70 - Siege of Jerusalem: Titus, son of emperor Vespasian, opens a full-scale assault on Jerusalem and attacks the city's Third Wall to the Northwest.
1291 - Scottish nobles recognize the authority of Edward I of England.
1503 - Christopher Columbus visits the Cayman Islands and names them Las Tortugas after the numerous turtles there.
1655 - England, with troops under the command of Admiral William Penn and General Robert Venables, annexes Jamaica from Spain.
1773 - The Parliament of Great Britain passes the Tea Act, designed to save the British East India Company by granting it a monopoly on the North American tea trade.
1774 - Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette become King and Queen of France.
1796 - First Coalition: Napoleon I of France wins a decisive victory against Austrian forces at Lodi bridge over the Adda River in Italy. The Austrians lose some 2,000 men.
1801 - First Barbary War: The Barbary pirates of Tripoli declare war on the United States of America.
1837 - Panic of 1837: New York City banks fail, and unemployment reaches record levels.
1865 - American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is captured by Union troops near Irwinville, Georgia.
1872 - Victoria Woodhull becomes the first woman nominated for President of the United States for the Equal Rights Party.
1877 - Romania declares itself independent from the Ottoman Empire following the Senate adoption of Mihail Kogălniceanu's Declaration of Independence. Recognized on March 26th, 1881 after the end of the Romanian War of Independence.
1908 - Mother's Day is observed for the first time in the United States, in Grafton, West Virginia.
1933 - Censorship: In Germany, the Nazis stage massive public book burnings.
1940 - World War II: The first German bombs of the war fall on England at Chilham and Petham, in Kent.
1940 - World War II: Germany invades Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg.
1940 - World War II: Winston Churchill is appointed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1940 - World War II: Invasion of Iceland by the United Kingdom.
1941 - World War II: The House of Commons in London is damaged by the Luftwaffe in an air raid.
1948 - The Republic of China implements "temporary provisions" granting President Chiang Kai-shek extended powers to deal with the Communist uprising; they will remain in effect until 1991.
1960 - The nuclear submarine USS Triton completes Operation Sandblast, the first underwater circumnavigation of the earth.
1962 - Marvel Comics publishes the first issue of The Incredible Hulk.
1979 - The Federated States of Micronesia become self-governing.
1981 - François Mitterrand wins the presidential election and becomes the first Socialist President of France in the French Fifth Republic.
1994 - Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa's first black President.
2012 - The Damascus bombings were carried out using a pair of car bombs detonated by suicide bombers outside of a military intelligence complex in Damascus, Syria, killing 55 people and injuring 400 others
Famous Birthdays
213 - Claudius Gothicus, Roman Emperor
1265 - Emperor Fushimi of Japan
1756 - Singu Min, King of the Konbaung dynasty of Myanmar.
1838 - John Wilkes Booth, actor and assassin of Abraham Lincoln
1847 - Wilhelm Killing, mathematician
1897 - Einar Gerhardsen, Prime minister of Norway
1903 - Otto Bradfisch, economist, jurist, and Nazi leader
1915 - Sir Denis Thatcher, 1st Baronet, the husband of the former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
1923 - Heydar Aliyev, 3rd President of Azerbaijan
1928 - Arnold Rüütel, 3rd President of Estonia
1938 - Manuel Santana, tennis player
1955 - Mark David Chapman, murderer of John Lennon
1957 - Sid Vicious, singer and musician
1960 - Paul Hewson (Bono), singer-songwriter, musician and activist
1970 - Gina Philips, actress
1976 - Rachel Gordon, actress
1978 - HRH Princess Lalla Salma of Morocco, the Princess consort of His Majesty King Mohammed VI of Morocco
1985 - Odette Annable, actress
1989 - Lindsey Shaw, actress
1993 - Tímea Babos, tennis player
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