- 860 - Swedish Vikings attack Constantinople
- 1529 - Catherine of Aragon questions validity of Divorce Court
- 1541 - Irish parliament selects Henry VIII as king of Ireland
- 1779 - French fleet occupies St Vincent
- 1815 - Battle of Waterloo; Napoleon defeated by Wellington & Blucher
- 1821 - Opera "Der Freischutz" is produced (Berlin)
- 1837 - Spain gets new Constitution
- 1928 - Amelia Earhart becomes 1st female to fly across Atlantic Ocean
- 1976 - A Joseph Mallord William Turner watercolor auctioned for £340,000
- 1977 - Space Shuttle test model "Enterprise" carries a crew aloft for 1st time, It was fixed to a modified Boeing 747
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