Events 996 - Emperor
Otto III issues a deed to Gottschalk, Bishop of Freising, which is the oldest known document using the name
Ostarrîchi (
Austria in
Old High German).1512 - The ceiling of the
Sistine Chapel, painted by
Michelangelo, is exhibited to the public for the first time.1520 - The
Strait of Magellan, the passage immediately south of mainland
South America, connecting the
Pacific and the
Atlantic Oceans, is first navigated by
Ferdinand Magellan during his global
circumnavigation voyage.1592 - At the
Battle of Busan, the outnumbered Korean navy defeats a larger Japanese army.
1604 -
William Shakespeare's tragedy
Othello is presented for the first time, at
Whitehall Palace in
London.
1611 -
William Shakespeare's romantic comedy
The Tempest is presented for the first time, at
Whitehall Palace in
London.
1612 - (
22 October O.S.)
Time of Troubles in Russia:
Moscow,
Kitai-gorod, is captured by
Russian troops under command of
Dmitry Pozharsky1683 - The
British crown colony of
New York is subdivided into 12
counties.
1755 -
Lisbon earthquake: In
Portugal,
Lisbon is destroyed by a massive
earthquake and
tsunami, killing between sixty thousand and ninety thousand people.
1765 - The
British Parliament enacts the
Stamp Act on the
13 colonies in order to help pay for
British military operations in
North America.
1790 -
Edmund Burke publishes
Reflections on the Revolution in France, in which he predicts that the
French Revolution will end in a disaster.
1800 - US President
John Adams becomes the first
President of the United States to live in the Executive Mansion (later renamed the
White House).
1802 - Delegates meet at
Chillicothe, Ohio to form a state
constitutional convention.
1805 -
Napoleon Bonaparte invades
Austria during the
War of the Third Coalition.
1814 -
Congress of Vienna opens to re-draw the European political map after the defeat of
France, in the
Napoleonic Wars.
1848 - In
Boston, Massachusetts, the first
medical school for women, The Boston Female Medical School (which later merged with the
Boston University School of Medicine), opens.
1859 - The current
Cape Lookout,
North Carolina,
lighthouse was lit for the first time. Its first-order
Fresnel lens can be seen for about 19 miles (30 kilometers), in good conditions.
1861 -
American Civil War: US President
Abraham Lincoln appoints
George B. McClellan as the commander of the
Union Army, replacing the aged General
Winfield Scott.
1870 - In the
United States, the Weather Bureau (later renamed the
National Weather Service) makes its first official
meteorological forecast.
1876 -
New Zealand's
provincial government system is dissolved.
1884 - The
Gaelic Athletic Association is set up in Hayes's Hotel in
Thurles,
County Tipperary.1894 -
Nicholas II becomes the new
Tsar of
Russia after his father,
Alexander III, dies.
1886 -
Ananda College, a leading
Buddhist school in
Sri Lanka was established with 37 students.
1896 - A picture showing the unclad (bare)
breasts of a woman appears in
National Geographic magazine for the first time.
1901 -
Sigma Phi Epsilon, the largest national men's collegiate
fraternity is established at
Richmond College, in
Richmond, VA.
1911 - The first dropping of a bomb from an airplane in combat, during the
Italo-Turkish War.
1914 -
World War I: the first
British Royal Navy defeat of the war with Germany, the
Battle of Coronel, is fought off of the western coast of
Chile, in the
Pacific.
1916 -
Paul Miliukov delivers in the
State Duma the famous "stupidity or treason" speech, precipitating the downfall of the
Boris Stürmer government.
1918 -
Malbone Street Wreck: the worst
rapid transit accident in US history occurs under the intersection of Malbone Street and Flatbush Avenue,
Brooklyn,
New York City, with at least 93 deaths. 1918 - Western
Ukraine gains its
independence from the
Austro-Hungarian Empire.
1920 - American Fishing
Schooner Esperanto defeats the Canadian Fishing
Schooner Delawana in the First International Fishing Schooner Championship Races in
Halifax.
1922 - The last sultan of the
Ottoman Empire,
Mehmed VI, abdicates.
1928 - The Law on the Adoption and Implementation of the
Turkish Alphabet, replacing the version of the
Arabic alphabet previously used, comes into force in
Turkey.
1938 -
Seabiscuit defeats
War Admiral in an upset victory during a match race deemed "the match of the century" in horse racing.
1939 - The first
rabbit born after
artificial insemination is exhibited to the world.
1941 - American photographer
Ansel Adams takes a picture of a moonrise over the town of Hernandez,
New Mexico that would become one of the most famous images in the history of
photography.
1943 -
World War II:
Battle of Empress Augusta Bay,
United States Marines, the 3rd Marine Division, land on
Bougainville in the
Solomon Islands.1943 -
World War II: In support of the landings on
Bougainville, U.S. aircraft carrier forces
attack the huge Japanese base at
Rabaul.
1944 -
World War II: Units of the
British Army land at
Walcheren in the
Netherlands.
1945 - The official
North Korean newspaper,
Rodong Sinmun, is first published under the name Chongro.
1946 - The
New York Knicks played against the
Toronto Huskies at the
Maple Leaf Gardens, in the first
Basketball Association of America game. The Knicks would win 68-66.
1948 - Off southern
Manchuria, 6,000 people are killed as a
Chinese merchant ship explodes and sinks.
1950 -
Puerto Rican nationalists
Griselio Torresola and
Oscar Collazo attempt to assassinate US President
Harry S. Truman at Blair House.1950 - Pope
Pius XII witnesses "
The Miracle of the Sun" while at the
Vatican.1950 -
Pope Pius XII claims
Papal Infallibility when he formally
defines the dogma of the
Assumption of Mary.
1951 -
American soldiers are exposed to an
atomic explosion for training purposes in
Desert Rock,
Nevada. Participation was not voluntary.
1952 -
Operation Ivy - The
United States successfully detonates the first large
hydrogen bomb, codenamed "Mike" ["M" for megaton], in the
Eniwetok atoll, located in the
Marshall Islands in the central
Pacific Ocean. The explosion had a yield of 10 megatons.
1954 - The
Front de Libération Nationale fires the first shots of the
Algerian War of Independence.
1955 - The bombing of
United Airlines Flight 629 occurs.1955 -
The Famous Flames, a band featuring
James Brown, records "Please, Please, Please" at a radio station in
Macon,
Georgia.
1956 - Formation of Indian state of
Andhra Pradesh with its capital as
Hyderabad, formerly known as
Nizam state. 1956 - Formation of the Indian state of
Karnataka (1973), formerly known as
Mysore State.1956 - Formation of
Kerala state in
India.
1957 - The
Mackinac Bridge, the world's longest suspension bridge between anchorages at the time, opens to traffic connecting Michigan's upper and lower peninsulas.
1960 - While campaigning for
President of the United States,
John F. Kennedy announces his idea of the
Peace Corps.
1963 - The
Arecibo Observatory in
Arecibo,
Puerto Rico, with the largest
radio telescope ever constructed, officially opens.
1966 - The
National Football League awards the city of
New Orleans an NFL franchise, the
New Orleans Saints. (The franchise is sold on an
All Saints Day, hence the team moniker.)
1969 - After seven years off the top position on the music sales charts,
Elvis Presley hits number one on the
Billboard Hot 100 chart for the final time with his song "
Suspicious Minds."
1970 - A fire at a dance hall in Saint-Laurent-du-Pont,
France kills 144 young people.
1973 -
Watergate Scandal:
Leon Jaworski is appointed as the new Watergate Special Prosecutor.
1973 - The Indian state of
Mysore was renamed as
Karnataka to represent the all the regions within Karunadu .
1981 -
Antigua and Barbuda gain independence from the
United Kingdom.
1991 - Three faculty, and one staff member of the department of physics and astronomy, were killed, along with one administrator, when physics graduate student
Gang Lu went on a shooting rampage at the University of Iowa.
1993 - The
Maastricht Treaty takes effect, formally establishing the
European Union.
1998 - The
European Court of Human Rights is instituted.
2001 -
Derek Jeter hits the
MLB's first
November home run at the World Series.
2005 - First part of the
Gomery Report, which discusses allegations of political money manipulation, is released in
Canada.
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