| | 512 - A solar eclipse is recorded by a monastic chronicler in Ireland. |
| | 1149 - Raymond of Antioch is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din. |
| | 1194 - Sverre is crowned King of Norway. |
| | 1613 - The Globe Theatre in London, England burns to the ground. |
| | 1644 - Charles I of England defeats a Parliamentarian detachment at the Battle of Cropredy Bridge, the last battle won by an English King on English soil. |
| | 1659 - The Russians, led by prince Trubetskoy are defeated by the Ukrianian armies of Ivan Vyhovsky in the Battle of Konotop. |
| | 1749 - New Governor, Charles de la Ralière Des Herbiers, arrives at Isle Royale (Cape Breton Island). |
| | 1786 - Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario. |
| | 1850 - Coal is discovered on Vancouver Island. |
| | 1850 - Autocephaly Officially Granted by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople to The Church of Greece. |
| | 1864 - Ninety-nine people are killed in Canada's worst railway disaster near St-Hilaire, Quebec. |
| | 1874 - Greek politician Charilaos Trikoupis publishes a manifesto in the Athens daily Kairoi entitled "Who's to Blame?" in which he lays out his complaints against King George. He is elected Prime Minister of Greece the next year. |
| | 1880 - France annexes Tahiti. |
| | 1891 - Street railway in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, commences operation. |
| | 1895 - Doukhobors burn their weapons as a protest against conscription by the Tsarist Russian government. |
| | 1914 - Jina Guseva attempts to assassinate Grigori Rasputin at his home town in Siberia. |
| | 1916 - Sir Roger Casement, Irish Nationalist and British diplomat is sentenced to death for his part in the Easter Rising. |
| | 1922 - France grants 1 km² at Vimy Ridge "freely, and for all time, to the Government of Canada, the free use of the land exempt from all taxes." |
| | 1925 - Canada House opens in London, England. |
| | 1926 - Arthur Meighen returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada. |
| | 1927 - First test of Wallace Turnbull's variable-pitch propeller. |
| | 1937 - Joseph-Armand Bombardier of Canada receives patent for sprocket and track traction system used in snow vehicles. |
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| | Atlantis docked to Mir on June 29, 1995.1945 - Carpathian Ruthenia was annexed by Soviet Union. |
| | 1956 - The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 is signed, officially creating the United States Interstate Highway System. |
| | 1976 - The Seychelles becomes independent from the United Kingdom. |
| | 1995 - Space Shuttle program: STS-71 Mission (Atlantis docks with the Russian space station Mir for the first time.) |
| | 1995 - The Sampoong Department Store collapses in the Seocho-gu district of Seoul, South Korea, killing 501 and injuring 937. |
| | 2002 - Vice President Dick Cheney briefly assumed the duties and responsibilities of the President when President George W. Bush underwent a medical exam involving anesthetics |
| | 2006 - The Dutch cabinet Balkenende II resigned. |