Events1194 - King
Richard I of England gives
Portsmouth its first
Royal Charter.1335 -
Otto the Merry, Duke of
Austria, becomes
Duke of Carinthia.1568 -
Mary I of Scotland escapes from
Loch Leven Castle, where she had been imprisoned by Sir
William Douglas.
1670 - King
Charles II of England grants a permanent charter to the
Hudson's Bay Company to open up the
fur trade in
North America. 1672 -
John Maitland becomes Duke of Lauderdale and Earl of March.
1808 - Beginning of the
Peninsular War: The people of
Madrid rise up in rebellion against
French occupation.
1816 -
Léopold of Saxe-Coburg and
Charlotte Augusta are wed.
1829 - After anchoring nearby, Captain
Charles Fremantle of
HMS Challenger, declares the
Swan River Colony in
Australia.
1863 -
American Civil War:
Stonewall Jackson is wounded by friendly fire while returning to camp after reconnoitering for the
Battle of Chancellorsville. He succumbs to pneumonia 8 days later.
1866 - Peruvian defenders fight off Spanish fleet at the
Battle of Callao.
1876 - The
April Uprising breaks out in
Bulgaria.
1885 -
Good Housekeeping magazine goes on sale for the first time.1885 -
Cree and
Assiniboine warriors won the
Battle of Cut Knife, their largest victory over
Canadian forces during the
North-West Rebellion.1885 - The
Congo Free State is established by King
Léopold II of Belgium.
1889 -
Menelik II, Emperor of
Ethiopia, signs a treaty of amity with
Italy, which gives Italy control over
Eritrea.
1900 -
Oscar II, King of Sweden, declares support for
Britain at the time of the
Second Boer War.
1918 -
General Motors acquires the
Chevrolet Motor Company of
Delaware.
1920 - The first game of the
Negro National League baseball is played in
Indianapolis, Indiana.
1932 - Comedian
Jack Benny's radio show airs for the first time.
1933 -
Gleichschaltung:
Adolf Hitler bans
trade unions.
1945 -
World War II:
Fall of Berlin – The
Soviet Union announces the capture of
Berlin and Soviet soldiers hoist their red flag over the
Reichstag building.
German forces surrender in
Italy. German forces surrender to the
New Zealand Army in
Trieste.
1946 - "
Battle of Alcatraz" -
Alcatraz Federal prison,
San Francisco is taken over by six inmates following failed escape attempt
1952 - The world's first ever
jet airliner, the
De Havilland Comet 1 makes its maiden voyage, flying from
London to
Johannesburg.
1953 -
Hussein is crowned King of
Jordan.
1955 -
Tennessee Williams wins the
Pulitzer Prize for Drama for
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
1963 -
Berthold Seliger launches near
Cuxhaven a rocket with three stages with a maximum flight altitude of more than 100 kilometres. It is the only sounding rocket developed in Germany.
1964 -
Vietnam War: An explosion sinks the
USS Card while docked at
Saigon.
Viet Cong forces are suspected of placing a bomb on the ship.
1964 -
First ascent of
Shishapangma the fourteenth highest
mountain in the world and the lowest of the
eight-thousanders.
1969 - The
British ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2 departs on her maiden voyage to
New York City.
1982 -
Falklands War: The
British nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror sinks the Argentine cruiser
ARA General Belgrano.
1986 - The
1986 World Exposition in
Vancouver,
British Columbia,
Canada, opens.
1995 - During the
Croatian War of Independence,
Serb forces
fire cluster bombs at
Zagreb, killing 7 and wounding over 175 civilians.
1997 - The
Labour Party's Tony Blair becomes
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, ending 18 years of
Conservative Party rule. At 44, he is the youngest prime minister in 185 years.
1998 - The
European Central Bank is founded in
Brussels in order to define and execute the
EU's monetary policy.
1999 -
Panamanian election:
Mireya Moscoso became the first woman to be elected
President of
Panama.
2000 -
Bill Clinton announces that accurate
GPS access would no longer be restricted to
U.S. military.2000 -
Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet of the
Netherlands unveiled the Man With Two Hats monument in
Ottawa on May 11, 2002, and the other in
Apeldoorn on May 2, 2000. Symbolically linking both
Netherlands and
Canada for their assistance throughout the
Second World War.
2005 -
Airwork Flight 23 crashes after structural failure.2005 - The
Pontiac Grand Am ceases production at the 100 year-old
Lansing Car Assembly plant.
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