Events 1504 -
France cedes
Naples to
Aragon.
1606 -
Gunpowder Plot:
Guy Fawkes is executed for his plotting against
Parliament and
James I of England.
1747 - The first
venereal diseases clinic opens at
London Lock Hospital.
1814 -
Gervasio Antonio de Posadas becomes
Supreme Director of
Argentina.
1846 - After the
Milwaukee Bridge War, Juneautown and Kilbourntown unified as the City of
Milwaukee.
1849 -
Corn Laws abolished in the
United Kingdom (following legislation in 1846).
1865 -
American Civil War:
Confederate General
Robert E. Lee becomes general-in-chief.
1867 -
Maronite nationalist leader
Youssef Karam leaves
Lebanon on board of a
French ship for
Algeria1876 - The
United States orders all
Native Americans to move into reservations.
1900 - Datu Muhammad Salleh is shot dead in Kampung Teboh, Tambuan, ending the
Mat Salleh Rebellion1910 - The
Portuguese republican revolution broke out in the northern city of
Porto.
1915 -
World War I:
Germany uses
poison gas against
Russians.
1917 - World War I:
Germany announces its
U-boats will engage in
unrestricted submarine warfare.
1918 - A
series of accidental collisions on a
misty Scottish night leads to the loss of two
Royal Navy submarines with over a hundred lives, and damage to another five
British warships.
1929 - The
Soviet Union exiles
Leon Trotsky.
1930 -
3M begins marketing
Scotch Tape.
1936 -
The Green Hornet radio show debuts.
1941 -
Layforce set sail.
1944 -
World War II:
American forces land on
Kwajalein Atoll and other islands in the
Japanese-held
Marshall Islands.
1944 -
World War II:
Anzio campaign. (Darby's Rangers)
1st Ranger Battalion The entire 6615th Ranger Force (Provisional) was destroyed behind enemy lines in a heavily outnumbered encounter at Cisterna, Italy.
1945 -
US Army private
Eddie Slovik is executed, the first
American soldier since the
Civil War to be executed for desertion.
1946 -
Yugoslavia's new
constitution, modeling the
Soviet Union, establishes six constituent republics (
Bosnia-Herzegovina,
Croatia,
Macedonia,
Montenegro,
Serbia and
Slovenia).
1950 -
President Harry S. Truman announces a program to develop the
hydrogen bomb.
1953 - The
North Sea flood of 1953 causes over 1,800 deaths in the
Netherlands.
1956 -
Guy Mollet becomes
Prime Minister of
France.
1957 - Three students on a junior high school playground in
Pacoima, California are among the eight persons killed following the mid-air collision between a
Douglas DC-7 airliner and a
Northrop F-89 Scorpion fighter jet above the
San Fernando Valley section of
Los Angeles.
1958 -
Explorer program:
Explorer I - The first successful launch of an
American satellite into orbit.1958 -
James Van Allen discovers the
Van Allen radiation belt.
1961 -
Project Mercury:
Mercury-Redstone 2 -
Ham the Chimp travels into
outer space.
1965 -
Dr Umar Alisha was Born at
Pithapuram.
1968 -
Viet Cong attack the
United States embassy in
Saigon.1968 -
Nauru declares independence from
Australia.
1969 - A
Saskatchewan Court convicts 17-year-old
hippie David Milgaard of
murder; he is sentenced to life in
prison. He spent 23 years in jail until
April 14,
1992 when DNA evidence proves him innocent of all charges.
1971 -
Apollo program:
Apollo 14 Mission - Astronauts
Alan Shepard,
Stuart Roosa, and
Edgar Mitchell, aboard a
Saturn V, lift off for a mission to the
Fra Mauro Highlands on the
Moon.1971 - The
Winter Soldier Investigation, organized by the
Vietnam Veterans Against the War to publicize
war crimes and atrocities by
Americans and allies in
Vietnam, begin in
Detroit,
Michigan.
1980 - Thirty-nine people burn to death in the occupation of the
Spanish Embassy in
Guatemala.
1990 - The first
McDonald's in the Soviet Union opens in
Moscow,
USSR.
1995 - President
Bill Clinton authorizes a $20 billion loan to
Mexico to stabilize its
economy.
1996 - An explosives-filled truck rams into the gates of the
Central Bank of Sri Lanka in
Colombo,
Sri Lanka killing at least 86 and injuring 1,400.
2000 - An
Alaska Airlines MD-83, experiencing horizontal stabilizer problems, crashes in the
Pacific Ocean off the coast of
Point Mugu, California, killing all 88 persons aboard.
2001 - In the
Netherlands a
Scottish court convicts a
Libyan and acquits another for their part in the bombing of
Pan Am Flight 103 which crashed into
Lockerbie, Scotland in
1988.
2002 - A large section of the
Antarctic Larsen Ice Shelf begins disintegrating, eventually consuming about 3,250 km² (1,254 miles²) over a 35-day period.
2003 -
Waterfall train disaster, NSW, Australia.
2006 -
Samuel A. Alito Jr. assumes office as the 110th Supreme Court justice of the
United States.
2007 -
Suspects are arrested in
Birmingham in the
UK, accused of plotting the kidnap, holding and eventual beheading of a serving
Muslim British soldier in
Iraq.
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