Events
55 -
Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus, Heir to the
Roman Emperorship, dies under mysterious curcimstances in Rome, and later Emperor
Nero rises to the throne.1354 -
Treaty of Stralsund settles border disputes between the
duchies of
Mecklenburg and
Pomerania.1429 - English Forces under Sir John Fastolf defend a supply convoy carrying rations to the army besieging
Orleans from attack by the
Comte de Clermont and
John Stuart in the Battle of Rouvray (also known as the
Battle of the Herrings).1502 -
Vasco da Gama sets sail from
Lisbon,
Portugal on his second voyage to
India.1541 -
Santiago, Chile is founded by
Pedro de Valdivia.1554 - A year after claiming the throne of
England for nine days,
Lady Jane Grey is beheaded for treason. 1689 - The
Convention Parliament convenes and declares that the flight to
France in 1688 by
James II, the last
Roman Catholic British monarch, constitutes an
abdication.
1719 - The
Onderlinge van 1719 u.a., the oldest existing life insurance company in
the Netherlands is founded.
1733 -
Englishman James Oglethorpe founds the 13th
United States colony of
Georgia, and its first city at
Savannah (known as
Georgia Day).
1737 - The
San Carlo, the oldest working
opera house in
Europe, is inaugurated.
1771 -
Gustav III becomes the
King of Sweden when his father
Adolf Frederick "[eats] himself to death".
1817 -
Argentine/
Chilean patriotic army, after
crossing the Andes, defeat
Spanish troops on the
battle of Chacabuco.
1818 -
Bernardo O'Higgins signs the
Independence of
Chile near
Concepción.
1825 - The
Creek cede the last of their lands in
Georgia to the
United States government, and migrate west.
1832 -
Ecuador annexes the
Galápagos Islands.
1870 - Women gain the
right to vote in
Utah Territory.
1879 - At
New York City's
Madison Square Garden the first artificial
ice rink in
North America opens.
1892 - Former
President Abraham Lincoln's birthday is declared a national
holiday in the
United States.
1894 -
Anarchist Émile Henry hurls a
bomb into
Paris's Cafe Terminus, killing one and wounding 20.
1909 - The
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded.
1912 -
Xuantong Emperor of the
Manchu Qing dynasty, the last
Emperor of China,
abdicates.1912 - The
Republic of China adopts the
Gregorian calendar.
1914 - In
Washington, DC, the first stone of the
Lincoln Memorial is put into place.
1924 -
Premiere of
George Gershwin's
Rhapsody in Blue with
Paul Whiteman's Palais Royal Orchestra in
Aeolian Hall in
New York City1924 -
Calvin Coolidge becomes the first
President of the United States to deliver a political speech on
radio.
1934 - The
Austrian Civil War begins.1934 - The
Export-Import Bank of the United States is incorporated.1934 - In
Spain the national council of
Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional-Sindicalista is inaugurated. The council decides to merge the movement with the
Falange Española.
1946 -
Operation Deadlight ends after scuttling 121 of 154 captured
U-boats.
1951 -
Soraya Esfandiary Bakhtiari marries the
Shah of Iran Reza Pahlavi at
Golestan Palace in
Teheran at the age of 17.
1961 -
U.S.S.R. launches
Venera 1 towards
Venus.
1966 -
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, announced famous
Six Points in
Karachi as election manifesto of
Awami League that later led to formation of
Bangladesh.
1973 -
Ohio becomes the first
U.S. state to post distance in
SI units on signs. 1973 -
Vietnam War: The first
United States prisoners of war are released by the
Viet Cong.
1993 - Trafford Borough Council officially changed the name of Warwick Road North to
Sir Matt Busby Way. The ceremony was attended by the man himself,
Sir Matt Busby.
1997 -
Hwang Jang-yop, secretary in the
Workers' Party of Korea and a prime architect of
North Korea's
Juche doctrine, defects at the
South Korean embassy in
Beijing along with his aide, Kim Dok-hong.
1999 -
President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the
United States Senate in his
impeachment trial.
2001 -
NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touchdown in the "
saddle" region of
433 Eros becoming the first spacecraft to land on an
asteroid.
2002 - The trial of former
President of
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milošević begins at the
United Nations war crimes tribunal in
The Hague. He eventually dies four years later before its conclusion.2002 -
Nuclear waste:
US Secretary of Energy makes the decision that
Yucca Mountain is suitable to be the
United States' nuclear repository.2002 - An
Iran Air Tupolev Tu-154 crashes prior to landing in
Khorramabad,
Iran, killing 119.
2006 - A powerful
Nor'easter blankets the
Northeastern United States dumping 1 to 2 feet of
snow from
Washington DC up to
Boston,
Massachusetts. The storm dumped a record 26.9 inches of snow in New York City.
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