1396 – Battle of Nicopolis: Sultan Bajezid I defeats Crusades armies
1820 – French Physicist François Arago announces electromagnetism in his discovery that a copper wire between the poles of a voltaic cell could laterally attract iron filings to itself
1829 – Failed assassination attempt on Simon Bolívar
1861 – Secretary of US Navy authorizes enlistment of slaves
1911 – French battleship Liberte explodes at Toulon Harbor, 285 killed
1980 – Chevy Chase calls Cary Grant a homo on Tomorrow show, a lawsuit follows
1985 – Palestinian terrorists kill 3 Israeli sailors at Lanaca Cyprus
1988 – Hungarian swimmer Tamás Darnyi wins the 200m individual medley gold medal at the Seoul Olympics in world record 2:00.17; wraps up medley double at the Games
1989 – Archaeologists open Titus of Rhine grave in Amsterdam
1991 – Paramount at Madison Square Garden in NYC opens