Sir William Wallace is executed for his high treason in London.

French troops end an uprising of Flemish farmers in the Battle of Cassel.

In Stockholm, Sweden a bank robbery that went wrong results in a hostage crisis. The hostages begin to sympathize with their captors, leading to the…

The Battle of Stalingrad during World War 2 begins.

A US Army Air Forces B24 bomber crashes into a school in Freckleton, England killing 61 people.

Beginning of the Battle of Stalingrad during WW2

Germany and the Soviet Union sign the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, a non-aggression treaty.