Events 1493 -
Christopher Columbus goes ashore on an island he first saw the day before. He names it San Juan Bautista (later renamed
Puerto Rico).
1794 - The
United States and the
Kingdom of Great Britain sign
Jay's Treaty, which attempts to clear up some of the lingering problems left over from the
American Revolutionary War.
1816 -
Warsaw University is established.
1847 - The second Canadian railway line, the
Montreal and
Lachine Railway, is opened.
1850 -
Alfred Lord Tennyson becomes
Poet Laureate, a position he held until his death in
1892.
1863 -
American Civil War:
Union President
Abraham Lincoln delivers the
Gettysburg Address at the military cemetery dedication ceremony in
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
1881 - A
meteorite lands near the village of Großliebenthal, southwest of
Odessa,
Ukraine.
1916 - Samuel Goldfish (later renamed
Samuel Goldwyn) and Edgar Selwyn establish
Goldwyn Pictures (the company later became one of the most successful independent filmmakers).
1924 - In
Los Angeles, California, famous
silent film director
Thomas Ince ("The Father of the
Western") dies of a
heart attack in his bed (beliefs still persist that he was murdered).
1941 -
World War II:
Battle between HMAS Sydney and HSK Kormoran. The two ships sink each other off the coast of
Western Australia, with the loss of 645
Australians and about 77
German seamen.
1942 - World War II:
Battle of Stalingrad -
Soviet Union forces under General
Georgy Zhukov launch the
Operation Uranus counterattacks at
Stalingrad, turning the tide of the battle in the USSR's favor.
1944 - World War II: US President
Franklin D. Roosevelt announces the 6th War Loan Drive, aimed at selling US$14 billion in
war bonds to help pay for the war effort.
1946 -
Afghanistan,
Iceland and
Sweden join the
United Nations.
1954 -
Sammy Davis, Jr., loses his left eye in an automobile accident in
San Bernardino, California.
1955 -
National Review publishes its first issue.
1959 -
Ford Motor Company announces the discontinuation of the unpopular
Edsel.
1961 -
Michael Rockefeller, son of
New York governor
Nelson Rockefeller, disappears in the jungles near Atsj,
Papua New Guinea.
1967 - The Establishment of
TVB, the first wireless commercial
television station in
Hong Kong.
1969 -
Apollo program:
Apollo 12 astronauts
Charles Conrad and
Alan Bean land at
Oceanus Procellarum ("Ocean of Storms") and become the third and fourth
humans to walk on the
Moon.
1969 -
Pelé scores his 1000th goal on a football match between
Santos and
Vasco.
Pelé played for Santos. The result was 2x1 to Santos.1969 -
Mohawk Airlines Flight 411 crashes into Pilot Knob Mountain, killing all 14 on-board.
1970 - The
IBM 1620 is withdrawn from the market.
1973 -
American football player
Lance Rentzel is arrested for exposing himself to a 10-year-old girl; he is later sentenced to five years' probation.
1976 -
Jaime Ornelas Camacho takes office as the first President of the Regional Government of
Madeira,
Portugal.
1977 -
Egyptian President
Anwar Sadat becomes the first
Arab leader to officially visit
Israel, when he meets with Israeli prime minister
Menachem Begin and speaks before the
Knesset in
Jerusalem, seeking a permanent peace settlement. 1977 -
Transportes Aereos Portugueses Boeing 727 crashes in
Madeira islands killing 130
1979 -
Iran hostage crisis:
Iranian leader
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 female and black
American hostages being held at the US
Embassy in
Tehran.
1984 - A series of explosions at the
PEMEX petroleum storage facility at San Juan Ixhuatepec in
Mexico City ignites a major fire and kills about 500 people.
1985 -
Cold War: In
Geneva, US President
Ronald Reagan and
Soviet Union leader
Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time. 1985 -
Pennzoil wins a US$10.53 billion verdict against
Texaco, in the largest civil verdict in U.S. history, stemming from Texaco's establishing a signed contract to buy
Getty Oil after Pennzoil had entered into an unsigned, yet still binding, buyout contract with Getty.
1990 -
Pop group Milli Vanilli are stripped of their
Grammy Award because the duo did not sing at all on the
Girl You Know It’s True album. Session musicians had provided all the vocals.
1994 - In Britain, the first
National Lottery draw was held. A £1 ticket gives a one-in-14-million chance of correctly guessing the winning six out of 49 numbers.
1996 - The case of the
Port Arthur massacre comes to trial.1996 - Lt. Gen.
Maurice Baril of Canada arrives in Africa to lead a multi-national policing force in
Zaire.
1997 - In
Des Moines, Iowa, Bobbi McCaughey gives birth to
septuplets in the second known case where all seven babies were born alive. They would go on to become the first set of septuplets to survive infancy, with all seven alive in
2007.
1998 -
Lewinsky scandal: The
United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee begins
impeachment hearings against US President
Bill Clinton. 1998 -
Vincent van Gogh's
Portrait of the Artist Without Beard sells at auction for US$71.5 million.
1999 -
Shenzhou 1: The
People's Republic of China launches its first
Shenzhou spacecraft.1999 - In
Istanbul, the
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe ends a two-day summit by calling for a political settlement in
Chechnya and adopting a Charter for European Security.1999 -
John Carpenter becomes the first contestant to win the top prize (US $1,000,000) on any of the national versions of
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?.
2005 -
US Marines allegedly commit a
massacre on 24 citizens in the town of
Haditha in
Iraq.
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