On this day in 1798, Napoleon defeated the Mamelukes in the Battle of the Pyramids.
On this day in 1816, Baron Paul Julius von Reuter, founder of the Reuter's telegraph office in London, which supplied newspapers with international news, was born in Germany as Israel Beer Josaphat.
On this day in 1944, the Pacific island of Guam, held by the Japanese since December 1941, was liberated by U.S. forces.
On this day in 2011, NASA's Space Shuttle program ended with the landing of Space Shuttle Atlantis on mission STS-135.