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• 1331 - Stefan Dusan declares himself king of Serbia
• 1380 - Battle of Kulikovo - Russian forces under Grand Prince Dmitrii Ivanovich defeat a mixed army of Tatars and Mongols, stopping their advance.
• 1449 - Battle of Tumu Fortress - Mongolians capture the Chinese emperor.
• 1514 - Battle of Orsha - In one of the biggest battles of the century Belarusians and Poles defeat Russian army.
• 1565 - The Knights of Malta lift the TurkishTurkey (officially the Republic of Turkey Turkish Turkiye is a country located in Southwest Asia with a small part in southeastern Europe. Until 1922 the country was the center of the Ottoman Empire. The Anatolian peninsula, between the Black Sea and the siege of MaltaThis article is about the european nation. For other meanings, see this page. The Republic of Malta is an island nation in southern Europe. It consists of an archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea directly south of Italy. These strategically located islands (siege started on May 18May 18 is the 138th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (139th in leap years). There are 227 days remaining. Events 1593 Playwright Thomas Kyd's accusations of heresy lead to an arrest warrant for Christopher Marlowe. 1652 Rhode Island passes the fi).
• 1636Events February 24 King Christian of Denmark gives an order that all beggars that are able to work must be sent to Brinholmen Island to build ships or as galley rowers March 26 Utrecht University founded in The Netherlands. September 8 A vote of the Great - A vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay ColonyThe Massachusetts Bay Colony (sometimes called by the name Massachusetts Bay Company for the institution that founded it) was the direct predecessor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay and then the state of Massachusetts. The colony was established under establishes Harvard CollegeHarvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and a member of the Ivy League. It was founded on September 8, 1636 by a vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, making it the oldest post-secondary s as the first college founded in the Americas.
• 1771Events January 22 Spain cedes the Falkland Islands to England. July 17 Massacre at Bloody Falls: Chipewyan chief Matonabbee traveling as the guide to Samuel Hearne on his arctic overland journey, massacre a group of unsuspecting Inuit. September 8 In Cali - In California, Fathers Pedro Cambon and Angel Somera found Mission San Gabriel Arcangel in what is now San Gabriel, California.
• 1796 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Bassano - French forces defeat Austrian troops at Bassano.
• 1810 - The Tonquin sets sail from New York Harbor with 33 employees of John Jacob Astor's newly created Pacific Fur Company on board. After a six month journey around the tip of South America, the ship will arrive at the mouth of the Columbia River and Astor's men will establish fur-trading town of Astoria.
• 1863 - American Civil War: Second Battle of Sabine Pass - On the Texas- Louisiana border at the mouth of the Sabine River, a small Confederate force thwarts a Union invasion of Texas.
• 1888 - In London, the body of Jack the Ripper's second murder victim, Annie Chapman is found.
• 1888 - In England the first 6 Football League matches ever were played.
• 1900 - Galveston Hurricane of 1900: a powerful hurricane hits Galveston, Texas killing about 8,000 people.
• 1923 - Honda Point Disaster: Seven US Navy destroyers ran aground off the California coast.
• 1930 - 3M begins marketing Scotch transparent tape.
• 1934 - Off the New Jersey coast, a fire aboard the passenger liner Morro Castle kills 134 people.
• 1935 - US Senator from Louisiana, Huey Long, nicknamed "Kingfish", is fatally shot in the Louisiana capitol building.
• 1941 - World War II: Siege of Leningrad begins - German forces begin a siege against the Soviet Union's second-largest city, Leningrad.
• 1943 - World War II: United States General Dwight D. Eisenhower publicly announces the surrender of Italy to the Allies.
• 1943 - World War II: Julius Fucik was executed by the Nazis.
• 1944 - World War II: London is hit by a V2 rocket for the first time.
• 1944 - World War II: Menton is liberated from Germany.
• 1945 - Cold War: United States troops arrive to partition the southern part of Korea in response to Soviet troops occupying the northern part of the peninsula a month earlier.
• 1951 - Treaty of San Francisco: In San Francisco, California, 48 nations sign Sign a peace treaty with Japan in formal recognition of the end of the Pacific War.
• 1954 - The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) is established.
• 1960 - In Huntsville, Alabama, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally dedicates the Marshall Space Flight Center ( NASA had already activated the facility on July 1).
• 1966 - The first episode of the science fiction television series Star Trek airs.
• 1971 - In Washington, DC, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is inaugurated with the opening feature being the premiere of Leonard Bernstein's Mass.
• 1974 - Watergate Scandal: US President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in office.
• 1986 - General Augusto Pinochet, President of Chile, escapes attempted assasination.
• 1994 - A Boeing 737 carrying USAir Flight 427 with 132 people on board, crashes on approach to Pittsburgh International Airport. There are no survivors.
• 1995 - Timon and Pumbaa launches on all major television networks
• 1998 - At Busch Stadium in St. Louis, Missouri, Mark McGwire breaks Roger Maris' 1961 record of 61 home runs hit in a single season.
• 1999 - US Attorney General Janet Reno names former US Senator John Danforth to head an independent investigation of the 1993 fire at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas.
• 2004 - The NASA unmanned spacecraft Genesis crash-lands as its parachute fails to open.