Events
38 BC -
Octavian marries
Livia Drusilla.1287 - King
Alfonso III of Aragon invades
Minorca.1377 -
Pope Gregory XI moves the Papacy back from
Avignon to
Rome. 1524 - Beginning of
Giovanni da Verrazzano's voyage to find a passage to
China.1562 -
France recognizes the
Huguenots under the
Edict of Saint-Germain.1595 -
Henry IV of France declares war to
Spain.
1605 - First publication of
Don Quixote.
1648 -
England's
Long Parliament passes the Vote of No Address, breaking off negotiations with
King Charles I and thereby setting the scene for the second phase of the
English Civil War.
1781 -
American Revolutionary War:
Battle of Cowpens - Continental troops under Brigadier General
Daniel Morgan defeat British forces under Lieutenant Colonel
Banastre Tarleton at the battle in
South Carolina.
1799 -
Dun Mikiel Xerri, along with a handful of other patriots was shot, after that an attempted revolt went awry.
1819 -
Simón Bolívar proclaims the Republic of
Colombia.
1852 -
United Kingdom recognizes the independence of the
Boer colonies of the
Transvaal.
1873 -
First Battle of the Stronghold in the
US Modoc War.
1885 - A
British force defeats a large
Dervish army at the
Battle of Abu Klea in the
Sudan.
1893 - The
Citizen's Committee of Public Safety, led by
Lorrin A. Thurston overthrows the government of Queen
Liliuokalani of the
Kingdom of Hawaii.
1899 - The
United States takes possession of
Wake Island in the
Pacific Ocean.
1904 -
Anton Chekov's
The Cherry Orchard premiered at the
Moscow Art Theatre.
1912 - Sir
Robert Falcon Scott (Scott of the Antarctic) reaches the
South Pole, one month after
Roald Amundsen.
1913 -
Raymond Poincaré is elected
President of France.
1916 - The
Professional Golfers Association (PGA) is formed.
1917 - The
United States pays
Denmark $25 million for the
Virgin Islands.
1929 -
Popeye the Sailor Man, a
cartoon character created by
Elzie Crisler Segar, first appears in the
Comic Strip Thimble Theatre.
1941 -
Kuomintang forces under the order of
Chiang Kai-Shek opened fire at communist force,
Chinese Civil War resumes after
WWII.
1945 -
Soviet forces capture the almost completely destroyed
Polish city of
Warsaw. 1945 - The
Nazis begin the evacuation of the
Auschwitz concentration camp as
Soviet forces close in.1945 -
Swedish diplomat
Raoul Wallenberg disappears in
Hungary while in
Soviet custody.
1946 - The
UN Security Council holds its first session.
1949 -
The Goldbergs, the first
sitcom on American
television, first airs.
1950 - The
Great Brinks Robbery - 11 thieves steal more than $2 million from an armored car Company's offices in
Boston, Massachusetts.
1956 -
Allen Ginsberg writes his poem
"America".
1961 - U.S. President
Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers a televised farewell address to the nation three days before leaving office, in which he warns against the accumulation of power by the "military-industrial complex."
1966 - A
B-52 bomber collides with a
KC-135 Stratotanker over
Spain, dropping four 70-kiloton
hydrogen bombs near the town of
Palomares and another one into the sea.
1969 -
Led Zeppelin's
debut album is released.
1973 -
Ferdinand Marcos becomes "President for Life" of the
Philippines.
1977 - Convicted murderer
Gary Gilmore is executed by a
firing squad in
Utah, ending a ten-year moratorium on
Capital punishment in the
United States.
1978 - The
Sex Pistols, famous Britain
punk rock band, considered as the punk creators, disband.
1982 -
"Cold Sunday" in the
United States sees temperatures fall to their lowest levels in over 100 years in numerous cities.
1985 -
British Telecom announces the retirement of the
United Kingdom's famous
red telephone boxes.
1991 -
Gulf War:
Operation Desert Storm began early in the morning.
Iraq fires 8
Scud missiles into
Israel in an unsuccessful bid to provoke Israeli retaliation.1991 -
Harald V becomes King of
Norway on the death of his father,
Olav V.
1994 - A magnitude 6.7
earthquake hits
Northridge, California; see
1994 Northridge Earthquake.
1995 - A magnitude 7.3
earthquake (known as "
the Great Hanshin earthquake") hits near
Kobe, Japan, causing extensive property damage and killing 6,433 people.
1996 - The
Czech Republic applies for membership of the
European Union.
1997 - A
Delta 2 carrying a
GPS2R satellite explodes 13 seconds after launch, dropping 250 tons of burning rocket remains around the launch pad.
[1]1998 -
Paula Jones accuses
President Bill Clinton of
sexual harassment.
2001 -
President Bill Clinton posthumously raises
Captain Meriwether Lewis' rank from
Lieutenant to
Captain.
2002 -
Mount Nyiragongo erupts in the
Democratic Republic of the Congo, displacing an estimated 400,000 people.
2005 - Major accident of collision of two trains in Bangkok.2005 - A first century mosaic is found on
Colle Oppio in
Rome.
2007 -
Doomsday Clock is set to five minutes to midnight in response to N. Korea nuclear testing
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