Events708 - Copper coins are minted in
Japan for the first time (Traditional
Japanese date:
August 10, 708).1189 -
Ban Kulin wrote "The Charter of Kulin", which became a symbolic "birth certificate" of
Bosnian statehood.1261 -
Urban IV becomes
Pope, one of the last men to be elected pope outside the College of Cardinals.
1350 -
Battle of Winchelsea (or
Les Espagnols sur Mer): The
English naval fleet under King
Edward III defeats a
Castilian fleet of 40 ships.1475 - The
Treaty of Picquigny ends a brief war between
France and
England.1484 -
Cardinal Giovanni Battista Cibo is elected
Pope Innocent VIII.1498 -
Vasco da Gama decides to depart
Calicut and return to
Portugal.
1521 - The
Ottoman Turks capture
Nándorfehérvár, now known as
Belgrade.1526 -
Battle of Mohács: The
Ottoman Turks led by
Suleiman the Magnificent defeat and kill the last
Jagiellonian king of
Hungary and
Bohemia.1533 -
Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire:
Inca emperor Atahualpa is
executed in
Cajamarca by the
garrote by
Spanish invaders known as
Conquistadores.1541 - The
Ottoman Turks capture
Buda, the
capital of the
Hungarian Kingdom.
1655 -
Warsaw falls without resistance to a small force under the command of
Charles X Gustav of Sweden during
The Deluge.
1756 -
Frederick the Great attacks
Saxony, beginning the
Seven Years' War.
1786 -
Shays' Rebellion, an armed uprising of
Massachusetts farmers, begins in response to high debt and tax burdens.
1825 -
Portugal recognizes the Independence of
Brazil.
1831 -
Michael Faraday discovers
electromagnetic induction.
1833 - The
United Kingdom legislates the abolition of
slavery in its empire.
1842 -
Treaty of Nanking signing ends the
First Opium War.
1861 -
Civil War:
US Navy squadron captures forts at Hatteras Inlet,
North Carolina.
1862 -
Second Battle of Bull Run1869 - The
Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the world's first
rack railway.
1871 -
Emperor Meiji orders the
Abolition of the han system and the establishment of
prefectures as local centers of administration. (Traditional
Japanese date:
July 14,
1871).
1882 - Is the date attributed to the death of English Cricket and the origin of the legend of
The Ashes. This is the date according to the mock obituary in The Sporting Times.
1885 -
Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first
motorcycle.
1895 - The formation of the
Northern Rugby Union at the George Hotel,
Huddersfield,
England.
1898 - The
Goodyear tire company is founded.
1907 - The
Quebec Bridge collapses during construction, killing 75 workers.
1910 -
Japan changes
Korea's name to
Chōsen and appoints a
governor-general to rule its new
colony.
1911 -
Ishi, considered the last
Native American to make contact with
European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern
California.
1915 -
US Navy salvage divers raise
F-4, first U.S.
submarine sunk in accident.
1918 -
Bapaume taken by
Australian Corps and
Canadian Corps in the
Hundred Days Offensive1922 -
Turkish forces set
fire to
Smyrna, in
Asia Minor.
1930 - The last 36 remaining inhabitants of
St Kilda are voluntarily evacuated to other parts of
Scotland.
1943 -
German-occupied Denmark scuttles most of its
navy;
Germany dissolves
Danish government.
1944 -
Slovak National Uprising takes place as 60,000
Slovak troops turn against the
Nazis.
1949 -
Soviet atomic bomb project: The
Soviet Union tests its first
atomic bomb, known as
First Lightning or
Joe 1, at
Semipalatinsk,
Kazakhstan.
1958 -
United States Air Force Academy opens in
Colorado Springs, Colorado.
1962 - The lower deck of the
George Washington Bridge opens in
New York and
New Jersey1966 - Last scheduled
Beatles concert, in
Candlestick Park San Francisco, California.
1970 - First flight of the
McDonnell Douglas DC-10 jetliner, a competitor to the
Boeing 747.1970 -
Chicano Moratorium against the
Vietnam War,
East Los Angeles, California. Police riot kills three people, including journalist
Ruben Salazar.
1982 - The synthetic
chemical element Meitnerium,
atomic number 109, is first synthesized at the
Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in
Darmstadt,
Germany.
1991 -
Supreme Soviet suspends all activities of the
Soviet Communist Party.
1995 -
NATO launches
Operation Deliberate Force against
Bosnian Serb forces.
1996 -
Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801, a Vnukovo Airlines
Tupolev Tu-154 crashes into a mountain on the
Arctic island of
Spitsbergen, killing all 141 aboard.
1997 - At least 98 villagers are killed by the
GIA in the
Rais massacre,
Algeria.
1997 -
The Best Page in the Universe is created.
2003 -
Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, the
Shia Muslim leader in
Iraq, is
assassinated in a
terrorist bombing, along with nearly 100 worshippers as they leave a
mosque in
Najaf.
2005 -
Hurricane Katrina devastates much of the
U.S. Gulf Coast from
Louisiana to the
Florida Panhandle, killing more than 1,836 and causing over $115 billion in damage.
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