Events1590 -
Alexander Farnese's army forces
Henry IV of France to raise the siege of
Paris.1661 - Fall of
Nicolas Fouquet:
Louis XIV Superintendent of Finances is arrested in
Nantes by
D'Artagnan, captain of the king's
musketeers.1666 -
Great Fire of London ends: 10,000 buildings including
St. Paul's Cathedral are destroyed, but only 16 people are known to have died.
1698 - In an effort to move his people away from archaic customs,
Tsar Peter I of Russia imposes a
tax on beards.
1725 - Wedding of
Louis XV and
Maria Leszczyńska.
1774 - First
Continental Congress assembles in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1781 -
Battle of the Chesapeake in the
American Revolutionary War.
1793 -
French Revolution the
French National Convention initiates the
Reign of Terror.
1798 -
Conscription is made mandatory in
France by the
Jourdan law.
1800 -
Malta is conquered by Great Britain.
1816 -
Louis XVIII has to dissolve the
Chambre introuvable ("Unobtainable Chamber").
1836 -
Sam Houston is elected as the second
president of the
Republic of Texas.
1839 - The
First Opium War begins in
China.
1840 - Premiere of
Giuseppe Verdi's
Un giorno di regno at
La Scala of Milan.
1862 -
American Civil War: the
Potomac River is crossed at
White's Ford in the
Maryland Campaign.
1864 -
Achille François Bazaine becomes
Marshall of France.
1877 -
Indian Wars:
Oglala Sioux chief Crazy Horse is
bayoneted by a
United States soldier after resisting confinement in a guardhouse at
Fort Robinson in
Nebraska.
1882 - The first
United States Labor Day parade is held in
New York City.
1905 -
Russo-Japanese War: In
New Hampshire,
USA, the
Treaty of Portsmouth, mediated by
US President Theodore Roosevelt, ends the war.
1914 -
World War I:
First Battle of the Marne begins. Northeast of
Paris, the
French attack and defeat
German forces who are advancing on the capital.
1915 - The pacifist
Zimmerwald Conference begins.
1918 - Decree "On
Red Terror" is published in
Russia1932 - The colonie of
Upper Volta is broken apart between
Ivory Coast,
Mali, and
Niger.
1937 -
Spanish Civil War:
Llanes falls.
1938 -
Chile: A group of youths affiliated with the fascist
National Socialist Movement of Chile are assassinated in the
Seguro Obrero massacre.
1939 -
World War II: The
United States declares its neutrality in the war.
1942 - World War II: Japanese high command orders withdrawal at
Milne Bay, first Japanese defeat in the
Pacific War.
1943 - World War II: The
503d Parachute Infantry Regiment lands and occupies Nazdab, near
Lae in the
Salamaua-Lae campaign.
1944 -
Belgium,
Netherlands and
Luxembourg constitute
Benelux.
1945 -
Iva Toguri D'Aquino, a
Japanese-American suspected of being wartime radio propagandist
Tokyo Rose, is arrested in
Yokohama.
1948 -
Robert Schuman becomes
President of the Council while being
Foreign minister, As such, he is the negotiator of the major treaties of the end of World War II.
1957 -
Cuba:
Fulgencio Batista bombs the revolt in
Cienfuegos.
1960 - The poet
Léopold Sédar Senghor is elected as the first
President of Senegal.
1961 - The first conference of the
Non Aligned Countries is held in
Belgrade.
1969 -
My Lai Massacre:
U.S. Army
Lt. William Calley is charged with six specifications of premeditated murder for the death of 109
Vietnamese civilians in
My Lai.
1970 -
Vietnam War:
Operation Jefferson Glenn begins: the
United States 101st Airborne Division and the
South Vietnamese 1st Infantry Division initiate a new operation in
Thua Thien province.
1972 -
Munich Massacre: A
Palestinian terrorist group called "
Black September" attack
Israeli athletes at the
Munich Olympic Games.
1975 -
Sacramento,
California: a follower of incarcerated cult leader
Charles Manson,
Lynette Fromme attempts to assassinate
U.S. President Gerald Ford.
1977 -
Hanns Martin Schleyer, is kidnapped in
Cologne,
West Germany by the
Red Army Faction and is later murdered.1977 -
Voyager program:
Voyager 1 is launched after a brief delay.
1978 -
Camp David Accords:
Menachem Begin and
Anwar Sadat begin peace process at
Camp David,
Maryland.
1980 - The
St. Gotthard Tunnel opens in
Switzerland as the world's longest
highway tunnel at 10.14 miles (16.224 km) stretching from
Goschenen to
Airolo.
1984 -
STS-41-D: The
Space Shuttle Discovery lands after its maiden voyage.1984 -
Western Australia becomes the last
Australian state to abolish capital punishment.
1986 -
Pan Am Flight 73 with 358 people on board is
hijacked at
Karachi International Airport.
2005 -
Mandala Airlines Flight 091 crashes into a heavily-populated residential of
Sumatra,
Indonesia, killing 104 people on board and at least 39 persons on ground.
2007 - 3 terrorists suspected to be a part of
Al-Quaeda are arrested in Germany after planning attacks on both the Frankfurt International airport and US-Military installations. See
German Terror Plot 9/07
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