473 - Gundobad (nephew of Ricimer) nominates Glycerius as emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
1284 - The Statute of Rhuddlan incorporates the Principality of Wales into England.
1779 - American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army is routed at the Battle of Brier Creek near Savannah, Georgia.
1799 - The Russo-Ottoman siege of Corfu ends with the surrender of the French garrison.
1836 - Texans celebrate the first Texas Independence Day with the signing of the Texas Declaration of Independence, officially broke Texas from Mexico, and creating the Republic of Texas.
1845 - Florida is admitted as the 27th US state.
1857 - Second Opium War: France and the United Kingdom declare war on China.
1878 - The Russo-Turkish War ends as Bulgaria regains its independence from Ottoman Empire according to the Treaty of San Stefano; shortly after Congress of Berlin stripped its status to an autonomous state of the Ottoman Empire.
1904 - Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany becomes the first person to make a sound recording of a political document, using Thomas Edison's phonograph cylinder.
1905 - Tsar Nicholas II of Russia agrees to create an elected assembly, the Duma.
1915 - NACA, the predecessor of NASA, is founded.
1918 - Germany, Austria and Russia sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ending Russia's involvement in World War I, and leading to the independence of Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland.
1923 - TIME magazine is published for the first time.
1931 - The United States adopts The Star-Spangled Banner as its national anthem.
1943 - World War II: In London, England, 173 people are killed in a crush while trying to enter an air-raid shelter at Bethnal Green tube station.
1945 - World War II: American and Filipino troops recapture Manila in the Philippines.
1985 - Arthur Scargill declares that the National Union of Mineworkers national executive voted to end the longest-running industrial dispute in Great Britain without any peace deal over pit closures.
1991 - In concurrent referenda, 74% of the population of Latvia votes for independence from the Soviet Union, and 83% in Estonia.
2002 - Citizens of Switzerland narrowly vote in favour of their country becoming a member of the United Nations.
2005 - Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly an airplane non-stop around the world solo without refueling.
Famous Birthdays
1455 - King John II of Portugal
1778 - Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen of Hanover
1848 - Adelaide Neilson, English actress
1891 - Archbishop Damaskinos of Athens, former Prime Minister of Greece
1923 - Doc Watson, musician
1930 - Ion Iliescu, 2nd President of Romania
1954 - John Lilley, musician
1962 - Jackie Joyner-Kersee, athlete
1977 - Ronan Keating, singer
1983 - Marie-Pier Boudreau Gagnon, swimmer
1984 - Hayley Marie Norman. actress
1988 - Teodora Mirčić, tennis player
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