Events
79 -
Mount Vesuvius begins stirring, on the feast day of Vulcan, the Roman god of fire.1305 -
William Wallace, Scottish patriot, is executed at for high treason by
Edward I of England.1328 -
Battle of Cassel:
French troops stop an uprising of
Flemish farmers.1541 -
French explorer Jacques Cartier lands near
Quebec City in his third voyage to
Canada.1555 -
Calvinists are granted rights in the
Netherlands.1595 -
Michael the Brave confronts the
Ottoman army in the
Battle of Calugareni.
1614 - The
University of Groningen is established.
1617 - The first one-way street is opened in
London.1651 -
Charles II of England enters
Worcester and starts a fight.
1708 -
Meidingnu Pamheiba is crowned King of
Manipur.
1775 -
King George III declares that the
American colonies exist in a state of open and avowed rebellion.
1784 - Western
North Carolina (now eastern
Tennessee) declares itself an independent state under the name of
Franklin; it wasn’t accepted into the
United States, and only lasted for four years.
1793 -
French Revolution: a
levée en masse was decreed by the
National Convention.
1799 -
Napoleon leaves
Egypt for
France en route to seize power.
1813 - At the
Battle of Grossbeeren, the
Prussians under
Von Bülow repulse the
French army.
1833 -
Slavery abolished in the
British colonies.
1839 - The
United Kingdom captures
Hong Kong as a base as it prepares to war with
Qing China. The ensuing 3-year conflict will later be known as the
First Opium War.
1864 - The
Union Navy captures
Fort Morgan,
Alabama, thus breaking
Confederate dominance of all ports on the
Gulf of Mexico.
1866 -
Austro-Prussian War ends with the
Treaty of Prague.
1889 - First
wireless message from a ship to the shore received.
1896 - First Cry of the
Philippine Revolution is made in
Pugad Lawin (
Quezon City), in the province of
Manila.
1904 - The
automobile tire chain is patented.
1914 -
World War I:
Japan declares war on
Germany and bombs
Qingdao,
China.1914 -
World War I: the
Battle of Mons; the
British Army begins withdrawal.
1921 -
Faisal I crowned King of
Iraq.
1923 -
Capt. Lowell Smith and
Lt. John P. Richter performed the first mid-
air refueling on
De Havilland DH-4B, setting an endurance flight record of 37 hours.
1924 - The distance between Earth and
Mars is the smallest since the 10th century.
1927 -
Italian anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti are executed in
Boston, Massachusetts after being found guilty of first degree murder.
1929 -
Hebron Massacre:
Arab attack of the
Jewish community in the
British Mandate of Palestine resulted in 133
Jews killed, 67 in
Hebron.
1939 -
World War II:
Germany and the
Soviet Union sign a non-aggression treaty, the
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. In a secret addition to the pact,
Baltic states,
Finland,
Ukraine and
Poland are divided between the two nations.
1940 - World War II: The
Germans start bombing
London.
1942 - World War II: Beginning of the
Battle of Stalingrad.
1943 - World War II:
Kharkov liberated.
1944 - World War II:
Marseille liberated.1944 - World War II
King Michael of Romania dismisses the pro-
Nazi government of
General Antonescu, who is arrested.
Romania switches sides from the
Axis to the
Allies.1944 -
Freckleton Air Disaster - A
United States Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into a school in
Freckleton,
England killing 61 people.
1946 -
Ordinance No. 46 of the British Military Government constitutes the
German Land (state) of
Schleswig-Holstein.
1948 -
World Council of Churches is formed.
1950 - West Germany and Japan readmitted to Intl Amateur Athletic Federation.
1952 - The
Arab League is formed.
1958 -
Chinese Civil War: The
Second Taiwan Strait crisis begins with the
People's Liberation Army's bombardment of
Quemoy.
1962 - First live television connection between the
United States and Europe, via the
Telstar satellite.
1966 -
Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the
Moon.
1973 - The
Intelsat communication satellite is launched.
1975 - Successful
Communist coup in
Laos.
1977 - The
Gossamer Condor wins the
Kremer prize for human powered flight.
1979 -
Soviet dancer
Alexander Godunov defects to the
United States.
1982 -
Bachir Gemayel is elected Lebanese President amidst the raging civil war.
1985 -
Hans Tiedge, top
counter-spy of
West Germany, defects to
East Germany.
1985 - Famous shipwreck
RMS Titanic is found.
1987 - Heavy rains and floods in
Bangladesh kill hundreds of victims.
1989 -
Singing Revolution: two million people from
Estonia,
Latvia and
Lithuania stand on the
Vilnius-
Tallinn road, holding hands (
Baltic Way).1989 - All of
Australia's 1,645 domestic airline pilots resign after the airlines threaten to fire them and sue them over a dispute.
1990 -
Saddam Hussein appears on
Iraqi state television with a number of
Western "guests" (actually hostages) to try to prevent the
Gulf War.1990 -
Armenia declares its independence from the
Soviet Union.1990 -
West Germany and
East Germany announce that they will unite on
October 3.
1996 -
Osama bin Laden issues message entitled 'A declaration of war against the
Americans occupying the land of the two holy places.'
1998 - Russian President
Boris Yeltsin fires the Kirienko Government.
2000 - A
Gulf Air Airbus A320 crashes into the
Persian Gulf near
Manama, Bahrain, killing 143.2000 -
Nicaragua becomes a member of the
Berne Convention copyright treaty. This essentially
deprecated the
Buenos Aires Convention treaty, because as of this date, all members of the
BA Convention were also signatories to
Berne.
2005 -
TANS Peru Flight 204 crashes near
Pucallpa,
Peru, killing 41.
2006 -
Natascha Kampusch, who was abducted at the age of 10, managed to escape from her captor
Wolfgang Priklopil, after 8 years of captivity.
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