Year 456 » Magister militum Ricimer defeats Emperor Avitus at Piacenza and becomes master of the Western Roman Empire.
Year 690 » Empress Wu Zetian ascends to the throne of the Tang Dynasty and proclaims herself ruler of the China called Chinese Empire.
Year 1384 » Jadwiga of Poland known as Jadwiga is crowned List of Polish kings named King of Poland, although she is a woman.
Year 1780 » Royalton, Vermont called Royalton, Vermont and Tunbridge, Vermont e.g Tunbridge, Vermont are the last major raids of the American Revolutionary War.
Year 1781 » George Washington captures Yorktown, Virginia called Yorktown, Virginia after the Siege of Yorktown.
Year 1793 » The Battle of Wattignies (1793) called Battle of Wattignies ends in a French First Republic known as French victory.
Year 1793 » Marie Antoinette, widow of Louis XVI of France named Louis XVI, is guillotined at the height of the French Revolution.
Year 1813 » The Sixth Coalition attacks Napoleon I of France named Napoleon Bonaparte in the Battle of Leipzig.
Year 1814 » London Beer Flood occurs in London, killing eight.
Year 1834 » Much of the ancient structure of the Palace of Westminster in London Burning of Parliament named burns to the ground.
Year 1843 » Sir William Rowan Hamilton comes up with the idea of quaternions, a commutativity named non-commutative extension of complex numbers.
Year 1846 » William T. G. Morton first demonstrated ether anesthesia at the Massachusetts General Hospital in the Ether Dome.
Year 1869 » The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is "discovered".
Year 1875 » Brigham Young University is founded in Provo, Utah called Provo, Utah.
Year 1882 » The New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad called Nickel Plate Railroad opens for business.
Year 1905 » The Partition of Bengal (1905) or Partition of Bengal in India takes place.
Year 1906 » The Wilhelm Voigt e.g Captain of Köpenick fools the City hall (administration) named city hall of Köpenick and several soldiers by impersonating a Prussian officer.
Year 1909 » William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz hold a summit, a first between a U.S. and a Mexican president, and they only narrowly escape assassination.
Year 1916 » In Brooklyn, New York, Margaret Sanger opens the first family planning clinic in the United States.
Year 1923 » The Walt Disney Company is founded by Walt Disney and his brother, Roy O. Disney or Roy Disney.
Year 1934 » Chinese Communism e.g Communists begin the Long March; it ended a year and four days later, by which time Mao Zedong had regained his title as party chairman.
Year 1939 » World War II: First attack on British territory by the Nazi Germany named German Luftwaffe.
Year 1940 » The Holocaust e.g Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto is established.
Year 1945 » The Food and Agriculture Organization is founded in Quebec City, Canada.
Year 1946 » Nuremberg Trials: Execution of the convicted Nazi leaders of the Main Trial.
Year 1949 » The diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and the German Democratic Republic are established.
Year 1949 » Nikolaos Zachariadis, leader of the Communist Party of Greece, announces a "temporary cease-fire", effectively ending the Greek Civil War.
Year 1951 » The first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, is assassination known as assassinated in Rawalpindi.
Year 1962 » The Cuban missile crisis between the United States, Cuba, and the Soviet Union begins when US President John F. Kennedy is shown photographs of missile sites in Cuba.
Year 1964 » China detonates its first 596 (nuclear test) named nuclear weapon.
Year 1968 » Yasunari Kawabata becomes the first Japanese person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Year 1968 » Kingston, Jamaica called Kingston, Jamaica is rocked by the Rodney Riots, inspired by the barring of Walter Rodney from the country.
Year 1968 » United States athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos are kicked off the US team for participating in the 1968 Olympics Black Power salute.
Year 1970 » In response to the October Crisis terrorist kidnapping, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau of Canada invokes the War Measures Act.
Year 1973 » Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Year 1975 » The Balibo Five, a group of Australian television journalists based in the town of Balibo in the then Portuguese Timor (now East Timor), are killed by Indonesian troops.
Year 1975 » Rahima Banu, a two-year old girl from the village of Kuralia in Bangladesh, is the last known person to be infected with naturally occurring smallpox.
Year 1978 » Wanda Rutkiewicz is the first Pole and the first European woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
Year 1978 » Karol Wojtyla is elected Pope John Paul II after the Papal conclave, October 1978 known as October 1978 Papal conclave, the first non-Italian pontiff since 1523.
Year 1984 » 'The Bill' debuted on ITV (TV network) called ITV, eventually becoming the longest-running police procedural in British television history.
Year 1984 » Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Year 1986 » Reinhold Messner becomes the first person to summit all 14 Eight-thousanders.
Year 1993 » Anti-Nazism riot breaks out in Welling in Kent, after Metropolitan Police e.g police stop protesters approaching the British National Party headquarters.
Year 1995 » The Million Man March occurs in Washington, D.C.
Year 1996 » 84 people are killed and more than 180 injured as 47,000 association football called football fans attempt to squeeze into the 36,000-seat 'Estadio Mateo Flores' in Guatemala City.
Year 2002 » Bibliotheca Alexandrina in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, a commemoration of the Library of Alexandria that was lost in Classical antiquity or antiquity, is officially inaugurated.
Year 2006 » 2006 Hawaii earthquake e.g Hawaii earthquake: A magnitude 6.7 earthquake rocks Hawaii, causing property damage, injuries, landslides, power outages, and the closure of Honolulu International Airport.
Year 2012 » The extrasolar planet Alpha Centauri Bb is discovered.
Year 2013 » Lao Airlines Flight 301 crashes on approach to Pakse International Airport in Laos, killing 49 people.