Events
1724 -
Toruń Blood tribunal , execution of Protestants citizens of
Toruń (Thorn) by Polish authorities
1732 - The
Royal Opera House opens at
Covent Garden,
London.
1776 -
Marquis de Lafayette attempts to enter the American military as a major general.
1787 -
Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the
US Constitution.
1815 -
Michel Ney,
Marshal of France, is executed by
firing squad after having been convicted of
treason for his support of
Napoleon I.
1826 -
Malacca High School (
SMK Tinggi Melaka) is established in
Melaka (
Malacca),
Malaysia.
1889 -
The Gondoliers one of the most popular of the comic operas created by
W. S. Gilbert and
Arthur Sullivan opens in London
1917 -
World War I: The
US declares war on
Austria-Hungary.
1941 -
World War II:
Canada declares war on
Finland,
Hungary,
Romania, and
Japan.1941 -
World War II:
Attack on Pearl Harbor - The
Imperial Japanese Navy attacks the
US Pacific Fleet and its defending
Army Air Forces and Marine air forces at
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
1946 - A fire at the
Winecoff Hotel in
Atlanta, Georgia kills 119 people.
1949 -
Chinese Civil War : The government of
Republic of China moves from
Nanking to
Taipei.
1962 - Prince
Rainier III of
Monaco revises the
principality's
constitution, devolving some of his power to advisory and legislative councils.
1965 -
Pope Paul VI and
Patriarch Athenagoras simultaneously lift mutual
excommunications that had been in place since 1054.
1966 - A fire at an army barracks in
Erzurum,
Turkey kills 68 people.
1970 - The first ever general election on the basis of direct adult franchise are held in
Pakistan for 313 National Assembly seats.
1971 -
Pakistan President
Yahya Khan announces formation of a Coalition Government at Centre with Nurul Amin as Prime Minister and
Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto as Vice-Prime Minister.
1972 -
Apollo 17, the last
Apollo moon mission, is launched. The crew take the photograph known as "
The Blue Marble" as they leave the Earth.
1975 -
Indonesia invades
East Timor.
1982 - In
Texas,
Charles Brooks, Jr. becomes the first person to be
executed by
lethal injection in the
US.
1983 - An
Iberia Airlines Boeing 727 collides with an
Aviaco DC-9 in intense fog while the two airliners are taxiing down the runway at
Madrid Barajas International Airport, killing 93 people.
1987 -
Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 crashes near
Paso Robles, California, killing all 43 on board, after a disgruntled passenger shoots his ex-boss traveling on the flight, then shoots both pilots and himself.
1988 -
Spitak Earthquake: In
Armenia an
earthquake measuring 6.9 on the
Richter scale kills nearly 25,000, injures 15,000 and leaves 400,000 homeless. 1988 -
Yasser Arafat recognizes the right of
Israel to exist.
1989 - In their third and final fight,
Sugar Ray Leonard retains the
WBC Super Middleweight Championship of the World, defeating
Roberto Duran.1993 - The
Long Island Rail Road massacre: Passenger
Colin Ferguson murders six people and injures 19 others on the LIRR in
Nassau County, New York.
1995 - The
Galileo spacecraft arrives at
Jupiter, a little more than six years after it was launched by
Space Shuttle Atlantis during
Mission STS-34.
1998 -
Yachtsman Jesse Martin departs from Melbourne on his
circumnavigation journey around the world.
2001 -
John P. Walters is sworn in as the Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP).
2003 - The
Conservative Party of Canada is officially recognized after the merger of the
Canadian Alliance and
Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.
2004 -
Hamid Karzai is inaugurated as
President of Afghanistan.2004 -
John Kufuor is re-elected as
President of Ghana.
2005 -
Rigoberto Alpizar, a passenger on
American Airlines Flight 924 who allegedly claimed to have a bomb, is shot and killed by a team of US federal
air marshals at
Miami International Airport.
2006 - A
tornado struck
Kensal Green, North West
London, seriously damaging around 150 properties.
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