Events
68 -
Roman Emperor Nero commits
suicide, imploring his secretary
Epaphroditus to slit his throat to evade a
Senate-imposed death by
flogging.721 -
Odo of Aquitaine defeats the
Moors in the
Battle of Toulouse.1310 -
Duccio's
Maestà Altarpiece, a seminal artwork of the early Italian Renaissance, is unveiled and installed in the Siena Cathedral in
Siena,
Italy. 1534 -
Jacques Cartier is the first European to discover the
St. Lawrence River. 1650 - The
Harvard Corporation, the more powerful of the two administrative boards of
Harvard, is established. It was the first legal
corporation in
the Americas.1667 - The
Raid on the Medway by the
Dutch fleet starts lasting for five days and resulting in a decisive victory of the Dutch over the
English in the
Second Anglo-Dutch War and a favourable peace for the Dutch.
1732 -
James Oglethorpe is granted a
royal charter for the colony of
Georgia.
1772 - British vessel
Gaspee is burned off of
Rhode Island.
1790 - Philadelphia Spelling Book by John Barry becomes the first book to be
copyrighted in the
United States.
1815 - End of the
Congress of Vienna: new
European political situation is set.
1856 - 500
Mormons leave
Iowa City, Iowa and head west for
Salt Lake City, Utah carrying all their possessions in two-wheeled handcarts.
1860 - becomes the first
dime novel to be published.
1863 -
American Civil War:
Battle of Brandy Station,
Virginia.
1909 -
Alice Huyler Ramsey, a 22-year-old housewife and mother from
Hackensack,
New Jersey, became the first woman to drive across the United States. With three female companions, none of whom could drive a car, for fifty-nine days she drove a
Maxwell automobile the 3,800 miles from
Manhattan,
New York, to
San Francisco,
California.
1915 - U.S. Secretary of State
William Jennings Bryan resigns over a disagreement regarding the United States' handling of the
RMS Lusitania sinking.
1922 - First ringing of the
Harkness Memorial Chime at
Yale University.
1923 -
Bulgaria's military takes over the government in a
coup.
1928 -
Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a
Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the
Southern Cross.
1930 -
Chicago Tribune reporter
Jake Lingle is killed at the
Illinois Central train station during rush hour by the
Leo Vincent Brothers, allegedly over a 100,000
USD gambling debt owed to
Al Capone.
1934 -
Donald Duck debuts in
The Wise Little Hen.
1935 -
Ho-Umezu Agreement: the
Republic of China, under
KMT administration, recognized Japanese occupations in Northeast China.
1944 - World War II: The
Soviet Union invades
East Karelia and the
previously Finnish part of Karelia, since 1941 occupied by
Finland.
1946 - King
Bhumibol Adulyadej ascends to the throne of
Thailand. He is currently the world's longest reigning monarch.
1953 -
Flint-Worcester Tornadoes: A tornado spawned from the same storm system as the Flint tornado hits in
Worcester, Massachusetts killing 94.
1954 -
McCarthyism:
Joseph Welch, special counsel for the
United States Army, lashes out at
Senator Joseph McCarthy during hearings on whether
Communism has infiltrated the Army.
1957 - First ascent of
Broad Peak (12th highest
mountain).
1959 - The
USS George Washington is launched as the first
submarine to carry
ballistic missiles.
1967 -
Israel captures the
Golan Heights from
Syria during the
Six-Day War.
1968 - President
Lyndon B. Johnson declares a national day of mourning following the assassination of Senator
Robert F. Kennedy.
1973 -
Secretariat wins the
Triple Crown.
1978 -
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints opens the
priesthood to "all worthy men", ending a 148-year-old policy excluding black men.
1983 -
Margaret Thatcher wins a second term by a landslide in the British General Election with a majority of 144 for her
Conservative Party.
Tony Blair is elected for the first time to Parliament.
1985 -
Thomas Sutherland is kidnapped in
Lebanon (he was not released until
1991).
1986 - The
Rogers Commission releases its report on the
Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
1989 -
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier releases in theaters.
1991 - The congress of the
Italian party Proletarian Democracy decides to merge with the
Communist Refoundation Party.
1993 -
Montréal Canadiens win 24th
Stanley Cup and
Patrick Roy wins 2nd
Conn Smythe Trophy1999 -
Kosovo War:
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and
North Atlantic Treaty Organization sign a
peace treaty.
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