1248: Conquest of Seville by Christian troops under King Ferdinand III of Castile after the city capitulates

1644: “Areopagitica”, a pamphlet by John Milton decrying censorship, is published

1869: Clipper Cutty Sark is launched in Dumbarton, Scotland, as one of the last clippers ever built and the only one still surviving

2018: US Federal Climate report estimates climate change will reduce economy by 10% by 2100 with $141 billion cost from heat-related deaths, $118 billion from sea level rise

2019: Sumatran rhino officially declared extinct in Malaysia after last known specimen, 25-year-old Iman, dies of cancer in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo

Source: Onthisday.com