Events
68 - The
Roman Senate accepts emperor
Galba.536 -
St. Silverius becomes
Pope (probable date). 793 - The first
Viking raid on
British soil at
Lindisfarne where a set date for the raid is known.1191 -
Richard I arrives in
Acre thus beginning his crusade.1405 -
Richard le Scrope,
Archbishop of York and
Thomas Mowbray,
Earl of Norfolk, executed in
York on
Henry IV's orders.
1624 - An earthquake strikes
Peru.
1776 -
American Revolutionary War:
Battle of Trois-Rivières -
American invaders are driven back at
Trois-Rivières, Quebec.
1783 - The
volcano Laki, in
Iceland, begins an eight-month eruption which kills over 9,000 people and starts a seven-year
famine.
1789 -
James Madison introduces a proposed
Bill of Rights in the
U.S. House of Representatives.
1856 - The community of
Pitcairn Islands and descendants of the mutineers of the
HMAV Bounty consisting of 194 people arrived on the
Morayshire at
Norfolk Island Commencing the Third Settlement of the Island
1861 -
American Civil War:
Tennessee secedes from the
Union.
1862 -
American Civil War:
Battle of Cross Keys -
Confederate forces under
General Stonewall Jackson save the
Army of Northern Virginia from a
Union assault on the James Peninsula led by
General George B. McClellan.
1866 - The
Canadian Parliament meets for the first time in
Ottawa.
1887 -
Herman Hollerith receives a
patent for his
punch card calculator.
1906 -
Theodore Roosevelt signs the
Antiquities Act into law, authorizing the
President to restrict the use of certain parcels of
public land with historical or conservation value.
1912 -
Carl Laemmle incorporated
Universal Pictures.
1928 - Second Northern Expedition:
NRA captures
Beijing, whose name is changed to Beiping.
1941 -
World War II:
Allies invade
Syria and
Lebanon.
1942 -
World War II:
Japanese imperial submarines
I-21 and I-24 shell the
Australian cities of
Sydney and
Newcastle.
1948 -
Milton Berle hosts the debut of
Texaco Star Theater.
1949 -
Nineteen Eighty-Four by
George Orwell is published. 1949 - Such celebrities as
Helen Keller,
Dorothy Parker,
Danny Kaye,
Fredric March,
John Garfield,
Paul Muni and
Edward G. Robinson are named in an
FBI report as
Communist Party members.
1950 -
Sir Thomas Blamey becomes the only
Field Marshal in
Australian history.
1953 -
Flint-Worcester Tornadoes: A
tornado hits the
U.S. city of
Flint, Michigan, and kills 115. This is the last tornado to claim more than 100 lives. 1953 - The
United States Supreme Court rules that
Washington, D.C. restaurants could not refuse to serve black patrons.
1959 - The
USS Barbero and
United States Postal Service attempt the delivery of mail via
Missile Mail.
1966 - One of the
XB-70 Valkyrie prototypes is destroyed in a mid-air collision with a
F-104 Starfighter chase plane during a photo shoot.
NASA pilot
Joseph A. Walker and
USAF test pilot Carl Cross were both killed. 1966 -
Topeka, Kansas is devastated by a tornado that registers as an "F5" on the
Fujita Scale: the first to exceed US$100 million in damages. Sixteen people are killed, hundreds more injured, and thousands of homes damaged or destroyed.
[1]1967 -
Six-Day War: The
USS Liberty incident occurs, killing 34 and wounding 171.
1968 -
James Earl Ray is arrested for the murder of
Martin Luther King Jr. 1968 - The body of
assassinated U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy is laid to rest at
Arlington National Cemetery.
1974 - An F4
tornado strikes the
U.S. city of
Emporia, Kansas, killing six.
1984 -
Homosexuality is declared not a crime in the state of
New South Wales,
Australia.
1986 - Former
United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim is elected president of
Austria.
1987 -
New Zealand's
Labour government legislates against nuclear weapons and nuclear powered vessels. This makes New Zealand the first and (as at June 2006) only nation to ban these things from its territory.
1992 - The first
World Ocean Day is celebrated, coinciding with the
Earth Summit held in
Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil.
1995 - Downed
U.S. Air Force pilot
Captain Scott O'Grady is rescued by
U.S. Marines in
Bosnia.
1995 -
Rasmus Lerdorf launched version 1.0 of the popular scripting language
PHP.
1996 -
Panama becomes a member of the
Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1999 -
War on Drugs: The government of
Colombia announces it will include the estimated value of the country's illegal drug crops, exceeding half a billion
US dollars, in its
gross national product.
2004 - First
Transit of Venus in this
millennium.
2007 - Roll out ceremony launch for the First of Class
Astute class submarine, in
Barrow-in-Furness,
Cumbria.
2007 - MV
Pasha Bulker bulk cargo ship runs aground on Nobby's Beach in
Newcastle, Australia.
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