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- 1651 – Khmelnytsky Uprising: The Zaporozhian Cossacks began clashing with forces of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth at the Battle of Berestechko in the Volhynia Region of present-day Ukraine.
- 1880 – Police captured Australian bank robber and bushranger Ned Kelly (pictured) after a gun battle in Glenrowan, Victoria.
- 1914 – Yugoslav nationalist Gavrilo Princip
assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife during a motorcade in Sarajevo, sparking the outbreak of World War I.
- 1922 – The week-long Battle of Dublin began with an assault by the Irish Free State's National Army on the Four Courts building, which had been occupied by the Anti-Treaty Irish Republican Army, marking the start of the Irish Civil War.
- 1956 – Workers demanding better conditions held massive protests in Poznań, Poland, but were violently repressed by the following day by 400 tanks and 10,000 soldiers of Ludowe Wojsko Polskie and Korpus Bezpieczeństwa Wewnętrznego.