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• 657 Battle of Siffin occurs during the first Muslim civil war between Ali ibn Abi Talib and Muawiyah I beside the Euphrates River

• 811 Battle of Pliska: Bulgarians under Khan Krum beat a Byzantine army, killing the Emperor Nicephorus, whose skull Krum has made into a drinking cup

• 920 Rout of an alliance of Christian troops from Navarre and Léon against the Muslims at Pamplona

• 1267 Inquisition forms in Rome under Pope Clement IV

• 1309 Henry VII is recognized King of the Romans by Pope Clement V

• 1499 Spanish conquistador Alonso de Ojeda is the first European to sight Curacao Island

Pizarro Receives Royal Charter

1519 Francisco Pizarro receives royal charter for the west coast of South America

King James V

1524 James V declared fit to govern by the Scottish Parliament at age 12

• 1529 Francisco Pizarro appointed Governor of Peru

• 1576 Muitende Spanish troops conquer Aalst

Act of Abjuration

1581 Dutch Act of Abjuration declared - seven Dutch provinces declare their independence from Spanish King Philip II

• 1588 English Admiral John Hawkins knighted for his actions against the Armada
• 1609 English mathematician Thomas Harriot is the first person to draw a map of the Moon by looking through a telescope

Rembrandt Declares Insolvency

1656 Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn declares he is insolvent after living beyond his means and spending too much on artwork and rare items. Leads to the most experimental and exuberantly creative period of his career.

• 1663 French troops invade papal territory Comtat Venaissin
• 1678 England and Netherlands sign Treaty of Alliance at the Hague, Netherlands, formalizing co-operative defense against France

Casanova Imprisoned

1755 Giacomo Casanova is arrested in Venice for affront to religion and common decency and imprisoned in the Doge's Palace

• 1757 Battle at Hastenbeck: French army beats Duke of Cumberland

Siege of Louisbourg Ends

1758 British battle fleet under general James Wolfe conquers Louisbourg

• 1759 11,000 British troops drive a token French garrison of 400 out of Fort Ticonderoga, New York
• 1760 Austrian troops occupy Fort Glatz during Third Silesian War

United States Post Office

1775 US Continental Congress creates United States Post Office (U.S.P.O.) in Philadelphia under Benjamin Franklin

• 1790 US Congress passes the Funding Act of 1790 making the federal government responsible for debts incurred by the states

• 1803 The Surrey Iron Railway, arguably the world's first public railway, opens in south London

• 1805 Naples/Calabria struck by Earthquake; about 26,000 die

• 1826 Riots in Vilnius, Lithuania cause the death of many Jews

• 1832 HMS Beagle anchors in Montevideo

• 1835 1st sugar cane plantation started in Hawaii

• 1847 Moses Gerrish Farmer builds 1st miniature train for children to ride

• 1847 The Liberian Declaration of Independence is signed making Liberia a sovereign nation, independent from the American Colonization Society

• 1858 Baron Lionel de Rothschild becomes the 1st Jewish person elected to the British Parliament

Battle of Salineville

1863 Battle of Salineville: Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and 364 troops surrender to Union forces after a 17-day unauthorized raid through Indiana and Ohio

• 1864 -30] US Civil War: Union Brig. General Edward McCook leads unsuccessful cavalry raids at Lovejoy Station, Georgia

• 1864 -30] US Civil War: Union General George Stoneman leads unsuccessful raid in Macon, Georgia

• 1865 Patrick Francis Healy is 1st African American awarded PhD (from University of Leuven, Belgium)

• 1865 The capital of New Zealand moves from Auckland to Wellington

• 1866 Canoe Club opens in England

• 1878 In California, poet and American West outlaw calling himself "Black Bart" makes his last clean getaway when he steals a safe box from a Wells Fargo stagecoach. The empty box found later with a taunting poem inside.

• 1881 French marines occupy Tunisian harbor city Sfax

• 1887 1st Esperanto book published

• 1891 France annexes Tahiti.

• 1891 Henry James' "American" premieres in London

• 1896 Vitascope Hall, the first permanent for-profit movie theatre, opens in New Orleans

• 1897 37.5 cm rainfall at Jewell, Maryland (state record)

• 1902 Australia beat England by 3 runs at Old Trafford

• 1903 Horatio Nelson Jackson, Sewall K. Crocker, and a bulldog named Bud complete the first automobile trip across the United States, traveling from San Francisco to New York in a 2-cylinder Winton in 63 days, 12 hours, and 30 minutes

• 1908 United States Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte issues an order to immediately staff the Office of the Chief Examiner (later renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation)

• 1914 Britain attempts to organize a conference among major European powers to resolve dispute between Austria-Hungary and Serbia; France, Italy, and eventually Russia agree to participate. but Germany refuses

Churchill Orders British Fleet Ready

1914 First Lord of the Admiralty (British Minister of Navy) Winston Churchill orders British fleet to remain in state of readiness as threat of war in Europe grows

• 1914 Irish Volunteers unload a shipment of 1,500 rifles and 45,000 rounds of ammunition arrive from Germany aboard Erskine Childers' yacht the Asgard; British troops fire on jeering crowd on Bachelors Walk, Dublin, killing three citizens

• 1915 International School for Wijsbegeerte forms

• 1916 The US Protests the 'Blacklist' issued by the British forbidding trade with some 30 US firms

• 1918 Race riot in Philadelphia (3 whites & 1 black killed)

• 1926 National Bar Association incorporates

• 1926 Philippines government asks USA for a plebiscite on independence

• 1928 In only his second and final defense of his world heavyweight boxing title, Gene Tunney scores an 11-round TKO win over Tom Heeney at Yankee Stadium, NYC

• 1928 New York Yankees score 11 runs in 12th inning, beating Tigers 12-1 in Detroit

DiMaggio Hitting Streak Ends

1933 Joe DiMaggio ends 61 game hitting streak in Pacific Coast League

• 1936 International communist conference members in Prague arrange create International Brigades to help the Republican Government in the Spanish Civil War
• 1937 End of the Battle of Brunete in the Spanish Civil War.
• 1938 1st radio broadcast of "Young Widder Brown" on NBC
• 1939 Yankee catcher Bill Dickey hits 3 consecutive HRs
• 1941 1st Dutch Austrians depart Hague
• 1941 US embargo on oil-export to Japan
• 1942 RC churches protest, Dutch bishops stand against spread of Judaism
• 1943 120°F (49°C), Tishmoningo, Oklahoma (state record)
• 1943 Otto Skorzeny's commando group arrives in Rome
• 1944 Japanese suicide attack on US lines in Guam
• 1944 Soviet troops arrive in Weichsel
• 1944 The first German V-2 rocket hits Great Britain (nicknamed "gasometer").
• 1944 US offensive at St-Lo/2nd Armour div occupies St Gilles

Prime Minister Clement Attlee

1945 After Labour landslide in general election, Clement Attlee becomes British Prime Minister

• 1945 Japanese government disregards US ultimatum

Nuclear Bombing of Nagasaki

1945 Physicist Raemer Schreiber and Lieutenant Colonel Peer de Silva depart Kirtland Army Air Field to transport the plutonium core for the Fat Man bomb (bombing of Nagasaki) to the island of Tinian where the bomb is assembled

• 1945 US cruiser Indianapolis reaches Tinian with atom bomb

Potsdam Declaration

1945 US, Britain and China demand the unconditional surrender of Japan during World War II in the Declaration of Potsdam

• 1945 Winston Churchill resigns as Britain's Prime Minister after election defeat
• 1946 Aloha Airlines began service from Honolulu International Airport

National Security Act

1947 US President Truman signs National Security Act (1947), establishing Department of Defense, CIA, National Security Council and Joint Chiefs of Staff

Babe Ruth Story

1948 "Babe Ruth Story" premieres, Babe Ruth's last public appearance

• 1948 1st Black host of a network show - Bob Howard Show on CBS

Durocher Returns

1948 Leo Durocher returns to Ebbets Field as manager of the New York Giants

• 1948 President Harry Truman issues Executive Order No. 9981 to desegregate the US armed forces, directing "equality of treatment and opportunity" in the military
• 1949 WCPO TV channel 9 in Cincinnati, OH (CBS) begins broadcasting
• 1950 Dodgers' Jim Russell is 1st to switch-hits HRs twice in a game
• 1950 KNIL (Royal Dutch East Indies Army) unites
• 1951 Netherlands ends state of war with Germany

Sports History

1952 Baseball player Mickey Mantle hits his 1st grand-slammer, for the New York Yankees

• 1952 King Farouk I of Egypt abdicates [Black Saturday]
• 1953 Arizona Governor John Howard Pyle orders an anti-polygamy law enforcement crackdown on residents of Short Creek, Arizona, which becomes known as the Short Creek Raid
• 1953 Cuban pirate radio station's 1st transmission at Santiago de Cuba

Castro Attack Fails

1953 Fidel Castro leads a failed attack on the Moncada Barracks, intended to spark a revolution in Cuba

• 1954 WCET TV channel 48 in Cincinnati, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 1955 Last day as Test Cricket umpire for Frank Chester
• 1955 Ted Allen throws a record 72 consecutive horseshoe ringers

Suez Crisis Begins

1956 Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser announces plan to nationalize Suez Canal, initiating the "Suez Crisis"

• 1957 Carlos Castillo Armas, Dictator and President of Guatemala, is assassinated by a palace guard with leftist sympathies
• 1957 Mickey Mantle hits career HR # 200
• 1958 Army launches 4th US successful satellite, Explorer IV

Baseball History

1959 Chicago White Sox Larry Doby plays final MLB game; retires in 1962 after playing for the Chunichi Dragons in Japan

• 1960 Italian government of Fanfani forms
• 1962 Maria Oeljanov, 1st airship with nuclear missiles, arrives in Cuba

Baseball Record

1962 Milwaukee Brave Warren Spahn sets HR record of 31 by a pitcher

• 1963 Skopje, Yugoslavia, destroyed by earthquake, kills 1,000+
• 1963 The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development votes to admit Japan.
• 1963 US Syncom 2, 1st geosynchronous communications satellite, launched
• 1964 Teamsters President and US union leader Jimmy Hoffa convicted of fraud and conspiracy
• 1964 Train from Povoa de Varzin, Portugal derails near Oporto, 94 die
• 1965 Republic of Maldives gains independence from Britain (National Day)
• 1966 Lord Gardiner issues the Practice Statement in the House of Lords stating that the House is not bound to follow its own previous precedent
• 1966 WRLH TV channel 31 in Lebanon, NH (NBC) begins broadcasting
• 1967 Minnesota Twins beat the Yankees 3-2 in 18 innings
• 1969 Sharon Sites Adams, 39, becomes 1st lady to solo sail the Pacific

Baseball Record

1970 Reds catcher Johnny Bench, playing for the day in the outfield, goes 4 for 5 with 7 RBIs including 3 consecutive HRs off St. Louis Cardinals Steve Carlton in 12-5 win at Riverfront Stadium, Cincinnati

• 1971 Apollo 15 launched (Scott and Irwin) to 4th manned landing on Moon

• 1972 Rockwell receives NASA contract to construct Space Shuttle

• 1974 France performs nuclear Test at Mururoa Atoll

• 1974 USSR's Soyuz fails to dock with Salyut 3

• 1975 Soyuz 18B returns to Earth

• 1977 The 'Committee of 10' formed by prominent Soweto residents, issues a programme for the election of a new community board to have total autonomy in Soweto, South Africa

• 1977 USSR performs underground nuclear Test

• 1978 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa Atoll

• 1978 Johnny Bench hits his 300th career home run

• 1979 Estimated 109 cm (43") of rain falls in Alvin, Texas (national record)

• 1979 Pioneer 11 transmits images of Saturn and its rings

• 1981 2 climbers fall 550 m down cliff near Angel Falls, Venezuela

Heimlich Maneuver Saves Mayor

1981 New York Mayor Ed Koch is given the Heimlich maneuver in a Chinese restaurant

• 1982 Canada's Anik D1 Comsat launched by US Delta rocket

Amitabh Bachchan Injured

1982 Indian film star Amitabh Bachchan is seriously injured filming a fight scene for the movie "Coolie"

• 1983 Challenger moves to Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center (Florida), for mating for STS-8
• 1983 Jarmila Kratochvilova of Czech sets 800m woman's record (1:53.28)
• 1983 Light flashes seen on Jupiter moon Io
• 1983 US threatens action to preserve navigation in Persian Gulf

Sports History

1984 Bowie Kuhn announces pitcher Vida Blue is suspended for the rest of 1984 due to cocaine conviction

Baseball History

1984 Montreal Expos infielder Pete Rose ties Ty Cobb with his 3,502nd single

• 1986 Lebanese kidnappers released Rev Lawrence Martin Jenco
• 1987 Catfish Hunter, Billy Williams and Ray Dandridge are inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York

Baseball Record

1988 Mike Schmidt sets NL record appearing in 2,155 games at 3rd base, as Phillies & NY Mets end that game at 2:13 AM

• 1990 General Hospital records its 7,000th episode
• 1990 US beats Soviet Union 17-0 in baseball at Goodwill Games

Americans With Disabilities Act

1990 US President George H. W. Bush signs Americans With Disabilities Act

• 1991 Actor Paul Reubens (Pee-wee Herman) is arrested for exposing himself at an adult movie theater in Sarasota, Florida
• 1991 CFL assumes ownership of Ottawa Rough Riders
• 1991 Expo's Mark Gardner no hits Dodgers for 9 innings, but loses in 10th
• 1992 Britain honours her dead in the Falklands War

Baseball Record

1992 Nolan Ryan strikes out his 100th batter for the 23rd consecutive season

• 1993 Boeing 737-500 crashes in South Korea, 66 killed
• 1993 The first of four photos of Mars is taken by the Mars Observer, just under a month before the spacecraft failed in flight
• 1994 Cambodia's Red Khmer surprise attack on train, kills 13
• 1994 Turkish air force bombs Kurds, struggle in Iraq, 70 killed
• 1999 Fighting ceases between India and Pakistan in the Kargil War, Kashmir, after two months of fighting
• 2005 Mumbai, India receives 99.5cm of rain (39.17 inches) within 24 hours, bringing the city to a halt for over 2 days
• 2005 Samir Geagea, the Lebanese Forces (LF) leader, is released after spending 11 years in a solitary confinement; his release came after Syria ends occupation of Lebanon
• 2005 Space Shuttle program: STS-114 Mission - Launch of Discovery, NASA's first scheduled flight mission after the Columbia Disaster in 2003
• 2012 At least 200 people are killed in a day of violence in Syria
• 2012 Insurgent attack kills 19 people and destroys a helicopter at Baqubah, Iraq
• 2012 North Korea is hit by Tropical Storm Khanun, killing 88 people and leaving 60,000 people homeless
• 2013 57 people are killed in a market bombing in Parachinar, Pakistan

Sports History

2014 Brian Ortega makes his UFC debut against Mike De La Torre at UFC on Fox 12

• 2014 Brian Ortega's victory over Mike De La Torre is overturned to 'No Contest' after testing positive for drostanolone
• 2014 Taghrooda wins the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes
• 2014 The Chinese government suspends a Shanghai meat dealer and makes arrests after the company sold out-of-date meat to fast food chains, including McDonald's and Kentucky Fried Chicken
• 2014 While Israel reject long-term ceasefire that does not include destroying the Hamas tunnels, they agree to 12 hour ceasefire; Palestinian death toll in the Gaza Strip now exceeds 1000
• 2017 3 live king cobras reported found inside potato chip cans by customs officials in Los Angeles
• 2017 Great Britain announces it will ban gasoline and diesel cars by 2040

Trump Transgender Policy

2017 US President Donald Trump announces policy to ban transgender people from the military, overturning Obama era changes

• 2018 Authorities in Stung Treng province, Cambodia, evacuate 25,000 below collapsed Laos dam as waters rise
• 2018 Facebook has the single worst day of any public company on the stock market - losing 19% or $119 billion market value

Gravitational Redshift

2018 Observation of a black hole by The Very Large Telescope in Chile proves Albert Einstein's prediction of "gravitational redshift", published in "Journal Astronomy & Astrophysics"

• 2018 Over 700 immigrant children still separated from their parents in the US as court-imposed deadline to reunite them passes

McCartney's Secret Gig

2018 Sir Paul McCartney performs a "secret" gig at the Cavern Club in Liverpool, where the Beatles began

• 2019 Australian cricket captain Meg Lanning records T20 International world record individual score of 133 off 63 balls in 93-run win against England at Chelmsford; Southern Stars clinch Women's Ashes

John Lewis Honored in Selma

2020 Body of civil rights activist John Lewis crosses the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma for the last time (beaten there 55 years ago) with a military honor guard as part of a remembrance ceremony

Juventus Wins 9th Straight Serie A

2020 Italian football giants Juventus wins its 9th straight Serie A title with goals from Cristiano Ronaldo and Federico Bernardeschiin in a 2-0 win over Sampdoria

Adam Peaty Wins Gold

2021 Dominant British breaststroke swimmer Adam Peaty successfully defends his 100m title at the Tokyo Olympics beating Arno Kamminga of the Netherlands and Italian Nicolò Martinenghi

• 2021 Ship carrying migrants wrecks off coast of Al-Khums, Libya, killing at least 57, takes death toll in central Mediterranean to 987 for 2021 [1]
• 2021 Tunisian government in crisis after President Kais Saied sacks Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi and suspends parliament with the help of the army because of its handling of COVID-19
• 2021 Weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz makes history becoming the first athlete from the Philippines to win gold at the Olympics in the 55kg class at the Tokyo Games
• 2022 Russia announces it will leave the International Space Station at the end of 2024 [1]
• 2022 Two new studies published in "Science" both confirm COVID-19 mostly likely began in the Hunan Seafood Market in Wuhan, China [1]

Kevin Spacey Cleared

2023 Actor Kevin Spacey is cleared of sex assault charges at a court in London [1]

• 2023 Cambodia's authoritarian Prime Minister Hun Sen, in power since 1985, announces he will resign and pass his office to his son [1]
• 2023 Coup in Niger as presidential guards seize President Mohamed Bazoum and ministerial buildings in Niamey [1]
• 2023 US government being kept in the dark about unidentified anomalous phenomena, (UAP or UFOs) claims former military intelligence officer David Grusch, testifying to US House committee [1]
• 2023 World's largest office building - Surat Diamond Bourse at 660,000-square-metres (bigger than the Pentagon) is unveiled in Surat India, by architectural studio Morphogenesis [1]

Film & TV History

2024 Marvel film "Deadpool and Wolverine" starring Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman opens with the highest earnings of the year, 233.3mintheUSand233.3m in the US and 233.3mintheUSand438m globally [1]

Olympic Games

2024 Opening Ceremony for the XXXIII Olympiad in Paris held outside for the first time along the river Seine, with 85 boats carrying the athletes, and performances by Lady Gaga and Celine Dion [1]

• 2024 XXXIII Summer Olympic Games officially open along the River Seine and at Jardins du Trocadéro, in front of the Eiffel Tower, Paris