| 1652 | The Dutch establish a settlement at Cape Town, South Africa. | |
| 1712 | A slave revolt breaks out in New York City. | |
| 1798 | The territory of Mississippi is organized. | |
| 1862 | General Ulysses S. Grant defeats Confederates at Battle of Shiloh, Tenn. | |
| 1914 | The British House of Commons passes the Irish Home Rule Bill. | |
| 1922 | U.S. Secretary of Interior leases the Teapot Dome naval oil reserves in Wyoming. | |
| 1933 | President Franklin Roosevelt signs legislation ending Prohibition in the United States. | |
| 1943 | British and American armies link up between Wadi Akarit and El Guettar in North Africa, forming a solid line against the German army. | |
| 1945 | The Japanese battleship Yamato, the world's largest battleship, is sunk during the battle for Okinawa. | |
| 1963 | Yugoslavia proclaims itself a Socialist republic. | |
| 1971 | President Nixon pledges a withdrawal of 100,000 more men from Vietnam by December. | |
| 1980 | The United States breaks relations with Iran. | |
| 1983 | Specialist Story Musgrave and Don Peterson make first Space Shuttle spacewalk. | |
| 1990 | John Poindexter is found guilty in the Iran-Contra scandal. |
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