Events
1777 -
San Jose, California, founded as el Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe. It is the first civilian settlement, or pueblo, in
Alta California.
1781 - The crew of the slave ship
Zong murders 133 Africans by dumping them into the sea in order to claim insurance.
1830 -
November Uprising: An armed rebellion against Russia's rule in
Poland begins.
1845 - The
Sonderbund defeated by the joint forces of other
Swiss cantons under General
Guillaume-Henri Dufour.
1847 -
Whitman Massacre: Missionaries Dr. Marcus Whitman, his wife Narcissa, and 15 others are killed by Cayuse and Umatilla Indians, causing the
Cayuse War.
1850 - The treaty,
Punctation of Olmütz, signed in
Olomouc meant diplomatic capitulation of
Prussia to
Austrian Empire, which took over the leadership of
German Confederation.
1864 -
Indian Wars:
Sand Creek Massacre -
Colorado volunteers led by Colonel
John Chivington massacre at least 150
Cheyenne and
Arapaho noncombatants inside
Colorado Territory.
1872 -
Indian Wars: The
Modoc War begins with the
Battle of Lost River.
1877 -
Thomas Edison demonstrates his
phonograph for the first time.
1890 - The
Meiji Constitution goes into effect in
Japan and the first
Diet convenes.1890 - In
West Point, New York, the
United States Naval Academy defeats the
United States Military Academy 24-0 in the first
Army-Navy football game.
1893 - Ziqiang Institute, today known as
Wuhan University, was founded by
Zhang Zhidong, governor of
Hubei and Hunan Provinces in late
Qing Dynasty of
China after his memorial to the throne was approved by the Qing Government.
1899 -
Spanish football club
FC Barcelona founded.
1915 - Fire destroys most of the buildings on
Santa Catalina Island in
California.
1922 -
Howard Carter opened the tomb of Pharaoh
Tutankhamun to the public.
1929 - U.S. Admiral
Richard Byrd becomes the first person to fly over the
South Pole.
1943 - The second session of
AVNOJ, the Anti-fascist council of national liberation of
Yugoslavia, is held in
Jajce,
Bosnia and Herzegovina, determining the post-war ordering of the country.
1944 - The first surgery (on a human) to correct
blue baby syndrome performed by
Alfred Blalock and
Vivien Thomas.
1945 - The
Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia declared.
1947 - The
United Nations General Assembly votes to partition
Palestine (The
Partition Plan)
1950 -
Korean War:
North Korean and
Chinese troops force
United Nations forces to retreat from North Korea.
1952 - Korean War: U.S. President-elect
Dwight D. Eisenhower fulfills a campaign promise by traveling to
Korea to find out what can be done to end the conflict.
1961 -
Project Mercury:
Mercury-Atlas 5 Mission -
Enos, a chimpanzee, launched into space (the spacecraft orbited the
Earth twice and splashed-down off the coast of
Puerto Rico).
1963 - U.S. President
Lyndon B. Johnson establishes the
Warren Commission to investigate the
assassination of President
John F. Kennedy.1963 - Trans-Canada Airlines Flight 831, A
Douglas DC-8 carrying 118, crashes after taking-off from
Dorval Airport near
Montreal.
1965 -
Canadian Space Agency launches the satellite
Alouette 2.
1967 -
Vietnam War:
U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara announces his resignation.
1972 -
Nolan Bushnell (co-founder of
Atari) released
Pong (the first commercially successful
video game) in Andy Capp’s Tavern in Sunnyvale, Calif.
1975 - The name "Micro-soft" (for "
microcomputer software") is first used in a letter from
Bill Gates to
Paul Allen.
1982 -
Soviet war in Afghanistan: The
United Nations General Assembly passes
United Nations Resolution 37/37, stating that
Soviet Union forces should withdraw from
Afghanistan.
1984 -
Band Aid releases "
Do They Know It's Christmas?."
1987 - A
Korean Air Boeing 707 explodes over the Thai-Burmese border, killing 155.
1988 - Six
Kansas City firefighters are killed in an explosion at a construction site.
1990 -
Gulf War: The
United Nations Security Council passes
United Nations Security Council Resolution 678, authorizing "use all necessary means to uphold and implement"
United Nations Security Council Resolution 660 "to restore international peace and security" if
Iraq did not withdraw its forces from
Kuwait and free all foreign hostages by
January 15,
1991.
2005 - New
Croatian Communist Party (KPH) founded in
Vukovar.
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