Events1191 -
Richard I of England marries
Berengaria of Navarre. 1264 - The Battle of Lewes, between King
Henry III of England and the rebel
Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, begins. 1328 -
Antipope Nicholas V, a claimant to the
papacy, is consecrated in
Rome by the
Bishop of
Venice. 1364 -
Jagiellonian University, the oldest
university in
Poland, was founded in
Kraków,
Poland.1551 -
National University of San Marcos, the oldest
university in
the Americas, was founded in
Lima,
Peru.1588 -
French Wars of Religion:
Henry III of France flees
Paris after
Henry of Guise enters the city. 1689 -
King William's War:
William III of England joins the
League of Augsburg starting a war with
France.
1780 -
American Revolutionary War:
Charleston, South Carolina is taken by
British forces.
1797 -
First Coalition:
Napoleon I of France conquers
Venice.
1821 - The first big battle of the
Greek War of Independence against the Turks occurs in
Valtetsi.
1862 -
U.S. federal troops occupy
Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
1863 -
American Civil War:
Battle of Raymond: two divisions of
James B. McPherson's
XVII Corps (ACW) turn the left wing of Confederate General
John C. Pemberton's defensive line on Fourteen Mile Creek, opening up the interior of Mississippi to the Union Army during the
Vicksburg Campaign.
1864 -
American Civil War:
Battle of Spotsylvania Court House: Thousands of
Union and
Confederate soldiers die in "the Bloody Angle".
1865 -
American Civil War:
Battle of Palmito Ranch: The first day of the last major land action to take place during the Civil War, resulting in a Conferderate victory.
1870 - The
Manitoba Act was given the
Royal Assent, paving the way for
Manitoba to become a
province of Canada on
July 15.
1873 -
Oscar II of
Sweden-Norway is crowned King of
Sweden.
1881 - In
North Africa,
Tunisia becomes a
French protectorate.
1885 -
North-West Rebellion: The four-day
Battle of Batoche, pitting rebel
Métis against the
Canadian government, comes to an end with a decisive rebel defeat.
1890 - The first-ever official
County Championship match begins.
Yorkshire beat
Gloucestershire by eight wickets at
Bristol.
George Ulyett scores the first century in the competition.
1926 -
UK General Strike 1926: In the
United Kingdom, a nine-day
general strike by
trade unions ends.
1932 - Ten weeks after his
abduction, the infant son of
Charles Lindbergh is found dead in
Hopewell, New Jersey just a few miles from the Lindberghs' home.
1937 -
Coronation of King
George VI of Britain at
Westminster Abbey.
1941 -
Konrad Zuse presented the
Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic
computer in
Berlin.
1942 -
World War II:
Second Battle of Kharkov – In the eastern
Ukraine, the
Soviet Army initiates a major offensive. During the battle the
Soviets will capture the city of
Kharkov from the
German Army, only to be encircled and destroyed.1942 - 1,500
Jews are sent to
gas chambers in
Auschwitz.
1949 - The
Soviet Union lifts its
Blockade of Berlin.
1949 - The western occupying powers approve the
Basic Law for the new German state - the Federal Republic of Germany
1952 -
Gaj Singh crowned
Maharaja of
Jodhpur.
1955 - The last portion of the
IRT Third Avenue Elevated in
Manhattan closes.
1958 - A formal
North American Aerospace Defense Command agreement is signed between the
United States and
Canada.
1962 -
Douglas MacArthur delivers his famous "" valedictory speech at
West Point.
1965 - The
Soviet spacecraft Luna 5 crashes on the
Moon.1965 -
West Germany and
Israel establish diplomatic relations.
1966 -
Busch Memorial Stadium, home of the
St. Louis Cardinals major league baseball team and until 1987, the
NFL team of the same
name, opens in
St. Louis, Missouri.
1967 - At
Queen Elizabeth Hall,
England,
Pink Floyd stages the first-ever
quadraphonic rock concert.
1975 -
Mayagüez incident: The
Cambodian navy seizes the
American merchant ship SS Mayaguez in
international waters.
1978 - In
Zaïre, rebels occupy the city of
Kolwezi, the mining center of the province of
Shaba. The government of
Zaïre asks the
U.S.,
France and
Belgium to restore order.
1981 -
Francis Hughes starves to death in the
Maze Prison in a republican campaign for political status to be granted to
IRA prisoners.
1982 - During a procession outside the shrine of the Virgin Mary in
Fátima, Portugal, security guards overpower
Juan Fernandez Krohn before he can attack
Pope John Paul II with a
bayonet. Krohn, an ultraconservative Spanish priest opposed to the
Vatican II reforms, decided that the Pope must be killed for being an "agent of Moscow."
1989 - A
Southern Pacific Railroad freight train derails on the very steep
Cajon Pass in
San Bernardino, California, killing four people.
1994 -
UK opposition leader
John Smith dies in a
London hospital after two serious heart attacks.
1999 -
David Steel becomes the first
Presiding Officer (
speaker) of the modern
Scottish Parliament.
2002 - Former
President Jimmy Carter arrives in
Cuba for a five-day visit with
Fidel Castro becoming first
President of the United States, in or out of office, to visit the island since Castro's
1959 revolution.
2003 - The
Riyadh compound bombings, carried out by
Al Qaeda, kill 26.2003 - Fifty-nine
Democratic lawmakers bring the
Texas Legislature to a standstill by going into hiding in a dispute over a
Republican congressional
redistricting plan.
2006 -
Justin Gatlin ties the
100 metres sprint world record with a time of 9.77 seconds in
Doha,
Qatar.
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