Georg Anton Schäffer
- 1817 – Having been unsuccessful in his attempt to seize the Kingdom of Hawaii for Russia, Georg Anton Schäffer (pictured) was forced to depart for China.
- 1845 – The last major fire to affect Manhattan destroyed 345 buildings and caused at least $5 million in damage.
- 1916 – First World War: "The worst 24 hours in Australia's entire history" occurred when Australian forces suffered heavy losses in their unsuccessful assault on the Germans at the Battle of Fromelles in France.
- 1992 – A car bomb killed anti-Mafia judge Paolo Borsellino and five policemen in Palermo, Italy, less than two months after the murder of his friend and colleague Giovanni Falcone.
- 1997 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army permanently resumed its ceasefire to end its 25-year campaign against British rule in Northern Ireland.
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