479 b.c. The invasion of Greece by Persians, led by Xerxes, is defeated by Pausanias at the Battle of Plataea.
1928 The Kellogg-Briand Pact condemns "recourse to war for the solution of international controversies."
1979 Lord Louis Mountbatten blown up on his boat, in Ireland, by a bomb planted by the IRA.
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