Today:
180 – Twelve inhabitants of Scillium in North Africa are executed for being Christians.
1203 – The Fourth Crusade captures Constantinople.
1453 – The Battle of Castillon ends the Hundred Years’ War between France and England.
1762 – Catherine II becomes Tsarina of Russia after the murder of Peter III.
1867 – The first permanent transatlantic telegraph cable is completed.
1897 – The Klondike gold rush begins when gold is discovered in Canada’s Yukon Territory.
1918 – The Romanov family is executed by Bolsheviks in Ekaterinburg, Russia.
1944 – The Port Chicago disaster occurs, where a munitions explosion in California kills 320 people.
1955 – Disneyland opens in Anaheim, California.
1975 – Apollo-Soyuz Test Project: An American Apollo and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft dock in orbit, marking the first international human spaceflight.