1789 - US Federal Judiciary Act passes, creating a six-person Supreme Court
1526 - Battle of Mohács: In a decisive battle the Hungarian Empire is conquered by the Ottoman Empire led by Suleiman the Magnificent
1789 - French National Assembly issues the “Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen”
1642 - Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens discovers Martian south polar cap
1817 - 60-70ft sea serpent sightings reported offshore in Gloucester, Massachusetts
1851 - Total solar eclipse captured on a daguerreotype photograph
1866 -US House of representatives passes 14th Amendment (Civil rights)
1792 - Mount Unzen on Japan’s Shimabara Peninsula, erupts creating a tsunami, killing about 15,000; Japan’s deadliest volcanic eruption
1920 - Joan of Arc (Jeanne D’arc) canonized a saint
1862 - New Orleans falls to Union forces during US Civil War