Events
193 -
Roman Emperor Didius Julianus assassinated.987 -
Hugh Capet is elected
king of France.1204 - King
Philip Augustus of France conquers
Rouen.1252 -
Alfonso X is elected
King of Castile and
León.1283 -
Treaty of Rheinfelden:
Duke Rudolph II of Austria waives his right to the
Duchies of
Austria and
Styria.1485 -
Matthias of
Hungary takes
Vienna from
Frederick III1495 -
Friar John Cor records the first known batch of
scotch whisky.1533 -
Anne Boleyn crowned
queen.
1660 -
Mary Dyer hanged for defying a law banning
Quakers from the
Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1779 -
American Revolutionary War:
Benedict Arnold court-martialed for
malfeasance.
1792 -
Kentucky admitted as the 15th
state of the
United States.
1796 -
Tennessee admitted as the 16th
state of the
United States.
1812 -
War of 1812:
U.S. President James Madison asks the
Congress to declare war on the
United Kingdom.
1813 -
James Lawrence, the mortally-wounded commander of the
USS Chesapeake, cries out "Don't give up the ship!"
1815 -
Napoleon swears fidelity to the
Constitution of France.
1831 -
James Clark Ross discovers the
North Magnetic Pole.
1855 -
American adventurer William Walker conquers
Nicaragua.
1857 -
Charles Baudelaire's
Fleurs du mal is published.
1862 -
American Civil War Peninsula Campaign:
Battle of Seven Pines or (Battle of Fair Oaks) - Engagement ends inconclusively, with both sides claiming victory.
1868 - Treaty of Bosque Redondo signed allowing the
Navajos to return to their lands in
Arizona and
New Mexico.
1869 -
Thomas Edison receives a patent for his electric
voting machine.
1879 -
Napoleon Eugene killed in the
Anglo-Zulu War.
1886 - The railroads of the
Southern United States convert 11,000 miles of track from a five foot
rail gauge to
standard gauge, beginning May 31.
1890 - The
United States Census Bureau begins using
Herman Hollerith's
tabulating machine to count
census returns.
1910 -
Robert Falcon Scott's
South Pole expedition leaves
England.
1918 -
World War I Western Front:
Battle for Belleau Wood - Allied Forces under
John J. Pershing &
James Harbord engage Imperial German Forces under
Wilhelm, German Crown Prince.
1920 -
Adolfo de la Huerta becomes
president of Mexico.
1921 -
Tulsa Race Riot:
Civil unrest in
Tulsa, Oklahoma.
1922 -
Royal Ulster Constabulary founded .
1925 -
Lou Gehrig plays the first game in his streak of 2,130 consecutive games; it was the longest such streak until broken by
Cal Ripken Jr. in
1995.
1935 - The first driving tests are introduced in
the United Kingdom.
1940 - The
Leninist Communist Youth League of the Karelo-Finnish SSR holds its first congress.
1941 -
World War II:
Battle of Crete ends as
Crete capitulates to
Germany.1941 - The
Farhud, a pogrom in Iraqi Jews, took place in baghdad.
1942 - World War II: The
Warsaw paper Liberty Brigade publishes the first news of the concentration camps.
1943 -
British Overseas Airways Corporation Flight 777 is shot down over the
Bay of Biscay by German
Junkers Ju 88s, killing actor
Leslie Howard and leading to speculation the downing was an attempt to kill
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
1946 -
Ion Antonescu executed.
1958 -
Charles de Gaulle brought out of retirement to lead
France by decree for six months.
1959 - Beginning of the Revolution in Nicaragua.
1962 -
Adolf Eichmann is hanged in
Israel.
1963 -
Kenya gains internal self-rule (
Madaraka Day).
1967 -
The Beatles release their landmark
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album in the
UK, the next day it is released in the
United States.
1969 -
John Lennon and
Yoko Ono record "
Give Peace a Chance", the first single recorded by a solo
Beatle, from their hotel bed.
1974 -
Flixborough disaster: Explosion at a chemical plant kills 28 people.
1978 - The first international applications under the
Patent Cooperation Treaty filed.
1979 -
Vizianagaram district is formed in
Andhra Pradesh,
India.1979 - The first black-led government of
Rhodesia in 90 years takes power.
1980 -
Cable News Network (
CNN) begins
broadcasting.
1985 -
Alan García is proclaimed
President of Peru.
1990 -
George H. W. Bush and
Mikhail Gorbachev sign a
treaty to end
chemical weapon production.
1997 -
Hugo Banzer wins the Presidential elections in
Bolivia.
2000 - The
Patent Law Treaty (PLT) signed.
2001 -
Dipendra of Nepal slaughters his family during dinner.2001 -
Dolphinarium massacre: A
Hamas suicide bomber kills 21 at a disco in
Tel Aviv.
2003 - The
People's Republic of China begins filling the
reservoir behind the
Three Gorges Dam.
2004 -
Nevada-tan killed classmate Satomi Mitarai with box cutter, by slitting her throat after Satomi Mitarai left insults on Nevada-tan's journal on her own website.
2005 - The
Dutch referendum on the European Constitution results in its rejection.
2007 -
Jack Kevorkian was released from prison after serving eight years of his 10-25 year prison term for second-degree murder in the 1998 death of Thomas Youk, 52, of
Oakland County, Michigan.
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