Events491 - Flavius Anastasius becomes
Byzantine Emperor, with the name of
Anastasius I.1079 - Bishop
Stanislaus of Krakow is executed by order of
Bolesław II of Poland.1241 -
Batu Khan defeats
Béla IV of Hungary at the
Battle of Muhi.1512 -
War of the League of Cambrai:
French forces led by
Gaston de Foix was victorious in the Battle of Ravenna.1689 -
William III and
Mary II are crowned as joint sovereigns of Britain.
1713 -
War of the Spanish Succession (
Queen Anne's War):
Treaty of Utrecht.
1775 - Last execution for
witchcraft in
Germany.
1828 - Foundation of
Bahia Blanca1849 - The
safety pin is patented by
Walter Hunt1856 - In
Rivas,
Nicaragua,
Juan Santamaria burns down the hostel where
William Walker's
filibusters are holed up.
1865 -
Abraham Lincoln makes his last public speech.
1868 - The
Shogunate is abolished in
Japan.
1876 - The
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks is organized.
1888 - The
Concertgebouw in
Amsterdam is inaugurated.
1899 -
Spain cedes
Puerto Rico to the
United States.
1905 -
Einstein reveals his
Theory of Relativity (
special relativity).
1919 -
International Labour Organization founded.
1921 - First sports broadcast on the
radio.1921 - The
Emirate of Transjordan is created.1921 -
Iowa becomes the first U.S. state to impose a
cigarette tax.
1945 -
World War II:
United States forces liberate
Buchenwald concentration camp.
1951 -
Korean War:
President Harry S. Truman relieves
General Douglas MacArthur of overall command in
Korea.1951 - The
Stone of Scone, the stone upon which Scottish monarchs were traditionally crowned, is found on the site of the altar of
Arbroath Abbey. It had been taken by Scottish nationalist students from its traditional (to the British government) location in
Westminster Abbey.
1952 - The
Battle of Nanri island takes place.
1955 - The
Air India Kashmir Princess downs in a failed assassination attempt on
Zhou Enlai by the
Kuomintang.
1957 - Britain agrees to
Singaporean self-rule.1961 - Trial of
Adolf Eichmann begins in
Jerusalem.
1965 - The
Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965: Fifty-one tornadoes hit in six
Midwestern states, killing 256 people.
1968 -
Lyndon B. Johnson signs the
Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing. 1968 -
German student leader
Rudi Dutschke is shot in
Berlin.
1970 -
Apollo 13 is launched.
1979 -
Ugandan dictator
Idi Amin is deposed.
1981 - A massive
riot in
Brixton,
South London, results in almost 300 police injuries and 65 serious civilian injuries.1981 - President
Ronald Reagan returns to the
White House from the hospital, 12 days after he was wounded in an assassination attempt.
1987 - The
London Agreement is secretly signed between
Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister
Shimon Peres and
King Hussein of
Jordan.
1990 - Customs officers in
Middlesbrough,
United Kingdom, say they have seized what they believe to be the barrel of a massive gun on a ship bound for
Iraq.
1996 -
Panathinaikos becomes the first Greek team to win the European Championships (now
Euroleague) in Paris, beating
FC Barcelona by 67-66.
2000 -
AT&T Park in
San Francisco,
Minute Maid Park in
Houston, and
Comerica Park in
Detroit open.
2001 - The detained crew of a
United States EP-3E aircraft that landed in
Hainan,
People's Republic of China after a collision with an
J-8 fighter is released.2001 -
Australia beat
American Samoa 31-0 in a
2002 FIFA World Cup qualifying game, an international record in which
Archie Thompson scored 13 goals
2002 - The
Ghriba synagogue bombing by
Al Qaeda kills 21 in
Tunisia.2002 - An
attempted coup d'état in
Venezuela against
President Hugo Chávez began.2003 - U.S. troops take the northern
Iraqi city of
Mosul without a fight.
2006 - Iranian President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces that
Iran has successfully enriched
uranium.
2007 - The "forever" stamp goes on sale in the United States for 41 cents.2007 - Two bombings in the Algerian capital of
Algiers, kills 33 people and wounds a further 222 others.
2007 Algiers bombings.
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