Events1576 -
Eighty Years' War: In
Flandes,
Spain captures
Antwerp (after three days the city was nearly destroyed).1677 - The future
Mary II of England marries
William, Prince of Orange. They would later be known as
William and Mary.
1737 - The
Teatro di San Carlo was inaugurated.
1825 - The
Erie Canal was completed with Governor
DeWitt Clinton performing the Wedding of The Waters ceremony in
New York Harbor.
1839 – The
Newport Rising was the last large-scale armed rebellion against authority in mainland Britain.
1852 -
Count Camillo Benso di Cavour became the
prime minister of
Piedmont-
Sardinia, which soon expanded to become
Italy.
1861 - The
University of Washington opens in
Seattle,
Washington as the Territorial University
1864 -
American Civil War:
Battle of Johnsonville -
Confederate troops bombard a
Union supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material.
1869 - The first issue of the scientific journal
Nature is published.
1889 -
Menelek of Shoa obtains the allegiance of a large majority of the
Ethiopian nobility, paving the way for him to be crowned
emperor.
1890 -
City & South London Railway:
London's first deep-level
tube railway opens between
King William Street and
Stockwell.
1899 -
Sigmund Freud's
The Interpretation of Dreams is published.
1918 -
World War I:
Austria-Hungary surrenders to
Italy.1918 - The
German Revolution begins when 40,000
sailors take over the
port in
Kiel.
1921 - The
Sturmabteilung or SA is formally formed by
Adolf Hitler1921 -
Japanese Prime Minister Hara Takashi assassinated in
Tokyo.
1922 - In
Egypt,
British archaeologist
Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to King
Tutankhamun's tomb in the
Valley of the Kings.
1924 -
Nellie Tayloe Ross of
Wyoming elected as the first woman governor in the
United States.
1927 - Frank Heath and his horse Gypsy Queen return to
Washington, D.C., having completed a two-year journey of 11,356 miles to all 48 states.
1928 -
Arnold Rothstein,
New York City's most notorious gambler, is shot dead over a
poker game.
1939 -
World War II: U.S. President
Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the
United States Customs Service to implement the
Neutrality Act of 1939, allowing cash-and-carry purchases of
weapons by belligerents.
1942 - World War II:
Second Battle of El Alamein - Disobeying a direct order by
Adolf Hitler, General Field Marshal
Erwin Rommel leads his forces on a five-month retreat.
1945 -
UNESCO is founded.
1948 -
T. S. Eliot wins the
Nobel Prize in Literature.
1952 - The
United States government establishes the
National Security Agency.
1955 - The rebuilt
Vienna State Opera reopens with
Ludwig van Beethoven's
Fidelio after it was totally destroyed in
World War II.
1956 -
Soviet troops enter
Hungary to end the
Hungarian revolution that started on
October 23. Thousands are killed, more are wounded, and nearly a quarter million leave the country.
1960 - Filming wraps on
The Misfits, starring
Marilyn Monroe and
Clark Gable -- the last film for both.
1966 - Two-thirds of
Florence,
Italy is submerged as the
Arno rivers flood; considering also the contemporary flood of
Po River in northern Italy, 113 people die, 30,000 are rendered homeless, and numerous
Renaissance artworks and books are destroyed.
1970 -
Vietnam War:
Vietnamization - The
United States turns control of the
Binh Thuy Air Base in the
Mekong Delta over to
South Vietnam.1970 -
Genie, a 13 year old
feral child was found in
Los Angeles, California having been locked in her bedroom for most of her life.
1979 -
Iran hostage crisis begins:
Iranian radicals, mostly students, invade the
United States embassy in
Tehran and take 90 hostages (53 of whom are American).
1984 -
Dell was founded.1984 -
Sandinista Front wins the elections in
Nicaragua.
1986 - Chief Justice
Rose Bird and two colleagues are removed by the electorate from the
Supreme Court of California for their opposition to
capital punishment.
1989 - The congress of the
Solidarity Party is inaugurated in
Sweden. The congress decides, contrary to the proposal of the central committee, not to disband the party.
1993 -
Jean Chrétien takes office as
Prime Minister of Canada.1993 -
Bolivia becomes a member of the
Berne Convention copyright treaty.1993 - A series of fires destroy 1000 homes in southern
California, causing between 500 million and 1 billion
USD of damage. Half of the fires turn out to be
arson.1993 - A
China Airlines Boeing 747 overran Runway 13 at
Hong Kong's
Kai Tak International Airport while landing during a
typhoon, injuring 22 people.
1994 -
San Francisco: First conference that focused exclusively on the subject of the commercial potential of the
World Wide Web.
1995 -
Israeli prime minister
Yitzhak Rabin assassinated by an extreme right-wing Israeli.
2001 -
Hurricane Michelle hits
Cuba, destroying crops and thousands of homes.2001 - The
Police Service of Northern Ireland is established.
2002 - Chinese authorities arrest cyber-dissident
He Depu for signing pro-democracy letter to the 16th
Communist Party Congress2002 -
Fugazi plays last show to date in London, UK at The Forum
2003 - The most powerful
solar flare as observed by satellite instrumentation is recorded.2003 - Former
HealthSouth CEO
Richard Scrushy becomes the first person indicted under the
Sarbanes-Oxley Act. He was eventually acquitted.
2004 - 12
French soldiers, 3
UN personnel and hundreds of civilians die during the
Côte d'Ivoire civil war.
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