334 BC Macedonian army of Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of the Granicus

1570 First atlas “Theatrum Orbis Terrarum” (Theatre of the World) is published by Abraham Ortelius in Antwerp with 70 maps

1843 First wagon train departs Independence, Missouri, for Oregon with 700 to 1,000 migrants

1939 Germany’s Adolf Hitler and Italy’s Benito Mussolini sign the “Pact of Steel” formalizing the 1936 alliance known as the Rome-Berlin Axis

2014 Royal Thai Armed Forces, led by General Prayut Chan-o-cha, stage a coup in Thailand, suspend the kingdom’s constitution, and take control of the government, the 12th since the country’s first coup in 1932

Source: Onthisday.com