Year 335 » Dalmatius Flavius Dalmatius is raised to the rank of Caesar (title) Caesar by his uncle, emperor Constantine the Great Constantine I.
Year 634 » Siege of Damascus (634) or Siege of Damascus: The Rashidun Army named Rashidun Arabs under Khalid ibn al-Walid capture Damascus from the Byzantine Empire.
Year 1356 » Battle of Poitiers: An English army under the command of Edward, the Black Prince defeats a French army and captures the French king, John II of France e.g John II.
Year 1692 » Giles Corey is Pressing (execution) named pressed to death after refusing to plead in the Salem witch trials.
Year 1777 » American Revolutionary War: British forces win a tactically expensive victory over the Continental Army in the Battles of Saratoga called First Battle of Saratoga.
Year 1778 » The Continental Congress passes the first United States federal budget.
Year 1799 » French Revolutionary Wars: French-Dutch victory against the Russians and British in the Battle of Bergen (1799) or Battle of Bergen.
Year 1846 » Two French shepherd children, Mélanie Calvat and Maximin Giraud, experience a Marian apparition on a mountaintop near La Salette, Isère named La Salette, France, now known as Our Lady of La Salette.
Year 1862 » American Civil War: Battle of Iuka: Union (American Civil War) called Union troops under General William Rosecrans defeat a Confederate States of America named Confederate force commanded by General Sterling Price.
Year 1868 » Spanish revolution: Glorious Revolution (Spain) called La Gloriosa.
Year 1870 » Having invaded the Papal States a week earlier, the Italian Army lays siege to Rome, entering the city the next day, after which the Pope described himself as a Prisoner in the Vatican.
Year 1870 » Franco-Prussian War: The Siege of Paris (1870–71) e.g Siege of Paris begins, which will result on January 28, 1871 in the surrender of Paris and a decisive Kingdom of Prussia called Prussian victory.
Year 1879 » The Blackpool Illuminations are switched on for the first time.
Year 1881 » U.S. President James A. Garfield dies of wounds suffered in a July 2 shooting.
Year 1916 » During the East African Campaign of World War I, colonial armed forces of the Belgian Congo (Force Publique) under the command of Charles Tombeur called General Charles Tombeur captured the town of Tabora after heavy fighting.
Year 1934 » Bruno Hauptmann is arrested for the Lindbergh kidnapping known as kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh, Jr..
Year 1939 » World War II: The Battle of Kępa Oksywska concludes, with Polish losses reaching roughly 14% of all the forces engaged.
Year 1940 » Witold Pilecki is voluntarily captured and sent to Auschwitz in order to smuggle out information and start a Jewish resistance under Nazi rule In concentration camps e.g resistance.
Year 1944 » Moscow Armistice known as Armistice between Finland and Soviet Union is signed. (End of the Continuation War).
Year 1944 » Battle of Hürtgen Forest between United States and Nazi Germany begins.
Year 1945 » Lord Haw-Haw (William Joyce) is sentenced to death in London.
Year 1946 » The Council of Europe is founded following a speech by Winston Churchill at the University of Zurich.
Year 1952 » The United States bars Charlie Chaplin from re-entering the country after a trip to England.
Year 1957 » First American underground Nuclear testing or nuclear bomb test (part of Operation Plumbbob).
Year 1959 » Nikita Khrushchev is barred from visiting Disneyland due to security concerns.
Year 1970 » Kostas Georgakis, a Greek student of geology, sets himself ablaze in Matteotti Square in Genoa, Italy, as a protest against the Greek military junta of 1967–1974 known as dictatorial regime of Georgios Papadopoulos.
Year 1971 » Montagnard (Vietnam) Montagnard ARVN troops of South Vietnam revolt against the rule of Nguyễn Khánh, killing 70 Vietnamese people ethnic Vietnamese soldiers.
Year 1972 » A parcel bomb sent to Israeli Embassy in London kills one diplomat.
Year 1973 » King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden has his investiture.
Year 1976 » Turkish Airlines Flight 452 hits the Taurus Mountains, outskirt of Karatepe, Osmaniye, Turkey, killing all 154 passengers and crew.
Year 1976 » Two Imperial Iranian Air Force F-4 Phantom II jets fly out to 1976 Tehran UFO incident called investigate an unidentified flying object when both independently lose instrumentation and communications as they approach, only to have them restored upon withd
Year 1978 » The Solomon Islands join the United Nations.
Year 1982 » Scott Fahlman posts the first documented emoticons :-) and :-( on the Carnegie Mellon University Bulletin Board System.
Year 1983 » Saint Kitts and Nevis gains its independence.
Year 1985 » 1985 Mexico City earthquake or A strong earthquake kills thousands and destroys about 400 buildings in Mexico City.
Year 1985 » Tipper Gore and other political wives form the Parents Music Resource Center as Frank Zappa and other musicians testify at United States Congress or U.S. Congressional hearings on obscenity in rock music.
Year 1989 » A terrorist bomb explodes UTA Flight 772 in mid-air above the Tùnùrù Desert, Niger, killing 171.
Year 1991 » Ötzi the Iceman is discovered by German tourists.
Year 1997 » Guelb El-Kebir massacre in Algeria where 53 people are killed.
Year 2010 » The leaking oil well in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill called 'Deepwater Horizon' oil spill is sealed.
Year 2014 » The 2014 Asian Games called Asian Games take place in Incheon, South Korea.