Events655 -
Battle of Winwaed:
Penda of Mercia defeated by
Oswiu of Northumbria.1315 -
Battle of Morgarten the Schweizer Eidgenossenschaft wins the battle against Habsburg.1515 -
Thomas Cardinal Wolsey invested as a
Cardinal1533 -
Francisco Pizarro arrives in
Cuzco,
Peru.
1777 -
American Revolutionary War: After 16 months of debate the
Continental Congress approves the
Articles of Confederation.
1791 - The first U.S Catholic college,
Georgetown University, opens its doors.
1806 -
Pike expedition: Lieutenant
Zebulon Pike sees a distant mountain peak while near the
Colorado foothills of the
Rocky Mountains (it was later named
Pikes Peak).
1854 - In
Egypt, the
Suez Canal, linking the
Mediterranean Sea with the
Red Sea, is given the needed royal concession by
Said.
1864 -
American Civil War:
Union General
William Tecumseh Sherman burns
Atlanta, Georgia and starts
Sherman's March to the Sea.
1889 -
Brazil is declared a republic by
Marechal Deodoro da Fonseca and Emperor
Pedro II is deposed in a military
coup.
1920 - First assembly of the
League of Nations is held in
Geneva.
1926 - The
NBC radio network opens with 24 stations.
1935 -
Canada and the United States signed the reciprocal trade agreement in Washington.
1939 - In
Washington, D.C., US President
Franklin D. Roosevelt lays the cornerstone of the
Jefferson Memorial.
1941 -
Holocaust:
SS chief
Heinrich Himmler orders the arrest and deportation to
concentration camps of all
homosexuals in
Germany, with the exception of certain top
Nazi officials.
1942 -
World War II: First flight of the
Heinkel He 219.1942 -
World War II: The
Naval Battle of Guadalcanal ends in a decisive
Allied victory.
1943 -
Holocaust:
German SS leader
Heinrich Himmler orders that
Gypsies were to be put "on the same level as
Jews and placed in
concentration camps." (see
Porajmos)
1948 -
Louis Stephen St. Laurent succeeds
William Lyon Mackenzie King as
Prime Minister of Canada. King had the longest combined time (3 terms, 22 years in total) as Premier in
Commonwealth of Nations history.
1949 -
Nathuram Godse and
Narayan Apte executed for assassinating
Mahatma Gandhi.
1958 -
Morocco promulgates a
press code.
1959 - Four members of the Herbert
Clutter Family murdered at their farm outside
Holcomb, Kansas.
1960 - The
Polaris missile is test launched.
1966 -
Gemini program:
Gemini 12 splashes down safely in the
Atlantic Ocean.1966 - A
Boeing 727 carrying
Pan Am Flight 708 crashes near
Berlin,
Germany, killing all three people on board.
1967 - The only fatality of the
X-15 program occurs during the
191st flight when Air Force test pilot
Michael J. Adams loses control of his aircraft, and is destroyed mid-air over the Mojave Desert.
1969 -
Cold War: The
Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the American submarine
USS Gato in the
Barents Sea. 1969 -
Vietnam War: In
Washington, D.C., 250,000-500,000 protesters staged a peaceful demonstration against the war, including a symbolic "March Against Death."1969 -
Dave Thomas opens the first
Wendy's fast food restaurant in
Columbus,
Ohio.
1970 - The Soviet
Lunokhod 1 moon rover lands on the
moon.
1971 -
Intel releases world's first commercial single-chip
microprocessor, the
4004.
1976 -
René Lévesque and the
Parti Québécois take power to become the first
Quebec government of the
20th century clearly in favour of
independence.
1978 - A chartered DC-8
crashes near Colombo,
Sri Lanka, killing 183.
1979 - A package from the Unabomber
Ted Kaczynski begins smoking in the cargo hold of a flight from
Chicago to
Washington, forcing the plane to make an emergency landing.
1983 -
Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is founded.
1985 - A research assistant is injured as a package from the
Unabomber addressed to a
University of Michigan professor explodes.1985 - The
Anglo-Irish Agreement is signed at
Hillsborough Castle by
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and
Irish Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald.
1987 -
Continental Airlines Flight 1713, a
Douglas DC-9-14 jetliner, crashes in a snowstorm at
Denver, Colorado Stapleton International Airport, killing 28 occupants, while 54 survive the crash.
1988 - In the
Soviet Union, the unmanned
Shuttle Buran is launched on her first and last space flight.1988 -
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: An independent
State of Palestine is proclaimed by the
Palestinian National Council.1988 - The first
Fairtrade label,
Max Havelaar, is launched in the
Netherlands.
1990 -
Space Shuttle program:
Space Shuttle Atlantis launches with flight
STS-38. 1990 - Producers acknowledge that
Milli Vanilli, who won the
1990 "Best New Artist"
Grammy Award, did not sing on their album.
2000 - A chartered Antonov AN-24
crashes after takeoff from Luanda,
Angola killing more than 40 people
2002 -
Hu Jintao becomes general secretary of the
Communist Party of China.
2003 - The first day of the
2003 Istanbul Bombings takes place, to be followed by additional bombings on
November 20.
2004 -
New Jersey Governor
Jim McGreevey leaves office, three months after resigning due to a
gay extra-marital affair. State Senator
Richard Codey takes over as interim
governor.
2005 -
Boeing formally launches the stretched
Boeing 747-8 variant with orders from
Cargolux and
Nippon Cargo Airlines.
2006 -
Puerto Rico implements its first sales tax.2006 - The
Al Jazeera English global 24h
news channel is launched.
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