70Siege of Jerusalem: Titus, son of emperor Vespasian, storms the Fortress of Antonia north of the Temple Mount. The Roman army is drawn into street fights with the Zealots.
514Consecration of pope Hormisdas following the death of pope Symmachus the previous day.
792Kardam of Bulgaria defeats Byzantine Emperor Constantine VI at the Battle of Marcellae.
1398The Battle of Kellistown was fought on this day between the forces of the English led by Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March against the O'Byrnes and O'Tooles under the command of Art Óg mac Murchadha Caomhánach, the most powerful Chieftain in Leinster.
1705A fire in Oulu, Finland almost completely destroyed the fourth district, which covered the southern part of the city and was by far the largest of the city districts.
1715Seventh Ottoman–Venetian War: The Ottoman Empire captures Nauplia, the capital of the Republic of Venice's "Kingdom of the Morea", thereby opening the way to the swift Ottoman reconquest of the Morea.
1738Canadian explorer Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de La Vérendrye reaches the western shore of Lake Michigan.
1807Nicéphore Niépce is awarded a patent by Napoleon for the Pyréolophore, the world's first internal combustion engine, after it successfully powered a boat upstream on the river Saône in France.
1810Citizens of Bogotá, New Granada declare independence from Spain.
1831Seneca and Shawnee people agree to relinquish their land in western Ohio for 60,000 acres west of the Mississippi River.
1848The first Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York, a two-day event, concludes.
1866Austro-Prussian War: Battle of Lissa: The Austrian Navy, led by Admiral Wilhelm von Tegetthoff, defeats the Italian Navy near the island of Vis in the Adriatic Sea.
1906In Finland, a new electoral law is ratified, guaranteeing the country the first and equal right to vote in the world. Finnish women are the first in Europe to receive the right to vote.
1917World War I: The Corfu Declaration, which leads to the creation of the post-war Kingdom of Yugoslavia, is signed by the Yugoslav Committee and Kingdom of Serbia.
1920The Greek Army takes control of Silivri after Greece is awarded the city by the Paris Peace Conference; by 1923 Greece effectively lost control to the Turks.
1922The League of Nations awards mandates of Togoland to France and Tanganyika to the United Kingdom.
1932In the Preußenschlag, German President Hindenburg places Prussia directly under the rule of the national government.
1934Labor unrest in the U.S.: Police in Minneapolis fire upon striking truck drivers, during the Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934, killing two and wounding sixty-seven.
1934West Coast waterfront strike: In Seattle, police fire tear gas on and club 2,000 striking longshoremen. The governor of Oregon calls out the National Guard to break a strike on the Portland docks.
1936The Montreux Convention is signed in Switzerland, authorizing Turkey to fortify the Dardanelles and Bosphorus but guaranteeing free passage to ships of all nations in peacetime.
1938The United States Department of Justice files suit in New York City against the motion picture industry charging violations of the Sherman Antitrust Act in regards to the studio system. The case would eventually result in a break-up of the industry in 1948.
1940California opens its first freeway, the Arroyo Seco Parkway.
1941Soviet leaderJoseph Stalin consolidates the Commissariats of Home Affairs and National Security to form the NKVD and names Lavrentiy Beria its chief.
1944World War II: Adolf Hitler survives an assassination attempt led by German Army Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg.
1949The Israel–Syria Mixed Armistice Commission brokers the last of four ceasefire agreements to end the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
1950Cold War: In Philadelphia, Harry Gold pleads guilty to spying for the Soviet Union by passing secrets from atomic scientist Klaus Fuchs.
1950After a month-long campaign, the majority of North Korea's Air Force was destroyed by anti-communist forces.
1951King Abdullah I of Jordan is assassinated by a Palestinian while attending Friday prayers in Jerusalem.
1954Germany: Otto John, head of West Germany's secret service, defects to East Germany.
1960The Polaris missile is successfully launched from a submarine, the , for the first time.
1961French military forces break the Tunisian siege of Bizerte.
1964Vietnam War: Viet Cong forces attack the capital of Định Tường Province, Cái Bè, killing 11 South Vietnamese military personnel and 40 civilians (30 of whom are children).
1968The first International Special Olympics Summer Games are held at Soldier Field in Chicago, with about 1,000 athletes with intellectual disabilities.
1969Apollo program: Apollo 11's crew successfully makes the first human landing on the Moon in the Sea of Tranquility. Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become the first humans to walk on the Moon six and a half hours later.
1969A cease fire is announced between Honduras and El Salvador, six days after the beginning of the "Football War".
1974Turkish invasion of Cyprus: Forces from Turkey invade Cyprus after a coup d'état, organized by the dictator of Greece, against president Makarios.
1976The American Viking 1 lander successfully lands on Mars.
1977The Central Intelligence Agency releases documents under the Freedom of Information Act revealing it had engaged in mind-control experiments.
1977The Johnstown flood of 1977 kills 84 people and causes millions of dollars in damages.
1977Aeroflot Flight B-2 crashes after takeoff from Vitim Airport in the Sakha Republic, killing 39.
1982Hyde Park and Regent's Park bombings: The Provisional IRA detonates two bombs in Hyde Park and Regent's Park in central London, killing eight soldiers, wounding forty-seven people, and leading to the deaths of seven horses.
1985The government of Aruba passes legislation to secede from the Netherlands Antilles.
1989Burma's ruling junta puts opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest.
1992Václav Havel resigns as president of Czechoslovakia.
1992A Tupolev Tu-154 crashes during takeoff from Tbilisi International Airport, killing all 24 aboard and four more people on the ground.
1997The fully restored (a.k.a. Old Ironsides) celebrates its 200th birthday by setting sail for the first time in 116 years.
1999The Chinese Communist Party begins a persecution campaign against Falun Gong, arresting thousands nationwide.
2005The Civil Marriage Act legalizes same-sex marriage in Canada.
2012James Holmes opened fire at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, killing 12 and injuring 70 others.
2015A huge explosion in the mostly Kurdish border town of Suruç, Turkey, targeting the Socialist Youth Associations Federation, kills at least 31 people and injures over 100.
2015The United States and Cuba resume full diplomatic relations after five decades.
2017O. J. Simpson is granted parole to be released from prison after serving nine years of a 33-year sentence after being convicted of armed robbery in Las Vegas.
2019Soyuz MS-13 is launched to the International Space Station on the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.
2021American businessman Jeff Bezos flies to space aboard New Shepard NS-16 operated by his private spaceflight company Blue Origin.
Nacimientos (244)
682Taichō, Japanese monk and scholar (died 767)
1304Petrarch, Italian poet and scholar (died 1374)
1313John Tiptoft, 2nd Baron Tibetot (died 1367)
1346Margaret, Countess of Pembroke, daughter of King Edward III of England (died 1361)
1470John Bourchier, 1st Earl of Bath, English noble (died 1539)
1519Pope Innocent IX (died 1591)
1537Arnaud d'Ossat, French cardinal (died 1604)
1583Alban Roe, English Benedictine martyr (died 1642)
1591Anne Hutchinson, English Puritan preacher (died 1643)
1592Johan Björnsson Printz, governor of New Sweden (died 1663)
1601Robert Wallop, English politician (died 1667)
1620Nikolaes Heinsius the Elder, Dutch poet and scholar (died 1681)
1649William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland (died 1709)
1754Antoine Destutt de Tracy, French philosopher and academic (died 1836)
1757Garsevan Chavchavadze, Georgian politician and diplomat (died 1811)
1762Jakob Haibel, Austrian tenor and composer (died 1826)
1774Auguste de Marmont, French general (died 1852)
1789Mahmud II, Ottoman sultan (died 1839)
1804Richard Owen, English biologist, anatomist, and paleontologist (died 1892)
1816Sir William Bowman, English surgeon, histologist and anatomist. (died 1892)
1822Gregor Mendel, Austro-German monk, geneticist and botanist (died 1884)
1830Clements Markham, English explorer (died 1916)
1838Augustin Daly, American playwright and manager (died 1899)
1838William Paine Lord, American lawyer and politician, 9th Governor of Oregon (died 1911)