1619 – Theatrum Anatomicum opens in Amsterdam
1775 – New England militiamen begin the siege of Boston, hemming in the British army garrison
1919 – French assembly decides on 8 hour work day
1943 – Jews refuse to surrender the Warsaw Ghetto to SS officer Jürgen Stroop, who then orders its destruction, beginning the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
1959 – Uprising in La Paz Bolivia, fails
1964 – Rightist coup in Laos, Suvanna Phuma remains premier
1968 – Belgian construction workers strike
1982 – Sally Ride is named the 1st American woman astronaut
1999 – The German Bundestag returns to Berlin.
2013 – Boston bombing suspects killed and captured in Boston after 4 days