| 757 | Stephen II ends his reign as catholic pope. | |
| 1478 | Pazzi conspirators attack Lorenzo and kill Giuliano de’ Medici. | |
| 1514 | Copernicus makes his first observations of Saturn. | |
| 1564 | William Shakespeare is baptized. | |
| 1607 | The British establish a colony at Cape Henry, Virginia. | |
| 1865 | Joseph E. Johnston surrenders the Army of Tennessee to General William T. Sherman. | |
| 1915 | Second Lieutenant William Rhodes-Moorhouse becomes the first airman to win the Victoria Cross after conducting a successful bombing raid. | |
| 1929 | The first non-stop flight from England to India is completed. | |
| 1931 | New York Yankee Lou Gehrig hits a home run but is called out for passing a runner, the mistake ultimately costs him the home run record. | |
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| 1941 | The first organ is played at a baseball stadium in Chicago. | |
| 1968 | Students seize the administration building at Ohio State University. | |
| 1983 | The Dow Jones Industrial Average breaks 1,200 for first time. | |
| 1986 | The world’s worst nuclear disaster occurs at the Chernobyl power plant in the Soviet Union. | |
| 1994 | Nelson Mandela wins the presidency in South Africa’s first multiracial elections. |
