The Queen of Cyprus, Catherine Cornaro, sells her kingdom to Venice.
American Revolutionary War: Spanish forces capture Fort Charlotte in Mobile, Alabama, the last British frontier post capable of threatening New Orleans in Spanish Louisiana.
World War II: The Kraków Ghetto is "liquidated".
World War II: The R.A.F.'s first operational use of the Grand Slam bomb, Bielefeld, Germany.
Korean War: For the second time, United Nations troops recapture Seoul.
A jury in Dallas finds Jack Ruby guilty of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the assumed assassin of John F. Kennedy.
The body of U.S. President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery.
The Israel Defense Forces invade and occupies southern Lebanon in Operation Litani.
Timeline of Linux development: Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released.
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