Year 1358 » Republic of Ragusa or Republic of Dubrovnik is founded
Year 1497 » Cornwall called Cornish rebels Michael An Gof and Thomas Flamank are executed at Tyburn, London, England.
Year 1556 » The thirteen Stratford Martyrs are burned at the stake near London for their Protestant beliefs.
Year 1743 » War of the Austrian Succession: Battle of Dettingen: On the battlefield in Bavaria, George II of Great Britain known as George II personally leads troops into battle. The last time that a British monarch would command troops in the field.
Year 1759 » General James Wolfe begins the siege of Quebec.
Year 1760 » Cherokee warriors defeat British Empire called British forces at the Battle of Echoee near present-day Otto, North Carolina during the Anglo-Cherokee War.
Year 1806 » British forces take Buenos Aires during the first British invasions of the Río de la Plata.
Year 1844 » Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, and his brother Hyrum Smith, are Death of Joseph Smith, Jr. called murdered by a mob at the Carthage, Illinois jail.
Year 1898 » The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia.
Year 1899 » A. E. J. Collins scores 628 runs not out, the highest-ever recorded score in cricket.
Year 1905 » Russian battleship Potemkin named Battleship 'Potemkin' uprising: sailors start a mutiny aboard the battleship 'Potemkin', denouncing the crimes of autocracy, demanding liberty and an end to war.
Year 1941 » Romanian governmental forces, allies of Nazi Germany, launch Iaşi pogrom named one of the most violent pogroms in Jewish history in the city of Iaşi, (Romania), resulting in the murder of at least 13,266 Jews.
Year 1941 » German troops capture the city of Białystok during Operation Barbarossa.
Year 1946 » In the Canadian Citizenship Act 1946 called Canadian Citizenship Act, the Parliament of Canada establishes the definition of Canadian citizenship.
Year 1950 » The United States decides to send troops to fight in the Korean War.
Year 1952 » Guatemala passes Decree 900, ordering the redistribution of uncultivated land.
Year 1954 » The 1954 FIFA World Cup quarterfinal match between Hungary national football team Hungary and Brazil national football team Brazil, highly anticipated to be exciting, instead Battle of Berne turns violent, with three players ejected and further fighting c
Year 1957 » Hurricane Audrey makes landfall near the Texas-Louisiana border, killing over 400 people, mainly in and around Cameron, Louisiana.
Year 1971 » After only three years in business, rock promoter Bill Graham (promoter) known as Bill Graham closes the Fillmore East in New York, New York, the "Church of Rock and Roll".
Year 1973 » The President of Uruguay Juan María Bordaberry dissolves Parliament and establishes a dictatorship.
Year 1974 » President of the United States e.g U.S. president Richard Nixon visits the Soviet Union.
Year 1976 » Air France Operation Entebbe or Flight 139 (Tel Aviv-Athens-Paris) is hijacked en route to Paris by the Palestine Liberation Organization or PLO and redirected to Entebbe, Uganda.
Year 1977 » France grants independence to Djibouti.
Year 1980 » Italy e.g Italian Aerolinee Itavia Flight 870 mysteriously explodes in mid air while in route from Bologna to Palermo, killing all 81 on board. Also known in Italy as the Ustica disaster
Year 1982 » 'Space Shuttle Columbia' launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the final research and development flight mission, STS-4.
Year 1985 » U.S. Route 66 is officially removed from the United States Highway System.
Year 1988 » Gare de Lyon rail accident In Paris a train collides with a stationary train killing 56 people.
Year 1991 » Slovenia, after declaring independence two days before is invaded by Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia named Yugoslav troops, tanks, and aircraft starting the Ten-Day War.
Year 2007 » Tony Blair resigns as British Prime Minister, a position he had held since 1997.
Year 2007 » The Brazilian Military Police invades the 'favelas' of Complexo do Alemão in an episode which is remembered as the Complexo do Alemão massacre.
Year 2013 » NASA launches the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, a space probe to observe the Sun.