Mary, Queen of Scots, is forced to abdicate and be replaced by her one-year-old son James VI. Mary, Queen of Scots, abdicated the Scottish throne…

Battle of Harlaw, one of the bloodiest battles in Scotland, takes place. The Battle of Harlaw, fought on July 24, 1411, was a significant conflict…

Apollo 11 splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean. The Apollo 11 mission was a historic spaceflight conducted by NASA, the United States’ space agency….

Louis VII of France lays siege to Damascus during the Second Crusade.

A high-speed train derails in Spain rounding a curve with an 80 km/h (50 mph) speed limit at 190 km/h (120 mph), killing 78 passengers.

End of a four-day-long Libyan–Egyptian War. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libyan%E2%80%93Egyptian_War’]

The four-day-long Libyan–Egyptian War ends. On July 21, 1977, there were the first gun battles between troops on the border, followed by land and air…

A four day war between Libya and Egypt ends.

The explorer, Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu, which is known as “the Lost City of the Incas”.