| 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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