| 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. | |
| 1661 | Charles II is formally crowned king, returning the monarchy to Britain, albeit with greatly reduced powers. | |
| 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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