Events
588 BC -
Nebuchadrezzar II of
Babylon lays siege to
Jerusalem under
Zedekiah's reign. The siege lasts until
July 18,
586 BC.
69 -
Otho seizes power in
Rome, proclaiming himself
Emperor of Rome, but only survives for three months before committing suicide.1559 -
Elizabeth I of England is
crowned in
Westminster Abbey by
Owen Oglethorpe, the
Bishop of Carlisle, instead of the
Archbishop of Canterbury. 1582 -
Russia cedes
Livonia and
Estonia to
Poland.
1759 - The
British Museum opens.
1777 -
American Revolutionary War:
New Connecticut (present day
Vermont) declares its independence.
1782 - Superintendent of Finance
Robert Morris goes before the
U.S. Congress to recommend establishment of a national
mint and decimal
coinage.
1844 -
University of Notre Dame receives its charter from
Indiana.
1870 - A political
cartoon for the first time symbolizes the
United States Democratic Party with a
donkey ("A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion" by
Thomas Nast for
Harper's Weekly).
1885 -
Wilson Bentley takes the first
photograph of a
snowflake.
1892 -
James Naismith publishes the rules for
basketball.
1908 -
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, the first Greek-letter organization by and for Black college women is established.
1919 -
The Boston Molasses Disaster kills 21 people.1919 -
Ignace Paderewski becomes Premier of
Poland.1919 -
Rosa Luxemburg and
Karl Liebknecht, two of the most prominent
socialists in
Germany, were tortured and murdered by the
Freikorps.
1936 - The first building to be completely covered in
glass is completed in
Toledo, Ohio (the building was for the
Owens-Illinois Glass Company).
1943 -
World War II:
Japanese driven off
Guadalcanal.1943 - World War II:
Soviet counter-offensive at Voronezh begun.1943 - The world's largest office building,
The Pentagon, is dedicated (
Arlington, Virginia).
1947 - The brutalized corpse of
Elizabeth Short ("The Black Dahlia") is found in
Leimert Park, Los Angeles, California.
1951 -
Ilse Koch, The "Bitch of Buchenwald", wife of the commandant of the
Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment in a court in
West Germany.
1966 - First Military Coup in
Nigeria, government of
Abubakar Tafawa Balewa is overthrown.
1967 - In the first ever
Super Bowl, the
Green Bay Packers defeat the
Kansas City Chiefs, 35-10.
1969 - The
Soviet Union launches
Soyuz 5.
1970 - After a 32-month fight for independence from
Nigeria,
Biafra surrenders.1970 -
Muammar al-Qaddafi is proclaimed premier of
Libya.
1973 -
Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations,
President of the United States Richard Nixon announces the suspension of offensive action in
North Vietnam.
1975 -
Portugal grants independence to
Angola.
1976 -
Gerald Ford's would-be assassin,
Sara Jane Moore, is sentenced to life in prison.
1977 - The
Kälvesta air disaster kills 22 people, the worst air crash in Sweden's history.
1986 -
The Living Seas opens at
EPCOT Center in
Walt Disney World,
Florida.1986 - The
HBO and
Cinemax pay cable television services initiate scrambling of their national satellite feeds on
Galaxy 1 with the
Videocipher II system.
1990 -
AT&T's long distance
telephone network suffers a cascade switching failure.
1991 - The
United Nations deadline for the withdrawal of
Iraqi forces from occupied
Kuwait expires, preparing the way for the start of
Operation Desert Storm.
1992 - The international community recognizes the independence of
Slovenia and
Croatia from the
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
1993 -
Salvatore Riina, the Mafia boss known as 'The Beast', is arrested in
Sicily after three decades as a fugitive
1999 - The
Racak incident: 45
Albanians in the
Kosovo village of
Racak were killed by
Yugoslav security forces.
2001 -
Wikipedia, a free
Wiki content encyclopedia, goes online.
2005 - An intense solar flare blasted X rays across the
solar system.
ESA's SMART-1 lunar orbiter discovered elements such as
calcium,
aluminum,
silicon,
iron, and other surface elements on the moon.
2007 -
Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, former Iraqi intelligence chief and half-brother of Saddam Hussein, and
Awad Hamed al-Bandar, former chief judge of the Revolutionary Court, are executed by hanging in Iraq.2007 -
Comet McNaught makes
perigee after coming close to the sun.
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