Year 711 » Umayyad conquest of Hispania or Islamic conquest of Hispania: Moors e.g Moorish troops led by Tariq ibn-Ziyad land at Gibraltar to begin their invasion of the Iberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus).
Year 1091 » Battle of Levounion: The Pechenegs are defeated by Byzantine Emperor Alexius I.
Year 1386 » Battle of the Vikhra River: The Principality of Smolensk is defeated by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and becomes its vassal.
Year 1429 » Joan of Arc arrives to relieve the Siege of Orleans.
Year 1483 » Gran Canaria, the main island of the Canary Islands is conquered by the Kingdom of Castile.
Year 1521 » Swedish War of Liberation: Swedish troops under Gustav Vasa defeat a Danish force under Didrik Slagheck in the Battle of Västerås and soon capture the city of Västerås. The Danish-held castle, however, does not surrender to the Swedes until 31 January the
Year 1770 » James Cook arrives at and names Botany Bay, Australia.
Year 1781 » American Revolutionary War: Kingdom of Great Britain or British and Kingdom of France e.g French ships clash in the Battle of Fort Royal off the coast of Martinique.
Year 1832 » Évariste Galois is released from prison.
Year 1862 » American Civil War: New Orleans, Louisiana falls to Union forces under Admiral David Farragut.
Year 1864 » Theta Xi fraternity is founded at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the only fraternity to be founded during the American Civil War.
Year 1882 » The "Elektromote" forerunner of the trolleybus is tested by Ernst Werner von Siemens in Berlin.
Year 1903 » A 30 million cubic-metre Frank Slide e.g landslide kills 70 in Frank, Alberta named Frank, North-West Territories, Canada.
Year 1916 » World War I: The United Kingdom or British 6th Indian Division surrenders to Ottoman Empire named Ottoman Forces at the Siege of Kut in one of the largest surrenders of British forces up to that point.
Year 1916 » Easter Rising: Martial law in Ireland is lifted and the rebellion is officially over with the surrender of Irish nationalism or Irish nationalists to United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called British authorities in Dublin.
Year 1945 » The Italy Italian commune of Fornovo di Taro is liberated from Germany German forces by Brazilian Expeditionary Force (FEB) Brazilian forces.
Year 1945 » The Dachau concentration camp is liberated by United States troops.
Year 1945 » World War II Fuehrerbunker: Adolf Hitler marries his longtime partner Eva Braun in a Berlin bunker and designates Admiral Karl Dönitz as his successor. Both Hitler and Braun commit suicide the following day.
Year 1945 » World War II: The Captain class frigate HMS Goodall K479 is torpedoed by U-286 outside the Kola Inlet becoming the last ship of the Royal Navy sunk in the European theatre of World War II.
Year 1945 » World War II: Start of Operations Manna and Chowhound e.g Operation Manna.
Year 1945 » World War II: The Nazi Germany e.g German army in Italy unconditionally surrenders to the Allies of World War II or Allies.
Year 1946 » The International Military Tribunal for the Far East convenes and indicts former Prime Minister of Japan Hideki Tojo and 28 former Japanese leaders for war crimes.
Year 1946 » Father Divine, a controversial religious leader who claims to be God, marries the much-younger Edna Rose Ritchings, a celebrated anniversary in the International Peace Mission movement.
Year 1953 » The first U.S. experimental 3D television broadcast showed an episode of Space Patrol (1950 TV series) or Space Patrol on Los Angeles American Broadcasting Company known as ABC affiliate KECA-TV.
Year 1967 » After refusing induction into the United States Army the day before (citing religious reasons), Muhammad Ali is stripped of his boxing title.
Year 1968 » The controversial musical 'Hair (musical) Hair', a product of the hippie Counterculture of the 1960s counter-culture and sexual revolution of the 1960s, opens at the Biltmore Theatre on Broadway theatre Broadway, with its song becoming anthems of the Oppo
Year 1970 » Vietnam War: United States and South Vietnamese forces Cambodian Campaign or invade Cambodia to hunt National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam named Viet Cong.
Year 1974 » Watergate Scandal: President of the United States e.g President Richard Nixon announces the release of edited transcripts of White House tape recordings relating to the scandal.
Year 1975 » Vietnam War: Operation Frequent Wind: The U.S. begins to evacuate U.S. citizens from Saigon prior to an expected North Vietnamese takeover. U.S. involvement in the war comes to an end.
Year 1986 » Chernobyl disaster known as The Chernobyl Disaster: American and European Spy Satellites capture the ruins of the 4th Reactor at the Chernobyl Power Plant
Year 1986 » A fire at the Central library of the City of Los Angeles Public Library damages or destroys 400,000 books and other items.
Year 1991 » A 1991 Bangladesh cyclone cyclone strikes the Chittagong district of southeastern Bangladesh with winds of around convert 155 mph kph, killing at least 138,000 people and leaving as many as 10 million homeless.
Year 1992 » 1992 Los Angeles riots known as Los Angeles riots: Riots in Los Angeles, California, following the acquittal of police officers charged with excessive force in the beating of Rodney King. Over the next three days 53 people are killed and hundreds of build
Year 1997 » The Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 enters into force, outlawing the production, stockpiling and use of Chemical warfare known as chemical weapons by its signatories.
Year 1999 » The Avala TV Tower near Belgrade is destroyed in the 1999 NATO bombing of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia named NATO bombing of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia named Yugoslavia.
Year 2004 » Oldsmobile builds its final car ending 107 years of production.
Year 2004 » Dick Cheney and George W. Bush testify before the 9/11 Commission in a closed, unrecorded hearing in the Oval Office.
Year 2005 » Syria completes withdrawal from Lebanon, ending Syrian occupation of Lebanon named 29 years of occupation.
Year 2011 » The Wedding of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, and Kate Middleton e.g Wedding of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge or Kate Middleton.
Year 2013 » A powerful 2013 Prague explosion e.g explosion occurs in an office building in Prague, Czech Republic, believed to have been caused by natural gas, injures 43 people.