1402 | | Tamerlane's Mongols defeat Ottoman Turks at Angora. |
1588 | | The Spanish Armada sets sail from Corunna. |
1715 | | The Riot Act goes into effect in England. |
1864 | | Confederate General John Bell Hood attacks Union forces under General William T. Sherman outside Atlanta. |
1867 | | Imperial troops in Guizhou, China, kill 20,000 Miao rebels. |
1881 | | Sioux chief Sitting Bull surrenders to the U.S. Army. |
1917 | | Alexander Kerensky becomes the premier of Russia. |
1942 | | The U.S. Army Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) begins its first training class at Fort Des Moines, Iowa. |
1944 | | Adolf Hitler is wounded in an assassination attempt by German Army officers at Rastenburg. |
1950 | | The U.S. Army's Task Force Smith is pushed back by superior North Korean forces. |
1951 | | King Abdullah of Jordan is assassinated. |
1969 | | Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin become the first men to walk on the moon. |
1976 | | The Viking spacecraft lands on Mars and begins taking soil samples. |
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