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- 619: A qaghan of the Western Turkic Khaganate is assassinated in a Chinese palace by Eastern Turkic rivals after the approval of Tang emperor Gaozu.
- 1410: The Peace of Bicêtre suspends hostilities in the Armagnac-Burgundian Civil War.
- 1675: Plymouth Colony governor Josiah Winslow leads a colonial militia against the Narragansett during King Philip's War.
- 1795: The French Directory, a five-man revolutionary government, is created.
- 1868: Time zone: New Zealand officially adopts a standard time to be observed nationally.
- 1882: The great fire destroys a large part of Oulu's city center in Oulu Province, Finland.
- 1889: North Dakota and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states.
- 1899: The Boers begin their 118-day siege of British-held Ladysmith during the Second Boer War.
- 1912: Bulgaria defeats the Ottoman Empire in the Battle of Lule Burgas, the bloodiest battle of the First Balkan War, which opens her way to Constantinople.
- 1914: World War I: The Russian Empire declares war on the Ottoman Empire and the Dardanelles is subsequently closed.
- 1917: The Balfour Declaration proclaims British support for the "establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people" with the clear understanding "that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities".
- 1917: The Military Revolutionary Committee of the Petrograd Soviet, in charge of preparation and carrying out the Russian Revolution, holds its first meeting.
- 1920: In the United States, KDKA of Pittsburgh starts broadcasting as the first commercial radio station. The first broadcast is the result of the 1920 United States presidential election.
- 1936: The BBC Television Service, the world's first regular, "high-definition" (then defined as at least 200 lines) service begins. Renamed BBC1 in 1964, the channel still runs to this day.
- 1940: World War II: First day of Battle of Elaia-Kalamas between the Greeks and the Italians.
- 1947: In California, designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden (and only) flight of the Hughes H-4 Hercules (also known as the "Spruce Goose"), the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built until Scaled Composites rolled out their Stratolaunch in May 2017.
- 1949: The Dutch-Indonesian Round Table Conference ends with the Netherlands agreeing to transfer sovereignty of the Dutch East Indies to the United States of Indonesia.
- 1951: Canada in the Korean War: A platoon of The Royal Canadian Regiment defends a vital area against a full battalion of Chinese troops in the Battle of the Song-gok Spur. The engagement lasts into the early hours the next day.
- 1956: Hungarian Revolution: Nikita Khrushchev meets with leaders of other Communist countries to seek their advice on the situation in Hungary, selecting János Kádár as the country's next leader on the advice of Josip Broz Tito.
- 1956: Suez Crisis: Israel occupies the Gaza Strip.
- 1959: Quiz show scandals: Twenty-One game show contestant Charles Van Doren admits to a Congressional committee that he had been given questions and answers in advance.
- 1959: The first section of the M1 motorway, the first inter-urban motorway in the United Kingdom, is opened between the present junctions 5 and 18, along with the M10 motorway and M45 motorway.
- 1960: Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the trial R v Penguin Books Ltd, the Lady Chatterley's Lover case.
- 1963: South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm is assassinated following a military coup.
- 1964: King Saud of Saudi Arabia is deposed by a family coup, and replaced by his half-brother Faisal.
- 1965: Norman Morrison, a 31-year-old Quaker, sets himself on fire in front of the river entrance to the Pentagon to protest the use of napalm in the Vietnam war.
- 1966: The Cuban Adjustment Act comes into force, allowing 123,000 Cubans the opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the United States.
- 1967: Vietnam War: US President Lyndon B. Johnson and "The Wise Men" conclude that the American people should be given more optimistic reports on the progress of the war.
- 1982: Channel 4 starts broadcasting.
- 1983: U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
- 1984: Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962.
- 1986: Lebanon hostage crisis: U.S. hostage David Jacobsen is released in Beirut after 17 months in captivity.
- 1988: The Morris worm, the first Internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT.
- 1988: LOT Polish Airlines Flight 703 crashes in Białobrzegi, Podkarpackie Voivodeship, Poland, killing one person and injuring several more.
- 1990: British Satellite Broadcasting and Sky Television plc merge to form BSkyB as a result of massive losses.
- 1997: Tropical Storm Linda makes landfall in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam, causing more than 3,000 deaths.
- 1999: Honolulu shootings: In the worst mass murder in the history of Hawaii, a gunman shoots at eight people in his workplace, killing seven.
- 2000: Expedition 1 arrived at the International Space Station for the first long-duration stay onboard. From this day to present, a continuous human presence in space on the station remains uninterrupted.
- 2008: Lewis Hamilton secured his maiden Formula One Drivers' Championship Title by one point ahead of Felipe Massa at the Brazilian Grand Prix, after a pass for fifth place against the Toyota of Timo Glock on the final lap of the race.
- 2016: The Chicago Cubs defeat the Cleveland Indians in the World Series, ending the longest Major League Baseball championship drought at 108 years.
- 2022: A peace agreement is signed between the Ethiopian government and the Tigray People's Liberation Front, ending the Tigray War.
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- 1083: Matilda of Flanders (b. 1031)
- 1148: Saint Malachy (b. 1094)
- 1261: Bettisia Gozzadini (b. 1209)
- 1319: John Sandale, Bishop of Winchester
- 1483: Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English politician, Lord High Constable of England (b. 1454)
- 1521: Margaret of Lorraine, Duchess of Alençon and nun (b. 1463)
- 1610: Richard Bancroft, English archbishop and academic (b. 1544)
- 1852: Pyotr Kotlyarevsky, Russian general (b. 1782)
- 1863: Theodore Judah, American engineer (b. 1826)
- 1883: William Morgan, English-Australian politician, 14th Premier of South Australia (b. 1828)
- 1887: Alfred Domett, English-New Zealand poet and politician, 4th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1811)
- 1887: Jenny Lind, Swedish operatic soprano (b. 1820)
- 1893: Daniel Payne, American educator and bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (b. 1811)
- 1898: George Goyder, English-Australian surveyor (b. 1826)
- 1905: Albert von Kölliker, Swiss anatomist and physiologist (b. 1817)
- 1911: Kyrle Bellew, English actor (b. 1850)
- 1930: Viggo Jensen, Danish weightlifter, target shooter, and gymnast (b. 1874)
- 1933: Gao Qifeng, Chinese painter (b. 1889)
- 1935: Jock Cameron, South African cricketer (b. 1905)
- 1944: Thomas Midgley Jr., American chemist and engineer (b. 1889)
- 1945: Hélène de Pourtalès, Swiss sailor (b. 1868)
- 1949: Jerome F. Donovan, American lawyer and politician (b. 1872)
- 1950: George Bernard Shaw, Irish author, playwright, and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)
- 1952: Mehmet Esat Bülkat, Greek-Turkish general (b. 1862)
- 1958: Jean Couzy, French mountaineer and engineer (b. 1923)
- 1959: Michael Considine, Irish-Australian trade union leader and politician (b. 1885)
- 1960: Dimitri Mitropoulos, Greek conductor and composer (b. 1896)
- 1961: Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa I, Hakim of Bahrain (b. 1894)
- 1961: Harriet Bosse, Swedish-Norwegian actress (b. 1878)
- 1961: James Thurber, American humorist and cartoonist (b. 1894)
- 1963: 1963 South Vietnamese coup
Ngô Đình Diệm, South Vietnamese politician, 1st President of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) (b. 1901)
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- 1966: Peter Debye, Dutch-American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884)
- 1966: Mississippi John Hurt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1892)
- 1970: Richard Cushing, American cardinal (b. 1895)
- 1970: Pierre Veyron, French race car driver (b. 1903)
- 1971: Robert Mensah, Ghanaian footballer (b. 1939)
- 1972: Grigoriy Plaskov, Soviet artillery lieutenant (b. 1898)
- 1975: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1922)
- 1981: Wally Wood, American author, illustrator, and publisher (b. 1927)
- 1982: Lester Roloff, American preacher and radio host (b. 1914)
- 1990: Eliot Porter, American photographer, chemist, and academic (b. 1901)
- 1991: Irwin Allen, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1916)
- 1991: Mort Shuman, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1936)
- 1992: Robert Arneson, American sculptor and academic (b. 1930)
- 1992: Hal Roach, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1892)
- 1994: Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor, American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright (b. 1917)
- 1996: Eva Cassidy, American singer (b. 1963)
- 1996: John G. Crommelin, American admiral and politician (b. 1902)
- 1998: Vincent Winter, Scottish actor and production manager (b. 1957)
- 2000: Robert Cormier, American journalist and author (b. 1925)
- 2002: Charles Sheffield, American physicist and author (b. 1935)
- 2003: Frank McCloskey, American sergeant, lawyer, and politician (b. 1939)
- 2004: Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the 1st president and founder of the UAE (b. 1918)
- 2004: Theo van Gogh, Dutch actor, director, and producer (b. 1957)
- 2005: Ferruccio Valcareggi, Italian footballer and manager (b. 1919)
- 2007: Charmaine Dragun, Australian journalist (b. 1978)
- 2007: Igor Moiseyev, Russian dancer and choreographer (b. 1906)
- 2007: The Fabulous Moolah, American wrestler (b. 1923)
- 2008: Madelyn Dunham, American banker and business executive (b. 1922)
- 2009: José Luis López Vázquez, Spanish actor, costume designer and assistant director (b. 1922)
- 2009: Nien Cheng, Chinese-American author (b. 1915)
- 2010: Clyde King, American baseball player and manager (b. 1924)
- 2011: Boots Plata, Filipino director and screenwriter (b. 1943)
- 2012: Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar, Indian-American mathematician and academic (b. 1930)
- 2012: Robert Morton Duncan, American soldier and judge (b. 1927)
- 2012: Joe Ginsberg, American baseball player (b. 1926)
- 2012: Pino Rauti, Italian journalist and politician (b. 1926)
- 2012: Han Suyin, Chinese-Swiss physician and author (b. 1916)
- 2012: Kinjarapu Yerran Naidu, Indian politician (b. 1957)
- 2013: Walt Bellamy, American basketball player (b. 1939)
- 2013: Ghislaine Dupont, French journalist (b. 1956)
- 2013: Clifford Nass, American author and academic (b. 1958)
- 2013: Kjell Qvale, Norwegian-American businessman (b. 1919)
- 2014: Acker Bilk, English singer and clarinet player (b. 1929)
- 2014: Michael Coleman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1956)
- 2014: Veljko Kadijević, Croatian general and politician, 5th Federal Secretary of People's Defence (b. 1925)
- 2014: Herman Sarkowsky, German-American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded the Seattle Seahawks (b. 1925)
- 2014: Shabtai Teveth, Israeli historian and author (b. 1925)
- 2015: Andrzej Ciechanowiecki, Polish painter, historian, and academic (b. 1924)
- 2015: Mike Davies, Welsh-American tennis player and businessman (b. 1936)
- 2015: Roy Dommett, English scientist and engineer (b. 1933)
- 2015: Tommy Overstreet, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1937)
- 2017: Aboubacar Somparé, Guinean politician (b. 1944)
- 2018: Raymond Chow, Hong Kong film producer (b. 1927)
- 2019: Walter Mercado, Puerto Rican television personality, astrologer, actor, and dancer (b. 1932)
- 2021: Neal Smith, American politician (b. 1920)
- 2022: Atilio Stampone, Argentine pianist and composer (b. 1926)
- 2023: Humaira Himu, Bangladeshi actress (b. 1985)