Events1192 -
Assassination of
Conrad of Montferrat (Conrad I),
King of Jerusalem, in
Tyre, two days after his title to the
throne is confirmed by election. The killing is carried out by
Hashshashin.1253 -
Nichiren, a
Japanese Buddhist monk, propounds
Nam Myoho Renge Kyo for the first time and declares it to be the essence of
Buddhism, in effect founding
Nichiren Buddhism.
1611 - Establishment of the Pontifical and Royal
University of Santo Tomas, The Catholic University of the Philippines, the oldest existing university in Asia and the largest Catholic university in the world (d.
1611)
1788 -
Maryland becomes the seventh state to ratify the
Constitution of the United States.
1789 -
Mutiny on the
HMS Bounty.
Captain William Bligh and 18 sailors are set adrift and the rebel crew returns to
Tahiti briefly and then sets sail for
Pitcairn Island.
1792 -
France invades Austrian Netherlands (present day
Belgium), beginning the
French Revolutionary War.
1796 - The Armistice of Cherasco is signed by
Napoleon Bonaparte and
Vittorio Amedeo III, the
King of Sardinia, expanding
French territory along the
Mediterranean coast.
1862 -
American Civil War:
Admiral David Farragut captures
New Orleans, Louisiana.
1920 -
Azerbaijan is added to the
Soviet Union.
1930 - The first night game in organized baseball history takes place in
Independence, Kansas.
1932 - A
vaccine for
yellow fever is announced for use on
humans.
1945 -
Benito Mussolini and his mistress
Clara Petacci are executed by a firing squad consisting of members of the
Italian resistance movement.
1947 -
Thor Heyerdahl and five crew mates set out from
Peru on the
Kon-Tiki to prove that
Peruvian natives could have settled
Polynesia.
1950 -
Bhumibol Adulyadej, got married with his queen,
Queen Sirikit, after their quiet engagement in
Lausanne,
Switzerland on
July 19,
1949.
1952 -
Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Commander of
NATO.1952 -
Occupied Japan: The
United States occupation of
Japan ends.
1965 -
United States troops land in the
Dominican Republic to "forestall establishment of a
Communist dictatorship" and to evacuate U.S. citizens.
1967 -
Expo 67 opens to the public in
Montreal,
Quebec,
Canada.
1969 -
Charles de Gaulle resigns as
President of France.
1970 -
Vietnam War:
U.S. President Richard M. Nixon formally authorizes
American combat troops to fight
communist sanctuaries in
Cambodia.
1977 - The
Red Army Faction trial ends, with
Andreas Baader,
Gudrun Ensslin and
Jan-Carl Raspe found guilty of four counts of
murder and more than 30 counts of
attempted murder.1977 - The
Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure is signed.
1978 -
President of Afghanistan Mohammed Daoud Khan is overthrown and
assassinated in a
coup led by pro-
communist rebels.
1981 -
Galician current
Statute of Autonomy.
1986 -
United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise becomes the first nuclear-powered
aircraft carrier to transit the
Suez Canal, navigating from the
Red Sea to the
Mediterranean Sea to relieve
USS Coral Sea, on station across the
"Line of Death" in the
Gulf of Sidra off the coast of
Libya. The transit began at 0300 and lasted 12 hours.
1987 -
U.S. engineer
Ben Linder is killed in an ambush by U.S.-funded
Contras in northern
Nicaragua.
1988 - Near
Maui, Hawaii,
flight attendant Clarabelle "C.B." Lansing is sucked out of
Aloha Flight 243, a
Boeing 737, and falls to her death when part of the plane's fuselage rips open in mid-flight.
1994 - Former
Central Intelligence Agency official Aldrich Ames pleads guilty to giving
U.S. secrets to the
Soviet Union and later
Russia.
1996 -
Whitewater controversy:
President Bill Clinton gives 4½ hour videotaped testimony for the defense.1996 - In
Tasmania,
Australia,
Martin Bryant goes on a
shooting spree, killing 35 people and seriously injuring 37 more.
1997 - The
1993 Chemical Weapons Convention goes into effect, with
Russia,
Iraq and
North Korea notable nations who had not ratified the treaty.
2001 -
Millionaire Dennis Tito becomes the world's first
space tourist.
2005 - The
Patent Law Treaty goes into effect.2005 -
Taraki Sivaram, a popular
Tamil journalist of
Sri Lanka kidnapped in
Colombo; his body was found the next day near the
parliament.
2007 - An
earthquake measuring 4.3 on the
Richter magnitude scale strikes
Kent in
England.
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