Year 45 » In his last victory, Julius Caesar defeats the Pompey or Pompeian forces of Titus Labienus and Gnaeus Pompeius e.g Pompey the Younger in the Battle of Munda.
Year 180 » Marcus Aurelius dies leaving Commodus the sole emperor of the Roman Empire.
Year 455 » Petronius Maximus becomes, with support of the Roman Senate, emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
Year 624 » Led by Muhammad, the Muslims of Medina defeat the Quraysh tribe named Quraysh of Mecca in the Battle of Badr.
Year 1001 » The Kingdom of Butuan e.g King of Butuan in the Philippines sends a tributary mission to the Song Dynasty of China.
Year 1337 » Edward, the Black Prince is made Duke of Cornwall, the first Duchy in England.
Year 1452 » The Battle of Los Alporchones is fought in the context of the Spanish Reconquista between the Emirate of Granada and the combined forces of the Kingdom of Castile and Kingdom of Murcia named Murcia resulting in a Christian victory.
Year 1560 » Fort Coligny on Villegagnon Island in Rio de Janeiro is attacked and destroyed during the Portuguese Empire known as Portuguese campaign against France Antarctique.
Year 1776 » American Revolution: British forces Evacuation Day (Massachusetts) named evacuate Boston, ending the Siege of Boston, after George Washington and Henry Knox Fortification of Dorchester Heights or place artillery in positions overlooking the city.
Year 1805 » The Italian Republic (Napoleonic) Italian Republic, with Napoleon I of France Napoleon as president, becomes the Kingdom of Italy (Napoleonic) Kingdom of Italy, with Napoleon as King.
Year 1842 » The Relief Society of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is formed;
Year 1860 » The First Taranaki War begins in Taranaki Region named Taranaki, New Zealand, a major phase of the New Zealand land wars.
Year 1891 » SS Utopia collides with HMS Anson 1886 6 in the Bay of Gibraltar and sinks, killing 562 of the 880 passengers on board.
Year 1921 » The Second Republic of Poland adopts the March Constitution.
Year 1939 » Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanchang between the Kuomintang and Empire of Japan known as Japan begins,
Year 1941 » In Washington, D.C., the National Gallery of Art is officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Year 1942 » The Holocaust Holocaust: The first Jews from the Lemberg Ghetto Lvov Ghetto are gassed at the Belzec extermination camp Belzec death camp in what is today eastern Poland.
Year 1945 » The Ludendorff Bridge in Remagen, Germany, collapses, ten days after its capture.
Year 1947 » First flight of the B-45 Tornado strategic bomber.
Year 1948 » The Benelux, France, and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Brussels, a precursor to the North Atlantic Treaty establishing NATO.
Year 1950 » Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley announce the creation of element 98, which they name "californium".
Year 1957 » A 1957 Cebu Douglas C-47 crash or plane crash in Cebu, Philippines kills President of the Philippines known as Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay and 24 others.
Year 1958 » The United States launches the Vanguard 1 satellite.
Year 1959 » 14th Dalai Lama known as Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, flees Tibet for India.
Year 1960 » U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the United States National Security Council known as National Security Council directive on the anti-Cuban covert action program that will ultimately lead to the Bay of Pigs Invasion.
Year 1963 » Mount Agung erupted on Bali killing more than 1,100 people.
Year 1966 » Off the coast of Spain in the Mediterranean, the Ship called DSV or Alvin submarine finds a missing American hydrogen bomb.
Year 1968 » As a result of nerve gas testing in Skull Valley (Utah) called Skull Valley, Utah, over 6,000 sheep are Dugway sheep incident known as found dead.
Year 1969 » Golda Meir becomes the first female Prime Minister of Israel.
Year 1970 » My Lai Massacre: The United States Army charges 14 officers with suppressing information related to the incident.
Year 1973 » The Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph 'Burst of Joy' is taken, depicting a former prisoner of war being reunited with his family, which came to symbolize the end of United States involvement in the Vietnam War.
Year 1979 » The Penmanshiel Tunnel collapses during engineering works, killing two workers.
Year 1985 » Serial killer Richard Ramirez, aka the "Night Stalker", commits the first two murders in his Los Angeles, California murder spree.
Year 1988 » A Colombian Boeing 727 jet airliner named jetliner, Avianca Flight 410, crashes into a mountainside near the Venezuelan border killing 143.
Year 1992 » 1992 Israeli Embassy attack in Buenos Aires e.g Israeli Embassy attack in Buenos Aires: Suicide attack called Suicide car bomb attack kills 29 and injures 242.
Year 1992 » A South African apartheid referendum, 1992 named referendum to end apartheid in South Africa is passed 68.7% to 31.2%.
Year 2000 » 530 members of the Ugandan cult Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God die in a fire, considered to be a mass murder or suicide orchestrated by leaders of the cult. Elsewhere another 248 members are later found dead.
Year 2003 » Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Robin Cook, resigns from the Cabinet of the United Kingdom called British Cabinet in disagreement with government plans for the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Year 2004 » 2004 unrest in Kosovo known as Unrest in Kosovo: More than 22 are killed and 200 wounded. Thirty-five Serbian Orthodox Church called Serbian Orthodox shrines in Kosovo and two mosques in Belgrade and Niš are destroyed.
Year 2013 » The largest meteorite (since NASA started observing the moon in 2005) hit the moon.