Events 676 -
Donus became
Pope. 1570 - A
tidal wave in the
North Sea devastates the coast from
Holland to
Jutland, killing more than 1,000 people.
1675 - A combined attack by the
Plymouth,
Rhode Island,
Massachusetts Bay and
Connecticut colonies attacks the Great Swamp Fort, owned by the
Narragansetts during
King Philip's War.
1772 -
American Revolutionary War:
Samuel Adams and
Joseph Warren form the first
Committee of Correspondence.
1783 - In
Rocky Hill, New Jersey, US General
George Washington gives his "Farewell Address to the Army".
1795 - The
French Directory succeeds the French
National Convention as the government of Revolutionary France.
1861 -
American Civil War: Western Department
Union General
John C. Fremont is relieved of command and replaced by
David Hunter.
1868 -
Time zone:
New Zealand officially adopts a standard time to be observed nationally
1889 -
North and
South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th
U.S. states.
1895 - The first gasoline-powered race in the
United States. First prize: $2,000
1898 -
Cheerleading is started at the
University of Minnesota with Johnny Campbell leading the crowd in cheering on the
football team.
1899 - The
Boers started their 118 day
siege of
British held
Ladysmith during the
Second Boer War.
1909 -
Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity is founded at
Boston University.
1914 -
Russia declares war on the
Ottoman Empire.
1917 - The
Balfour Declaration proclaims support for
Jewish settlement in
Palestine.
1920 - In the
United States,
KDKA of
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania starts broadcasting as the first commercial
radio station. The first broadcast was the results of the
U.S. presidential election, 1920.
Lamar County, Georgia established.
1930 -
Haile Selassie is crowned emperor of
Ethiopia.
1936 - The
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is established.1936 -
Italian dictator
Benito Mussolini proclaims the Rome-Berlin Axis, establishing the alliance of the
Axis Powers. 1936 - the
British Broadcasting Corporation initiates the
BBC Television Service, the world's first regular, high-definition (then defined as at least 200 lines) service. Renamed BBC1 in
1964, the channel still runs to this day.
1947 - In
California, Designer
Howard Hughes performs the maiden (and only) flight of the
Spruce Goose; the largest fixed-wing
aircraft ever built.
1948 -
U.S. presidential election, 1948:
Harry S. Truman defeats
Thomas E. Dewey for the
US presidency.
1953 - The Constituent Assembly of
Pakistan names the country The Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
1957 - The
Levelland UFO Case in
Levelland, Texas, generates national publicity, and remains one of the most impressive
UFO cases in American history.
1959 -
Quiz show scandals:
Twenty One game show contestant
Charles Van Doren admits to a
Congressional committee that he had been given questions and answers in advance.1959 -
Ice Hockey: After being struck in the face with a puck,
goalkeeper Jacques Plante returns to play wearing a protective mask for the first time in professional play.1959 - The first section of the
M1 motorway, the first inter-urban
motorway in the
United Kingdom, was opened between the present junctions 5 and 18, along with the
M10 motorway and
M45 motorway1960 -
Penguin Books is found not guilty of
obscenity in the
Lady Chatterley's Lover case
1963 -
South Vietnamese President
Ngô Ðìhn Diệm is assassinated following a military
coup.
1964 -
King Saud of
Saudi Arabia was deposed by a family
coup, and replaced by his half-brother
King Faisal.
1965 -
Norman Morrison, a 31-year-old
Quaker, sets himself on fire in front of the river entrance to
the Pentagon to protest the use of
napalm in the Vietnam war.
1966 - The
Cuban Adjustment Act enters force, allowing 123,000
Cubans the opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the
United States.
1967 -
Vietnam War: US President
Lyndon B. Johnson and "The Wise Men" conclude that the American people should be given more optimistic reports on the progress of the war.
1973 - The
Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the
Communist Party of India forms a 'United Front' in the state of
Tripura.
1974 - 78 die when the Time Go-Go Club in
Seoul,
South Korea burns down. Six of the victims jumped to their deaths from the seventh floor after a club official barred the doors after the fire started.
1976 -
U.S. presidential election, 1976:
Jimmy Carter defeats
Gerald R. Ford for the
US presidency, becoming the first U.S. president from the Deep South since
Reconstruction.
1981 -
Antigua and Barbuda become independent from the United Kingdom.
1982 -
Channel 4 in the United Kingdom was launched.
1983 - U.S. President
Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating
Martin Luther King Day, currently the only national holiday honoring an individual American.
1984 -
Capital punishment:
Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the
United States since
1962.
1988 - The
Morris worm, the first
internet-distributed
computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, was launched from
MIT.
1991 -
Bartholomew I becomes the
Patriarch of Constantinople.
1995 - Former
South African defence minister General
Magnus Malan and 10 other former senior military officers are arrested and charged with murdering 13 black people in
1987, (all the accused are later acquitted).
2000 - The first crew arrives at the
International Space Station.
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