Events1305 -
Flemish-
French peace treaty signed at
Athis-sur-Orge.1314 - Start of the
Battle of Bannockburn south of
Stirling,
Edward II of England &
Robert I of Scotland met in battle. Scotland won and Edward fled the field and Scotland.
1532 -
Henry VIII &
François I sign secret treaty against Emperor
Charles V.1565 -
Turgut Reis (
Dragut), commander of the
Ottoman Navy dies, during the
Siege of Malta.
1611 - The mutinous crew of
Henry Hudson's fourth voyage sets Henry, his son and seven loyal crew members adrift in an open boat in what is now
Hudson Bay; they are never heard from again.1661 - Marriage contract between
Charles II of England & Catharina of Portugal.
1683 -
William Penn signs friendship treaty with
Lenni Lenape Indians in
Pennsylvania.
1713 - French residents of
Acadia given one year to declare allegiance to Britain or leave
Nova Scotia Canada.
[1]1757 -
Battle of Plassey - 3000
British troops under
Robert Clive defeat a 50,000 strong
Indian army under
Siraj Ud Daulah at
Plassey.
1758 -
Seven Years' War:
Battle of Krefeld -
British forces defeat
French troops at
Krefeld in
Germany.
1760 -
Seven Years' War:
Battle of Landeshut -
Austria beats
Prussia.
1794 - Empress of Russia
Catherine II grants Jews permission to settle in
Kiev.
1810 -
John Jacob Astor forms the
Pacific Fur Company.
1812 -
War of 1812:
Great Britain had revoked the restrictions on
American commerce, thus eliminating one of the chief reasons for going to war.
1858 - Six-year-old
Edgardo Mortara is seized by Papal authorities.
1860 - The
United States Congress establishes the
Government Printing Office.
1865 -
American Civil War: At
Fort Towson in
Oklahoma Territory Confederate General
Stand Watie surrenders the last significant rebel army.
1868 -
Christopher Latham Sholes receives a patent for
Type-Writer.
1887 - The
Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in
Canada, creating that nation's first
national park,
Banff National Park.
[2]1888 -
Frederick Douglass is the first African-American nominated for US president.
1894 -
International Olympic Committee is founded at the
Sorbonne,
Paris, at the initiative of Baron
Pierre de Coubertin.
1917 - In a game against the
Washington Senators,
Boston Red Sox pitcher
Ernie Shore retires 26 batters in a row after replacing
Babe Ruth, who had been ejected for punching the umpire.
1919 - Defeat of German forces at Cesis in northern Latvia during
Estonian Liberation War, now celebrated annually as Estonian Victory Day.
1931 -
Wiley Post and Harold Gatty take off from
Roosevelt Field, Long Island in an attempt to
circumnavigate the world in a single-engine plane.
1938 - The
Civil Aeronautics Act is signed into law, forming the
Civil Aeronautics Authority in the
United States.
1940 -
World War II:
German leader
Adolf Hitler surveys newly defeated
Paris in now occupied
France.
1941 -
Lithuanian Activist Front initiates
Lithuanian 1941 independence from the Soviet Union; it lasted only briefly as the Nazis occupied Lithuania a few weeks later.
1942 -
World War II: The first selections for the
gas chamber at
Auschwitz take place on a trainload of
Jews from
Paris. 1942 - World War II:
Germany's latest
fighter, a
Focke-Wulf FW190 is captured intact when it mistakenly lands in
Wales.
1943 - World War II: The
British destroyers Eclipse and Laforey sink the
Italian submarine Ascianghi in the
Mediterranean after she torpedoes the cruiser
Newfoundland.
1945 - The Imperial Japanese armed forces ended organized resistance to the U.S. armed forces in the Mabuni area on the southern tip of the main island of
Okinawa.
1947 - The
United States Senate follows the
United States House of Representatives in overriding U.S. President
Harry S. Truman's
veto of the
Taft-Hartley Act.
1955 - In the
Strahov Stadium in
Prague the 1st all-national Spartakiáda begins.
1958 - The
Dutch Reformed Church accepts women ministers.
1959 - Convicted
Manhattan Project spy
Klaus Fuchs is released after only nine years in prison and allowed to emigrate to
Dresden,
East Germany (where he resumed a scientific career).1959 - A fire in a resort hotel in Stalheim,
Norway kills 34 people.
1967 -
Cold War: U.S. President
Lyndon B. Johnson meets with Soviet Premier
Aleksei Kosygin in
Glassboro, New Jersey for the three-day
Glassboro Summit Conference.1967 -
Mohawk Airlines Flight 40 crashes due to an incorrectly installed valve, killing all 34 on board.
1968 - 74 are killed and 150 injured in a football stampede towards a closed exit in a
Buenos Aires stadium.
1969 -
Warren E. Burger is sworn in as chief justice of the
United States Supreme Court by retiring chief
Earl Warren.
1972 -
Watergate Scandal: U.S. President
Richard M. Nixon and
White House chief of staff
H. R. Haldeman are taped talking about using the
Central Intelligence Agency to obstruct the
Federal Bureau of Investigation's investigation into the
Watergate break-ins. 1972 - 45 countries leave the
Sterling Area, allowing their currencies to fluctuate independently of the British Pound.
1973 - A fire at a house in
Hull,
England, which kills a six year old boy is passed off as an accident; it later emerges as the first of 26 deaths by fire caused over the next seven years by arsonist
Peter Dinsdale.
1985 - A terrorist bomb aboard
Air India flight 182 brings the Boeing 747 down off the coast of Ireland; killing all 329 people aboard.
1990 -
Moldavia declares independence.
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