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Finnish War: In the Battle of Jutas, Swedish forces under Lieutenant General Georg Carl von Döbeln beat the Russians, making von Döbeln a Swedish war hero.
Battle of the Plains of Abraham: the British defeat the French near Quebec City in the Seven Years' War, known in the United States as the French and Indian War.
World War II: The Greek People's Liberation Army won the Battle of Meligalas and began the execution of many prisoners of war and civilians.
American Civil War: The Allegheny Arsenal explosion in Lawrenceville, Pennsylvania results in the single largest civilian disaster during the war.
American Civil War: The Battle of Chickamauga begins between Confederate and Union forces. It involves the second highest amount of casualties for any American Civil War battle apart from Gettysburg.
World War I: The Central Powers' defeat at the Battle of Dobro Pole played a role in the Bulgarian withdrawal from the war and led to the subsequent liberation of Vardar Macedonia.
World War II: The Moscow Armistice between Finland and the Soviet Union is signed, which officially ended the Continuation War.
World War I: Germany's Supreme Army Command tells Kaiser Wilhelm II and Imperial Chancellor Georg Michaelis to open negotiations for an armistice to end the war.
Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
The Great Indian Peninsula Railway opens the first passenger rail in India, from Bori Bunder to Thane.
Battle of Megiddo – the first battle to have been recorded in what is accepted as relatively reliable detail.
Dora Richter, German transgender woman and the first known person to undergo complete male-to-female gender-affirming surgery (died 1966)
Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, English poet and politician, First Lord of the Treasury (died 1715)
American pilot Harriet Quimby (pictured) became the first woman to fly across the English Channel.
NASA's Kepler space telescope confirms the discovery of the first Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of another star.
Anneli Jäätteenmäki takes office as the first female prime minister of Finland.
Jerrie Mock completes the first around-the-world airplane flight by a woman. Her solo flight in the Spirit of Columbus, which took 29 1/2 days, took off and landed at the Port Columbus International A�
The Peak District becomes the United Kingdom's first National Park.
Harald III of Denmark dies and is succeeded by Canute IV, who would later be the first Dane to be canonized.
Margot Honecker, East German politician and First Lady (died 2016)