Events1527 -
Spanish and
German troops sack
Rome; some consider this the end of the
Renaissance. 147
Swiss Guards, including their commander, died fighting the forces of
Charles V during the Sack of Rome in order to allow Pope
Clement VII to escape into
Castel Sant'Angelo.1536 -
King Henry VIII orders translated Bibles be placed in every church.1542 -
Francis Xavier reached
Old Goa, the capital of
Portuguese India at the time.
1604 -
Leon VII Spanish poet's first poem is published: La Cocina
1682 -
Louis XIV of France moves his court to
Versailles.
1757 -
Battle of Prague - A
Prussian army fought an
Austrian army in
Prague during the
Seven Years' War.
1816 - The
American Bible Society is founded in
New York City.
1835 -
James Gordon Bennett, Sr. publishes the first issue of the
New York Herald.
1840 - The
Penny Black postage stamp is valid for use in the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
1857 - The
British East India Company disbands the 34th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry whose
Sepoy Mangal Pandey had earlier revolted against the British and is considered to be the First Martyr in the
War of India's Independence.
1860 -
Giuseppe Garibaldi's
Mille set sail from Genoa to the
Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
1861 -
American Civil War:
Arkansas secedes from the
Union.
1863 -
American Civil War: The
Battle of Chancellorsville ends indefinitely, with a defeat of the
Army of the Potomac under General
Joseph Hooker by
Confederate troops under
Stonewall Jackson.
1877 - Chief
Crazy Horse of the
Oglala Sioux surrenders to
United States troops in
Nebraska.
1882 - The Congress of the U.S.A. pass the
Chinese Exclusion Act.
1889 - The
Eiffel Tower is officially opened to the public at the
Universal Exposition in
Paris.
1910 -
George V becomes King of the
United Kingdom upon the death of his father,
Edward VII.
1935 -
New Deal: Executive Order 7034 creates the
Works Progress Administration (WPA).
1937 -
Hindenburg disaster: The
German zeppelin Hindenburg catches fire and is destroyed within a minute while attempting to dock at
Lakehurst, New Jersey. Thirty-six people are killed.
1940 -
John Steinbeck is awarded the
Pulitzer Prize for his novel
The Grapes of Wrath.
1941 - At
California's
March Field Bob Hope performs his first
USO show.
1942 -
World War II: On
Corregidor, the last
American forces in the
Philippines surrender to the
Japanese.
1945 - World War II:
Axis Sally delivers her last
propaganda broadcast to
Allied troops (first was on
December 11,
1941). 1945 - World War II: The
Prague Offensive, the last major battle of the Eastern Front, begins.
1954 -
Roger Bannister becomes the first person to
run the
mile in
under four minutes.
1960 - More than 20 million viewers watch the first ever televised royal wedding service when
Princess Margaret marries
Anthony Armstrong-Jones at
Westminster Abbey.
1962 -
St. Martín de Porres becomes
canonized by
Pope John XXIII.
1966 -
Myra Hindley and
Ian Brady are sentenced to life imprisonment for the
Moors Murders in
England.
1976 - An
earthquake strikes
Friuli, causing 989 deaths and the destruction of entire villages.
1981 - A jury of architects and sculptors unanimously selects
Maya Ying Lin's design for the
Vietnam Veterans Memorial from 1,421 other entries.
1983 - The
Hitler diaries were revealed as a
hoax when experts examined the books and concluded that they were fake.
1988 - An airplane going from
Namsos to
Brønnøysund in
Norway crashes into the side of the
Torghatten mountain, killing all 36 passengers and crew.
1994 -
Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and French President
François Mitterrand officiate at the opening of the
Channel Tunnel.1994 - Former
Arkansas state worker
Paula Jones files suit against President
Bill Clinton, alleging he'd sexually harassed her in 1991.
1996 - The body of former
CIA director
William Colby is found washed up on a riverbank in southern
Maryland, eight days after he disappeared.
1997 - The
Bank of England is given independence from political control, the most radical shake-up in the bank's 300-year history.
2001 - During a trip to
Syria, Pope
John Paul II becomes the first pope to enter a
mosque.
2002 -
Dutch politician
Pim Fortuyn is shot and killed by an animal rights activist.
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