839 - Was founded Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia, United States.
1864 - US General William Tecumseh Sherman began burning of Atlanta city, Georgi, USA.
1887 - U Heymarket Martyrs executed anarchists August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel.
1889 - Washington accepted rule 42 of the United States.
1918 - Jozef Pilsudski went to Warsaw and decided supreme military force Polini. It recently won independence.
1926 - was founded U. S. Route 66.
1930 - Numen Patents US1781541 was donated physicists Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard for their discovery.
1942 - World War II: Germany completed its occupation of France.
1966 - NASA launched the spacecraft "Gemini 12".
1975 - Country Southern Africa, Angola declared independence from former colonial power its, Portugal, prompting civil war.
2000 - At least 150 skiers, most of them children, die in the fire that erupted powerful system in the Austrian Alps Ski.
2004 - Yasser Arafat was confirmed dead by the Palestinian Liberation Organization from sources not known. Mahmoud Abbas was elected chairman of the PLO-es minutes later