1181 - Supernova observed by Chinese & Japanese astronomers
1497 - Italian explorer John Cabot returns to Bristol from North America (Newfoundland) - first European to do so since the Vikings
1538 - Bogotá, Colombia, is founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada.
1825 - Bolivia gains independence from Peru (National Day)
1903 - Напишан е Крушевскиот манифест.
1945 - Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima by the US B-29 Superfortress "Enola Gay"
1962 - Jamaica becomes independent after 300 years of British rule
2012 - Mount Tongariro, New Zealand, erupts for the first time in a century
