Events1462 -
Vlad III the Impaler attempts to
assassinate Mehmed II in
The Night Attack, and the latter is forced to retreat from
Wallachia.1497 -
Battle of Deptford Bridge - Forces under King
Henry VII soundly defeat troops led by
Michael An Gof. 1565 -
Matsunaga Hisahide assassinates the 13th
Ashikaga shogun,
Ashikaga Yoshiteru.1579 -
Sir Francis Drake claims a land he calls
Nova Albion (modern
California) for
England.
1631 -
Mumtaz Mahal died during
childbirth. Her husband,
Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I, then spent more than 20 years to build her
tomb, the
Taj Mahal.
1773 -
Cúcuta,
Colombia is founded by
Juana Rangel de Cuéllar1775 -
American Revolutionary War:
Battle of Bunker Hill1789 - In
France, the
Third Estate declares itself the
national assembly.
1839 - In the
Kingdom of Hawaii,
Kamehameha III issues the
Edict of toleration which gives
Roman Catholics the freedom to worship in the
Hawaiian Islands. The
Hawaii Catholic Church and the
Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace is later established as a result.
1863 -
Battle of Aldie in the
Gettysburg Campaign of the
American Civil War.
1876 -
Indian Wars:
Battle of the Rosebud - 1,500
Sioux and
Cheyenne led by
Crazy Horse beat back
General George Crook's forces at Rosebud Creek in
Montana Territory.
1877 -
Indian Wars:
Battle of White Bird Canyon - The
Nez Perce defeat the US Cavalry at White Bird Canyon in the
Idaho Territory.
1885 - The
Statue of Liberty arrives in
New York Harbor.
1898 - The
United States Navy Hospital Corps is established.
1930 -
U.S. President Herbert Hoover signs the
Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act into law. 1932 -
Bonus Army: Around a thousand
World War I veterans amass at the
United States Capitol as the
U.S. Senate considers a bill that would give them certain benefits.
1933 -
Union Station Massacre: In
Kansas City, Missouri, four
FBI agents and captured fugitive Frank Nash were gunned down by gangsters attempting to free Nash.
1939 - Last public guillotining in
France.
Eugen Weidmann, a convicted murderer, is guillotined in
Versailles outside the prison
Saint-Pierre.
1940 -
World War II:
Operation Ariel begins -
Allied troops start to evacuate
France, following
Germany's takeover of
Paris and most of the nation. 1940 -
World War II: Sinking of the
RMS Lancastria by the
Luftwaffe near
Saint-Nazaire,
France.1940 - The three
Baltic states of
Estonia,
Latvia and
Lithuania fall under the occupation of the
Soviet Union.
1944 -
Iceland becomes a
republic.
1948 - A
Douglas DC-6 carrying
United Airlines Flight 624 crashes near
Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, killing all 43 people on board.
1953 -
Workers Uprising: In
East Germany, the
Soviet Union orders a division of troops into
East Berlin to quell a
rebellion.
1960 -
Ted Williams becomes the fourth member of the
500 home run club with a
home run at
Cleveland Stadium in
Cleveland, Ohio.
1961 - The
New Democratic Party of
Canada is founded with the merger of the
Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) and the
Canadian Labour Congress.
1963 - The
United States Supreme Court ruled 8 to 1 in
Abington School District v. Schempp against allowing the reciting of
Bible verses and the
Lord's Prayer in
public schools.
1971 - Representatives of
Japan and the
United States sign the Okinawa Reversion Agreement, setting out a plan where the
U.S. would return control of
Okinawa.
1972 -
Watergate scandal: Five
White House operatives are arrested for burglarizing the offices of the
Democratic National Committee, in an attempt by some members of the
Republican party to illegally
wiretap the opposition. 1972 - The
Vendome Hotel fire kills 9 Boston fire fighters, the worst tragedy in the history of the Boston Fire Department.
1982 - The body of "God's Banker",
Roberto Calvi is found hanging beneath
Blackfriars Bridge in
London.
1987 - With the death of the last individual, the
Dusky Seaside Sparrow becomes extinct.
1991 -
Apartheid: The
South African Parliament repeals the
Population Registration Act, which had required all racial classification of all
South Africans at birth.
1992 - A 'Joint Understanding' agreement on arms reduction is signed by
U.S. President George H. W. Bush and
Russian President Boris Yeltsin (this would be later codified in
START II).
1994 - Following a televised low-speed highway chase and a failed attempt at
suicide,
O.J. Simpson is arrested for the murders of his wife,
Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend
Ronald Goldman.
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