...
1941 — World War II: German forces begin the Siege of Leningrad.
1943 — World War II: The Armistice of Cassibile is proclaimed by ...
1944 — World War II: London is hit by a V-2 rocket for the first time.
1945 — The division of Korea begins when United States troops arrive ...
1946 — A referendum abolishes the monarchy in Bulgaria.
1948 — The flag of North Korea is adopted with the passing of the ...
1952 — The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation makes its first ...
1954 — The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) is established.
1960 — In Huntsville, Alabama, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower ...
1962 — Last run of the famous Pines Express over the Somerset and ...
1966 — The landmark American science fiction television series Star ...
1970 — Trans International Airlines Flight 863 crashes during takeoff ...
1971 — In Washington, D.C., the John F. Kennedy Center for the ...
1973 — World Airways Flight 802 crashes into Mount Dutton in King ...
1974 — Watergate scandal: US President Gerald Ford signs the pardon ...
1975 — Gays in the military: US Air Force Tech Sergeant Leonard ...
1978 — Black Friday, a massacre by soldiers against protesters in ...
1986 — Nicholas Daniloff, a correspondent for U.S. News & World ...
1988 — Yellowstone National Park is closed for the first time in U.S. ...
1989 — Partnair Flight 394 dives into the North Sea, killing 55 ...
1994 — USAir Flight 427, on approach to Pittsburgh International ...
2000 — NASA launches Space Shuttle Atlantis on STS-106 to resupply ...
2004 — NASA's uncrewed spacecraft Genesis crash-lands when its ...
2005 — Two Ilyushin Il-76 aircraft from EMERCOM land at a disaster ...
2016 — NASA launches OSIRIS-REx, its first asteroid sample return ...
2017 — Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announce ...
2022 — Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom dies at Balmoral ...
2023 — The 2023 Rugby World Cup, the tenth men's Rugby World Cup ...
2023 — A magnitude 6.9 earthquake strikes Morocco, killing nearly ...