Events 694 -
Egica, a king of the Visigoths of Hispania, accuses
Jews of aiding
Muslims, sentencing all Jews to slavery.1282 -
Pope Martin IV exc King
Peter III of Aragon.1313 -
Louis the Bavarian defeats his cousin
Frederick I of Austria at the
Battle of Gamelsdorf. 1492 -
Peace of Etaples between
Henry VII and
Charles VIII.1494 -
Family de' Medici become rulers of
Florence.1688 - The
Glorious Revolution:
William of Orange captures
Exeter.
1697 -
Pope Innocent VIII founds the city of
Cervia.
1729 - Spain, France & England sign the
Treaty of Seville.
1764 -
Mary Campbell, a captive of the
Lenape during the
French and Indian War, is turned over to forces commanded by Colonel
Henry Bouquet.
1799 -
Napoleon Bonaparte leads the
Coup d'état of
18 Brumaire ending the
Directory government, and becoming one of its three Consuls (
Consulate Government).
1848 -
Robert Blum,
German revolutionary, executed in
Vienna1851 -
Kentucky marshals abduct abolitionist minister
Calvin Fairbank from
Jeffersonville, Indiana, and take him to Kentucky to stand trial for helping a
slave escape.
1861 - The first documented
football match in Canada was played at
University College, University of Toronto.
1862 -
American Civil War:
Union General
Ambrose Burnside assumes command of the
Army of the Potomac, after
George B. McClellan was removed.
1872 - The
Great Boston Fire of 1872.
1887 - The
United States receives rights to
Pearl Harbor,
Hawaii.
1888 -
Jack the Ripper kills Mary Jane Kelly, his last known victim.
1906 -
Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting
President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country (to inspect progress on the
Panama Canal).
1907 - The
Cullinan Diamond is presented to
King Edward VII on his birthday.
1917 -
Stalin enters the provisional government of
USSR.
1918 - Kaiser
Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates after the
German Revolution, and
Germany is proclaimed a
Republic.
1921 -
Albert Einstein awarded Nobel Prize in Physics for his work with the
photoelectric effect.
1923 - In
Munich,
Germany, police and government troops crush the
Beer Hall Putsch in
Bavaria. The failed
coup is the work of the
Nazis.
1932 - Riots between conservative and socialist supporters in
Switzerland kill 12 and injure 60.
1935 - The
Congress of Industrial Organizations is founded in
Atlantic City, New Jersey by eight
trade unions belonging to the
American Federation of Labor.
1937 - Japanese troops take control of
Shanghai,
China.
1938 -
Kristallnacht,
Nazi Germany's first large-scale act of physical anti-Jewish violence, begins.
1953 -
Cambodia becomes independent from
France.
1960 -
Robert McNamara is named president of
Ford Motor Co., the first non-Ford to serve in that post — quitting a month later to join the newly-elected
John F. Kennedy administration.
1963 - At
Miike coal mine,
Miike,
Japan, an explosion kills 458, and hospitalises 839 with
carbon monoxide poisoning. A three-train disaster in
Yokohama, also in
Japan, kills more than 160 people.
1965 - Several
U.S. states and parts of
Canada are hit by a series of
blackouts lasting up to 13 hours in the
Northeast Blackout of 1965.1965 -
Catholic Worker member
Roger Allen LaPorte, protesting against the
Vietnam War, sets himself on fire in front of the
United Nations building.
1967 -
Apollo program:
NASA launches the unmanned
Apollo 4 test spacecraft from
Cape Kennedy. 1967 - First issue of
Rolling Stone Magazine is published. 1967 -
French comic book heroes
Valérian and Laureline make their debut in the pages of
Pilote magazine.
1970 - Vietnam War: The
Supreme Court of the United States votes 6 to 3 against hearing a case to allow
Massachusetts to enforce its law granting residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war.
1971 -
John List, an accountant from
Westfield, New Jersey murders his mother, wife and three children. He then hides under a new identity for 18 years.
1975 - The Great Lakes "bulker" the
SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks in
Lake Superior.
1985 -
Garry Kasparov becomes the youngest world chess champion by beating
Anatoly Karpov 1989 -
Cold War:
Communist-controlled
East Germany opens checkpoints in the
Berlin Wall allowing its citizens to freely travel to
West Germany. People start demolishing the Berlin Wall.
1990 - New democratic constitution issued in
Nepal.1990 -
Mary Robinson elected
Ireland's first woman
President and the first from the
Labour Party.
1993 -
Stari most, the "old bridge" in Bosnian
Mostar built in 1566, collapses after several days of bombing.
1994 - Discovery of the
chemical element Darmstadtium.
1998 - Brokerage houses are ordered to pay US$1.03 billion to cheated
NASDAQ investors to compensate for their price-fixing. This is the largest civil settlement in
United States history.
1999 -
TAESA Flight 725, went down a few minutes after leaving the Uruapan airport en-route to Mexico City. 18 people were killed in the accident
2003 - During the holy month of
Ramadan, a suicide-terrorist attack in
Riyadh,
Saudi Arabia, kills 17 people.
2005 - The
Venus Express mission of the
European Space Agency is launched from the
Baikonur Cosmodrome in
Kazakhstan.2005 -
Suicide bombers attacked three hotels in
Amman, Jordan, killing at least 56 people.2005 -
Muriel Degauque becomes the first
Belgian female suicide bomber.
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