1099 – Henry V crowned German king
1453 – Emperor Frederik III becomes archduke of Austria
1649 – The English Rump Parliament votes to put Charles I on trial for treason and other “high crimes”
1809 – Napoleonic Wars: Invasion of Cayenne, by combined British, Portuguese and colonial Brazilian forces, begins
1839 – 2 day storm off Irish and English coast immortalized as the “Big Wind”
1946 – Vietnam holds its first ever general election
1956 – Federal court bars former Little League Commissioner Carl Stotz from forming a rival group
1968 – Surveyor 7 (last of series) launched by US for soft-landing on Moon
1981 – 50th hat trick in Islander history-John Tonelli scored 5 goals
2005 – Mississippi Civil Rights Workers Murders: Edgar Ray Killen is arrested as a suspect for the 1964 murders of three Civil Rights workers.