Events
48 BC -
Battle of Dyrrhachium,
Caesar barely avoids a catastrophic defeat to
Pompey in
Macedonia. 988 - The City of
Dublin is founded on the banks of the river
Liffey.1212 - The most severe of several
early fires of London burns most of the city to the ground.1553 -
Lady Jane Grey takes the throne of England.1584 -
William I of Orange was
assassinated in his home in
Delft,
Holland by
Balthasar Gérard.1645 -
English Civil War:
Battle of Langport.
1778 -
American Revolution:
Louis XVI of France declares war on the
Kingdom of Great Britain.
1789 -
Alexander Mackenzie reaches
Mackenzie River Delta.
1796 -
Carl Friedrich Gauss discovered that every positive integer is representable as a sum of at most three
triangular numbers.
1800 - The
British Indian Government established
Fort William College to promote
Urdu,
Hindi and other vernaculars of sub continent.
1806 - The
Vellore Mutiny was the first instance of a mutiny by Indian sepoys against the British East India Company
1821 - The
United States takes possession of its newly-bought territory of
Florida from
Spain.
1832 - President
Andrew Jackson vetoes a bill that would re-charter the
Second Bank of the United States.
1850 -
Millard Fillmore is inaugurated as the 13th
President of the United States.
1877 - The then
villa of
Mayagüez, Puerto Rico formally receives its city charter from the Royal Crown of
Spain.
1890 -
Wyoming is admitted as the 44th
U.S. state.
1913 -
Death Valley,
California hits 134 °F (~56.7 °C), which is the highest temperature recorded in the
United States.
1925 - The
Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS), the official
news agency of the
Soviet Union , is established. 1925 -
Meher Baba begins his silence of 44 years. His followers still observe
Silence Day on this date in commemoration.1925 -
Scopes Trial: In
Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins with
John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher, accused of teaching
evolution in violation of a
Tennessee state law.
1938 -
Howard Hughes sets a new record by completing a 91 hour
airplane flight around the world.
1940 -
World War II:
Vichy France government established. 1940 - World War II:
Battle of Britain - The German
Luftwaffe begin to hit
British convoys in the
English Channel thus starting the battle (this start date is contested, though).
1941 -
Jedwabne Pogrom was a
massacre of
Jewish people living in and near the village of
Jedwabne in
Poland.
1943 - World War II: The launching of
Operation Husky begins the
Italian Campaign.
1947 -
Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first
Governor General of Pakistan by then
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom,
Clement Attlee.
1951 -
Korean War: At
Kaesong, armistice negotiations begin. 1951 -
Randy Turpin becomes the
middleweight boxing champion after defeating
Sugar Ray Robinson.
1962 -
Telstar, the world's first
communications satellite, is launched into orbit.
1967 -
Uruguay becomes a member of the
Berne Convention copyright treaty.1967 -
New Zealand adopts
decimal currency.
1968 -
Maurice Couve de Murville becomes
Prime Minister of France1973 - The
Bahamas gain full independence within the
Commonwealth of Nations. 1973 -
National Assembly of Pakistan passes a resolution on
Bangladesh recognition.
1976 -
The Seveso Disaster occurs in Italy.
1976 - One US and three UK mercenaries executed in
Angola following the
Luanda Trial.
1978 -
World News Tonight premieres on
ABC1978 -
Mauritania, President
Moktar Ould Daddah is ousted in a bloodless coup.
1985 -
Greenpeace vessel
Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in
Auckland, New Zealand Harbor by
French DGSE agents.
1991 -
Boris Yeltsin begins his 5-year term as the first elected
President of Russia. 1991 -
South African cricket team readmitted into the
International Cricket Council (ICC) following the end of
Apartheid.
1992 - In
Miami, Florida, former
Panamanian leader
Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for
drug and
racketeering violations.
1997 -
London, scientists report their
DNA analysis findings from a
Neandertal skeleton which support the
out of Africa theory of
human evolution placing an "
African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago. 1997 -
Spain,
Partido Popular member
Miguel Ángel Blanco is kidnapped in the Basque city of
Ermua by
ETA members, sparking widespread protests.
1998 -
Roman Catholic sex abuse cases: The
Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23.4 million to nine former altar boys who claimed they were
sexually abused by former priest Rudolph Kos.
2000 - A leaking southern
Nigerian petroleum pipeline explodes, killing about 250 villagers scavenging
gasoline. 2000 -
EADS, the world's second largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of
Aérospatiale-Matra,
DASA, and
CASA.
2002 - At a
Sotheby's auction,
Peter Paul Rubens' painting
The Massacre of the Innocents is sold for £49.5million (US$76.2 million) to Lord
Kenneth Thomson.
2003 - A
Neoplan bus, owned by
Kowloon Motor Bus, collides with a truck, falls off a bridge on
Tuen Mun Road,
Hong Kong, and plunges into the underlying
valley, killing 21 people. This is the deadliest traffic accident to date in Hong Kong.
2005 -
Hurricane Dennis slams into the Florida Panhandle causing billions of dollars in damage.2006 -
Pakistan International Flight PK-688 crashes in
Multan,
Pakistan shortly after takeoff, killing all 45 people on board.
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