Events
515 BC - Construction is completed on the Second
Temple in Jerusalem. 538 -
Witiges,
king of the
Ostrogoths ends his siege of
Rome and retreats to
Ravenna, leaving the city in the hands of the victorious
Roman general,
Belisarius. 1664 -
New Jersey becomes a colony of
Britain.
1868 -
Henry James O'Farrell attempts to assassinate
Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh.
1881 -
Andrew Watson made his
Scotland debut as the world's first
black international
football player and
captain.
1894 -
Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time.
1908 - The Pan-Macedonian group is formed in
Athens to support the
Greek Struggle for Macedonia.
1912 - The
Girl Guides (later renamed the
Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the
U.S..
1913 -
Canberra Day: The future capital of
Australia was officially named
Canberra. (
Melbourne remained temporary capital until 1927 while the new capital was still under construction.)
1918 -
Moscow becomes the capital of
Russia again after
Saint-Petersburg held this status for 215 years.
1928 - In
California, the
St. Francis Dam fails, killing 400 people.
1930 -
Mahatma Gandhi leads a 200-mile march known as
Dandi March to the sea in defiance of
British opposition, to protest the
British monopoly on
salt.
1933 -
Great Depression:
Franklin Delano Roosevelt addresses the nation for the first time as
President of the United States. This was also the first of his "
Fireside Chats."
1938 -
Anschluss:
German troops occupy
Austria; annexation declared the following day.
1940 -
Winter War:
Finland signs the
Moscow Peace Treaty with the
Soviet Union, ceding almost all of
Finnish Karelia.
Finnish troops and remaining population are immediately evacuated.
1947 - The
Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of
Communism.
1954 -
Sahitya Akademi is founded in
India.
1956 - The
Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 500 for the
first time (500.24)
1967 -
Suharto takes over from
Sukarno to become
President of
Indonesia.
1968 -
Mauritius achieves independence.
1992 -
Mauritius becomes a
republic while remaining a member of the
Commonwealth of Nations.
1993 - Several
bombs explode in
Bombay (
Mumbai),
India, killing about 300 and injuring hundreds more. 1993 -
North Korea nuclear weapons program:
North Korea says that it plans to withdraw from the
Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and refuses to allow inspectors access to nuclear sites. 1994 - The
Church of England ordains its first female priests.
1999 - Former
Warsaw Pact members the
Czech Republic,
Hungary and
Poland join
NATO.
2003 -
Zoran Đinđić,
Prime Minister of
Serbia, assassinated in
Belgrade.
2004 -
Roh Moo-hyun,
President of South Korea is impeached by its
national assembly for the first time in the nation's history.
2005 -
Tung Chee Hwa, the first
Chief Executive of Hong Kong, steps down from his post after his
resignation is approved by the
Chinese central government.
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