1480 - Battle of Otranto - Ottoman troops behead 800 Christians for refusing to convert to Islam
1530 - Florence surrenders for emperor Karel I
1869 - Self-proclaimed Emperor Joshua Abraham Norton of the USA issues edict abolishing the Democratic and Republican parties
1945 - Emperor Hirohito of Japan informs the imperial family that he has decided to surrender
1960 - Echo 1, 1st communications satellite, is launched by NASA
1978 - International Cometary Explorer (ICE) spacecraft launched - to study solar wind
1979 - Iranian press censors start massive book burnings
1991 - Last day in Test Cricket for Viv Richards, Dujon and Marshall
1994 - Members of the Major League Baseball Players Association go on strike leading to cancellation of World Series for only the second time in MLB history (1904); labour dispute
2018 - NASA launches the Parker Space Probe, its first mission to the Sun and its outermost atmosphere, the corona
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