Events
3 BC -
Octavian (later known as Augustus) enters
Alexandria,
Egypt, bringing it under the control of the
Roman Republic.527 -
Justinian I becomes the only ruler of the
Byzantine Empire.607 -
Ono no Imoko is dispatched as envoy to the
Sui court in
China (Traditional
Japanese date:
July 3, 607).902 -
Taormina, the last
Byzantine stronghold in
Sicily, is captured by the
Aghlabid army.1203 -
Isaac II Angelus, restored
Eastern Roman Emperor, declares his son
Alexius IV Angelus co-
emperor after pressure from the forces of the Ciaran
Fourth Crusade. 1291 - The
Swiss Confederation is formed with the signature of the
Federal Charter.1461 -
Edward IV is crowned king of
England.1492 -
Ferdinand and
Isabella drive the
Jews out of
Spain.1498 -
Christopher Columbus becomes the first
European to visit
Venezuela.
1619 - First
African slaves arrive in
Jamestown, Virginia.1664 - The
Ottoman Empire is defeated in the
Battle of Saint Gotthard by an
Austrian army led by
Raimondo Montecuccoli, resulting in the
Peace of Vasvár.
1774 - The element
oxygen is discovered for the third (and last) time.
1798 -
French Revolutionary Wars:
Battle of the Nile (Battle of Aboukir Bay) - Battle begins when a
British fleet engages the
French Revolutionary Navy fleet in an unusual night action.
1800 - The
Act of Union 1800 is passed in which merges the
Kingdom of Great Britain and the
Kingdom of Ireland into the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
1820 -
London's
Regent's Canal opens.
1831 - A new
London Bridge opens.
1832 - The
Black Hawk War ends.
1834 -
Slavery is abolished in the
British Empire.
1838 - Slaves in
Trinidad and Tobago are emancipated.
1876 -
Colorado is admitted as the 38th
U.S. state.
1894 - The
First Sino-Japanese War erupts between
Japan and
China over
Korea.
1902 - The
United States buys the rights to the
Panama Canal from
France.
1907 -
First Scout camp opens on
Brownsea Island.
1914 -
Germany declares war on
Russia at the opening of
World War I. The
Swiss Army mobilises because of
World War I1927 - The
Nanchang Uprising marks the first significant battle in the
Chinese Civil War between the
Kuomintang and
Communist Party of China. This day is commemorated as the anniversary of the founding of the
People's Liberation Army.
1936 -
Olympic Games:
Summer Olympic Games - The
Games of the XI Olympiad open in
Berlin.
1937 -
Tito reads the resolution "
Manifesto of constitutional
congress of KPH" to the constitutive
congress of KPH (
Croatian Communist Party) in woods near
Samobor.
1941 - The first
Jeep is produced.
1944 -
Anne Frank makes the last entry in her
diary.1944 -
Warsaw Uprising against the
Nazi occupation breaks out in
Warsaw,
Poland.
1945 -
Mel Ott becomes the third member of the
500 home run club.
1946 - The Japanese Federation of Trade Unions is formed.
1948 - The
U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations is founded.
1957 - The
United States and
Canada form the
North American Air Defense Command (
NORAD).
1960 -
Dahomey (later renamed
Benin) declares independence from
France.1960 -
Communist Party of Independence and Work is banned in
Senegal.1960 -
Islamabad declared as the
federal capital of the
Government of Pakistan.
1964 - The
Belgian Congo is renamed the
Republic of the Congo.
1965 -
Princess Beatrix of the
Netherlands announces her engagement to
Claus von Amsberg.
1966 -
Charles Whitman kills 15 people at
The University of Texas at Austin before being killed by the police.1966 - Purges of intellectuals and imperialists becomes official
People's Republic of China policy at the beginning of the
Cultural Revolution.
1967 -
Israel annexes
East Jerusalem.
1968 - The coronation is held of
Hassanal Bolkiah, the 29th
Sultan of Brunei.
1970 -
Powder Ridge Rock Festival.
1971 -
Concert for Bangladesh.
1975 -
CSCE Final Act creates the
Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe.
1977 -
Frank H.T. Rhodes is elected President of
Cornell University, a post he would hold for 18 years.
1977 - Former
Lockheed U-2 pilot
Francis Gary Powers crashes the news helicopter he was flying in Los Angeles
1980 -
Buttevant Rail Disaster kills 18 and injures dozens of train passengers in
Ireland.
1981 -
MTV begins broadcasting in the United States and airs its first video, "
Video Killed The Radio Star" by the
Buggles.
1988 -
Rush Limbaugh was syndicated nationally in the United States as a two hour radio show.
1994 -
Michael Jackson and
Lisa Marie Presley confirm rumors that they had married eleven weeks earlier.
2001 - An agreement is reached on the position of the minority
Albanian language in the
Republic of Macedonia.2001 -
Bulgaria,
Cyprus,
Latvia,
Malta,
Slovenia and
Slovakia join the
European Environment Agency.2001 -
Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore has a
Ten Commandments monument installed in the judiciary building, leading to a
lawsuit to have it removed and his own removal from office.
2004 - A
supermarket fire kills 396 people and injures 500 in
Asunción,
Paraguay.
2005 -
German spelling reform of 1996 is formally implemented.
2007 - The
I-35W Mississippi River Bridge spanning the
Mississippi River in
Minneapolis,
Minnesota, collapsed during the evening
rush hour.
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