- 1100 – Henry I (pictured) was crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey.
- 1796 – War of the First Coalition: The Austrian army attempted to break the Siege of Mantua, but were repelled by the French Army of Italy under Napoleon.
- 1816 – Sir John Barrow, Secretary of the Admiralty, rejected a proposal to use Francis Ronalds's electrical telegraph, deeming it as "wholly unnecessary"
- 1949 – A magnitude 6.8 ML earthquake struck near Ambato, Ecuador, killing 5,050 people.
- 2012 – A white supremacist went on a shooting spree at the Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, U.S., killing six people and wounding four others.
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