1214 - At the Battle of Bouvines in France, Philip Augustus of France defeated John of England.
1245 - Frederick II of France was deposed by a council at Lyons, which found him guilty of sacrilege.
1689 - Government forces defeated the Scottish Jacobites at the Battle of Killiecrankie.
1694 - The Bank of England received a royal charter as a commercial institution.
1909 - Orville Wright set a record for the longest airplane flight. He was testing the first Army airplane and kept it in the air for 1 hour 12 minutes and 40 seconds.
1914 - British troops invaded the streets of Dublin, Ireland, and began to disarm Irish rebels.
1921 - Canadian biochemist Frederick Banting and associates announced the discovery of the hormone insulin.
1940 - Bugs Bunny made his official debut in the Warner Bros. animated cartoon "A Wild Hare."
2006 - Intel Corp introduced its Core 2 Duo microprocessors.