Todays History

Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping is restored to power.

After 11 years of construction, the Aswan High Dam in Egypt is completed.

Siege of Jerusalem: Titus, son of emperor Vespasian, storms the Fortress of Antonia north of the Temple Mount. The Roman army is drawn into street…

Opening of the Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland.

Adolf Hitler publishes Mein Kampf.

Former emperor Peter III of Russia is murdered.

Iraqi President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr resigns and is replaced by Saddam Hussein.

King John of England expels Canterbury monks for supporting Archbishop Stephen Langton.

Joan of Arc, taken by the Burgundians in May, is handed over to Pierre Cauchon, the bishop of Beauvais.

Coronation of Alexander III as King of Scots.