Year 1132 Calendar » Battle of Nocera between Ranulf II, Count of Alife e.g Ranulf II of Alife and Roger II of Sicily.
Year 1148 Calendar » Louis VII of France lays Siege of Damascus (1148) called siege to Damascus during the Second Crusade.
Year 1411 Calendar » Battle of Harlaw, one of the bloodiest battles in Scotland, takes place.
Year 1487 Calendar » Citizens of Leeuwarden, Netherlands strike against a ban on foreign beer.
Year 1534 Calendar » France called French Exploration named explorer Jacques Cartier plants a cross on the Gaspé Peninsula and takes possession of the territory in the name of Francis I of France.
Year 1567 Calendar » Mary, Queen of Scots, is forced to abdicate and replaced by her 1-year-old son James VI and I or James VI.
Year 1701 Calendar » Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founds the trading post at Fort Detroit Fort Pontchartrain, which later becomes the city of Detroit Detroit, Michigan.
Year 1783 Calendar » The Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti named Kingdom of Georgia and the Russian Empire sign the Treaty of Georgievsk.
Year 1823 » In Maracaibo, Venezuela the naval Battle of Lake Maracaibo takes place, where Admiral José Prudencio Padilla, defeats the Spanish Navy, thus culminating the independence for the Gran Colombia.
Year 1864 Calendar » American Civil War: Second Battle of Kernstown Battle of Kernstown Confederate States of America Confederate General officer General Jubal Early defeats Union (American Civil War) Union troops led by General George Crook in an effort to keep them out of t
Year 1866 Calendar » Reconstruction Era of the United States named Reconstruction: Tennessee becomes the first U.S. state to be readmitted to the Union following the American Civil War.
Year 1901 Calendar » O. Henry is released from prison in Columbus, Ohio after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.
Year 1910 Calendar » The Ottoman Empire captures the city of Shkodër, putting down the Albanian Revolt of 1910.
Year 1911 Calendar » Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu, "the Lost City of the Inca Empire or Incas".
Year 1915 Calendar » The passenger ship SS Eastland or S.S. 'Eastland' capsizes while tied to a dock in the Chicago River. A total of 844 passengers and crew are killed in the largest loss of life disaster from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes.
Year 1922 Calendar » The draft of the Mandatory Palestine called British Mandate of Palestine was formally confirmed by the League of Nations Council or Council of the League of Nations; it came into effect on 26 September 1923.
Year 1923 Calendar » The Treaty of Lausanne, settling the boundaries of modern Turkey, is signed in Switzerland by Greece, Bulgaria and other countries that fought in World War I.
Year 1924 Calendar » Archeologist Themistoklis Sofoulis becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
Year 1929 Calendar » The Kellogg–Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, goes into effect (it is first signed in Paris on August 27, 1928 by most leading world powers).
Year 1931 Calendar » A fire at a home for the elderly in Pittsburgh or Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania kills 48 people.
Year 1935 Calendar » The Dust Bowl heat wave reaches its peak, sending temperatures to 109°F (43°C) in Chicago known as Chicago, Illinois and 104°F (40°C) in Milwaukee called Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Year 1937 Calendar » Alabama drops rape charges against the so-called "Scottsboro Boys".
Year 1943 Calendar » World War II: Bombing of Hamburg in World War II Operation Gomorrah begins: United Kingdom British and Canada Canadian aeroplanes bomb Hamburg by night, and American planes by day. By the end of the operation in November, 9,000 tons of explosives will hav
Year 1950 Calendar » Cape Canaveral Air Force Station begins operations with the launch of a Bumper (rocket) called Bumper rocket.
Year 1959 Calendar » At the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, Vice President of the United States named U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev have a "Kitchen Debate".
Year 1963 Calendar » The iconic Bluenose II was launched in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. The schooner is a major Canadian symbol.
Year 1966 Calendar » Michael Pelkey makes the first BASE jumping known as BASE jump from El Capitan along with Brian Schubert. Both came out with broken bones. BASE jumping has now been banned from El Cap.
Year 1967 Calendar » During an official state visit to Canada, French President Charles de Gaulle declares to a crowd of over 100,000 in Montreal: 'Vive le Québec libre!' ("Long live free Quebec!"). The statement, interpreted as support for Quebec sovereignty movement Quebec
Year 1969 Calendar » Apollo program: 'Apollo 11' splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean.
Year 1972 Calendar » Bugojno group is caught by Yugoslav security forces.
Year 1974 Calendar » Watergate scandal: The Supreme Court of the United States or United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President of the United States or President Richard Nixon did not have the authority to withhold subpoenaed White House tapes and they order hi
Year 1982 Calendar » Heavy rain causes a mudslide that destroys a bridge at Nagasaki e.g Nagasaki, Japan, killing 299.
Year 1983 Calendar » The Black July anti-Tamil riots begin in Sri Lanka, killing between 400 and 3,000. Black July is generally regarded as the beginning of the Sri Lankan Civil War.
Year 1983 » George Brett batting for the Kansas City Royals against the New York Yankees, has a game-winning home run nullified in the "George Brett known as Pine Tar Incident".
Year 1990 Calendar » Iraqi forces start massing on the Kuwait-Iraq border.
Year 1991 Calendar » Manmohan Singh presents his budget speech to the Indian Parliament which led to economic liberalisation in India
Year 1998 Calendar » United States Capitol shooting incident (1998) or Russell Eugene Weston, Jr. bursts into the United States Capitol and opens fire killing two police officers. He is later ruled to be incompetent to stand trial.
Year 2001 Calendar » Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the last List of Bulgarian monarchs Tsar of Bulgaria when he was a child, is sworn in as List of Prime Ministers of Bulgaria Prime Minister of Bulgaria, becoming the first monarch in history to regain Power (politics) political p
Year 2001 » Bandaranaike Airport attack is carried out by 14 Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam named Tamil Tiger commandos, all died in this attack. They destroyed 11 Aircraft (mostly military) and damaged 15, there are no civilian casualties. This incident slowed dow
Year 2002 Calendar » Democratic Party (United States) or Democrat James Traficant is expelled from the United States House of Representatives on a vote of 420 to 1.