285 - Diocletian appoints Maximian as Caesar, co-ruler.
306 - Constantine I is proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops.
1261 - The city of Constantinople is recaptured by Nicaean forces under the command of Alexios Strategopoulos, re-establishing the Byzantine Empire.
1547 - Henry II of France is crowned.
1554 - Mary I of England marries Philip II of Spain at Winchester Cathedral
1593 - Henry IV of France publicly converts from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism.
1603 - James VI of Scotland is crowned as King of England (James I of England), bringing the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland into personal union. Political union would occur in 1707.
1783 - American Revolutionary War: The war's last action, the Siege of Cuddalore, is ended by preliminary peace agreement.
1797 - Horatio Nelson loses more than 300 men and his right arm during the failed conquest attempt of Tenerife (Spain).
1799 - At Abu Qir in Egypt, Napoleon I of France defeats 10,000 Ottomans under Mustafa Pasha.
1837 - The first commercial use of an electrical telegraph is successfully demonstrated by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone between Euston and Camden Town in London.
1868 - Wyoming becomes a United States territory.
1898 - After over two months of sea-based bombardment, the United States invasion of Puerto Rico begins with US troops led by General Nelson Miles landing at harbor of Guánica, Puerto Rico.
1920 - France captures Damascus.
1943 - World War II: Benito Mussolini is forced out of office by his own Italian Grand Council and is replaced by Pietro Badoglio.
1957 - The Republic of Tunisia is proclaimed.
1978 - Louise Brown, the world's first "test tube baby" is born.
1994 - Israel and Jordan sign the Washington Declaration, which formally ends the state of war that had existed between the nations since 1948.
2007 - Pratibha Patil was sworn in as India's first female President.
Famous Birthdays
1336 - Albert I, Duke of Bavaria
1848 - Arthur Balfour, 33rd Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1860 - Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia
1894 - Gavrilo Princip, assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
1923 - Estelle Getty, actress
1935 - Barbara Harris, actress
1954 - Ken Greer, musician and producer
1967 - Matt LeBlanc, actor
1975 - Jean-Claude Darcheville, footballer
1985 - James Lafferty, actor
1987 - Michael Welch, actor
1989 - Noel Callahan, actor
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