Events
313 -
Roman emperor Licinius unifies the entire
Eastern Roman Empire under his rule.711 -
Islamic conquest of Hispania:
Moorish troops led by
Tariq ibn-Ziyad land at
Gibraltar to begin their
invasion of the
Iberian Peninsula (
Al-Andalus).1006 -
Supernova SN 1006, the brightest supernova in recorded history, appears in the
constellation Lupus. 1483 -
Orbital calculations suggest that on this day
Pluto moved inside
Neptune's orbit until
July 23, 1503.1492 -
Spain gives
Christopher Columbus his commission of exploration.1671 -
Petar Zrinski, the
Croatian Ban from the
Zrinski family, is
executed.
1789 - On the balcony of
Federal Hall on
Wall Street in
New York City,
George Washington takes the oath of office to become the first elected
President of the United States.
1794 - The
Battle of Boulou is fought, in which
French forces defeated the
Spanish under
General Union.
1803 -
Louisiana Purchase: The
United States purchases the
Louisiana Territory from
France for $15 million, more than doubling – overnight – the size of the young nation.
1812 - The
Territory of Orleans becomes the 18th
U.S. state under the name
Louisiana.
1838 -
Nicaragua declares independence from the
Central American Federation1849 -
Garibaldi defends
Rome against the French.
1856 -
Battle of Rivas,
Nicaragua, against North American mercenaries.
1863 -
Mexican forces attacked the
French Foreign Legion in
Hacienda Camarón,
Mexico.
1871 -
Camp Grant Massacre takes place in
Arizona Territory.
1894 -
Coxey's Army reaches
Washington, D.C. to protest the
unemployment caused by the
Panic of 1893.
1900 -
Hawaii becomes a territory of the
United States, with
Sanford B. Dole as
governor.1900 -
Casey Jones dies in a train wreck in
Vaughn, Mississippi, while trying to make up time on the Cannonball Express.
1904 - The
Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair opens in
St. Louis, Missouri.
1920 -
Peru becomes a signatory to the
Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1925 -
Automaker Dodge Brothers, Inc is sold to
Dillon, Read & Company for
USD $146 million plus $50 million for charity.
1927 - The
Federal Industrial Institute for Women, opens in
Alderson, West Virginia, as the first women's federal prison in the
United States.
1938 - The
animated cartoon short
Porky's Hare Hunt debuts in movie theaters, introducing
Happy Rabbit. 1938 - The first televised
FA Cup Final took place between
Huddersfield Town and
Preston North End1939 - The
1939 New York World's Fair opens.1939 -
RCA owned
NBC begins regularly scheduled television service from its New York station with the opening ceremonies of the
1939 New York World's Fair broadcast.1939 -
Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first
President of the United States to appear on television during the World Fair's opening ceremonies broadcast.
1943 -
World War II:
Operation Mincemeat – The submarine
HMS Seraph surfaces in the
Mediterranean Sea off the coast of
Spain to deposit a dead man planted with false invasion plans and dressed as a
British military intelligence officer.
1945 -
Adolf Hitler and
Eva Braun commit suicide after being married for one day. Soviet soldiers
raise the red flag over the
Reichstag building.
1947 - In
Nevada, the
Boulder Dam is officially renamed
Hoover Dam again.
1948 - In
Bogotá,
Colombia, the
Organization of American States is established.
1966 - The
Church of Satan is founded.
1973 -
Watergate Scandal:
President Richard Nixon announces that top
White House aids
H.R. Haldeman,
John Ehrlichman, and others have resigned.
1975 -
Fall of Saigon:
Communist forces gain control of
Saigon. The
Vietnam War formally ends with the unconditional surrender of
South Vietnamese president Duong Van Minh.
1977 -
Superstar Billy Graham defeats
Bruno Sammartino for the
WWWF Heavyweight Championship in
Baltimore,
Maryland ending Sammartino's second and last title reign.
1980 -
Accession of
Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.
1988 - French-Canadian singer Céline Dion wins the Eurovision Song Contest in Dublin, Ireland in front of 600 million TV-viewers, representing Switzerland with the song "Ne partez pas sans moi"
1991 - A
tropical cyclone hits
Bangladesh killing an estimated 138,000 people.
1993 - The
World Wide Web was born at
CERN.1993 - During a
tennis match between #1 female tennis player
Monica Seleš and
Magdalena Maleeva,
Günter Parche plunged a steak knife between Seleš's shoulderblades. Seleš did not return to competitive tennis for over two years.1993 -
Virgin Radio (then Virgin 1215) launches in the UK at 12:15pm.
1995 -
U.S. President Bill Clinton became the first U.S. President to visit
Northern Ireland.
1999 -
Cambodia joins the
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (
ASEAN) bringing the total members to 10.
2001 - The Mitchell Report on the
Arab-Israeli conflict is published.
2002 - A
referendum in
Pakistan overwhelmingly approves the
Presidency of
Pervez Musharraf for another five years.
2006 - Trapped miners Brant Webb and Todd Russell at
Beaconsfield, Tasmania are found alive after being
unaccounted for for five days.
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