Today:
306 – Constantine I is proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops.
1139 – Count Afonso I of Portugal defeats the Almoravid Moors at the Battle of Ourique.
1467 – The Battle of Molinella: the first battle in Italy in which firearms are used extensively.
1593 – Henry IV of France publicly converts from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism.
1814 – War of 1812: The Battle of Lundy’s Lane, one of the bloodiest battles of the war, is fought in present-day Niagara Falls, Ontario.
1861 – American Civil War: The Crittenden–Johnson Resolution is passed by the U.S. Congress.
1866 – The U.S. Congress passes legislation authorizing the rank of General of the Army.
1898 – Spanish–American War: U.S. forces launch a surprise amphibious assault on the city of Guánica, Puerto Rico.
1909 – Louis Blériot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine from Calais to Dover.
1978 – The first successful birth resulting from in vitro fertilization (IVF), Louise Brown, is born in Oldham, England.
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