1429 Joan of Arc liberated Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier.
1677 The future Mary II of England married William, Prince of Orange. They would later jointly reign as William and Mary.
1783 Mozart’s Symphony No. 36 receives its première performance in Linz, Austria.
1825 Erie Canal was completed with Governor DeWitt Clinton performing the Wedding of The Waters ceremony in New York Harbour.
1839 Newport Rising took place, the last large-scale armed rebellion against authority in mainland Britain.
1861 The University of Washington opened in Seattle, Washington as the Territorial University.
1890 London‘s first deep-level tube railway opened between King William Street and Stockwell.
1916 – Ruth Handler, American businesswoman and inventor of the Barbie doll, was born.
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1922 British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men found the entrance to King Tutankhamun‘s tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
1924 Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming was elected as the first female governor in the United States.
1930 Phar Lap won the Melbourne Cup.
1937 Loretta Swit, American actress, was born.
1939 Shakuntala Devi, Indian calculating prodigy, was born.
1950 Charles Frazier, American author, was born.
1955 Vienna State Opera reopened with a performance of Ludwig van Beethoven‘s Fidelio.
1966 Two-thirds of Florence was submerged as the Arno river flooded; this and the contemporaneous flood of the Po River in northern Italy, this led to 113 deaths, 30,000 made homeless, and the destruction of numerous Renaissance artworks and books.
19551995 Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated.
2008 Barack Obama became the first African-American to be elected President of the United States.
Sourced from NZ History Online & Wikipedia.