1180 First Battle of Uji, starting the Genpei War in Japan.
1280 – – The Battle of Moclín took place in the context of the Spanish Reconquista pitting the forces of the Kingdom of Castile against theEmirate of Granada. The battle resulted in a Granadian victory.
1314 First War of Scottish Independence The Battle of Bannockburn, south of Stirling, began.
1611 The mutinous crew of Henry Hudson‘s fourth voyage set Henry, his son and seven loyal crew members adrift in an open boat in what is now Hudson Bay; they were never heard from again.
1713 The French residents of Acadia were given one year to declare allegiance to Britain or leave Nova Scotia.
1757 Battle of Plassey – 3,000 British troops under Robert Clive defeated a 50,000 strong Indian army under Siraj Ud Daulah at Plassey.
1758 Seven Years’ War: Battle of Krefeld – British forces defeated French troops at Krefeld in Germany.
1760 – Seven Years’ War: Battle of Landeshut – Austria defeated Prussia.
1763 – Joséphine de Beauharnais, French wife of Napoleon I, was born (d. 1814).
1780 American Revolution: Battle of Springfield.
1794 Empress Catherine II of Russia granted Jews permission to settle in Kiev.
1812 War of 1812: Great Britain revoked the restrictions on American commerce, thus eliminating one of the chief reasons for going to war.
1812 – Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon I of France invaded Russia.
1860 The United States Congress established the Government Printing Office.
1894 King Edward VIII was born (d. 1972).
1917 In a game against the Washington Senators, Boston Red Sox pitcherErnie Shore retired 26 batters in a row after replacing Babe Ruth, who had been ejected for punching the umpire.
1919 Estonian Liberation War: The decisive defeat of German Freikorps (Baltische Landeswehr) forces in the Battle of Cesis (Võnnu lahing). This day is celebrated as Victory Day in Estonia.
1926 – Annette Mbaye d’Erneville, Senegalese writer, was born.
1929 – June Carter Cash, American singer-songwriter and actress (Carter Family and The Carter Sisters), was born (d. 2003).
1936 – Richard Bach, American pilot and author, was born.
1937 Niki Sullivan, American guitarist (The Crickets), was born (d. 2004) .
1938 The Civil Aeronautics Act was signed into law, forming the Civil Aeronautics Authority in the United States.
1940 – Mike Shrimpton, New Zealand cricketer and coach, was born (d. 2015).
1940 Adam Faith, English singer and actor was born, (d 2003).
1940 Stuart Sutcliffe, English musician (The Beatles) , was born (d. 1962).
1941 Roger McDonald, Australian author, was born.
1942 World War II: The first selections for the gas chamber at Auschwitz took place on a train load of Jews from Paris.
1942 World War II: Germany’s latest fighter, a Focke-Wulf FW190 was captured intact when it mistakenly landed at RAF Pembrey in Wales.
1945 World War II: The Battle of Okinawa ended when organised resistance of Imperial Japanese Army forces collapsed.
1946 The 1946 Vancouver Island earthquake struck Vancouver Island.
1949 – Sheila Noakes, Baroness Noakes, English accountant and politician, was born.
1956 Gamal Abdel Nasser was elected president of Egypt.
1958 The Dutch Reformed Church accepted women ministers.
1959 A fire in a resort hotel in Stalheim, Norway killed 34 people.
1961 The Antarctic Treaty, which set aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and banned military activity on the continent, came into force after the opening date for signature set for the December 1, 1959.
1965 Paul Arthurs, British guitarist (Oasis), was born.
1967 Cold War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson met with Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin in Glassboro, New Jersey for the three-day Glassboro Summit Conference.
1969 Warren E. Burger was sworn in as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court by retiring chief justice Earl Warren.
1972 Watergate Scandal: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and White House chief of staff H. R. Haldeman were taped talking about using the Central Intelligence Agency to obstruct the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s investigation into the Watergate break-ins.
1972 45 countries left the Sterling Area, allowing their currencies to fluctuate independently of the British Pound.
1973 The International Court of Justice condemned French nuclear tests in the Pacific.
1973 A fire at a house in Hull, England, which killed a six year old boy was passed off as an accident; it later emerged as the first of 26 deaths by fire caused over the next seven years by arsonist Peter Dinsdale.
1985 A terrorist bomb aboard Air India flight 182 brought the Boeing 747 down off the coast of Ireland, killing all 329 aboard.
1988 James E. Hansen testified to the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources that it is 99% probable that global warming had begun.
1989 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a law passed by the U.S. Congress banning all sexually oriented phone message services was unconstitutional.
1991 Moldova declared independence.
1998 – Paul Reitsma resigned his seat in the British Columbia legislature; the first elected politician in the British Commonwealth to be removed from office by legally-binding petition.
2016 – The United Kingdom voted in a referendum to leave the European Union, by 52% to 48%.
2017 – A series of terrorist attacks took place in Pakistan resulting in 96 deaths and 200 wounded.
Sourced from NZ History Online & Wikipedia