| 991 | Danes under Olaf Tryggvason kill Ealdorman Byrhtnoth and defeat the Saxons at Maldon. | |
| 1862 | Lincoln appoints Union General Henry Halleck to the position of general-in-chief of the Union Army. | |
| 1904 | German General Lothar von Trotha defeats the Hereros tribe near Waterberg, South Africa. | |
| 1908 | Britain’s King Edward VII meets with Kaiser Wilhelm II to protest the growth of the German navy. | |
| 1916 | The Russia army takes Stanislau, Poland, from the Germans. | |
| 1941 | Soviet bombers raid Berlin but cause little damage. | |
| 1942 | The German submarine U-73 attacks a Malta-bound British convoy and sinks HMS Eagle, one of the world’s first aircraft carriers. | |
| 1944 | German troops abandon Florence, Italy, as Allied troops close in on the historic city. | |
| 1972 | The last U.S. ground forces withdraw from Vietnam. | |
| 1975 | The US vetoes admission of North and South Vietnam to the UN. | |
| 1988 | Al Qaeda is formed at a meeting in Peshawar, Pakistan. | |
| 1990 | Troops from Egypt and Morocco arrive in Saudi Arabia as part of the international operation to prevent Iraq from invading. | |
| 2003 | NATO assumes command of the international peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, its first major operation outside Europe. |
The Southern Poverty Law Center and the ACLU joined together in filing a
federal lawsuit against Rehabilitation Home Incarceration, a company
that allegedly extorted accused individuals before they were released
from jail. 
The Milky Way galaxy is a minefield of black holes, with perhaps 100
million of the dangerous voids hiding among the stars, according to a
new paper.
