Events
1178 BC - A
solar eclipse may have marked the return of
Odysseus, legendary
King of
Ithaca, to his kingdom after the
Trojan War.
73 -
Masada, a Jewish fortress, falls to the Romans after several months of siege, ending the Jewish Revolt.1071 -
Bari falls to
Robert Guiscard, ending
Byzantine rule in
Italy.1346 -
Serbian Empire was proclaimed in
Skopje by
Dusan Silni, occupying much of the
South-Eastern Europe. 1395 -
Azzo X d'Este is defeated at the Battle of Portomaggiore by Venetian-Ferrarese troops.
1521 -
Martin Luther's first appearance before the
Diet of Worms to be examined by the
Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and the other estates of the
empire.1582 -
Spanish conquistador Hernando de Lerma founds the settlement of
Salta,
Argentina.
1746 -
Battle of Culloden 1780 - The
University of Münster in
Münster,
North Rhine-Westphalia,
Germany is founded.
1799 -
Napoleonic Wars:
Battle of Mount Tabor –
Napoleon drives
Ottoman Turks across the
River Jordan near
Acre.
1853 - The first passenger rail opens in
India, from
Bori Bunder,
Bombay to
Thane.
1862 -
American Civil War:
Battle at Lee's Mills in
Virginia.1862 - American Civil War: A bill ending
slavery in the
District of Columbia became law.
1863 - American Civil War:
Siege of Vicksburg – ships led by
Union Admiral David Dixon Porter move through heavy
Confederate artillery fire on approach to
Vicksburg, Mississippi.
1881 - In
Dodge City, Kansas,
Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle.
1912 -
Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an
airplane across the
English Channel.
1917 -
Vladimir Lenin returns to
Saint Petersburg from exile in
Finland.
1919 -
Mohandas Gandhi organizes a day of "prayer and fasting" in response to the
British slaughter of
Indian protestors in the
Amritsar Massacre.
1922 - The
Treaty of Rapallo, in which
Germany and the
Soviet Union re-establish
diplomatic relations between
Berlin and
Moscow, is signed.
1925 - During the
Communist St Nedelya Church assault in
Sofia, 150 are killed and 500 are wounded.
1926 - Lolly Willows by
Sylvia Townsend Warner is distributed as the first
Book-of-the-Month Club selection.
1941 -
World War II: The Italian convoy Duisburg, directed to
Tunisia, is attacked and destroyed by British ships.
1943 - Dr.
Albert Hofmann discovers the
psychedelic effects of
LSD.
1945 - The
Red Army begins the final assault on
German forces around
Berlin.1945 - The
United States Army liberates
Nazi Sonderlager (high security)
Prisoner of War camp Oflag IVc .1945 -
German ship
Goya, overfilled with refugees, sinks after being torpedoed by a
Soviet submarine, killing more than 7,000 people.
1946 -
Syria gains independence.
1947 -
Texas City Disaster: An explosion on board a freighter in port causes the city of
Texas City, Texas, to catch fire, killing almost 600.1947 -
Bernard Baruch coins the term "
Cold War" to describe the relationship between the
United States and the
Soviet Union.
1953 -
Queen Elizabeth II launches the
Royal Yacht Britannia.
1962 - The first
CARP Rodeo began at
Scott Air Force Base,
Illinois.
1963 -
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. pens his famous
Letter from Birmingham Jail while incarcerated in
Birmingham, Alabama for protesting against segregation.
1964 - Sentences totalling 307 years were passed on 12 men who stole £2.6m in used bank notes in what became known as the
Great Train Robbery.
1972 -
Apollo program:
Apollo 16 launches towards the
Moon from
Cape Canaveral, Florida.1972 -
Vietnam War: Nguyen Hue Offensive – Prompted by the
North Vietnamese offensive, the
United States resumes bombing of
Hanoi and
Haiphong.
1987 -
British Conservative MP Harvey Proctor appears at
Bow Street Magistrates' Court in
London charged with gross indecency.
1988 - In
Forlì,
Italy,
Red Brigades kill
Italian Senator Roberto Ruffilli, an advisor of
Prime Minister Ciriaco de Mita.
1992 - The Katina P. runs aground off of
Maputo,
Mozambique. 60,000 tons of crude oil spill into the ocean.
1994 -
The Super J Cup professional wrestling tournament takes place in
Tokyo, Japan.
1996 - The
Chicago Bulls of the
National Basketball Association achieve an all-time record 70th win in a season.
1998 - The
Nashville tornado outbreak of 1998, one of the most serious urban
tornadoes causes one death and significantly damages downtown
Nashville, Tennessee.
2003 - The
Treaty of Accession is signed in
Athens admitting 10 new member states to the
European Union.
2007 -
Virginia Tech massacre, the deadliest
mass shooting in modern American history, leaves 33 dead.
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