781 BC Oldest Chinese recording of a solar eclipse

1070 Roquefort cheese created in a cave near Roquefort, France

1391 Mob led by Ferrand Martinez surrounds and sets fire to the Jewish quarter of Seville in Spain, the surviving Jews are sold into slavery

1615 Siege of Osaka: Forces under the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu take Osaka Castle in Japan

1629 Dutch East India ship Batavia wrecks on Morning Reef off the Houtman Abrolhos, Western Australia, with 200 survivors (only 70 survive after three months due to mutiny and murders)

1671 Pageant of 1671: French claim possession of lands "from the northern and western seas to the southern sea, including lands yet to be discovered" in ceremony at Jesuit Mission, Sault Saint, Canada

1756 While the non-Quaker population called for the raising of a militia for self-defense, the pacifistic Friends (Quakers) in the Pennsylvania Assembly refused. This political struggle finally ended in May 1756 when six prominent Friends resigned from the Assembly, allowing Pennsylvania to fully embrace military defenses.

1760 The Great Upheaval: New England Planters were settlers from the New England colonies who responded to invitations by the lieutenant governor of Nova Scotia, Charles Lawrence, to settle lands left vacant by the Bay of Fundy Campaign of the Acadian Expulsion.

1769 A transit of Venus is followed five hours later by a total solar eclipse, the shortest such interval in history

1812 Louisiana Territory officially renamed "Missouri Territory"

1825 Unseasonable hurricane hits NYC

1832 3rd national black convention meets (Philadelphia)

1850 Empire Engine Company No. 1 organized, in San Francisco, California

1850 Self-deodorizing fertilizer patented in England

1875 Pacific Stock Exchange opens in San Francisco, CA

1876 An express train called the Transcontinental Express arrives in San Francisco, California, via the First Transcontinental Railroad only 83 hours and 39 minutes after having left New York City.

1887 Pasteur Institute founded by French biologist Louis Pasteur and Émile Roux in Paris

1892 Oil City and Titusville, Pennsylvania, destroyed by oil tank explosion; 130 die

1896 Henry Ford takes his 1st Ford through streets of Detroit

1912 State of Massachusetts passes 1st US minimum wage law

1917 American men begin registering for the draft

1917 Americans Laura E. Richards and Maud Howe Elliott awarded 1st Pulitzer Prize for Biography (Julia Ward Howe), the story of the authors. mother

1919 US Congress passes the Women's Suffrage Bill, the 19th Amendment

1919 US marines invade Costa Rica

1928 President of the Republic of China Zhang Zuolin is assassinated by Japanese agents

1934 Canadian Dr Frederick Banting, co-discoverer of insulin, is knighted.  Scottish biochemist John Macleod was Banting’s co-discoverer

1940 British complete the "Miracle of Dunkirk" by evacuating 338,226 allied troops from France via a flotilla of over 800 vessels including Royal Navy destroyers, merchant marine boats, fishing boats, pleasure craft and even lifeboats

1940 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill delivers his famous "We shall fight on the seas and oceans" speech to the UK House of Commons

1942 Battle of Midway begins; Japan's 1st major defeat in WW II

1942 Capitol Record Co opens for business.  The first West Coast based record label of note in the Hollywood, US.

1944 US 5th Army enters and liberates Rome - first European Fascist city to be liberated

1946 Largest solar prominence (300,000 mi/500,000 km) observed

1947 US House of Representatives approves Taft-Hartley act, The Labor Management Relations Act

1957 1st commercial coal pipeline placed in operation, known as he Ohio Coal Slurry Pipeline

1961 US President John F. Kennedy and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev meet at the Vienna Summit in Austria

1966 Hurricane Alma, kills 51 in Honduras

1969 22-year-old man sneaks into wheel pod of a jet parked in Havana and survives 9-hr flight to Spain despite thin oxygen levels at 29,000 ft

1973 A patent for the ATM is granted to Don Wetzel, Tom Barnes and George Chastain.  Don Wetzel was the Vice President of Product Planning at Docutel.

1974 Never repeated 10 cent Beer Night at Cleveland, unruly fans stumble onto field and cause Indians to forfeit the game to Rangers with score tied 5-5 in 9^th

1975 Oldest animal fossils in US discovered in North Carolina

1977 An estimated 20,000 Scottish football fans invade the Wembley Stadium pitch after Scotland beats England, 2-1; goalposts and advertising hoardings destroyed

1984 DNA is successfully cloned from an extinct animal

1986 Jonathan Pollard, spy for Israel, pleads guilty in US court

1989 Largest parade in Bronx history honors 350th anniversary

1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre: Chinese troops clear the square of student protesters, unofficial figures place death toll near 1,000

1990 Dr Jack Kevorkian assists an Oregon woman to commit suicide, beginning a national debate over the right to die

1990 Greyhound Bus files bankruptcy

1991 1st post WW II non-communist government in Albania

1992 San Jose voters reject Giants plan to build a new stadium

1997 UN Security renews its "oilforfood" initiative whereby Iraq may sell $2 billion worth of oil to buy food, medicine and other necessities to alleviate civilian suffering under the sanctions imposed when it invaded Kuwait in 1990

1998 Terry Nichols is sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing

2001 Gyanendra, the last King of Nepal, ascends to the throne after the massacre in the Royal Palace by Crown Prince Dipendra, Gyanendra’s nephew.  Dipendra died of a self-inflicted gunshot a short time later.

2012 US drone attack kills 15 militants in Pakistan, including high ranking al-Qaeda official, Abu Yahya al-Libi

2019 Deforestation of the Amazon forest in Brazil the fastest for a decade as 740 square kilometers cleared in 30 days according to Brazilian space research institute

2019 Former US school security guard Scot Peterson arrested and charged with neglect of a child and culpable negligence for not confronting gunman during Parkland school massacre in a landmark case

2019 Over 100,000 people mark the 30th anniversary of Beijing's Tiananmen Square Massacre in Hong Kong and around the world

2020 Thousands ignore a recent ban and mark the anniversary of Tiananmen Square Massacre in Hong Kong

2023 Ukrainian counteroffensive begins with increased fighting in the east and south of the country