Napoleon Bonaparte gets his worse defeat as the Battle of Leipzig ends.

The Danes overcome the Saxons in the Battle of Assandun.

Al Capone is convicted of income tax evasion.

‘The Bill’ debuts on ITV. It eventually becomes the longest running police drama in British television history.

The infamous “From Hell” letter that was sent by Jack the Ripper is received by investigators.

Nazi Germany pulls out of the League of Nations.

The Whirlpool Galaxy is discovered by Charles Messier.

In Carlton County, Minnesota a forest fire kills 453 people.

The Mary Rose, a Tudor ship that sank on July 19, 1545, is salvaged from the sea bed of the Solent, near Portsmouth.

The Great Hurricane of 1780 in the Caribbean kills 20 000 to 30000 people. The Great Hurricane of 1780 was a devastating tropical cyclone that…