| 1687 | | The French explorer La Salle is murdered in by his own men while searching for the mouth of the Mississippi, along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. |
| 1702 | | On the death of William III of Orange, Anne Stuart, sister of Mary, succeeds to the throne of England, Scotland and Ireland. |
| 1822 | | Boston is incorporated as a city. |
| 1831 | | The first recorded bank robbery in the United States occurs at the City Bank, in New York. Some $245,000 is stolen. |
| 1879 | | Jim Currie opens fire on the actors Maurice Barrymore and Ben Porter near Marshall, Texas. His shots wound Barrymore and kill Porter. |
| 1903 | | The U.S. Senate ratifies the Cuban treaty, gaining naval bases in Guantanamo and Bahia Honda. |
| 1916 | | The First Aerosquadron takes off from Columbus, NM to join Gen. John J. Pershing and his Punitive Expedition against Pancho Villa in Mexico. |
| 1917 | | The Adamson Act, eight hour day for railroad workers, is ruled constitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court. |
| 1918 | | Congress authorizes Daylight Savings Time. |
| 1920 | | The U.S. Senate rejects the Versailles Treaty for the second time. |
| 1924 | | U.S. troops are rushed to Tegucigalpa as rebel forces take the Honduran capital. |
| 1931 | | The state of Nevada legalizes gambling. |
| 1935 | | The British fire on 20,000 Muslims in India, killing 23. |
| 1936 | | The Soviet Union signs a pact of assistance with Mongolia against Japan. |
| 1944 | | The German 352nd Infantry Division deploys along the coast of France. |
| 1945 | | Adolf Hitler orders a scorched-earth policy for his retreating German armies in the west and east. |
| 1947 | | Chiang Kai-Shek's government forces take control of Yenan, the former headquarters of the Chinese Communist Party. |
| 1949 | | The Soviet People's Council signs the constitution of the German Democratic Republic, and declares that the North Atlantic Treaty is merely a war weapon. |
| 1963 | | In Costa Rica, President John F. Kennedy and six Latin American presidents pledge to fight Communism. |
| 1977 | | Congo President Marien Ngouabi is killed by a suicide commando. |
| 1981 | | One technician is killed and two others are injured during a routine test on space shuttle Columbia. |
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