Cavalry charge, Battle of Waterloo
- 860 – A fleet of about 200 Rus' vessels sailed into the Bosporus and started pillaging the suburbs of Constantinople.
- 1815 – War of the Seventh Coalition: Napoleon Bonaparte fought and lost his final battle, the Battle of Waterloo (pictured) in present-day Belgium.
- 1953 – A Douglas C-124 Globemaster II aircraft crashed just after takeoff from Tachikawa, Japan, killing all 129 people on board in the first aviation accident with over 100 fatalities.
- 1983 – Iranian teenager Mona Mahmudnizhad and nine other women were hanged because of their membership in the Bahá'í Faith.
- 2009 – NASA launched the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, its first mission to the moon in over ten years.
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