Events 456 -
Magister militum Ricimer defeats the Emperor
Avitus at
Piacenza and becomes master of the western
Roman Empire.
1775 -
Portland, Maine burnt by the
British.
1780 -
Royalton, Vermont and
Tunbridge, Vermont last major raid of the
American Revolutionary War.
1781 -
George Washington captures
Yorktown, Virginia after the
Siege of Yorktown.
1793 -
Marie Antoinette, wife of
Louis XVI is
guillotined at the height of the
French Revolution.1793 -
Battle of Wattignies.
1813 - The
Sixth Coalition attacks
Napoleon Bonaparte in the
Battle of Leipzig.
1834 - Much of the ancient structures of the
Palace of Westminster in
London is burnt down.
1841 -
Queen's University is founded in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
1843 -
Sir William Rowan Hamilton comes up with the idea of
quaternions, a
non-commutative extension of
complex numbers.
1859 -
John Brown leads raid on
Harper's Ferry, West Virginia1869 -
Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is discovered.1869 -
England's first residential college for women,
Girton College, Cambridge, is founded.
1875 -
Brigham Young University is founded in
Provo,
Utah.
1882 - The
Nickel Plate Railroad opens for business.
1905 - The
Partition of Bengal (India) occurred.
1906 - The
Captain of Köpenick fools the
city hall of
Köpenick and several soldiers by impersonating a
Prussian officer.
1916 -
Margaret Sanger founds
Planned Parenthood by opening the first U.S. birth control clinic.
1923 -
The Walt Disney Company is founded by
Walt Disney and his brother,
Roy Disney.
1934 -
Chinese Communists begin the
Long March; it ended a year and four days later, by which time
Mao Zedong had regained his title as party chairman.
1939 -
World War II: First attack on British territory by German
Luftwaffe.
1940 -
Benjamin O. Davis Sr. named first
African American general in the
United States Army.1940 -
Warsaw Ghetto established.
1945 - The
Food and Agriculture Organization was founded in
Quebec City,
Canada.
1946 - Ten war criminals of the
Second World War, condemned in the
Nuremberg trials are hanged.
1949 -
Nikolaos Zachariadis, leader of the
Communist Party of Greece, announces a "temporary cease-fire", effectively ending the
Greek Civil War.
1951 - The first
Prime Minister of Pakistan,
Liaquat Ali Khan, is
assassinated in
Rawalpindi.
1961 -
Cork Airport opened in Ireland.
1962 -
Cuban Missile Crisis between the
United States and
Cuba began.
1964 -
People's Republic of China detonates its first
nuclear weapon.
1968 -
United States athletes
Tommie Smith and
John Carlos are kicked out of the USA's team for performing a
Black Power salute during a medal ceremony.1968 -
Kingston, Jamaica is rocked by the
Rodney Riots, inspired by the barring of
Walter Rodney from the country.
1969 -
United States - The "miracle"
New York Mets win the
World Series, defeating the
Baltimore Orioles 4 games to 1.
1970 -
Canada - In response to the
October Crisis terrorist kidnapping,
Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau invokes the
War Measures Act.
1973 -
Henry Kissinger and
Le Duc Tho are awarded the
Nobel Peace Prize.
1975 - The
Balibo Five, a group of
Australian television journalists based in the town of
Balibo in the then
Portuguese Timor (now
East Timor), are killed by
Indonesian troops.
1978 - Karol Józef Wojtyła becomes
Pope John Paul II.
1984 -
Desmond Tutu is awarded the
Nobel Peace Prize.
1987 -
Great Storm of 1987:
hurricane force winds to hit much of the
South of England killing 23 people.
1991 -
Luby's massacre:
George Hennard runs amok in
Killeen,
Texas, killing 23 and wounding 20 in Luby's Cafeteria.1991 -
Jharkhand Chhatra Yuva Morcha is founded at a conference in
Ranchi,
India.
1995 - The
Million Man March occurs in
Washington, DC.
1996 - Eighty-four people are killed and more than 180 injured as 47,000
football fans attempt to squeeze into the 36,000-seat
Estadio Mateo Flores in
Guatemala City.
2002 -
Bibliotheca Alexandrina in the
Egyptian city of
Alexandria, a commemoration of the
Library of Alexandria that was lost in
antiquity, is officially inaugurated.2002 - Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002, was signed into law by President
George W. Bush.
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