Today:
1192 – Minamoto no Yoritomo becomes the first shogun of Japan, establishing the Kamakura shogunate and marking the beginning of samurai rule.
1331 – King Stefan Dečanski of Serbia defeats a Bulgarian army at the Battle of Velbazhd, securing Serbia’s dominance in the Balkans.
1680 – Pueblo Revolt: Pueblo Native Americans capture Santa Fe from Spanish colonists, temporarily driving them out of present-day New Mexico.
1770 – James Cook formally claims eastern Australia for Great Britain, naming it New South Wales.
1791 – The Haitian Revolution begins as enslaved Africans launch a revolt in the French colony of Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti).
1831 – Nat Turner’s slave rebellion begins in Southampton County, Virginia, which will have a lasting impact on the abolition movement in the United States.
1858 – The first of the Lincoln-Douglas debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas takes place in Ottawa, Illinois, marking a historic moment in American political history.
1911 – The Mona Lisa is stolen from the Louvre by a museum employee, leading to an international manhunt and its recovery two years later.
1959 – Hawaii becomes the 50th state of the United States, following a referendum in which a majority of residents voted in favor of statehood.
1968 – The Soviet Union invades Czechoslovakia to suppress the Prague Spring, bringing an end to a brief period of political liberalization in the country.
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