1095 - On the last day of the Council of Clermont, Pope Urban II appoints Bishop Adhemar of Le Puy and Count Raymond IV of Toulouse to lead the First Crusade to the Holy Land.
1520 - After navigating through a strait at the southern end of South America, three ships under the command of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan reach the Pacific Ocean, becoming the first Europeans to sail from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific.
1785 - The Treaty of Hopewell is signed.
1843 - Ka Lā Hui: Hawaiian Independence Day – The Kingdom of Hawaii is officially recognized by the United Kingdom and France as an independent nation.
1905 - Irish nationalist Arthur Griffith founds Sinn Féin as a political party with the main aim of establishing a dual monarchy in Ireland.
1914 - World War I: Following a war-induced closure in July, the New York Stock Exchange re-opens for bond trading.
1918 - Bukovina votes for the union with the Kingdom of Romania.
1919 - Lady Astor is elected as a Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. She is the first woman to sit in the House of Commons. (Countess Markievicz, the first to be elected, refused to sit.)
1920 - Irish War of Independence: Kilmichael Ambush - The Irish Republican Army ambush a convoy of British Auxiliaries and kill seventeen.
1943 - World War II: Tehran Conference – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin meet in Tehran, Iran to discuss war strategy.
1960 - Mauritania becomes independent of France.
1971 - Wasfi al-Tal, Prime Minister of Jordan, is assassinated by the Black September unit of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
1972 - Last executions in Paris, of the Clairvaux Mutineers, Roger Bontems and Claude Buffet, guillotined at La Sante Prison. (Bontems had been found innocent of murder by the court, but as Buffet's accomplice is condemned to death anyway.) The chief executioner is Andre Obrecht.
1975 - East Timor declares its independence from Portugal.
1981 - Our Lady of Kibeho: Schoolchildren in Kibeho, Rwanda, experience the first of a series of Marian apparitions.
1991 - South Ossetia declares independence from Georgia.
Famous Birthdays:
1118 - Manuel I Komnenos, Byzantine Emperor
1489 - Margaret Tudor, consort of James IV of Scotland
1681 - Jean Cavalier, Protestant rebel leader
1700 - Sophia Magdalene of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, Queen of Denmark and Norway
1785 - Victor de Broglie, Prime Minister of France
1857 - King Alfonso XII of Spain
1887 - Ernst Röhm, Nazi official
1950 - Ed Harris, actor
1965 - Erwin Mortier, author
1978 - Aimee Garcia, actress
1986 - Mouhamadou Dabo, footballer
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