1509: At the Battle of Agnadello, the French defeat the Venitians in Northern Italy.
1610: French King Henri IV (Henri de Navarre) is assassinated by François Ravillac, a fanatical monk.
1796: English physician Edward Jenner gives the first successful smallpox vaccination.
1804: Explorer William Clark sets off from St. Louis, Missouri.
1853: Gail Borden applies for a patent for condensed milk.
1863: Union General Nathanial Banks heads towards Port Hudson along the Mississippi River.
1897: Guglielmo Marconi sends first communication by wireless telegraph.
1897: "Stars and Stripes Forever" by John Phillip Sousa is performed for the first time in Philadelphia.
1935: A plebiscite in the Philippines ratifies an independence agreement.
1940: Holland surrenders to Germany.
1942: The British Army, in retreat from Burma, reach India.
1948: Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion establishes the State of Israel.
1961: A bus carrying black and white civil rights activists is bombed and burned in Alabama.
1969: Three companies of the 101st Airborne Division fail to push North Vietnamese forces off Hill 937 in South Vietnam.
1973: The U.S. space station Skylab is launched.
1991: In South Africa, Winnie Mandela is sentenced to six years in prison for her part in the kidnapping and beating of three black youths and the death of a fourth.
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