Events1065 -
Westminster Abbey is consecrated. 1308 - The reign of
Emperor Hanazono,
emperor of Japan, begins.
1612 -
Galileo Galilei becomes the first
astronomer to observe the
planet Neptune, although he mistakenly catalogued it as a
fixed star.
1832 -
John C. Calhoun becomes the first
Vice President of the United States to resign.
1835 -
Osceola led his
Seminole warriors in
Florida into the
Second Seminole War against the
U.S. Army.
1836 -
South Australia and
Adelaide are founded.1836 -
Spain recognizes independence of
Mexico.
1846 -
Iowa is admitted as the 29th
U.S. state.
1867 -
United States claims
Midway Island, first territory annexed outside Continental limits.
1869 - William E. Semple of
Mount Vernon, Ohio patents
chewing gum.
1879 -
The Tay Bridge Disaster: The central part of the
Tay Rail Bridge in
Dundee,
Scotland collapses as a train passed over it, killing 75.
1895 - The
Lumière brothers have their first paying audience at the Grand Cafe in Boulevard des Capucines marking the debut of the
cinema.
1902 - The first indoor professional
American football game is played in
New York City at
Madison Square Garden.
1908 - An earthquate rocks
Messina,
Sicily killing over 75,000.
1912 - The first
municipally owned streetcars take to the streets in
San Francisco.
1935 -
Pravda publishes a letter by
Pavel Postyshev, who revives
New Year tree tradition in the
Soviet Union.
1939 - First flight of the
Consolidated X
B-24 Liberator" bomber prototype.
1945 - The
U.S. Congress officially recognizes the
Pledge of Allegiance.
1948 - The
DC-3 airliner NC16002 disappears 50 miles south of
Miami,
Florida.
1950 - The
Peak District becomes the United Kingdom's first
National Park.
1973 - The
Endangered Species Act is passed in the United States.
1974 -
Senegalese marxist group
Reenu-Rew founds the political movement
And-Jëf at a clandestine congress.
1981 - The first American
test-tube baby,
Elizabeth Jordan Carr, is born in
Norfolk, Virginia.
1989 - A magnitude 5.6
earthquake hits
Newcastle, New South Wales,
Australia, killing 13 people.
1999 -
Saparmurat Niyazov is proclaimed
President for Life in
Turkmenistan.
2000 -
U.S. retail giant
Montgomery Ward announces it is going out of business after 128 years.
2005 - A
U.S. immigration judge orders
John Demjanjuk deported to
Ukraine for crimes against humanity committed during
World War II
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