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| 337 | Constantine’s three sons, already Caesars, each take the title of Augustus. Constantine II and Constans share the west while Constantius II takes control of the east. | |
| 1087 | William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy and King of England, dies in Rouen while conducting a war which began when the French king made fun of him for being fat. | |
| 1513 | King James IV of Scotland is defeated and killed by English troops at the Battle of Flodden. | |
| 1585 | Pope Sixtus V deprives Henry of Navarre of his rights to the French crown. | |
| 1776 | The term “United States” is adopted by the Continental Congress to be used instead of the “United Colonies.” | |
| 1786 | George Washington calls for the abolition of slavery. | |
| 1791 | French Royalists take control of Arles and barricade themselves inside the town. | |
| 1834 | Parliament passes the Municipal Corporations Act, reforming city and town governments in England. | |
| 1850 | California, in the midst of a gold rush, enters the Union as the 31st state. | |
| 1863 | The Union Army of the Cumberland passes through Chattanooga as they chase after the retreating Confederates. The Union troops will soon be repulsed at the Battle of Chickamauga. | |
| 1886 | The Berne International Copyright Convention takes effect. | |
| 1911 | An airmail route opens between London and Windsor. | |
| 1915 | A German zeppelin bombs London for the first time, causing little damage. | |
| 1926 | The Radio Corporation of America creates the National Broadcasting Co. | |
| 1942 | A Japanese float plane, launched from a submarine, makes its first bombing run on a U.S. forest near Brookings, Oregon. | |
| 1943 | Allied troops land at Salerno, Italy and encounter strong resistance from German troops. | |
| 1948 | Kim Il-sung declares the establishment of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. | |
| 1956 | Elvis Presley makes his first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show; cameras focus on his upper torso and legs to avoid showing his pelvis gyrations, which many Americans—including Ed Sullivan—thought unfit for a family show. | |
| 1965 | The US Department of Housing and Urban Development is established. | |
| 1965 | Hurricane Betsy, the first hurricane to exceed $1 billion in damages (unadjusted), makes its second landfall, near New Orleans. | |
| 1969 | Canada’s Official Languages Act takes effect, making French equal to English as a language within the nation’s government. | |
| 1970 | U.S. Marines launch Operation Dubois Square, a 10-day search for North Vietnamese troops near Da Nang. | |
| 1971 | The Attica Prison Riot takes place; the 4-day riot leaves 39 dead. | |
| 1976 | Communist Chinese leader Mao Tse-tung dies in Beijing at age 82. | |
| 1990 | The Sri Lankan Army massacres 184 civilians of the Tamil minority in the Batticaloa District of Sri Lanka. | |
| 1991 | Tajikistan declares independence from the USSR. | |
| 1993 | The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) officially recognizes Israel as a legitimate state. | |
| 2001 | Two al Qaeda assassins kill Ahmad Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan. | |
| 2001 | A car bomb explodes outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta, killing 10 people. |
