Events238 -
Gordian I and his son
Gordian II are proclaimed
Roman emperors.
1621 - The
Pilgrims of
Plymouth Colony sign a peace treaty with
Massasoit of the
Wampanoags.
1622 -
Jamestown massacre:
Algonquian Indians kill 347
English settlers around
Jamestown, Virginia, a third of the colony's population.
1630 -
Massachusetts Bay Colony outlaws the possession of cards,
dice, and gaming tables.
1638 -
Anne Hutchinson is expelled from
Massachusetts Bay Colony for religious dissent.
1765 - The
Parliament of Great Britain passes the
Stamp Act, which introduced a tax to be levied directly on its
American colonies.
1784 - The
Emerald Buddha is moved with great ceremony to its current place in
Wat Phra Kaew,
Thailand.
1809 -
Charles XIII succeeds
Gustav IV Adolf to the
Swedish throne.
1849 - The
Austrians defeat the
Piedmontese at the
Battle of Novara.
1871 - In
North Carolina,
William Woods Holden becomes the first
governor of a
U.S. state to be removed from office by
impeachment.
1873 - A law is approved by the Spanish National Assembly in
Puerto Rico to abolish
slavery.
1888 -
The Football League is formed.
1894 - The first playoff game for the
Stanley Cup starts.
1895 - First display (a private screening) of
motion pictures by
Auguste and Louis Lumière.
1923 - The first radio broadcast of ice
hockey is made by
Foster Hewitt.
1933 -
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs into law a bill legalizing the sale of
beer and
wine.
1939 -
World War II:
Germany takes
Memel from
Lithuania.
1941 -
Washington's
Grand Coulee Dam begins to generate
electricity.
1942 -
World War II: In the
Mediterranean Sea, Britain's
Royal Navy confronts Italy's
Regia Marina in the
Second Battle of Sirte.
1943 -
World War II: the entire population of
Khatyn in
Belarus is burnt alive by
German occupation forces.
1945 - The
Arab League is founded when a charter is adopted in
Cairo,
Egypt.
1954 - Closed since
1939, the
London bullion market reopens.
1960 -
Arthur Leonard Schawlow &
Charles Townes receive the first
patent for a
laser.
1975 - A fire at the
Brown's Ferry nuclear reactor in
Decatur, Alabama causes dangerous lowering of cooling water levels.
1978 -
Karl Wallenda of the
Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope between two hotels in
San Juan, Puerto Rico.
1979 -
Margaret Thatcher puts down an
Early Day Motion censuring the government, which leads to the defeat of the
Labour government of
James Callaghan.
1984 - Teachers at the
McMartin preschool in
Manhattan Beach, California are charged with
Satanic ritual abuse of the children in the school. The charges are later dropped as completely unfounded.
1989 -
Clint Malarchuk of the
Buffalo Sabres suffers a near-fatal injury when another player accidentally slits his throat in one of the most grusome sports injuries of all time.
1993 - The
Intel Corporation ships the first
Pentium chips (80586), featuring a 60 MHz clock speed, 100+
MIPS, and a 64 bit data path.
1995 -
Cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov returns after setting a record for 438 days in
space.
1996 -
Göran Persson succeeds
Ingvar Carlsson as Swedish
prime minister.
1997 -
Tara Lipinski, age 14 years and 10 months, becomes the youngest champion of the women's world
figure skating competition.1997 - The comet
Hale-Bopp has its closest approach to
earth.
2004 -
Ahmed Yassin, co-founder and leader of the
Palestinian Sunni Islamist militant group
Hamas, and bodyguards are killed in the
Gaza Strip when hit by
Israeli Air Force AH-64 Apache fired
Hellfire missiles.
2006 -
ETA, armed
Basque separatist group, declares permanent ceasefire.2006 -
BC Ferries'
Queen of the North runs aground on
Gil Island British Columbia and sinks; 101 on board, 2 presumed deaths.2006 - Three
Christian Peacemaker Teams Hostages are freed by British forces in
Baghdad after 118 days captivity and the death of their colleague, American
Tom Fox.
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