Today:
1545 – The Tudor warship Mary Rose sank off Portsmouth with the loss of nearly 500 men.
1553 – Lady Jane Grey was replaced by Mary I of England as Queen of England after only nine days of ruling.
1848 – The first Women’s Rights Convention began in Seneca Falls, New York, organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott.
1870 – The Franco-Prussian War began with the declaration of war by France against Prussia.
1900 – The Paris Métro opened its first line.
1940 – Adolf Hitler ordered the Nazi Germany invasion of the United Kingdom to begin, known as Operation Sea Lion.
1961 – TWA Flight 529 crashed shortly after takeoff from Chicago, killing all 73 passengers and crew.
1969 – Apollo 11, the first manned mission to the moon, entered lunar orbit.
1979 – The Sandinista rebels overthrew the government in Nicaragua, marking the end of the Nicaraguan Revolution.
1992 – Anti-Mafia judge Paolo Borsellino was assassinated by the Mafia in Palermo, Italy.
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