Events324 -
Battle of Adrianople Constantine I defeats
Licinius, who flees to
Byzantium.987 -
Hugh Capet was crowned
King of France, the first of the
Capetian dynasty which ruled
France till the
French Revolution in
1792.
1250 -
Louis IX of France is captured by
Baibars'
Mamluk army at the
Battle of Fariskur while he is in
Egypt conducting the
Seventh Crusade; he later has to ransom himself.
1608 -
Quebec City founded by
Samuel de Champlain.
1754 -
French and Indian War:
George Washington surrenders
Fort Necessity to
French forces.
1767 -
Pitcairn Island is discovered by
Midshipman Robert Pitcairn on an expeditionary voyage commanded by
Philip Carteret. 1767 -
Norway's oldest newspaper still in print,
Adresseavisen, is founded (first edition published this date).
1775 -
American Revolutionary War:
George Washington takes command of the
Continental Army at
Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1778 -
American Revolutionary War: British forces massacre 360 men, women & children in the
Wyoming Valley massacre. 1778 -
Prussia declares war on
Austria.
1819 - The first
savings bank in the
United States (The Bank of Savings in
New York City) opens.
1839 - The first state normal school in the United States, the forerunner to today's
Framingham State College, opens in
Lexington, Massachusetts with 3 students.
1844 - The last pair of
Great Auks is killed.
1848 - Slaves are freed in the Danish West Indies (now
U.S. Virgin Islands) by
Peter von Scholten.
1849 - The French entered
Rome in order to restore
Pope Pius IX to power. This would prove a major obstacle to
Italian unification.
1852 - Congress establishes the United States's 2nd mint in
San Francisco, California.
1863 -
U.S. Civil War: The final day of the
Battle of Gettysburg culminates with
Pickett's Charge.
1866 -
Austro-Prussian War is decided at the
Battle of Königgratz, resulting in
Prussia taking over as the prominent German nation from
Austria.
1884 -
Dow Jones published its 1st stock average.
1886 - The
New York Tribune becomes the first
newspaper to use a
linotype machine, eliminating
typesetting by hand.
1890 -
Idaho is admitted as the 43rd
U.S. state.
1898 - Spanish fleet, led by
Pascual Cervera y Topete, destroyed by the
U.S. Navy in
Santiago,
Cuba during the
Spanish-American War.
1928 - First color television broadcast in
London.
1938 - World speed record for a
steam railway locomotive is set in
England, by the
Mallard, which reaches a speed of 126 mph.(203 km/h)
1944 -
World War II:
Minsk was liberated from Nazi control by Soviet troops during
Operation Bagration.
1952 -
Puerto Rico's Constitution is approved by the
Congress of the United States.
1962 - The
Algerian War of Independence against the French ends.
1970 - A British
Dan-Air De Havilland Comet chartered
jetliner crashes into mountains north of
Barcelona,
Spain killing 113 people.
1976 -
Israeli commandos rescue 105 hostages at
Entebbe Airport,
Uganda during
Operation Yonatan.
1977 - The
Senegalese Republican Movement (MRS) is founded.
1979 -
US President Jimmy Carter signs the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul.
1986 -
US President Ronald Reagan presides over the relighting of the renovated Statue of Liberty.
1988 -
United States Navy warship
USS Vincennes shoots down
Iran Air Flight 655 over the
Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people aboard.
1988 - The
Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, providing the second connection between the continents of
Europe and
Asia over the
Bosporus.
1989 -
Fitzgerald Inquiry released in
Queensland.
1994 - The deadliest day in
Texas traffic history, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. Forty six people were killed in crashes.
2001 - A
Vladivostok Avia Tupolev TU-154 jetliner crashes on approach to landing at
Irkutsk, Russia killing 145 people.
2004 - Official opening of
Bangkok's
subway system.
2005 - The national law legalizing
same-sex marriage takes effect in
Spain.
2006 - Asteroid labeled as
2004 XP14 flies 432,308 km (268,624 miles) by
Earth.
2007 -
Ghana introduces new
Ghanaian cedi currency.
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