Events 637 -
Antioch surrendered to the Muslim forces under
Rashidun Caliphate after the
Battle of Iron bridge.1137 - Battle of Rignano between
Ranulf of Apulia and
Roger II of Sicily. 1270 - The
Eighth Crusade and siege of
Tunis end by an agreement between
Charles I of Sicily (brother to King
Louis IX of France, who had died months earlier) and the
sultan of Tunis.1340 -
Battle of Rio Salado1470 -
Henry VI of England returns to the
English throne after
Earl of Warwick defeats
Yorkists in battle. 1502 -
Vasco da Gama returns to
Calicut for the second time.
1831 - In
Southampton County, Virginia, escaped slave
Nat Turner is captured and arrested for leading the bloodiest
slave revolt in
United States history.
1863 -
Danish Prince Wilhelm arrives in
Athens to assume his throne as
George I, King of the Hellenes.
1864 -
Second war of Schleswig concluded.
Denmark renounces all claim to
Schleswig,
Holstein and
Lauenburg, which come under
Prussian and
Austrian administration.
1864 -
Helena, Montana is founded after four
prospectors discover
gold at "Last Chance Gulch."
1894 - Domenico Melegatti obtains a patent for a procedure to be applied in producing
pandoro industrially.
1905 - Tsar
Nicholas II of Russia grants
Russia's first
constitution, creating a legislative assembly.
1918 - The
Ottoman Empire signs an
armistice with the
Allies, ending the
First World War in the
Middle East1920 - The
Communist Party of Australia founded in
Sydney.
1922 -
Benito Mussolini was made Prime Minister of Italy
1925 -
John Logie Baird creates Britain's first
television transmitter.
1929 - The
Stuttgart Cable Car is constructed in
Stuttgart,
Germany.
1938 -
Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of
H. G. Wells's
The War of the Worlds, causing a nationwide panic.
1941 -
World War II:
Franklin Delano Roosevelt approves US$1 billion in
Lend-Lease aid to the
Allied nations. 1941 - 1,500
Jews from
Pidhaytsi (in western
Ukraine) were sent by
Nazis to
Belzec extermination camp.
1944 -
Anne Frank is deported from
Auschwitz to the
Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
1947 -
The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which is the foundation of the
World Trade Organisation (WTO) is founded.
1950 - Pope
Pius XII witnesses the "
Miracle of the Sun" while at the
Vatican1953 -
Cold War: US President
Dwight D. Eisenhower formally approves the
top secret document National Security Council Paper No. 162/2, which states that the
United States' arsenal of
nuclear weapons must be maintained and expanded to counter the
communist threat.
1960 -
Michael Woodruff performs the first successful kidney transplant in the
United Kingdom at the
Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
1961 -
Nuclear testing: The
Soviet Union detonates the
hydrogen bomb Tsar Bomba over
Novaya Zemlya; at 58 megatons of yield, it is still the largest nuclear device ever detonated.
Nikita Kruschev announces that the scientists had planned to make it 100 megatons, but had reduced the yield so as to avoid breaking all the windows in
Moscow.1961 - Because of "violations of
Lenin's precepts", it is decreed that
Josef Stalin's body be removed from its place of honour inside Lenin's tomb and buried near
the Kremlin wall with a plain granite marker instead.
1965 -
Vietnam War: Just miles from
Da Nang,
United States Marines repel an intense attack by wave after wave of
Viet Cong forces, killing 56 guerrillas. Among the dead, a sketch of Marine positions was found on the body of a 13-year-old
Vietnamese boy who sold drinks to the Marines the day before.
1970 - In
Vietnam, the worst
monsoon to hit the area in six years causes large
floods, kills 293, leaves 200,000 homeless and virtually halts the
Vietnam War.
1973 - The
Bosporus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, connecting the continents of
Europe and
Asia over the
Bosporus for the first time in history.
1975 -
Prince Juan Carlos becomes
Spain's acting head of state, taking over for the country's ailing dictator, Gen.
Francisco Franco.
1980 -
El Salvador and
Honduras sign a peace treaty to put the border dispute fought over in 1969's
Football War before the
International Court of Justice.
1983 - The first democratic elections in
Argentina after seven years of military rule are held.
1985 -
Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off for mission
STS-61-A, its final successful mission.
1987 - In
Japan,
NEC releases the first 16-bit
home entertainment system, the
PC-Engine.
1988 -
Philip Morris buys
Kraft Foods for US$13.1 billion.
1991 - The
Madrid Conference for Middle East peace talks opens.
1995 -
Quebec sovereignists narrowly lose a
referendum for a mandate to negotiate independence from
Canada (vote was 50.6% to 49.4%).
1999 -
Harrah's New Orleans opens, it is the first and only land based casino in the state of
Louisiana that is not run by an indian tribe.
2002 - British
Digital terrestrial television (DTT) Service
Freeview starts transmitting throughout parts of the
United Kingdom2005 - The rebuilt
Dresden Frauenkirche (destroyed in the
firebombing of Dresden during World War II) is reconsecrated after a thirteen-year rebuilding project.
2007 -
Avenged Sevenfold, the new album by
Avenged Sevenfold is released.
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