1096: Peter the Hermit's crusaders forced their way across Sava, Hungary.
1243: The Seljuk Turkish army in Asia Minor was wiped out by the Mongols.
1483: Richard III usurped himself to the English throne.
1541: Francisco Pizarro, the Spanish Conqueror of Peru, was murdered by his former followers.
1794: The French defeated an Austrian army at the Battle of Fleurus.
1804: The Lewis and Clark Expedition reached the mouth of the Kansas River after completing a westward trek of nearly 400 river miles.
1819: The bicycle was patented by W.K. Clarkson, Jr.
1844: John Tyler took Julia Gardiner as his bride, thus becoming the first U.S. President to marry while in office.
1870: The first section of the boardwalk in Atlantic City, NJ, was opened to the public.
1894: The American Railway Union called a general strike in sympathy with Pullman workers.
1900: The United States announced that it would send troops to fight against the Boxer rebellion in China.
1900: A commission that included Dr. Walter Reed began the fight against the deadly disease yellow fever.
1907: Russia's nobility demanded drastic measures to be taken against revolutionaries.
1908: Shah Muhammad Ali's forces squelched the reform elements of Parliament in Persia.
1917: General John "Black Jack" Pershing arrived in France with the American Expeditionary Force.
1925: Charlie Chaplin's comedy, "The Gold Rush," premiered in Hollywood.
1926: A memorial to the first U.S. troops in France was unveiled at St. Nazaire.
1924: After eight years of occupation, American troops left the Dominican Republic.
1942: The Grumman F6F Hellcat fighter was flown for the first time.
1945: The U.N. Charter was signed by 50 nations in San Francisco, CA.
1948: The Berlin Airlift began as the U.S., Britain and France started ferrying supplies to the isolated western sector of Berlin.
1951: The Soviet Union proposed a cease-fire in the Korean War.
1959: CBS journalist Edward R. Murrow interviewed Lee Remick. It was his 500th and final guest on "Person to Person."
1959: U.S. President Eisenhower joined Britain's Queen Elizabeth II in ceremonies officially opening the St. Lawrence Seaway.
1961: A Kuwaiti vote opposed Iraq's annexation plans.
1963: U.S. President John Kennedy announced "Ich bin ein Berliner" (I am a Berliner) at the Berlin Wall.
1971: The U.S. Justice Department issued a warrant for Daniel Ellsberg, accusing him of giving away the Pentagon Papers.
1975: Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declared a state of emergency due to "deep and widespread conspiracy."
1976: The CN (Canadian National) Tower in Toronto, Canada, opened.
1979: Muhammad Ali, at 37 years old, announced that he was retiring as world heavyweight boxing champion.
1981: In Mountain Home, Idaho, Virginia Campbell took her coupons and rebates and bought $26,460 worth of groceries. She only paid 67 cents after all the discounts.
1985: Wilbur Snapp was ejected after playing "Three Blind Mice" during a baseball game. The incident followed a call made by umpire Keith O'Connor.
1987: The movie "Dragnet" opened in the U.S.
1996: The U.S. Supreme Court ordered the Virginia Military Institute to admit women or forgo state support.
1997: The U.S. Supreme Court struck down the Communications Decency Act of 1996 that made it illegal to distribute indecent material on the Internet.
1997: The U.S. Supreme Court upheld state laws that allow for a ban on doctor-assisted suicides.
1998: The U.S. and Peru open school to train commandos to patrol Peru's rivers for drug traffickers.
1998: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that employers are always potentially liable for supervisor's sexual misconduct toward an employee.
2000: The Human Genome Project and Celera Genomics Corp. jointly announced that they had created a working draft of the human genome.
2000: Indonesia's President Abdurrahman Wahid declared a state of emergency in the Moluccas due to the escalation of fighting between Christians and Muslims.
2001: Ray Bourque (Colorado Avalanche) announced his retirement just 17 days after winning his first Stanley Cup. Bouque retired after 22 years and held the NHL record for highest-scoring defenseman and playing in 19 consecutive All-Star games.
2002: David Hasseloff checked into The Betty Ford Center for treatment of alcoholism.
2002: WorldCom Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
