Events
138 - The
Emperor Hadrian adopts
Antoninus Pius, effectively making him his successor.1570 -
Pope Pius V excommunicates Queen Elizabeth I of England.
1793 -
George Washington holds the first
Cabinet meeting as
President of the United States.
1797 -
Colonel William Tate and his force of 1000-1500 soldiers surrender after the
Last Invasion of Britain1836 -
Samuel Colt receives an
American patent for the
Colt revolver.1836 - US Showman
Phineas Taylor Barnum exhibits African American slave
Joice Heth.
1837 - First
U.S. electric printing press patented by
Thomas Davenport.
1870 -
Hiram Rhodes Revels, a
Republican from
Mississippi, is sworn into the
United States Senate, becoming the first
African American ever to sit in the
U.S. Congress.
1901 -
J.P. Morgan incorporates the
United States Steel Corporation.
1912 -
Marie-Adélaïde, the eldest of six daughters of
Guillaume IV, becomes the first reigning
Grand Duchess of
Luxembourg.
1919 -
Oregon places a 1 cent per
U.S. gallon tax on
gasoline, becoming the first
U.S. state to levy a
gasoline tax.
1921 -
Tbilisi, capital of the
Democratic Republic of Georgia,
occupied by
Bolshevist Russia.
1925 - Glacier Bay National Monument (now
Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve) is established in
Alaska.
1928 -
Charles Jenkins Laboratories of
Washington, DC becomes the first holder of a
television license from the
Federal Radio Commission.
1932 -
Adolf Hitler obtains the German citizenship by
naturalization, opening the opportunity for him to run in the 1932 election for
Reichspräsident.
1933 - The
USS Ranger is launched, becoming the first custom-built
aircraft carrier.
1941 -
February strike: First general & physical protest against Nazi anti-Jewish behaviour & -laws (Amsterdam)
1945 -
World War II:
Turkey declares war on
Germany.
1948 - The
Communist Party of Czechoslovakia takes control of government in
Czechoslovakia and the period of the ends.
1951 - The first
Pan American Games are held in
Buenos Aires,
Argentina.
1954 -
Gamal Abdul Nasser is made premier of
Egypt.
1956 - In his speech
On the Personality Cult and its Consequences Soviet leader
Nikita Khrushchev denounces the actions of
Joseph Stalin.
1969 -
Germany gives $5 million to an
Arab terrorist as ransom for the passengers and crew of a hijacked
jumbo jet.
1971 - The first unit of the
Pickering Nuclear Generating Station, first commercial
nuclear power station in
Canada, goes online.
1980 - The Suriname government ( elected after gaining independance from the Netherlands in 1975 ) was overthrown by a military coup which was initiated with the bombing of the police station from an army ship of the coast of the nations capital; Paramaribo
1986 -
EDSA Revolution:
President Ferdinand Marcos of the
Philippines flees the nation after 21 years of rule;
Corazon Aquino becomes the first
Filipino woman president.
1991 -
Gulf War: An
Iraqi Scud missile hits an
American military barracks in
Dhahran,
Saudi Arabia killing 28
U.S. Army Reservists from
Pennsylvania.
1992 -
Khojaly massacre: about 613 civilians killed by
Armenian armed forces during the conflict in
Nagorno-Karabakh region of
Azerbaijan1994 -
Mosque of Abraham massacre: In the
Cave of the Patriarchs in the
West Bank city of
Hebron,
Dr. Baruch Kappel Goldstein opens fire with an assault rifle, killing 29
Palestinian worshippers and injuring 125 more before being subdued and beaten to death by survivors. Subsequent rioting kills 26 more
Palestinians and 9
Israelis.
2000 - The
Swedish political party New Democracy is declared financially bankrupt.
2006 - The world's estimated
population reaches 6.5 billion.
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