Events878 -
Syracuse is captured by the Muslim sultan of
Sicily.
879 -
Pope John VIII gives blessings to duke
Branimir and to Croatian people, considered to be international recognition of Croatian state996 - Sixteen-year-old
Otto III is crowned
Holy Roman Emperor. 1502 - The island of
Saint Helena is discovered by the
Portuguese navigator João da Nova.1554 -
Royal Charter of
Derby School at
Derby,
England1674 - the
nobility elects
John Sobieski King of
Poland and Grand Duke of
Lithuania.
1725 - The
Order of St. Alexander Nevsky was instituted in
Russia by the
empress Catherine I. It would later be discontinued and then reinstated by the Soviet government in 1942 as the
Order of Alexander Nevsky.
1758 -
Mary Campbell is abducted from her home in
Pennsylvania by
Lenape during the
French and Indian War.
1851 - Abolition of
slavery in
Colombia,
South America.
1856 -
Lawrence, Kansas is captured and burned by pro-
slavery forces.
1863 -
American Civil War:
Siege of Port Hudson –
Union forces begin to lay
siege to the
Confederate-controlled
Port Hudson, Louisiana.
1871 -
French Government troops invade the
Paris Commune and engage its residents in street fighting. By the close of "Bloody Week" some 20,000
communards have been killed and 38,000 arrested.
1879 -
War of the Pacific: Two
Chilean ships blocking the harbor of
Iquique (then belonging to Peru), battle two
Peruvian vessels in the
Battle of Iquique.
1881 - The
American Red Cross is established by
Clara Barton.
1894 - The
Manchester Ship Canal in
England is officially opened by
Queen Victoria, who knights its designer
Sir Edward Leader Williams.1894 - 22-year-old
French Anarchist Émile Henry is executed by
guillotine.
1904 -
Fédération Internationale de Football Association (
FIFA) founded in
Paris.
1917 -
Great Atlanta fire of 1917.
1924 -
University of Chicago students
Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr. murder 14-year-old
Bobby Franks in a "
thrill killing."
1927 -
Charles Lindbergh touches down at
Le Bourget Field in
Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the
Atlantic Ocean.
1932 -
Amelia Earhart, because of bad weather, lands in a pasture in
Derry,
Northern Ireland, becoming the first woman to fly solo across the
Atlantic Ocean.
1934 -
Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes the first municipality in the
United States to fingerprint each of its citizens.
1936 -
Sada Abe is arrested after wandering the streets of
Tokyo for days with her dead lover's severed
genitals in her hand. Her story soon became one of
Japan's most notorious
scandals.
1937 - a
Soviet station becomes the first scientific research settlement to operate on the
drift ice of the
Arctic Ocean.
1941 -
World War II: 950 miles off the coast of
Brazil, the freighter SS Robin Moor becomes the first
United States ship sunk by a
German U-boat.
1945 -
United States screen legend
Humphrey Bogart marries actress
Lauren Bacall.
1951 - opening of the
Ninth Street Show otherwise known as the
9th Street Art Exhibition was a gathering of a number of notable artists, and it was the stepping-out of the post war
New York avant-garde, collectively know as the
New York School.
1956 -
Nuclear testing: Shot Redwing-Cherokee is successfully detonated at
Bikini Atoll at the
Pacific Proving Grounds in the
Marshall Islands. With a yield of 3.8 megatons, it is the first aircraft deliverable
hydrogen bomb tested by the United States.
1958 -
United Kingdom Postmaster General Ernest Marples announces that from
December,
Subscriber Trunk Dialling will be introduced in the
Bristol area.
1961 -
American civil rights movement:
Alabama Governor John Malcolm Patterson declares
martial law in an attempt to restore order after
race riots break out.
1972 -
Michelangelo's
Pietà, in
St. Peter's Basilica in
Rome, is damaged by a
vandal.
1979 -
White Night riots in
San Francisco following the
manslaughter conviction of
Dan White for the assassinations of
George Moscone and
Harvey Milk.
1981 -
Pierre Mauroy becomes
Prime Minister of
France.
1991 - Former
Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated by a
female suicide bomber near
Madras.
1994 - The
Democratic Republic of Yemen secedes from the
Republic of Yemen.
1996 - The
MV Bukoba sinks in
Tanzanian waters on
Lake Victoria, killing nearly 1000. 1996 - The
Trappist Martyrs of Atlas are executed.
1998 - At
Thurston High School in
Springfield, Oregon,
Kipland Kinkel, suspended for bringing a
gun to school, shoots a
semi-automatic rifle into a room filled with students, killing 2 wounding 25 others after killing his parents at home. 1998 - In
Miami, Florida, five
abortion clinics are hit by a
butyric acid attacker.1998 -
Soeharto, Indonesian dictator who had been ruling for 32 years, resigned.
2000 - A chartered
British Aerospace Jetstream 31 crashes near
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, killing 19.
2001 -
French Taubira law which officially recognize the
Atlantic slave trade and
slavery as
crimes against humanity.
2003 - An
earthquake hits northern
Algeria, killing more than 2,000 people.
2004 -
Sherpa Pemba Dorjie climbs
Mount Everest in 8 hours 10 minutes, breaking his rival
Sherpa Lakpa Gelu's record from the previous year.2004 -
Stanislav Petrov is awarded the World Citizen Award for averting a potential
World War III in
1983.
2005 - In
Kiev,
Ukraine,
Greece wins the fiftieth
Eurovision Song Contest with "
My Number One" performed by
Elena Paparizou.
2006 - The
Republic of Montenegro holds a
referendum proposing independence from the
State Union of Serbia and Montenegro; Montenegrin people choose independence by the majority of 55%.2006 - The Swedish
ice hockey team
Tre Kronor takes gold in the
World Championship, becoming the first nation to hold both the World and
Olympic titles separately in the same year.
2007 - One of the best-preserved
clippers in existence, the
Cutty Sark, while preserved in
Greenwich, is severely damaged by fire.
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