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1986: President Ronald Reagan orders emergency aid for the Honduran army. U.S. helicopters take Honduran troops to the Nicaraguan border.
1981: The U.S. Embassy in San Salvador is damaged when gunmen attack, firing rocket propelled grenades and machine guns.
1975: King Fayṣal of Saudi Arabia was shot to death by his nephew.
1975: Hue is lost and Da Nang is endangered by North Vietnamese forces. The United States orders a refugee airlift to remove those in danger.
1970: The Concorde makes its first supersonic flight.
1969: John Lennon and Yoko Ono stage a bed-in for peace in Amsterdam.
1962: Nelson Mandela witnessed Algerian liberation leader Ben Bella inspecting fighters in Morocco
1957: The Treaties of Rome were signed, establishing the European Community and the European Atomic Energy Community.
1957: The Treaties of Rome were signed, establishing the European Community and the European Atomic Energy Community.
1957: The European Common Market Treaty is signed in Rome. The goal is to create a common market for all products–especially coal and steel.
1954: RCA manufactures its first color TV set and begins mass production.
1953: The USS Missouri fires on targets at Kojo, North Korea, the last time her guns fire until the Persian Gulf War of 1992.
1941: Yugoslavia joins the Axis powers.
1940: The United States agrees to give Britain and France access to all American warplanes.
1931: Fifty people are killed in riots that break out in India. Mahatma Gandhi was one of many people assaulted.
1919: The Paris Peace Commission adopts a plan to protect nations from the influx of foreign labor.
1918: French composer Claude Debussy died in Paris.
1911: A fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in New York City killed 146 people, prompting the creation of health and safety legislation.
1911: A fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company, a sweatshop in New York City, claims the lives of 146 workers.
1915: The first submarine disaster occurs when a U.S. F-4 sinks off the Hawaiian coast.
1905: Rebel battle flags that were captured during the American Civil War are returned to the South.
1881: Hungarian composer Béla Bartók was born in Nagyszentmiklós.
1879: Japan invades the kingdom of Liuqiu (Ryukyu) Islands, formerly a vassal of China.
1865: Confederate forces capture Fort Stedman, during the siege of Petersburg, Va.
1813: The frigate USS Essex flies the first U.S. flag in battle in the Pacific.
1807: The British Parliament abolished the slave trade in the British West Indies.
1807: British Parliament abolishes the slave trade.
1776: The Continental Congress authorizes a medal for General George Washington.
1668: The first horse race in America takes place.
1655: Puritans jail Governor Stone after a military victory over Catholic forces in the colony of Maryland.
1634: Lord Baltimore founds the Catholic colony of Maryland.
1306: Robert the Bruce, crowned Scottish king at Scone this day in 1306, freed Scotland from English rule, winning the decisive Battle of Bannockburn (1314) and confirming Scottish independence in the Treaty of Northampton (1328).
1305: The Arena Chapel, containing frescoes by Giotto, was consecrated in Padua, Italy.
708: Constantine begins his reign as Catholic Pope.
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