Events
1812 -
USS Constitution (Captain
William Bainbridge) captures
HMS Java off Brazil after a three hour battle.
1813 -
British soldiers burn
Buffalo, New York during the
War of 1812.
1835 - The
Treaty of New Echota is signed, ceding all the lands of the
Cherokee east of the
Mississippi River to the
United States.
1845 -
Texas is admitted as the 28th
U.S. state.
1851 - The first American
YMCA opens in
Boston, Massachusetts.
1860 - The first
British seagoing
iron-clad warship, the
HMS Warrior is launched.
1876 - The
Ashtabula River Railroad bridge disaster occurs, leaving 64 injured and 92 dead at
Ashtabula, Ohio.
1890 -
United States soldiers massacre more than 400 men, women and children of the
Great Sioux Nation at
Wounded Knee, South Dakota.
1911 -
Sun Yat-sen becomes the first President of the
Republic of China.
1911 -
Mongolia gains independence from the
Qing dynasty.
1930 -
Sir Muhammad Iqbal's presidential address in
Allahabad introduces the
Two-Nation Theory and outlines a vision for the creation of
Pakistan.
1934 - The first college
basketball game at
New York City's
Madison Square Garden is played between the
University of Notre Dame and
New York University.1934 -
Japan renounces the
Washington Naval Treaty of
1922 and the
London Naval Treaty of
1930.
1937 - The
Irish Free State is replaced by a new state called
Ireland with the adoption of a new
constitution.
1939 - First flight of the
Consolidated B-241940 -
World War II: In
The Second Great Fire of London, the
Luftwaffe firebombs
City of London, killing almost 200 civilians.
1949 -
KC2XAK of
Bridgeport, Connecticut becomes the first
Ultra high frequency (UHF)
television station to operate a daily schedule.
1972 - An
Eastern Air Lines Lockheed "
Tristar"
crashes on approach to
Miami International Airport,
Florida, killing 101.
1989 - Riots break-out after
Hong Kong decides to forcibly repatriate
Vietnamese refugees. 1989 - On the final day of trading for the year and decade, the
Japanese Nikkei 225 Average closes at an all-time high of 38,915.87.
1992 -
Fernando Collor de Mello, president of
Brazil, tried to resign amidst corruption charges, but ended up being impeached.
1996 -
Guatemala and leaders of
Guatemalan National Revolutionary Union sign a peace accord ending a 36-year
civil war.
1997 -
Hong Kong begins to kill all the nation's
chickens (1.25 million) to stop the spread of a potentially deadly
influenza strain.
1998 - Leaders of the
Khmer Rouge apologize for the
1970s genocide in
Cambodia that claimed over 1 million.
2001 - A massive fire in the historic district of downtown
Lima,
Peru kills at least 274 people.
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