1580: Francis Drake completes his circumnavigation of the world, sailing into Plymouth, England aboard the Golden Hind

1687: The Acropolis in Athens is attacked by the Venetian army in an attempt to expel the Turks, damaging the Parthenon

1688: City council of Amsterdam votes to support Prince William of Orange’s invasion of England, known as “The Glorious Revolution” in the Netherlands

1815: Russia, Prussia, and Austria sign the Holy Alliance

1901: United Kingdom annexes the Ashanti Kingdom and places it under the governor of the Gold Coast (Ghana)

1905: Physics journal Annalen der Physik publishes Albert Einstein’s paper “On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies”; later considered his special theory of relativity

1918: Meuse-Argonne Offensive begins in western France, the largest and most costly American offensive of World War I, with more than 1 million US soldiers participating

Source: Onthisday.com