Events
217 -
Roman Emperor Caracalla is
assassinated (and succeeded) by his
Praetorian Guard prefect,
Marcus Opellius Macrinus.1093 - The new
Winchester Cathedral is dedicated by
Walkelin.
1139 -
Roger II of Sicily is excommunicated.1149 -
Pope Eugene III takes refuge in the castle of
Ptolemy II of Tusculum.1271 - In
Syria, sultan
Baybars conquers the
Krak of Chevaliers.1492 - Death of
Lorenzo de' Medici, dubbed "The Magnificent", ruler of
Florence and patron of arts.1513 - Explorer
Juan Ponce de León declares
Florida a territory of
Spain .
1730 -
Shearith Israel, the first
synagogue in
New York City, is dedicated.
1767 -
Ayutthaya kingdom falls to
Burmese invaders.
1820 - The
Venus de Milo is discovered on the
Aegean island of
Melos.
1832 -
Black Hawk War: Around 300
United States 6th Infantry troops leave
St. Louis, Missouri to fight the
Sauk Native Americans.
1848 -
Battle of Goito, part of the
Italian Wars of Independence1864 -
American Civil War:
Battle of Mansfield -
Union forces are thwarted by a
Confederate army at
Mansfield, Louisiana.
1866 -
Italy and
Prussia ally against
Austria-Hungary.
1867 - The first
World's Fair is inaugurated in
Paris.
1886 -
William Ewart Gladstone introduces the first
Irish Home Rule Bill into the
British House of Commons.
1893 - The first recorded
college basketball game occurs in
Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania.
1895 - The
United States Supreme Court declares
income tax to be
unconstitutional in
Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co.1899 -
Martha Place becomes the first woman to be executed in an
electric chair.
1904 - The
French Third Republic and the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland sign the
Entente cordiale.1904 - British mystic
Aleister Crowley transcribes the first chapter of
the Book of the Law.1904 -
Longacre Square in
Midtown Manhattan is renamed
Times Square after
The New York Times.
1913 - The
17th Amendment to the United States Constitution, requiring direct
election of
Senators, becomes law.
1916 - In
Corona, California, car racer
Bob Burman crashes, killing three and badly injuring five spectators.
1918 -
World War I:
Actors Douglas Fairbanks and
Charlie Chaplin sell
war bonds on the streets of
New York, New York's financial district.
1929 -
Indian Independence Movement: At Delhi Central Assembly,
Bhagat Singh and
Batukeshwar Dutt throw handouts, and bombs to court arrest.
1935 - The
Works Progress Administration is formed when the
Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 becomes law.
1940 -
World War II:
Great Britain and
France announce that they have mined
Norwegian territorial waters to prevent their use by
German supply ships.
1942 - World War II:
Siege of Leningrad -
Soviet Union forces open a much-needed
railway link to
Leningrad. 1942 - World War II: the
Japanese take
Bataan in the Philippines.
1943 -
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in an attempt to check
inflation, freezes wages and prices, prohibits workers from changing jobs unless the
war effort would be aided thereby, and bars rate increases to
common carriers and
public utilities.
1946 - The last meeting of the
League of Nations, the precursor of the
United Nations, is held.
1950 -
India and
Pakistan sign the Pact of Delhi.
1952 -
U.S. President Harry S. Truman calls for the seizure of all domestic
steel mills to prevent a nationwide
strike.
1953 -
Mau Mau leader
Jomo Kenyatta is convicted by
Kenya's
British rulers.
1957 - The
Suez Canal in
Egypt is reopened.
1960 - The
U.S. Senate approves a civil rights bill despite Southern senators' marathon
filibuster effort.
1973 - 32 terrorist bombings in
Cyprus1974 -
Hank Aaron of the
Atlanta Braves passes
Babe Ruth for first place on
Major League Baseball's all-time
home run list. Aaron's record would be broken 33 years later by
Barry Bonds.
1975 -
Frank Robinson manages the
Cleveland Indians in his first game as major league
baseball's first
African American manager.
1985 -
Bhopal disaster:
India files suit against
Union Carbide for the disaster which killed an estimated 2,000 and injured another 200,000.
1987 -
Los Angeles Dodgers executive
Al Campanis resigns amid controversy over
racially-charged remarks he had made while on
Nightline.
1989 -
South Africa: the
Democratic Party is formed from the merger of four parties.1989 - The two Greek Communist parties, along with smaller left-wing parties, merge to form the
Coalition of the Left and Progress in
Greece.
1990 -
New Democracy wins the national election in
Greece.
1992 - Retired
tennis great
Arthur Ashe announces that he has
AIDS, acquired from
blood transfusions during one of his two heart surgeries.
1999 -
Haryana Gana Parishad, a
political party in the
Indian state of
Haryana, merges with the
Indian National Congress.
2000 - 19
Marines are killed when an Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft crashes near
Marana, Arizona.
2004 -
Darfur conflict: The
Humanitarian Ceasefire Agreement is signed by the
Sudanese government and two rebel groups.2004 -
U.S. National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice testifies before the
9/11 Commission .
2005 -
Funeral of Pope John Paul II.
2006 -
Shedden massacre: the bodies of eight men, all shot to death, are found in a field in
Ontario,
Canada. The murders are soon linked to the
Bandidos motorcycle gang.
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