1346 - Charles IV of Luxembourg was elected Holy Roman Emperor in Germany.
1509 - King Henry VIII married his first of six wives, Catherine of Aragon.
1770 - Captain James Cook discovered the Great Barrier Reef off of Australia when he ran aground.
1776 - In America, the Continental Congress formed a committee to draft a Declaration of Independence from Britain.
1798 - Napoleon Bonaparte took the island of Malta.
1915 - British troops took Cameroon in Africa.
1937 - Soviet leader Josef Stalin began a purge of Red Army generals.
1940 - The Italian Air Force bombed the British fortress at Malta in the Mediterranean.
1943 - During World War II, the Italian island of Pantelleria surrendered after a heavy air bombardment.
1963 - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was arrested in Florida for trying to integrate restaurants.
1963 - Alabama Gov. George Wallace allowed two black students to enroll at the University of Alabama.
1967 - Israel and Syria accepted a U.N. cease-fire.
1987 - Margaret Thatcher became the first British prime minister in 160 years to win a third consecutive term of office.
1998 - Pakistan announced moratorium on nuclear testing and offered to talk with India over disputed Kashmir.
Famous Birthdays:
1572 - Ben Johnson, English Renaissance Dramatist
1776 - John Constable, English Romantic painter
1880 - Jeannette Rankin, First woman to be elected to the US House of Representatives
1939 - Sir John Young Stewart (Jackie Stewart), Racing driver
1949 - Ingrid Newkirk, Founder of PETA
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