Events392 -
Arbogast has
Eugenius elected
Western Roman Emperor.
476 -
Odoacer is named Rex italiae by his troop.565 -
St. Columba reports seeing a monster in
Loch Ness,
Scotland.1138 - Battle of the Standard between Scotland and England.1485 - The
Battle of Bosworth Field death of
Richard III and end of the
House of Plantagenet.1559 - Bartholome de Carranza,
Spanish archbishop, is arrested for
heresy.
1639 -
Madras (now
Chennai),
India, is founded by the
British East India Company after buying a sliver of land from local Nayak rulers.1642 -
Charles I calls the
English Parliament traitors. Beginning of the
English Civil War.1654 -
Jacob Barsimson arrives in
New Amsterdam. He is the first known
Jewish immigrant to America.
1717 -
Spanish troops land on
Sardinia.
1770 -
James Cook's expedition lands on the east coast of
Australia.
1775 -
King George III declares the
American colonies to be in open rebellion.
1780 -
James Cook's ship
HMS Resolution returns to
England (Cook having been killed on
Hawaii during the voyage).
1791 - Beginning of the
Haitian Slave Revolution in
Saint-Domingue.
1798 -
French troops land in
Kilcummin,
County Mayo,
Ireland to aid
Wolfe Tone's United Irishmen's Irish Rebellion.
1827 -
José de La Mar becomes
President of Peru.
1831 -
Nat Turner's slave rebellion revolt commences just after midnight in
Southampton, Virginia, leading to the deaths of more than 50 whites and several hundred
African Americans who were killed in retaliation for the uprising.
1848 -
The United States annexes
New Mexico.
1849 - First
air raid in history. Austria launched pilotless balloons against the Italian city of
Venice.
1851 - The first
America's Cup is won by the
yacht America.
1875 - The
Treaty of Saint Petersburg between
Japan and
Russia is ratified, providing for the exchange of
Sakhalin for the
Kuril Islands.
1864 - Twelve
nations sign the First
Geneva Convention. The
Red Cross is formed.
1901 -
Cadillac Motor Company founded.
1902 -
Theodore Roosevelt became the first
President of the United States to ride in an automobile.
1910 -
Japan illicitly annexes
Korea with the signing of the
Japan-Korea Annexation Treaty. The name
Korea was abolished and replaced with the ancient name
Joseon.
1911 - Theft of the
Mona Lisa is discovered.
1914 -
World War I: In
Belgium,
British and
German troops clash for the first time in the war.
1922 -
Michael Collins,
Commander-in-Chief of the
Irish Free State Army is shot dead during an
Anti-Treaty ambush at
Beal na mBlath,
County Cork, during the
Irish Civil War.
1926 -
Gold discovered in
Johannesburg,
South Africa.
1932 - The
BBC first experiments with television broadcasting. See also Timeline of the BBC
1941 -
World War II:
German troops reach
Leningrad, leading to the
siege of Leningrad.
1942 -
World War II:
Brazil declares
war on the
Axis powers (
Germany,
Italy and
Japan).1944 -
World War II: Thirty-two
Spaniards & four
French Maquis tackle a
German column (1,300 men in 60 lorries, with 6 tanks & 2 self-propelled guns), at La Madeiline,
France. Three Maquis are wounded, with 110
Germans killed and 200 wounded.1944 -
World War II:
Romania captured by the
Soviet Union.
1950 -
Althea Gibson becomes the first black
competitor in international
tennis.
1952 - The
penal colony on
Devil's Island is permanently closed.
1955 - 11 schoolchildren were killed, when their school bus was hit by a freight train, in
Spring City, Tennessee.
1962 - An attempt to assassinate
French president Charles de Gaulle fails.1962 - The
NS Savannah, the world's first
nuclear-powered cargo ship, completes its
maiden voyage.
1963 -
Joe Walker in
X-15 test plane reaches altitude of 106 km (67 miles).
1964 -
Match Of The Day hits the air on
BBC Two.
1966 - Labor movements
NFWA and AWOC merge to become the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC), predecessor of the
United Farm Workers.
1968 -
Pope Paul VI arrives in
Bogotá,
Colombia. It is the first visit of a
pope to
Latin America.
1971 -
J. Edgar Hoover and
John Mitchell announce the arrest of 20 of the
Camden 28.
1972 -
Rhodesia is expelled by the
IOC for its racist policies.
1973 -
U.S. President Richard Nixon names
Henry Kissinger as
Secretary of State.
1978 - The
Frente Sandinista de Liberacion or
FSLN occupies national palace in
Nicaragua.
1988 - The
Perth Mint issues the first
platinum coin, the koala.
1989 - The first
ring of
Neptune is discovered.1989 -
Nolan Ryan strikes out
Rickey Henderson to become the first
Major League Baseball pitcher to record 5,000
strikeouts.
1991 - Trish Keogh was born.
1992 -
FBI HRT sniper Lon Horiuchi shoots and kills Vicki Weaver during an 11-day siege at her home at
Ruby Ridge,
Idaho.
2003 -
Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore was suspended after refusing to comply with a federal court order to remove a rock inscribed with the
Ten Commandments from the lobby of the
Alabama Supreme Court building.
2004 - A version of
The Scream and
Madonna, two paintings by
Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in
Oslo,
Norway.
2006 -
Pulkovo Airlines Flight 612 crashes, killing 170 people.
2007 - The
Texas Rangers rout the
Baltimore Orioles 30-3, the most runs scored by a team in modern MLB history.
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