• 216 BC – Second Punic War: Carthaginian forces led by Hannibal defeated a numerically superior Roman army, near the town of Cannae in Apulia in southeast Italy.
• 1610 – English sea explorer Henry Hudson sailed into what is
now known as Hudson Bay, thinking he had made it through the Northwest Passage
to reach the Pacific Ocean.
• 1830 – His hand forced by the recent July Revolution,
Charles X of France abdicated the throne in favor of his grandson, Henry.
• 1916 – An explosion sank the Italian dreadnought Leonardo da
Vinci, which was blamed on Austro-Hungarian saboteurs.
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