Events
800 -
Charlemagne judges the accusations against
Pope Leo III in the
Vatican.1167 - The
Lombard League is formed in northern
Italy.1420 -
Henry V of England enters
Paris.1640 -
Portugal regains its independence from
Spain and
João IV of Portugal becomes king.
1768 - The slave ship
Fredensborg sinks off
Tromøy in
Norway.
1821 - The first constitution of
Costa Rica is issued.
1822 -
Peter I is crowned as Emperor of
Brazil.
1824 -
U.S. presidential election, 1824: Since no candidate received a majority of the total
electoral college votes in the election, the
United States House of Representatives is given the task to decide the winner (as stipulated by the
Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution).
1835 -
Hans Christian Andersen publishes first book of fairy tales
1860 -
Charles Dickens publishes the first installment of
Great Expectations in his magazine
All the Year Round.
1864 - In his
State of the Union Address President
Abraham Lincoln reaffirms the necessity of ending slavery as ordered ten weeks earlier in the
Emancipation Proclamation.
1867 -
Johannes Brahms presents his
Ein deutsches Requiem in
Austria.
1884 -
American Old West - Near
Frisco, New Mexico, deputy sheriff
Elfego Baca holds off a gang of 80 Texan
cowboys who want to kill him for arresting
Charles McCarthy.
1913 -
Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving
assembly line. 1913 -
Crete, having obtained
self rule from
Turkey after the first
Balkan war, is annexed by
Greece.
1918 -
Iceland becomes a sovereign state, yet remains a part of the
Danish kingdom. 1918 -
Transylvania unites with
Romania, following the incorporation of
Bessarabia (
March 27) and
Bukovina (
November 28). 1918 - The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later known as the
Kingdom of Yugoslavia) is proclaimed.
1919 -
Lady Astor becomes first female member of the British
Parliament to take her seat (she had been elected to that position on
November 28). National Council of Romanians in Banat voted union with the Kingdom of Romania. National Council of Romanians in Transylvania voted union with the Kingdom of Romania.
1925 -
World War I aftermath: - The final
Locarno Treaty is signed in
London, establishing post-war territorial settlements.
1934 - In the
Soviet Union,
Politburo member
Sergei Kirov is shot dead at the
Communist Party headquarters in
Leningrad by
Leonid Nikolayev.
1941 -
World War II:
Fiorello LaGuardia, Mayor of
New York City and Director of the
Office of Civilian Defense, signed
Administrative Order 9 creating the
Civil Air Patrol.
1952 - The
New York Daily News reports the first successful
sexual reassignment operation.
1955 -
American Civil Rights Movement: In
Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress
Rosa Parks refuses to give her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city's
racial segregation laws, an incident which leads to the
Montgomery Bus Boycott.
1958 -
Central African Republic becomes independent from
France. 1958 -
Our Lady of the Angels School fire in
Chicago, Illinois kills 92 children and three nuns.
1959 -
Cold War:
Antarctic Treaty signed , which sets aside
Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on that
continent.
1961 - The independent
Republic of West Papua is proclaimed in modern-day
Western New Guinea.
1963 -
Nagaland becomes the 16th state of
India.
1964 -
Vietnam War: US President
Lyndon B. Johnson and his top-ranking advisers meet to discuss plans to bomb
North Vietnam.
1965 - The
Border Security Force is formed in
India as a special force to guard the borders.
1969 - Vietnam War: The first
draft lottery in the
United States is held since
World War II.
1971 -
Cambodian Civil War:
Khmer Rouge rebels intensify assaults on
Cambodian government positions, forcing their retreat from Kompong Thmar and nearby Ba Ray. 1971 -
Indian Army occupies part of
Kashmir.
1973 -
Papua New Guinea gains self government from
Australia.
1974 -
TWA Flight 514, a
Boeing 727, crashes northwest of
Dulles International Airport killing all 92 people on-board.
1981 - A
Yugoslavian Inex Adria Aviopromet DC-9 crashes in
Corsica killing 178.
1982 - At the
University of Utah,
Barney Clark becomes the first person to receive a permanent
artificial heart.1982 -
Michael Jackson releases his second solo album
Thriller, which became the biggest selling album of all time.
1987 -
NASA announces the names of four companies who were awarded contracts to help build
Space Station Freedom.
1988 -
Benazir Bhutto is appointed
Prime Minister of Pakistan.
1989 - Right-wing military rebel Reform the Armed forces Movement (RAM) attempt to oust
Philippine President Corazon Aquino by a bloody
coup attempt.1989 -
Cold War:
East Germany's parliament abolishes the constitutional provision granting the communist party the leading role in the state.
1990 -
Channel Tunnel sections started from the
United Kingdom and
France meet 40 meters beneath the seabed.
1991 -
Cold War:
Ukrainian voters overwhelmingly approve a
referendum for independence from the
Soviet Union.
1997 –
Heath High School shooting: Michael Carneal opens fire on a group of his fellow students at Heath High School in
West Paducah, Kentucky, killing three and wounding five.
1998 -
Exxon announces a US$73.7 billion deal to buy
Mobil, thus creating
Exxon-Mobil, the largest company on the planet.
2001 -
Trans World Airlines flies its last flight, after being bought by
American Airlines.
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