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• 1470 - Henry VI of England returns to the throne after Earl of Warwick defeats Yorkists in battle.
• 1831 - In Southampton County, Virginia, escaped slave Nat Turner is captured and arrested for leading the bloodiest slave revolt in United States history.
• 1864 - Second war of Schleswig ends: Duke Frederick and the Danish CrownThe Crown is a term which is used to separate the government authority and property of the state in a kingdom, as opposed to any personal influence and private assets held by the current Monarch. In the United Kingdom (and by extension, most of the nation recognize PrussiaThe word Prussia ( German: Preussen (Preussen Polish: Prusy Lithuanian: Prusai Latin: Borussia has had various (often contradictory) meanings: The land of the Baltic Prussians (in what is now parts of southern Lithuania, the Kaliningrad exclave of Russia's and AustriaAustria is a landlocked country in Central Europe, a federation of nine states. Austria is bordered by Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the's annexation of SchleswigThis article is about the region of Schleswig on the German/Danish border. There is also Schleswig, Iowa in the United States of America. The region of Schleswig Slesvig in Danish) covers the area about 30 km north and 40 km south of the border between Ge, HolsteinHolstein also refers to a breed of cattle. Holstein Hol shtayn) is the southern part of Schleswig-Holstein in Germany, between the rivers Elbe, Eider and the Schlei firth. The capital of Holstein is Kiel. 1111- 1474 an Imperial Reichsunmittelbar County of and LauenburgThis article discusses the Lauenburg in Schleswig-Holstein. Lauenburg is also the German name of Polish city of Lebork. Map of Germany showing Lauenburg Lauenburg is a town in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is situated at the northern bank of the Elbe ri.
• 1864 - Helena, MontanaHelena is the capital of Montana, a state of the United States of America. As of the 2000 census, its population is 25,780, but with the surrounding area the population reaches 40,000. It is the county seat of Lewis and Clark County. History The town was is founded after four prospectorA Prospector is normally a person who explores an area for natural resources such as minerals, oil, flora or fauna. Recently however, satellites and robots have been used to automatically search for resources, orbiting planets like the Earth, the Moon, ans discover gold at "Last Chance Gulch."
• 1905 - Tsar Nicholas II of Russia grants Russia's first constitution, creating a legislative assembly.
• 1918 - The Ottoman Empire signs an armistice with the Allies, ending the First World War in the Middle East
• 1925 - John Logie Baird creates Britain's first television transmitter .
• 1938 - Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing a nationwide panic.
• 1941 - World War II: Franklin Delano Roosevelt approves US$1 billion in Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet Union.
• 1944 - Anne Frank is deported from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
• 1953 - Cold War: US President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally approves the top secret document National Security Council Paper No. 162/2 , which states that the United States' arsenal of nuclear weapons must be maintained and expanded to counter the communist threat.
• 1961 - Nuclear testing: The Soviet Union detonates the hydrogen bomb Tsar Bomba over Novaya Zemlya; at over 50 megatons of yield, it is still the largest nuclear device ever detonated.
• 1961 - Due to "violations of Lenin's precepts", it is decreed that Josef Stalin's body be removed from its place of honour inside Lenin's tomb and buried near the Kremlin wall with a plain granite marker instead.
• 1965 - Vietnam War: Just miles from Da Nang, United States Marines repel an intense attack by wave after wave of Viet Cong forces, killing 56 guerrillas. Among the dead, a sketch of Marine positions was found on the body of a 13-year-old Vietnamese boy who sold drinks to the Marines the day before.
• 1966 - The Zodiac killer kills his first victim, 18-year old Cheri Jo Bates, in Riverside, California.
• 1968 - The film The Lion in Winter, starring Katharine Hepburn, debuts.
• 1970 - In Vietnam, the worst monsoon to hit the area in six years causes large floods, kills 293, leaves 200,000 homeless and virtually halts the Vietnam War.
• 1972 - US President Richard Nixon approves legislation to increase Social Security spending by US$5.3 billion.
• 1974 - " The Rumble in The Jungle": Muhammad Ali knocks out George Foreman in Kinshasa, Zaire to regain the World Heavyweight Boxing championship.
• 1975 - Prince Juan Carlos becomes King of Spain after dictator Francisco Franco concedes that he is too ill to govern.
• 1980 - El Salvador and Honduras sign a peace treaty to put the border dispute fought over in 1969's Football War before the International Court of Justice.
• 1983 - The first democratic elections in Argentina after seven years of military rule are held.
• 1987 - In Japan, NEC releases the first 16-bit home entertainment system , the PC-Engine.
• 1988 - Philip Morris buys Kraft Foods for US$13.1 billion.
• 1995 - Quebec separatists narrowly lose a referendum for a mandate to negotiate independence from Canada (vote was 50.6% to 49.4%).
• 1997 - British au pair Louise Woodward is found guilty of the baby-shaking death of 8-month-old Matthew Eappen.
• 2001 - Michael Jordan returns to the National Basketball Association with the Washington Wizards after 3 1/2 years (the Wizards lose 93-91 to the New York Knicks).