Events
48 BC -
Pompey the Great is assassinated on orders of King
Ptolemy of
Egypt after landing in
Egypt.351 -
Battle of Mursa Major: the
Roman Emperor Constantius II defeats the
usurper Magnentius.365 -
Roman usurper Procopius bribes two
legions passing by
Constantinople, and proclaims himself
Roman emperor.935 -
Saint Wenceslas is murdered by his brother,
Boleslav I of Bohemia.995 - Members of
Slavník's dynasty -
Spytimír, Pobraslav, Pořej and
Čáslav are murdered by
Boleslaus's son,
Boleslaus II the Pious.
1066 -
William the Conqueror invades
England: the
Norman Conquest begins.1106 - The
Battle of Tinchebrai -
Henry I of England defeats his brother,
Robert Curthose.1322 -
Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor defeats
Frederick I of Austria in the Battle of Mühldorf.1448 -
Christian I is crowned king of
Denmark.1542 -
Navigator Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo of
Portugal arrives as what is now
San Diego,
California,
United States.
1708 -
Peter the Great defeats the
Swedes at the
Battle of Lesnaya.
1779 -
American Revolution:
Samuel Huntington is elected
President of the Continental Congress, succeeding
John Jay.
1781 -
American forces backed by a
French fleet begin the
siege of Yorktown,
Virginia, during the
American Revolutionary War.
1787 - The newly completed
United States Constitution is voted on by the
U.S. Congress to be sent to the
state legislatures for approval.
1844 -
Oscar I of
Sweden-Norway is crowned king of
Sweden.
1867 -
Toronto becomes the capital of
Ontario.1867 - The
United States takes control of
Midway Island.
1868 -
Battle of Alcolea causes Queen
Isabella II of Spain to flee to
France.
1871 -
Brazil passes law freeing future children of slavery.
1889 - The first
General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) defines the length of a meter as the distance between two lines on a standard bar of an alloy of
platinum with ten percent
iridium, measured at the melting point of ice.
1928 -
UK passes the Dangerous Drugs Act (1925) outlawing
cannabis.
1939 -
Nazi Germany and the
Soviet Union agree on a division of
Poland after their invasion during
World War II.1939 -
Warsaw surrenders to
Nazi Germany during
World War II.
1941 -
Major League Baseball:
Ted Williams of the
Boston Red Sox hits a
batting average of .406 that was originally at .3995. He is the last player to have a batting average of .400 or better.
1944 -
Battle of Arnhem -
Germans defeat
British airborne at
Arnhem,
Netherlands.1944 -
Soviet Army troops liberate
Klooga concentration camp in
Klooga,
Estonia.
1958 -
France ratifies a new
Constitution of France; the
French Fifth Republic is then formed upon the formal adoption of the new
constitution on
October 4.
Guinea rejects the new
constitution, voting for
independence instead.
1961 - A
military coup in
Damascus effectively ends the
United Arab Republic, the union between
Egypt and
Syria.
1962 -
Paddington tram depot fire destroys 65
trams in
Brisbane,
Australia.
1971 -
UK passes the
Misuse of Drugs Act banning the medicinal use of cannabis.
1973 -
ITT Building in
New York City bombed to protest
ITT's involvement in the
September 11 1973 coup d'état in
Chile.
1994 - The car ferry
MS Estonia sinks in
Baltic Sea, killing 852 people.
1995 -
Bob Denard and a group of mercenaries take the islands of
Comoros in a
coup.
2000 -
Al-Aqsa Intifada:
Arial Sharon visits the
Temple Mount in
Jerusalem.
2004 - An expected but overdue
magnitude 6.0 earthquake hits
Parkfield,
California
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