1655    Warsaw falls without resistance to a small force under the command of Charles X Gustav of Sweden during The Deluge.

1861    Russian troops fire on a crowd in Warsaw protesting against Russian rule over Poland, killing five protesters.

1918    Józef Piłsudski comes to Warsaw and assumes supreme military power in Poland. Poland regains its independence, celebrated each year on this day.

1922    President of Poland Gabriel Narutowicz is assassinated by Eligiusz Niewiadomski at the Zachęta Gallery in Warsaw.

1939    Warsaw surrenders to Nazi Germany during World War II.

1940    Warsaw is awarded the Virtuti Militari.

1942    World War II: the Warsaw paper ''Liberty Brigade'' publishes the first news of the concentration camps.

1942    Holocaust: In Warsaw, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka and Wanda Krahelska-Filipowicz set up the Żegota organization.

1944    Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi occupation breaks out in Warsaw, Poland.

1944    Holocaust: Polish insurgents liberate a German labor camp in Warsaw, freeing 348 Jewish prisoners.

1945    Soviet forces capture the almost completely destroyed Polish city of Warsaw.

1980    In Poland, a plane crashes during final approach near Warsaw, killing 87 people, including a 14-man American boxing team.

1987    A Polish LOT Ilyushin IL-62M "Tadeusz Kościuszko" (SP-LBG) crashes after takeoff in Warsaw, Poland, killing 183 people.