- 533 Byzantine General Belisarius defeats the Vandals, under King Gelimer, at the Battle of Ticameron
- 687 St Sergius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Conon
- 1124 Chancellor Haimeric selects pope (Lamberto becomes Honorius II)
- 1167 Sicilian chancellor Stephen du Perche moves the royal court to Messina to prevent a rebellion.
- 1256 Hulagu Khan captures and destroys Hashshashin stronghold at Alamut, in present-day Iran, part of the Mongol offensive on Islamic southwest Asia
- 1467 Stephen III of Moldavia defeats Matthias Corvinus of Hungary, with the latter being injured thrice, at the Battle of Baia
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1488 Bartolomeu Dias returns to Portugal after becoming 1st known European to sail round the Cape of Good Hope
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1569 Hunted by Queen Elizabeth I for treason in "The Rising of the North", Charles Neville, Earl of Westmorland, escapes to Scotland.
- 1582 Leidse university names Rembert Dodoens professor of botany and medicine
Gregory Conquers Julius Caesar
1582 Spanish Netherlands, Denmark and Norway adopt the Gregorian calendar
- 1586 Laevinus Torrentius, becomes bishop of Antwerp
- 1593 State of Holland grants patent on windmill with a crankshaft
- 1612 German Astronomer Simon Marius is 1st to observe Andromeda galaxy through a telescope
- 1640 Duke of Braganca crowned King Johan IV of Portugal
- 1660 Philippines: Andres Malongs rebels plunders Bagnotan
- 1667 Brandenburg declares himself neutral in Devolutie War
- 1675 King Philip's War: After peace talk fail, Narraganset warriors attack the Jireh Bull Blockhouse, in South Kingston, Rhode Island, killing at least 15 colonists
- 1680 Tax revolt on Terschelling due to tax on cereal
- 1745 Battle at Kesseldorf: Prussian force beats Saksen & Austria near Dresden
- 1791 1st US law school established at University of Pennsylvania
Bill of Rights
1791 US Bill of Rights ratified when Virginia gives its approval, becomes amendments 1-10 of the US constitution
- 1854 1st street-cleaning machine in the US used in Philadelphia
- 1859 GR Kirchoff describes chemical composition of the Sun
- 1863 Romania's mountain railway, from Anina to Oravita, opens
- 1863 Skirmish at Bean's Station, Tennessee (Knoxville Campaign)
- 1864 Battle of Nashville, Tennessee: Union forces under General George Thomas shatters General John Bell Hood's Confederate Army of Tennessee
- 1864 Raid on Stoneman: Abingdon & Glade Springs, Virginia
- 1868 Shogunate rebels found Ezo Republic in Hokkaidō
- 1874 1st reigning king to visit US is the King of Hawaii, received by President Grant
- 1899 Battle at Colenso, South Africa: British army defeated by Boer force
- 1902 German agricultural tariffs are increased
- 1903 NY Wall Street vendor Italo Marchiony [Marcioni] granted patent for a mound for making ice cream cones
- 1905 The Pushkin House is established in St. Petersburg to preserve the cultural heritage of Alexander Pushkin
- 1907 In Persia, the Shah leads a coup de'etat against the liberal Prime Minister Nasir ul-Mulk and imprisons him, but a popular uprising forces the Shah to restore Nasir ul-Mulk soon after
- 1913 Nicaragua becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty
- 1914 Battle of Lodz ends; Russians retreat toward Moscow
- 1914 British fleet forfeits chance to destroy German fleet in North Sea
- 1914 Serbian troops retake Belgrade in Austria-Hungary
Gallipoli: Guts, Glory and Defeat
1915 WWI: ANZAC forces begin their withdrawal from the Gallipoli Peninsula after Ottoman forces successfully defend access to Constantinople
- 1916 Battle of Verdun: French launch major offensive against German lines after a six-day artillery bombardment
- 1917 Moldavian Republic declares independence from Russia
- 1917 World War I: An armistice is reached between the new Russian Bolshevik government and the Central Powers
- 1918 American Jewish Congress holds its 1st meeting
- 1919 Edna St Vincent Millay's play "Aria da Capo" premieres in NYC
- 1919 Fiume (Rijeka, modern Croatia) declares its Independence
- 1922 IVVV (association) peace congress on war forms in Hague
- 1925 1st road with a depressed trough (Texas) opens to traffic
- 1926 Fascist national symbol elevated in Italy
- 1927 William Edward Hickman kidnaps 12 year-old Marion Parker in Los Angeles, whom he later kills
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1929 Swiss pilot Walter Mittelholzer is the first to fly over Mt. Kilimanjaro
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1934 Dutch airplane the 'Snip' (Fokker F.XVIII) departs the Netherlands for the 1st flight to Paramaribo and Curacao, takes 55 hours 58 minutes
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1941 Nazis transfers 100 Czech citizens, Heinrich Himmler falls faint
- 1941 North Africa: allied assault up Italians Gazala-posing
- 1941 The American Federation of Labor adopts a no-strike policy in war industries.
- 1941 USS Swordfish becomes 1st US sub to sink a Japanese ship
- 1942 Massachusetts issues 1st US vehicular license plate tabs
- 1944 Hizbu'allah (Arm forces for Allah) forms
Event of Interest
1944 US Congress gives General Eisenhower his 5th star
Theater Premiere
1949 Albert Camus' play "The Just Assassins (Les Justes)" premieres in Paris
'The Banality of Evil'
1961 Adolf Eichmann is sentenced to death for war crimes in Israel
- 1961 L. J. Suenens appointed archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels
- 1964 Canada's House of Commons votes 163 to 78 to approve the red Maple Leaf Flag
- 1965 3rd cyclone of year kills 15,000 at the mouths of the Ganges River in Bangladesh
- 1965 Dutch Queen Juliana opens Zeeland Bridge to Oosterschelde
- 1965 Gemini 6 launched; makes 1st rendezvous in space (with Gemini 7)
- 1966 Audouin Dollfus discovers 10th satellite of Saturn, Janus
- 1966 John W. Mecom Jr becomes 1st owner of New Orlean Saints
- 1967 The Silver Bridge collapses over the Ohio River in the US, killing 46 people
- 1969 San Francisco Fire Department replaces leather helmets with plastic ones
- 1970 Illinois State Constitution is adopted at a special election
- 1970 South Korean ferry Namyong-Ho sinks in Strait of Korea, 308 killed
- 1970 Soviet Venera 7 is 1st spacecraft to land on another planet (Venus)
- 1970 Striking shipyard workers in Gdańsk, Poland set ablaze the ruling Provincial Committee's building; responding soldiers kill 8
- 1971 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- 1973 American kidnap victim John Paul Getty III freed after ransom paid by oil tycoon grandfather John Paul Getty
- 1973 American Psychiatric Association declares homosexuality is not a mental illness
- 1976 Jamaica premier Manley wins elections
- 1976 Oil tanker Argo Merchant runs aground on the Nantucket Shoals, spilling 7.6 m million gallons of fuel oil - one of the largest oil spills at sea
- 1976 Samoa becomes a member of the UN
- 1978 Saint Maarten Patriotic Movement (SPM) forms under W. James
Event of Interest
1979 Chris Haney and Scott Abbott develop the board game Trivial Pursuit
Event of Interest
1979 Deposed Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi leaves US for Panama
- 1979 World Court in Hague rules Iran should release all US hostages
- 1980 Premier Queddei troops conquers Chad capital N'djamena
- 1980 ZBZ Sangha registered after 5 yrs of administrative hassles in Warsaw
- 1981 NASA launches Intelsat V satellite, no. 503
- 1982 Sao Tome & Principe constitution approved
- 1982 Spain reopens border with Gibraltar
- 1982 Teamsters president Roy Williams and 4 others convicted of bribery
- 1983 Last 80 US combat soldiers in Grenada withdrawn
- 1983 Space shuttle Columbia flies to Kennedy Space Center via El Paso, Kelly AFB
- 1983 Wendy Wasserstein's play "Isn't It Romantic" premieres in NYC
- 1984 USSR launches Vega 1 for rendezvous with Halley's Comet
- 1986 150 killed during race riot in Karachi
- 1986 Carnegie Hall reopens after a $50 million facelift
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1986 CIA director William J. Casey suffers a cerebral seizure
- 1992 WNew AM (1130) NYC resigns air, replaced by WBBR
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1993 British Prime Minister John Major and Irish premier Reynolds signs Downing Street Declaration concerning Northern Ireland self determination
- 1993 C-130 flies into a Philippines hill & explodes, 16 killed
- 1993 Haitian premier Robert Malval resigns
- 1993 Lee Aspen resigns as secretary of defense
- 1993 Y-12 crashes at Phonesavanh, Laos: 18 killed
- 1994 John Bruton becomes Ireland's premier
- 1994 Liberia militia kills 48 inhabitants of Monrovia
- 1994 Palau becomes a member of the UN
- 1995 Playboy goes back on sale after 36 year ban in Ireland
- 2001 The Leaning Tower of Pisa reopens after 11 years and $27,000,000 to fortify it, without fixing its famous lean
- 2005 Argentina's president Néstor Kirchner announces the early repayment of its external debt to the IMF.
- 2005 Introduction of the F-22 Raptor into USAF active service.
- 2005 Latvia amends its constitution to eliminate possibility of same-sex couples being entitled to marry.
- 2005 The 2005 Atlantic Power Outage began.
- 2006 First flight of the F-35 Lightning II.
- 2009 Boeing's new 787 Dreamliner makes its maiden flight from Seattle, Washington.
Event of Interest
2011 Former French President Jacques Chirac is convicted of diverting public funds, receives a two-year suspended prison sentence
Election of Interest
2013 Michelle Bachelet is re-elected President of Chile
- 2015 1,000 schools closed in Los Angeles after a email threat, supposedly from jihadists
- 2015 Fifth Republican presidential candidates debate in Las Vegas, Nevada
- 2015 Mayor of Flint, Michigan declares state of emergency over contaminated water supplies amid calls for a criminal investigation
- 2016 Ceasefire declared in Aleppo to allow hundreds to be evacutated from last rebel held area
- 2016 White supremacist Dylann Roof is found guilty of the Charleston Church Massacre which killed 9
- 2018 Affordable Care Act ('Obamacare') ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge in Fort Worth, Texas; later reversed by US Supreme Court
- 2018 Diplomats from 200 countries agree to a set of rules to implement the UN Paris Climate Agreement in Katowice, Poland
- 2018 Egyptian Archaeologists announce discovery of 4,400 year old tomb of Fifth Dynasty priest in Saqqara pyramid complex near Cairo
Event of Interest
2018 Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko announces establishment of independent Ukrainian Orthodox Church, splitting from Russian Orthodox
- 2019 Longest ever UN climate talks end in Madrid with compromise deal on curbing carbon only, other targets deferred for a year
- 2019 Protests against India's new citizenship bill that excludes Muslims, erupt across major cities, killing at least five
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2020 MacKenzie Scott announces she has given away more than $4 billion to 384 nonprofit organizations across the US
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2021 Las Vegas' McCarran Airport officially changes name to Harry Reid International Airport
- 2022 Tens of thousands of nurses go on strike in England, Wales and Northern Ireland in largest strike in NHS history [1]