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• 648 BC - Earliest solar eclipse recorded by the Ancient Greeks.
• 1320 - The Scots reaffirm their independence by signing the Declaration of Arbroath.
• 1652 - Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp at the Cape of Good Hope, which will eventually develop into Cape Town.
• 1782 - Rama I succeeds King Taksin of Thailand, who was overthrown in a coup d'etat.
• 1832 - The Black Hawk War begins.
• 1841 - John Tyler is inaugurated as the 10th President of the United States.
• 1862 - American Civil War: In Tennessee. the Battle of Shiloh begins.
• 1895 - Oscar Wilde is arrested after losing a libel case against the John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry.
• 1896 - Opening of the first modern Olympic Games.
• 1909 - Robert Peary allegedly reaches the North Pole.
• 1917 - World War I: United States declares war on Germany (see Wikiquote).
• 1930 - Hostess Twinkies are invented.
• 1931 - Little Orphan Annie debuts on the Blue Network of NBC.
• 1941 - World War II: Germany invades Yugoslavia and Greece.
• 1973 - Launch of Pioneer 11 spacecraft.
• 1974 - The California Jam Rock concert begins.
• 1979 - President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan is executed.
• 1987 - Sugar Ray Leonard takes the middleweight boxing title from Marvin Hagler.
• 1994 - The genocide in Rwanda officially begins when the aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira is shot down by extremists.
• 1998 - Pakistan tests medium-range missiles capable of hitting India.