⭐ Featured
World War II: Allied forces executed Operation Leader, an air raid against German shipping near Bodø, Norway.
Willie Gillis, one of Norman Rockwell's trademark characters, debuted on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post.
Gutzon Borglum and approximately 400 workers began sculpting Mount Rushmore.
50 results
Joint Nigerien-American Special Forces are ambushed by Islamic State militants outside the village of Tongo Tongo.
The Ajka plant accident in Hungary releases a million cubic metres of liquid alumina sludge, killing nine, injuring 122, and severely contaminating two major rivers.
WikiLeaks is launched.
SpaceShipOne wins the Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight.
The Maxim restaurant suicide bombing in Israel kills twenty-one Israelis, both Jews and Arabs.
Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 crashes after being struck by an errant Ukrainian missile. Seventy-eight people are killed.
The second largest cash robbery in U.S. history occurs in North Carolina.
Battle of Mogadishu occurs killing 18 U.S. Special Forces, two UN Peacekeepers and at least 600 Somalian militia men and civilians.
Tanks bombard the Russian parliament, while demonstrators against President Yeltsin rally outside.
The Rome General Peace Accords end a 16-year civil war in Mozambique.
El Al Flight 1862 crashes into two apartment buildings in Amsterdam, killing 43 including 39 on the ground.
The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty is opened for signature.
The Free Software Foundation is founded.
Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of 633.468 miles per hour (1,019.468 km/h) at the Black Rock Desert in Nevada.
Omar Ali Saifuddien III of Brunei abdicates in favour of his son.
Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed Lesotho.
Pope Paul VI begins the first papal visit to the Americas.
Hurricane Flora kills 6,000 in Cuba and Haiti.
Eastern Airlines flight 375 crashes on takeoff from Boston's Logan International Airport, killing 62 people of the 72 aboard.
The current constitution of France is adopted.
Sputnik 1 becomes the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
Norman Rockwell's Willie Gillis character debuts on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post.
The Metropolitan Police and various anti-fascist organizations violently clash in the Battle of Cable Street.
Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore.
Great Syrian Revolt: Rebels led by Fawzi al-Qawuqji capture Hama from the French Mandate of Syria.
S2, a Finnish Sokol class torpedo boat, sinks during a fierce storm near the coast of Pori in the Gulf of Bothnia, taking with it the whole crew of 53.
The Mannerheim League for Child Welfare, a Finnish non-governmental organization, is founded on the initiative of Sophie Mannerheim.
World War I: An explosion kills more than 100 people and destroys a Shell Loading Plant in New Jersey.
World War I: The Battle of Broodseinde is fought between the British and German armies in Flanders.
Horace Rawlins wins the first U.S. Open Men's Golf Championship.
First run of the Orient Express.
First meeting of the Boys' Brigade in Glasgow, Scotland.
The Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas (now known as Texas A&M) opens as the first public college in Texas.
American Civil War: The two-day Second Battle of Corinth ends in a Union victory, with General William Rosecrans protecting the critical rail junction of Corinth, Mississippi from Confederate forces under General Earl Van Dorn.
The Crimean War begins when the Ottoman Empire declares war on the Russian Empire.
The Belgian Revolution takes legal form when the provisional government secedes from the Netherlands.
Mexico adopts a new constitution and becomes a federal republic.
Napoleon first rises to prominence by suppressing counter-revolutionary rioters threatening the National Convention.
American Revolutionary War: Troops under George Washington are repelled by British troops under William Howe.
Nine Years' War: Piedmontese troops are defeated by the French.
Thirty Years' War: The Swedish Army defeats the armies of Saxony and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Wittstock.
Eighty Years' War and the Anglo-Spanish War: A fleet of Spanish galleys are defeated by English and Dutch galleons in the English Channel.
Governor Gonzalo Méndez de Canço begins to suppress a native uprising against his rule in what is now the US state of Georgia.
The Gregorian Calendar is introduced by Pope Gregory XIII.
The Coverdale Bible is printed, with translations into English by William Tyndale and Myles Coverdale.
Formation of the Holy League of Aragon, the Papal States and Venice against France.
Battle of Lake Poyang: In one of the largest naval battles in history, Zhu Yuanzhang's rebels defeat rival Chen Youliang.
The Byzantine–Venetian War comes to an end.
Otto IV is crowned Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by Pope Innocent III.
Rebels sack the Chinese capital Chang'an during a peasant rebellion.