Events 1419 -
Hundred Years' War:
Rouen surrenders to
Henry V of England completing his reconquest of
Normandy.1511 -
Mirandola surrenders to the
French.1520 -
Sten Sture the Younger, the
Regent of Sweden, was mortally wounded at the Battle of Bogesund.
1764 -
John Wilkes is expelled from the
British House of Commons for
seditious libel.
1788 - Second group of ships of the
First Fleet arrives at
Botany Bay.
1795 -
Batavian Republic is proclaimed in the
Netherlands. End of the
Republic of the Seven United Netherlands.
1806 - The
United Kingdom occupies the
Cape of Good Hope.
1812 -
Peninsular War: After a ten day siege
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, ordered British soldiers of the Light and third divisions storm
Ciudad Rodrigo.
1817 - An army of 5,423 soldiers, led by General
José de San Martín,
crossed the Andes from
Argentina to liberate
Chile and then
Peru.
1829 -
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's
Faust Part 1 premieres.
1839 -
British East India Company captures
Aden.
1840 - Captain
Charles Wilkes circumnavigates
Antarctica, claiming what became known as
Wilkes Land for the
United States.
1853 -
Giuseppe Verdi's
opera Il Trovatore premieres in
Rome.
1862 -
American Civil War:
Battle of Mill Springs - The
Confederate States of America suffers its first significant defeat in the conflict.
1871 -
Franco-Prussian War:
Battle of St. Quentin is fought, resulting in a decisive
Prussian victory.
1883 - The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by
Thomas Edison, begins service at
Roselle, New Jersey.
1893 -
Henrik Ibsen's
play The Master Builder premieres in
Berlin.
1899 -
Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is formed.
1915 - George Claude patents the
neon discharge tube for use in
advertising. 1915 -
World War I: German
zeppelins bomb the cities of
Great Yarmouth and
King's Lynn in the
United Kingdom killing more than 20, in the first major aerial bombardment of a civilian target.
1917 -
German Foreign Secretary
Arthur Zimmermann sends the
Zimmermann Telegram to
Mexico, proposing a German-Mexican alliance against the
United States.1917 -
Silvertown explosion: 73 are killed and 400 injured in an explosion in a munitions plant in
London.
1918 -
Finnish Civil War: The first serious battles between the
Red Guards and the
White Guard.
1920 - The
United States Senate votes against joining the
League of Nations.
1935 -
Coopers Inc. sold the world's first
briefs.
1937 -
Howard Hughes sets a new air record by flying from
Los Angeles to
New York City in 7 hours, 28 minutes, 25 seconds.
1941 -
World War II:
British troops attack
Italian-held
Eritrea.
1942 -
World War II:
Japanese forces invade
Burma.
1945 -
World War II:
Soviet forces liberate ghetto of
Łódź. Out of 230,000 inhabitants in
1940, less than 900 had survived
Nazi occupation.
1946 - General
Douglas MacArthur establishes the
International Military Tribunal for the Far East in
Tokyo to try
Japanese war criminals.
1949 -
Cuba recognises
Israel.
1953 - 68% of all
United States television sets were tuned in to
I Love Lucy to watch
Lucy give birth.
1966 -
Indira Gandhi is elected
Prime Minister of India.
1969 - Student
Jan Palach died after setting himself on fire 3 days earlier in
Prague's
Wenceslas Square to protest the invasion of
Czechoslovakia by the
Soviet Union in
1968. His
funeral turned into another major protest.
1971 - Revival of
No, No, Nanette premieres at
46th Street Theatre,
New York City.
1974 - The
UCLA men's basketball team sees its 88-game winning streak end at the hands of
Notre Dame.
1975 -
Triple J begins broadcasting in
Sydney,
Australia.
1977 - President
Gerald Ford pardons
Iva Toguri D'Aquino (a.k.a. "
Tokyo Rose").1977 -
Snow falls in
Miami, Florida. This is the only time in the
history of the
city that snowfall has occurred. It also fell in the
Bahamas.
1978 - The last
Volkswagen Beetle made in
Germany leaves VW's plant in
Emden. Beetle production in
Latin America will continue until
2003.
1981 -
Iran Hostage Crisis:
United States and
Iranian officials sign an agreement to release 52
American hostages after 14 months of captivity.
1983 -
Klaus Barbie,
Nazi war criminal, is arrested in
Bolivia.1983 - The
Apple Lisa, the first commercial
personal computer from
Apple Computer, Inc. to have a
graphical user interface and a
computer mouse, is announced.
1991 - The
Party of the Alliance of Youth, Workers and Farmers of Angola is founded in
Luanda,
Angola.
1992 -
Decree time is restored in
Russia after its previous abolition in
March 1991.
1993 -
IBM announces a $4.97 billion loss for
1992, the largest single-year corporate loss in
United States history.
1997 -
Yasser Arafat returns to
Hebron after more than 30 years and joins celebrations over the handover of the last
Israeli-controlled
West Bank city.
2006 - A Slovak Air Force
Antonov An-24 crashes in
Hungary.2006 - The
New Horizons probe was launched by
NASA on the first mission to
Pluto.2006 -
Jet Airways announces its purchase of
Air Sahara, creating the largest domestic airline in
India.
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