1363 End of the Battle of Lake Poyang; Chinese rebel forces led by Zhu Yuanzhang defeat those of his rival, Chen Youliang, in one of the largest naval battles in history with approximately 850,000 participants

1535 The Coverdale Bible, the first complete Bible to be published in English, is printed in Antwerp with translations by William Tyndale and Miles Coverdale

1537 First printing in England of the complete English-language Bible, the "Matthew's Bible," with translations by William Tyndale and Miles Coverdale (an update of the earlier "Coverdale Bible") [exact month/day unclear]

1636 In Massachusetts the Plymouth Colony's 1st written legal code on the continent

1648 Peter Stuyvesant establishes America's 1st volunteer fire service in modern NY city

1675 Dutch mathematician Christiaan Huygens patents the pocket watch

1712 Utrecht, Netherlands, banishes poor Jews

1777 Battle of Germantown: Gen George Washington's troops attack and are defeated by the British at Germantown, Pennsylvania

1779 Fort Wilson Riot takes place in Philadelphia after the British abandoned Philadelphia.  It is a tipping point for the Pennsylvania State Constitution

1824 Mexico becomes a republic

1853 Ottoman Empire declares war on the Russian Empire starting the Crimean War after various disagreements including Russian occupation of the Ottoman controlled Danubian Principalities

1854 Abraham Lincoln resumes his political career with a speech denouncing recent federal legislation extending slavery, at Illinois State Fair in Springfield; event is a precursor to his famous Peoria Speech

1864 The National Convention of Colored Men meets in Syracuse, New York

1864 The New Orleans Tribune, 1st black daily newspaper, forms

1880 The University of California is founded in Los Angeles, California

1883 The Orient Express departs on its first official journey from Paris to Istanbul

1911 The 1st escalator is installed on the London Underground at Earl's Court Station

1915 The Dinosaur National Monument in Colorado & Utah is established

1921 League of Nations refuses to assist starving Russians during the Russian famine of 1921-1922

1926 The Dahlia is officially designated as San Francisco city flower

1927 Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore and works on it until 1941

1931 Dick Tracy comic strip by Chester Gould debuts

1933 ‘Esquire’ magazine is 1st published in America for men

1949 United Nations' permanent NYC headquarters is dedicated

1957 The Avro CF-105 Arrow, delta-wing jet interceptor aircraft, roll-out ceremony at Avro Canada plant in Malton, Ontario

1957 Soviet Union launches Sputnik I, the first artificial Earth satellite, into an elliptical low Earth orbit

1963 Hurricane Flora, kills 6,000 in Cuba & Haiti

1964 Hurricane Hilda, kills 38 in La, Miss & Ga

1965 Pope Paul VI becomes 1st Catholic Pope to leave Italy since 1809, and 1st to visit Western Hemisphere, spending 14 hours in NYC to address the UN, meet with US President Lyndon Johnson, visit the World's Fair and St. Patrick's Cathedral, and celebrate mass at Yankee Stadium

1969 Last wooden passenger subway cars retired at Brooklyn, Myrtle Beach

1969 UN starts issuing postage stamps at Geneva headquarters

1976 US Supreme Court lifts 1972 ban on death penalty for convicted murderers

1978 PIER 39 opens on schedule to fanfare in San Francisco.  Originally, PIER 39 had 50 stores, 23 restaurants, a diving pool and street performers

1979 Typhoon Tip forms near Pohnpei in Micronesia.  Tip would go on to be the most intense and largest tropical cyclone then ever recorded

1985 The Free Software Foundation is founded in Massachusetts, USA, to support the free software movement

1988 Pillsbury stock soars $18.37 to $57.37 on takeover bid

1991 The Delta Center indoor arena in Salt Lake City, Utah opens

1993 Troops and tanks under President Boris Yeltsin shell and occupy the Russian White House in Moscow, the seat of government of the Russian Federation

1997 Second largest cash robbery in U.S. history occurs at the Charlotte, North Carolina office of Loomis, Fargo and Company with $17.3 million in cash taken

2003 Ten thousand people participate in "Rites of Ancestral Return" the reinternment of African American ancestral remains at the African Burial Ground in Manhattan

2004 SpaceShipOne wins Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight

2006 WikiLeaks is launched by internet activist Julian Assange

2008 Mark Zuckerberg announces the appointment of Google executive Sheryl Sandberg as Facebook COO

2011 US State Department lists Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (ISIL) as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist with a $10 million reward for information leading to his capture

2017 Nobel Prize for Chemistry awarded to Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson for their work on cryo-electron microscopy

2021 Global outage of Facebook and its apps, including Instagram and WhatsApp, for six hours