- 610 – Heraclius arrives at Constantinople, kills Byzantine Emperor Phocas, and becomes emperor.[1]
- 816 – King Louis the Pious is crowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by the Pope.[2]
- 869 – The Fourth Council of Constantinople is convened to depose patriarch Photios I.[3]
- 1143 – King Alfonso VII of León and Castile recognises Portugal as a Kingdom.
- 1450 – Louis IX, Duke of Bavaria expels Jews from his jurisdiction.
- 1607 – Assassins sent by the Pope attempt to kill Venetian statesman and scientist Paolo Sarpi.
- 1789 – French Revolution: The Women’s March on Versailles effectively terminates royal authority.
- 1813 – War of 1812: The Army of the Northwest defeats a British and Native Canadian force threatening Detroit.
- 1838 – The Killough massacre in east Texas sees eighteen Texian settlers either killed or kidnapped.
- 1869 – The Saxby Gale devastates the Bay of Fundy region in Canada.
- 1869 – The Hennepin Island tunnel collapses during construction, nearly destroying St. Anthony Falls.
- 1877 – The Nez Perce War in the northwestern United States comes to an end.
- 1905 – The Wright brothers pilot the Wright Flyer III in a new world record flight of 24 miles in 39 minutes.
- 1910 – In a revolution in Portugal the monarchy is overthrown and a republic is declared.
- 1911 – The Kowloon–Canton Railway commences service.
- 1914 – World War I: An aircraft successfully destroys another aircraft with gunfire.[4]
- 1921 – The World Series is the first to be broadcast on radio.
- 1930 – British airship R101 crashes in France en route to India on its maiden voyage killing 48 people.[5]
- 1936 – The Jarrow March sets off for London.
- 1938 – In Nazi Germany, Jews’ passports are invalidated.
- 1943 – Ninety-eight American POWs are executed by Japanese forces on Wake Island.
- 1944 – The Provisional Government of the French Republic enfranchises women.
- 1945 – A six-month strike by Hollywood set decorators turns into a bloody riot at the gates of the Warner Brothers studio.
- 1947 – President Truman makes the first televised Oval Office address.[6]
- 1948 – The Ashgabat earthquake kills between 10,000 and 110,000 people.
- 1963 – The United States suspends the Commercial Import Program in response to repression of the Buddhist majority by the regime of President Ngo Dinh Diem.[7]
- 1966 – A reactor at the Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station near Detroit suffers a partial meltdown.
- 1968 – A Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association march in Derry is violently suppressed by police.
- 1970 – The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is founded.
- 1970 – The British Trade Commissioner is kidnapped by members of the FLQ, triggering the October Crisis in Canada.
- 1974 – Bombs planted by the PIRA kill four British soldiers and one civilian.
- 1982 – Tylenol products are recalled after bottles in Chicago laced with cyanide cause seven deaths.
- 1984 – Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian in space.
- 1986 – Mordechai Vanunu‘s story in The Sunday Times reveals Israel’s secret nuclear weapons.
- 1988 – A Chilean opposition coalition defeats Augusto Pinochet in his re-election attempt.
- 1990 – After 150 years The Herald newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, is published for the last time as a separate newspaper.
- 1991 – An Indonesian Air Force C-130 crash kills 135 people.
- 1999 – The Ladbroke Grove rail crash in west London kills 31 people.
- 2000 – Mass demonstrations in Serbia force the resignation of Slobodan Milošević.
- 2011 – In the Mekong River massacre, two Chinese cargo boats are hijacked and 13 crew members murdered.
-Source: wikipedia
