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<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="10" > 5th century BC</h1>

413 BC: Peloponnesian War: End of the two-year-long Battle of Syracuse.

<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="12" > 1st century BC</h1>

74 BC: Huo Guang, a powerful minister of the Western Han Dynasty, established Liu Zhao's grandson Liu Yi as emperor and emperor Xuan of Han.

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1368: The Ming army led by Xu Da approaches Dadu, and Emperor Huizong of Yuan opens the Jiande Gate in the middle of the night and flees north to Shangdu.

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1419: John the Fearless Duke of Burgundy is assassinated by Charles the Crown Prince of France (later Charles VII of France).

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1561: Fourth Battle of the Battle of Kawanakajima (Battle of Hachimangahara).

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1721: The Russian Empire signs the Treaty of Nistad with the Kingdom of Sweden, ending the Great Northern War.

<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="22" > 19th century</h1>

1813: Perry's U.S. Navy defeats the Royal Navy at the Battle of Lake Erie in Ohio.

1846: Elias Howe obtains a patent for a sewing machine in the United States.

1898: Empress Elisabeth of Austria is assassinated by an Italian anarchist in Geneva, Switzerland.

<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="26" > 20th century</h1>

1919: Austria, defeated in World War I, is forced to sign the Treaty of Saint Germain with the Allies, recognizing the independence of Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia.

1942: World War II: British troops land in Madagascar and the Battle of Madagascar begins.

1943: World War II: Germans capture Rome.

1960: Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Venezuela, Saudi Arabia and other oil-producing countries, in order to safeguard their own oil interests, met in Baghdad, the capital of Iraq, and established the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries.

1960: Mitch Manto hits the longest home run on Major League Baseball records, estimated at 196 meters.

1963: Black Civil Rights Movement in the United States: 20 African-Americans attend Alabama public schools.

1967: Gibraltar voters opted in a referendum to remain British territory.

1974: Independence of Guinea-Bissau.

1985: Patent for child safety seats.

1987: The People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia is proclaimed.

1990: Pope Francis John Paul II consecrated the Great Hall after the Peace of Yamoussoukro in Yamoussoukro, Côte d'Ivoire.

1996: The 50th session of the United Nations General Assembly voted to adopt the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty.

<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="50" > the 21st century</h1>

2001: Cases of mad cow disease are detected in Japan.

2002: The 57th session of the United Nations General Assembly adopts a resolution to admit Switzerland, a permanently neutral country, as a new Member State.

2003: Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindt is assassinated while shopping in Stockholm and dies the next day.

2008: The Large Hadron Collider is operational at the EURN Swiss Centre.

2020: WWF publishes the Earth's Life Force Report 2020, which notes that the number of wild vertebrates on Earth has decreased by more than two-thirds since 1970.

<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="56" > was born</h1>

920: Louis IV, Carolingian king of West Francia, nicknamed Returnee from Overseas (died 954)

- Alexius II, Byzantine Emperor of Komunin (died 1183)

1385: Lê Lê, founding monarch of the Later Lê Dynasty of Vietnam, known as Lê Taệồi (died 1433)

1487: Julius III, Pope of Rome (d. 1555)

1659: Henry Purcell, English composer of the Baroque period (d. 1695)

1714: Jomel, Italian composer, one of the main representatives of the Neapolitan school (d. 1774)

1753: John Thorne, English architect known for his neoclassical architecture (d. 1837)

1787: John J. Cletenden was an American politician who served as Attorney General, Governor of Kentucky, Member of the House of Representatives, and Senator (died 1863)

1793 Harriet Abbasnott, English diaryist and social observer (d. 1834)

1821: Zevis, Governor-General of the British Colonies, Soldier (died 1897)

1839: Charles Sanders Pierce, American chemist, philosopher, reformer of mathematics, research methodology, philosophy of science, epistemology, and metaphysics (died 1914)

1866: Jepper Okya, Danish poet, novelist, leader of the Jutland movement in Danish literature (died 1930)

1886 Hilda Doolittle, American poet, novelist, and central figure in the Imagist movement (died 1961)

1892: Arthur Compton, American physicist, Nobel Laureate in Physics (died 1962)

1893: Maria de Jesus, the oldest person in Portuguese history, aged 115 years and 114 days (died in 2009)

1896: Ye Ting, Chinese military figure (died 1946)

1897: Otto Strassell, German politician (died 1974)

1914: Robert Wise, Hollywood director and producer (died 2005)

1933: Karl Lagerfeld, German-Parisian fashion designer, artist, founder of the Fendi brand (died 2019)

1937: Judd Dimon, American evolutionary biologist, physiologist, biogeographer, and nonfiction writer

1954: Pan Anbang, Taiwanese singer (died 2013)

1958: Chris Columbus, American film director

1960: Colin Firth, British actor

1963: Randy Johnson, former Mlbido league baseball pitcher nicknamed Trolls

1964: Jack Ma, former Chairman of the Board of Directors of Alibaba Group

1969: Ai Jing, Chinese pop singer, known as "China's most talented female folk poet"

1976: Jiang Youbai, Taiwanese entrepreneur

In 1985:

Li Sheng is a Chinese mainland actor

Du Jiang is a Chinese actor

1988: Coco Rocha, Canadian supermodel

1989: Zhang Bichen, Chinese singer

<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="133" died ></h1>

1167: Empress Matilda, Holy Roman Empress (born 1102)

1419: John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy (born 1371)

- 1586: Takahashi Shoun, Japanese warlord of the Sengoku period (b. 1548)

1694: Xu Ganxue, politician of the early Qing Dynasty. (born 1631)

1898: Elizabeth Amerie Eugenie, nicknamed Princess Sissi, Empress of Austria-Hungary (born 1837)

1975: George Thomson, British physicist, 1937 Nobel Laureate in Physics (born 1892)

1983: Felix Bloch, Swiss physicist, 1952 Nobel Laureate in Physics (born 1905)

2000: Reiko, Chinese singer (b. 1973)

<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="146" > holidays and customs</h1>

People's Republic of China: Teachers' Day

World Health Organization: World Suicide Day