Events
3952 BC - According to the
Venerable Bede, the world was created.
37 - The
Roman Senate annuls
Tiberius' will and proclaims
Caligula emperor. 731 - Saint
Gregory III begins his reign as
Pope.1229 -
Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor declares himself
King of Jerusalem during the
Sixth Crusade. 1241 -
Kraków is ravaged by
Mongols.1314 -
Jacques de Molay, the 23rd and the last Grand Master of the
Knights Templar is burned at the stake. 1438 -
Albert II of Habsburg becomes King of
Germany.
1608 -
Susenyos is formally crowned Emperor of
Ethiopia1673 -
John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton sells his part of
New Jersey to some
Friends (Quakers).
1766 -
American Revolution: The
British Parliament repeals the
Stamp Act, which was very unpopular in the British colonies.
1793 - The first
republican state in
Germany, the
Republic of Mainz, is declared by
Andreas Joseph Hofmann.
1834 -
Six farm labourers from
Tolpuddle,
Dorset,
England are sentenced to be transported to
Australia for forming a
trade union.
1850 -
American Express is founded by
Henry Wells &
William Fargo.
1865 -
American Civil War: The Congress of the
Confederate States of America adjourns for the last time.
1871 - Declaration of the
Paris Commune; President of the
French Republic
Adolphe Thiers orders evacuation of
Paris.
1874 -
Hawaii signs a treaty with the
United States granting exclusive
trading rights.
1893 - Former Governor General
Lord Stanley pledges to donate a
silver challenge cup, later named after him, as an award for the best
ice hockey team in
Canada; originally presented to amateur champions, the
Stanley Cup has been awarded to the top pro team since
1910, and since
1926, only to
National Hockey League teams.
1906 -
Traian Vuia flies a self-propelled heavier-than-air
aircraft.
1909 - Einar Dessau uses a
short-wave radio transmitter, becoming the first radio broadcaster.
1913 - King
George I of Greece is
assassinated in the recently liberated city of
Thessaloniki.
1915 -
World War I: Massive naval attack in
Battle of Gallipoli. Three
battleships are sunk during a failed
British &
French naval attack on the
Dardanelles.
1921 - The second
Peace of Riga between
Poland and
Soviet Union.
1922 - In
India,
Mohandas Gandhi is sentenced to six years in
prison for
civil disobedience. He would serve only 2 years.1922 - The first public celebration of Bat mitzvah, for the daughter of Rabbi
Mordecai Kaplan, is held in
New York City.
1925 - The
Tri-State Tornado hits the Midwestern states of
Missouri,
Illinois, and
Indiana, killing 695 people.
1937 - The
New London School explosion kills three hundred, mostly children.1937 -
Spanish Civil War:
Spanish Republican forces hand
Italian forces a grave defeat at the
Battle of Guadalajara.
1938 -
Mexico nationalizes all foreign-owned
oil properties within its borders.
1940 -
World War II:
Axis Powers -
Adolf Hitler and
Benito Mussolini meet at
Brenner Pass in the
Alps and agree to form an alliance against
France and the
United Kingdom.
1945 - World War II: 1,250 American bombers attack
Berlin.
1953 - An
earthquake hits western
Turkey, killing 250.
1959 - American President
Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law allowing for
Hawaiian statehood, which would become official on
August 21.
1962 - The
Evian Accords puts an end to the
Algerian War of Independence, which began in
1954.
1965 -
Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft
Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to
walk in space.
1967 -
Supertanker Torrey Canyon runs aground off the Cornish coast.
1968 -
Gold standard: The
U.S. Congress repeals the requirement for a
gold reserve to back
US currency.
1970 -
Lon Nol ousts Prince
Norodom Sihanouk of
Cambodia.
1971 - A
landslide at Chungar,
Peru crashes into
Lake Yanahuani killing 200.
1974 -
Oil embargo crisis: Most
OPEC nations end a five-month oil
embargo against the
United States,
Europe and
Japan.
1980 - On
Plesetsk Cosmodrome in
Russia, 50 people are killed at an explosion of a
Vostok-2M rocket on its launch pad during a fueling operation.
1985 - The Australian television series
Neighbours airs its first episode.
1989 - In
Egypt, a 4,400-year-old
mummy is found in the
Pyramid of Cheops.
1990 - In largest
art theft in US history, 12 paintings, collectively worth around $300 million, are stolen from the
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in
Boston, Massachusetts.
1997 - The tail of a Russian
Antonov An-24 charter plane breaks off while en-route to
Turkey causing the plane to crash and killing all 50 on board and leading to the grounding of all An-24s.
1999 - Launching of Internet Explorer 4.0.2144
2003 - US enters
war in Iraq. About $1 billion was taken from Iraq's Central Bank by
Saddam Hussein and his family, just hours before the United States began bombing Iraq, biggest bank robbery in history.
[1]2003 -
FBI agents raid the corporate headquarters of
HealthSouth Corporation in
Birmingham, Alabama on suspicion of massive corporate
fraud led by the company's top executives.2003 -
British Sign Language is recognised as an official British language.
2005 - The first-ever Muslim Friday prayer led by a woman in a mixed-gender congregation is held in
New York City, marking a break with a 1426-year
Islamic tradition.2005 -
Terri Schiavo's feeding tube is removed at the request of her husband, fueling a worldwide debate on
euthanasia.2007 -
Steven Avery convicted for homicide because of DNA evidence, DNA having shown his innocence following a previous conviction.
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