Events1218 - The
Fifth Crusade leaves
Acre for
Egypt.1276 -
Magnus Ladulås crowned
King of Sweden in
Uppsala Cathedral.1487 -
Imposter Lambert Simnel is crowned as "
King Edward VI" at
Dublin. 1595 -
Nomenclator of
Leiden University Library appears, the first printed catalog of an institutional library.
1621 -
Protestant Union formally dissolved.
1626 -
Peter Minuit buys
Manhattan.1689 - The
English Parliament passes the
Act of Toleration protecting
Protestants (
Roman Catholics are intentionally excluded).
1738 -
John Wesley is
converted, essentially launching the
Methodist movement; the day is celebrated annually by
Methodists as
Aldersgate Day.
1798 -
Irish Rebellion of 1798 led by the
United Irishmen against
British rule begins.
1822 -
Battle of Pichincha:
Antonio José de Sucre secures the independence of the
Presidency of
Quito.
1830 -
Mary had a little lamb by
Sarah Hale is published.1830 - The first revenue trains in the
United States begin service on the
Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road between
Baltimore and
Ellicott's Mills.
1832 - The
First Kingdom of Greece is declared in the
London Conference.
1844 -
Samuel F. B. Morse sent the message "What hath God wrought" (a
Bible quotation,
Numbers 23:23) from the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the
United States Capitol to his assistant, Alfred Vail, in
Baltimore, Maryland.
1846 -
Mexican-American War:
General Zachary Taylor captures
Monterrey.
1856 -
John Brown and his men murder five slavery supporters at
Pottawatomie Creek,
Kansas.
1861 -
American Civil War:
Union troops occupy
Alexandria, Virginia.
1881 - Turkey cedes
Thessaly and
Arta back to
Greece.
1883 - The
Brooklyn Bridge in
New York is opened to traffic after 14 years of construction.
1893 - The Niagara Falls Park and River Railway opens in
Ontario.
1895 -
Henry Irving becomes the first personage from the
theatre to be
knighted.
1899 - The first public
parking garage in the
United States is opened in
Boston, Massachusetts.
1900 -
Second Boer War: The
United Kingdom annexes the
Orange Free State.
1911 - The
New York Public Library opened.
1915 -
World War I:
Italy declares war on
Austria-Hungary.
1921 - The trial of
Sacco and Vanzetti opens.
1929 -
The Cocoanuts, the first film to star the
Marx Brothers, opens.
1930 -
Amy Johnson lands in
Darwin, Northern Territory, becoming the first woman to fly from
England to
Australia (she left on
May 5 for the 11,000 mile flight).
1935 -
Crosley Field in
Cincinnati, Ohio, hosts major-league baseball's first night game ever as the
Cincinnati Reds beat the
Philadelphia Phillies 2-1.
1940 -
Igor Sikorsky performs the first successful single-rotor
helicopter flight.
1941 -
World War II: In the
North Atlantic, the
German Battleship Bismarck sinks the
HMS Hood killing all but three crewmen on what was the pride of the
Royal Navy.
1943 -
Holocaust:
Josef Mengele becomes chief medical officer in
Auschwitz concentration camp.
1949 - The
Soviet Union ends the 11-month
Berlin Blockade.
1952 - Meher Baba and followers suffer auto accident in
Prague, Oklahoma.
1956 - The first
Eurovision Song Contest is held in
Lugano,
Switzerland and is won by the host nation.1956 - Conclusion of the
Sixth Buddhist Council on
Vesak Day, marking the 2,500 year anniversary after the Lord
Buddha's
Parinibbāna.
1958 -
United Press International is formed through a merger of the
United Press and the
International News Service.
1961 -
American civil rights movement:
Freedom Riders are arrested in
Jackson, Mississippi for "disturbing the peace" after disembarking from their bus.1961 -
Cyprus enters the
Council of Europe.
1962 -
Project Mercury:
American astronaut Scott Carpenter orbits the
Earth three times in the
Aurora 7 space capsule.
1968 - Students set fire to the
Paris bourse.1968 -
FLQ separatists bomb the
U.S. consulate in
Quebec City.
1970 - The
drilling of the
Kola Superdeep Borehole begins in the
USSR1973 -
Earl Jellicoe resigns as
Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the Lords.
1975 - A group of 80 reporters and cameramen are the first Westerners allowed to leave
Saigon in
South Vietnam since it fell to communist forces on
April 29.
1976 -
London to
Washington, DC Concorde service begins.
1980 - The
International Court of Justice calls for the release of
United States embassy hostages in
Tehran. The hostages would not be freed until the following
January.
1981 - First
International Women's Day for
Disarmament.
1982 -
Liberation of Khorramshahr,
Iranians recapture of the port city of
Khorramshahr from the
Iraqis during
Iran-Iraq War1988 -
Section 28 is passed as law by
Parliament in the
United Kingdom.
1989 - Sonia Sutcliffe, wife of the
Yorkshire Ripper, is awarded a six-figure sum in
damages after winning a
libel action against
Private Eye.
1990 - A car carrying
American Earth First! activists
Judi Bari and
Darryl Cherney explodes in
Oakland, California, critically injuring both.
1991 -
Israel conducts
Operation Solomon, evacuating
Ethiopian Jews to
Israel.
1992 - The last
Thai dictator,
General Suchinda Kraprayoon, resigns following pro-democracy protests.
1993 -
Eritrea gains its independence from
Ethiopia.1993 -
Microsoft unveils
Windows NT.
1994 - Four men convicted of bombing
New York's
World Trade Center in 1993 are each sentenced to 240 years in prison.
1999 -
Venezuela enters the
Antarctic Treaty System.
2000 -
Israeli troops withdraw from
southern Lebanon after 22 years of occupation.
2001 -
Mountain climbing: 15-year-old
Sherpa Temba Tsheri becomes the youngest person to climb to the top of
Mount Everest.2001 - The
Versailles wedding hall collapse in
Jerusalem,
Israel, kills 23 and injures over 200 in
Israel's worst-ever civil disaster.2001 - The
Democrats gain control of the
U.S. Senate for the first time since 1994 when Senator
James Jeffords of
Vermont abandons the
Republican Party and declares himself an independent.
2002 -
Russia and the
United States sign the
Moscow Treaty.
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