| 1765 | English Prime Minister Lord Grenville resigns and is replaced by Lord Rockingham. | |
| 1774 | Russia and the Ottoman Empire sign the Treaty of Kuchuk-Kainardji, ending their six-year war. | |
| 1779 | American troops under General Anthony Wayne capture Stony Point, N.Y. | |
| 1875 | The new French constitution is finalized. | |
| 1882 | Mary Todd Lincoln, the widow of Abraham Lincoln, dies of a stroke. | |
| 1918 | Czar Nicholas and his family are murdered by Bolsheviks at Ekaterinburg, Russia. | |
| 1940 | Adolf Hitler orders preparations for the invasion of England. | |
| 1944 | Soviet troops occupy Vilnius, Lithuania, in their drive towards Germany. | |
| 1945 | The United States detonates the first atomic bomb in a test at Alamogordo, N. M. | |
| 1969 | Apollo 11 blasts off from Cape Kennedy, Florida, heading for a landing on the moon. | |
| 1999 | A private plane piloted by John F. Kennedy Jr. is lost over the waters off Martha's Vineyard, Mass. |
