Originally Posted by Kaye T. Bai

1707 - England and Scotland join to form the Kingdom of Great Britain, which would ultimately become the UK.
1778 - U.S. and British forces fight each other at the Battle of Crooked Billet in Pennsylvania.
1862 - The U.S. Army captures New Orleans, Louisiana during the country's civil war.
1884 - Moses Fleetwood Walker becomes the first black baseball player in the U.S.
1898 - The U.S. Navy defeats a Spanish fleet in the Battle of Manila Bay.
1930 - The planet of Pluto is named.
1948 - The country of North Korea is established.
1956 - A polio vaccine becomes available to the public.
1960 - A U-2 spy plane is shot down over the Soviet Union.
1961 - Cuba becomes a socialist state.
1965 - Chinese and Taiwanese warships battle each other in the Taiwan strait.
1999 - Spongebob Squarepants premieres on the Nickelodeon network.
2003 - The U.S. invasion of Iraq concludes, with the country's Ba'athist regime deposed.
2004 - Several new countries join the European Union.
2010 - A car bomb is discovered in New York City's Time Square and is defused.
2016 - A wildfire starts in Fort McMurray, Canada; it is still burning a year later.

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1328 Wars of Scottish Independence end: Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton - the Kingdom of England recognises the Kingdom of Scotland as an independent state.

1707 Acts of Union comes into force, uniting England and Scotland to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain.

1898 US Admiral George Dewey commands "You may fire when you are ready, Gridley" as US route Spanish fleet at Manila.

1915 British liner Lusitania leaves NY for Liverpool.

1915 German submarine torpedoes US tanker Gulflight.

1944 Messerschmitt Me 262 Sturmvogel, first jet bomber, makes first flight.

1945 About 1,000 citizens of Demmin in Germany, commit suicide provoked by occupation by Soviet Red Army.

1945 Admiral Karl Doenitz forms German government.

1948 North Korea proclaims itself Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

1960 Russia shoots down Francis Gary Powers' U-2 spy plane over Sverdlovsk.