Events
1525 -
Martin Luther married
Katharina von Bora, against the
celibacy doctrine decreed by the Roman Catholic Church on priests.
1625 - King
Charles I is married to the
French princess
Henrietta Maria de
Bourbon1774 -
Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain's North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves.
1777 -
American Revolutionary War:
Marquis de Lafayette lands near
Charleston, South Carolina, in order to help the
Continental Congress to train its army.
1798 -
Mission San Luis Rey de Francia is founded.
1805 -
Lewis and Clark Expedition: Scouting ahead of the expedition,
Meriwether Lewis and four companions sight the
Great Falls of the Missouri River.
1871 - In
Labrador, a hurricane kills 300 people.
1881 - The
USS Jeannette is crushed in an
Arctic Ocean ice pack.
1886 - A fire devastates much of
Vancouver,
British Columbia.
1893 -
Grover Cleveland undergoes secret, successful surgery to remove large, cancerous portion of his jaw; operation not revealed to US public until 1917, nine years after the president's death.
1898 -
Yukon Territory is formed, with
Dawson chosen as its capital.
1913 -
Great Gorge and International Railway trolley passes under garbage chute in
Niagara Falls, New York when it breaks, covering the passenger-loaded car in garbage.
1917 - deadliest German air raid on
London during
WWI carried out by
Gotha G bombers and results in 162 deaths, including 46 children, and 432 injuries.
1920 - The
United States Postal Service rules that children may not be sent via
parcel post.
1927 - A
ticker-tape parade is held for aviator
Charles Lindbergh down 5th Avenue in
New York City.
1934 -
Adolf Hitler and
Mussolini meet in
Venice,
Italy; Mussolini later describes the
German dictator as "a silly little monkey".
1935 - In one of the biggest
upsets in championship
boxing, the 10 to 1
underdog James J. Braddock defeated
Max Baer in
Long Island City,
New York, and became the
heavyweight champion of the world.
1942 - The
United States opens its
Office of War Information.
1944 -
World War II:
Germany launches a counter attack on
Carentan.1944 - World War II:
Germany launches a
V1 Flying Bomb attack on
England. Only four of the eleven bombs actually hit their targets.
1952 -
Catalina affair, a Swedish
Douglas DC-3 was shot down by a Soviet
MiG-15 fighter.
1953 -
Hungarian Prime Minister
Mátyás Rákosi is replaced by
Imre Nagy1955 -
Mir Mine, the first
diamond mine of the
USSR, is discovered.
1956 -
Real Madrid win the inaugural
European Champion Clubs' Cup final, defeating
Stade de Reims 4-3 at the
Parc des Princes, Paris.
1966 - The
United States Supreme Court rules in
Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them.
1967 - U.S. President
Lyndon B. Johnson nominates Solicitor-General
Thurgood Marshall to become the first black justice on the
U.S. Supreme Court.
1970 - "
The Long and Winding Road" becomes
the Beatles' last Number 1 song.
1971 -
Vietnam War:
The New York Times begins to publish the
Pentagon Papers.
1977 - Convicted
Martin Luther King Jr. assassin
James Earl Ray is recaptured after escaping from
prison three days before.
1978 -
Israeli Defense Forces withdraw from
Lebanon.
1981 - At the
Trooping the Colour ceremony in
London, a teenager,
Marcus Sarjeant, fires six blank shots at Queen
Elizabeth II.
1982 -
Fahd becomes
King of Saudi Arabia upon the death of his brother,
Khalid.
1983 -
Pioneer 10 becomes the first manmade object to leave the
solar system.
1992 - The
Orlando Predators of the
Arena Football League logged the first (and, to date, only) shutout in league history, defeating the
San Antonio Force, 50-0.
1994 - A jury in
Anchorage, Alaska, blames recklessness by
Exxon and Captain
Joseph Hazelwood for the
Exxon Valdez disaster, allowing victims of the oil spill to seek $15 billion in damages.
1995 -
French president Jacques Chirac announces the resumption of
nuclear tests in
French Polynesia.
1996 - The
Montana Freemen surrender after an 81-day standoff with
FBI agents.
1997 - A jury sentences
Timothy McVeigh to the
death penalty for his part in the
1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
2000 - President
Kim Dae Jung of
South Korea meets
Kim Jong-il, leader of
North Korea, for the beginning of the first ever inter-
Korea summit, in the northern capital of
Pyongyang.2000 -
Italy pardons
Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope
John Paul II in 1981.
2002 - The
United States of America withdraws from the
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
2005 - A jury in
Santa Maria, California acquits pop singer
Michael Jackson of molesting 13-year-old Gavin Arvizo at his
Neverland Ranch.
2007 -
Al Askari Mosque bombed again.
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