Great Buddha, Kamakura, Japan
- 1498 – A tsunami caused by the Nankai earthquake washed away the building housing the statue of the Great Buddha (pictured) at Kōtoku-in in Kamakura, Japan.
- 1792 – The French Army achieved its first major victory in the War of the First Coalition at the Battle of Valmy.
- 1967 – Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard publicly announced the story of Xenu in a taped lecture sent to all Scientologists.
- 1977 – A series of celestial phenomena of unknown nature was observed in the western Soviet Union, Finland and Denmark.
- 2011 – The United States ended its "don't ask, don't tell" policy, allowing gays and lesbians to openly serve in the military.
Veit Stoss (d. 1533) · Herbert Putnam (b. 1861) · Edith Rogers (b. 1894)
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