Events 539 BC - King
Cyrus The Great of
Persia marches into the city of
Babylon, releasing the
Jews from almost 70 years of exile and making the first Human Rights Declaration.1244 - Battle of La Forbie:
Crusaders are defeated by
Khwarezmians and
Egyptians.1346 -
Battle of Neville's Cross: King
David II of Scotland is captured by
Edward III of England at
Calais, and imprisoned in the
Tower of London for eleven years.1448 -
Second Battle of Kosovo, where the mainly
Hungarian army led by
John Hunyadi were defeated by an
Ottoman army led by Sultan
Murad II.
1604 -
Kepler's Star:
German astronomer Johannes Kepler observes that an exceptionally bright star had suddenly appeared in the
constellation.
Ophiuchus, which turned out to be the last
supernova to have been observed in our own
galaxy, the
Milky Way.
1610 - French king
Louis XIII is crowned in
Rheims.
1660 - Nine
Regicides, the men who signed the death warrant of
Charles I, are
hanged, drawn and quartered, another is hanged.1662 -
Charles II of England sells
Dunkirk to France for 40,000 pounds.
1777 - American troops defeat the British in the
Battle of Saratoga.
1781 - General
Charles Cornwallis offers his surrender to the
American revolutionists at
Yorktown, Virginia.
1797 -
Treaty of Campo Formio is signed between
France and
Austria.
1800 -
England takes control of the Dutch colony of
Curaçao.
1806 - Former leader of the
Haitian Revolution,
Emperor Jacques I of
Haiti was
assassinated after an oppressive rule.
1860 - First
The Open Championship (referred to in North America as the British Open).
1888 -
Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie).
1907 -
Guglielmo Marconi's company begins first regular commercial trans-Atlantic
wireless service between
Glace Bay, Nova Scotia,
Canada and
Clifden,
Ireland.
1912 -
Bulgaria,
Greece and
Serbia declare war on the
Ottoman Empire, joining
Montenegro in the
First Balkan War.
1917 - First British bombing of
Germany in
World War I.
1931 -
Al Capone convicted of
income tax evasion.
1933 -
Albert Einstein, fleeing
Nazi Germany, moves to the US.
1937 -
Huey, Dewey and Louie,
Donald Duck's three almost identical
nephews, first appear in a
newspaper comic strip.
1941 - For the first time in
World War II, a German
submarine attacks an American ship.
1945 - A massive number of people, headed by
CGT and
Evita, gather in the
Plaza de Mayo in
Argentina to demand
Juan Peron's release. This is known to the
Peronists as the Día de la lealtad (day of loyalty). It's considered the birthday of Peronism.
1961 - Scores of
Algerian protesters (some claim up to 400) are
massacred by the
Paris police at the instigation of
Nazi collaborator
Maurice Papon, then chief of the
Prefecture of Police.
1965 - The
1964-1965 New York World's Fair closes after a two year run. More than 51 million people had attended the two-year event.
1966 - A fire at a building in
New York,
New York kills 12 firefighters, the
New York City Fire Department's deadliest day until the
September 11, 2001 attacks.
1967 - The musical
Hair opens at the Anspacher Theater on
Broadway.
1968 - The
1968 Olympics Black Power salute is performed by
Tommie Smith and
John Carlos.
1970 -
Montreal, Quebec: Quebec
Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour
Pierre Laporte murdered by members of the
FLQ terrorist group.
1973 -
OPEC starts an
oil embargo against a number of western countries, considered to have helped
Israel in its war against
Syria.
1977 -
German Autumn: Four days after it was
hijacked,
Lufthansa Flight 181 lands in
Mogadishu,
Somalia, where a team of
German GSG 9 commandos later rescues all remaining
hostages on board.
1979 -
Mother Teresa awarded the
Nobel Peace Prize.1979 - The
Department of Education Organization Act is signed into law creating the
US Department of Education and
US Department of Health and Human Services. Both replace the Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
1989 -
Loma Prieta earthquake (7.1 on the
Richter scale) hits the
San Francisco Bay Area and causes 57 deaths directly (and 6 indirectly).
1992 - The
United Nations General Assembly declares October 17 as the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, to be observed beginning in 1993. Resolution
47/196 of 22 December 1992.
2000 -
Train crash at
Hatfield, north of London, leading to collapse of
Railtrack.
2003 - The pinnacle was fitted on the roof of
Taipei 101, a 101-floor
skyscraper in
Taipei, allowing it to surpass the
Petronas Twin Towers in
Kuala Lumpur by 50 meters (165 feet) and become the
World's tallest highrise.2003 -
Eunuchs in the
Indian state of
Madhya Pradesh float the
political party Jiti Jitayi Politics.
2006 - The
United States population reaches 300 million.
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