1016 - The Danes defeat the Saxons in the Battle of Ashingdon.
1081 - The Normans defeat the Byzantine Empire in the Battle of Dyrrhachium.
1210 - Pope Innocent III excommunicates German leader Otto IV.
1779 - American Revolutionary War: The Franco-American Siege of Savannah is lifted.
1797 - Treaty of Campo Formio is signed between France and Austria
1898 - United States takes possession of Puerto Rico.
1912 - First Balkan War: Peter I of Serbia issues a declaration "To the Serbian People", as Serbia joins the war.
1944 - Soviet Union begins liberation of Czechoslovakia.
2003 - Bolivian Gas War: President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, is forced to resign and leave Bolivia.
2007 - Karachi bombings: A suicide attack on a motorcade carrying former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto kills 139 and wounds 450 more. Bhutto herself is not injured.
Famous Birthdays:
1127 - Emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan
1405 - Pope Pius II
1668 - John George IV, Elector of Saxony
1804 - Mongkut, King of Siam(now Thailand)
1831 - Emperor Friedrich III of Germany
1927 - George C. Scott, actor
1939 - Lee Harvey Oswald, assassin of US President John F. Kennedy
1960 - Jean-Claude Van Damme, actor
1978 - Mike Tindall, rugby union player
1987 - Zac Efron, actor and singer
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