Year 238 » Gordian I and his son Gordian II are proclaimed Roman Emperors.
Year 871 » Æthelred of Wessex defeats a Danish invasion army at the Battle of Marton.
Year 1508 » Ferdinand II of Aragon commissions Amerigo Vespucci chief navigator of the Spanish Empire.
Year 1621 » The Pilgrim (Plymouth Colony) known as Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony sign a peace treaty with Massasoit of the Wampanoag (tribe) named Wampanoags.
Year 1630 » The Massachusetts Bay Colony outlaws the possession of cards, dice, and gaming tables.
Year 1638 » Anne Hutchinson is expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony for religious dissent.
Year 1713 » The Tuscarora War comes to an end with the fall of Fort Neoheroka, effectively opening up the interior of North Carolina to European colonization.
Year 1739 » Nadir Shah occupies Delhi in India and sacks the city, stealing the jewels of the Peacock Throne.
Year 1765 » The Parliament of Great Britain British Parliament passes the Stamp Act 1765 Stamp Act that introduces a tax to be levied directly on its British colonization of the Americas American colonies.
Year 1784 » The Emerald Buddha is moved with great ceremony to its current location in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand.
Year 1829 » In the London Protocol (1829) London Protocol, the three protecting powers (United Kingdom, Bourbon Restoration France and Russian Empire Russia) establish the borders of Greece.
Year 1849 » The Austrian Empire Austrians defeat the Kingdom of Sardinia Piedmontese at the Battle of Novara (1849) Battle of Novara.
Year 1871 » In North Carolina, William Woods Holden becomes the first Governor (United States) e.g governor of a U.S. state to be removed from office by impeachment.
Year 1872 » Illinois becomes the first state to require sexual equality in employment
Year 1873 » A law is approved by the Spanish National Assembly in Puerto Rico to abolish slavery.
Year 1894 » The first playoff game for the Stanley Cup starts.
Year 1906 » The first England vs France rugby union match is played at Parc des Princes in Paris
Year 1916 » The last Emperor of China, Yuan Shikai, abdicates the throne and the Republic of China is restored.
Year 1920 » Azeri and Turkish army soldiers with participation of Kurdish gangs Shushi Massacres known as attacked the Armenian inhabitants of Shushi (Nagorno Karabakh).
Year 1939 » World War II: Germany takes Klaipėda Region e.g Memel from Lithuania.
Year 1943 » World War II: the entire population of Khatyn massacre or Khatyn in Belarus is burnt alive by Germany known as German occupation forces.
Year 1945 » The Arab League is founded when a charter is adopted in Cairo, Egypt.
Year 1954 » Closed since 1939, the London bullion market reopens.
Year 1960 » Arthur Leonard Schawlow and Charles Hard Townes receive the first patent for a laser
Year 1972 » The United States Congress sends the Equal Rights Amendment to the states for ratification.
Year 1972 » In Eisenstadt v. Baird, the United States Supreme Court decides that unmarried persons have the right to possess contraceptives.
Year 1975 » A fire at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant in Decatur, Alabama causes a dangerous reduction in cooling water levels.
Year 1978 » Karl Wallenda of The Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Year 1984 » Teachers at the McMartin preschool trial called McMartin preschool in Manhattan Beach, California are charged with satanic ritual abuse of the children in the school. The charges are later dropped as completely unfounded.
Year 1992 » Fall of communism in Albania: The Democratic Party of Albania wins a decisive majority in the Albanian parliamentary election, 1992 named parliamentary election.
Year 1993 » The Intel Corporation ships the first Pentium (brand) known as Pentium chips (80586), featuring a 60 MHz clock speed, 100+ Instructions per second e.g MIPS, and a 64 bit data path.
Year 1995 » Astronaut named Cosmonaut Valeriy Polyakov returns to earth after setting a record of 438 days in outer space or space.
Year 1997 » The Comet Hale-Bopp has its closest approach to Earth.
Year 2004 » Ahmed Yassin, co-founder and leader of the Palestinian people e.g Palestinian Sunni Islamist group Hamas, two bodyguards, and nine civilian bystanders are killed in the Gaza Strip when hit by Israeli Air Force AH-64 Apache fired AGM-114 Hellfire or Hellfi
Year 2006 » Three Christian Peacemaker Team hostages are freed by British forces in Baghdad after 118 days of captivity and the murder of their colleague, American Tom Fox (activist) named Tom Fox.
Year 2013 » At least 37 people are killed and 200 are injured after a 2013 Thailand refugee camp fire called fire destroys a camp containing Burma e.g Burmese refugees near Ban Mae, Thailand.
Year 2014 » At least 35 people die in Balochistan, Pakistan, in a Hub bus-tanker crash known as collision between a petrol tanker and two buses.
Year 2014 » Forty-three people are killed in a 2014 Oso mudslide named mudflow near Oso, Washington.
Year 2014 » Turtle Canyon is opened in Newport, Kentucky.