Events303 - On a voyage preaching the
gospel,
Saint Fermin of
Pamplona is
beheaded in
Amiens,
France.
1066 - The
Battle of Stamford Bridge marks the end of the
Viking era.1396 -
Ottoman Emperor Bayezid I defeats a
Christian army at the
Battle of Nicopolis.1513 -
Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa reached what would be known as the
Pacific Ocean.1555 - The
Peace of Augsburg is signed in
Augsburg by
Charles V and the
princes of the
Schmalkaldic League.1690 - "
Publick Occurrences Both Foreign and Domestick", the first
newspaper to appear in the
Americas, is published for the first and only time.
1789 - The
U.S. Congress passes twelve amendments to the
United States Constitution: the
Congressional Apportionment Amendment, the
Congressional Compensation Amendment, and the ten that are known as the
Bill of Rights. Only the Bill of Rights were ratified at the time, while the other two were proposed by James Madison but not ratified. In 1992, the Congressional Compensation Amendment was ratified as the 27th amendment to the Constitution.
1804 - The
Teton Sioux (a subdivision of the Lakota) demand one of the boats from the
Lewis and Clark Expedition as a toll for moving further upriver.
1846 -
U.S. forces led by
Zachary Taylor captured the
Mexican city of
Monterrey.
1868 - The Imperial Russian steam frigate
Alexander Neuski shipwrecks off
Jutland while carrying
Grand Duke Alexei of Russia.
1906 - In the presence of the king and before a great crowd,
Leonardo Torres Quevedo successfully demonstrates the
invention of the Telekino in the port of
Bilbao, guiding a boat from the shore, in what is considered the birth of the
Remote control.
1911 - Ground is broken for
Fenway Park in
Boston, Massachusetts.
1912 -
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in
New York, New York.
1915 - The
Second Battle of Champagne begins.
1929 -
Jimmy Doolittle performs the first blind flight from
Mitchel Field proving that full
Instrument Flying from take off to landing is possible.
1955 - The
Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded.
1957 -
Central High School in
Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated through the use of
United States Army troops.
1959 -
Solomon Bandaranaike,
prime minister of
Sri Lanka is mortally wounded by a
Buddhist monk,
Talduwe Somarama, and dies the next day.
1962 - The
People's Democratic Republic of Algeria is formally proclaimed.
Ferhat Abbas is elected
President of the provisional government.
1970 -
Cease-fire between
Jordan and the
fedayeen ends fighting triggered by four hijackings on
September 6 and
9.
1972 - In the
Norwegian EC referendum, 1972, the people of
Norway reject membership.
1978 -
PSA Flight 182, a
Boeing 727-214, collides in mid-air with a
Cessna 172 and crashes in
San Diego,
California, resulting in the deaths of 144 people.
1980 - The first congress of the
Democratic Youth Organization of Afghanistan held in
Kabul.
1981 -
Sandra Day O'Connor was the 102nd
Justice sworn in as an
Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court of the United States, the first
woman to hold the office.
1983 -
Long Kesh escape. 38 republican prisoners, armed with 6 handguns, hijacked a prison meals lorry and smashed their way out of
HMP Maze. The largest prison escape since WWII and in British history.
1996 - The last of the
Magdalen Asylums closes in
Ireland.
1997 -
Ultima Online, the first successful
massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), developed by
Origin Systems, launches.
2002 - The
Vitim event, a possible
bolide impact in
Siberia,
Russia.
2003 - A
magnitude-8.0 earthquake strikes just offshore of
Hokkaidō,
Japan.
2005 -
E1 Train Disaster2005 -
Spanish Formula One racing driver
Fernando Alonso becomes the youngest
FIA Formula One World Champion.
2007 -
Halo 3, the third and final installment of the
Halo video game series, is released, netting over
US$170,000,000 within 24 hours of midnight launch, a record for most first-day revenue earned in
entertainment history.
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