Events529 - First draft of
Corpus Juris Civilis (a fundamental work in
jurisprudence) is issued by
Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I.1348 -
Charles University is founded in
Prague.
1521 -
Ferdinand Magellan arrives at
Cebu.1541 -
Francis Xavier leaves
Lisbon on a mission to the
Portuguese East Indies.
1712 - A slave rebellion breaks out in
New York City.
1795 -
France adopts the
metre as the basic measure of length.
1798 - The
Mississippi Territory is organized from territory ceded by
Georgia and
South Carolina and is later twice expanded to include disputed territory claimed by both the
U.S. and
Spain.
1805 -
Lewis and Clark Expedition: The
Corps of Discovery breaks camp among the
Mandan tribe and resumes its journey
West along the
Missouri River.1805 - First public performance of
Beethoven's Third Symphony (Eroica).
1827 -
John Walker, an
English chemist, sells the first
friction match. He had invented it in the previous year.
1829 -
Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, commences translation of the
Book of Mormon, with
Oliver Cowdery as his scribe.
1856 - Foundation of
Nelson College,
Nelson, New Zealand.
1862 -
American Civil War:
Battle of Shiloh ends -
Union Army under
General Ulysses S. Grant defeat the
Confederates near
Shiloh, Tennessee.
1868 -
Thomas D'Arcy McGee, one of the Canadian Fathers Of Confederation is assassinated by the Irish, in one of the few Canadian political assassinations, the only one at the federal level.
1867 -
Johnson C. Smith University is established.
1890 - Completion of the first
Lake Biwa Canal.
1906 -
Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates
Naples.1906 - The Algeciras Conference gives
France and
Spain control over
Morocco.
1908 -
H. H. Asquith of the
Liberal Party takes office as
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, from Sir
Henry Campbell-Bannerman 1922 -
Teapot Dome scandal:
United States Secretary of the Interior leases
Teapot Dome petroleum reserves in
Wyoming.
1927 - First distance
public television broadcast (from
Washington, DC to
New York City, displaying the image of
Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover).
1933 -
Prohibition was repealed for
beer of no more than 3.2%
alcohol by
weight, eight months before the ratification of
XXI amendment.
1938 -
LSD is first synthesized.
1939 -
World War II:
Italy invades
Albania.
1940 -
Booker T. Washington becomes the first
African American to be depicted on a
United States postage stamp.
1943 -
Holocaust: In Terebovlia, Ukraine,
Germans order 1,100
Jews to undress to their
underwear and march through the city of
Terebovlia to the nearby village of Plebanivka. They were then shot dead and buried in ditches.
1945 -
World War II: The
Japanese battleship Yamato, the largest battleship ever constructed, is sunk 200 miles north of
Okinawa while en-route on a
suicide mission in
Operation Ten-Go.1945 -
Kantaro Suzuki becomes the
42nd Prime Minister of
Japan.1945 -
World War II:
Visoko was liberated by the 7th, 9th and 17th Krajina brigades from the Tenth division of
Yugoslav Partisan forces.
1946 -
Syria's independence from
France is officially recognised.
1948 - The
World Health Organization is established by the
United Nations.1948 -
Buddhist monastery burns in
Shanghai,
China, leaving twenty monks dead.
1954 -
U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his "
domino theory" speech during a news conference.
1955 -
Anthony Eden of the
Conservative Party, becomes
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1956 -
Spain relinquishes its
protectorate in
Morocco.
1963 -
Yugoslavia is proclaimed to be a
Socialist republic and
Josip Broz Tito is named
President for life.
1964 -
IBM announces the
System/360.
1969 - The
Internet's symbolic birth date: publication of
RFC 1.
1971 -
U.S. President Richard Milhous Nixon announces his decision to increase the rate of American troop withdrawals from
Vietnam.
1976 - Former British Cabinet Minister
John Stonehouse resigns from the
Labour Party, leaving Prime Minister
James Callaghan, who has been in power for just two days, in a minority of one.
1977 -
German Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by two
Red Army Faction members while waiting at a red light.
1978 - Development of the
neutron bomb is canceled by
U.S. President Jimmy Carter.
1980 - The
United States severs diplomatic relations with
Iran and imposes economic sanctions following the taking of
American hostages on
November 4,
1979.
1983 - During
STS-6, astronauts
Story Musgrave and
Don Peterson perform the first
space shuttle spacewalk.
1985 - Soviet leader
Mikhail Gorbachev declares a moratorium on the deployment of middle-range missiles in
Europe.
1989 -
Soviet submarine Komsomolets sinks in the
Barents Sea off the coast of
Norway killing 42 sailors.
1990 -
Iran Contra Affair:
John Poindexter is found guilty of five charges for his part in the scandal (the conviction was reversed on appeal).
1992 -
Republika Srpska announces its independence.
1994 - Massacres of
Tutsis begin in
Kigali,
Rwanda.
1999 - The
World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules in favor of the
United States in its long-running trade dispute with the
European Union over bananas.
2001 -
Mars Odyssey is launched.
2003 -
U.S. troops capture
Baghdad;
Saddam Hussein's regime falls two days later.
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