This Day In History
• 1298 - Battle on Hasenbuhl (Gollheim) between German kings Adolf and Albrecht I
• 1582 - Battle of Yamazaki: Toyotomi Hideyoshi defeats Akechi Mitsuhide
• 1600 - Battle at Newport: Earl Mauritius van Nassau beats Spanish Army
• 168 - 7 King James II disbands English parliament
• 1698 - Thomas Savery patents the first steam engine
• 1794 - Second Battle of Seneffe: France-Austria
• 1823 - Bahia Independence Day: the end of Portuguese rule in Brazil, with the final defeat of the Portuguese crown loyalists in the province of Bahia
• 1839 - Slaves aboard a Spanish schooner La Amistad revolt to secure their freedom while being transported from one Cuban port to another
• 1916 - Lenin says Imperialism is caused by capitalism
• 1916 - Russian offensive in Armenia
• 1921 - Warren G. Harding signs a joint congressional resolution declaring the official end of war with Germany
• 1940 - Indian independence leader Subhas Chandra Bose is arrested and detained in Calcutta
• 1947 - Military coup discovered in France
• 1949 - The State of Vietnam is internationally recognised, governing the southern half of Vietnam, with Bảo Đại as chief of state
• 1971 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
• 1972 - India and Pakistan sign Simla Agreement peace accord
• 1982 - Soyuz T-6 returns to Earth
• 1985 - Andrei Gromyko appointed president of USSR
• 1985 - European Space Agency launches Giotto (Halley's Comet Flyby)
• 2001 - Bush Administration announce that it will seek to let oil companies drill on about 1,500,000 acres of the Gulf of Mexico
• 2001 - UN Security Council, facing an almost certain Russian veto, agrees to postpone indefinitely a vote on the US-led "smart sanctions" package for Iraq
• 2006 - Sri Lanka's Sanath Jayasuriya (152) and Upul Tharanga (109) compile world record cricket ODI opening stand of 286 vs England at Headingley
• 2010 - Oil tanker truck explosion in South Kivu, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, kills at least 230 people
• 2014 - Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy is criminally charged with corruption by French prosecutors
• 2015 - 62 people are killed after the Kim Nirvana ferry capsizes off the coast of the Philippines