Events 590 -
Bahram Chobin is crowned as king Barham VI of
Persia. 1230 -
Bulgarian tsar Ivan Asen II defeats
Theodore of
Epirus near the village of
Klokotnitsa.1276 -
Augsburg becomes an
Imperial Free City.
1500 - The fleet of
Pedro Alvares Cabral leaves
Lisbon for the
Indies. The fleet will discover the sea route to
Brazil, already Portuguese since the
treaty of Tordesillas in 1494.1566 -
David Rizzio, the private secretary to
Mary I of Scotland, is murdered in the
Palace of Holyroodhouse,
Edinburgh,
Scotland.
1765 - After a public campaign by the writer
Voltaire, judges in
Paris posthumously exonerate
Jean Calas of murdering his son. Calas had been tortured and executed in
1762 on the charge, though his son had actually committed suicide.
1776 - Publication of the economics book
The Wealth of Nations by
Adam Smith.
1796 -
Napoléon Bonaparte marries his first wife,
Joséphine de Beauharnais.
1834 -
French Foreign Legion is founded.
1841 - The
Supreme Court of the United States rules in the
Amistad case, concerning captive
Africans who seized control of the slave-trading ship carrying them: the court rules that they had been taken into
slavery illegally.
1842 -
Giuseppe Verdi's third opera
Nabucco premieres in
Milan; its success establishes
Verdi as one of
Italy's foremost opera writers.
1847 -
Mexican-American War:
United States forces under
General Winfield Scott invade
Mexico near
Vera Cruz.
1856 -
Sigma Alpha Epsilon is founded in the Johnston Mansion House on the University of Alabama
1862 -
American Civil War: The first battle between two ironclad
warships, a five-hour battle near
Hampton Roads,
Virginia between the
USS Monitor and the
CSS Virginia, results in a draw.
1908 -
Inter Milan is founded.
1910 - The
Westmoreland County Coal Strike, involving 15,000
coal miners represented by the
United Mine Workers, begins.
1916 -
Pancho Villa leads 1,500
Mexican raiders in an attack against
Columbus, New Mexico, killing 17.
1924 -
Italy annexes
Fiume.
1925 -
Pink's War, the first
RAF operation conducted independently of the
Army or
Navy, begins.
1932 - The Egyptian University
rector "Ahmed Lotfy El-Said" resigns in protest of the transfer of Dr.
Taha Hussein without the
University's permission. In
2003, an academic group called "March 9" is established in
Egypt to defend academic rights and university independence.1932 - The first
Ford Flathead engine leaves the
assembly line at
Ford Motor Company.
1933 -
Great Depression: The
U.S. Congress begins its first 100 days of enacting
New Deal legislation.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt submits the
Emergency Banking Act to
Congress.
1935 -
Hitler announces the creation of a new air force.
1945 -
World War II:
Bombing of Tokyo -
American B-29 bombers attack
Tokyo,
Japan with
incendiary bombs. The resulting
fire storm kills over 100,000 people.
1954 -
McCarthyism:
CBS television broadcasts the
See It Now episode, "A Report on Senator
Joseph McCarthy," produced by
Edward R. Murrow.
1957 - The
magnitude 8.6
1957 Andreanof Islands Earthquake and
tsunami occurs.
1959 - The
Barbie doll debuts.
1967 -
Josef Stalin's daughter
Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the
United States.
1975 - Construction of the
Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.
1976 - Forty-two people die in a
Cavalese cable-car disaster, the worst cable-car accident to date.
1977 - The
1977 Hanafi Muslim Siege: Approximately a dozen armed
Hanafi Muslims take over 3 buildings in
Washington, DC, killing 1 person and taking more than 130 hostages. The hostage situation ends 2 days later.
1984 - The
Competitive Enterprise Institute in founded in Washington, D.C.
1986 -
United States Navy divers find the largely intact but heavily-damaged crew compartment of the
Space Shuttle Challenger. The bodies of all seven
astronauts were still inside.
1989 - A strike forces financially-troubled
Eastern Air Lines into
bankruptcy.
1990 - Dr.
Antonia Novello is sworn in as
Surgeon General of the United States, becoming the first female and
Hispanic American to serve in that position. 1990 -
Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Clyde Wells confirms he will rescind
Newfoundland's approval of the
Meech Lake Accord, effectively killing the Accord.
1991 - Massive demonstrations are held against
Slobodan Milošević in
Belgrade. Two people are killed and
tanks are in the streets.
1993 -
Rodney King testifies at the federal trial of four
Los Angeles, California police officers accused of violating King's
civil rights when they beat him during an arrest.
2006 - Liquid water is discovered on
Enceladus, the sixth largest moon of
Saturn.
2007 - The
US Justice Department releases an internal
audit that found that the
FBI had acted illegally in its use of the
USA Patriot Act, to secretly obtain personal information about US citizens.
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