Today:
367 – Gratian, son of Roman Emperor Valentinian I, is named co-Augustus by his father and associated with the administration of the Western Roman Empire.
1265 – The Second Barons’ War: The Battle of Evesham takes place, resulting in a decisive victory for Prince Edward (the future King Edward I of England).
1532 – The Duchy of Brittany is absorbed into the Kingdom of France.
1693 – Dom Pérignon, a French Benedictine monk, supposedly invents champagne.
1704 – War of the Spanish Succession: Gibraltar is captured by an Anglo-Dutch fleet commanded by Admiral Sir George Rooke.
1790 – The United States Coast Guard is established as the Revenue Cutter Service.
1914 – World War I: Germany invades Belgium, leading the United Kingdom to declare war on Germany.
1944 – Holocaust: A tip from a Dutch informer leads the Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam warehouse where they find and arrest Anne Frank, her family, and four others.
1964 – Civil rights movement: The bodies of missing civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney are discovered in an earthen dam in Mississippi.
2007 – NASA’s Phoenix spacecraft is launched on a mission to Mars to study the Martian Arctic.
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