| 1683 | William Penn signs a friendship treaty with the Lenni Lenape Indians in Pennsylvania. | |
| 1700 | Russia gives up its Black Sea fleet as part of a truce with the Ottoman Empire. | |
| 1758 | British and Hanoverian armies defeat the French at Krefeld in Germany. | |
| 1760 | Austrian forces defeat the Prussians at Landshut, Germany. | |
| 1848 | A bloody insurrection of workers erupts in Paris. | |
| 1863 | Confederate forces overwhelm a Union garrison at the Battle of Brashear City in Louisiana. | |
| 1865 | Confederate General Stand Watie surrenders his army at Fort Towson, in the Oklahoma Territory. | |
| 1884 | A Chinese Army defeats the French at Bac Le, Indochina. | |
| 1885 | Former general and president Ulysses S. Grant dies at the age of 63. | |
| 1902 | Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy renew the Triple Alliance for a 12-year duration. | |
| 1934 | Italy gains the right to colonize Albania after defeating the country. | |
| 1944 | In one of the largest air strikes of the war, the U.S. Fifteenth Air Force sends 761 bombers against the oil refineries at Ploiesti, Romania. | |
| 1951 | Soviet U.N. delegate Jacob Malik proposes cease-fire discussions in the Korean War. | |
| 1952 | The U.S. Air Force bombs power plants on the Yalu River, Korea. | |
| 1964 | Henry Cabot Lodge resigns as the U.S. envoy to Vietnam and is succeeded by Maxwell Taylor. | |
| 1966 | Civil Rights marchers in Mississippi are dispersed by tear gas. |
Turkish prosecutors issued an arrest warrant Wednesday for a man
caught on camera punching a woman because she was wearing shorts during
the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
