Events
241 BC -
First Punic War:
Battle of the Aegates Islands - The
Romans sink the
Carthaginian fleet; end of
First Punic War.
1629 -
Charles I of England dissolves
Parliament, starting the
Eleven Years Tyranny in which there was no
parliament.
1735 - An agreement between
Nadir Shah and
Paul I of Russia is signed near
Ganja and the Russian troops are withdrawn from
Baku.
1801 - First
census in
Great Britain1804 -
Louisiana Purchase: In
St. Louis, a formal ceremony is conducted to transfer ownership of
Louisiana Territory from
France to the
United States.
1814 -
Napoleon I of France is defeated at the
Battle of Laon in
France.
1830 - The
KNIL also known as the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army is created.
1831 - The
French Foreign Legion is established by
King Louis-Philippe to support his
war in Algeria.
1848 - The
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is ratified by the
United States Senate, ending the
Mexican-American War.
1861 - El Hadj
Umar Tall seizes the city of
Segou, destroying the
Bambara Empire of
Mali.
1864 -
American Civil War: The
Red River Campaign begins as
Union troops reach
Alexandria, Louisiana.
1876 -
Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful
telephone call by saying "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you."
1880 - Members of the
Salvation Army land in the
United States and begin operations.
1891 -
Almon Strowger, an undertaker in
Topeka, Kansas, patents the
strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching.
1893 -
Côte d'Ivoire becomes a
French colony.
1902 -
Second Boer War:
South African Boers win their last battle over
British forces, with the capture of a
British general and 200 of his men. 1902 - A
United States court of appeals rules that
Thomas Edison did not invent the
movie camera.1902 - Tochangri,
Turkey, is completely destroyed by an earthquake.
1905 -
Eleftherios Venizelos asks the independence of
Crete and its union with
Greece again, starting the Cretan Revolution in
Theriso.
1906 - The
Courrières mine disaster,
Europe's worst ever, kills 1099 miners in Northern
France.
1912 -
Yuan Shikai is sworn in as the second Provisional
President of the Republic of China.
1917 -
Batangas was formally founded as one of the
Philippines's earliest
encomiendas.
1918 -
Warner Bros. releases its first major film My Four Years in Germany.
1925 -
Olympiacos is founded in
Piraeus.
1933 - An
earthquake in
Long Beach, California kills 120 people.
1940 -
Chuck Norris was born
1945 - The
Army Air Force firebombs Tokyo, and the resulting
firestorm kills more than 100,000 people, mostly civilians.
1948 - The
Indian Union Muslim League is founded, by remnants of the old
Muslim League.
1951 -
Henri Queuille becomes
Prime Minister of
France.
1952 -
Fulgencio Batista leads a successful
coup in
Cuba.
1959 -
Tibet leads an unsuccessful uprising against ten years of
Chinese occupation in
Lhasa. Thousands massacred by the occupying
Chinese army.
1969 - In
Memphis, Tennessee,
James Earl Ray pleads guilty to assassinating
Martin Luther King Jr. He would later retract his guilty plea.
1970 -
Vietnam War: Capt.
Ernest Medina is charged with
My Lai war crimes.
1975 -
Vietnam War:
North Vietnamese troops attack
Ban Me Thuot,
South Vietnam, on their way to capturing
Saigon.
1977 -
Rings of Uranus: Astronomers discover
rings around
Uranus.
1982 - The
United States places an
embargo on
Libyan petroleum imports because of their support of
terrorist groups.
1982 -
Syzygy: all 9
planets align on the same side of the
Sun. See also
Jupiter effect1987 - The
Holy See condemns the practice of
surrogate motherhood, along with
test-tube babies and
artificial insemination.
1990 - In
Haiti,
Prosper Avril is ousted 18 months after seizing power in a
coup.
2000 - The
NASDAQ stock market index peaks at 5048.62, signaling the beginning of the end of the
dot-com boom.
2004 -
DC Shoes is acquired by
Quicksilver.
2006 -
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at
Mars.2006 - Mass unrest by the
PCC started in
São Paulo (the biggest city in
Brazil) which would eventually kill more than 152 people
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