Events
363 -
Roman Emperor Julian is killed during the retreat from the
Sassanid Empire. General
Jovian is proclaimed Emperor by the troops on the battlefield.684 -
Benedict II becomes
Pope.1284 - According to legend, the
Pied Piper lures 130 children of Hamelin away.1409 -
Western Schism: The
Roman Catholic church is led into a double
schism as Petros Philargos is crowned
Pope Alexander V after the
Council of Pisa, joining
Pope Gregory XII in
Rome and
Pope Benedict XII in
Avignon.1483 -
Richard III becomes king of
England.1541 -
Francisco Pizarro is
assassinated in
Lima by the son of his former companion and later
antagonist,
Diego Almagro the younger. Diego is later caught and executed.
1718 -
Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich of Russia,
Peter the Great's son, mysteriously dies after being sentenced to death by his father for plotting against him.
1723 - After a lasting siege and firing from the cannons
Baku surrendered to
Russians.
1807 - Lightning hits a warehouse in
Luxembourg, killing 230 people.
1819 - The
bicycle is patented.
1848 - End of the
June Days Uprising in Paris.
1857 - The first investiture of the
Victoria Cross in
Hyde Park,
London.
1870 - The
Christian holiday of
Christmas is declared a
federal holiday in the
United States.
1918 -
World War I Western Front:
Battle for Belleau Wood - Allied Forces under
John J. Pershing &
James Harbord defeat Imperial German Forces under
Wilhelm, German Crown Prince.
1924 -
American occupying forces leave the
Dominican Republic.
1934 - President
Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Federal Credit Union Act, which establishes credit unions.1934 - Initial flight of the
Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first practical helicopter.
1940 -
World War II: Under the
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, the
Soviet Union presents an
ultimatum to
Romania requiring it to cede
Bessarabia and northern part of
Bukovina.
1945 - The
United Nations Charter is signed in San Francisco.
1948 - The Western allies start an airlift to
Berlin after the
Soviet Union has blockaded
West Berlin.1948 -
William Shockley filed the original patent for the
grown junction transistor, the first
bipolar junction transistor.
1959 - The
Saint Lawrence Seaway opens, opening North America's
Great Lakes to ocean-going ships.
1960 - Former
British Protectorate of
Somaliland British Somaliland gains its independence
1963 -
John F. Kennedy speaks the famous words "
Ich bin ein Berliner" on a visit to
West Berlin.
1973 - On
Plesetsk Cosmodrome 9 people are killed in an explosion of a Cosmos 3-M rocket.
1974 - The
Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley's
chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio
1975 -
Indira Gandhi establishes
authoritarian rule in
India.1975 - Two
FBI agents and a member of the
American Indian Movement are killed in a shootout on the
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in
South Dakota;
Leonard Peltier is later convicted of the murders in a controversial trial.
1976 - The
CN Tower, the tallest free-standing structure on land in the world, was opened.
1977 - The
Yorkshire Ripper kills 16 year old shop assistant Jayne MacDonald in
Leeds, changing public perception of the killer as she was the first victim who was not a
prostitute.
1978 -
Air Canada Flight 189 to Toronto overran the runway and crashed into the
Etobicoke Creek ravine. Two of 107 passengers onboard died.
1992 -
Denmark wins the
European Football Championship title by beating Germany 2-0 in
Nya Ullevi stadium (
Gothenburg,
Sweden)
1993 - The
U.S. launches a missile attack targeting
Baghdad intelligence headquarters in retaliation for a thwarted assassination attempt against former President
George H.W. Bush in April in
Kuwait.
1995 -
Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani deposed his father
Khalifa bin Hamad al-Thani, the
Emir of
Qatar, in a bloodless
coup.
1996 - Irish Journalist
Veronica Guerin is shot in her car while in traffic in the outskirts of
Dublin1997 - The
U.S. Supreme Court rules that the
Communications Decency Act violates the
First Amendment1997 -
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by
J.K. Rowling is published in the
United Kingdom.
2003 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules that gender-based
sodomy laws are unconstitutional in
Lawrence v. Texas.
2006 - The
Republic of Montenegro becomes the 192nd member of the
United Nations.
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1321 - Eerste steenlegging van de
Domtoren te
UtrechtMuziek
1977 - Laatste concert van
Elvis Presley.
1917 - De eerste Amerikaanse troepen landen in
Frankrijk.
1945 - Het Handvest van de
Verenigde Naties wordt ondertekend in
San Francisco.
1963 -
John F. Kennedy spreekt de beroemde woorden: "All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin, and, therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner!'"
1978 - Zo'n veertigduizend ambtenaren demonstreren in
Den Haag tegen bezuinigingen op de ambtenarensalarissen.
1409 - Kroning van
Tegenpaus Alexander V1667 - Kroning van
Paus Clemens IX in
Rome.
1967 -
Paus Paulus VI creëert 27 nieuwe
kardinalen, onder wie de Italiaanse
nuntius in
Nederland Giuseppe Beltrami, de Belgische diplomaat Maximilien de Furstenberg en de Poolse aartsbisschop van Krakau
Karol Wojtyla.
1992 - Het in allerijl opgetrommelde
Denemarken, vervanger van het geboycotte
Joegoslavië, wint in
Stockholm het
EK voetbal door
Duitsland in de finale met 2-0 te verslaan.
1974 - Invoering van de
Universal Product Code, in de vorm van de bekende
barcodes.
1986 - De laatste schuifdeur van de
Oosterscheldekering wordt geplaatst.
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