Events
350 -
Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the
Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself
Roman Emperor, entering
Rome at the head of a group of
gladiators.1098 -
First Crusade:
Antioch falls to the crusaders after an
eight-month siege. 1140 -
French scholar
Peter Abelard is found guilty of
heresy.1326 -
Treaty of Novgorod delineates borders between
Russia and
Norway in
Finnmark.1539 -
DeSoto claims
Florida for
Spain1608 -
Samuel de Champlain completes his third voyage to
New France at
Tadoussac, Quebec.
1620 - Construction of the oldest stone church in
French North America, Notre-Dame-des-Anges, begins at
Quebec City,
Quebec,
Canada.
1621 - The
Dutch West India Company receives a charter for
New Netherlands.1658 - The
Pope appoints
François de Laval vicar apostolic in
New France.1665 -
James Stuart,
Duke of York (later to become King
James II of England) defeats the
Dutch Fleet off the coast of
Lowestoft.
1770 -
Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo is founded in
Carmel-by-the-Sea, California.
1800 -
U.S. President John Adams takes up residence in
Washington, DC (in a tavern – the
White House was not yet completed).
1850 - The traditional founding date of
Kansas City, Missouri. This was the date on which it was first incorporated by
Jackson County, Missouri as the "City of Kansas".
1864 -
American Civil War:
Battle of Cold Harbor -
Union forces attack
Confederate troops at Cold Harbor, Virginia.
1866 -
Fenians are driven out of
Fort Erie, Ontario, into the
United States to a heroes' welcome.
1885 - Last military engagement fought on
Canadian soil:
Cree leader
Big Bear escapes the
North West Mounted Police.
1888 - The
poem "
Casey at the Bat", by
Ernest Lawrence Thayer, is published in the
San Francisco Examiner.
1889 - The
Canadian Pacific Railway is completed from coast to coast.1889 - The first long-distance
electric power transmission line in the
United States is completed, running 14 miles between a generator at
Willamette Falls and downtown
Portland, Oregon,
United States.
1907 -
Centro Escolar University was established by Librada Avelino and Carmen de Luna in
Manila,
Philippines.
1916 - The
ROTC is established by the
U.S. Congress.1916 - The National Defense Act is signed into law, increasing the size of the
United States National Guard by 450,000 men.
1932 -
New York Yankee great
Lou Gehrig hits four
home runs in one game against the
Philadelphia Athletics. Final score 20-13 in favour of the Yankees.
1935 - One thousand unemployed
Canadian workers board freight cars in
Vancouver, British Columbia, beginning a protest trek to
Ottawa, Ontario.
1937 - The
Duke of Windsor marries
Wallis Simpson.
1940 -
World War II: The
Luftwaffe bombs
Paris.1940 -
World War II: The
Battle of Dunkirk ends with a
German victory and with
Allied forces in full retreat.
1943 - A mob of 60 from the
Los Angeles Naval Reserve Armory beats up everyone perceived to be
Hispanic, starting the week-long
Zoot Suit Riots.
1953 -
Billy Joe McAllister jumps off the
Tallahatchie Bridge, according to the
1967 hit song
Ode to Billy Joe by
Bobbie Gentry, and the movie which followed.
1956 -
British Rail renames 'Third Class' passenger facilities as 'Second Class' (Second Class facilities had been abolished in
1875, leaving just First Class and Third Class).
1962 - An
Air France Boeing 707 charter,
Chateau de Sully crashed after aborted takeoff from
Paris, killing 130. The largest single plane accident to date.
1963 - A
Northwest Airlines DC-7 crashes in the
Pacific Ocean off the coast of
British Columbia, killing 101.
1965 - Launch of
Gemini 4, the first multi-day space mission by a
NASA crew.1965 - For 21 minutes,
Edward H. White floats free outside the
space vehicle Gemini IV for the first time.
1968 -
Valerie Solanas, author of
The SCUM Manifesto, attempts to assassinate
Andy Warhol by shooting him three times.
1969 - Off the coast of
South Vietnam, the
Australian aircraft carrier
HMAS Melbourne cuts the
U.S. Navy destroyer
USS Frank E. Evans in half.
1973 - A
Soviet supersonic Tupolev Tu-144 crashes near
Goussainville,
France, killing 14, the first crash of a supersonic passenger aircraft.
1977 -
Reggae stars
Bob Marley and the Wailers release the classic album
Exodus, which would be named
Time magazine's "Album of the Century" in
1999.
1979 - A blowout at the
Ixtoc I oil well in the southern
Gulf of Mexico causes at least 600,000 tons (176,400,000 gallons) of oil to be spilled into the waters, the worst oil spill to date.
1982 - The
Israeli ambassador to the
United Kingdom,
Shlomo Argov, is shot on a
London street. He survives but is permanently paralysed.
1984 - The
Indian Army storms the
Golden Temple (Harmandir Sahib), the most sacred shrine of
Sikhism, near
Amritsar.
1989 - The government of
China sends troops to force protesters out of
Tiananmen Square after seven weeks of occupation.
1991 -
Mount Unzen erupts in
Japan in
Kyūshū killing 43 people, all of them either researchers or journalists.
1998 -
Eschede train disaster: an
ICE high speed train derails in
Lower Saxony,
Germany, causing 101 deaths.
2006 - The union of
Serbia and Montenegro comes to an end with
Montenegro's formal declaration of independence.
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