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- 1525 - Martin Luther marries Katharina von Bora, against the celibacy doctrine decreed by the Roman Catholic Church on priests and nuns.
- 1777 - American Revolutionary War: Marquis de Lafayette lands near Charleston, South Carolina, in order to help the Continental Congress to train its army.
- 1898 - Yukon Territory is formed, with Dawson chosen as its capital.
- 1917 - deadliest German air raid on London during World War One carried out by Gotha G bombers and results in 162 deaths.
- 1927 - A ticker-tape parade is held for aviator Charles Lindbergh down 5th Avenue in New York City.
- 1934 - Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet in Venice, Italy
- 1944 - World War II: Germany launches a V1 Flying Bomb attack on England
- 1952 - Catalina affair, a Swedish Douglas DC-3 was shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 fighter.
- 1953 - Hungarian Prime Minister Mátyás Rákosi is replaced by Imre Nagy
- 1966 - The United States Supreme Court rules in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them.
- 1967 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson nominates Solicitor-General Thurgood Marshall to become the first Black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
- 1971 - Vietnam War: The New York Times begins to publish the Pentagon Papers.
- 1977 - Convicted Martin Luther King Jr. assassin James Earl Ray is recaptured after escaping from prison three days before.
- 1978 - Israeli Defense Forces withdraw from Lebanon.
- 1982 - Fahd becomes King of Saudi Arabia upon the death of his brother, Khalid
- 1996 - The Montana Freemen surrender after an 81-day standoff with FBI agents.
- 1997 - A jury sentences Timothy McVeigh to the death penalty for his part in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
- 2000 - President Kim Dae Jung of South Korea meets Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in the northern capital of Pyongyang.
- 2000 - Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981.
- 2002 - The United States of America withdraws from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
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