Events
597 BC -
Babylonians capture
Jerusalem, replace
Jehoiachin with
Zedekiah as king1190 -
Crusaders start to massacre the
Jews of
York; many Jews commit suicide rather than submit to baptism.1249 - The
Servite Order is officially approved by Cardinal Raniero Capocci, papal legate in Tuscany.1322 -
Battle of Boroughbridge in the
First War of Scottish Independence.
1521 -
Ferdinand Magellan reaches the
Philippines.
1621 -
Samoset, a
Mohegan, visits the settlers of
Plymouth Colony and greets them, "Welcome, Englishmen! My name is Samoset."
1660 - The
Long Parliament disbands.1689 - The 23rd Regiment of Foot or
Royal Welch Fusiliers is founded.
1792 - King
Gustav III of Sweden is shot; he dies on
March 29.
1802 - The United States Military Academy
West Point is established.
1812 -
Battle of Badajoz (March 16 -
April 6) - British and Portuguese forces besiege and defeat French garrison during
Peninsular War.
1815 -
Prince Willem of the
House of Orange-Nassau proclaimed himself
King of the
United Kingdom of the Netherlands, the first
constitutional monarch in the
Netherlands.
1818 -
Battle of Cancha Rayada - Spanish forces defeat Chileans under
José de San Martín.
1855 -
Bates College in
Lewiston, Maine is founded.
1861 -
Edward Clark became
Governor of
Texas, replacing
Sam Houston, who was evicted from the office for refusing to take an oath of loyalty to the
Confederacy.
1867 - First publication of an article by
Joseph Lister outlining the discovery of
antiseptic surgery, in
The Lancet.
1872 - The
Wanderers F.C. won the first
FA Cup, the oldest
football competition in the world, beating
Royal Engineers A.F.C. 1-0 at
The Oval in
Kennington,
London.
1900 - Sir
Arthur Evans purchases the land around the ruins of
Knossos, the largest
Bronze Age archaeological site on
Crete.
1912 -
Lawrence Oates, ill member of
Scott's
South Pole expedition leaves the tent saying, "I am just going outside and may be some time."
1916 - 7th and 10th US cavalry regiments under
John J. Pershing cross the border to join the hunt of
Pancho Villa.
1924 - The
free port of
Fiume formally annexed by
Mussolini's fascist regime.
1926 - History of Rocketry:
Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled
rocket, at
Auburn, Massachusetts.
1935 -
Adolf Hitler orders
Germany to rearm herself in violation of the
Versailles Treaty. Conscription was reintroduced to form the
Wehrmacht.
1939 - From
Prague Castle Hitler proclaimed
Bohemia and Moravia a German
protectorate.1939 - Marriage of Princess
Fawzia of Egypt to Shah
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran1942 - History of Rocketry: First
V-2 rocket test launch (exploded at liftoff)
1945 -
World War II: The
Battle of Iwo Jima ends but small pockets of Japanese resistance persist. 1945 -
Würzburg,
Germany is 90
estroyed, with 5,000 dead, in only 20 minutes by British bombers.
1952 - In
Cilaos,
Réunion, 73 inches (1,870mm) of
rain falls in one day, setting a new world record.
1956 - St. Urho's Day is first celebrated.
1958 -
Ford Motor Company produces its 50 millionth automobile, the
Thunderbird, averaging almost a million cars a year since the company's founding.
1962 - A
Flying Tiger Line Super Constellation disappears in the western
Pacific Ocean, with 107 people missing.
1963 -
Mount Agung erupts on
Bali - 11,000 dead
1966 - Launch of
Gemini 8, the 12th manned American space flight and first space docking with the
Agena Target Vehicle.
1968 -
Vietnam War: In the
My Lai massacre, between 350 and 500 Vietnamese villagers -- men, women, and children -- are killed by American troops. 1968 -
General Motors releases its 100 millionth automobile, the
Oldsmobile Toronado.
1969 - A Venezuelan Airlines
DC-9 crashes shortly after takeoff in
Maracaibo,
Venezuela killing 155
1971 - Government of
Trygve Bratteli in
Norway1972 - The first building of the
Pruitt-Igoe housing complex is demolished.
1976 - UK Prime Minister,
Harold Wilson resigns.
1978 -
Aldo Moro is kidnapped by left-wing terrorists in
Italy and is later killed by his captors. 1978 - Supertanker
Amoco Cadiz splits in two after running aground on Portsall Rocks, three miles off the coast of
Brittany, resulting in the 5th-largest
oil spill in history
1983 - Demolition of the
radio tower Ismaning, the last radio tower in Germany built of
wood.
1984 -
William Buckley, the
CIA station chief in
Beirut,
Lebanon, is kidnapped by
Islamic fundamentalists and later dies in captivity.
1985 -
Associated Press newsman
Terry Anderson is taken hostage in
Beirut. He would be released on
December 4,
1991.
1988 -
Iran-Contra Affair: Lieutenant Colonel
Oliver North and Vice Admiral
John Poindexter are indicted on charges of
conspiracy to defraud the
United States.1988 -
Halabja poison gas attack: The
Kurdish town of
Halabjah in
Iraq was attacked with a mix of
poison gas and
nerve agents, killing thousands of people.
1995 -
Mississippi formally ratifies the
Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of
slavery.
1996 -
Göran Persson is elected leader of the
Swedish Social Democratic Party.
1996 -
Dexter's Laboratory begins airing on
Cartoon Network.
1997 -
Sandline affair - On
Bougainville, soldiers of commander
Jerry Singirok arrest
Tim Spicer and his mercenaries of the
Sandline International1998 -
Pope John Paul II apologises for inactivity and silence of some Roman Catholics during the
Holocaust.
2003 - Largest coordinated worldwide vigil, as part of the global
protests against Iraq war.
2005 - Israel officially hands over
Jericho to Palestinian control
2006 - The
United Nations General Assembly votes overwhelmingly to establish the
UN Human Rights Council.
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