1405-Chinese fleet commander Zheng He sets sail to the Spice Islands on his first major expedition, leading 208 vessels, including 62 treasure ships with 27,800 sailors
1533-Pope Clement VII excommunicates England's King Henry VIII
1818-English poet John Keats writes "In the Cottage Where Burns is Born", "Lines Written in the Highlands", and "Gadfly"
1877-Kate Edger becomes New Zealand’s first woman graduate and first woman in the British Empire to earn a Bachelor of Arts
1897-Salomon August Andrée and crew leaves Spitsbergen in northern Norway by balloon headed for the North Pole
1944-Franklin Roosevelt announces that he will run for a fourth term as President of the United States
1995-More than 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys are massacred by Bosnian Serbs after they overrun the U.N, "safe haven" of Srebrenica on directive of Radovan Karadžić
2014-The U.N. Security Council calls for a special meeting to discuss the current Israel–Palestinian conflict; Israel continue attacks on Gaza