Events 1499 - Publication of the
Catholicon in
Treguier (
Brittany). This Breton-French-Latin dictionary had been written in 1464 by Jehan Lagadeuc. It's the first Breton dictionary as well as the first French dictionary in world History.1530 -
St. Felix's Flood destroys the city of
Reimerswaal in the
Netherlands 1556 -
Second Battle of Panipat: Fifty miles north of
Delhi, a
Mughal Army defeats
Hindu forces of General
Hemu to ensure
Akbar the throne of
India. In the battle, Hemu became unconscious when an arrow stuck into his right eye. He was brought as captive to Akbar and was hanged.
1605 -
Gunpowder Plot: A plot led by
Robert Catesby to blow up the English
Houses of Parliament is thwarted when Sir
Thomas Knyvet, a justice of the peace, finds
Guy Fawkes in a cellar below the Parliament building. 1688 -
Glorious Revolution begins:
William of Orange lands at
Brixham.
1757 -
Seven Years' War:
Frederick the Great defeated the allied armies of
France and the
Holy Roman Empire in the
Battle of Rossbach.
1768 -
Treaty of Fort Stanwix - The purpose of the conference was to adjust the boundary line between Indian lands and white settlements set forth in the
Proclamation of 1763 in the
Thirteen Colonies.
1780 - French-American force under
Colonel LaBalme is defeated by Miami Chief
Little Turtle.
1831 -
Nat Turner, American slave leader, is tried, convicted, and sentenced to death.
1838 - The
United States of Central America began to disintegrate when
Nicaragua separated from the federation.
1854 - The
Battle of Inkerman was fought during the
Crimean War.
1862 -
American Civil War:
Abraham Lincoln removes
George B. McClellan as commander of the
Union Army for the second and final time.1862 -
Indian Wars: In
Minnesota, more than 300 Santee
Sioux are found guilty of
rape and
murder of white settlers and are sentenced to hang.
1872 -
Women's suffrage: In defiance of the law, suffragist
Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time, and is later fined $100.
1895 -
George B. Selden is granted the first U.S.
patent for an
automobile.
1911 - After declaring war on the
Ottoman Empire on
September 29, 1911,
Italy annexes
Tripoli and
Cyrenaica.
1913 - The insane king
Otto of Bavaria is deposed by his cousin, Prince Regent Ludwig, who assumed the title
Ludwig III.1913 -
United Kingdom annexes
Cyprus, and together with
France declares war on the
Ottoman Empire.
1916 - The
Kingdom of Poland proclaimed by the
Act of November 5th of the emperors of Germany and Austria-Hungary.1916 - The
Everett Massacre takes place as political differences lead to a shoot-out between
IWW organizers and local police
1917 -
October Revolution: In
Tallinn,
Esthonia,
Communist leader
Jaan Anwelt lead revolutionaries in overthrowing the
Provisional Government (As Esthonia and Russia are still using the
Julian Calendar, subsequent period references show an October 23 date).1917 -
St. Tikhon of Moscow was elected the
Patriarch of Moscow and of the
Russian Orthodox Church.
1937 -
World War II:
Adolf Hitler holds a secret meeting and states his plans for acquiring
"living space" for the
German people.
1942 - The World War II
Second Battle of El Alamein is won by the British in
El Alamein,
Egypt.
1945 -
Colombia joins the
United Nations.
1962 - A mining accident kills 21 miners at the government-owned Kings Bay Coal Company on
Svalbard, leading the Norwegian government to close the mine.
1965 - State of Emergency declared in
Rhodesia after collapse of negotiations with
Great Britain over Rhodesian independence (UDI would follow six days later)
1970 -
Vietnam War: The
United States Military Assistance Command in
Vietnam reports the lowest weekly American soldier death toll in five years (24).
1979 -
Ayatollah Khomeini declares the
USA to be "the great Satan".
1983 -
Byford Dolphin diving bell accident kills five and leaves one severely injured.
1986 -
USS Rentz (FFG-46),
USS Reeves (DLG-24) and
USS Oldendorf (DD-972) visit
Qingdao (Tsing Tao)
China—the first US Naval visit to China since 1949.
1987 -
Apartheid: In
South Africa,
Govan Mbeki is released from custody after serving 24 years in the
Robben Island prison. He had been sentenced to life for treason against the white minority South Africa government.
1990 - Rabbi
Meir Kahane, founder of the far-right
Kach movement, is shot dead after a speech at a
New York City hotel.
1994 - Forty-five year old
George Foreman becomes
boxing's oldest heavyweight champion when he knocks out
Michael Moorer.
1995 -
André Dallaire attempts to assassinate
Jean Chrétien; he is thwarted when the
Prime Minister's wife locks the door.
1996 -
President of Pakistan Farooq Ahmed Khan Leghari dismissed the government of
Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and dissolved
National Assembly of Pakistan.
2000 - Emperor
Haile Selassie I given an Imperial funeral by the Ethiopian Orthodox church
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