Events 475 -
Basiliscus becomes
Byzantine Emperor, with a coronation ceremony in the
Hebdomon palace in
Constantinople.1528 -
Gustav I of Sweden crowned king of
Sweden.1592 -
Titus Andronicus first staged at the
Rose Theatre.
1773 - The first public
Colonial American
museum opens in
Charleston, South Carolina.
1777 -
Mission Santa Clara de Asís is founded in what is now
Santa Clara, California.
1780 - The first issue of the
Neue Zürcher Zeitung (then known as the Zürcher Zeitung) is published.
1848 - The
Palermo rising in Sicily rises against the
Bourbon kingdom of the
Two Sicilies1866 -
Royal Aeronautical Society is formed in
London.
1872 -
Yohannes IV is crowned Emperor of
Ethiopia in
Axum, the first imperial coronation in that city in over 200 years.
1875 -
Kwang-su becomes emperor of
China.
1895 -
The National Trust is founded in Britain.
1898 -
Ito Hirobumi begins his third term as
Prime Minister of Japan.
1906 -
Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's cabinet (which included amongst its members
H.H. Asquith,
David Lloyd George, and
Winston Churchill) embarks on sweeping social reforms after a Liberal landslide in the British general election.
1908 - A long-distance
radio message is sent from the
Eiffel Tower for the first time.
1915 - The
Rocky Mountain National Park is formed by an act of
U.S. Congress.1915 -
United States House of Representatives rejects proposal to give women the
right to vote.1918 -
Finland's "Mosaic Confessors" law went into effect, making Finnish Jews full citizens.
1926 -
Freeman Gosden and
Charles Correll premiere their
radio program
Sam 'n' Henry, a precursor to
Amos 'n' Andy; possibly the first
situation comedy.
1932 -
Hattie W. Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the
United States Senate.
1940 -
World War II:
Russia bombs cities in
Finland.
1942 -
President Franklin Roosevelt creates the
National War Labor Board.
1945 -
World War II: The
Soviets begin a large offensive in
Eastern Europe against the
Nazis.
1964 - Rebels in
Zanzibar begin a revolt known as the
Zanzibar Revolution and proclaimed a republic.
1966 -
Lyndon B. Johnson states that the
United States should stay in
South Vietnam until
Communist aggression there is ended. 1966 - Batman the
TV series debuts on
ABC.
1967 - Dr.
James Bedford becomes the first person to be
cryonically preserved with intent of future resuscitation.
1969 -
Joe Namath and the
New York Jets defeat the
Baltimore Colts 16-7 in
Super Bowl III, becoming the first team from the
American Football League to win
American Football's top championship.1969 -
Led Zeppelin releases their first album.
1970 -
Biafra capitulates, ending the
Nigerian civil war.
1971 -
All in the Family debuts on
CBS.1971 - Harrisburg Six: The Reverend
Philip Berrigan and five others are indicted on charges of conspiring to kidnap
Henry Kissinger and of plotting to blow up the heating tunnels of federal buildings in
Washington, DC.
1976 -
UN Security Council votes 11-1 to allow the
Palestine Liberation Organization to participate in a
Security Council debate (without voting rights).
1991 -
Persian Gulf War: An act of the
U.S. Congress authorizes the use of military force to drive
Iraq out of
Kuwait.
1992 - A new constitution, providing for freedom to form political parties, is approved by referendum in
Mali.
1995 -
Malcolm X's daughter,
Qubilah Shabazz, is arrested for conspiring to kill
Louis Farrakhan.
1998 - Nineteen
European nations agree to forbid
human cloning.
2005 -
Deep Impact (space mission) launches from
Cape Canaveral by a
Delta 2 rocket.
2006 - The foreign ministers of the
United Kingdom,
France, and
Germany declare that negotiations with
Iran over its
nuclear program have reached a dead end and recommend that Iran be referred to the
United Nations Security Council.
(ABC)2006 -
A stampede during the
Stoning the Devil ritual on the last day at the
Hajj in
Mina,
Saudi Arabia, kills at least 362
Muslim pilgrims.
(BBC)2006 -
Turkey releases
Mehmet Ali Ağca from jail after he served 25 years for shooting
Pope John Paul II.
(BBC)2006 - The
French warship
Clemenceau reaches
Egypt and is barred access to the
Suez Canal.
Greenpeace activists board the ship.
(BBC)2007 -
Comet McNaught reached
perihelion becoming the brightest comet in more than 40 years.
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