Events512 - A
solar eclipse is
recorded by a monastic chronicler in
Ireland.1149 -
Raymond of Antioch is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by
Nur ad-Din.1194 -
Sverre is crowned
King of Norway.1534 -
Jacques Cartier makes the European discovery of
Prince Edward Island.
1613 - The Globe Theatre in
London,
England burns to the ground.1644 -
Charles I of England defeats a
Parliamentarian detachment at the
Battle of Cropredy Bridge, the last battle won by an
English King on English soil.
1659 - The
Russians, led by
prince Trubetskoy are defeated by the
Ukrainian armies of
Ivan Vyhovsky in the Battle of Konotop.
1749 - New
Governor, Charles de la Ralière Des Herbiers, arrives at
Isle Royale (
Cape Breton Island).
1786 -
Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred
Roman Catholic highlanders leave
Scotland to settle in
Glengarry County,
Ontario.
1850 -
Coal is discovered on
Vancouver Island.1850 -
Autocephaly Officially Granted by the
Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople to The
Church of Greece.
1864 - Ninety-nine people are killed in
Canada's worst
railway disaster near
St-Hilaire,
Quebec.
1874 - Greek politician
Charilaos Trikoupis publishes a manifesto in the
Athens daily Kairoi entitled "Who's to Blame?" in which he lays out his complaints against
King George. He is elected
Prime Minister of Greece the next year.
1880 -
France annexes
Tahiti.
1888 - First (known) recording of classical music made, Handel's
Israel in Egypt on wax cylinder.
1891 - Street railway in
Ottawa,
Ontario,
Canada, commences operation.
1895 -
Doukhobors burn their weapons as a protest against conscription by the
Tsarist Russian government.
1914 -
Jina Guseva attempts to assassinate
Grigori Rasputin at his home town in
Siberia.
1916 - Sir
Roger Casement,
Irish Nationalist and
British diplomat is sentenced to death for his part in the
Easter Rising.
1922 -
France grants 1 km² at
Vimy Ridge "freely, and for all time, to the
Government of Canada, the free use of the land exempt from all taxes."
1925 -
Canada House opens in
London,
England.
1926 -
Arthur Meighen returns to office as
Prime Minister of Canada.
1927 - First test of Wallace Turnbull's
Controllable pitch propeller.
1937 -
Joseph-Armand Bombardier of
Canada receives patent for sprocket and track traction system used in snow vehicles.
1945 -
Carpathian Ruthenia was annexed by
Soviet Union.
1956 - The
Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 is signed, officially creating the
United States Interstate Highway System.
1972 - The
U.S. Supreme Court rules the death penalty could constitute "cruel and unusual punishment".
1974 -
Isabel Perón is sworn in as the first female
President of
Argentina. Her husband President
Juan Peron had delegated responsibility due to weak health and died two days later.
1976 - The
Seychelles become independent from the
United Kingdom.
1995 -
Space Shuttle program:
STS-71 Mission (
Atlantis docks with the
Russian space station Mir for the first time.)1995 - The
Sampoong Department Store collapses in the
Seocho-gu district of
Seoul,
South Korea, killing 501 and injuring 937.
1996 - The
Prince's Trust concert is held in
Hyde Park,
London, and is attended by 150,000 people.
The Who headlines the event in their first performance since
1989.
2002 - Naval clashes between
South Korea and
North Korea lead to the death of four South Korean sailors and sinking of a North Korean vessel.
2006 - The
Dutch cabinet Balkenende II resigned.2006 -
Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: The
U.S. Supreme Court rules that President
George W. Bush's plan to try
Guantanamo Bay detainees in military tribunals violates U.S. and
international law.
2007 -
Two car bombs are found in the heart of London at Picadilly Circus.
2007 -
iPhone is relased to the public by Apple.
2007 - Japanese supergroup
S.K.I.N. have their highly successful debut concert in Long Beach, California before an audience of 15,000.
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