Events1085 -
Alfonso VI of Castile takes
Toledo back from the
Moors. 1420 -
Henry the Navigator is appointed governor of the
Order of Christ.
1521 - The
Diet of Worms ends when
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the
Edict of Worms, declaring
Martin Luther an
outlaw.
1659 -
Richard Cromwell resigns as
Lord Protector of
England following the restoration of the
Long Parliament, beginning a second brief period of the republican government called the
Commonwealth.
1787 - In
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delegates convene a
Constitutional Convention to write a new
Constitution for the
United States.
George Washington presides.
1810 - In the
May Revolution, citizens of
Buenos Aires expel the Viceroy during the Semana de Mayo.
1865 - In
Mobile, Alabama, 300 are killed when an
ordnance depot explodes.
1895 - Playwright, poet and novelist
Oscar Wilde is convicted of "committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons" and sentenced to serve two years in prison. 1895 - The
Republic of Formosa is formed, with
Tang Ching-sung as the president.
1901 -
River Plate was founded to become one of the most successful teams in
Argentina.
1914 - The
United Kingdom's
House of Commons passes
Home Rule Act for
devolution in
Ireland.
1925 -
Scopes Trial:
John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching
Darwin's theory of
evolution.
1926 -
Sholom Schwartzbard assassinates
Symon Petliura, the head of the
Paris-based
government-in-exile of
Ukrainian People's Republic.
1935 -
Babe Ruth hits his 714th and last
home run at
Forbes Field in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, setting a
baseball record that will stand for 39 years.1935 -
Jesse Owens of
Ohio State University breaks five world records and ties a sixth at the
Big Ten Conference Track and Field Championships in
Ann Arbor, Michigan.
1936 - The
Remington Rand strike, led by the
American Federation of Labor, begins.
1938 -
Spanish Civil War: Bombing of
Alicante, 313 deaths.
1940 -
World War II: The
Battle of Dunkirk begins.
1946 - The parliament of
Transjordan makes
Abdullah I of Jordan their king.
1953 -
Nuclear testing: At the
Nevada Test Site, the
United States conducts its first and only
nuclear artillery test.
1955 - In the
United States, a night time
F5 tornado strikes the small city of
Udall, Kansas, killing 80 and injuring 273. It was the deadliest tornado to ever occur in the state and the 23rd deadliest in the U.S.
1961 -
Apollo program:
U.S. president
John F. Kennedy announces before a special joint session of Congress his goal to initiate a project to put a "man on the
moon" before the end of the decade.1961 -
King Hussein of Jordan marries
Princess Muna al-Hussein (Antoinette Gardiner).
1963 - In
Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia, the
Organisation of African Unity is established.1965 - Muhammad Ali knocks out Sonny Liston in the first round of their title rematch in Lewiston, ME
1966 -
Explorer program:
Explorer 32 launches. 1966 - The first prominent
DaZiBao during the
Cultural Revolution in
China was posted at
Peking University.
1967 -
Celtic F.C. become the first
British and non-Latin side to win the
European Champions' Cup in the
Lisbon Lions 2-1 victory over Inter Milan in
Lisbon,
Portugal.
1977 -
George Lucas' film
Star Wars, is released, and becomes an instant hit.1977 -
Liverpool F.C. win their first
European Champions' Cup, defeating
Borussia Moenchengladbach 3-1 in the
Stadio Olimpico, Rome.
1979 -
American Airlines Flight 191: In
Chicago, a
DC-10 crashes during takeoff at
O'Hare International Airport killing 271 on board and two people on the ground.1979 -
Florida executes
John Spenkelink, the first non-voluntary execution in the
United States in more than 10 years.
1981 - In
Riyadh, the
Gulf Cooperation Council is created between
Bahrain,
Kuwait,
Oman,
Qatar,
Saudi Arabia and the
United Arab Emirates.
1982 -
HMS Coventry is sunk during the
Falklands War.
1985 -
Bangladesh is hit by a
tropical cyclone and
storm surge, which kills approximately 10,000 people.
1986 -
Hands Across America, a benefit event, takes place.
1992 - The first episode of the
TVNZ soap opera Shortland Street screens, with the infamous line "You're not in Guatemala now, Dr. Ropata.".
1995 - The
Bosnian Serb Army
kills 72 youngsters in the Bosnian city of
Tuzla.
1997 - A military
coup in
Sierra Leone replaces President
Ahmad Tejan Kabbah with Major
Johnny Paul Koromah.
1999 - The
United States House of Representatives released the
Cox Report which detailed the
People's Republic of China's nuclear espionage against the U.S. over the prior two decades.
2000 -
Liberation Day of Lebanon.
Israel withdraws its army from most of the
Lebanese territory after 22 years of its first
invasion in 1978.
2001 - 32-year-old
Erik Weihenmayer, of
Boulder, Colorado, becomes the first blind person to reach the summit of
Mount Everest.2001 - 64-year-old Sherman Bull, of
New Canaan, Connecticut, becomes the oldest person to reach the summit of
Mount Everest.
2002 -
China Airlines Flight 611: A
Boeing 747-200 breaks apart in mid-air and plunges into the
Taiwan Strait killing 225 people.2002 - A train crash in
Tenga,
Mozambique kills 197 people.
2003 -
Néstor Kirchner becomes
President of Argentina after defeating
Carlos Menem. He is the first elected President since the economic crisis.
2007 - The
Ostankino Tower in
Moscow catches fire for the second time.
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