Events 1487 -
Battle of Stoke Field, the last dying breath of the
Wars of the Roses.1586 -
Mary Queen of Scots recognizes
Philip II of Spain as her
heir.
1745 -
British troops take
Cape Breton Island, which is now part of
Nova Scotia,
Canada.1745 -
Sir William Pepperell captures the
French Fortress Louisbourg in
Louisbourg,
Nova Scotia during the
War of the Austrian Succession.
1746 -
War of Austrian Succession:
Austria and
Sardinia defeat a
Franco-
Spanish army at the
Battle of Piacenza.
1755 -
French and Indian War:
French surrender
Fort Beauséjour to the
British, leading to the expulsion of the
Acadians.
1774 - Formation of
Harrodsburg, Kentucky.
1779 -
Spain declares war on the
Kingdom of Great Britain, and the siege of
Gibraltar begins.
1815 -
Battle of Ligny and
Battle of Quatre Bras, two days before
Waterloo.
1836 - Formation of the
London Working Men's Association begins the
Chartist Movement.
1846 - The
Papal conclave of 1846 concludes.
Pope Pius IX is elected
pope, beginning the longest reign in the history of the
papacy (not counting
St. Peter).
1858 -
Abraham Lincoln's
House Divided speech in
Springfield, Illinois.1858 - Battle of Morar, during the
Indian Mutiny.
1871 -
University Tests Act allows students to enter the Universities of
Oxford,
Cambridge and
Durham without religious tests, except for courses in
theology.
1891 -
John Abbott becomes
Canada's third
prime minister.
1903 -
Ford Motor Company incorporates. 1903 -
Roald Amundsen commences first east-west navigation of the
Northwest Passage by leaving
Oslo,
Norway.
1904 -
Eugen Schauman assassinates
Nikolai Bobrikov,
Governor-General of Finland.
1911 - A 772
gram stony
meteorite struck earth near
Kilbourn,
Columbia County, Wisconsin damaging a barn.
1915 - Foundation of the
British Women's Institute1922 - General election in
Irish Free State: large majority to pro-Treaty
Sinn Féin.
1924 -
Whampoa Military Academy is founded.
1925 - The most famous
Young Pioneer camp of the
USSR,
Artek established.
1930 -
Sovnarkom establishes
decree time in the
USSR.
1940 -
World War II:
Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain becomes
Premier of
Vichy France.1940 - A
Communist government is installed in
Lithuania.
1948 - The storming of the cockpit of the
Miss Macao passenger seaplane, operated by a subsidiary of the
Cathay Pacific Airways, marks the first
skyjacking of a commercial plane.
1955 -
Pope Pius XII excommunicates Juan Perón.
1960 -
Alfred Hitchcock's
Psycho opens in
New York.
1961 -
Rudolf Nureyev defects at
Le Bourget airport in
Paris.
1963 - Soviet Space Program:
Vostok 6 Mission,
Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space.
1967 -
Monterey Pop Festival begins; Monterey, California.
1972 -
Red Army Faction member
Ulrike Meinhof is captured by police in
Langenhagen. 1972 - Largest single-site hydro-electric power project in Canada starts at
Churchill Falls,
Labrador.
1976 -
Apartheid: A non-violent march by 15,000 students in
Soweto,
South Africa turns into days of
rioting when police open fire on the crowd and kill 566 children.
1977 -
Oracle Corporation was incorporated in
Redwood Shores,
California as Software Development Laboratories (SDL) by
Larry Ellison,
Bob Miner and
Ed Oates.
1978 - Release of
Grease movie.
1983 -
Yuri Andropov becomes
president of the
USSR.
1989 - Historic reburial of
Imre Nagy, the former
Hungarian Prime Minister in
Budapest.
1994 - A
Chinese operated
Tupolev TU-154 crashes 10 minutes after takeoff killing 160.
1996 - First round of voting in the
Russian presidential election.
1997 -
Dairat Labguer massacre in
Algeria; some 50 people killed.
1999 -
Thabo Mbeki elected
President of
South Africa.1999 -
Maurice Greene sets a new 100m world record at 9.79 seconds. This is the largest drop in a 100m world record in the history of electronic timing from Donovan Bailey's 9.84.
2000 -
Israel complies with
UN Security Council Resolution 425 after 22 years of it issuance, which calls on Israel to completely withdraw from
Lebanon. Israel withdrew from all of
Lebanon, except the disputed
Sheba Farms.
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