Events
622 - The beginning of the
Islamic calendar.1661 - The first
banknotes in
Europe are issued by the
Swedish bank
Stockholms Banco.
1769 - Father
Junipero Serra founds
Mission San Diego de Alcalá, the first mission in
California. The mission later evolves into the city of
San Diego.
1779 -
American Revolutionary War:
United States forces led by
General Anthony Wayne capture
Stony Point, New York from
British troops.
1782 - First performance of
Mozart's opera
The Abduction from the Seraglio.
1783 - Grants of land in
Canada to
American United Empire Loyalists are announced.
1790 - The signing of the
Residence Bill establishes a site along the
Potomac River as the
District of Columbia (seat of government).
1862 -
American Civil War:
David G. Farragut becomes the first
United States Navy rear admiral. 1862 -
Comet Swift-Tuttle is discovered by
Lewis Swift.
1880 -
Dr. Emily Howard Stowe becomes the first woman licenced to practice medicine in
Canada.
1930 -
Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia signs the first
constitution of
Ethiopia.
1941 -
New York Yankees'
Joe DiMaggio gets a hit in his 56th consecutive game.1941 -
Hitler convened top
Nazi leaders at his headquarters in
East Prussia to dictate how they would rule the newly occupied eastern territories.
Ukraine, the "jewel" in the
Nazi empire, would become a
German colony.
1942 -
Holocaust:
Rafle du Vel'd'Hiv: The
Vichy France government orders
French police officers to round up 13,000-20,000
Jews and imprison them in the
Winter Velodrome. In
1995,
president Jacques Chirac officially recognizes the
French police's responsibility.
1945 -
Manhattan Project: The
Atomic Age begins when the
United States successfully detonates a
plutonium-based test
nuclear weapon at the
Trinity site near
Alamogordo, New Mexico. 1945 - British Prime Minister
Winston Churchill, US President
Harry S. Truman and Soviet leader
Josef Stalin, gather in
Potsdam,
Germany, to decide the future of the defeated
Germany.
1948 - The city of
Nazareth, hometown of
Jesus, capitulated to
Israeli troops during Operation Dekel led by
Ben Dunkelman, after little more than token resistance, during
1948 Arab-Israeli War.
1951 - The novel
Catcher in the Rye by
J. D. Salinger published.1951 - King
Léopold III of Belgium abdicates in favour of his son,
Baudouin I of Belgium.
1957 -
United States Marine Major John Glenn flies a
F8U Crusader supersonic jet from
California to
New York in 3 hours, 23 minutes and 8 seconds setting a new transcontinental speed record.
1965 - The
Mont Blanc Tunnel linking
France with
Italy opens.
1969 -
Apollo program:
Apollo 11 launches from
Cape Kennedy, Florida and will become the first
manned space mission to land on the
moon.
1973 -
Watergate Scandal: Former
White House aide
Alexander P. Butterfield informs the
United States Senate that
President Richard Nixon had secretly recorded potentially-incriminating conversations.
1979 -
Iraqi President Hasan al-Bakr resigns and is replaced by
Saddam Hussein.
1980 -
Ronald Reagan wins the Republican presidential nomination at the party's convention in
Detroit.
1981 -
Tun Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad becomes
Malaysia's 4th Prime Minister until retired on
October 31,
2003. Making him Asia's longest-serving political leaders (22 years as
Prime Minister of Malaysia).
1983 -
Sikorsky S-61 disaster: helicopter crash off the
Isles of Scilly, causing 20 fatalities.
1987 - The two biggest British airlines,
British Airways and
British Caledonian are to merge and create a carrier to compete with the giant American air corporations.
1990 - In the
Philippines, an
earthquake measuring 7.7 on the
Richter Scale kills over 1600.
1994 - The planet
Jupiter is hit by fragments of the
Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet.1994 - The
civil war in
Rwanda ends.
1999 -
John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife
Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, and sister-in-law
Lauren Bessette are killed in a plane crash off the coast of
Martha's Vineyard. The
Piper Saratoga aircraft was piloted by Kennedy.
2001 - The
People's Republic of China and the
Russian Federation sign the
Treaty of Good-Neighborliness and Friendly Cooperation.
2002 -
Tenacious D release their song Tribute in the US
2003 - The
Corsicans reject a referendum for increased autonomy from
France by a very thin majority: 50.98 percent against, and 49.02 percent for.
2004 -
Millennium Park, considered the first and most ambitious architectural project in the early
21st century for
Chicago, is opened to the public by
Mayor Richard M. Daley.
2007 - An earthquake of magnitude 6.8 and aftershock of 6.6 occur off the Niigata coast,
Japan, killing 8 people with at least 800 injured and damaging a nuclear power plant. See
2007 Chūetsu offshore earthquake.
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