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• 910 - The last major Viking army to raid England is defeated at the Battle of Tettenhall by the allied forces of Mercia and Wessex, led by King Edward and Earl Aethelred.
• 1305 - William Wallace, who led Scottish resistance to England, is captured by the English near Glasgow and transported to London for trial and execution.
• 1583 - Sir Humphrey Gilbert establishes first English colony in North America, at what is now St John's, Newfoundland.
• 1620 - The Mayflower departs Southampton, England.
• 1689 - 1,500 Iroquois attack village of Lachine, in New France.
• 1940 - World War II : Latvia is annexed by the Soviet Union.
• 1979 - In Afghanistan, Maoists undertake an attempted military uprising.

[edit] Births

• 1930 - Neil Armstrong, American astronaut and first man on the Moon.

[edit] Deaths

• 1895 - Friedrich Engels, German philosopher (b. 1820)
• 1998 - Todor Zhivkov, Bulgarian Communist dictator from 1956 to 1989 (b. 1911)