Events1576 -
Henry of Navarre converts to
Roman Catholicism in order to ensure his right to the throne of
France.
1597 - A group of early
Japanese Christians are killed by the new government of
Japan for being seen as a threat to Japanese
society.
1631 -
Roger Williams emigrates to
Boston.
1778 -
South Carolina becomes the first state to ratify the
Articles of Confederation.
1782 -
Spanish defeat
British forces and capture
Minorca.
1818 -
Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte ascends to the thrones of
Sweden and
Norway.
1859 -
Wallachia and
Moldavia are united under
Alexander John Cuza as the
United Principalities.
1885 - King
Léopold II of Belgium establishes the
Congo as a personal possession.
1900 - The
United States and the
United Kingdom sign treaty for
Panama Canal1917 - The
current constitution of
Mexico is adopted, establishing a
federal republic with powers separated into independent executive, legislative, and judicial branches.1917 - The
Congress of the United States passes a
law, over
President Woodrow Wilson's veto, banning most
Asian immigration to the
United States.
1919 -
Charlie Chaplin,
Mary Pickford,
Douglas Fairbanks, and
D.W. Griffith launch
United Artists.
1924 - The
Royal Greenwich Observatory begin broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the
Greenwich Time Signal or the "
BBC pips".
1936 -
Charlie Chaplin releases the last movie of the silent film era,
Modern Times.
1937 -
President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposes a
plan to enlarge the Supreme Court of the United States.
1945 -
World War II:
General Douglas MacArthur returns to
Manila.
1946 - The
Chondoist Chongu Party is founded in
North Korea.
1958 -
Gamel Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of the
United Arab Republic.1958 - A
hydrogen bomb known as the
Tybee Bomb is lost by the
US Air Force off the coast of
Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered.
1962 -
French President Charles De Gaulle calls for allowing
Algeria to be an independent nation.
1968 -
Vietnam War:
Battle of Khe Sanh begins.
1971 -
Apollo program:
Apollo 14 Mission -
Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell aboard LM, Antares land on the
Moon at
Fra Mauro formation.
1972 -
Bob Douglas becomes the first
African American elected to the
Basketball Hall of Fame.
1974 -
John Murtha becomes the first
Vietnam War veteran elected to the
Congress of the United States.
1988 -
Manuel Noriega is indicted on
drug smuggling and
money laundering charges.1988 -
Comic Relief holds the first "
Red Nose Day", which raises £15 million in the
United Kingdom for
charity.
1994 -
Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the
1963 murder of
civil rights leader
Medgar Evers.
1994 - During the
war in Bosnia and Herzegovina more than 60 people are killed and some 200 wounded as a mortar shell slams into a downtown marketplace in
Sarajevo.
1997 - The so-called Big Three banks in
Switzerland announce the creation of a $71 million fund to aid
Holocaust survivors and their families.
2004 - Twenty-three
Chinese people drown when a group of 35
cockle-pickers are trapped by rising tides in
Morecambe Bay,
England. Twenty-one bodies are recovered.2004 -
Rebels from the
Revolutionary Artibonite Resistance Front capture the city of
Gonaïves, starting the
2004 Haiti rebellion.
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