Events1472 -
Orkney and
Shetland are left by
Norway to
Scotland, due to a
dowry payment.1547 -
Edward VI of England crowned
King of England at
Westminster Abbey.
1792 - The
Postal Service Act, establishing the
United States Post Office Department, is signed by President
George Washington.
1798 -
Louis Alexandre Berthier removes
Pope Pius VI from power.
1810 -
Andreas Hofer,
Tyrolean patriot and leader of
rebellion against
Napoleon's forces, was
executed.
1816 -
Gioachino Rossini's
The Barber of Seville debuts at
Teatro Argentina, with a fiasco.
1835 -
Concepción, Chile is destroyed by an
earthquake1844 - Birth of famous solo mariner
Joshua Slocum in
Mount Hanley, Nova Scotia1859 - Don't know! ... but this date is on the coat of arms of
Venezuela1864 -
Battle of Olustee1872 - In
New York City the
Metropolitan Museum of Art opens.
1873 - The
University of California opens its first
medical school in
San Francisco, California.
1901 - The legislature of
Hawaii Territory convenes for the first time.
1909 - Publication of the
Futurist Manifesto in the French journal
Le Figaro1913 -
King O'Malley drives in the first
survey peg to mark commencement of work on the construction of
Canberra.
1921 - The film
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, starring
Rudolph Valentino, premieres.
1931 -
California gets the go-ahead by the
U.S. Congress to build the
San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.
1942 - Lieutenant
Edward O'Hare becomes America's first
World War II flying ace.
1943 - American
movie studio executives agree to allow the
Office of War Information to
censor movies.1943 - The
Parícutin volcano begins to form in Paricutín, México.
1944 -
World War II: "Big Week" ended with American bomber raids on
Nazi aircraft manufacturing centers.1944 -
World War II: The
United States takes
Eniwetok Island.
1947 - State of
Prussia ceases to exist
1952 -
Emmett Ashford becomes the first
African-American umpire in organized
baseball by being authorized to be a substitute umpire in the Southwestern International League.
1959 - The
Avro Arrow program to design and manufacture
supersonic jet fighters in
Canada is cancelled by the
Diefenbaker government amid much political debate.
1962 -
Mercury program: While aboard
Friendship 7,
John Glenn orbits the
earth three times in 4 hours, 55 minutes, becoming the first American to orbit the
earth.
1965 -
Ranger 8 crashes into the
moon after a successful mission of photographing possible landing sites for the
Apollo program astronauts.
1976 - The
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization disbands.
1987 -
Unabomber: In
Salt Lake City, in the
USA, a bomb explodes in a
computer store.
1991 - A gigantic statue of
Albania's long-time dictator,
Enver Hoxha, is brought down in the Albanian capital,
Tirana, by mobs of angry protesters.
1998 - American figure skater
Tara Lipinski becomes the youngest gold-medalist at the
Winter Olympics in
Nagano,
Japan.1998 - The
Nashville Banner daily newspaper in
Nashville,
Tennessee,
USA publishes its last edition.
1999 - First hockey game occurs at the
Air Canada Centre. The
Toronto Maple Leafs win 3-2 in overtime vs the
Montreal Canadiens.
2002 - In Reqa Al-Gharbiya,
Egypt, a fire on a
train injures over 65 and kills at least 370.
2005 -
Spain becomes the first country to vote in a
referendum on ratification of the
proposed Constitution of the
European Union, passing it by a substantial margin, but on a low turnout.
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