Events475 - The
Roman general Orestes forces western
Roman Emperor Julius Nepos to flee his
capital of
Ravenna and appoints his own son
Romulus Augustus in his place.489 -
Theodoric, king of the
Ostrogoths defeats
Odoacer at the Battle of Isonzo, forcing his way into
Italy.1189 - The Crusaders begin the
Siege of Acre under
Guy of Lusignan 1521 - The
Ottoman Turks occupy
Belgrade.1542 - Reinforced with at least 600 arquebusiers and
cavalry,
Imam Ahmad Gragn attacks the
Portuguese camp in the Battle of Wofla. The Portuguese are scattered, their leader
Christovão da Gama captured and afterwards executed.1565 -
St. Augustine, Florida, established. It is the oldest surviving
European settlement in the
United States.
1609 -
Henry Hudson discovers
Delaware Bay.
1619 -
Ferdinand II is elected
emperor of the
Holy Roman Empire.1640 - King
Charles I's English army loses to a
Scottish Covenanter force at the Battle of Newburn
1830 - The
Tom Thumb presages the first railway service in the
United States.
1845 -
Scientific American magazine publishes its first issue.
1849 - After a month-long siege,
Venice, which had declared itself independent, surrenders to
Austria.
1850 -
Richard Wagner's opera
Lohengrin premieres in
Weimar, Germany1859 - A geomagnetic storm causes the
Aurora Borealis to shine so brightly that it is seen clearly over parts of USA, Europe, and even as further afield as Japan.
1862 -
Second Battle of Bull Run, also known as the battle of
Second Manassas.
1867 - The
United States occupies
Midway Island.
1879 -
Cetshwayo, last king of the
Zulus, is captured by the
British.
1884 - First known
photograph of a
tornado is made.
1898 -
Caleb Bradham renames his carbonated soft drink "
Pepsi-Cola".
1907 -
UPS is founded by
James E. Casey in
Seattle, Washington.
1913 -
Queen Wilhelmina opens the
Peace Palace in
The Hague.
1914 - The
Royal Navy beats the
German fleet in the
Battle of Heligoland Bight.
1916 -
Germany declares war on
Romania.1916 -
Italy declares war on
Germany.
1917 - Ten
suffragists are arrested when picketing the
White House.
1918 -
PFC Spartak Varna founded.
1924 -
Georgian opposition stages the
August Uprising against the
Soviet Union.
1937 -
Toyota Motors becomes an independent company.
1943 - In
Denmark, a
general strike against the
Nazi occupation is started.
1944 -
Marseille and
Toulon are liberated.
1953 -
Nippon Television broadcasts
Japan's first television show, including its first TV advertisement.
1955 -
Black teenager Emmett Till is murdered in
Mississippi, allegedly for whistling to a white woman and calling her baby.
1961 -
Motown releases what would be its first number one hit, "Please Mr. Postman" by
The Marvelettes.
1963 - During a 200,000-person
civil rights rally in at the
Lincoln Memorial in
Washington, D.C.,
Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his famous
I have a dream speech.1964 - The
Philadelphia race riot begins.
1968 -
Riots in
Chicago, Illinois, during the
Democratic National Convention.
1971 - The
dollar is allowed to float against the
yen for the first time.
1972 - During the
Olympic Games in
Munich,
Mark Spitz gets his first of seven gold medals in
swimming events.
1979 - An
IRA bomb explodes on the
Grand Place in
Brussels.
1981 - The
National Centers for Disease Control announce a high incidence of
Pneumocystis and
Kaposi's sarcoma in gay men. Soon, these will be recognized as symptoms of an
immune disorder, which will be called
AIDS.
1986 - Stage of siege declared in
Bolivia.1986 -
US Navy officer Jerry A. Whitworth is sentenced to 365 years
imprisonment for
espionage for the
Soviet Union.
1988 -
Ramstein airshow disaster: Three aircraft of the
Frecce Tricolori demonstration team collide and fall into the crowd. 69 are killed.
1990 -
Iraq declares
Kuwait to be its newest
province.1990 - The
Plainfield Tornado: An F5 tornado hits in
Plainfield, Illinois, and
Joliet, Illinois, killing 28 people.
1993 - A dam breaks in
Qinghai,
China. 223 die.1993 - 76 die in an airplane crash in
Tajikistan.
1995 - A mortar shell kills 38 people in
Sarajevo,
Bosnia.
1996 -
Britons Charles, Prince of Wales, and
Diana, Princess of Wales, are divorced.
1998 -
Pakistan's
National Assembly passes a
constitutional amendment to make the "
Qur'an and
Sunnah" the "supreme law" but the bill is defeated in the
Senate.
2005 -
Hurricane Katrina upgraded to Category 5 storm; city of
New Orleans put under its first mandatory evacuation order
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