Year 1543 Calendar » Battle of Wayna Daga A combined army of Ethiopian and Portugal named Portuguese troops defeats a Muslim army led by Ahmed Gragn.
Year 1613 Calendar » Michael I of Russia known as Mikhail I is unanimously elected Tsar by a Zemsky Sobor e.g national assembly, beginning the Romanov dynasty of Imperial Russia.
Year 1804 Calendar » The first self-propelling steam locomotive makes its outing at the Penydarren Ironworks called Pen-y-Darren Ironworks in Wales.
Year 1808 Calendar » Without a previous declaration of war, Russian troops cross the border to Sweden at Abborfors in eastern Finland, thus beginning the Finnish war, in which Sweden will lose the eastern half of the country (i.e. Finland) to Russia.
Year 1828 Calendar » Initial issue of the Cherokee Phoenix is the first periodical to use the Cherokee syllabary invented by Sequoyah.
Year 1842 Calendar » John Greenough is granted the first United States named U.S. patent for the sewing machine.
Year 1848 Calendar » Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish 'The Communist Manifesto'.
Year 1862 Calendar » American Civil War: Battle of Valverde is fought near Fort Craig in New Mexico Territory.
Year 1874 Calendar » The 'Oakland Tribune known as Oakland Daily Tribune' publishes its first edition.
Year 1878 Calendar » The first telephone book is issued in New Haven, Connecticut.
Year 1885 Calendar » The newly completed Washington Monument is dedicated.
Year 1913 Calendar » Ioannina is incorporated into the Greek state after the Balkan Wars.
Year 1916 Calendar » World War I: In France, the Battle of Verdun begins.
Year 1918 Calendar » The last Carolina Parakeet dies in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo.
Year 1919 Calendar » German socialist Kurt Eisner is assassination or assassinated. His death results in the establishment of the Bavarian Soviet Republic and parliament and government fleeing Munich, Germany.
Year 1921 Calendar » Rezā Shāh takes control of Tehran during a Iranian events of 1921 named successful coup
Year 1937 Calendar » The League of Nations bans foreign national "Unlawful combatant e.g volunteers" in the Spanish Civil War.
Year 1945 Calendar » World War II: Japanese Kamikaze planes sink the escort carrier USS Bismarck Sea CVE-95 6 and damage the USS Saratoga CV-3 6.
Year 1947 Calendar » In New York City, Edwin Land demonstrates the first "instant camera", the Polaroid Land Camera, to a meeting of the Optical Society of America.
Year 1952 Calendar » The Government of the United Kingdom British government, under Winston Churchill, abolishes Identity document identity cards in the United Kingdom UK to "set the people free".
Year 1952 » The Bengali Language Movement protests occur at the University of Dhaka in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).
Year 1958 Calendar » The peace symbol, commissioned by Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in protest against the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, is designed and completed by Gerald Holtom.
Year 1965 Calendar » Malcolm X is assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City by members of the Nation of Islam.
Year 1971 Calendar » The Convention on Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna.
Year 1972 Calendar » The Soviet Union known as Soviet unmanned Spacecraft named spaceship Luna 20 lands on the Moon.
Year 1973 Calendar » Over the Sinai Desert, Israeli fighter aircraft shoot down Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 jet killing 108.
Year 1974 Calendar » The last Israeli soldiers leave the west bank of the Suez Canal pursuant to a truce with Egypt.
Year 1975 Calendar » Watergate scandal: Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are sentenced to prison.
Year 1986 Calendar » 'The Legend of Zelda (video game) called The Legend of Zelda', the first game of The Legend of Zelda series, was released in Japan on the Famicom Disk System.
Year 1995 Calendar » Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon.