452: Attila the Hun invades Italy

793: Vikings in longships from modern-day Norway plunder St. Cuthbert’s monastery on Lindisfarne Island off the northeast coast of England, capturing and killing monks

1191: King Richard I of England arrives at Acre in modern-day Israel to join the Siege of Acre during the Third Crusade

1783: Laki volcano in southern Iceland begins an 8-month eruption, killing 10,000 people and causing widespread famine throughout Europe and Asia

1789: James Madison introduces a proposed Bill of Rights in the US House of Representatives

1918: Nova Aquilae is discovered, the brightest nova since Kepler’s nova of 1604

1987: New Zealand’s Labour government legislates against nuclear weapons and nuclear powered vessels, the only nation to legislate against nuclear power

Source: Onthisday.com