Events 1399 -
Henry IV is proclaimed
King of England.
1744 -
France and
Spain defeat the
Kingdom of Sardinia at the
Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo.
1781 -
American War of Independence: The French defeat the
British at the Battle of Chesapeake Capes.
1791 -
The Magic Flute, the last opera composed by
Mozart premiered at
Theater an der Wien in
Vienna,
Austria.
1791 - The
Constituent Assembly in
Paris is dissolved; Parisians hail
Maximilien Robespierre and
Jérôme Pétion as incorruptible patriots.
1813 - Battle of Bárbula:
Simón Bolívar defeats
Santiago Bobadilla.
1860 - Britain's first
tram service begins in
Birkenhead,
Merseyside.
1882 - The world's first commercial
hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation on the
Fox River in
Appleton,
Wisconsin,
United States.
1888 -
Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims,
Elizabeth Stride and
Catherine Eddowes.
1895 -
Madagascar becomes a
French protectorate.
1901 -
Hubert Cecil Booth patents the
vacuum cleaner.
1903 - New
Gresham's School officially opened by
Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood.
1906 -
Real Academia Galega,
Galician language biggest linguistic authority starts working in
Havana.
1927 -
Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season
1931 - Start of
"Die Voortrekkers" youth movement for
Afrikaners in
Bloemfontein,
South Africa.
1935 - The
Hoover Dam, astride the border between the
U.S. states of
Arizona and
Nevada, is dedicated.
1938 - At 2:00 am,
Britain,
France,
Germany and
Italy sign the
Munich Agreement, allowing
Germany to occupy the
Sudetenland region of
Czechoslovakia.
1938 - The
League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations".
1939 -
Britain first evacuates citizens in anticipation of
war.1939 - General
Władysław Sikorski becomes
commander-in-chief of the
Polish Government in exile.
1947 - The
Islamic Republic of Pakistan joins the
United Nations.1947 - The
World Series, featuring
New York Yankees and the
Brooklyn Dodgers, is
televised for the first time.
1949 - The
Berlin Airlift ends.
1954 - The
U.S. Navy submarine USS Nautilus is commissioned as the world's first
nuclear reactor powered vessel.
1962 -
Mexican-American labor leader
César Chávez founds the
United Farm Workers.1962 -
James Meredith enters the
University of Mississippi, defying
segregation.
1965 - General Suharto
rises to power after an alleged coup by the
Communist Party of Indonesia. In response, Suharto massacres over a million Indonesian communists.
1966 - The
British protectorate of
Bechuanaland declares its independence, and becomes the
Republic of Botswana.
Seretse Khama takes office as the first
President.
1967 -
BBC Radio 1 is launched; the BBC's other national radio stations also adopt numeric names.
Tony Blackburn presents the first show.
1970 -
Jordan makes a deal with the
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) for the release of the remaining hostages from the
Dawson's Field hijackings.
1975 - The
Hughes (later
McDonnell-Douglas, now
Boeing)
AH-64 Apache makes its first flight.
1977 - Due to US budget cuts, the
Apollo program's
ALSEP experiment packages left on the
Moon are shut down.
1979 - The
Hong Kong MTR commenced service with the opening of its
Modified Initial System (aka.
Kwun Tong Line).
1980 -
Ethernet specifications published by
Xerox working with
Intel and
Digital Equipment Corporation.
1982 -
Cyanide-laced
Tylenol kills six people in the
Chicago area. Seven were killed in all. The incident is known as the
Tylenol murders.
1986 -
Mordechai Vanunu, who revealed details of Israel covert nuclear program to British media, was kidnapped in Rome, Italy.
1989 - Foreign Minister of
West Germany Hans-Dietrich Genscher's speech from the balcony of the German embassy in
Prague.
1990 - The
Dalai Lama unveils the
Canadian Tribute to Human Rights in
Canada's capital city of
Ottawa.
1991 - President
Jean-Bertrand Aristide of
Haiti is forced from office.
1993 - An earthquake hits
India's Latur and Osmanabad district of Marathwada (
Aurangabad division) in
Maharashtra state leaving tens of thousands of people dead and many more homeless.
1999 - Japan's worst nuclear accident at a uranium reprocessing facility in
Tōkai-mura, northeast of
Tokyo.
2004 - The first images of a live
giant squid in its natural habitat are taken 600 miles south of
Tokyo.2004 - The
AIM-54 Phoenix, the primary missile for the
F-14 Tomcat, retires from service. Almost two years later, the Tomcat retires.
2005 - The
Parliament of Catalonia passes with 120 plus votes and 15 against, the Project of New
Catalan Statute of Autonomy, proclaiming in its article 1, "Catalonia is a nation".2005 - The
controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the
Danish newspaper
Jyllands-Posten.
2006 - the
National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia adopted the Constitutional Act that proclaimed the
new Constitution of Serbia.
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