Events325 - Council of Nicea convened by Emperor Constantine.
1537 - The
Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving
regiment in the
British Army, and the second most senior, is formed.
1580 - Battle of Alcântara.
Spain defeats
Portugal.
1609 -
Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to
Venetian lawmakers.
1718 -
New Orleans, Louisiana is founded.
1758 -
Seven Years' War:
Frederick II of Prussia defeats the
Russian army at the
Battle of Zorndorf.
1768 -
James Cook begins his first voyage.
1814 -
Washington, D.C. is burned and
White House is destroyed by
British forces during the
War of 1812.
1825 -
Uruguay declares its independence from
Brazil.
1830 - The
Belgian Revolution begins.
1835 - The
New York Sun perpetrates the
Great Moon Hoax.
1894 -
Shibasaburo Kitasato discovers the infectious agent of the
bubonic plague and publishes his findings in
The Lancet.
1910 -
Yellow Cab is founded.
1912 - The
Kuomintang, the
Chinese nationalist party, is founded.
1916 - The
United States National Park Service is created.
1920 -
Polish-Soviet War:
Battle of Warsaw, started on
August 13, now ends. The
Red Army is defeated.
1942 -
World War II:
Battle of Milne Bay,
Papua New Guinea.1942 -
World War II: Second day of the
Battle of the Eastern Solomons. A
Japanese naval transport convoy headed towards
Guadalcanal is turned-back by
Allied air attack, losing one destroyer and one transport sunk, and one light cruiser heavily damaged.
1944 -
World War II:
Paris is liberated by the
Allies.
1945 - Ten days after
World War II ended with
Japan announcing its surrender, armed supporters of the
Communist Party of China killed
Baptist missionary John Birch, regarded by a portion of the
American right as the first victim of the
Cold War.
1950 -
President Harry Truman orders the
US Army to seize control of the nation's railroads to avert a strike.
1981 -
Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to
Saturn1988 - The historical center of
Lisbon is destroyed by a fire.
1989 -
Tadeusz Mazowiecki chosen as the first non-
communist Prime Minister in
Central and
Eastern Europe.1989 -
Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to
Neptune, the outermost planet in the
Solar System.1989 -
Mayumi Moriyama becomes
Japan's first female
cabinet secretary.
1991 -
Belarus declares independence from the
Soviet Union1997 -
Egon Krenz, the former East German leader, was convicted of a shoot-to-kill Berlin Wall policy.
2003 - The
Tli Cho land claims agreement is signed between the
Dogrib First Nations and the
Canadian federal government in
Rae-Edzo (now called Behchoko).2003 - Fifty-two people killed in two
terrorist bomb blasts in cars in
Mumbai,
India.
2007 - 43 people killed in bomb blasts in
Hyderabad, India.
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