Events
240 BC - 1st recorded
perihelion passage of
Halley's Comet.1282 - The people of
Sicily rebel against the
Angevin king Charles I, in what becomes known as the
Sicilian Vespers.1296 -
Edward I sacks
Berwick-upon-Tweed, during armed conflict between
Scotland and
England. 1492 -
Ferdinand and
Isabella sign the
Alhambra decree aimed at expelling all
Jews from
Spain unless they convert to
Roman Catholicism.
1814 -
Napoleonic Wars:
Sixth Coalition forces march into
Paris.
1822 -
Florida Territory created in the
United States.
1842 -
Anesthesia is used for the first time in an operation by
Dr. Crawford Long.
1844 - One of the most important battles of the
Dominican War of Independence from
Haiti takes place near the city of
Santiago de los Caballeros.
1855 -
Origins of the American Civil War:
Bleeding Kansas - "
Border Ruffians" from
Missouri invade
Kansas and force election of a pro-
slavery legislature.
1856 - The
Treaty of Paris (1856) is signed, ending the
Crimean War.
1858 -
Hymen Lipman patents a
pencil with an attached
eraser.
1863 - Danish prince
Wilhelm Georg is chosen as King George of
Greece.
1867 -
Alaska is purchased for $7.2 million, about 2 cent/acre ($4.19/km²), by
United States Secretary of State William H. Seward. The news media call this
Seward's Folly.
1870 -
Mississippi is readmitted to the
Union following
Reconstruction.
1885 - The
Battle for Kushka triggers the
Pandjeh Incident which nearly gives rise to war between the
British Empire and
Russian Empire.
1909 - The
Queensboro Bridge opens, linking
Manhattan &
Queens.
1910 -
Mississippi Legislature founded
The University of Southern Mississippi.
1912 -
Sultan Abdelhafid signs the
Treaty of Fez, making
Morocco a
French protectorate.
1939 - The
Heinkel He 100 fighter sets the world airspeed record of 463 mph.1939 - First flight of the
Australian C.A.C. CA-16 Wirraway.
1940 -
Sino-Japanese War:
Japan declares
Nanking to be the capital of a new
Chinese puppet government, nominally controlled by
Wang Ching-wei.
1945 -
World War II:
Soviet Union forces invade
Austria and take
Vienna,
Polish and
Soviet forces liberate
Gdańsk.1945 -
World War II: a defecting German pilot delivers a
Messerschmitt Me 262A-1 to Americans.
1951 -
Remington Rand delivers the first
UNIVAC I computer to the
United States Census Bureau.
1954 -
Yonge Street subway line opens in
Toronto. It is the first
subway in
Canada.
1961 - The
Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs is signed at
New York.
1965 -
Vietnam War: A
car bomb explodes in front of the
U.S. Embassy in
Saigon, killing 22 and wounding 183 others.
1972 -
Vietnam War: The
Easter Offensive begins after
North Vietnamese forces cross into the
Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) of
South Vietnam.
1979 -
Airey Neave, a British politician, is killed by a car bomb as he exits the
Palace of Westminster. The
Irish National Liberation Army claims responsibility.
1981 -
President Ronald Reagan is
shot in the chest outside a
Washington, D.C., hotel by
John Hinckley, Jr.1982 -
Space Shuttle program:
STS-3 Mission completed with the landing of
Columbia at
White Sands Missile Range,
New Mexico.
2006 -
Marcos Pontes is the first
Brazilian astronaut in space.2006 - UK
Terrorism Act 2006 becomes law.
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