Events
49 BC -
Julius Caesar crosses the
Rubicon, signaling the start of civil war.236 -
Saint Fabian begins his reign as a Catholic Pope.1072 -
Robert Guiscard conquers
Palermo.1475 -
Stephen III of Moldavia defeats the
Ottoman Empire at the
Battle of Vaslui.1645 - Archbishop
William Laud is beheaded at the
Tower of London1776 -
Thomas Paine publishes
Common Sense.
1806 - Dutch settlers in
Cape Town surrender to the
British.
1810 - The marriage of
Napoleon and
Josephine is annulled.
1861 -
American Civil War:
Florida secedes from the
Union.
1863 - The
London Underground, the world's oldest underground railway, opens between
London Paddington station and
Farringdon station.
1870 -
John D. Rockefeller incorporates
Standard Oil.
1899 -
Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity was founded.
1901 - The first great
Texas oil gusher is discovered at
Spindletop in
Beaumont, Texas.
1920 - The
League of Nations holds its first meeting and ratifies the
Treaty of Versailles ending
World War I.
1922 -
Arthur Griffith is elected President of the
Irish Free State.
1923 -
Lithuania seizes and annexes
Memel.
1927 - The film
Metropolis by
Fritz Lang premieres.
1929 -
Tintin, a
comic book character created by
Hergé, makes his debut. He went on to be published in over 200 million comic books in 40 languages.
1941 -
Lend-Lease is introduced into the
US Congress.
1946 - The first
General Assembly of the
United Nations opens in London. Fifty-one nations are represented.
1957 -
Harold Macmillan becomes the prime minister of the
United Kingdom.
1962 -
Apollo Project:
NASA announces plans to build the
C-5 rocket booster. It became better known as the
Saturn V moon rocket, which launched every Apollo
moon mission.
1982 -
The Catch -
Dwight Clark of the
San Francisco 49ers makes a leaping catch from
Joe Montana with 58 seconds to play to defeat the
Dallas Cowboys 28-27 in the
NFC Championship Game at
Candlestick Park.
1984 - The
US and the
Vatican establish full diplomatic relations after 117 years.
1989 -
Cuban troops begin withdrawing from
Angola.
1990 -
Time Warner is formed from the merger of
Time Inc. and
Warner Communications Inc.
1995 - The
World Youth Day was held in the
Philippines.
1999 - A large piece of the chalk cliff at
Beachy Head collapses into the sea.
1999 - The
HBO television series
The Sopranos first aires.
2000 -
America Online announces an agreement to buy
Time Warner for $162 billion, the largest corporate merger in history.
2001 -
Wikipedia starts as part of
Nupedia. It becomes a separate site five days later.
2005 - A mudslide occurs in
La Conchita, CA, killing 10 people, injuring many more and closing the
Highway 101, the main coastal corridor between
San Francisco and
Los Angeles, for 10 days.2005 -
Eyre Peninsula Bushfire in South Australia kills nine and injures 113.
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