| 1348 | | The first English order of knighthood is founded. |
| 1500 | | Pedro Cabal claims Brazil for Portugal. |
| 1521 | | The Comuneros are crushed by royalist troops in Spain. |
| 1759 | | British forces seize Basse-Terre and Guadeloupe from France. |
| 1789 | | President George Washington moves into Franklin House, New York. |
| 1826 | | Missolonghi falls to Egyptian forces. |
| 1856 | | Free Stater J.N. Mace in Westport, Kansas shoots pro-slavery sheriff Samuel Jones in the back. |
| 1865 | | Union cavalry units continue to skirmish with Confederate forces in Henderson, North Carolina and Munsford Station, Alalbama. |
| 1895 | | Russia, France, and Germany force Japan to return the Liaodong peninsula to China. |
| 1896 | | Motion pictures premiere in New York City. |
| 1915 | | The ACA becomes the National Advisory Council on Aeronautics (NACA), the forerunner of NASA. |
| 1920 | | The Turkish Grand National Assembly has first meeting in Ankara. |
| 1924 | | The U.S. Senate passes the Soldiers' Bonus Bill. |
| 1945 | | The Soviet Army fights its way into Berlin. |
| 1950 | | Chiang Kai-shek evacuates Hainan, leaving mainland China to Mao Zedong and the communists. |
| 1954 | | The Army-McCarthy hearings begin. |
| 1966 | | President Lyndon Johnson publicly appeals for more nations to come to the aid of South Vietnam. |
| 1969 | | Sirhan Sirhan is sentenced to death for killing Senator Robert Kennedy. |
| 1971 | | The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 10, becoming the first in Salyut 1 space station. |
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