587 AD: Treaty of Andelot: King Guntram of Burgundy names cousin Childebert II as heir
1291: Eleanor of Castile, wife of King Edward I of England, dies in Northamptonshire. Crosses are erected where her body rests on the way to London.
1520: Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellanbegins crossing the Pacific Ocean
1569: Duke of Alva forces bishop Nicolaas van Nieuwland of Haarlem to resign
1660 : The Royal Society forms in London
1670: Pierre Corneille';s "Tite et Berenice" premieres in Paris
1717: Blackbeard attacks a French merchant vessel called "La Concorde", which he would capture and rename as the "Queen Anne';s Revenge"
1729 : Natchez Indians massacre 138 Frenchmen, 35 French women, and 56 children at Fort Rosalie, near the site of modern-day Natchez, Mississippi.
1745 -29]: French troops attack indians of Saratoga, NY
1757: Britain condemns Convention of Kloster-Zeven
1775: Second Continental Congress formally establishes US Navy
1785: The Treaty of Hopewell is signed between the Confederation Congress of the United States of America and the Cherokee people
1814 : The Times of London first printed by automatic, steam powered presses built by German inventors Friedrich Koenig and Andreas Friedrich Bauer - makes newspapers available to a mass audience
1821: Panama declares independence from Spain
1843 : Ka Lahui: Hawaiian Independence Day - The Kingdom of Hawaii is officially recognized by the United Kingdom and France as an independent nation.
1847 : Bologna: church of San Francisco dei Minori Conventuali initiated with premier of Rossini';s Tantum ergo
1853: Olympia forms as capital of Washington Territory
1854: Dutch army stops Chinese uprising in Borneo
1875: British explorer Verney Cameron reaches East Africa
1879: Battle at Lydenburg South Africa: Gen Wolseley beats Sekhukhenes Pedi-Zulu
1893: Women vote in a national election for the first time, in the New Zealand general election
1934 : Winston Churchill tells British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin not to under estimate German air power
1979: Pope John Paul II';s first papal visit to Turkey, almost 1 1/2 years before Turkish native Mehmet Ali Agca attempts to kill him
1984: Over 250 years after their deaths, William Penn and his wife Hannah Callowhill Penn are made Honorary Citizens of the United States
1989 : Queen Latifah releases her debut hip hop album "All Hail the Queen" featuring single "Ladies First"
1990 : Singapore';s Lee Kuan Yew resigns, ending his term as Singapore';s longest-serving Prime Minister
1990: Conservative Party chooses John Major to succeed Margaret Thatcher as leader and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1998 : The people of Albania vote for their new Constitution in a referendum.
2000: Ukrainian politician Oleksander Moroz begins the Cassette Scandal by publicly accusing President Leonid Kuchma of involvement in the murder of journalist Georgiy Gongadze
2012: 54 people are killed and 120 are injured by two car bombs in Damascus, Syria
2016: Plane carrying Brazilian Chapecoense fooball team crashes near Medellin, Colombia killing 71 players and journalists
2016: "Hamilton" sets new record for most money earned in a week on Broadway - $3.3 million
2017: Uhuru Kenyatta sworn in for a second term as president of Kenya
2017: India';s Supreme Court rejects appeal to block global release of controversial film "Padmavati"
