Events1026 -
Pope John XIX crowns
Conrad II as
Holy Roman Emperor.1199 -
Richard the Lionheart is fatally wounded by a
crossbow bolt during a siege in
France, he dies eleven days later. The
marksman, a french
noble named
Pierre Basile, is
executed.1484 -
William Caxton printed his translation of
Aesop's Fables. 1552 -
Guru Amar Das becomes the Third
Sikh Guru.
1636 -
Utrecht University is founded in
The Netherlands.
1808 -
Charles IV of Spain abdicates in favor of his son,
Ferdinand VII.
1812 - An
earthquake destroys
Caracas,
Venezuela.
1839 - The first
Henley Royal Regatta is held.
1881 -
Thessaly is freed and becomes part of
Greece again.
1913 -
Balkan War:
Bulgarian forces take
Adrianople.
1917 -
World War I:
First Battle of Gaza -
British troops are halted after 17,000
Turks block their advance.
1934 -
Driving test introduced in the
United Kingdom.
1942 -
World War II: In
Poland,
Auschwitz receives its first female prisoners.
1945 -
World War II: In
Iwo Jima, US forces declare Iwo Jima as "secure."
1953 -
Jonas Salk announces his
polio vaccine.
1958 - The
United States Army launches
Explorer III.1958 - The
African Regroupment Party (PRA) is launched at a meeting in
Paris.
1965 - A truck loses control down Moosic Street,
Scranton,
Pennsylvania, killing the driver. This accident later inspired the
1974 Harry Chapin song, "30,000 Pounds of Bananas."
1967 - Ten thousand people gather for the
Central Park Be-In.
1971 -
East Pakistan declares its independence from
Pakistan to form
People's Republic of Bangladesh and
Bangladesh Liberation War begins.
1975 - The
Biological Weapons Convention enters into force.
1976 -
Queen Elizabeth II sent out the first royal email, from the
Royal Signals and Radar Establishment.
1977 -
Focus on the Family is founded by
Dr. James Dobson1979 -
Anwar al-Sadat,
Menachem Begin and
Jimmy Carter sign the
Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty in
Washington, DC.
1982 - A groundbreaking ceremony for the
Vietnam Veterans Memorial is held in
Washington, DC.
1995 - The
Schengen Treaty goes into effect.
1996 - The
International Monetary Fund approves a $10.2 billion loan for
Russia.
1997 - Thirty-nine bodies found in the
Heaven's Gate cult suicides.
1998 -
Oued Bouaicha massacre in
Algeria; 52 people killed with axes and knives, 32 of them babies under the age of 2.
1999 - The "
Melissa worm" infects
Microsoft word processing and
e-mail systems around the world. 1999 - A jury in
Michigan finds
Dr. Jack Kevorkian guilty of second-degree
murder for administering a lethal injection to a terminally ill man.
2000 -
Kingdome is
imploded. First live event to be covered by
ESPN Classic.
2000 -
Presidential elections are held in
Russia, and
Vladimir Putin is elected
President.
2005 - The
Taiwanese government calls on 1 million
Taiwanese to demonstrate in Taipei, in opposition to the
Anti-Secession Law of the People's Republic of China. Around 200,000 to 300,000 attend the walk.
2006 - In
Scotland, the prohibition of
smoking in all substantially enclosed public places comes into force.
2006 - The military junta ruling
Myanmar officially named
Naypyidaw, a new city in Mandalay Division, as the new capital.
Yangon had formerly been the nation's capital.
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