You can check here and there. This is what stood out to me:
1160 Peterus Lombardus, Italian theologian, bishop of Paris, died.
1669 John Locke’s Constitution of English colony Carolina was approved.
1831 Belgium became independent as Leopold I was proclaimed King of the Belgians.
1861 In the first major battle of the Civil War, Confederate forces repelled an attempt by the Union Army to turn their flank in Virginia. The battle became known by the Confederates as Manassas, while the Union called it Bull Run.
1969: Man takes first steps on the Moon
What stood out to you–KSH?