The World Health Organization estimates that Yemen has over 200,000 cases of cholera.

The first Republican constitution in France is adopted.

U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman are taped talking about illegally using the Central Intelligence Agency to…

French forces are driven out of northern Italy by Spain at the Battle of Landriano during the War of the League of Cognac.

Queen Victoria succeeds to the British throne

Garfield’s first comic strip, originally published locally as Jon in 1976, goes into nationwide syndication

American Revolutionary War: The British Army abandons Philadelphia.

The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor.

While on tour with the Kirov Ballet in Paris, Rudolf Nureyev defects from the Soviet Union