Events325 - The
First Council of Nicaea – the first
Ecumenical Council of the
Christian Church – is held. 526 - An
earthquake kills about 300,000 people in
Syria and
Antiochia. 685 - The
Battle of Dunnichen or
Nechtansmere is fought between a
Pictish army under King
Bridei III and the invading
Northumbrians under King
Ecgfrith, who are decisively defeated.1217 - The
Second Battle of Lincoln is fought near
Lincoln,
England, resulting in the defeat of
Prince Louis of France by
William Marshal, 2nd Earl of Pembroke.1293 - King
Sancho IV of Castile creates the
Study of General Schools of Alcalá.1497 -
John Cabot sets sail from
Bristol,
England, on his ship
Matthew looking for a route to the west (other documents give a
2 May date). 1498 -
Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama arrives at
Kozhikode (previously known as
Calicut),
India.
1521 - Battle of Pampeluna:
Ignatius Loyola seriously wounded in the battle.1570 -
Cartographer Abraham Ortelius issues the first modern
atlas.
1631 - The city of
Magdeburg in
Germany is seized by forces of the
Holy Roman Empire and most of its inhabitants massacred, in one of the bloodiest incidents of the
Thirty Years' War.1690 -
England passes the Act of Grace, forgiving followers of
Roman Catholic James II.
1813 -
Napoleon Bonaparte leads his
French troops into the
Battle of Bautzen in
Saxony,
Germany, against the combined armies of
Russia and
Prussia. The battle ends the next day with a
French victory.
1835 -
Otto is named the first modern king of
Greece.
1845 -
HMS Erebus and
HMS Terror with 134 men under
John Franklin sail from the
River Thames in
England, beginning a disastrous expedition to find the
Northwest Passage. All hands are lost.
1861 -
American Civil War: The state of
Kentucky proclaims its
neutrality, which will last until
September 3 when
Confederate forces enter the state.
1862 -
U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signs the
Homestead Act into law.
1864 -
American Civil War:
Battle of Ware Bottom Church - In the
Virginia Bermuda Hundred Campaign, 10,000 troops fight in this
Confederate victory.
1873 -
Levi Strauss and
Jacob Davis receive a
U.S. patent for blue
jeans with copper rivets.
1882 - The
Triple Alliance between
Germany,
Austria-Hungary and
Italy is formed.
1883 - The
eruption of
Krakatoa begins, leading ultimately to the
volcano's destruction three months later.
1891 -
History of cinema: First public display of
Thomas Alva Edison's prototype
kinetoscope (shown at Edison's Laboratory for a convention of the National Federation of Women's Clubs).
1896 - The six ton
chandelier of the
Palais Garnier falls on the crowd resulting in the death of one and the injury of many others.
1902 -
Cuba gains independence from the
United States.
Tomás Estrada Palma becomes the first
President of Cuba.
1910 -
Krazy Kat and Ignatz first appear in 'The Dingbat Family' comic strip
1916 - The
Saturday Evening Post publishes its first cover with a
Norman Rockwell painting ("Boy with Baby Carriage").1916 - The small town of
Codell, Kansas is struck by a
tornado. Incredibly, the same town was also hit in
1917 and
1918 on the exact same date
1920 - The Weimarer Nationalversammlung, the
national assembly of
Germany's
Weimar Republic, is permanently dissolved.1920 -
Montreal Quebec station
XWA broadcasts the first regularly scheduled
radio programming in
North America.
1927 - By the
Treaty of Jedda, the
United Kingdom recognizes the
sovereignty of
King Ibn Saud in the Kingdoms of
Hejaz and
Nejd, which later merged to become the Kingdom of
Saudi Arabia. 1927 - At 07:52
Charles Lindbergh takes off from
Roosevelt Field in
Long Island,
New York, on the world's first solo nonstop flight across the
Atlantic Ocean, touching down at
Le Bourget Field in
Paris at 22:22 the next day.
1932 -
Amelia Earhart takes off from
Newfoundland to begin the world's first solo nonstop flight across the
Atlantic Ocean by a female pilot, landing in
Ireland the next day.
1940 -
Holocaust: The first prisoners arrive at a new
concentration camp at
Auschwitz.
1941 -
World War II:
Battle of Crete –
German paratroops invade
Crete.
1949 - In the
United States of America, the
Armed Forces Security Agency (predecessor to the
National Security Agency) is established. 1949 -
Kuomintang regime declare
Taiwan is under the
martial law.
1954 -
Chiang Kai-shek is selected for another term as
President of the Republic of China by the
National Assembly1965 -
PIA Flight 705, a
Pakistan International Airlines Boeing 720 - 040 B crashes while descending to land at
Cairo International Airport, killing 119 of the 125 passengers and crew.
1969 - The
Battle of Hamburger Hill in
Vietnam ends.
1980 - In a
Referendum in
Quebec, the population rejects by a 60% vote the proposal from its government to move towards independence from
Canada.
1983 - First publications of the discovery of the
virus that causes
AIDS in the journal
Science by
Luc Montagnier and
Robert Gallo individually.
1984 - The first line of the
Miami Metrorail in
Miami, Florida opens.
1985 -
Radio Martí, part of the
Voice of America service, begins broadcasting to
Cuba.
1989 - The
Chinese authorities declare
martial law in the face of pro-
democracy demonstrations, setting the scene for the
Tiananmen Square massacre.
1990 - The first post-
Communist presidential and parliamentary elections are held in
Romania.
1995 - In a second
Referendum in
Quebec, the population rejects by a slight majority the proposal from its government to move towards independence from
Canada.
1996 -
Gay rights: The
Supreme Court of the United States rules in
Romer v. Evans against a law that would have prevented any city, town or county in the state of
Colorado from taking any legislative, executive, or judicial action to protect the rights of
gays and lesbians.
2002 -
East Timor becomes independent from
Indonesian rule.
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