Events1014 -
Byzantine-Bulgarian Wars:
Battle of Kleidion:
Byzantine emperor Basil II inflicts a decisive defeat on the
Bulgarian army, and his subsequent savage treatment of 15,000 prisoners reportedly causes
Tsar Samuil of Bulgaria to die of shock.1030 -
Ladejarl-
Fairhair succession wars:
Battle of Stiklestad -
King Olaf II fights and dies trying to regain his
Norwegian throne from the
Danes.1565 -
Mary Queen of Scots, widowed, marries
Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley,
Duke of Albany at
Holyrood Palace in
Edinburgh,
Scotland.1567 -
James VI is crowned
King of
Scotland at
Stirling.1588 -
Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines -
English naval forces under command of
Lord Charles Howard and
Sir Francis Drake defeats the
Spanish Armada off the coast of
Gravelines,
France.
1693 -
War of the Grand Alliance:
Battle of Landen -
France wins a
Pyrrhic victory over Allied forces in the
Netherlands.
1793 -
John Graves Simcoe decides to build a fort and settlement at
Toronto, having sailed into the bay there.
1830 - Abdication of
Charles X of France.
1836 - Inauguration of the
Arc de Triomphe in
Paris.
1847 -
Cumberland School of Law founded in
Lebanon,
Tennessee,
USA. At the end of
1847 only 15 law schools exist in the
United States.
1848 -
Irish Potato Famine:
Tipperary Revolt - In
Tipperary, an unsuccessful
nationalist revolt against
British rule is put down by
police.
1851 -
Annibale de Gasparis discovers
asteroid 15 Eunomia.
1858 -
United States and
Japan sign the
Harris Treaty.
1864 -
American Civil War:
Confederate spy
Belle Boyd is arrested by
Union troops and detained at the
Old Capitol Prison in
Washington, DC.
1899 - The
First Hague Convention is signed.
1900 - In
Italy, King
Umberto I of Italy is assassinated by
Italian-born
anarchist Gaetano Bresci.
1907 -
Sir Robert Baden-Powell sets up the
Brownsea Island Scout camp in
Poole Harbour on the south coast of
England. The camp ran from
August 1-9,
1907, and is regarded as the founding of the
Scouting movement.
1920 - Construction of the
Link River Dam begins as part of the
Klamath Reclamation Project.
1921 -
Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the
National Socialist German Workers Party.
1932 -
Great Depression: In
Washington, DC,
U.S. troops disperse the last of the "
Bonus Army" of
World War I veterans.
1945 - The
BBC Light Programme radio station was launched for
mainstream light entertainment and
music.
1947 - After being shut off on
November 9,
1946 for a memory upgrade,
ENIAC, the world's first all-electronic digital
computer, is reactivated. It will remain in continuous operation until
October 2,
1955.
1948 -
Olympic Games:
The Games of the XIV Olympiad - After a hiatus of 12 years caused by
World War II, the first
Summer Olympics to be held since the
1936 Summer Olympics in
Berlin opened in
London.
1957 - The
International Atomic Energy Agency is established.
1958 - The
U.S. Congress formally creates the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (
NASA).
1959 - First
Congressional elections in
Hawaii as a state of the
Union.
1965 -
Vietnam War: The first 4,000
101st Airborne Division paratroopers arrive in
Vietnam, landing at
Cam Ranh Bay.
1966 -
Musician Bob Dylan crashes his
Triumph motorcycle in upstate
New York. He goes into seclusion for over a year before reemerging and reinventing himself artistically.1966 - American magazine Datebook releases issue with the
Beatles article from the
London Evening Standard four months ago which includes
John Lennon's "more popular than
Jesus" statement, setting off a furor resulting the trashing and burning of Beatles records and merchandise and the banning of Beatles songs on radio
1967 -
Vietnam War: Off the coast of
North Vietnam the
USS Forrestal catches on fire in the worst
U.S. naval disaster since
World War II, killing 134.1967 - At the fourth day of celebrating its 400th anniversary, the city of
Caracas,
Venezuela was shaken by an
earthquake, leaving approximately 500 dead.
1976 - In
New York City, the "
Son of Sam" kills one person and seriously wounds another in the first of a series of attacks.
1981 -
Lady Diana Spencer marries
Charles, Prince of Wales.
1987 -
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and
President of France François Mitterrand sign the agreement to build the
tunnel under the
English Channel (
Eurotunnel).1987 -
Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi and
Sri Lankan President J. R. Jayawardene sign the Indo-Lankan Pact on ethnic issue.
1993 - The
Israeli Supreme Court acquits accused
Nazi death camp guard
John Demjanjuk of all charges and he is set free.
1996 - The controversial child protection portion of the
Communications Decency Act (
1996) is struck down as too broad by a
U.S. federal court.
2005 -
Astronomers announce their discovery of
Eris.
2007 - The ruling coalition of
Japan lost its majority in the upper house after the
election.2007 - The popular, long-running Broadway musical
Beauty and the Beast closed on Broadway at the
Lunt-Fontanne Theatre to make room for Disney's new musical,
The Little Mermaid.
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