1484 – Battle of Lochmaben Fair – a 500-man raiding party led by Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany and James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas are defeated by Scots forces loyal to Albany’s brother James III of Scotland; Douglas is captured
1515 – First Congress of Vienna settles issues between Poland and Holy Roman Empire – rise of the Habsburgs influence
1835 – Smolny Cathedral in Saint Petersburg, Russia is consecrated, originally commissioned by Elizabeth of Russia
1933 – Wiley Post completes the 1st solo flight round the world, takes 7 days and 19 hours
1942 – 4th Soviet army forms with 80 tanks
1954 – WTHI TV channel 10 in Terre Haute, IN (CBS) begins broadcasting
1984 – 71st Tour de France won by Laurent Fignon of France
2018 – Lone gunman shooting kills 3 including gunman and injures 13 in Toronto, Canada
2019 – US President Donald Trump says US could win war in Afghanistan in a week “I just don’t want to kill 10 million people. If I wanted to win that war, Afghanistan would be wiped off the face of the earth”
2022 – Droupadi Murmu is the first tribal politician to be elected President of India (head of state, without executive powers)