Events306 -
Constantine I proclaimed
Roman emperor by his troops. 864 -
Edict of Pistres of
Charles the Bald orders defensive measures against the
Vikings.1261 - The city of
Constantinople is recaptured by
Nicaean forces under the command of
Michael VIII Palaeologus, thus re-establishing the
Byzantine Empire. The Byzantines also succeed in capturing
Thessalonica and the rest of the
Latin Empire.1536 -
Sebastián de Belalcázar on his search of
El Dorado found the City of
Santiago de Cali.1547 -
Henry II (France) crowned.1567 - Don Diego de Losada founds the city of Santiago de Leon de Caracas, modern-day
Caracas, the capital city of
Venezuela. 1593 -
Henry IV of France publicly converts from
Protestantism to
Roman Catholicism.
1603 -
James VI of Scotland is crowned first king of
Great Britain.
1693 - Ignacio de Maya founds the Real Santiago de las Sabinas, actual
Sabinas Hidalgo,
Nuevo León,
México.
1722 -
Three Years War begins along
Maine and
Massachusetts border.
1755 - The decision to
deport the
Acadians takes place in Halifax. Thousands of Acadians are sent to the British Colonies in America, France and England. Some later moved to
Louisiana, while others later resettled in
New Brunswick.
1758 -
Seven Years' War: The island battery at
Fortress Louisbourg in
Nova Scotia is silenced and all
French warships are destroyed or taken.
1759 - French and Indian War: In
Western New York, British forces capture
Fort Niagara from French, who subsequently abandon
Fort Rouillé.
1792 - The
Brunswick Manifesto is issued to the population of
Paris promising vengeance if the
French Royal Family is harmed.
1795 - The first stone of the
Pontcysyllte Aqueduct is laid.
1797 -
Horatio Nelson loses more than 300 men and his right arm during the failed conquest attempt of
Tenerife Island (
Spain).
1799 - At
Aboukir in
Egypt,
Napoleon I of France defeats 10,000
Ottomans under Mustafa Pasha.
1814 -
War of 1812:
Battle of Lundy's Lane - Reinforcements arrive near
Niagara Falls for General Riall's
British and
Canadian forces and a bloody, all-night battle with
Jacob Brown's
Americans commences at 18.00; Americans retreat to
Fort Erie.
1824 -
Costa Rica annexes
Guanacaste from
Nicaragua.
1837 - The first commercial use of an
electric telegraph was successfully demonstrated by
William Cooke and
Charles Wheatstone on 25 July 1837 between Euston and
Camden Town in
London.
1853 -
Joaquin Murietta, famous
Californio bandit known as "Robin Hood of El Dorado", is killed.
1861 -
American Civil War: The
Crittenden-Johnson Resolution is passed by the
U.S. Congress stating that the war is being fought to preserve the
Union and not to end
slavery.
1866 - The
U.S. Congress passes legislation authorizing the rank of
General of the Army (now called "5-star general"). Lieutenant General
Ulysses S. Grant becomes the first to have this rank.
1868 -
Wyoming becomes a
United States territory.
1869 - The Japanese
daimyō begin returning their land holdings to the
emperor as part of the
Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional
Japanese Date: June 17, 1869).
1892 -Foundation of German football club Hertha BSC Berlin 1892.
1894 - The
First Sino-Japanese War begins when the Japanese fire upon a Chinese warship.
1897 - Writer
Jack London sails to join the
Klondike Gold Rush where he will write his first successful stories.
1898 - The
United States invasion of
Puerto Rico begins with U.S. troops landing at harbor of
Guánica, Puerto Rico [The land invasion, proper, began that day: Sea-based bombardment and shelling of the capital city of
San Juan had been occurring since May of 1898].
1907 -
Korea becomes a
protectorate of
Japan.
1908 -
Ajinomoto is founded.
Kikunae Ikeda of the
Tokyo Imperial University discovers that a key ingredient in
Konbu soup stock is
monosodium glutamate (MSG), and patents a process for manufacturing it.
1909 -
Louis Blériot makes the first flight across the
English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine (
Calais to
Dover) in 37 minutes.
1917 - Sir Thomas Whyte introduces the first
income tax in
Canada as a "temporary" measure (lowest bracket is 4
nd highest is 25%).
1920 -
Telecommunications: First transatlantic two-way
radio broadcast takes place.
1925 -
Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) is established.
1934 -
Nazis assassinate
Austrian Chancellor
Engelbert Dollfuss in a failed coup attempt.
1939 -
George, 2nd Earl Jellicoe first sat in Parliament.
1940 -
General Guisan orders the
Swiss Army to resist German invasion and make surrender illegal.
1943 -
World War II:
Benito Mussolini is forced out of office by his own
Italian Grand Council and is replaced by
Pietro Badoglio.
1944 - World War II:
Operation Spring - One of the bloodiest days for
Canadians during the war: 18,444 casualties, including 5,021 killed.
1946 -
Operation Crossroads: An
atomic bomb is detonated underwater in the lagoon of
Bikini atoll.1946 - At Club 500 in
Atlantic City, New Jersey,
Dean Martin and
Jerry Lewis stage their first show as a
comedy team.
1952 - The U.S. non-incorporated colonial territory of
Puerto Rico adopts a "constitution" of local-limited powers, approved by the
United States Congress in contravention of then-current
International Law.
1953 -
Merrie Melodies releases the cartoon
Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century, perhaps the most famous of the cartoons starring
Daffy Duck as
Duck Dodgers,
Porky Pig, and
Marvin The Martian.
1956 - 45 miles south of
Nantucket Island, the Italian ocean liner
SS Andrea Doria collides with the
MS Stockholm in heavy
fog and sinks the next day, killing 51.
1958 - The
African Regroupment Party (PRA) holds its first congress in
Cotonou.
1961 -
John F. Kennedy speech emphasizes that any attack on
Berlin is an attack on
NATO.
1965 - The
electric Dylan controversy starts at the
Newport Folk Festival.
1969 -
Vietnam War: US President
Richard Nixon declares the
Nixon Doctrine, stating that the
United States now expects its
Asian allies to take care of their own military defense. This was the start of the "Vietnamization" of the war.
1973 -
Soviet Mars 5 space probe launched.
1976 - The first performance of the
Philip Glass opera Einstein on the Beach is performed in
Avignon,
France.
1978 - The
Cerro Maravilla Incident occurs.
1980 - Australian hard rock band
AC/DC release the album
Back in Black. This album goes on to be the 2nd best selling album in history.
1981 - Rugby game in
Hamilton, New Zealand during the
1981 Springbok Tour is called off after anti-apartheid protesters invade the pitch.
1983 -
Black July: 37
Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in
Colombo were
massacred by the fellow
Sinhalese prisoners.
1984 -
Salyut 7 Cosmonaut
Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a
space walk.
1993 -
Israel launches a massive attack against
Lebanon in what the Israelis call
Operation Accountability, and the Lebanese call
Seven-Day War. 1993 - The
St James Church massacre occurs in Kenilworth, Cape Town, South Africa.
1994 -
Israel and
Jordan sign the
Washington Declaration, which formally ends the
state of war that has existed between the nations since
1948.
1995 - A gas bottle
exploded in station Saint Michel of line B of the
RER (
Paris regional train network). Eight were killed and 80 wounded.
1997 -
K.R. Narayanan is sworn-in as
India's 10th president and the first
Dalit— formerly called "untouchable"— to hold this office.
2000 -
Air France Flight 4590, a
Concorde supersonic passenger jet, F-BTSC, crashes just after takeoff from
Paris killing all 109 aboard and 4 on the ground.
2007 -
Pratibha Patil is sworn in as
India's first woman president
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