- 1072 Sancho II of Castile is assassinated during the siege of Zamora.
- 1520 Carlos V is crowned Emperor at Aachen.
- 1542 A Spanish expedition led by Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo discovered Santa Catalina Island in California.
- 1571 The Holy Alliance defeated the Turkish fleet at the Battle of Lepanto.
- 1772 Manuel Lisa is born in New Orleans. Born to a father from Murcia and a mother from Florida, he discovered Yellowstone National Park and laid the foundations of the American Wild West.
- 1849 Edgar Allan Poe, American writer, dies.
- 1885 Niels Bohr, German physicist and Nobel Prize winner in 1922, is born.
- 1908 The island of Crete is annexed to Greece.
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