Battle of Hampton Roads
- 1009 – The first known record of the name of Lithuania appeared in an entry in the annals of the Quedlinburg Abbey in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.
- 1862 – American Civil War: In the world's first major battle between two powered ironclad warships (painting pictured), the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia, fought to a draw near the mouth of Hampton Roads in Virginia.
- 1915 – The Panama–California Exposition opened in San Diego's Balboa Park, celebrating the opening of the Panama Canal.
- 1945 – World War II: Imperial Japanese Army officers ousted the government of French Indochina.
- 2010 – The first legal U.S. same-sex marriages south of the Mason–Dixon line took place in Washington, D.C.
Mary Anning (d. 1847) · Vyacheslav Molotov (b. 1890)
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