• 168 BC - Battle of Pydna: Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paullus defeated and captured Macedonian King Perseus, ending the Third Macedonian War
• 1854 - British Parliament abolished feudalism and the seigneurial system in British North America.
• 1941 - Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union, in one of the most dramatic turning points of World War II.
• 1976 - Canadian House of Commons abolished capital punishment.

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