1485 - The Battle of Bosworth Field, the death of Richard III and the end of the House of Plantagenet. Henry Tudor becomes King Henry VII
1642 - Charles I calls the English Parliament traitors. The English Civil War begins.
1770 - James Cook names and lands on Possession Island, Queensland and claims the east coast of Australia as New South Wales in the name of King George III.
1798 - French troops land in Kilcummin harbour, County Mayo, Ireland to aid Wolfe Tone's United Irishmen's Irish Rebellion.
1910 - Korea is annexed by Japan with the signing of the Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, beginning a period of Japanese rule of Korea that lasted until the end of World War II.
1914 - World War I: in Belgium, British and German troops clash for the first time in the war.
1922 - Michael Collins, Commander-in-chief of the Irish Free State Army is shot dead during an Anti-Treaty ambush at Béal na mBláth, County Cork, during the Irish Civil War.
1942 - World War II: Brazil declares war on Germany and Italy.
1968 - Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogotá, Colombia. It is the first visit of a pope to Latin America.
1989 - The first ring of Neptune is discovered.
Famous Birthdays:
1800 - Samuel David Luzzatto, scholar
1880 - George Herriman, cartoonist
1915 - Hugh Paddick, actor
1935 - Annie Proulx, author
1945 - Erol Gelenbe, computer scientist and mathematician
1970 - Charlie Connelly, writer
1973 - Kristen Wiig, comedian
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