Year 1477 » Uppsala University is inaugurated after receiving its corporate rights from Pope Sixtus IV in February the same year.
Year 1513 » Battle of La Motta: Spain or Spanish troops under Ramón de Cardona defeat the Republic of Venice named Venetians.
Year 1542 » Explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo known as Cabrillo discovers Santa Catalina Island, California e.g Santa Catalina Island off of the California coast.
Year 1571 » The Battle of Lepanto (1571) known as Battle of Lepanto is fought, and the Holy League (1571) named Holy League (Spain and Italy) annihilates the Turkish fleet.
Year 1582 » Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day is skipped in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
Year 1691 » The English royal charter for the Province of Massachusetts Bay is issued.
Year 1763 » George III of the United Kingdom called King George III of Kingdom of Great Britain e.g Great Britain issues British Royal Proclamation of 1763, closing aboriginal lands in North America north and west of Alleghenies to white settlements.
Year 1776 » Crown Prince Paul of Russia marries Sophie Marie Dorothea of Württemberg.
Year 1777 » American Revolutionary War: The Americans defeat the Kingdom of Great Britain or British in the Second Battle of Saratoga, also known as the Battle of Bemis Heights.
Year 1780 » American Revolutionary War Battle of Kings Mountain: United States American Patriot (American Revolution) Patriot militia defeat Loyalist (American Revolution) Loyalist irregular military irregulars led by British major Patrick Ferguson in South Carolina.
Year 1826 » The Granite Railway begins operations as the first chartered railway in the U.S.
Year 1828 » Morea Expedition: The city of Patras, Greece, is liberated by the French expeditionary force in the Peloponnese under Nicolas Joseph Maison or General Maison.
Year 1840 » William II of the Netherlands e.g Willem II becomes King of the Netherlands.
Year 1862 » Royal Columbian Hospital (RCH) opens as the first hospital in the Provinces and territories of Canada called Canadian province of British Columbia
Year 1864 » American Civil War Bahia Incident: USS Wachusett (1861) USS 'Wachusett' illegally captures the Ship CSS Florida cruiser 6 Confederate raider while in port in Bahia, Brazil in violation of Brazilian neutrality.
Year 1868 » Cornell University holds opening day ceremonies; initial student enrollment is 412, the highest at any American university to that date.
Year 1870 » Franco-Prussian War Siege of Paris (1870-1871) named Siege of Paris: Leon Gambetta flees Paris in a hot-air balloon.
Year 1879 » Germany and Austria-Hungary sign the "Twofold Covenant" and create the Dual Alliance (1879) or Dual Alliance.
Year 1912 » The Helsinki Stock Exchange sees its first transaction.
Year 1916 » Georgia Institute of Technology or Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University 222-0 in the most 1916 Cumberland vs. Georgia Tech football game called lopsided college football game in American history.
Year 1919 » KLM, the flag carrier of the Netherlands, is founded. It is the oldest airline still operating under its original name.
Year 1924 » Andreas Michalakopoulos becomes List of Prime Ministers of Greece called Prime Minister of Greece for a short period of time.
Year 1929 » Patriarch Photios II of Constantinople called Photios II becomes Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
Year 1933 » Air France is inaugurated, after being formed by a merger of 5 French airlines.
Year 1940 » World War II: the McCollum memo proposes bringing the United States into the war in Europe by provoking the Japanese to attack the United States.
Year 1942 » World War II: The October Actions along the Matanikau (September – October 1942) or Matanikau action on Guadalcanal begins as United States Marine Corps forces attack Imperial Japanese Army units along the Matanikau River.
Year 1944 » World War II: During an Auschwitz concentration camp Birkenau revolt or uprising at Auschwitz concentration camp named Birkenau concentration camp, Jewish prisoners burn down the crematoria.
Year 1949 » The communist East Germany or German Democratic Republic (East Germany) is formed.
Year 1955 » American poet Allen Ginsberg performs his poem Howl for the first time at the Six Gallery reading e.g Six Gallery in San Francisco.
Year 1958 » The U.S. manned space-flight project is renamed Project Mercury.
Year 1958 » President of Pakistan Iskander Mirza, with the support of General Ayub Khan (Field Marshal) named Ayub Khan and the army, suspends the 1956 constitution, imposes martial law, and cancels the elections scheduled for January 1959.
Year 1959 » Soviet Union e.g U.S.S.R. probe Luna 3 transmits the first ever photographs of the far side of the Moon.
Year 1977 » The adoption of the 1977 Soviet Constitution or Fourth Soviet Constitution.
Year 1985 » The 'MS Achille Lauro called Achille Lauro' is hijacked by Palestine Liberation Organization.
Year 1985 » The Mameyes landslide kills close to 300 in the worst landslide in North American history.
Year 1987 » Sikh nationalists declares the independence of Khalistan from India; it is not internationally recognized.
Year 1988 » An Inupiat people called Inupiaq hunter discovers three gray whales trapped under the ice in Barrow, Alaska, US; the situation becomes Operation Breakthrough known as a multinational effort to free the whales.
Year 1991 » Croatian War of Independence: Bombing of Banski dvori in Zagreb kills 1 civilian.
Year 1996 » The Fox News Channel begins broadcasting.
Year 1998 » Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, is found tied to a fence after being savagely beaten by two young adults in Laramie, Wyoming.
Year 2001 » The War in Afghanistan (2001–present) called U.S. invasion of Afghanistan begins with an air assault and covert operations on the ground.
Year 2003 » A historic California gubernatorial recall election e.g recall election takes place in the U.S. State of California in which the sitting Governor Gray Davis, a Democrat, is overwhelmingly voted out of office. Actor, bodybuilder and Republican candidate Ar
Year 3761 » The epoch reference date epoch (origin) of the modern Hebrew calendar (Proleptic Julian calendar).