Events
330 -
Byzantium is renamed
Nova Roma during a dedication ceremony, but is more popularly referred to as
Constantinople.1310 - 54 members of the
Knights Templar are burned at the stake in
France for being heretics. 1502 -
Christopher Columbus leaves for his fourth and final voyage to the
West Indies.
1745 -
War of Austrian Succession:
Battle of Fontenoy – At
Fontenoy,
French forces defeat an
Anglo-
Dutch-
Hanoverian army.
1792 -
Captain Robert Gray becomes the first documented
white person to sail into the
Columbia River.
1812 -
Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is assassinated by
John Bellingham in the
lobby of the
House of Commons,
London.
1813 - In
Australia,
Lawson,
Blaxland and
Wentworth, lead an expedition westwards from
Sydney. Their route opens up inland Australia for continued expansion throughout the 19th century.
1818 -
Charles XIV of
Sweden-Norway is crowned king of
Sweden.
1820 - Launch of
HMS Beagle the ship that took young
Charles Darwin on his scientific voyage.
1841 -
Lt. Charles Wilkes lands at
Fort Nisqually in
Puget Sound.
1857 -
Indian Mutiny:
Indian rebels seize
Delhi from the
British.
1858 -
Minnesota is admitted as the 32nd
U.S. state.
1862 -
American Civil War: The
ironclad CSS Virginia is scuttled in the
James River northwest of
Norfolk, Virginia.
1864 -
American Civil War:
Battle of Yellow Tavern –
Confederate General JEB Stuart is mortally wounded at Yellow Tavern, Virginia.
1867 -
Luxembourg gains its
independence.
1891 -
Otsu Scandal.
1894 -
Pullman Strike: Four thousand
Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on a wildcat
strike in
Illinois.
1907 - A derailment outside
Lompoc, California kills 32
Shriners when their chartered train jumps off the tracks at a switch near Surf Depot.
1910 - An act of the
U.S. Congress establishes
Glacier National Park in
Montana.
1911 - The
United States becomes a signatory to the
Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1918 - The
Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus was officially established.
1924 -
Mercedes-Benz formed by
Gottlieb Daimler and
Karl Benz merging the two companies.
1927 - The
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is founded.
1934 -
Dust Bowl: A strong two-day
dust storm removes massive amounts of
Great Plains topsoil in one of the worst dust storms of the
Dust Bowl in
North America.
1942 -
William Faulkner's collections of short stories,
Go Down, Moses, is published.
1943 -
World War II:
American troops invade
Attu in the
Aleutian Islands in an attempt to expel occupying
Japanese forces.
1944 -
World War II: The
Allies start a major offensive against the
Axis Powers on the
Gustav Line.
1946 -
UMNO is created.
1949 -
Siam officially changes its name to
Thailand, a name in use since 1939.1949 -
Israel joins the
United Nations.
1953 - The
Waco Tornado: An
F5 tornado hits downtown
Waco, Texas, killing 114.
1960 - In
Buenos Aires,
Argentina, four
Israeli Mossad agents capture fugitive
Nazi Adolf Eichmann, living under the assumed name
Ricardo Klement.1960 - The first
contraceptive pill is made available on the market.
1964 -
Terence Conran opened the first
Habitat store on
London's
Fulham Road.
1966 -
Henry "Dickie" Marrow is murdered in a violent racially-motivated crime in
Oxford, N.C..
1967 -
Andreas Papandreou is imprisoned in
Athens by the Greek military junta.
1969 -
Vietnam War: Operation Apache Snow – Near the
Laos border,
American and
South Vietnamese forces fight
North Vietnamese troops for
Ap Bia Mountain (aka
Hill 937 or "
Hamburger Hill").
1970 - The
Lubbock Tornado: An
F5 tornado hits downtown
Lubbock, Texas, killing 26.1970 - The
Beatles song "The Long and Winding Road" is released as a single in the United States. It becomes the group's last number one single in that country.
1973 - Citing government misconduct,
Daniel Ellsberg has his charges for his involvement in releasing the
Pentagon Papers to
The New York Times dismissed.
1984 - A
transit of Earth from Mars takes place.
1985 - 56 spectators die when a
flash fire strikes a
football ground during a match in
Bradford, England.
1987 -
Klaus Barbie goes on trial in
Lyon for
war crimes committed during
World War II. 1987 - The first
heart-
lung transplant takes place (
Baltimore, Maryland). The surgery is performed by
Dr. Bruce Reitz, of
Stanford University School of Medicine.
1995 - In
New York City, more than 170 countries decide to extend the
Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty indefinitely and without conditions.
1996 - After taking-off from
Miami, a fire started by improperly handled
oxygen canisters in the cargo hold of
Atlanta-bound
ValuJet Flight 592 causes the
Douglas DC-9 to crash in the
Florida Everglades killing all 110 on board.
1997 -
IBM Deep Blue, a
chess-playing
supercomputer, defeats
Garry Kasparov in the
last game of the rematch, becoming the first
computer to beat a world-champion
chess player.
1998 -
India conducts three underground nuclear tests in
Pokhran, including a
thermonuclear device.1998 - An
election is held in the
Philippines where
actor Joseph Estrada emerged as winner for
President.
2000 - Last performance of the musical
Cats in
London's
West End.
2002 -
Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet of the
Netherlands unveiled the Man With Two Hats monument in
Ottawa (May 11, 2002) and
Apeldoorn (
May 2),
2000, symbolically linking both
Netherlands and
Canada for their assistance throughout the
Second World War.
2004 - The
Stockline Plastics factory explosion in
Glasgow kills nine people.
2007 -
Pope Benedict XVI canonizes the first
Brazilian-born
saint,
Frei Galvão.
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