Events1258 -
Baghdad falls to the
Mongols, and the
Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed.1503 -
Disfida di Barletta - Famous challenge between 13 Italian and 13 French knights near
Barletta.1542 -
Catherine Howard, the fifth wife of
Henry VIII of England, is executed for
adultery.1575 -
Henry III of France is crowned at
Rheims.1575 - Henry III of France marries
Louise de Lorraine-Vaudémont.
1633 -
Galileo Galilei arrives in
Rome for his trial before the
Inquisition.
1635 - The first
public school in the
U.S.,
Boston Latin School, is founded.1668 -
Spain recognizes
Portugal as an independent nation.1689 -
William and
Mary are proclaimed co-rulers of
England.
1692 -
Massacre of Glencoe : About 78
Macdonalds at
Glen Coe,
Scotland are killed early in the morning for not promptly pledging allegiance to the new king,
William of Orange.
1815 - The
Cambridge Union Society founded.
1866 -
Jesse James and his gang commit the first armed bank robbery in
United States history during peacetime in
Liberty, Missouri.
1880 -
Thomas Edison observes the
Edison effect.
1881 - The
feminist newspaper
La Citoyenne is first published in
Paris by activist
Hubertine Auclert.
1894 -
Auguste and Louis Lumière patent the
Cinematographe, a combination
movie camera and
projector.
1899 -
Tallahassee, Florida records its all time coldest temperature of -2 degrees Fahrenheit.
1914 -
Copyright: In
New York City the
ASCAP (for American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) is established to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members.
1920 - The
Negro National League is formed.
1934 - The
Soviet steamship Cheliuskin sinks in the
Arctic Ocean.
1935 - A jury in
Flemington, New Jersey finds
Bruno Hauptmann guilty of the
1932 kidnapping and
murder of the
Lindbergh baby, the son of
Charles Lindbergh.
1945 -
World War II:
Red Army forces take
Budapest,
Hungary from
Wehrmacht forces. 1945 -
World War II: The
Royal Air Force bombers were dispatched to
Dresden,
Germany to raid the city by massive aerial bombardment (see
Bombing of Dresden in World War II).
1955 -
Israel obtains 4 of the 7
Dead Sea scrolls.
1960 -
Nuclear testing:
France tests its first
atomic bomb.
1971 -
Vietnam War: Backed by
American air and artillery support,
South Vietnamese troops invade
Laos.
1974 -
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the
Nobel Prize in literature in
1970, is exiled from the
Soviet Union.
1975 - A fire erupts in the
World Trade Center in
New York City,
New York.
1978 -
Hilton bombing: a
bomb explodes in a refuse truck outside the
Hilton Hotel in
Sydney,
Australia, killing two refuse collectors and a policeman.
1979 - The intense
February 13, 1979 Windstorm strikes western
Washington and sinks a 1/2-mile-long section of the
Hood Canal Bridge.
1984 -
Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late
Yuri Andropov as general secretary of the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1990 -
German reunification: An agreement is reached for a two-stage plan to reunite
Germany.
1991 -
Gulf War: Two laser-guided "
smart bombs" destroy a bunker in
Baghdad. The bunker was being used as a military communications outpost and unknown to allied forces, as a shelter for
Iraqi civilians.
1997 -
Space Shuttle program:
STS-82 Mission - Tune-up and repair work on the
Hubble Space Telescope started by
astronauts from the
Space Shuttle Discovery.1997 - The
Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 7,000 for the
first time closing at 7,022.44.
2000 - The last original "
Peanuts"
comic strip appears in
newspapers one day after
Charles M. Schulz dies.
2001 - An
earthquake measuring 6.6 on the
Richter Scale hits
El Salvador, killing at least 400.
2004 - The
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovers the universe's largest known
diamond,
white dwarf star BPM 37093.
2007 -
Taiwan opposition leader
Ma Ying-jeou resigned as the chairman of the
Kuomintang party after being indicted by the Taiwan High Prosecutors Office on charges of embezzlement during his tenure as the mayor of
Taipei; Ma also announced his candidacy for the
2008 presidential election.
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