| 996 | | Sixteen year old Otto III is crowned the Roman Emperor. |
| 1471 | | King Henry VI is killed in the Tower of London. Edward IV takes the throne. |
| 1506 | | Christopher Columbus dies. |
| 1536 | | The Reformation is officially adopted in Geneva, Switzerland. |
| 1620 | | Present-day Martha's Vineyard is first sighted by Captain Bartholomew Gosnold. |
| 1790 | | Paris is divided into 48 zones. |
| 1832 | | The Democratic party holds its first national convention. |
| 1856 | | Lawrence, Kansas is captured and sacked by pro-slavery forces. |
| 1863 | | The siege of the Confederate Port Hudson, Louisiana, begins. |
| 1881 | | The American Red Cross is founded by Clara Barton. |
| 1927 | | Charles Lindbergh lands in Paris completing the first solo air crossing of the Atlantic. |
| 1940 | | British forces attack German General Rommel's 7th Panzer Division at Arras, slowing his blitzkrieg of France. |
| 1941 | | The first U.S. ship, the S.S. Robin Moor, is sunk by a U-boat. |
| 1951 | | The U.S. Eighth Army counterattacks to drive the Communist Chinese and North Koreans out of South Korea. |
| 1961 | | Governor Patterson declares martial law in Montgomery, Alabama. |
| 1970 | | The U.S. National Guard mobilizes to quell disturbances at Ohio State University. |
| 1991 | | In Madras, India, a suicide bomber kills the former Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi. |
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