Events
763 BC -
Assyrians record a
solar eclipse that will be used to fix the
chronology of
Mesopotamian history. 923 - Battle of Soissons: King
Robert I of France is killed and King
Charles the Simple is arrested by the supporters of Duke
Rudolph of Burgundy.1184 - King Magnus V of Norway is killed at the battle of
Fimreite.1215 -
King John of England puts his
seal to the
Magna Carta.1219 - Dannebrog - oldest national flag in the world - and
flag of Denmark. According to legend, fell from the sky during the Battle of Lyndanisse (now
Tallinn) in
Estonia, and turned the Danes' luck.1246 - With the death of Duke
Frederick II, the
Babenberg dynasty ends in
Austria.1389 -
Battle of Kosovo: The
Ottoman Empire defeats
Serbs and
Bosnians.1520 -
Pope Leo X threatens to excommunicate
Martin Luther in papal bull
Exsurge Domine.
1580 -
Phillip II of Spain declares
William the Silent to be an outlaw.1667 - The first human
blood transfusion is administered by Dr.
Jean-Baptiste Denys.
1752 -
Benjamin Franklin proves that
lightning is
electricity.
1775 -
American Revolutionary War:
George Washington is appointed commander-in-chief of the
Continental Army.
1776 - Delaware Separation Day -
Delaware votes to suspend government under the British Crown and separate officially from
Pennsylvania.
1785 -
Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, co-pilot of the first-ever manned flight (
1783), and his companion,
Pierre Romain, become the first-ever
casualties of an air crash when their
hot air balloon explodes during their attempt to cross the
English Channel.
1804 -
New Hampshire approves the
Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratifying the document.
1808 -
Joseph Bonaparte becomes King of Spain.
1836 -
Arkansas is admitted as the 25th
U.S. state.
1844 -
Charles Goodyear receives a
patent for
vulcanization, a process to strengthen
rubber.
1846 - The
Oregon Treaty establishes the
49th parallel as the border between the
United States and
Canada, from the
Rocky Mountains to the
Strait of Juan de Fuca.
1859 -
Pig War: Ambiguity in the
Oregon Treaty leads to the "Northwestern Boundary Dispute" between
U.S. and
British/
Canadian settlers.
1864 -
American Civil War:
Siege of Petersburg begins. 1864 -
Arlington National Cemetery is established when 200 acres (0.8 km²) around Arlington Mansion are officially set aside as a military
cemetery by U.S. Secretary of War
Edwin M. Stanton.
1877 -
Henry Ossian Flipper becomes the first
African American cadet to graduate from the
United States Military Academy.
1888 - Crown Prince
Wilhelm becomes Kaiser Wilhelm II and is the last emperor of the
German Empire1904 - A fire aboard the steamboat
General Slocum in
New York City's
East River kills 1000.
1905 -
Princess Margaret of Connaught marries
Gustav, Crown Prince of Sweden.
1909 - Representatives from
England,
Australia and
South Africa meet at
Lord's and form the
Imperial Cricket Conference.
1911 -
Tabulating Computing Recording Corporation (
IBM) is incorporated.
1913 - The
Battle of Bud Bagsak in the Philippine concludes.
1916 - U.S. President
Woodrow Wilson signs a bill incorporating the
Boy Scouts of America, making them the only American youth organization with a federal charter.
1919 -
John Alcock and
Arthur Brown complete first nonstop
transatlantic flight at
Clifden,
County Galway,
Ireland.
1920 -
Duluth lynchings in
Minnesota1934 - The U.S.'s
Great Smoky Mountains National Park is founded.
1944 -
World War II:
Battle of Saipan: The
United States invades
Saipan.1944 - In the
Saskatchewan general election, 1944, the
CCF, led by
Tommy Douglas, is elected and forms the first
socialist government of
North America.
1945 - The
General Dutch Youth League (ANJV) is founded in
Amsterdam,
Netherlands.
1954 -
UEFA (the Union des Associations Européennes de Football) is formed in
Basle,
Switzerland.
1955 - The
Eisenhower administration stages the first annual "Operation Alert" (OPAL) exercise, an attempt to assess the USA's preparations for a nuclear attack.
1962 -
Students for a Democratic Society complete the
Port Huron Statement.
1978 -
King Hussein of
Jordan weds American Lisa Halaby, who takes the name
Queen Noor.
1991 - Birth of the first federal
political party in
Canada that supports
Quebec nationalism, the
Bloc Québécois.
1992 - The
United States Supreme Court rules in
US vs. Alvarez-Machain that it is permissible for the
USA to suspects in foreign countries and bring them to the USA for trial, without approval from those other countries.
1994 -
Israel and
Vatican City establish full
diplomatic relations.
1996 - In
Manchester,
UK, a
terrorist bomb injures over 200 people and devastates a large part of the city centre.
2002 - Near earth asteroid
2002 MN misses our planet by 75,000 miles (120,000 km) about one third the distance to the moon
2007 -
Bob Barker's final episode as host of
The Price is Right airs.
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