Events
476 -
Romulus Augustus, last
emperor of the Western
Roman Empire, is deposed when
Odoacer proclaims himself King of
Italy.1260 - The
Senese Ghibellines, supported by the forces of King
Manfred of Sicily, defeat the
Florentine Guelphs at Montaperti.
1781 -
Los Angeles, California, is founded as
El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora La Reina de los Ángeles de Porciúncula (the City of Our Lady, the Queen of the Angels of the Little Portion) by 44
Spanish settlers.
1862 -
Civil War Maryland Campaign Gen. Robert E. Lee begins his move taking the Army of Northern Virginia, and the war, into the North crossing the Potomac at Whites Ford.
1870 -
Emperor Napoleon III of France is deposed and the
Third Republic is declared.
1884 -
Britain ends its policy of
penal transportation to New South Wales in Australia.
1886 -
Indian Wars: After almost 30 years of fighting,
Apache leader
Geronimo surrenders with his remaining warriors to General
Nelson Miles in
Arizona.
1888 -
George Eastman registers the trademark
Kodak, and receives a patent for his
camera which uses roll film.
1894 - In
New York City, 12,000 tailors
strike against
sweatshop working conditions.
1923 - Maiden flight of the first
U.S. airship, the
USS Shenandoah.
1939 -
World War II: Japan declares neutrality in European war.
1940 - For the first time in
World War II, a
German submarine attacks a
United States ship (the
USS Greer) despite US neutrality and causing tensions to heighten.
1944 -
World War II: The
British 11th Armoured Division liberate the
Belgian city of
Antwerp.
1948 -
Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands abdicates for health reasons.
1949 - Maiden flight of the
Bristol Brabazon.1949 - The
Peekskill Riots erupt after a
Paul Robeson concert in
Peekskill, NY.
1950 - First appearance of the "
Beetle Bailey" comic strip.1950 -
Darlington Raceway is the site of the inaugural
Southern 500, the first 500-mile
NASCAR race.
1951 - The first live transcontinental
television broadcast takes place in
San Francisco, California, from the
Japanese Peace Treaty Conference.
1956 - The
IBM RAMAC 305, the first commercial computer that used
magnetic disk storage, was introduced.
1957 -
American Civil Rights Movement:
Little Rock Crisis -
Orval Faubus,
governor of
Arkansas, calls out the
National Guard to prevent African American students from enrolling in
Central High School in
Little Rock.1957 - The
Ford Motor Company introduces the
Edsel.
1963 -
Swissair Flight 306 crashes near
Dürrenäsch,
Switzerland, killing all on board.
1964 -
Scotland's
Forth Road Bridge, near
Edinburgh, officially opens.
1967 -
Vietnam War:
Operation Swift begins:
U.S. Marines engage the
North Vietnamese. The ensuing four-day battle in
Que Son Valley kills 114 Americans and 376 North Vietnamese.
1970 -
Salaheddin Ali Nader Shah Angha receives the "Robe of Faghr" (prophet
Muhammad's cloak) and is officially appointed as the 42nd master of the
Oveyssi-Shahmaghsoudi Sufi order by his father,
Shah Maghsoud Sadegh Angha.
1971 - A
Boeing 727 carrying
Alaska Airlines Flight 1866 crashes near
Juneau, Alaska, killing all 111 people on board.
1972 - Thieves steal 18 paintings from the
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in what was at the time the largest art theft in North America.1972 -
Mark Spitz wins his seventh swimming gold medal at the
1972 Summer Olympics in
Munich,
Germany, becoming the first
Olympian to do so. Spitz swam in only seven events and set world records in each one.
1975 - The
Sinai Interim Agreement concerning the
Arab-Israeli conflict is signed.
1984 -
Brian Mulroney leads the
Progressive Conservative Party to power in Canada in the
1984 federal election and ending 20 years of nearly uninterrupted Liberal rule.
1995 - The
Fourth World Conference on Women opens in
Beijing with over 4,750 delegates from 181 countries in attendance.
1996 -
War on Drugs:
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (
FARC) attack a military base in
Guaviare, starting three weeks of
guerrilla warfare in which at least 130
Colombians are killed.
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