Events
1479 BC -
Thutmose III ascends to the throne of
Egypt, although power effectively shifts to
Hatshepsut (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th Dynasty).
1184 BC -
Greeks enter
Troy using the
Trojan Horse (traditional).1558 -
Mary Queen of Scots marries the
Dauphin of France,
François, at
Notre Dame de Paris.
1704 - The first regular
newspaper in the
United States, the
Boston, Massachusetts New-Letter, is published.
1800 - The
United States Library of Congress is established when
President John Adams signs legislation to appropriate
$5,000 to purchase "such books as may be necessary for the use of
Congress".
1862 -
American Civil War: A
flotilla commanded by
Union Admiral David Farragut passes two
Confederate forts on the
Mississippi River on its way to capture
New Orleans, Louisiana.
1863 - The Keyesville Massacre: a
massacre of 53
Native American men from the
Tehachapi tribe in
Keyesville, California.
1877 -
Russo-Turkish War, 1877–1878: Russia declares war on
Ottoman Empire.
1907 -
Hersheypark, founded by
Milton S. Hershey, for the exclusive use of his employees is opened.
1913 - The
skyscraper Woolworth Building in
New York City was opened.
1915 - The
Armenian Genocide began with a massacre of hundreds of prominent Armenians in Constantinople (now Istanbul).
1916 -
Easter Rising begins: The
Irish Republican Brotherhood led by
nationalists Patrick Pearse,
James Connolly, and
Joseph Plunkett start a rebellion in
Ireland.
1918 - First tank to tank combat, at
Villers-Bretonneux,
France, when three British Mark IVs met three German
A7Vs.
1941 -
World War II: Operation Demon – The
United Kingdom begins evacuating
Greece.
1953 -
Winston Churchill is knighted by
Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.
1955 -
Bandung Conference ends: Twenty-nine non-aligned nations of
Asia and
Africa finish a meeting that condemned
colonialism,
racism, and the
Cold War.
1961 - The
17th century Swedish ship
Vasa is
salvaged.
1963 - Marriage of
Her Royal Highness Princess Alexandra of Kent to
Angus Ogilvy at
Westminster Abbey in
London.
1964 -
Mexico becomes a signatory to the
Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1965 - Civil war breaks out in the
Dominican Republic Colonel
Francisco Caamaño, overthrows the
triumvirate that was in power since the
coup d'état against
Juan Bosch.
1967 -
Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies in
Soyuz 1, when the
parachute fails to open. He was the first human to die during a space mission.1967 -
Vietnam War:
American General William Westmoreland says in a news conference that the enemy had "gained support in the
United States that gives him hope that he can win politically that which he cannot win militarily."
1968 -
Mauritius becomes a member state of the
United Nations.
1970 - The first
Chinese satellite,
Dong Fang Hong I, is launched.1970 -
The Gambia becomes a
republic within the
Commonwealth of Nations, with
Dawda Jawara as the first
President.
1975 - The
Baader-Meinhof Gang blow up the
West German embassy in
Stockholm.
1980 - Eight
U.S. servicemen died in
Operation Eagle Claw as they attempted to end the
Iran hostage crisis.
1990 -
STS-31: The
Hubble Space Telescope is launched by the
Space Shuttle Discovery. 1990 -
Gruinard Island,
Scotland, is officially declared free of
anthrax after 48 years of
quarantine.
1991 -
Freddie Stowers is awarded the
posthumous Medal of Honor for which he had been recommended in
1918.
1993 - The 73rd Constitutional Amendment Act came into force establishing
Panchayati Raj system in
India.1993 - An
IRA bomb devastates the
Bishopsgate area of
City of London.
1996 - In the
United States, the
Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 is introduced.
2004 -
US lifts
economic sanctions imposed on
Libya 18 years previously, as a reward for its cooperation in eliminating
weapons of mass destruction.
2005 -
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is
inaugurated as the 265th
Pope of the
Roman Catholic Church taking the name
Pope Benedict XVI.
2006 -
King Gyanendra of
Nepal gives into the demands of protesters and restores the parliament that he dissolved in
2002.
2007 -
Iceland announces that
Norway will shoulder the
defense of Iceland during peacetime.
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