Events
522 BC -
Darius I of Persia kills the Magian usurper Gaumâta, securing his hold as king of the
Persian Empire.
480 BC -
Battle of Salamis: The Greek fleet under
Themistokles, defeats the Persian fleet under
Xerxes I.
61 BC -
Pompey the Great celebrates his third
triumph, for victories over the
pirates and the end of the
Mithridatic Wars on his 45th birthday.440 -
Leo I becomes
pope.855 -
Benedict III becomes pope.
1066 -
William the Conqueror invades
England.1364 -
Battle of Auray:
English forces defeat
French at
Brittany; end of the
Breton War of Succession.1567 - The second
War of Religion in France breaks out.1567 - At a dinner, the
Duke of Alba arrests the
Count of Egmont and the
Count of Hoorn for
treason.1650 -
Henry Robinson opens his Office of Addresses and Encounters - the first historically documented
dating service - in
Threadneedle Street,
London.
1789 - The
U.S. War Department first establishes a regular
army with a strength of several hundred men.1789 - The first
U.S. Congress adjourns.
1829 - The
Metropolitan Police of
London, also known as the Met, is founded.
1848 -
Battle of Pákozd:
Hungarian forces defeat
Croats at
Pákozd; the first battle of the
War of Independence.
1850 - The
Roman Catholic hierarchy is re-established in
England and
Wales by
Pope Pius IX.
1864 -
American Civil War: The
Battle of Chaffin's Farm is fought.
1885 - The first practical public electric
tramway in the world was opened in
Blackpool,
England.
1907 - The cornerstone is laid at
Washington National Cathedral in the
U.S. capital.
1911 -
Italy declares war on the
Ottoman Empire.
1918 - The
Hindenburg Line is broken by
Allied forces during
World War I.
Bulgaria signed an
armistice.
1924 -
Plutarco Elías Calles is proclaimed
President of Mexico.
1941 -
Holocaust in
Kiev,
Ukraine:
German Einsatzgruppe C starts
Babi Yar massacre. According to the
Einsatzgruppen Operational Situation Report No. 101, at least 33,771
Jews from
Kiev and its suburbs were killed at
Babi Yar on September 29 -
30,
1941.
1943 -
U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower and
Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio sign an
armistice aboard the
British ship
HMS Nelson off the shore of
Malta.
1954 - The convention establishing
CERN (
European Organization for Nuclear Research) is signed.1954 -
Major League Baseball:
Willie Mays of the then New York Giants makes "
The Catch" at
The Polo Grounds in game one of the
World Series.
1957 - 20 MCi (740 petabecquerels) of radioactive material is released in an explosion at the
Soviet Mayak nuclear plant at
Chelyabinsk.
1960 -
Nikita Khrushchev, leader of
Soviet Union, disorders a meeting of the
United Nations General Assembly with a number of angry outbursts.
1962 -
Alouette 1, the first
Canadian satellite, is launched.
1963 - The second period of the
Second Vatican Council opens.
1964 - The Argentine comic strip
Mafalda is published for the first time.
1965 - The
NSA memorial lists ten agents lost on this date.
1971 -
Oman joins the
Arab League.
1972 -
Sino-Japanese relations:
Japan establishes
diplomatic relations with the
People's Republic of China after breaking official ties with the
Republic of China.
1975 -
WGPR in Detroit, Michigan, becomes the world's first black-owned-and-operated television station.1975 -
Sharon Dahlonega Raiford Bush becomes American television's first African-American weathercaster.
1979 -
Pope John Paul II became the first pontiff to set foot on Irish soil with his pastoral visit to the
Republic of Ireland.
1982 -
Tylenol Crisis of 1982 began when the first of seven individuals died in metropolitan Chicago.
1988 -
NASA resumes
space shuttle flights, grounded after the
Challenger disaster, with
STS-26.
1990 -
Washington National Cathedral finished.
1990 - The YF-22, which would later become the
F-22 Raptor, flies for the first time.
1991 - Military coup in
Haiti.
1992 -
Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello resigns.
1995 -
Khaled Kelkal is killed by the
French Police.1995 - The
United States Navy disestablishes Fighter Squadron #84 (VF-84), the celebrated
Jolly Rogers.
2001 - The
Syracuse Herald-Journal, a
U.S. newspaper dating back to
1839, ceases publication.
2003 -
Hurricane Juan makes landfall at
Nova Scotia.
2004 - The
asteroid 4179 Toutatis passes within four lunar distances of
Earth.2004 - The
Burt Rutan Ansari X Prize entry
SpaceShipOne performed a successful spaceflight, the first of two needed to win the prize.
2005 -
US Senate confirms
John Roberts to be the next
Chief Justice of the United States.2005 - Amnesty referendum in
Algeria.
2006 -
US Representative Mark Foley resigns after allegations of inappropriate emails to house pages were introduced.
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