Events711 -
Muslim forces under
Tariq ibn Ziyad defeat the
Visigoths led by their king
Roderic.1333 -
Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Halidon Hill - The final battle of the war.1544 -
Italian War of 1542:
The Siege of Boulogne began.1545 - The
Tudor warship
Mary Rose sinks off Portsmouth.1553 -
Lady Jane Grey is replaced by
Mary I of England as
Queen of England after having that title for just nine days.1588 -
Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines - The
Spanish Armada sighted in the
English Channel.
1692 -
Salem Witch Trials: Five women are hanged for witchcraft in
Salem, Massachusetts.
1760 - The formal request to found the later city of
Mayagüez, Puerto Rico is filed by its founders.
1843 -
Brunel's steamship the
SS Great Britain is launched, becoming the first ocean-going craft with an iron hull or
screw propeller and also becoming the largest vessel afloat in the world.
1848 -
Women's rights: The two day
Women's Rights Convention opens in
Seneca Falls, New York and the "
Bloomers" are introduced at the
feminist convention.
1863 -
American Civil War:
Morgan's Raid - At
Buffington Island in
Ohio,
Confederate General John Hunt Morgan's raid into the north is mostly thwarted when a large group of his men are captured while trying to escape across the
Ohio River.
1870 -
Franco-Prussian War:
France declares war on
Prussia.
1873 -
William Gosse becomes the first
European to discover
Ayers Rock (
Uluru) and names it in honour of
South Australian Premier Sir Henry Ayers.
1879 -
Doc Holliday kills for the first time after a man shoots up his
New Mexico saloon.
1912 - A
meteorite with an estimated mass of 190
kg explodes over the town of
Holbrook in
Navajo County, Arizona causing approximately 16,000 pieces of debris to rain down on the town.
1919 - Following Peace Day celebrations marking the end of
World War I, ex-servicemen rioted and burnt down
Luton Town Hall.
1940 -
World War II:
Battle of Cape Spada - The
Royal Navy and the
Regia Marina clash; the
Italian light cruiser
Bartolomeo Colleoni sinks, with 121 casualties.1940 -
World War II: Army order 112 forms the
Intelligence Corps of the
British Army.1940 -
Adolf Hitler makes a peace offer to Britain, which
Winston Churchill immediately rejects.
1942 -
World War II:
Battle of the Atlantic -
German Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz orders the last
U-boats to withdraw from their
United States Atlantic coast positions in response to the effective
American convoy system.
1945 -
Montgomery Ward is seized by
United States Army troops at the direction of
Attorney General Francis Biddle because of its refusal to obey
National War Labor Board orders.
Montgomery Ward chairman Seward Avery is carried out of his office by troops.
1947 -
Burmese nationalist Aung San and 6 of his
cabinet and 2 non-cabinet members were
assassinated.
1963 -
Joe Walker flies a
North American X-15 to a record altitude of 106,010 metres (347,800 feet) on
X-15 Flight 90. Exceeding an altitude of 100 km, this flight qualifies as a
human spaceflight under international convention.
1964 -
Vietnam War: At a rally in
Saigon,
South Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Khanh calls for expanding the war into
North Vietnam.
1967 - A
Piedmont Airlines Boeing 727 and a
Cessna 310 collided in mid-air over
Hendersonville,
North Carolina killing 82.
1976 -
Sagarmatha National Park in
Nepal is created.
1976 -
Bayrak and Television Corporation (BRT) commences television transmissions in Northern Cyprus.
1979 - The
Sandinista rebels overthrow the
U.S.-backed
government of the
Somoza family in
Nicaragua.
1980 - Opening Ceremony of the
1980 Summer Olympics in
Moscow, USSR.
1985 - The
Val di Stava dam collapse killing 268 people in Val di Stava,
Italy.
1989 -
United Airlines flight 232 crashes in
Sioux City, Iowa killing 112 of the 296 passengers.1989 -
Charles Sturt University,
Australia established in honour of explorer
Charles Sturt.
2006 -
Dublin City FC cease trading and withdraw from the Eircom Premier League.
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