1148: Louis VII of France lays siege to Damascus during the Second Crusade.
1534: Jacques Cartier erects a 10-metre high cross at Gaspé, claims Canada for France.
1567: Mary, Queen of Scots, is forced to abdicate and replaced by her one-year old son, James VI.
1814: Phineas Riall advances to Niagara to meet Jacob Brown's American invaders.
1847: After 17 months of travel, Brigham Young leads 148 Mormon pioneers into Salt Lake Valley, establishing Salt Lake City.
1866: Tennessee becomes the first U.S. state to be readmitted to the Union following the American Civil War.
1917: Prime Minister Sir Robert Borden's government passes Military Service Bill (Conscription Act).
1963: The ship Bluenose II was launched in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.
1974: The United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Richard Nixon surrender the tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor.