1398: Tamerlane captures and sacks Delhi, defeating Sultan Nasir-ud-Din Mahmud’s armies by setting camels loaded with hay alight and charging them at the Sultan’s armored elephants

1531: Pope Clement VII publishes papal bull “Cum ad nihil magis”, authorizing the Inquisition into Portugal at Evora, Coimbra and Lisbon; rescinded in 1535

1788: Russian army led by Grigory Potemkin assaults and captures the fortress of Ochakov in modern-day Ukraine after a five-month-long siege in one of the major events of the Russo-Turkish War

1903: At 10:35 am, Orville Wright pilots the first sustained, powered, and controlled flight of a heavier-than-air aircraft at Kill Devil Hills near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina; the flight lasts 12 seconds and covers 120 feet

1986: Davina Thompson makes medical history by having the first heart, lung, and liver transplant at Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, England

Source: Onthisday.com