Events
1124 -
David I becomes
King of
Scotland.1296 -
Battle of Dunbar: The
Scots are defeated by
Edward I of England. 1509 -
Pope Julius II places the
Italian state of
Venice under
interdict.
1521 - Battle of Mactan:
Explorer Ferdinand Magellan is killed by natives in the
Philippines led by chief
Lapu-Lapu.1539 - Re-founding of the city of
Bogotá,
New Granada (nowadays
Colombia), by
Nikolaus Federmann and
Sebastián de Belalcázar. 1565 -
Cebu is established becoming the first
Spanish settlement in the
Philippines. 1578 -
Duel of the Mignons claims the lives of two favorites of
Henry III of France and two favorites of
Henry I, Duke of Guise.1650 - The
Battle of Carbisdale: A
Royalist army invades mainland
Scotland from
Orkney Island but is defeated by a
Covenanter army.1667 - The blind, impoverished
John Milton sells the copyright of
Paradise Lost for
£10.
1749 - First performance of
Handel's Fireworks Music in
Green Park, London.
1773 - The
Parliament of Great Britain passes the
Tea Act, designed to save the
British East India Company by granting it a
monopoly on the
North American tea trade.
1805 -
First Barbary War:
United States Marines and
Berbers attack the
Tripolitan city of
Derna (The "shores of Tripoli" part of the
Marines' hymn).
1810 -
Beethoven composes his famous piano piece,
Für Elise.
1813 -
War of 1812:
United States troops capture the
capital of
Ontario,
York (present day
Toronto,
Canada).
1827 - The Petrel, Australian Coal carrying ship sinks in stormy seas, off Hope Bay, Tasmania.
1840 - Foundation stone for new
Palace of Westminster,
London, laid by wife of Sir
Charles Barry.
1861 -
President of the United States Abraham Lincoln suspends the
writ of habeas corpus.
1865 - The
New York State Senate creates
Cornell University as the
state's
land grant institution.1865 - The
steamboat Sultana, carrying 2,400 passengers, explodes and sinks in the
Mississippi River, killing 1,700, most of whom were
Union survivors of the
Andersonville Prison.
1904 - The
Australian Labor Party becomes the first such party to gain
national government, under
Chris Watson.
1909 -
Sultan of
Turkey Abdul Hamid II is overthrown, and is succeeded by his brother,
Mehmed V.
1911 - Following the resignation and death of
William P. Frye, a
compromise is reached to rotate the office of
President pro tempore of the United States Senate.
1914 -
Honduras becomes a signatory to the
Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1933 -
Jessop & Son department store in
Nottingham,
England, acquired by
John Lewis Partnership. The
partnership's first shop outside
London.
1936 - The
United Auto Workers (UAW) gains autonomy from the
American Federation of Labor.
1941 -
World War II:
German troops enter
Athens.
1945 - World War II: Last German troops are expelled from
Finnish Lapland (the last day of World War II going on in
Finland). The day is the national war veteran day in Finland.1945 -
World War II: The
Völkischer Beobachter, the newspaper of the
Nazi Party, ceases publication.
1950 -
Apartheid: In
South Africa, the
Group Areas Act is passed formally segregating races.
1959 - The last
Canadian missionary leaves the
People's Republic of China.
1960 -
Togo gains independence from
French-administered
UN trusteeship.
1961 -
Sierra Leone is granted its independence from the
United Kingdom, with
Milton Margai as the first
Prime Minister.
1967 -
Expo 67 officially opens in
Montreal,
Canada with a large opening ceremony broadcast around the world. It opens to the public the next day.
1972 -
Constructive Vote of No Confidence against
German Chancellor Willy Brandt fails under obscure circumstances.
1974 - 10,000 march in
Washington, D.C., calling for impeachment of US
President Nixon1977 - 28 people are killed in the
Guatemala City air disaster.
1978 - Former
Nixon aide
John D. Ehrlichman is released from an Arizona prison after serving 18 months for
Watergate-related crimes.
1981 -
Xerox PARC introduces the
computer mouse.
1987 - The
U.S. Justice Department bars the
Austrian President
Kurt Waldheim from entering the
United States, saying he had aided in the deportation and execution of thousands of
Jews and others as a German Army officer during
World War II.
1992 - The
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, comprising
Serbia and
Montenegro, is proclaimed.1992 -
Betty Boothroyd becomes the first woman to be elected Speaker of the
British House of Commons in its 700-year history.1992 -
Russia and 12 other former
Soviet republics win entry into the
International Monetary Fund and the
World Bank.
1993 - All members of the
Zambia national football team lose their lives in a plane crash off
Libreville,
Gabon in route to
Dakar,
Senegal to play a
1994 FIFA World Cup qualifying match against
Senegal.
1994 -
South African general election, 1994: The first democratic
general election in
South Africa, in which black citizens could vote.
1996 - The
Israeli military operation in
Lebanon,
Operation Grapes of Wrath, ends after 16 days of heavy bombing.
2002 - The last successful telemetry from NASA space probe
Pioneer 10.
2005 - The
Superjumbo jet aircraft
Airbus A380 makes its first flight from
Toulouse,
France.
2006 - Construction begins on the
Freedom Tower for the new
World Trade Center in
New York City.
2007 -
Estonian authorities remove the
Bronze Soldier, a
Soviet Red Army war memorial in
Tallinn, amid political controversy with
Russia.
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