Events
69 - After the First
Battle of Bedriacum,
Vitellius becomes
Roman Emperor.1397 -
Geoffrey Chaucer tells the
Canterbury Tales for the first time at the court of
Richard II. Chaucer scholars have also identified this date (in 1387) as when the book's
pilgrimage to
Canterbury starts.1492 -
Spain and
Christopher Columbus sign a contract for him to sail to
Asia to get
spices.
1521 -
Martin Luther speaks to the assembly at the
Diet of Worms, refusing to recant his
teachings.1524 -
Giovanni da Verrazzano reaches
New York harbor.1555 - After 18 months of siege,
Siena surrenders to the
Florentine-
Imperial army. The
Republic of Siena is incorporated into the
Grand Duchy of Tuscany.
1797 - Sir
Ralph Abercromby attacks
San Juan, Puerto Rico in what would be one of the largest invasions to Spanish territories in America.
1861 -
American Civil War:
Virginia secedes from the
Union.
1864 - American Civil War:
Battle of Plymouth begins –
Confederate forces attack
Plymouth, North Carolina.
1865 -
Mary Surratt is arrested as a conspirator in the
assassination of
Abraham Lincoln.
1895 - The
Treaty of Shimonoseki between
China and
Japan is signed. This marks the end of the
First Sino-Japanese War, and the defeated
Qing Empire is forced to renounce its claims on
Korea and to concede the southern portion of the
Fengtien province,
Taiwan and the
Pescadores Islands to
Japan.
1924 -
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios is formed from a merger of
Metro Pictures,
Goldwyn Pictures, and the Louis B. Mayer Company.
1941 -
World War II: The
Kingdom of Yugoslavia surrenders to
Germany.
1942 -
POW French General
Henri Giraud escapes from his castle prison in
Festung Königstein.
1945 - In Strassfurt,
Germany,
U.S. Lieutenant Colonel Boris T. Pash seizes half a ton of
uranium, in an attempt to foil
Soviet Union plans to build an
atomic bomb.
1961 -
Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of
CIA financed and trained
Cuban refugees lands at the
Bay of Pigs in
Cuba with the aim of ousting
Fidel Castro.1961 -
Manos Hadjidakis receives an
Academy Award in the best music category, for his Song
Never on Sunday from the film of the same name.
1964 - The
Ford Motor Company unveils the
Ford Mustang at the
New York World's Fair.1964 -
Jerrie Mock becomes the first woman to circumnavigate the world by air.
1969 -
Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating
Robert F. Kennedy.1969 -
Czechoslovak Communist Party chairman
Alexander Dubček is deposed.
1970 -
Apollo program: The ill-fated
Apollo 13 spacecraft returns to
Earth safely.
1971 - People's Republic of
Bangladesh forms, under
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at Mujibnagor.
1973 -
Federal Express delivers its first package.
1975 -
Cambodian Civil War ends: The
Khmer Rouge captures the capital
Phnom Penh and
Cambodian government forces surrender.
1982 - Patriation of the
Canadian constitution in
Ottawa by
Proclamation of
Queen Elizabeth II,
Queen of Canada.
1984 - Police
Constable Yvonne Fletcher is killed by gunfire from the Libyan People's Bureau in
London during a small demonstration outside the embassy. Ten others are wounded. The events lead to an 11-day
siege of the building.
1986 - Treaty signed, ending
Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years' War between the
Netherlands and the
Isles of Scilly.
1991 - The
Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 3,000 for the
first time ever gaining 17.58 to 3,004.46.
2002 - Four
Canadian Forces soldiers are killed in
Afghanistan by
friendly fire from two
U.S. Air Force F-16s, the first deaths in a combat zone for
Canada since the
Korean War.
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