Events642 -
Battle of Maserfeld -
Penda of Mercia defeats and kills
Oswald of Bernicia.
1100 -
Henry I crowned King of
England in
Westminster Abbey.1305 -
William Wallace, who led
Scottish resistance to
England, is captured by the English near
Glasgow and transported to
London for trial and execution.1388 -
Battle of Otterburn, border skirmish between the
Scottish and the
English in Northern
England.1583 -
Sir Humphrey Gilbert establishes first
English colony in
North America, at what is now
St John's, Newfoundland.
1620 - The
Mayflower departs
Southampton, England.1689 - 1,500
Iroquois attack village of
Lachine, in
New France.
1716 -
Battle of
Petrovaradin1735 -
Freedom of the press: New York Weekly Journal
writer John Peter Zenger is acquitted of seditious
libel against the royal governor of
New York, on the basis that what he published was true.
1763 -
Pontiac's War:
Battle of Bushy Run -
British forces led by
Henry Bouquet defeat
Chief Pontiac's
Indians at Bushy Run.
1772 -
First Partition of Poland begins.
1812 -
War of 1812:
Tecumseh's
Indian force ambushes Thomas Van Horne's 200
Americans at Brownstone Creek, causing them to flee and retreat.
1858 -
Cyrus West Field and others complete the first
transatlantic telegraph cable after several unsuccessful attempts. It operated for less than a month.
1860 -
Carl IV of
Sweden-Norway is crowned king of
Norway, in
Trondheim.
1861 -
American Civil War: In order to help pay for the war effort, the
United States government issues the first
income tax as part of the
Revenue Act of 1861 (3% of all incomes over US $800; rescinded in
1872).1861 - The
United States Army abolished
flogging.
1862 -
American Civil War:
Battle of Baton Rouge - Along the
Mississippi River near
Baton Rouge, Louisiana,
Confederate troops drive
Union forces back into the city.
1864 -
American Civil War:
Battle of Mobile Bay begins - At
Mobile Bay near
Mobile, Alabama,
Admiral David Farragut leads a
Union flotilla through
Confederate defenses and seals one of the last major Southern ports.
1870 -
Franco-Prussian War: The
Battle of Spicheren is fought, resulting in a
Prussian victory.
1874 -
Japan launches its
postal savings system, modeled after a similar system in
England.
1882 -
Standard Oil of New Jersey is established. 1882 -
Martial law is enacted in
Japan.
1884 - The cornerstone for the
Statue of Liberty is laid on
Bedloe's Island in
New York Harbor.
1888 -
Bertha Benz drives from
Mannheim to
Pforzheim in the first long distance automobile trip.
1901 -
Peter O'Connor sets the first
IAAF recognised
long jump world record of 24ft 11¾ins. The record will stand for 20 years.
1912 -
Japan's first
taxicab service begins in
Ginza,
Tokyo.
1914 - In
Cleveland, Ohio, the first electric
traffic light is installed.
1925 -
Plaid Cymru is formed with the aim of disseminating knowledge of the Welsh language, which is in danger of dying out.
1940 -
World War II : Latvia is annexed by the Soviet Union.
1943 -
World War II: During the
Battle of Troina, at around 11 A.M,
Mount Etna erupted sending much ash and lava miles into the sky.
1944 -
World War II: Possibly the biggest prison breakout in history occurs as 545
Japanese POWs attempt to escape outside the town of
Cowra, NSW,
Australia. 1944 -
Holocaust:
Polish insurgents liberate a
German labor camp in
Warsaw, freeing 348
Jewish prisoners.
1949 - In
Ecuador an
earthquake destroys 50 towns and kills more than 6000.
1957 -
American Bandstand, a show dedicated to the teenage "baby-boomers" by playing the songs and showing popular dances of the time, debuts on the
ABC television network.
1960 -
Burkina Faso, then known as "
Upper Volta", becomes
independent from
France.1962 -
Nelson Mandela is jailed. He would not be released until
1990.
1963 -
United States,
United Kingdom, and
Soviet Union sign a
nuclear test ban treaty.
1964 -
Vietnam War:
Operation Pierce Arrow -
American aircraft from carriers
USS Ticonderoga and
USS Constellation bomb
North Vietnam in retaliation for strikes attacked
US destroyers in the
Gulf of Tonkin.
1969 -
Mariner program:
Mariner 7 makes its closest fly-by of
Mars (3,524 kilometers).
1974 -
Vietnam War: The
U.S. Congress places a $1 billion dollar limit on military aid to
South Vietnam.
1979 - In
Afghanistan,
Maoists undertake an attempted military uprising.
1981 -
Ronald Reagan fires 11,359
striking air-traffic controllers who ignored his order for them to return to work.
1989 - General elections are held in
Nicaragua,
Sandinista Front wins the majority.
1995 - The city of
Knin, a significant
Serb stronghold, is captured by
Croatian forces during
Operation Storm. The date is celebrated as the day of victory (
Victory and Homeland Thanksgiving Day) in
Croatia.
2001 - The
Cleveland Indians defeat the
Seattle Mariners 15-14 in a record-setting game known as the Impossible Return.
2003 - A
car bomb explodes in the
Indonesian capital of
Jakarta outside the
Marriott Hotel killing 12 and injuring 150.
2007 -
Tom Glavine of the
New York Mets wins his 300th career game against the
Chicago Cubs at
Wrigley Field.
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