- 627 – Battle of Nineveh: A Byzantine army under Emperor Heraclius defeats Emperor Khosrau II‘s Persian forces, commanded by General Rhahzadh.[1]
- 884 – King Carloman II dies after a hunting accident.[2]
- 1388 – Maria of Enghien sells the lordship of Argos and Nauplia to the Republic of Venice.[3]
- 1862 – American Civil War: USS Cairo sinks on the Yazoo River.[4]
- 1866 – Oaks explosion: The worst mining disaster in England kills 361 miners and rescuers.[5]
- 1870 – Joseph H. Rainey of South Carolina becomes the second black U.S. congressman.[6]
- 1901 – Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio signal (the letter “S” [***] in Morse Code), at Signal Hill in St John’s, Newfoundland.[7]
- 1917 – Father Edward J. Flanagan founds Boys Town as a farm village for wayward boys.[8]
- 1935 – Lebensborn Project, a Nazi reproduction program, is founded by Heinrich Himmler.[9]
- 1937 – Second Sino-Japanese War: USS Panay incident: Japanese aircraft bomb and sink U.S. gunboat USS Panay on the Yangtze river in China.[10]
- 1939 – HMS Duchess sinks after a collision with HMS Barham off the coast of Scotland with the loss of 124 men.[11]
- 1941 – World War II: Fifty-four Japanese A6M Zero fighters raid Batangas Field, Philippines. Jesús Villamor and four Filipino fighter pilots fend them off; César Basa is killed.[12]
- 1941 – The Holocaust: Adolf Hitler declares the imminent extermination of the Jews at a meeting in the Reich Chancellery.[13]
- 1945 – The People’s Republic of Korea is outlawed in the South, by order of the United States Army Military Government in Korea.[14]
- 1946 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 13 relating to acceptance of Siam (now Thailand) to the United Nations is adopted.[15]
- 1956 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 121 relating to acceptance of Japan to the United Nations is adopted.[16]
- 1979 – The 8.2 Mw Tumaco earthquake shakes Colombia and Ecuador with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing 300–600, and generating a large tsunami.[17]
- 1985 – Arrow Air Flight 1285, a McDonnell Douglas DC-8, crashes after takeoff in Gander, Newfoundland, killing all 256 people on board, including 236 members of the United States Army’s 101st Airborne Division.[18]
- 1988 – The Clapham Junction rail crash kills thirty-five and injures hundreds after two collisions of three commuter trains—one of the worst train crashes in the United Kingdom.[19]
- 2000 – The United States Supreme Court releases its decision in Bush v. Gore.[20]
- 2001 – Prime Minister of Vietnam Phan Văn Khải announces the decision on upgrading the Phong Nha–Kẻ Bàng nature reserve to a national park, providing information on projects for the conservation and development of the park and revised maps.[21]
- 2012 – North Korea successfully launches its first satellite, Kwangmyŏngsŏng-3 Unit 2.[22]
- 2015 – The Paris Agreement relating to United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is adopted.[23][24]
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