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

1687: Acropolis in Athens attacked by Venetian army trying to eject Turks, damaging the Parthenon

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

1815: Russia, Prussia and Austria sign the Holy Alliance

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

1918: Beginning of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, more than 1 million American soldiers in the largest and most costly offensive of WWI

Source: Onthisday.com