1479 BC – Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Egypt, although power effectively shifts to Hatshepsut (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th Dynasty).
1184 BC – Traditional date of the fall of Troy.
1547 – Battle of Mühlberg. Duke of Alba, commanding Spanish-Imperial forces of Charles I of Spain, defeats the troops of Schmalkaldic League.
1558 – Mary, Queen of Scots, marries the Dauphin of France, François, at Notre Dame de Paris.
1704 – The first regular newspaper in British Colonial America, The Boston News-Letter, is published in Boston, Massachusetts.
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1877 – Russo-Turkish War: Russian Empire declares war on Ottoman Empire.
1885 – American sharpshooter Annie Oakley is hired by Nate Salsbury to be a part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West.
1888 – George Eastman founds the Eastman Kodak Company.
1895 – Joshua Slocum, the first person to sail single-handedly around the world, sets sail from Boston, Massachusetts aboard the sloop "Spray".
1898 – After rejecting an ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba, Spain declares war on the U.S.
1904 – The Lithuanian press ban is lifted after almost 40 years.
1907 – Hersheypark, founded by Milton S. Hershey for the exclusive use of his employees, is opened.
1913 – The Woolworth Building in New York City is opened, becoming the world’s tallest skyscraper at the time.
1914 – The Franck–Hertz experiment, a pillar of quantum mechanics, is presented to the German Physical Society.
1915 – The arrest of 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Istanbul marks the beginning of the Armenian Genocide.
1916 – Easter Rising: The Irish Republican Brotherhood led by nationalists Patrick Pearse, James Connolly, and Joseph Plunkett starts a rebellion in Ireland.
1916 – Ernest Shackleton and five men of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition launch a lifeboat from uninhabited Elephant Island in the Southern Ocean to organise a rescue for the ice-trapped ship Endurance.
1918 – First tank-to-tank combat, at Villers-Bretonneux, France, when three British Mark IVs meet three German A7Vs.
1922 – The first segment of the Imperial Wireless Chain providing wireless telegraphy between Leafield in Oxfordshire, England, and Cairo, Egypt, comes into operation.
1923 – In Vienna, the paper Das Ich und das Es (The Ego and the Id) by Sigmund Freud is published, which outlines Freud's theories of the id, ego, and super-ego.
1926 – The Treaty of Berlin is signed. Germany and the Soviet Union each pledge neutrality in the event of an attack on the other by a third party for the next five years.
1932 – Benny Rothman leads the mass trespass of Kinder Scout, leading to substantial legal reforms in the United Kingdom.
1933 – Nazi Germany begins its persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses by shutting down the Watch Tower Society office in Magdeburg.
1944 – World War II: The SBS launches a raid against the garrison of Santorini in Greece.
1953 – Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
1955 – The Bandung Conference ends: Twenty-nine non-aligned nations of Asia and Africa finish a meeting that condemns colonialism, racism, and the Cold War.
1957 – Suez Crisis: The Suez Canal is reopened following the introduction of UNEF peacekeepers to the region.
1957 – The BBC first broadcast The Sky at Night presented by Patrick Moore.
1963 – Marriage of HRH Princess Alexandra of Kent to the Hon Angus Ogilvy at Westminster Abbey in London.
1965 – Civil war breaks out in the Dominican Republic when Colonel Francisco Caamaño,
overthrows the triumvirate that had been in power since the coup d'état against Juan Bosch.
1967 – Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies in Soyuz 1 when its parachute fails to open. He is the first human to die during a space mission.
1967 – Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland says in a news conference that the enemy had "gained support in the United States that gives him hope that he can win politically that which he cannot win militarily."
1968 – Mauritius becomes a member state of the United Nations.
1970 – The first Chinese satellite, Dong Fang Hong I, is launched.
1970 – The Gambia becomes a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations, with Dawda Jawara as the first President.
1971 – Soyuz 10 docks with Salyut 1.
1980 – Eight U.S. servicemen die in Operation Eagle Claw as they attempt to end the Iran hostage crisis.
1990: STS-31: The Hubble Space Telescope - USA & Europe Telescope is launched from the Space Shuttle Discovery. The Hubble Space Telescope has returned high-resolution images of Mars and the other outer planets of the Solar System. In July 1994, it photographed the collision of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter.
1993 – An IRA bomb devastates the Bishopsgate area of London.
1996 – In the United States, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 is passed into law.
2004 – The United States lifts economic sanctions imposed on Libya 18 years previously, as a reward for its cooperation in eliminating weapons of mass destruction.
2005 – Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as the 265th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church taking the name Pope Benedict XVI.
2005 – Snuppy becomes world's first cloned dog.
2013 – A building collapses near Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing 1,129 people and injuring 2,500 others.
2013 – Violence in Bachu County, Kashgar Prefecture, of China's Xinjiang results in death of 21 people.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Faithful of Sigmaringen, Martyr. Double.
Commemoration of the Octave of St. George.
Commemoration of St. Mellitus, Archbishop of Canterbury.
Contemporary Western
Ecgberht of Ripon
Fidelis of Sigmaringen
Mellitus
Peter of Saint Joseph Betancur
St Mark's Eve
Fidelis of Sigmaringen
Mellitus
Peter of Saint Joseph Betancur
St Mark's Eve
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Johann Walter (Lutheran)
Wilfrid (Church of England)
Eastern Orthodox
Saints
Martyr Sabbas Stratelates ("the General") of Rome, and 70 soldiers with him (272)
Martyrs Pasicrates, Valentine, and Julius, at Dorostolum in Moesia (297)
Martyrs Eusebius, Neon, Leontius, Longinus, and four others, at Nicomedia (ca. 303)
Martyr Eutexios
Saint Innocent, priest, on the Mount of Olives (4th c.)
Venerable Elizabeth the Wonderworker, of Constantinople (540)
Venerable Thomas, Fool-for-Christ, of Syria (ca. 550)
Venerable Thaumastos (the Wonderworker) (6th c.)
Saint Xenophon, founder of Xenophontos monastery, Mt. Athos (ca. 1018)
Martyrs Pasicrates, Valentine, and Julius, at Dorostolum in Moesia (297)
Martyrs Eusebius, Neon, Leontius, Longinus, and four others, at Nicomedia (ca. 303)
Martyr Eutexios
Saint Innocent, priest, on the Mount of Olives (4th c.)
Venerable Elizabeth the Wonderworker, of Constantinople (540)
Venerable Thomas, Fool-for-Christ, of Syria (ca. 550)
Venerable Thaumastos (the Wonderworker) (6th c.)
Saint Xenophon, founder of Xenophontos monastery, Mt. Athos (ca. 1018)
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Martyr Alexander of Lyons, and companions (ca. 177)
Martyrs Felix, Fortunatus, and Achilleus, at Valence in France (212)
Saint Gregory of Elvira, Bishop of Elvira in the south of Spain (ca. 394)
Saint Dyfnan, born in Wales, he founded a church in Anglesey (5th c.)
Saint Deodatus of Blois (Dié), a hermit near Blois in France, later the town
of Saint-Dié grew up around his cell (ca. 525)
Saint Honorius of Brescia, a hermit near Brescia in Italy who was chosen
bishop of that city (ca. 586)
Saint Mellitus, the first Bishop of London in the Saxon period, the third Archbishop
of Canterbury, and a member of the Gregorian mission sent to England (624)
Saint Authaire (Oye) (7th c.)
Saints Bova and Doda (7th c.)
Saint Wilfrid, Bishop of York (709)
Saint Egbert, Bishop of Iona (729)
Martyrs Felix, Fortunatus, and Achilleus, at Valence in France (212)
Saint Gregory of Elvira, Bishop of Elvira in the south of Spain (ca. 394)
Saint Dyfnan, born in Wales, he founded a church in Anglesey (5th c.)
Saint Deodatus of Blois (Dié), a hermit near Blois in France, later the town
of Saint-Dié grew up around his cell (ca. 525)
Saint Honorius of Brescia, a hermit near Brescia in Italy who was chosen
bishop of that city (ca. 586)
Saint Mellitus, the first Bishop of London in the Saxon period, the third Archbishop
of Canterbury, and a member of the Gregorian mission sent to England (624)
Saint Authaire (Oye) (7th c.)
Saints Bova and Doda (7th c.)
Saint Wilfrid, Bishop of York (709)
Saint Egbert, Bishop of Iona (729)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Venerable Saints Sabbas[23][24] and Alexis the Hermit, of the Kiev Caves (13th c.)
New Martyr Doukas of Mytilene (1564)
Saints Symeon (Stefan) (1656), Elias (Iorest) (1678) and Sava (Brancovici) (1683),
Metropolitans of Ardeal (Transylvania), Confessors against the Calvinists
Venerable Joseph (Stoyka) the Confessor, Bishop of Maramures (Romania) (ca. 1711)
New Martyr Nicholas of Magnesia (1796)
Saint Alexis Toth, priest, of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania (1909)
New Martyr Doukas of Mytilene (1564)
Saints Symeon (Stefan) (1656), Elias (Iorest) (1678) and Sava (Brancovici) (1683),
Metropolitans of Ardeal (Transylvania), Confessors against the Calvinists
Venerable Joseph (Stoyka) the Confessor, Bishop of Maramures (Romania) (ca. 1711)
New Martyr Nicholas of Magnesia (1796)
Saint Alexis Toth, priest, of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania (1909)
New Martyrs and Confessors
Martyr Sergius Archangelsk (1938)
New Hieromartyr Branko, Priest, of Veljusa, Serbia (1941)
New Hieromartyr Branko, Priest, of Veljusa, Serbia (1941)
Other commemorations
Uncovering of the relics of Saint Ivo of Ramsey (1001)
Synaxis of the "Molchenskaya" Icon of the Mother of God (1405)
Repose of Schemamonk Nicholas of Valaam Monastery (1947)
Commemoration of Marthoma I
Feast of St. Mark the Evangelist
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