1479BC – Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Egypt, although power effectively shifts to Hatshepsut (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th Dynasty)
1184BC – The Greeks enter Troy using the Trojan Horse (traditional date)
1877 – Russo-Turkish War, 1877-78: Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire
1898 – Spanish–American War: Spain declares war after rejecting US ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba
1916 – Easter Rising of Irish republicans against British occupation begins in Dublin
1941 – British army begins evacuation of Greece
1953 – Winston Churchill knighted by Queen Elizabeth II
1961 – JFK accepts “sole responsibility” following Bay of Pigs
1967 – Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland says in a news conference that the enemy had “gained support in the United States that gives him hope that he can win politically that which he cannot win militarily.”
1970 – Gambia becomes a republic within the Commonwealth
1980 – US military operation to save 52 hostages in Iran, fails, 8 die
1987 – Howard Stern holds a free speech rally at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, NYC
1990 – Gruinard Island, Scotland, is officially declared free of the anthrax disease after 48 years of quarantine.
1994 – Bomb attack in center of Johannesburg, 9 killed
2004 – United States lifts economic sanctions imposed on Libya 18 years ago, as reward for cooperation in eliminating weapons of mass destruction
2005 – Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as the 265th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church taking the name Pope Benedict XVI.
2015 – Armenia commemorates the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide by the Ottoman Empire
2018 – US President Donald Trump hosts his first state dinner for visiting French President Emmanuel Macron
2018 – Golden State Killer suspect Joseph DeAngelo arrested and charged with eight murders after being identified through genealogy websites
Film & TV:
1962 – Massachusetts Institute of Technology sends TV signal by satellite for 1st time: California to Massachusetts
Music:
2018 – Streaming music services overtake worldwide sales of CDs and vinyl for the first time according to IFPI
Sport:
1981 – Bill Shoemaker wins his 8,000th race, 2000 more than any other jockey
