1855

Twentieth opera of Giuseppe Verdi, Les vêpres siciliennes ("The Sicilian Vespers"), is premiered in Paris.

1944

World War II: Germany launches the first V1 Flying Bomb attack on England. Only four of the eleven bombs strike their targets.

1982

Battles of Tumbledown and Wireless Ridge, during the Falklands War.

2000

Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Ağca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981.

2025

Israel initiates air strikes against Iran, initiating the Twelve Day War.