Events
457 -
Leo I becomes emperor of the
Byzantine Empire.1074 - Battle of Montesarchio wherein the
prince of Benevento,
Pandulf IV, is killed battling the encroaching
Normans.
1301 - Edward of
Caernarvon (later King
Edward II of England) becomes the first
English Prince of Wales.
1550 -
Julius III becomes
Pope.
1795 - The
11th Amendment to the
United States Constitution is passed.
1807 -
Napoleonic Wars:
Battle of Eylau -
Napoléon's
French Empire begins fighting against
Russian and
Prussian forces of the
Fourth Coalition at Eylau,
Poland.
1812 - The
strongest in a series of
earthquakes strikes
New Madrid, Missouri.
1819 - Sir Thomas
Stamford Raffles leaves
Singapore after just taking over it, leaving it in the hands of
William Farquhar.
1842 -
Battle of Debre Tabor: Ras
Ali Alula, Regent of the
Emperor of Ethiopia defeats warlord Wube Haile Maryam of Semien.
1856 - The
colonial Tasmanian Parliament passes the first piece of
legislation (the Electoral Act 1856) anywhere in the world providing for
elections by way of a
secret ballot.
1863 -
HMS Orpheus sinks off the coast of
Auckland,
New Zealand, killing 189.
1882 - The last heavyweight
boxing championship
bare-knuckle fight takes place in Mississippi City,
Mississippi.
1894 - The
Cripple Creek miner's strike, led by the
Western Federation of Miners, begins in
Cripple Creek, Colorado.
1898 -
Émile Zola is brought to trial for
libel for publishing
J'Accuse.
1904 - A
fire in
Baltimore, Maryland destroys over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours.
1914 -
Charlie Chaplin first appears as "
The Tramp", as his first film Kid Auto Races at Venice is released at
Keystone Studios.
1935 - Birthday of
Tottenham Hotspur legend
Cliff Jones (footballer).
1944 -
World War II: In
Anzio,
Italy German forces launch a counteroffensive.1944 - World War II: American Aircraft carrier strike on
Truk.
1948 - Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower resigned as Army chief of staff and was succeeded by Gen.
Omar Bradley.
1962 - The
United States Government bans all
Cuban imports and exports.
1967 - A fire at a restaurant in
Montgomery,
Alabama kills 25 people.
1969 - The original
Hetch Hetchy Moccasin Powerhouse is removed from service.
1971 - Women gain the right to vote in
Switzerland.
1974 -
Grenada becomes independent from the
United Kingdom.
1976 - Future
Hall of Famer Darryl Sittler of the
Toronto Maple Leafs scores six goals and records four assists in an 11-4 victory over the
Boston Bruins, setting a
NHL record with 10 points in one game.
1979 -
Pluto moves inside
Neptune's orbit for the first time since either was known to science.1979 - The final session of Iranian
National Consultative Assembly was held.
1984 -
Space Shuttle program:
STS-41-B Mission -
Astronauts Bruce McCandless II and
Robert L. Stewart make the first untethered
space walk using the
Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU).
1986 - Twenty-eight years of one-family rule end in
Haiti, when
President Jean-Claude Duvalier flees the
Caribbean nation.
1990 -
Collapse of the Soviet Union: The
Central Committee of the
Soviet Communist Party agrees to give up its monopoly of power.
1991 -
Haiti's first democratically-elected president,
Jean-Bertrand Aristide, is sworn in.1991 - The
IRA launched a mortar attack on
10 Downing Street during a cabinet meeting.
1992 - The
Maastricht Treaty signed, it led to the creation of the
European Union.
1995 -
Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the
1993 World Trade Center bombing, was arrested in
Islamabad, Pakistan.
1999 -
Crown Prince Abdullah became the King of
Jordan on the death of his father, King
Hussein.
1999 - Indian cricketer
Anil Kumble became the second person in the history of cricket to take all 10 wickets in a single inning of a test match.
2000 -
Bahria University is established through the Presidential Ordinance No. V of
2000 of
Government of
Pakistan.
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