Events1056 -
Byzantine Empress Theodora becomes ill, dying suddenly a few days later, without children to succeed the
throne, ending the
Macedonian dynasty.1142 - With the aid of
Hiawatha and
Deganawidah, The Great Peacemaker, the iroquoi tribes establish the Confederation of the
Haudenosaunee.1422 -
Henry VI, becomes King of England at the age of 9 months.
1864 -
American Civil War:
Union forces led by General
William T. Sherman launch an assault on
Atlanta, Georgia.
1876 -
Ottoman sultan Murat V is deposed and succeeded by his brother
Abd-ul-Hamid II.
1886 -
Earthquake kills 100 in
Charleston, South Carolina.
1888 -
Mary Ann Nichols is murdered. She is the first of
Jack the Ripper's known victims.
1897 -
Thomas Edison patents the
Kinetoscope, the first movie projector.
1907 - Count
Alexander Izvolsky and Sir
Arthur Nicolson sign the
St. Petersburg Convention, which results in the
Triple Entente alliance.
1914 -
Ecuador becomes a signatory to the
Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1915 -
Brazil becomes a signatory to the
Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1920 -
Polish-Bolshevik War: A decisive
Polish victory in the
Battle of Komarów.1920 - First
radio news program broadcast by station 8MK in
Detroit, Michigan.
1939 -
Nazi Germany mounts a staged
attack on Gleiwitz radio station, giving them an excuse to attack
Poland the following day, starting
World War II in Europe.
1942 - In
Ternopil, western
Ukraine, at 4.30 am,
German SS organise the first deportation of
Jews from
Ternopil ghetto to death camp in
Belzec, about 5,000
Jews were deported to face death in
Belzec. When the
Germans captured
Ternopil, about 18,000
Jews lived in the city.
1943 - The
USS Harmon, the first
U.S. Navy ship to be named for a black person, is commissioned.
1945 - The
Liberal Party of Australia is founded by
Robert Menzies.
1948 -
Actor Robert Mitchum was arrested in a
Hollywood drug raid. He would later be found guilty of criminal conspiracy to possess
marijuana and was sentenced to 60 days in prison.
1957 - The
Federation of Malaya gains its independence from the
United Kingdom.
1962 -
Trinidad and Tobago become independent.
1963 -
Walter Cronkite began his stint as anchor of the
CBS Evening News.
1965 - The
Aero Spacelines Super Guppy Aircraft makes its first flight.
1968 -
Garfield Sobers becomes the first cricketer to hit 6 sixes in one over.
1978 - William and
Emily Harris, founders of the
Symbionese Liberation Army, plead guilty to the 1974 kidnapping of newspaper heiress
Patricia Hearst.
1980 - The
Gdańsk Agreement is signed.
1986 -
Aeroméxico Flight 498 collides with a
Piper PA-28 over
Cerritos,
California, killing 67 in the air and 15 on the ground.1986 - The
Soviet passenger liner
Admiral Nakhimov sinks in the
Black Sea after colliding with the bulk carrier Pyotr Vasev, killing 423.
1991 -
Kyrgyzstan declares its independence from the
Soviet Union.
1992 -
Pascal Lissouba is inaugurated as the President of the
Republic of the Congo .
1994 - The
Provisional Irish Republican Army declares a
ceasefire.
1997 -
Diana, Princess of Wales, dies in a
car crash in
Paris.
1998 -
North Korea reportedly launches
Kwangmyongsong, its first
satellite.
1999 - The first of a series of
Russian Apartment Bombings in
Moscow, killing one person and wounding 40 others.
1999 - A
LAPA Boeing 737-200
crashes during takeoff from
Jorge Newbury Airport in
Buenos Aires, killing 65, including 2 on the ground.
2005 - A
stampede on
Al-Aaimmah bridge in
Baghdad kills 1,199 people.
2006 - Stolen on
August 22,
2004,
Edvard Munch's famous painting
The Scream was recovered from a raid by
Norwegian police. The paintings were said to be in a better-than-expected condition.
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