Events1264 - Battle of Lewes:
Henry III of England is captured in
France making
Simon de Montfort the
de facto ruler of
England.1483 - Coronation of
Charles VIII of France ("Charles l'Affable"). 1509 -
Battle of Agnadello: In
northern Italy,
French forces defeat the
Venetians.
1607 -
Jamestown, Virginia is settled as an
English colony.
1608 -
Protestant Union founded in
Auhausen.
1610 - Assassination of
Henri IV of France, bringing
Louis XIII to the throne.1643 - Four-year-old
Louis XIV becomes King of
France upon the death of his father,
Louis XIII.
1747 - A
British fleet under
Admiral George Anson defeats the
French at
first battle of Cape Finisterre.
1787 - In
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delegates begin to meet to write a new
Constitution for the
United States.
1796 -
Edward Jenner administers the first
smallpox vaccination.
1804 - The
Lewis and Clark Expedition departs from
Camp Dubois and begin their historic journey by traveling up the
Missouri River.
1811 -
Paraguay gains independence from
Spain.
1861 - The Canellas meteorite, an 859-
gram chondrite-type
meteorite strikes the earth near
Barcelona,
Spain.
1863 -
American Civil War:
Battle of Jackson (MS).
1868 - Japanese
Boshin War: End of the
Battle of Utsunomiya Castle, former Shogunate forces withdraw northward to
Aizu by way of
Nikkō.
1870 - The first game of
rugby in
New Zealand is played in
Nelson between
Nelson College and the Nelson Rugby Football Club.
1889 - The children's charity the
NSPCC is launched in
London.
1889 -
Club Nacional de Futbol, a
football club in
Uruguay, is founded.
1900 - The
1900 Summer Olympics open in
Paris.
1913 -
New York Governor William Sulzer approves the charter for the
Rockefeller Foundation, which begins operations with a $100 million donation from
John D. Rockefeller.
1927 -
Cap Arcona is launched at the
Blohm + Voss shipyard in
Hamburg.1927 - University of Chicago's local collegiate organization, Phi Sigma, becomes incorporated under the laws of the State of Illinois as
Eta Sigma Phi, the National Honorary Classical Fraternity.
1929 -
Wilfred Rhodes takes his 4000th
first-class wicket during a performance of 9 for 39 at
Leyton.
1931 -
Ådalen shootings, five people are killed in
Ådalen,
Sweden, as soldiers open fire on an unarmed
trade union demonstration.
1935 - The
Filipinos ratify an independence agreement.1935 -
Northamptonshire County Cricket Club gains (over
Somerset at
Taunton by 48 runs) what proved to be their last victory for 99 matches, easily a record in the
County Championship. Their next
Championship win was not until
29 May,
1939.
1939 -
Lina Medina becomes the world's youngest confirmed
mother in medical history at the age of five.
1940 -
World War II:
Rotterdam is bombed by the
German Luftwaffe. 1940 - World War II: The
Netherlands surrender to
Germany.
1943 - Sinking of the
Australian Hospital Ship Centaur off the coast of
Queensland, by a Japanese submarine.
1948 -
Israel declared to be an independent state and a
provisional government is established. Immediately after the declaration, Israel was attacked by the neighboring Arab states.
1955 -
Cold War: Eight
communist bloc countries, including the
Soviet Union, sign a mutual defence
treaty called the
Warsaw Pact.
1961 -
American civil rights movement:
Freedom Riders bus is fire-bombed near
Anniston, Alabama, and the
civil rights protestors are beaten by an
angry mob.
1961 -
Stirling Moss wins the
1961 Monaco grand prix.
1970 - The
Red Army Faction is established in
Germany.1970 -
Mississippi state police
kill two black students at
Jackson State University.
1973 - Human Space Flight:
Skylab, the
United States' first
space station, is launched. It is the last launch of the
Saturn V rocket.
1977 - In
Milan,
Italy, during a demonstration of the far-left, a hooded extremist shoots at police, killing a policeman, Antonino Custrà. The scene is photographed and the picture
[1] of the hooded man shooting in the middle of the street will appear in many magazines around the world.
1978 - First round of the
presidential elections in
Upper Volta.
1986 - Formula One Italian driver
Elio De Angelis has a terrible crash with his Brabham at the
Paul Ricard circuit in
France during a test session. He will die the next day at the
Marseille hospital.
1988 -
Carrollton bus disaster: A
drunk driver going the wrong way on
Interstate 71 near
Carrollton, Kentucky,
USA hits a converted
school bus carrying a church youth group. The crash and ensuing fire kill 27.
1995 -
Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th
Dalai Lama, proclaims six-year-old
Gedhun Choekyi Nyima as the eleventh
reincarnation of the
Panchen Lama.
2002 - Ten members of the
Darwin-based
Network Against Prohibition invade the
Legislative Assembly of the
Northern Territory of
Australia.
2004 - The
Constitutional Court of South Korea overturns the impeachment of
President Roh Moo-hyun.2004 - The marriage of
Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark and
Mary Donaldson takes place in
Copenhagen.
2005 -
Pope Benedict XVI observes his first beatification, elevating
Blessed Marianne of Molokai on the road to
canonization into
sainthood.2005 - Ex-
America (CV-66), a decommissioned
supercarrier of the
United States Navy, is
deliberately sunk in the
Atlantic Ocean after four weeks of live-fire exercises. She is the largest ship ever to be disposed of as a target in a military exercise.
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