Events972 - Battle of Cedynia, the first documented victory of
Polish forces.1128 -
Battle of São Mamede, near Guimarães.
Portuguese forces led by
Alfonso I defeat his mother D.Teresa and D.Fernão Peres de Trava. After this battle, the future king calls himself "Prince of Portugal", the first step towards "official independence" in 1143.1314 - End of the
Battle of Bannockburn.
Scottish forces led by
Robert the Bruce defeat
Edward II of England. Scotland regains its independence.1340 -
Hundred Years' War:
Battle of Sluys The French fleet was almost totally destroyed by the English Fleet commanded in person by
Edward III of England.1374 - A sudden outbreak of
St. John's Dance causes people in the streets of
Aachen,
Germany, to experience
hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapse from exhaustion.1441 -
Eton College founded.1497 -
John Cabot lands on
North America in
Newfoundland; first European exploration of the region since the
Vikings.1497 -
Cornish traitors
Michael An Gof and
Thomas Flamank executed at
Tyburn,
London1509 -
Henry VIII and
Catherine of Aragon crowned King and Queen of England.
1535 - The
Anabaptist state of
Münster is conquered and disbanded.1571 - Miguel Lopez de Legazpi founded
Manila, the capital of the
Republic of the Philippines.
1597 - The first Dutch voyage to the East Indies reaches
Bantam (on
Java).1662 - Dutch attempt but fail to capture
Macau.1664 - The colony of
New Jersey is founded.
1692 -
Kingston, Jamaica is founded.
1717 -
The Grand Lodge of England, the first
Freemasonic Grand Lodge (now the United Grand Lodge of England), is founded in
London, England.
1793 - First republican
constitution in
France adopted.
1794 -
Bowdoin College is founded.
1812 -
Napoleonic Wars:
Napoleon's Grande Armée crosses the
Neman River beginning his
invasion of
Russia.
1813 -
Battle of Beaver Dams : A British, and Indian joint force defeat the U.S Army.
1821 -
Battle of Carabobo -
Battle of Carabobo was the decisive battle in the war of independence of Venezuela from
Spain.
1859 -
Battle of Solferino: (Battle of the Three Sovereigns).
Sardinia and
France defeat
Austria in
Solferino, northern
Italy.
1880 - First performance of
O Canada, the song that would become the
national anthem of
Canada, at the Congrès national des Canadiens-Français.
1894 - The
IOC decides to hold the
Olympic Games every four years.1894 -
Marie Francois Sadi Carnot assassinated by
Sante Geronimo Caserio.
1901 - First exhibition of
Pablo Picasso's work opens.
1902 - King
Edward VII of the United Kingdom develops
appendicitis, delaying his coronation.
1913 -
Greece and
Serbia annul their alliance with
Bulgaria.1913 -
Joseph Cook becomes the 6th
Prime Minister of Australia.
1916 -
Mary Pickford becomes first female film star to get million dollar contract.1916 -
Battle of the Somme begins with a week long artillery bombardment on the German Line.
1918 - First
airmail service in
Canada from
Montreal to
Toronto.
1928 - With declining business, the
Great Gorge and International Railway begins using one-person crews on
trolley operations in
Canada1932 - A military coup ends the absolute power of the king of
Siam (
Thailand).
1938 - A 450
metric ton meteorite strikes the earth in an empty field near
Chicora, Pennsylvania.
1940 -
France and
Italy sign an armistice.
1945 -
Moscow Victory Parade1946 -
Georges Bidault becomes Prime Minister of
France.
1947 -
Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting near
Mount Rainier,
Washington.
1948 - Start of the
Berlin Blockade. The
Soviet Union makes overland travel between the West with
West Berlin impossible.
1949 - The first
Television Western,
Hopalong Cassidy, is aired on
NBC starring
William Boyd.
1957 - The
U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the
First Amendment.
1963 -
Zanzibar is granted internal self-government by the
UK.
1975 - An
Eastern Air Lines Boeing 727 crashes at
John F. Kennedy Airport,
New York. 113 people die.
1981 - What would be the world's longest single-span suspension bridge for 17 years, the
Humber Bridge opens, connecting
Yorkshire and
Lincolnshire.
1982 -
British Airways Flight 9, sometimes referred to as the
Jakarta incident, flew into a cloud of volcanic ash thrown up by the eruption of Mount Galunggung, resulting in the failure of all four engines.
1983 -
Space Shuttle program:
STS-7 Mission Sally Ride, first female American astronaut, returns to earth.
1993 -
Yale computer science professor Dr.
David Gelernter loses the sight in one eye, the hearing in one ear, and part of his right hand after receiving a
mailbomb from the
Unabomber.
1994 - A
United States Air Force B-52 aircraft crashes at
Fairchild Air Force Base, killing all four members of its crew.
1995 - South Africa defeats New Zealand in the
1995 Rugby World Cup. The 1995 World cup was the first major sporting event in South Africa after Apartheid.
2002 - The
Igandu train disaster in
Tanzania kills 281, the worst train accident in African history.
2004 - Habib Dodo, the general secretary of the
Communist Youth of Côte d'Ivoire is assassinated by pro-government forces.2004 - In
New York,
capital punishment was declared unconstitutional.
2007 - The
Angora Fire starts near
South Lake Tahoe,
California destroying 200+ structures in its first 48 hours.
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