Events
747 BC -
Epoch (origin) of
Ptolemy's
Nabonassar Era.364 -
Valentinian I is proclaimed
Roman Emperor.1266 -
Battle of Benevento: An army led by
Charles,
Count of
Anjou, defeats a combined
German and
Sicilian force led by
King Manfred of Sicily.
Manfred is killed in the battle and
Pope Clement IV invests
Charles as king of
Sicily and
Naples.
1794 -
Christiansborg Castle,
Copenhagen burns down.
1797 - The
Bank of England issues the first one-pound and two-pound notes.
1815 -
Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from
Elba.
1848 - The second
French Republic is proclaimed.
1863 -
U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signs the
National Banking Act into law.
1870 - In
New York City, the first
pneumatic-
subway opens.
1885 - The Berlin Act, which resulted from the
Berlin Conference regulating European colonization and trade in Africa, was signed
1887 - At the
SCG,
George Lohmann becomes the first
bowler to take eight wickets in a
Test innings.
1897 -
Sigma Pi Fraternity, International was founded at
Vincennes University.
1917 - The
Original Dixieland Jass Band records the first ever Jazzrecord for the
Victor Talking Machine Company in New York.
1919 - An act of the
U.S. Congress establishes most of the
Grand Canyon as a
United States National Park (see
Grand Canyon National Park).
1929 - The
Grand Teton National Park is created.
1935 - The
Luftwaffe is reformed.1935 - The Daventry Experiment,
Robert Watson-Watt carried out a demonstration near
Daventry which led directly to the development of
RADAR in the
United Kingdom.
1936 - In the
February 26 Incident, young
Japanese military officers attempt to stage a
coup against the
government.
1952 -
United Kingdom Prime Minister Winston Churchill announces that his nation has an
atomic bomb.
1966 -
Apollo Program: Launch of
AS-201, the first flight of the
Saturn IB rocket
1970 -
National Public Radio incorporates as a
non-profit corporation.
1971 -
Secretary-General U Thant signs
United Nations proclamation of the vernal equinox as
Earth Day.
1972 -
Buffalo Creek Flood caused by a burst dam kills 125 in
West Virginia.
1984 - US troops withdraw from
Beirut. President
Ronald Reagan had sent the troops as a peacekeeping force in August 1982.
1986 -
People Power Revolution in the
Philippines.
1987 -
Iran-Contra affair: The
Tower Commission rebukes
American President Ronald Reagan for not controlling his national security staff.
1990 - The
Sandinistas are defeated in
Nicaraguan elections.
1991 -
Tim Berners-Lee introduces
WorldWideWeb, the first
web browser.1991 -
Gulf War: On
Baghdad Radio
Iraqi leader
Saddam Hussein announces the withdrawal of
Iraqi troops from
Kuwait.
1993 -
World Trade Center bombing: In
New York City, a truck bomb parked below the
North Tower of the
World Trade Center goes off, killing 6 and injuring over a thousand.
1995 - The
United Kingdom's oldest investment banking firm,
Barings Bank collapses after a securities broker,
Nick Leeson, loses $1.4 billion by speculating on the
Singapore International Monetary Exchange using
futures contracts.
2001 - The
Taliban destroy two giant
Buddha statues in
Bamyan,
Afghanistan.
2004 - The
United States lifts a ban on travel to
Libya, ending travel restrictions to the nation that had lasted for 23 years.2004 -
Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski is killed in a plane crash near
Mostar,
Bosnia and Herzegovina.
2005 -
Hosni Mubarak the president of
Egypt orders the
constitution changed to allow multi-candidate
presidential elections before
September 2005 by asking
Egyptian parliament to amend Article 76 of the
constitution.
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