- AD 23 – Rebels sack the Chinese capital Chang’an during a peasant rebellion.
- 1302 – The Byzantine–Venetian War comes to an end.
- 1363 – Battle of Lake Poyang: In one of the largest naval battles in history, Zhu Yuanzhang’s rebels defeat rival Chen Youliang.
- 1511 – Formation of the Holy League of Aragon, the Papal States and Venice against France.
- 1535 – The Coverdale Bible is printed, with translations into English by William Tyndale and Myles Coverdale.[1]
- 1582 – The Gregorian Calendar is introduced by Pope Gregory XIII.
- 1597 – Governor Gonzalo Méndez de Canço begins to suppress a native uprising against his rule in what is now Georgia.
- 1636 – Thirty Years’ War: The Swedish Army defeats the armies of Saxony and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Wittstock.
- 1693 – Nine Years’ War: Piedmontese troops are defeated by the French.
- 1777 – American Revolutionary War: Troops under George Washington are repelled by British troops under William Howe.
- 1795 – Napoleon first rises to prominence by suppressing counter-revolutionary rioters threatening the National Convention.
- 1824 – Mexico adopts a new constitution and becomes a federal republic.
- 1830 – The Belgian Revolution takes legal form when the provisional government secedes from the Netherlands.
- 1853 – The Crimean War begins when the Ottoman Empire declares war on the Russian Empire.
- 1876 – The Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas opens as the first public college in Texas.
- 1883 – First run of the Orient Express.
- 1883 – First meeting of the Boys’ Brigade in Glasgow, Scotland.
- 1895 – Horace Rawlins wins the first U.S. Open Men’s Golf Championship.
- 1917 – World War I: The Battle of Broodseinde is fought between the British and German armies in Flanders.
- 1918 – World War I: An explosion kills more than 100 people and destroys a Shell Loading Plant in New Jersey.
- 1927 – Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore.
- 1936 – The British Union of Fascists and various anti-fascist organizations violently clash in the Battle of Cable Street.
- 1941 – Norman Rockwell’s Willie Gillis character debuts on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post.
- 1957 – Sputnik 1 becomes the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
- 1958 – The current constitution of France is adopted.
- 1960 – An airliner crashes on takeoff from Boston’s Logan International Airport, killing 62 people.
- 1963 – Hurricane Flora kills 6,000 in Cuba and Haiti.
- 1965 – Pope Paul VI begins the first papal visit to the Americas.
- 1966 – Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed Lesotho.
- 1967 – Omar Ali Saifuddien III of Brunei abdicates in favour of his son.
- 1983 – Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of 633.468 miles per hour (1,019.468 km/h) at the Black Rock Desert in Nevada.
- 1985 – The Free Software Foundation is founded.
- 1991 – The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty is opened for signature.
- 1992 – The Rome General Peace Accords end a 16-year civil war in Mozambique.
- 1992 – El Al Flight 1862 crashes into two apartment buildings in Amsterdam, killing 43 including 39 on the ground.
- 1993 – Battle of Mogadishu occurs killing 18 U.S. Special Forces, two UN Peacekeepers and at least 600 Somalian militia men and civilians.
- 1993 – Tanks bombard the Russian parliament, while demonstrators against President Yeltsin rally outside.
- 1997 – The second largest cash robbery in U.S. history occurs in North Carolina
- 2001 – Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 crashes after being struck by an errant Ukrainian missile. Seventy-eight people are killed.
- 2003 – The Maxim restaurant suicide bombing in Israel kills twenty-one Israelis, both Jews and Arabs.
- 2004 – SpaceShipOne wins the Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight.
- 2006 – WikiLeaks is launched.
- 2010 – The Ajka plant accident in Hungary releases a million cubic metres of liquid alumina sludge, killing nine, injuring 122, and severely contaminating two major rivers.
- 2017 – Joint Nigerian-American Special Forces are ambushed by Islamic State militants outside the village of Tongo Tongo.
-Source: wikipedia
