Events
390 BC -
Roman-
Gaulish Wars:
Battle of the Allia - A
Roman army is defeated by raiding
Gauls, leading to the subsequent sacking of
Rome.
64 -
Great fire of Rome: A fire begins to burn in the merchant area of
Rome and soon burns completely out of control while
Emperor Nero reportedly plays his
lyre and sings while watching the blaze from a safe distance.1195 - Battle of Alarcos, great victory of
Almohad ruler
Abu Yusuf Ya'qub al-Mansur over the
Castilian King
Alfonso VIII.1536 - The authority of the
Pope is declared void in
England.1656 -
Polish-Lithuanian forces clashes with
Sweden and its
Brandenburg allies in the start of what is to be known as The Battle of Warsaw which ends in a decisive Swedish victory.
1830 -
Uruguay adopts its first
constitution.
1857 -
Louis Faidherbe,
French governor of
Senegal, arrives to relieve
French forces at
Kayes, effectively ending El Hajj
Umar Tall's war on the
French.
1861 -
American Civil War: Skirmish at
Blackburn's Ford prior to
First Battle of Bull Run(1st Battle of Manassas).
1863 - American Civil War:
Battle of Fort Wagner/Morris Island - The first formal
African American military unit, the
54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, unsuccessfully assaults
Confederate-held
Battery Wagner but their valiant fighting still proves the worth of
African American soldiers during the war.
1872 -
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland introduces voting by
secret ballot.
1873 -
Oscar II of
Sweden-Norway is crowned king of
Norway in
Trondheim.
1898 -
Marie and
Pierre Curie announce the discovery of a new element and proposed to call it
polonium.
1914 - The U.S. Congress forms the
Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps, this gives definite status to aircraft within the
U.S. Army for the first time.
1925 -
Adolf Hitler publishes his personal manifesto
Mein Kampf.
1932 - The
United States and
Canada signed a treaty to develop the
Saint Lawrence Seaway.
1936 -
Spanish Civil War: The rebellion reaches peninsular
Spain and conquers
Galicia, west
Castile, west
Andalucia and
Aragon.
1938 -
Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan arrives in
Ireland.
1940 -
Democratic National Convention,
Chicago:
President Franklin D. Roosevelt is nominated for an unprecedented third term in office.
1942 -
World War II: The
Germans test fly the
Messerschmitt Me-262 using only its
jets for the first time.
1944 - World War II:
Hideki Tojo resigns as
Prime Minister of
Japan due to numerous setbacks in the war effort.
1947 -
President Harry S. Truman signs the
Presidential Succession Act into law which places the
Speaker of the House and the
Senate President Pro Tempore next in the line of succession after the
United States Vice President1953 - Rock star
Elvis Presley made his first recording in
Sun Studios.
1965 -
Zond 3 launched.
1966 -
Gemini 10 launched.
1968 -
Vietnam War: The two-day Honolulu Conference begins in
Honolulu, Hawaii between
US President Lyndon B. Johnson and
South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu.
1969 - After a party on
Chappaquiddick Island,
Senator Ted Kennedy from
Massachusetts drives an
Oldsmobile off a wooden bridge into a tide-swept pond and his passenger,
Mary Jo Kopechne, dies.
1976 -
Gymnast Nadia Comaneci, age 14, scores first ever perfect 10 at the
Olympics.
1977 -
Vietnam joins the
United Nations.
1982 - 268 campesinos ("
peasants" or "country people") are slain in the
Plan de Sánchez massacre in
Ríos Montt's
Guatemala.
1984 -
McDonald's massacre in
San Ysidro, California: In a fast-food restaurant,
James Oliver Huberty opens fire, killing 21 people and injuring 19 others before being shot dead by police.
1986 - A
tornado is broadcast live on
KARE television in
Minnesota when the station's
helicopter pilot makes a chance encounter.
1989 - Actress
Rebecca Schaeffer is shot by a crazed fan, prompting
California to pass
America's first anti-stalking law in
1990.
1992 - The ten victims of the
La Cantuta massacre disappeared from their university in
Lima.
1994 -
AMIA Bombing: An explosion in
Buenos Aires destroys a building housing several
Jewish organizations, killing 85 and injuring many more.
1995 - On the
Caribbean island of
Montserrat, the
Soufriere Hills volcano erupts. Over the course of several years, it devastates the island, destroying the capital and forcing most of the population to flee.
1996 - Storms provoke severe
flooding on the
Saguenay River, beginning one of
Québec's costliest
natural disasters ever.1996 - In an event very similar to the
Oklahoma tornado that would occur three years later, an
F5 tornado hit the town of
Oakfield, Wisconsin.
1997 - 8000 low-caste
Indians riot in
Mumbai (
Bombay) following a funeral for 10 children who had been killed by police.
1998 - A 23-foot
tidal wave kills nearly 3,000 people in
Papua New Guinea.
2001 - In
Baltimore, Maryland, a 60-car train derails in a tunnel, sparking a fire that lasted for days and virtually brought downtown Baltimore to a standstill.
2007 - An underground steam pipe exploded in midtown
Manhattan, killing 1 person and injuring at least 40.
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