Events
350 - General
Magnentius deposes
Roman Emperor Constans, proclaims himself Emperor.474 -
Leo II briefly becomes
Byzantine emperor532 -
Nika riots in
Constantinople fail.1126 -
Emperor Huizong abdicates the Chinese throne to his son
Emperor Qinzong1486 -
King Henry VII of England marries
Elizabeth, daughter of
Edward IV.1520 - King
Christian II of
Denmark and
Norway defeats the
Swedes at Lake Åsunden.
1535 - Spanish conquistador
Francisco Pizarro founded Lima, the capital of
Peru.1562 -
Pope Pius IV reopens the
Council of Trent for its third and final session.
1670 -
Henry Morgan captures
Panama.
1701 -
Frederick I becomes King of
Prussia.
1777 - Representatives of the New Hampshire Grants declare the independence of the
Vermont Republic from Britain.
1778 -
James Cook is the first known
European to discover the
Hawaiian Islands, which he names the "
Sandwich Islands."
1788 - The first elements of the
First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from
England to
Australia arrives at
Botany Bay.
1861 -
American Civil War -
Georgia joins
South Carolina,
Florida,
Mississippi, and
Alabama in
secession from the
United States.
1871 -
Wilhelm I of Germany is proclaimed the first
German Emperor in the 'Hall of Mirrors' of the
Palace of Versailles towards the end of the
Franco-Prussian War. The empire, to the Germans, was known as The Second Reich
1884 -
Dr William Price attempts to
cremate the body of his infant son, Jesus Christ Price, setting a legal precedent for cremation in the
UK.
1886 - Modern
field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in
England.
1896 - The
X-ray machine is exhibited for the first time.
1903 -
Theodore Roosevelt, the President of the United States, sends a radio message to
King Edward VII: the first transatlantic radio transmission originating in the United States.
1911 -
Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the
USS Pennsylvania stationed in
San Francisco harbor, marking the first time an aircraft landed on a ship.
1912 -
British explorer
Robert Falcon Scott arrives at the
South Pole only to find that
Roald Amundsen, the
Norwegian explorer, had preceded them by just over a month.
1913 - A
Greek flotilla defeats the
Ottoman Navy in the
Naval Battle of Lemnos during the
First Balkan War, securing the islands of the Northern Aegean Sea for Greece.
1915 -
Japan issues the "
Twenty-One Demands" to the
Republic of China in a bid to increase its power in
East Asia.
1916 - A 611
gram chondrite type
meteorite struck a house near the village of Baxter in
Stone County, Missouri.
1918 -
World War I :
Woodrow Wilson delivers his
Fourteen Points speech in front of Congress.
1919 -
World War I: The
Paris Peace Conference opens in
Versailles,
France.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski becomes Prime Minister of the newly independent Poland.1919 -
Bentley Motors Limited is founded.
1943 -
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: The first uprising of
Jews in the
Warsaw Ghetto.
1944 - The
Metropolitan Opera House in
New York City for the first time hosts a
jazz concert; the performers are
Louis Armstrong,
Benny Goodman,
Lionel Hampton,
Artie Shaw,
Roy Eldridge and
Jack Teagarden.1944 -
Soviet forces liberate
Leningrad, effectively ending a three year
Nazi siege, known as the
Siege of Leningrad.
1945 - Liberation of the
Budapest ghetto by the
Red Army1955 -
Battle of Yijiangshan occurred.
1958 -
Willie O'Ree, the first
African American National Hockey League player, makes his
NHL debut.
1964 - Plans are revealed for the
World Trade Center in
New York City.
1967 -
Albert DeSalvo, the "
Boston Strangler," is convicted of numerous crimes and is sentenced to life in prison.
1969 -
United Airlines Flight 266 crashes into
Santa Monica Bay resulting in the loss of all 32 passengers and six crewmembers.
1974 - A Disengagement of Forces agreement is signed between the
Israeli and
Egyptian governments, ending conflict on the Egyptian front of the
Yom Kippur War.
1977 - Scientists identify a previously unknown
bacterium as the cause of the mysterious
Legionnaires' disease.1977 -
Australia's worst
rail disaster occurs at Granville,
Sydney killing 83.
1978 - The
European Court of Human Rights finds the
United Kingdom government guilty of mistreating prisoners in
Northern Ireland, but not guilty of
torture.
1982 -
U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds: "Diamond Crash" kills four team members.
1983 - The
International Olympic Committee restores
Jim Thorpe Olympic medals to his family.
1990 -
Washington, DC, Mayor
Marion Barry is arrested for
drug possession in an
FBI sting.
1991 -
Eastern Air Lines shuts down after 62 years citing financial problems.
1993 - For the first time,
Martin Luther King Jr. holiday is officially observed in all 50
United States states.
1994 - The
Cando event, a possible
bolide impact in
Cando, Spain. Witnesses claim to have seen a fireball in the sky lasting for almost one minute.
1995 - In southern
France near
Vallon-Pont-d'Arc cave paintings and engravings over 17,000 years old discovered.
1997 - In north west
Rwanda,
Hutu militia members kill 3
Spanish aid workers, 3 soldiers and seriously wound one other.1997 -
Boerge Ousland of
Norway becomes the first person to cross
Antarctica alone and unaided.
1998 -
Lewinsky scandal:
Matt Drudge breaks the
Bill Clinton -
Monica Lewinsky affair story on his website
The Drudge Report.
2000 - The strange
Tagish Lake meteorite impacted the
Earth.
2001 - The
British digital television channel
e4 (TV) was launched.
2002 -
Sierra Leone Civil War is finally declared over.2002 - A
Canadian Pacific Railway train carrying anhydrous
ammonia derails outside of
Minot, North Dakota, killing one man and calling into question the maintenance of CP track and the policy of
voice-tracking used by
Clear Channel Communications.
2003 - A
bushfire kills 4 people and destroys more than 500 homes in Canberra, Australia.
2005 - A
U.N. World Conference on Disaster Reduction in
Kobe, Japan begins.
2007 - The strongest storm in the
UK for 17 years kills 14 people,
Germany sees the worst storm since
1999 with 13 deaths.
Hurricane Kyrill, caused at least 44 deaths across 20 countries in
Western Europe. Other losses include the
Container Ship MSC Napoli destroyed by the storm of the coast of
Devon,
England.
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