1580 Frances Drake completes circumnavigation of the world, sailing into Plymouth aboard the Golden Hind
1687 Acropolis in Athens attacked by Venetian army trying to eject Turks, damaging the Parthenon
1687 The city council of Amsterdam votes to support William of Orange's invasion of England, which became the Glorious Revolution.
1815 Russia, Prussia and Austria sign the Holy Alliance
1901 Great Britain annexes the Ashanti Kingdom and places it under the governor of the Gold Coast (Ghana)
1918 Beginning of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, more than 1 million American soldiers in the largest and most costly offensive of WWI
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