1589 - Battle at Arques: French King Henry IV beats Catholic League
1794 - French National Convention orders the remains of Comte de Mirabeau be removed from the Panthéon after his double-dealings with court revealed
1904 - The general strike called by the Socialist Party that spread throughout Italy ends
1915 - Cecil Chubb buys English prehistoric monument Stonehenge for £6,600
1931 - Britain abandons gold standard; pound devalues 20%
1942 - 116 hostages executed by Nazis in Paris
1951 - Emil Zatopek runs 15,000m in record 44 min, 54.6 sec
1964 - The North American XB-70 Valkyrie, the world's first Mach 3 bomber, makes its maiden flight from Palmdale, California
1968 - Soviet spacecraft Zond 5 lands in the Indian ocean after a six-day flight - first successful circumlunar mission with two onboard tortoises surviving the trip
1989 - Poland's Sejm (National Assembly) approves prime minister Mazowiecki
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