| 1870 | France declares war on Prussia. |
| 1900 | The first line of the Paris metro open for operation |
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| 1940 | The British army's intelligence corps is founded. |
| 1969 | Apollo 11 enters the orbit of the moon. |
| 1980 | Former Turkish prime minister Nihat emir is assassinated in Istanbul |
| 1985 | Nearly 300 people die after a dam bus in northern Italy sweeping away three hotels and several homes |
| 2005 | Insurgents set off a bomb near a police mini bus in Chechnya killing 14 people. |
| 2010 | Black box inventor David Warren dies.His own father died in a plane crash, hit upon the Black box idea while probing a 1953 disaster involving the world's first commercial jetliner. |
| 2016 | Indonesia's most wanted militant Santoso is shot and killed. |
| 2019 | Iran seizes British tanker in Strait of Hormuz. |