- 829 – Theophilos succeeds his father Michael II as Byzantine Emperor.
- 939 – Battle of Andernach: Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, crushes a rebellion against his rule, by a coalition of Eberhard of Franconia and other Frankish dukes.
- 1187 – Siege of Jerusalem: Saladin captures Jerusalem after 88 years of Crusader rule.
- 1263 – The Battle of Largs is fought between Norwegians and Scots.
- 1470 – The Earl of Warwick‘s rebellion forces King Edward IV of England to flee to the Netherlands, restoring Henry VI to the throne.
- 1528 – William Tyndale publishes The Obedience of a Christian Man, which advocates the divine right of kings.
- 1535 – Jacques Cartier discovers the present site of Montreal.
- 1552 – Russo-Kazan Wars: Russian troops enter Kazan.
- 1780 – American Revolutionary War: John André, a British Army officer, is hanged as a spy by the Continental Army.
- 1789 – The United States Bill of Rights is sent to the various States for ratification.
- 1814 – Chilean War of Independence: Royalist troops defeat Chilean forces of Bernardo O’Higgins and José Miguel Carrera.
- 1835 – Texas Revolution: Mexican troops attempt to disarm the people of Gonzales, but encounter stiff resistance from a hastily assembled militia.
- 1864 – American Civil War: Confederates defeat a Union attack on Saltville, Virginia. A massacre of wounded Union prisoners (most of them are from a Black cavalry unit) ensues.
- 1870 – By plebiscite, the citizens of the Papal States accept annexation by the Kingdom of Italy.
- 1919 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson suffers a massive stroke, leaving him incapacitated for several weeks.
- 1928 – The “Prelature of the Holy Cross and the Work of God”, commonly known as Opus Dei, is founded.
- 1937 – Rafael Trujillo orders the execution of Haitians living in the northwestern region of the Dominican Republic.
- 1941 – World War II: In Operation Typhoon, the Wehrmacht attempts to capture Moscow before the onset of winter.
- 1942 – World War II: Ocean Liner RMS Queen Mary accidentally rams and sinks HMS Curacoa, killing 337 crewmen aboard Curacoa.
- 1944 – World War II: German troops end the Warsaw Uprising.
- 1958 – Guinea declares its independence from France.
- 1967 – Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first African-American justice of the United States Supreme Court.
- 1968 – Mexican President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz orders soldiers to suppress a demonstration of unarmed students, ten days before the start of the 1968 Summer Olympics.
- 1970 – An aircraft carrying the Wichita State University football team, administrators, and supporters crashes in Colorado, killing 31 people.
- 1971 – South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu is re-elected in a one-man election.[1]
- 1980 – Michael Myers becomes the first member of either chamber of Congress to be expelled since the Civil War.
- 1990 – Xiamen Airlines Flight 8301 is hijacked and lands at Guangzhou, where it crashes into two other airliners on the ground, killing 128.
- 1992 – Military police storm the Carandiru Penitentiary in São Paulo, Brazil during a prison riot. The resulting massacre leaves 111 prisoners dead.
- 1996 – Aeroperú Flight 603 crashes into the ocean near Peru, killing all 70 people on board.
- 1996 – The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments are signed by U.S. President Bill Clinton.
- 2000 – The Rijndael algorithm is chosen by NIST as the AES standard.
- 2002 – The Beltway sniper attacks begin, extending over three weeks.
- 2004 – The first parkrun, then known as the Bushy Park Time Trial, takes place in Bushy Park, London, UK.[2]
- 2006 – Five Amish girls are murdered in a shooting at a school in Pennsylvania, United States.
- 2007 – President Roh Moo-hyun of South Korea goes to North Korea for an Inter-Korean summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-il.
- 2016 – Ethiopian protests break out during a festival in the Oromia region, killing dozens of people.
-Source: wikipedia
