Year 838 » Battle of Anzen: The Byzantine emperor Theophilos (emperor) called Theophilos suffers a heavy defeat by the Abbasids.
Year 1099 » First Crusade: Godfrey of Bouillon is elected the first Defender of the Holy Sepulchre of The Kingdom of Jerusalem.
Year 1209 » Massacre at Béziers: The first major military action of the Albigensian Crusade.
Year 1298 » Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Falkirk (1298) e.g Battle of Falkirk King Edward I of England and his longbowmen defeat William Wallace and his Scottish Sheltron known as schiltrons outside the town of Falkirk.
Year 1456 » Ottoman Wars in Europe: Siege of Belgrade (1456) named Siege of Belgrade John Hunyadi, Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary, defeats Mehmet II of the Ottoman Empire
Year 1499 » Battle of Dornach: The Old Swiss Confederacy named Swiss decisively defeat the Holy Roman Empire called Imperial army of Emperor Maximilian I.
Year 1587 » Colony of Roanoke: A second group of English settlers arrives on Roanoke Island off North Carolina to re-establish the deserted colony.
Year 1686 » Albany, New York is formally chartered as a municipality by Governor Thomas Dongan.
Year 1793 » Alexander Mackenzie (explorer) or Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean becoming the first recorded human to complete a transcontinental crossing of Canada.
Year 1796 » Surveyors of the Connecticut Land Company name an area in Ohio "Cleveland, Ohio called Cleveland" after Gen. Moses Cleaveland, the superintendent of the surveying party.
Year 1797 » Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife (1797) called Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife: Battle between Spanish and British naval forces during the French Revolutionary Wars. During the Battle, Rear-Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson known as Nelson is w
Year 1805 » Napoleonic Wars: War of the Third Coalition Battle of Cape Finisterre (1805) e.g Battle of Cape Finisterre An inconclusive naval action is fought between a combined French and Spanish fleet under Admiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve of Spain and a British fl
Year 1812 » Napoleonic Wars: Peninsular War Battle of Salamanca United Kingdom British forces led by Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington Arthur Wellesley (later the Duke of Wellington) defeat France French troops near Salamanca, Spain.
Year 1864 » American Civil War: Battle of Atlanta Outside Atlanta, Georgia, Confederate States of America named Confederate General John Bell Hood leads an unsuccessful attack on United States e.g Union troops under General William T. Sherman on Bald Hill.
Year 1916 » In San Francisco, California, a bomb explodes on Market Street (San Francisco) e.g Market Street during a Preparedness Day parade killing ten and injuring 40.
Year 1933 » Wiley Post becomes the first person to fly solo around the world traveling convert or 15596 or mi in seven days, 18 hours and 45 minutes.
Year 1942 » The United States government begins compulsory civilian gasoline rationing due to the wartime demands.
Year 1942 » The Holocaust named Holocaust: The systematic deportation of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto begins.
Year 1943 » World War II: Allies of World War II called Allied forces capture the Italy e.g Italian city of Palermo.
Year 1946 » King David Hotel bombing: A Zionist underground organisation, the Irgun, bombs the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, site of the civil administration and military headquarters for British Mandate for Palestine or Mandate Palestine, resulting in 91 deaths.
Year 1951 » Dezik (Дезик) and Tsygan (Цыган, "Gypsy") are the Soviet space dogs e.g first dogs to make a sub-orbital flight.
Year 1962 » Mariner program: 'Mariner 1' spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after launch and has to be destroyed.
Year 1963 » Crown Colony of Sarawak e.g Sarawak achieve independence.
Year 1977 » China e.g Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping is restored to power.
Year 1983 » Martial law in Poland is officially revoked.
Year 1991 » Jeffrey Dahmer is arrested in Milwaukee after police discover human remains in his apartment.
Year 1992 » Near Medellín, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escapes from his luxury prison fearing extradition to the United States.
Year 1993 » Great Flood of 1993: Levees near Kaskaskia, Illinois rupture, forcing the entire town to evacuate by barges operated by the United States Army Corps of Engineers named Army Corps of Engineers.
Year 1997 » The second Blue Water Bridge opens between Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario.
Year 2005 » Jean Charles de Menezes is killed by police as the hunt begins for the London Bombers responsible for the 7 July 2005 London bombings and the 21 July 2005 London bombings.
Year 2011 » Norway is the victim of 2011 Norway attacks e.g twin terror attacks, the first being a bomb blast which targeted government buildings in central Oslo, the second being a massacre at a youth camp on the island of Utøya.