Events
451 - The
Battle of Chalons, in North Eastern France.
Flavius Aetius' victory over
Attila the Hun in a day of combat, considered and believed to be the largest battle in the ancient world.1187 -
Saladin begins the Siege of Jerusalem.1378 -
Cardinal Robert of Geneva, called by some the
Butcher of Cesena, is elected as
Avignon Pope Clement VII, beginning the
Papal schism.
1519 -
Ferdinand Magellan - set sail from
Sanlúcar de Barrameda with about 270 men on his expedition to circumnavigate the globe.1596 -
Diego de Montemayor founded the city of
Monterrey in
New Spain.
1633 -
Galileo Galilei is tried before
the Inquisition for teaching that the Earth orbits the Sun.
1737 -
Runner Edward Marshall completes his journey in the
Walking Purchase forcing the cession of 1.2 million acres (4,860 km²) of
Lenape-Delaware tribal land to the
Pennsylvania Colony.
1792 - French troops stop allied invasion of
France, during the
War of the First Coalition at
Valmy.
1835 -
Farroupilha's Revolution begins in
Rio Grande do Sul,
Brazil.
1848 - The
American Association for the Advancement of Science was created.
1854 -
Battle of Alma:
British and
French troops defeat
Russians in the
Crimea.
1857 - The Indian Mutiny ends with the recapture of
Delhi by troops loyal to the
East India Company.
1860 - The
Prince of Wales (later King
Edward VII of the United Kingdom) visits the
United States.
1863 -
American Civil War: The
Battle of Chickamauga ends.
1870 -
Bersaglieri corps enters
Rome through
Porta Pia and completes the
unification of Italy; see
capture of Rome.
1871 -
Bishop John Coleridge Patteson martyred on the island of Nukapu a
Polynesian outlier island now in the
Temotu province of the
Solomon Islands. He was the first
bishop of
Melanesia.
1879 -
Cliftonville Football Club, the oldest club in
Ireland, is founded by John McCredy McAlery.
1881 -
Chester A. Arthur is inaugurated as the 21st
President of the United States.
1891 - The first
gasoline-powered
car debuts in
Springfield, Massachusetts,
United States.
1906 -
Cunard Line's
RMS Mauretania is launched at the
Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson shipyard in
Newcastle, England.
1917 -
Paraguay becomes a signatory to the
Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1920 - Foundation of the
Spanish Legion.
1930 -
Syro-Malankara Catholic Church was formed by Archbishop Mar Ivanios
1939 - A
German Messerschmitt Bf 109 is shot down by
Fairey Battle gunner
Sgt. F. Letchard during a patrol near
Aachen. This is the
RAF's first
aerial victory of the
Second World War.
1940 - Genevieve Grotjan completes the decryption of the
Japanese Purple code.
1942 -
Holocaust in
Letychiv,
Ukraine. In the course of two days
German SS murders at least 3,000
Jews1946 - The first
Cannes Film Festival is held.
1954 -
New Zealand's
Special Committee on Moral Delinquency in Children and Adolescents reports just ten days after concluding hearings.
1959 -
Brion Gysin makes his first
cut-up in the
Beat Hotel in
Paris.
1962 -
James Meredith, an
African-American, is barred from entering the
University of Mississippi.
1967 - The
RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 is launched at
John Brown & Company,
Clydebank,
Scotland. It is operated by the
Cunard Line.
1969 -
John Lennon leaves
The Beatles but does not make a public announcement
1970 -
Syrian tanks roll into
Jordan in response to continued fighting between
Jordan and the
fedayeen. The
Jordanians knock out 30 of the
Syrian tanks.
1973 -
Billie Jean King beats
Bobby Riggs in battle-of-sexes
tennis match at the
Houston Astrodome in
Houston, Texas.
1977 - The
Socialist Republic of Vietnam is admitted to the
United Nations1979 -
Lee Iacocca is elected
president of the
Chrysler Corporation.1979 - A
coup d'état in the
Central African Empire overthrows
Emperor Bokasa I.1979 - The
Punjab wing of the
Unity Centre of Communist Revolutionaries of India (Marxist-Leninist) formally splits and constitutes a parallel
UCCRI(ML).1979 - Assassination of
French left-wing militant
Pierre Goldman.
1984 - A suicide bomber in a car attacks the
U.S. embassy in
Beirut,
Lebanon, killing twenty-two people.1984 - The popular American sitcoms
The Cosby Show and
Who's The Boss? premiere on
NBC and
ABC respectively.
1990 -
South Ossetia declares its independence from
Georgia.
1992 -
National Football League:
Brett Favre, quarterback of the
Green Bay Packers, begins his most consecutive starts streak for a quarterback in the NFL.
1998 -
Major League Baseball:
Cal Ripken, Jr of the
Baltimore Orioles takes a day off after playing a record 2,632 consecutive games.
2000 - The British
MI6 Secret Intelligence Service building was attacked by a Russian-built Mark 22 anti-tank missile
2001 - In an address to a joint session of Congress and the American People president George W. Bush declares "
war on terror".
2002 -
Kolka-Karmadon rock/ice slide started.
2003 - A
referendum is held in
Latvia to decide the country's accession to the
European Union.2003 -
Maldives civil unrest: the death of prisoner
Hassan Evan Naseem sparks a day of rioting in
Malé.
2007 - Lebanese right-wing parliamentarian Antoine Ghanem is killed in a bomb attack in
Beirut.
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