Events1419 - First
Defenestration of Prague.1502 -
Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islands off the coast of
Honduras during his fourth voyage.
1608 - At
Ticonderoga (now
Crown Point, New York),
Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two
Iroquois chiefs. This was to set the tone for
French-
Iroquois relations for the next one hundred years.
1619 - In
Jamestown, Virginia, the first representative assembly in the
Americas, the
House of Burgesses, convenes for the first time.
1629 - An earthquake in
Naples,
Italy kills 10,000 people.
1729 -
Baltimore, Maryland is founded.
1733 - First
Freemasons lodge opened in what will become the
United States.
1756 -
Bartolomeo Rastrelli presents the newly-built
Catherine Palace to
Empress Elizabeth and her courtiers.
1825 -
Malden Island discovered.
1863 -
Indian Wars:
Chief Pocatello of the
Shoshone tribe signs the Treaty of Box Elder, promising to stop harassing the emigrant trails in southern
Idaho and northern
Utah.
1864 -
American Civil War:
Battle of the Crater -
Union forces attempt to break
Confederate lines by exploding a large bomb under their trenches.
1866 - New Orleans's Democratic government ordered police to raid an integrated
GOP meeting, killing 40 people and injuring 150.
1930 - In
Montevideo,
Uruguay win the first
Football World Cup.
1932 -
Olympic Games: The
Games of the X Olympiad open in
Los Angeles, California. 1932 -
Walt Disney's
Flowers and Trees, the first
Academy Award winning cartoon and first cartoon short to use
Technicolor, premieres.
1945 -
World War II:
Japanese submarine I-58 sinks the
USS Indianapolis (CA-35), killing 883 seamen.
1953 -
Rikidōzan holds a ceremony announcing the establishment of the
Japan Pro Wrestling Alliance.
1954 -
Elvis Presley makes his debut as a public performer.
1956 - A
Joint resolution of the
U.S. Congress is signed by
President Dwight D. Eisenhower, authorizing "
In God We Trust" as the
U.S. national
motto.
1965 -
US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the
Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing
Medicare and
Medicaid.
1969 -
Vietnam War:
US President Richard M. Nixon makes an unscheduled visit to
South Vietnam and meets with
President Nguyen Van Thieu and with
U.S. military commanders.
1971 -
Apollo program:
Apollo 15 Mission -
David Scott and
James Irwin on
Apollo Lunar Module module,
Falcon, land with first
Lunar Rover on the
moon.1971 - An
All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 and a
Japanese Air Force F-86 collide over
Morioka,
Japan killing 162.
1974 -
Watergate Scandal:
US President Richard M. Nixon releases subpoenaed
White House recordings after being ordered to do so by the
United States Supreme Court.
1975 -
Jimmy Hoffa disappears from the parking lot of the
Machus Red Fox restaurant in
Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a suburb of
Detroit, at about 2:30 p.m. He is never seen or heard from again.
1980 -
Vanuatu gains independence.
1990 - The first
Saturn automobile rolls off the assembly line.
1997 - Eighteen lives are lost in the
Thredbo Landslide in
New South Wales,
Australia.2002 - The
accounting law referred to as
"The Sarbanes Oxley Act" was
signed into
law by
United States President George W. Bush.
2003 - In
Mexico, the last 'old style'
Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the
assembly line.
2006 - World's longest running music show
Top of the Pops broadcast for the last time on
BBC Two. The show had aired for 42 years.2006 - At least 28
Lebanese civilians, including 16 children, were killed when
Israel Air Force attacked a building in Qana in what is called the
Second Qana massacre.
2007 -
John Brumby becomes Premier of
Victoria following the resignation of
Steve Bracks.
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