- 1185 – The Uprising of Asen and Peter begins on the feast day of St. Demetrius of Thessaloniki and ends with the creation of the Second Bulgarian Empire.
- 1341 – The Byzantine civil war of 1341–47 formally begins with the proclamation of John VI Kantakouzenos as Byzantine Emperor.
- 1377 – Tvrtko I is crowned the first king of Bosnia.
- 1520 – Charles V is crowned as Holy Roman Emperor.
- 1597 – Imjin War: Korean Admiral Yi Sun-sin routs the Japanese Navy of 300 ships with only 13 ships at the Battle of Myeongnyang.
- 1640 – The Treaty of Ripon is signed, restoring peace between Covenanter Scotland and King Charles.
- 1689 – General Piccolomini of Austria burns down Skopje to prevent the spread of cholera; he died of the disease himself soon after.
- 1774 – The first Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia.
- 1813 – War of 1812: A combined force of British regulars, Canadian militia, and Mohawks defeat the Americans in the Battle of the Chateauguay.
- 1825 – The Erie Canal opens, allowing direct passage from the Hudson River to Lake Erie.
- 1859 – The Royal Charter Storm kills at least eight hundred people in the British Isles.
- 1860 – The Expedition of the Thousand ends when Giuseppe Garibaldi presents his conquests to King Victor Emmanuel of Sardinia.
- 1863 – The Football Association is founded.
- 1892 – Ida B. Wells publishes Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases.
- 1905 – King Oscar II recognizes the dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden.
- 1909 – An Jung-geun assassinates Japan’s Resident-General of Korea.
- 1912 – First Balkan War: The Ottomans lose the cities of Thessaloniki and Skopje.
- 1917 – First World War: Brazil declares war on the Central Powers.
- 1918 – Erich Ludendorff, quartermaster-general of the Imperial German Army, is dismissed by Kaiser Wilhelm II for refusing to cooperate in peace negotiations.
- 1936 – The first electric generator at Hoover Dam goes into full operation.
- 1942 – World War II: In the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands during the Guadalcanal Campaign, one U.S. aircraft carrier is sunk and another carrier is heavily damaged, while two Japanese carriers and one cruiser are heavily damaged.
- 1944 – World War II: The Battle of Leyte Gulf ends with an overwhelming American victory.
- 1947 – Kashmir conflict: The Maharaja of Kashmir and Jammu signs the Instrument of Accession with India.
- 1955 – After the last Allied troops have left the country, and following the provisions of the Austrian Independence Treaty, Austria declares that it will never join a military alliance.
- 1955 – Ngô Đình Diệm declares himself Premier of South Vietnam.
- 1956 – Hungarian Revolution: In the towns of Mosonmagyaróvár and Esztergom, Hungarian secret police forces massacre civilians. As rebel strongholds in Budapest hold, fighting spreads throughout the country.
- 1958 – Pan American Airways makes the first commercial flight of the Boeing 707 from New York City to Paris.
- 1967 – Mohammad Reza Pahlavi crowns himself Emperor of Iran.
- 1968 – The Soyuz 3 mission achieves the first Soviet space rendezvous.
- 1977 – Ali Maow Maalin, the last natural case of smallpox, develops a rash in Somalia. The World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention consider this date to be the anniversary of the eradication of smallpox, the most spectacular success of vaccination.
- 1979 – Park Chung-hee, President of South Korea, is assassinated by Korean CIA head Kim Jae-gyu.
- 1985 – The Australian government returns ownership of Uluru to the local Pitjantjatjara Aboriginals.
- 1989 – China Airlines Flight 204 crashes after takeoff from Hualien Airport in Taiwan, killing all 54 people on board.[1]
- 1991 – Three months after the end of the Ten-Day War, the last soldier of the Yugoslav People’s Army leaves the territory of the Republic of Slovenia.
- 1994 – Jordan and Israel sign a peace treaty.
- 1995 – Mossad agents assassinate Islamic Jihad leader Fathi Shaqaqi in his hotel in Malta.
- 1995 – An avalanche hits the Icelandic village Flateyri, destroying 29 homes and burying 45 people, 20 of whom died.[2]
- 1999 – Britain’s House of Lords votes to end the right of most hereditary peers to vote in Britain’s upper chamber of Parliament.
- 2000 – A wave of protests forces Robert Guéï to step down as president after the Ivorian presidential election.
- 2001 – The United States passes the USA PATRIOT Act into law.
- 2002 – Approximately 50 Chechen terrorists and 150 hostages die when Russian special forces troops storm a theater building in Moscow, which had been occupied by the terrorists during a musical performance three days before.
- 2003 – The Cedar Fire, the third-largest fire in California history, kills 15 people, consumes 250,000 acres (1,000 km2), and destroys 2,200 homes around San Diego.
- 2015 – A 7.5 magnitude earthquake strikes in the Hindu Kush mountain range in northeastern Afghanistan, killing 398 people and leaving 2,536 people injured.
- 2016 – An earthquake of magnitude 6.6 strikes central Italy.
-Source: wikipedia
