1558: The French take the French town of Thioville from the English.
1611: English explorer Henry Hudson, his son and several other people were set adrift in present-day Hudson Bay by mutineers.
1772: Slavery was outlawed in England.
1807: British seamen board the USS Chesapeake, a provocation leading to the War of 1812.
1815: Napoleon Bonaparte abdicated a second time.
1832: J.I. Howe patented the pin machine.
1868: Arkansas was re-admitted to the Union.
1870: The U.S. Congress created the Department of Justice.
1874: Dr. Andrew Taylor Still began the first known practice of osteopathy.
1909: The first transcontinental auto race ended in Seattle, WA.
1911: King George V of England was crowned.
1915: Austro-German forces occupied Lemberg on the Eastern Front as the Russians retreat.
1925: France and Spain agreed to join forces against Abd el Krim in Morocco.
1933: Germany became a one political party country when Hitler banned parties other than the Nazis.
1939: The first U.S. water-ski tournament was held at Jones Beach, on Long Island, New York.
1940: France and Germany signed an armistice at Compiegne, on terms dictated by the Nazis.
1941: Under the codename Barbarossa, Germany invaded the Soviet Union.
1942: A Japanese submarine shelled Fort Stevens at the mouth of the Columbia River.
1942: In France, Pierre Laval declared "I wish for a German victory".
1942: V-Mail, or Victory-Mail, was sent for the first time.
1944: U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt signed the "GI Bill of Rights" to provide broad benefits for veterans of the war.
1945: During World War II, the battle for Okinawa officially ended after 81 days.
1946: Jet airplanes were used to transport mail for the first time.
1956: The battle for Algiers began as three buildings in Casbah were blown up.
1959: Eddie Lubanski rolled 24 consecutive strikes in a bowling tournament in Miami, FL.
1964: The U.S. Supreme Court voted that Henry Miller’s book, "Tropic of Cancer", could not be banned.
1969: Judy Garland died from an accidental overdose of prescription sleeping aids. She was 47.
1970: U.S. President Richard Nixon signed 26th amendment, lowering the voting age to 18.
1973: Skylab astronauts splashed down safely in the Pacific after a record 28 days in space.
1977: John N. Mitchell became the first former U.S. Attorney General to go to prison as he began serving a sentence for his role in the Watergate cover-up. He served 19 months.
1978: James W. Christy and Robert S. Harrington discovered the only known moon of Pluto. The moon is named Charon.
1980: The Soviet Union announceed a partial withdrawal of its forces from Afghanistan.
1981: Mark David Chapman pled guilty to killing John Lennon.
1989: The government of Angola and the anti-Communist rebels of the UNITA movement agreed to a formal truce in their 14-year-old civil war.
1992: The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that hate-crime laws that ban cross-burning and similar expressions of racial bias violated free-speech rights.
1998: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that evidence illegally obtained by authorities could be used at revocation hearings for a convicted criminal's parole.
1998: The 75th National Marbles Tournament begins in Wildwood, NJ.
1999: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that persons with remediable handicaps cannot claim discrimination in employment under the Americans with Disability Act.
