- 1099 - Crusaders of the First Crusade reached Jerusalem and began a five-week siege of the city.
- 1905 - The Norwegian parliament dissolved the Union between Sweden and Norway.
- 1940 - King Haakon VII of Norway, Crown Prince Olav and the Norwegian government left Tromsø for exile in London, following the WWII German invasion.
- 1948 - Edvard Beneš resigned as President of Czechoslovakia rather than sign a Constitution making his nation a Communist state
- 1981 - The Israeli Air Force attacked and destroyed Iraq's Osiraq nuclear reactor.