Events
1519 -
Hernán Cortés enters
Tenochtitlán and
Aztec ruler
Moctezuma welcomes him with great pomp as would befit a returning
god. 1520 -
Stockholm Bloodbath begins: A successful invasion of
Sweden by
Danish forces results in the execution of around 100 people. 1576 -
Eighty Years' War:
Pacification of Ghent - The
States-General of the
Netherlands meet and unite to oppose
Spanish occupation.
1602 - The
Bodleian Library at
Oxford University is opened to the public.
1620 - The
Battle of White Mountain takes place near
Prague, ending in a decisive Catholic victory in only two hours.
1793 - In
Paris, the
French Revolutionary government opens the
Louvre to the public as a
museum.
1837 -
Mary Lyon founds Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, which would later become
Mount Holyoke College1861 -
American Civil War: The "
Trent Affair" – The
USS San Jacinto stops the
United Kingdom mailship Trent and arrests two
Confederate envoys, sparking a diplomatic crisis between the UK and US.
1889 -
Montana is admitted as the 41st
U.S. state.
1895 - While experimenting with electricity
Wilhelm Röntgen discovers
x-rays.
1917 - People's Commissars gives authority to
Lenin,
Leon Trotsky, and
Josef Stalin.
1923 -
Beer Hall Putsch: In
Munich,
Adolf Hitler leads the
Nazis in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the
German government.
1933 -
Great Depression:
New Deal - US President
Franklin D. Roosevelt unveils the
Civil Works Administration, an organization designed to create jobs for more than 4 million of the unemployed.
1935 - A dozen
labor leaders come together to announce the creation of the
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), an organization charged with pushing the cause for
industrial unionism.1935 -
Fernand Bouisson becomes Prime Minister of
France1937 - The
Nazi exhibition
Der ewige Jude ("the eternal
Jew") opens in
Munich.1937 - The Chinese Youth Journalist Association was created in
Shanghai. The day has become Chinese Journalist Day.
1938 - A
pogrom against the Jews of Germany and Austria takes place in response to the assassination of a German diplomat in Paris.
1939 -
Venlo Incident: Two British agents of
SIS are captured by the Germans.1939 - In
Munich,
Adolf Hitler narrowly escapes an assassination attempt while celebrating the 16th anniversary of the
Beer Hall Putsch.
1941 -
Albanian Communist Party founded.
1942 -
Holocaust: In
Ternopil, western
Ukraine,
German SS deport about 2,400
Jews from
Ternopil ghetto to the
Belzec death camp, so called "Second Aktion". When the
Germans captured
Ternopil, about 18,000
Jews lived in the city.
1942 -
World War II:
Operation Torch -
United States and
United Kingdom forces land in
French North Africa.1942 -
World War II: French resistance coup in Algiers, by which 400 Civil French patriots neutralized Vichyst XIXth Army Corps during 15 hours, arrested vichyst generals (Juin, Darlan, etc.), and so allowed the immediate success of
Operation Torch in Algiers, then, from there, to the whole
French North Africa.
1950 -
Korean War:
United States Air Force Lt. Russell J. Brown shoots down two
North Korean MiG-15s in the first
jet aircraft-to-jet aircraft
dogfight in history.
1965 - The
British Indian Ocean Territory is created, consisting of
Chagos Archipelago,
Aldabra,
Farquhar and
Des Roches islands.1965 - The
173rd Airborne is ambushed by over 1,200
Viet Cong in
Operation Hump during the
Vietnam War.
1966 - Former
Massachusetts Attorney General
Edward Brooke becomes the first
African American elected to the
United States Senate.1966 -
U.S. President Lyndon Johnson signs into law an
antitrust exemption allowing the
National Football League to merge with the upstart
American Football League.
1970 -
Tom Dempsey kicks a
National Football League-record 63
yard (57.6
meter)
field goal to give the
New Orleans Saints a 19-17 victory over the
Detroit Lions at
Tulane Stadium.
1973 - The right ear of
John Paul Getty III is delivered to a newspaper together with a ransom note, convincing his father to pay 2.9 million
USD.
1974 - In
Salt Lake City, Utah, Carol DaRonch narrowly escapes abduction by serial killer
Ted Bundy.
1977 - 3,100 people mysteriously register to vote in Perry County, Ohio, unearthed by the U.S. House Judiciary Committee report investigating
2004 election inconsistencies in Ohio.
1977 -
Manolis Andronikos, a well known
Greek Archaeologist and professor at the
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, discovers the tomb of
Philip II of Macedon at
Vergina, making one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of the 20th century.
1979 - Foundation of the
Chilean Communist Party (Proletarian Action).
1987 -
Remembrance Day Bombing: In
Enniskillen,
Northern Ireland, an
Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb explodes, at a ceremony honouring Britain's war dead, killing eleven people.
1989 -
Hong Kong's
MTR Lam Tin Station came into service.
2002 -
Iraq disarmament crisis:
UN Security Council Resolution 1441 – The
United Nations Security Council unanimously approves a resolution on
Iraq, forcing
Saddam Hussein to
disarm or face "serious consequences".
2004 -
War in Iraq: More than 10,000
U.S. troops and a small number of
Iraqi army units participate in a siege on the insurgent stronghold of
Fallujah.
2006 -
Kathiraveli November 2006 massacre2006 -
Beit Hanoun November 2006 incident2006 -
Microsoft releases
Windows Vista
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