1521 -
Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, is executed for
treason.1590 -
Anne of Denmark is crowned Queen of
Scotland. 1642 -
Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve (
1612–1676) founds the
Ville Marie de Montréal. 1673 -
Louis Joliet and
Jacques Marquette begin exploring the
Mississippi River.
1775 -
American Revolutionary War: The
Continental Congress bans trade with
Canada.
1792 - The
New York Stock Exchange is formed.
1809 -
Napoleon I of France orders the annexation of the
Papal States to the
French Empire.
1814 -
Occupation of
Monaco changes from
French to
Austrian.1814 - The
Constitution of Norway is signed and the
Danish Crown Prince Christian Frederik is elected
King of Norway by the
Norwegian Constituent Assembly.
1849 - A
fire threatens to burn
St. Louis, Missouri, to the ground.
1860 - German football club
TSV 1860 München is founded
1863 -
Rosalía de Castro publishes Cantares Gallegos, her first book in the
Galician language.
1865 - The
International Telegraph Union (the later
International Telecommunication Union) is established.
1875 -
Aristides wins the first
Kentucky Derby.
1895 - The first
Omonoia station of
the Athens metro is inaugurated in Greece.
1900 -
Second Boer War:
British troops relieve
Mafeking.
1902 - Greek archaeologist
Valerios Stais discovers the
Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical
analog computer.
1915 - The last
British Liberal Party government (
Herbert Henry Asquith) falls.
1918 - Almost the entire leadership of
Sinn Féin are arrested.
1919 - Committee of One Thousand forms to oppose
Winnipeg General Strike.
1919 -
War Department (UK) orders use of National Star Insignia on all airplanes.
1933 -
Vidkun Quisling and
Johan Bernhard Hjort form
Nasjonal Samling — the
national-socialist party of
Norway.
1940 -
World War II:
Germany occupies
Brussels,
Belgium.1940 -
World War II: The old city centre of the Dutch town of
Middelburg is bombed by the German Luftwaffe, to force the surrender of the Dutch armies in
Zeeland.
1943 - The
United States Army contracts with the
University of Pennsylvania's
Moore School to develop the
ENIAC.1943 -
World War II: The
Dambuster Raids by
No. 617 Squadron RAF on
German dams.
1954 - The
United States Supreme Court hands down a unanimous decision in
Brown v. Board of Education of
Topeka, Kansas.
1963 -
Bruno Sammartino defeats Nature Boy
Buddy Rogers in 48 seconds in
Madison Square Garden for the
WWWF Heavyweight Title. It begins the longest heavyweight championship reign in pro wrestling history.
1967 -
Six-Day War:
President Abdul Nasser of
Egypt demands dismantling of the peace-keeping
UN Emergency Force in
Egypt.
1969 -
Venera program:
Soviet Venera 6 begins its descent into the
atmosphere of
Venus, sending back atmospheric data before being crushed by pressure.
1970 -
Thor Heyerdahl sets sail from
Morocco on the
papyrus boat Ra II to sail the
Atlantic Ocean.
1973 -
Watergate scandal: Hearings begin in the
United States Senate and are
televised.
1974 -
Police in
Los Angeles, California, raid the
Symbionese Liberation Army's headquarters, killing six members, including
Camilla Hall.1974 - Thirty-three people are killed by terrorist bombings in
Dublin and
Monaghan,
Ireland.
1980 -
General Chun Doo-hwan of
South Korea declares martial law in order to suppress student demonstrations. 1980 -
Peru:
Terrorist group
Shining Path attacked a voting poll in the town of
Chuschi,
Ayacucho starting the
Internal conflict in Peru.
1983 -
Lebanon,
Israel, and the
United States sign an
agreement on
Israeli withdrawal from
Lebanon.
1984 -
Prince Charles calls a proposed addition to the
National Gallery, London, a "monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much-loved and elegant friend," sparking controversies on the proper role of the
Royal Family and the course of
modern architecture.
1987 - An
Iraqi fighter jet fires two missiles into the
U.S. warship
USS Stark (FFG-31), killing 37 and injuring 21 of her crew.
1992 - In
Thailand, the so-called
Black May begins.
Thai police and protestors start attacking one another. By midnight, the current
Thai government declares a
state of emergency, and military troops open fire.
1994 -
Malawi holds its first multiparty
elections.
1995 - After 18 years as the
mayor of
Paris,
Jacques Chirac takes office as
President of France.
1997 - Troops of
Laurent Kabila march into
Kinshasa.
1998 -
David Wells of the
New York Yankees pitches the 15th
perfect game in baseball history against the
Minnesota Twins at
Yankee Stadium.
1999 -
Ehud Barak is elected
prime minister of
Israel.
2004 -
Massachusetts becomes the first
U.S. state to legalize
same-sex marriage2006 - The aircraft carrier
USS Oriskany sunk in the
Gulf of Mexico to be an
artificial reef2007 - Trains from
North and
South Korea cross the
38th Parallel in a test-run agreed by both governments. This is the first time that trains have crossed the Demilitarized Zone since
1953.
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