Events
46 BC -
Titus Labienus defeats
Julius Caesar in the
Battle of Ruspina.871 - Battle of Reading:
Ethelred of Wessex fights, and is defeated by, a
Danish invasion army.1493 -
Christopher Columbus leaves the
New World, ending his first journey.1642 - King
Charles I of England sends soldiers to arrest members of
Parliament, commencing England's slide into
civil war.
1698 - Most of the
Palace of Whitehall in
London, the main residence of the
English monarchs, is destroyed by fire.
1717 - The
Netherlands,
England, and
France sign the
Triple Alliance.
1762 -
England declares war on
Spain and
Naples.
1847 -
Samuel Colt sells his first
revolver pistol to the
United States government.
1854 - The
McDonald Islands are discovered by Captain William McDonald aboard the Samarang.
1865 - The
New York Stock Exchange opens its first permanent headquarters at 10-12 Broad near
Wall Street in
New York City.
1884 - The
Fabian Society is founded in
London.
1885 - The first successful
appendectomy is performed by Dr. William W. Grant on Mary Gartside.
1896 -
Utah is admitted as the 45th
U.S. state.
1912 -
The Scout Association is incorporated throughout the
British Commonwealth by
Royal Charter.
1936 -
Mickey's Polo Team, a short
animated film featuring
Charlie Chaplin,
Oliver Hardy,
Stan Laurel, and
Harpo Marx in a
polo match against various Disney characters, is first released.1936 -
Billboard magazine publishes its first
pop music charts.
1941 - The animated short
Elmer's Pet Rabbit is released: it marks the second appearance of
Bugs Bunny and the first to have his name on a title card.
1944 -
Operation Carpetbagger, involving the dropping of arms and supplies to resistance fighters in Europe, begins.1944 -
World War II: The
Battle of Monte Cassino begins.
1948 -
Burma regains its independence from the
United Kingdom.
1951 -
Korean War: Chinese and
North Korean forces capture
Seoul.
1957 - After 69 years the last issue of
Collier's Weekly magazine is published.
1958 -
Sputnik 1 falls to Earth from its orbit (launched on
October 4,
1957).
1959 -
Luna 1 becomes the first
spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the
Moon.
1962 -
New York City introduces a train that operates without a crew on-board.
1965 -
United States President Lyndon B. Johnson proclaims his "
Great Society" during his
State of the Union address.
1972 -
Rose Heilbron becomes the first woman judge to sit at the
Old Bailey in
London.
1974 - United States President
Richard Nixon refuses to hand over materials subpoenaed by the Senate
Watergate Committee.
1975 -
Elizabeth Ann Seton becomes the first American-born saint.
1987 - An
Amtrak train en route to
Boston from
Washington, DC, collides with
Conrail engines, killing 16 people (
Chase, Maryland rail wreck).
1989 -
Second Gulf of Sidra incident: a pair of Libyan
MiG-23 "Floggers" are shot down by a pair of
US Navy F-14 Tomcats during an air-to-air confrontation.
1990 - A crowded passenger train collides with a standing freight train in
Pakistan's
Sindh province, killing 300 people.
1998 -
Wilaya of Relizane massacres in
Algeria; over 170 are killed in three remote villages.
1999 - Former professional wrestler
Jesse Ventura is sworn in as governor of
Minnesota.1999 - Gunmen open fire on
Shiite Muslims worshipping in an
Islamabad mosque, killing 16 people and injuring 25.
2004 - Dr.
Mikhail Saakashvili is elected the
President of
Georgia.2004 -
Spirit, a
NASA Mars Rover, lands successfully on
Mars at 04:35 UTC.
2006 -
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of
Israel suffers a second, apparently more serious stroke. His authority is transferred to Acting
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
2007 - The
110th United States Congress convenes, electing
Nancy Pelosi as the first female
Speaker of the House in U.S. history.
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