Events

2024 Russian Su-34 aircraft crashed in the mountains of North Ossetia, the crew died

2023 Mass-shooting in Stockholm, Sweden

2020 HBO removes #GoneWithTheWind from its streaming service for 'depicting racial prejudices'

2020 J.K. Rowling Writes about Her Reasons for Speaking out on Sex and Gender Issues

2017 At least 13 Philippine marines killed as the battle against fighters linked to ISIL continues in besieged Marawi

2017 Reports of a large explosion near Hirshabelle state HQs in Jowhar town

2017 French Open: Jelena Ostapenko beats Simona Halep to win first Grand Slam

2017 Eight injured as ‘car ploughs into pedestrians’ outside Amsterdam Central train station, Netherlands

2008 Sudan Airways Flight 109 disaster

2002 The first direct electronic communication experiment between the nervous systems of two humans is carried out by Kevin Warwick in the United Kingdom

1999 Kosovo War: NATO suspends its air strikes after Slobodan Milošević agrees to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo

1997 Before fleeing his northern stronghold, Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot orders the killing of his defense chief Son Sen and 11 of Sen's family members

1967 The Six-Day War

1964 Bedtime Story (1964 film)

1947 Saab produces its first automobile

1944 WW2: In Distomo, Boeotia, Greece 218 men, women and children are massacred by German troops

1944 WW2: Six hundred forty-two men, women and children are killed in the Oradour-sur-Glane Massacre in France.

1942 WW2: Nazis burn the Czech village of Lidice and kills 173 men in reprisal for the killing of Reinhard Heydrich

1936 The Russian animation studio Soyuzmultfilm is founded

1924 Fascists kidnap and kill Italian Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome

1916 An Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire led by Lawrence of Arabia breaks out

1898 Spanish–American War: U.S. Marines land on the island of Cuba

1854 The first class of United States Naval Academy students graduate

1838 Myall Creek massacre: Twenty-eight Aboriginal Australians are murdered

1829 The first Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes place

1786 A landslide dam on the Dadu River created by an earthquake ten days earlier collapses, killing 100,000 in the Sichuan province of China

1692 Salem witch trials: Bridget Bishop is hanged at Gallows Hill near Salem, Massachusetts, for "certaine Detestable Arts called Witchcraft & Sorceries"

1523 Copenhagen is surrounded by the army of Frederick I of Denmark, as the city won't recognise him as the successor of Christian II of Denmark

1329 The Battle of Pelekanon results in a Byzantine defeat by the Ottoman Empire

1190 Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowns in the river Saleph while leading an army to Jerusalem

671 Emperor Tenji of Japan introduces a water clock (clepsydra) called Rokoku. The instrument, which measure time and indicates hours, is placed in the capital of Ōtsu

Events in other languages

2024 Vēstures liecība laikabiedru piezīmēs

2022 Krievijas iebrukums Ukrainā. 107. diena

2020 Zviedrijā izbeidz Ulofa Palmes slepkavības lietu

2017 Piemaskavas ciemā Kratovo bijušais Ārkārtas situāciju ministrijas darbinieks nogalinājis 4 cilvēkus un aizdedzinājis māju

2017 Aivars Borovkovs: Izvēlējās zināmu nelaimi, nevis nezināmu laimi

2016 Чемпионат Европы по футболу 2016

2014 Teroristi naktī sākuši ar mīnmetējiem apšaudīt Kramatorskas lidostu

2014 Afganistānā nogalināti pieci NATO karavīri

1967 Dokonano oblotu myśliwca MiG-23

1952 Katastrofa bombowca Pe-2FT w Poznaniu

1941 Rūdolfs Hesa ierašanās Lielbritānijā

1938 Latvijas valdība izsludina ideju konkursu Uzvaras laukumam

1930 Auto un vilciena sadursmē 1930.gada Vasarsvētkos cieš vairāki Ceļojošā teātra aktieri

1921 Latvijas lauku karatiesa piespriež nāvessodu Krievijas izveidotās Stučkas marionešu valdības Latvijā deviņiem pārstāvjiem