Events
70 -
Titus,
General of
Rome, sacks
Jerusalem. See also:
Destruction of Jerusalem.1331 -
Stefan Dušan declares himself king of
Serbia1380 -
Battle of Kulikovo -
Russian forces defeat a mixed army of
Tatars and
Mongols, stopping their advance. 1449 -
Battle of Tumu Fortress -
Mongolians capture the
Chinese emperor. 1504 -
Michelangelo's David is unveiled in
Florence.1514 -
Battle of Orsha - In one of the biggest battles of the century,
Lithuanians and
Poles defeat the
Russian army.1565 -
Pedro Menéndez de Avilés settles
St. Augustine, Florida.1565 - The
Knights of Malta lift the
Turkish siege of
Malta (the
Siege of Malta started on
May 18).
1727 - A barn fire during a puppet show in the
village of
Burwell in
Cambridgeshire,
England kills 78 people, many of whom are children.
1755 -
French and Indian War:
Battle of Lake George.
1756 -
French and Indian War:
Kittanning Expedition.
1793 -
French Revolutionary Wars:
Battle of Hondschoote.
1796 -
French Revolutionary Wars:
Battle of Bassano -
French forces defeat
Austrian troops at
Bassano del Grappa.
1810 - The
Tonquin sets sail from
New York Harbor with 33 employees of
John Jacob Astor's newly created
Pacific Fur Company on board. After a six-month journey around the tip of
South America, the ship arrived at the mouth of the
Columbia River and Astor's men established fur-trading town of
Astoria, Oregon.
1831 -
William IV was crowned King of
Great Britain.
1863 -
American Civil War:
Second Battle of Sabine Pass - On the
Texas-
Louisiana border at the mouth of the
Sabine River, a small
Confederate force thwarts a
Union invasion of
Texas.
1888 - In
London, the body of
Jack the Ripper's second murder victim,
Annie Chapman, is found.1888 - In
England the first six
Football League matches ever are played.
1900 -
Galveston Hurricane of 1900: a powerful
hurricane hits
Galveston, Texas killing about 8,000 people.
1914 -
World War I: Private
Thomas Highgate becomes the first British soldier to be executed for desertion during the war.
1921 - 16-year-old
Margaret Gorman won the
Atlantic City Pageant's Golden Mermaid trophy; pageant officials later dubbed her the first
Miss America.
1923 -
Honda Point Disaster: Nine
US Navy destroyers run aground off the
California coast. Seven are lost.
1926 -
Germany was admitted to the
League of Nations.
1930 -
3M begins marketing
Scotch transparent tape.
1934 - Off the
New Jersey coast, a fire aboard the passenger liner
SS Morro Castle kills 135 people.
1935 -
US Senator from
Louisiana,
Huey Long, nicknamed "Kingfish," is fatally shot in the
Louisiana capitol building.
1941 -
World War II:
Siege of Leningrad begins.
German forces begin a siege against the
Soviet Union's second-largest city,
Leningrad. Stalin orders the
Volga Deutsche deported to
Siberia.
1943 -
World War II:
Julius Fučík is executed by
Nazis.1943 -
World War II: The O.B.S. (German General Headquarters for the Mediterranean zone) in
Frascati was bombed by
USAAF.1943 -
World War II:
United States General Dwight D. Eisenhower publicly announces the
Allied armistice with Italy.
1944 - World War II:
London is hit by a
V2 rocket for the first time. 1944 - World War II:
Menton is liberated from
Germany.
1945 -
Cold War:
United States troops arrive to partition the southern part of
Korea in response to
Soviet troops occupying the northern part of the peninsula a month earlier.
1951 -
Treaty of San Francisco: In
San Francisco, California, 48 nations sign a
peace treaty with
Japan in formal recognition of the end of the
Pacific War.
1954 - The
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (
SEATO) is established. {[1955]} - James Hackenberg is born September 8
1959 - The
Asian Institute of Technology (
AIT) is established.
1960 - In
Huntsville, Alabama,
US President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally dedicates the
Marshall Space Flight Center (
NASA had already activated the facility on
July 1).
1962 - Newly independent,
Algeria, by
referendum, adopts a
Constitution.1962 - Last run of the famous
Pines Express over the
Somerset and Dorset Railway line (UK) fittingly using the last steam locomotive built by British Railways 9F locomotive 92220 'Evening Star' 1966 - The
Severn Bridge was officially opened by
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II1967 - The formal end of steam traction in the
North East of England by British Railways.
1970 - Hijacking (and subsequent destruction) of three airliners to
Jordan by
Palestinians; the events to follow would later become known as
Black September1971 - In
Washington, DC, the
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is inaugurated, with the opening feature being the premiere of
Leonard Bernstein's
Mass.
1974 -
Watergate Scandal:
US President Gerald Ford pardons former
President Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in office.
1975 -
Gays in the military:
US Air Force Tech Sergeant
Leonard Matlovich, a decorated veteran of the
Vietnam War, appears in his Air Force uniform on the cover of
Time magazine with the headline (printed in all uppercase) "I Am A Homosexual." He is later given a general discharge.
1991 -
Republic of Macedonia becomes independent.
1994 - A
USAir Boeing 737 crashes in
Hopewell Township, Pennsylvania, near the city of Aliquippa.
1999 -
US Attorney General Janet Reno names former
US Senator John Danforth to head an independent investigation of the
1993 fire at the
Branch Davidian church near
Waco, Texas in response to revelations in the film contradicting the official government stories.
2000 - The
Republic of Albania officially joins the
World Trade Organization.
2001 -
Durban,
South Africa hosts the
World Conference against Racism.
2004 - The
NASA unmanned spacecraft
Genesis crash-lands when its parachute fails to open.
2005 - Two
EMERCOM Il-76 aircraft land at a disaster aid staging area at
Little Rock AFB. This marks the first time Russia has flown such a mission to North America.
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