On this date

In 1783,

representatives of the United States and Britain signed the Treaty of Paris, which officially ended the Revolutionary War.

In 1943,

Allied forces invaded Italy during World War II, the same day Italian officials signed a secret armistice with the Allies.

In 1970,

legendary football coach Vince Lombardi, 57, died in Washington, D.C.

In 1976,

America’s Viking 2 lander touched down on Mars to take the first close-up, color photographs of the planet’s surface.

In 1978,

Pope John Paul I was installed as the 264th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church.

In 1995,

the online auction site eBay was founded in San Jose, Calif., by Pierre Omidyar under the name AuctionWeb.

In 1999,

a French judge closed a two-year inquiry into the car crash that killed Princess Diana, dismissing all charges against nine photographers and a press motorcyclist, and concluding the accident was caused by an inebriated driver.

Ten years ago:

Baseball’s first use of instant replay backed an onfield call of a home run for Alex Rodriguez during the ninth inning of a New York Yankees game against the Tampa Bay Rays. (The Yankees won the game, 8-4.)

Five years ago:

Ariel Castro, who’d held three women captive in his Cleveland home for nearly a decade before one escaped and alerted authorities, was found hanged in his prison cell, a suicide.

One year ago:

North Korea carried out its sixth and strongest nuclear test, detonating what it said was a hydrogen bomb.