1457 BC. Thutmose III and a large Canaanite coalition under the King of Kadesh clashed at the battle of Megiddo, the first battle to have been recorded in relatively reliable detail.

1092. Lincoln Cathedral was consecrated.

1671. Thomas Blood, disguised as a clergyman, attempted to steal England's Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.

1726. Five men arrested during a raid on Mother Clap's molly house in London were executed at Tyburn for being homosexuals.

1887. Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show opened in London.

1945. Vidkun Quisling was arrested in Norway and executed by firing squad later that year for collaborating with the Nazis.

1950. Robert Schuman presented his proposal on the creation of an organized Europe, indispensable to the maintenance of peaceful relations. This proposal, known as the "Schuman declaration", is considered by some people to be the beginning of the creation of what is now the European Union.