Events
37 -
Roman Emperor Caligula accepts the titles of the
Principate, entitled to him by the
Senate.
193 -
Roman Emperor Pertinax is
assassinated by
Praetorian Guards, who then sell the throne in an
auction to
Didius Julianus.364 -
Roman Emperor Valentinian I appoints his brother
Flavius Valens co-
emperor.845 -
Paris is sacked by
Viking raiders, probably under
Ragnar Lodbrok, who collects a huge ransom in exchange for leaving.
1776 -
Juan Bautista de Anza finds the site for the
Presidio of San Francisco.
1794 - Allies under the
prince of
Coburg defeated
French forces at
Le Cateau.
1795 -
Partitions of Poland: The
Duchy of
Courland, a northern
fief of the
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, ceases to exist and becomes part of
Imperial Russia.
1802 -
Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers discovers
2 Pallas, the second
asteroid known to man.
1809 -
Peninsular War: In the
Battle of Medelin France defeats Spain.
1834 - The
United States Senate censures President Andrew Jackson for his actions in defunding the
Second Bank of the United States.
1854 -
Crimean War:
France and
Britain declare war on
Russia.
1860 -
First Taranaki War: The Battle of Waireka begins.
1862 -
American Civil War:
Battle of Glorieta Pass - In
New Mexico,
Union forces succeed in stopping the
Confederate invasion of
New Mexico territory. The battle began on
March 26.
1871 - The
Paris Commune is formally established in
Paris.
1910 -
Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a
seaplane after taking off from a water runway near
Martigues,
France.
1913 -
Guatemala becomes a signatory to the
Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1920 -
Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1920 affects the
Great Lakes region and
Deep South states.
1930 -
Constantinople and
Angora change their names to
Istanbul and
Ankara.
1939 -
Spanish Civil War:
Generalissimo Francisco Franco conquers
Madrid.
1940 - The exhibition center to host the
Thessaloniki International Trade Fair starts being built.
1941 -
World War II:
Battle of Cape Matapan - In the
Mediterranean Sea,
British Admiral Andrew Browne Cunningham leads the
Royal Navy in the destruction of three major
Italian battleships and two destroyers.
1942 -
World War II: In occupied
France,
British naval forces raid the
German-occupied port of
St. Nazaire.
1946 -
Cold War: The
United States State Department releases the
Acheson-Lilienthal Report, outlining a plan for the international control of
nuclear power.
1969 - Greek poet and
Nobel Prize laureate
Giorgos Seferis makes a famous statement on the
BBC World Service opposing the junta in
Greece.
1978 -
US Supreme Court hands down 5-3 decision in
Stump v. Sparkman, 435 U.S. 349, a controversial case involving involuntary
sterilization and judicial
immunity.
1979 - In
Pennsylvania, a pump in the reactor cooling system fails in the
Three Mile Island accident, resulting in the evaporation of some contaminated water causing a
nuclear meltdown.1979 -
British Prime Minister James Callaghan, is defeated by one vote in a
Motion of No Confidence. This results in
Parliament being dissolved in order to make way for a forthcoming
General Election.
1990 -
President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards
Jesse Owens the
Congressional Gold Medal.
1994 - In
South Africa,
Zulus and
African National Congress supporters battle in central
Johannesburg, resulting in 18 deaths.
2000 - A
Murray County, Georgia, school bus gets hit by a
CSX freight train (3 children die from this accident).
2003 - In a "
friendly fire" incident, two
A-10 Thunderbolt II attack aircraft from the
United States Idaho Air National Guard's
190th Fighter Squadron attacked
British tanks participating in the
2003 invasion of Iraq, killing British soldier
Matty Hull.
2005 - The
2005 Sumatran earthquake rocks
Indonesia, and at magnitude 8.7 is the second strongest earthquake since
1960.
2006 - At least 1 million union members, students and unemployed take to the streets in
France in protest at the government's proposed
First Employment Contract law.
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