1493 - Pope Alexander VI issues the papal bull Dudum siquidem to the Catholic Monarchs, extending the grant of new lands he made them in Inter caetera
1580 - Sir Francis Drake finishes his circumnavigation of the Earth.
1687 - The city council of Amsterdam votes to support William of Orange's invasion of England, which became the Glorious Revolution.
1777 - British troops occupy Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during the American Revolution.
1907 - New Zealand and Newfoundland each become dominions within the British Empire.
1918 - World War I: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive, the bloodiest single battle in American history, begins.
1944 - World War II: On the central front of the Gothic Line Brazilian troops control the Serchio valley region after ten days of fighting.
1950 - United Nations troops recapture Seoul from North Korean forces.
1950 - Indonesia is admitted to the United Nations.
1960 - Fidel Castro announces Cuba's support for the USSR.
1973 - Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in record-breaking time.
1984 - The United Kingdom agrees to the handover of Hong Kong
2008 - Swiss pilot and inventor Yves Rossy becomes first person to fly a jet engine-powered wing across the English Channel.
Famous Birthdays:
1329 - Queen Anna of Bavaria of the Romans
1849 - Ivan Pavlov, scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1870 - King Christian X of Denmark
1888 - T. S. Eliot, writer and poet, Nobel laureate
1897 - Pope Paul VI
1909 - Bill France, Sr., race car driver, founded NASCAR
1922 - HH Nicholas Romanov, Prince of Russia, pretender to the Russian throne
1944 - Anne Robinson, English journalist
1961 - Charlotte Fich, actress
1972 - Melanie Paxson, actress
1981 - Serena Williams, tennis player
2000 - HRH Princess Salma bint Al Abdullah II of Jordan
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