Events
1000 -
Battle of Svolder, Notable naval battle of the
Viking Age.1379 -
Treaty of Neuberg, splitting the
Austrian Habsburg lands between the
Habsburg Dukes Albert III and
Leopold III.1493 -
Battle of Krbava field, a decisive defeat of
Croats in
Croatian struggle against the
Ottoman Empire invasion.1513 -
James IV of Scotland is defeated and dies in the
Battle of Flodden Field, ending
Scotland's involvement in the
War of the League of Cambrai.1543 -
Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is officially
crowned "
Queen of Scots" in the central
Scottish town of
Stirling.
1739 -
Stono Rebellion, the largest slave uprising in
Britains mainland
North American colonies prior to the
American Revolution, erupts near
Charleston, South Carolina.
1776 - The
Continental Congress officially names their new
union of
sovereign states the
United States.
1839 -
John Herschel takes the first glass plate
photograph.
1850 -
California is admitted as the thirty-first
U.S. state.1850 - The
Compromise of 1850 strips
Texas of a third of its claimed territory (now parts of
Colorado,
Kansas,
New Mexico,
Oklahoma, and
Wyoming) in return for the
U.S. federal government assuming $10 million of
Texas's pre-annexation
debt.
1863 -
American Civil War: The
Union Army enters
Chattanooga, Tennessee.
1886 - The
Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works is finalized.
1914 -
World War I: The creation of the
Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the
British Army.
1922 -
Greek-
Turkish war has ended with Turkish victory over the Greeks.
1923 -
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the
Republic of Turkey, founds the
Republican People's Party (CHP).
1924 -
Hanapepe Massacre occurs on
Kauai,
Hawaii.
1926 - The
U.S. National Broadcasting Company formed.
1942 -
World War II: A
Japanese floatplane drops an incendiary bomb on
Oregon.
1943 - World War II: The
Allies land at
Salerno and
Taranto,
Italy.
1944 - World War II: The
Fatherland Front takes power in
Bulgaria through a military coup in the capital and armed rebellion in the country. A new pro-
Soviet government is established.
1945 -
Second Sino-Japanese War:
Japan formally surrenders to
China.
1947 - First actual case of a
computer bug being found: a
moth lodges in a
relay of a
Harvard Mark II computer at
Harvard University.
1948 - The
Republic Day of
Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
1956 -
Elvis Presley appears on
The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time.
1965 - The
United States Department of Housing and Urban Development is established.1965 -
Hurricane Betsy makes its second landfall near
New Orleans, Louisiana, leaving 76 dead and $1.42 billion ($10-12 billion in 2005 dollars) in damages, becoming the first hurricane to top $1 billion in unadjusted damages.
1966 - The
National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act signed into
law by
U.S. President Lyndon Johnson.
1969 -
Allegheny Airlines Flight 853 DC-9 collided in flight with a
Piper PA-28 and crashed near
Fairland,
Indiana.
1970 - A
British airliner is hijacked by the
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (
PFLP) and flown to Dawson's Field in
Jordan.
1971 -
Attica Prison riots.
1991 -
Tajikstan gains independence from the
Soviet Union.
1993 - The
Palestine Liberation Organization officially recognizes
Israel as a legitimate state.
1994 -
Sachin Tendulkar scores his first ODI century against
Australia in
Sri Lanka.
2001 -
Ahmed Shah Massoud, leader of the
Northern Alliance, is assassinated in
Afghanistan.
2004 -
2004 Jakarta embassy bombing: A
bomb explodes outside the
Australian embassy in
Jakarta, killing 10 people.2004 -
Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Koštunica reverses a decision by Minister of Education and Sport
Ljiljana Čolić to require the teaching of both
creationism and
evolution in schools, and announces that Čolić will be replaced.
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