Events
70 -
Titus and his
Roman legions breach the middle wall of
Jerusalem.1257 -
Kraków,
Poland received
city rights.1305 -
Pope Clement V is elected.
1798 -
Battle of New Ross: The attempt to spread
United Irish Rebellion into
Munster is defeated.
1817 - First
Great Lakes steamer, the Frontenac, is launched.
1829 -
HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of
Cuba.
1832 -
Parisian student uprisings of 1832 begin.
1837 -
Houston, Texas is incorporated by the
Republic of Texas.
1849 -
Denmark becomes a
constitutional monarchy by the signing of a new
constitution.
1851 -
Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-
slavery serial,
Uncle Tom's Cabin or, Life Among the Lowly starts a ten-month run in the National Era
abolitionist newspaper.
1864 -
American Civil War:
Battle of Piedmont:
Union forces under
General David Hunter defeat a
Confederate army at
Piedmont, Virginia, taking nearly 1,000 prisoners.
1888 - Rio de la Plata Earthquake 1888:
Uruguay 3.20 UTC-3, 5,5
Richter Scale, 34º36'00S, 57º53'59'W.
1900 -
Second Boer War:
British soldiers take
Pretoria.
1907 -
BAPS Swaminarayan religion established.
1915 -
Denmark amends its
constitution to allow
women's suffrage.
1916 - Stein's Dixie Jazz Band plays its first gig under its new name, the
Original Dixieland Jazz Band.1916 -
Louis Brandeis is sworn in as a
Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
1917 -
World War I:
Conscription begins in the
United States as "Army registration day."
1933 - The
U.S. Congress abrogates the
United States' use of the
gold standard by enacting a joint resolution (48 Stat. 112) nullifying the right of creditors to demand payment in
gold.
1941 - Four thousands
Chongqing residents were
asphyxiated in a bomb shelter during the
Bombing of Chongqing.
1944 - World War II: More than 1000
British bombers drop 5000 tons of bombs on
German gun batteries on the
Normandy coast in preparation for
D-Day.
1945 -
Allied Control Council, military occupation governing body of
Germany, formally takes power.
1946 - A fire in the LaSalle Hotel in
Chicago, kills 61 people.
1947 -
Marshall Plan: At a speech at
Harvard University,
United States Secretary of State George Marshall calls for economic aid to war-torn
Europe.
1956 -
Elvis Presley introduces his new single, "
Hound Dog", on
The Milton Berle Show, scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip movements.
1959 - The first government of the
State of Singapore is sworn in.
1963 -
British Secretary of State for War John Profumo resigns in a
sex scandal. 1963 - Movement of 15 Khordad: protest against arrest of
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini by
Shah of
Iran,
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. In several cities, masses of angry demonstrators were confronted by tanks and paratroopers.
1967 -
Six-Day War begins: The
Israeli air force launches simultaneous pre-emptive attacks on the air forces of
Egypt,
Jordan, and
Syria.
1968 -
U.S. presidential candidate
Robert F. Kennedy is shot at the
Ambassador Hotel in
Los Angeles, California by Palestinian
Sirhan Sirhan. Kennedy dies the next day.
1969 -
International communist conference begins in
Moscow.
1970 -
Chile becomes a member of the
Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1975 - The
Suez Canal opens for the first time since the
Six-Day War.1975 - The
UK holds its first and only
UK-wide
referendum, on remaining in the
EEC.
1976 - Collapse of the
Teton Dam in
Idaho,
United States.
1977 - A
coup takes place in
Seychelles. 1977 - The
Apple II, the first practical
personal computer, goes on sale.
1981 - The
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report of the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that five
homosexual men in
Los Angeles, California have a rare form of
pneumonia seen only in patients with weakened
immune systems, in what turns out to be the first recognized cases of
AIDS.
1984 -
Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi orders an attack on the
Golden Temple, the holiest site of the
Sikh religion.
1986 - A 52-year old man in
Auburn, Washington,
United States, dies after taking an
Excedrin capsule laced with
cyanide; this is the first of two
Excedrin deaths.
1989 - The Inuvialuit Final Agreement is signed in
Canada to give the
Inuit of
western Canada the first comprehensive land claim agreement north of the 60th parallel. 1989 -
The Unknown Rebel halts the progress of a column of advancing tanks for over half an hour after the
Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
1995 -
Bose-Einstein condensate is first created.
1998 - A
strike begins at the
General Motors parts factory in
Flint, Michigan, that quickly spreads to five other assembly plants (the strike lasted seven weeks).
2001 -
U.S. Senator Jim Jeffords leaves the
Republican Party, an act which shifts control of the
United States Senate from the Republicans to the
Democratic Party.2001 -
Tropical Storm Allison makes landfall on the upper-Texas coastline as a strong tropical storm and dumps large amounts of rain over Houston. The storm caused $5.5 billion in damages, making Allison the costliest tropical storm in U.S. history.
2003 - Severe
heat wave across
Pakistan and
India reaches its peak, as temperatures exceed 50°C in the region.
2006 -
Serbia declares independence from the
State Union of Serbia and Montenegro
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