- 1302 – Byzantine–Ottoman Wars: The Ottoman sultanate gained its first major victory against theByzantine Empire in the Battle of Bapheus in Bithynia.
- 1916 – British mariner Charles Fryatt (pictured) was executed at Bruges, Belgium, after a court-martial found him to be a franc-tireur.
- 1953 – An armistice was signed to end hostilities in theKorean War, officially making the division of Korea indefinite by creating an approximately 4 km (2.5 mi) wide demilitarized zone across the Korean Peninsula.
- 2002 – A Ukrainian Air Force Sukhoi Su-27 aircraft crashed during an aerobatics presentation at an airshow near Lviv, Ukraine, killing 84 people and injuring over 100 others.
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