Year 1066 Calendar » Norman Conquest: Battle of Hastings In England on Senlac Hill, seven miles from Hastings, the Normans e.g Norman forces of William the Conqueror defeat the Anglo-Saxons named English army and kill King Harold II of England.
Year 1465 Calendar » Wallachian voivode Radu cel Frumos, younger brother of Vlad Ţepeş, issues a writ from his residence in Bucharest
Year 1582 Calendar » Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
Year 1586 Calendar » Mary, Queen of Scots, goes on trial for conspiracy against Elizabeth I of England.
Year 1656 Calendar » Massachusetts enacts the first punitive legislation against the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). The marriage of church-and-state in Puritanism makes them regard the Quakers as spiritually apostate and politically subversive.
Year 1773 Calendar » The first recorded Ministry (government department) known as Ministry of Education, the Komisja Edukacji Narodowej (Polish for 'Commission of National Education'), is formed in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Year 1840 Calendar » The Maronite leader Bashir II surrenders to the British Army and then is sent into exile on the islands of Malta.
Year 1863 Calendar » American Civil War: Battle of Bristoe Station Army of the Confederate States of America named Confederate troops under the command of General Robert E. Lee fail to drive the U.S. Army e.g American Union Army completely out of Virginia.
Year 1882 Calendar » University of the Punjab is founded in a part of India that later became West Pakistan.
Year 1884 Calendar » The American inventor, George Eastman, receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film.
Year 1888 Calendar » Louis Le Prince films first motion picture: 'Roundhay Garden Scene'.
Year 1898 Calendar » The steamer ship SS Mohegan named SS 'Mohegan' sinks after impacting the Manacles near Cornwall, United Kingdom, killing 106.
Year 1908 Calendar » The Chicago Cubs defeat the Detroit Tigers, 2-0, clinching the World Series. It would be their last one to date.
Year 1910 Calendar » The English aviator Claude Grahame-White lands his Farman Aircraft biplane on Executive Avenue near the White House in Washington, D.C..
Year 1912 Calendar » While campaigning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the former President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, is shot and mildly wounded by John Schrank, a mentally-disturbed saloon keeper. With the fresh wound in his chest, and the bullet still within it, Mr
Year 1915 Calendar » World War I: The Kingdom of Bulgaria joins the Central Powers.
Year 1920 Calendar » Part of Pechengsky District named Petsamo Province is ceded by the Soviet Union to Finland.
Year 1925 Calendar » An Anti-French uprising in French-occupied Damascus, Syria. (All French inhabitants flee the city.)
Year 1939 Calendar » The GS U-47 1938 6 sinks the British battleship HMS Royal Oak 08 6 within her harbour at Scapa Flow, Scotland.
Year 1940 Calendar » Balham tube station World War II named Balham underground station disaster in London, England, occurs during the Nazi Luftwaffe The Blitz called air raids on Great Britain.
Year 1943 Calendar » The American Eighth Air Force loses 60 B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bombers in aerial combat during the Second Raid on Schweinfurt known as second mass-daylight air raid on the Schweinfurt ball-bearing factories in western Nazi Germany.
Year 1943 » José P. Laurel takes the oath of office as President of the Philippines (Second Philippine Republic).
Year 1944 Calendar » Linked to a 20 July plot e.g plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel is forced to commit suicide.
Year 1944 » Athens, Greece, is liberated by British Army troops entering the city as the Wehrmacht pulls out during World War II. This clears the way for the Greek government-in-exile to return to its historic capital city, with George Papandreou (senior) known as Ge
Year 1947 Calendar » Captain Chuck Yeager of the U.S. Air Force flies a Bell X-1 rocket-powered experimental aircraft, the 'Glamorous Glennis', faster than the speed of sound - over the high desert of Southern California - and becomes the first aviator known as pilot and the
Year 1949 Calendar » Eleven leaders of the American Communist Party are convicted, after a nine-month trial in a Federal District Court, of conspiring to advocate the violent overthrow of the U.S. Federal Government.
Year 1952 Calendar » Korean War: United Nations and South Korean forces launch Operation Showdown against Chinese strongholds at the Iron Triangle (Korea) or Iron Triangle. The resulting Battle of Triangle Hill is the biggest and bloodiest battle of 1952.
Year 1956 Calendar » Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, the Indian Dalit (outcaste) named Untouchable caste leader, converts to Buddhism along with 385,000 of his followers (see Neo-Buddhism).
Year 1957 Calendar » Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom Queen Elizabeth II becomes the first Monarchy in Canada Canadian Monarch to open up an annual session of the Parliament of Canada Canadian Parliament, presenting her Speech from the Throne in Ottawa, Canada.
Year 1958 Calendar » The American U.S. Atomic Energy Commission named Atomic Energy Commission, with supporting military units, carries out an underground nuclear weapon test at the Nevada Test Site, just north of Las Vegas, Nevada.
Year 1962 Calendar » The Cuban Missile Crisis begins: A U.S. Air Force Lockheed U-2 U-2 reconnaissance plane and its aviator pilot fly over the island of Cuba and take photographs of Soviet Union Soviet missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads being installed and erected
Year 1964 Calendar » Leonid Brezhnev becomes the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union known as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and thereby, along with his allies - such as Alexei Kosygin - the leader of the Union of Soviet
Year 1966 Calendar » The city of Montreal, Quebec, begins the operation of its underground Montreal Metro rapid-transit e.g rapid-transit system.
Year 1968 Calendar » Jim Hines of the United States of America becomes the first man ever to break the so-called "ten-second barrier" in the 100 metres called 100-meter sprint in the Summer Olympic Games held in Mexico City with a time of 9.95 seconds.
Year 1968 » An earthquake rated at 6.8 on the Richter Scale destroys the Australian town of Meckering, Western Australia, and it also ruptures all nearby main highways and railroads.
Year 1968 » Apollo program: The first live TV broadcasting named broadcast, by American astronauts in Low Earth orbit named orbit, was performed by the Apollo 7 crew.
Year 1968 » Vietnam War: The United States Department of Defense announces that the U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps will send about 24,000 soldiers and Marines back to Vietnam for involuntary second tours of duty in the combat zone there.
Year 1968 » Vietnam War: 27 soldiers are arrested at the Presidio of San Francisco in California for their peaceful protest of stockade conditions and the Vietnam War.
Year 1969 Calendar » The United Kingdom introduces the British Fifty Pence coin e.g British fifty-pence coin, which replaces, over the following years, the British ten-shilling note, in anticipation of the decimalization of the British currency in 1971, and the abolition of t
Year 1973 Calendar » In the Thammasat student uprising over :th:เหตุการณ์ 14 ตุลา or 100,000 people protest in Thailand against the Thanom Kittikachorn called Thanom military government; 77 are killed and 857 are injured by soldiers.
Year 1979 Calendar » The first Gay Rights March on Washington, D.C., the National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, demands "an end to all social, economic, judicial, and legal oppression of lesbian and gay people", and draws 200,000 people.
Year 1981 Calendar » Vice President Hosni Mubarak is elected as the President of Egypt one week after the assassination of the President of Egypt, Anwar Sadat.
Year 1981 » Citing official misconduct in the investigation and trial, Amnesty International charges the U.S. Federal Government with holding Richard Marshalldisambiguation needed known as date=May 2012 of the American Indian Movement as a political prisoner.
Year 1982 Calendar » U.S. President Ronald Reagan proclaims a War on Drugs.
Year 1994 Calendar » The Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, The Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzhak Rabin, and the Foreign Minister of Israel, Shimon Peres, receive the Nobel Peace Prize for their role in the establishment of the Oslo Accords and the framing of the future Pales
Year 1998 Calendar » Eric Rudolph is charged with six bombings including the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta known as Atlanta, Georgia.
Year 2003 Calendar » Chicago Cubs fan Steve Bartman incident called Steve Bartman becomes infamously known as the scapegoat for the Cubs losing game 6 of the 2003 National League Championship Series to the Florida Marlins.
Year 2006 Calendar » The FIU–Miami football brawl or college football brawl between University of Miami and Florida International University leads to suspensions of 31 players of both teams.