Today:
1270 – The Eighth Crusade ends as Charles I of Sicily negotiates a treaty with the Sultan of Tunis.
1485 – King Henry VII of England is crowned at Westminster Abbey, beginning the Tudor dynasty.
1534 – English Parliament passes the Act of Supremacy, making King Henry VIII the Supreme Head of the Church of England.
1831 – In Southampton County, Virginia, escaped slave Nat Turner is captured and later executed for leading a violent slave rebellion.
1864 – Second Battle of Fair Oaks in Virginia takes place as part of the American Civil War.
1938 – Orson Welles broadcasts his famous radio adaptation of *The War of the Worlds*, causing widespread panic in the United States.
1944 – Anne and Margot Frank are deported from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
1961 – The Soviet Union detonates Tsar Bomba, the most powerful nuclear bomb in history, over Novaya Zemlya.
1974 – Muhammad Ali regains his heavyweight title in the famous “Rumble in the Jungle” fight against George Foreman in Zaire.
1995 – Quebec holds a referendum on independence from Canada, narrowly voting to remain part of the country.
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