Victory in Battle
- 524 Godomar, King of the Burgundians, defeats the Franks at the Battle of Vézeronce
- 996 Pope Gregory V crowns Otto III Roman Catholic German Emperor of Elzas
- 1128 Battle of Akspoele: earl Willem of Normandy beats Diederik
- 1498 Jews are expelled from Nurenberg Bavaria by Emperor Maximillian
- 1529 Battle of Landriano: Imperial-Spanish forces under Don Antonio de Leyva, Duke of Terranova, beat a French army under Francis de Bourbon, Comte de St. Pol
- 1547 Great fire in Moscow, 2-3,000 killed
- 1572 Garrison under Adrian of Swieten conquers Gouda
- 1582 The Incident at Honnō-ji takes place in Kyoto, Japan
- 1607 1st Protestant Episcopal parish in America established, Jamestown
- 1661 Treaty of Kardis: Russia & Sweden sign peace treaty
- 1667 Dutch Admiral Michiel de Ruyter occupies Sheerness, England
- 1672 Dutch pension advisor Johan de Witt seriously wounded
Event of Interest
1684 King Charles II revokes Massachusetts Bay Colony charter
Charles II
- 1734 In Montreal, New France (Quebec), black slave Marie-Joseph Angélique, having been convicted of the arson that destroyed much of the city, is tortured and hanged by the French authorities in a public ceremony
- 1749 Pieter Steyn installed as pension advisor of Netherlands
- 1749 Halifax, Nova Scotia, is founded
- 1768 1st medical diploma in America is granted to Dr John Archer from the College of Philadelphia
Constitution of the United States
1788 US Constitution comes into effect when New Hampshire is the 9th state to ratify it
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- 1788 The population of Vizille, France, demands local parliament
- 1792 Vancouver meets Spanish ships Sutil & Mexicana off Vancouver, British Columbia
- 1805 Great Stone Face, or the Profile found in New Hampshire
- 1813 Peninsular War: Battle of Vitoria
- 1821 African Methodist Episcopal Zion (AMEZ) Church organizes (NYC)
- 1822 Slave revolt leaders Denmark Vesey and Peter Poyas arrested in South Carolina
- 1824 Greek War of Independence: Egyptian forces capture Psara in the Aegean Sea
- 1826 Maniots defeat Egyptians under Ibrahim Pasha in the Battle of Vergas
Historic Invention
1834 American inventor and businessman Cyrus McCormick patents the reaping machine
Cyrus McCormick
- 1849 Battle at Waghausel: Prussian troops beat Baden rebels
- 1854 First Victoria Cross won during bombardment of Bomarsund in the Aland Islands (Crimean War)
- 1858 Louisiana chess prodigy Paul Morphy arrives in Europe
- 1863 Battle at Upperville, Virginia, 389 casualities
- 1864 New Zealand Wars: The Tauranga Campaign ends
Event of Interest
1869 William James passes his medical examination
William James
- 1893 1st Ferris wheel premieres (Chicago's Columbian Exposition)
- 1894 Workers in Pittsburgh strike Pullman sleeping car company
- 1895 British Roseberry government falls
- 1898 US captures Guam from Spain during the Spanish-American War
- 1900 In the Philippines, General Arthur McArthur, US military governor of the Philippines, issues an amnesty proclamation to those Filipinos who will renounce the insurgent movement and accept US sovereignty
- 1903 Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Mazarine Stone" takes place (BG)
Presidential Convention
1904 The US Republican Party nominates Theodore Roosevelt for President, but not without opposition from those whom he calls 'malefactors of great wealth'
Theodore Roosevelt
- 1907 E W Scripps founded United Press
- 1913 Tiny Broadwick is 1st woman to parachute from an airplane
- 1915 Anti-British revolt in South Africa ends with arrest of General De Law
- 1915 The U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in Guinn v. United States 238 US 347 1915, striking down an Oklahoma law denying the right to vote to some citizens
- 1916 Mexican troops defeat US expeditionary force under Gen. Pershing
- 1917 Hawaiian Red Cross forms
- 1919 Bauer forms German government
- 1919 The German Navy, feeling betrayed by the terms of the Versailles Treaty, scuttles most of its ships interned at Great Britain's Scapa Flow Naval base in the Orkney Islands
- 1921 The UK, the Dominions, and India, become the British Commonwealth of Nations
- 1923 Marcus Garvey sentenced to 5 years for using mail to defraud
- 1924 NCRV, Dutch Christian Radio Society, forms
- 1930 Ruth hits 3 HRs as Yanks blow 6-0 lead in 7th & lose 15-7
- 1933 1st Great Lakes-to-Gulf of Mexico barge trip completed, New Orleans
- 1937 French People's front government-Blum falls
- 1940 German occupiers disband Dutch States-General/Council of State
- 1940 The first successful west-to-east navigation of Northwest Passage begins at Vancouver, British Columbia
- 1941 2nd French troops occupies Damascus Syria
- 1941 After winning 20 straight at Fenway, Lefty Grove loses to Browns
- 1942 129°F (54°C), Tirat Zevi, Israel (Asian record)
Event of Interest
1942 US President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrive in Washington, D.C.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Erwin Rommel
- 1942 Seinheuer throws female world record spear (47.24m)
- 1943 Federal troops put down racial riot in Detroit; 30 dead
- 1944 Very heavy bombing on Berlin
- 1945 US defeat Japanese forces on Okinawa
- 1946 10 die in fire at Baker Hotel, Dallas Texas
- 1946 Bill Veeck buys Indians for $2.2 million
- 1946 Federal judge in Seattle rules that club doesn't have to play returning serviceman
- 1948 1st stored computer program run, on Manchester Mark I
- 1948 33 1/3 RPM LP record introduced and 78's planned to be phased out (Dr Peter Goldmark-Columbia Records)
- 1948 Lord Mountbatten resigns as Governor General of India (formerly the last Viceroy)
- 1948 Rhodes conference on Israeli-Arab war opens
- 1950 Joe DiMaggio gets his 2,000th hit
- 1952 Philippine School of Commerce, through a republic act, is converted to Philippine College of Commerce; later to be the Polytechnic University of the Philippines
- 1954 John Landy runs world record mile (3:58.0)
- 1956 Anti-protons detected in the atmosphere
- 1956 German DR frees almost 19,000 prisoners
- 1956 Oriole Connie Johnson beats WS Jack Harshman (1-0) in dual 1 hitters
- 1957 Ellen Louks Fairclough is sworn in as Canada's first woman Cabinet Minister
Event of Interest
1957 Louis St. Laurent resigns as Prime Minister of Canada, ending the longest uninterrupted run at the federal level in Canadian history
Louis St. Laurent
- 1957 7th Berlin International Film Festival: "12 Angry Men" wins Golden Bear
- 1958 French franc devalues
- 1960 Armin Hary runs world record 100m (10.0)
- 1962 USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 75,190 m
- 1963 Pope Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Montini) succeeds John XXIII
- 1963 13th Berlin International Film Festival: "The Devil" and "Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai" win the Golden Bear (tie)
- 1964 Beckwith arrested for murder of Medger Evers, found guilty 30 yr later
- 1964 Three civil rights workers, Michael H Schwerner, Andrew Goodman & James E Chane, disappeared after release from a Mississippi jail
- 1966 Queen Juliana opens Coen tunnel in Amsterdam
Event of Interest
1968 Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren resigns
Earl Warren
- 1968 18th Berlin International Film Festival: "Who Saw Him Die?" wins the Golden Bear
- 1969 1st reported hearing of pirate radio WGHP (With God's Help Peace)
- 1970 Detroit's Cesar Gutierrez goes 7-for-7 to tie a record set in 1892
- 1971 International Court of Justice asks South Africa to pull out of Namibia
- 1974 24th Berlin International Film Festival: "The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz" wins the Golden Bear
- 1975 Soyuz 19 returns to Earth
- 1976 Berlinguers PCI wins election in Italy
- 1977 Former White House chief of staff H. R. Haldeman enters prison
Event of Interest
1977 Menachem Begin (Likud) becomes Israel's 6th Prime Minister
Menachem Begin
- 1977 Bülent Ecevit forms a minority government in Turkey which lasts only 1 month
- 1978 The British Army shoots dead 3 Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers and a passing Ulster Volunteer Force member at a postal depot on Ballysillan Road, Belfast; it is claimed that the PIRA volunteers were about to launch a bomb attack
- 1979 Sri Lanka beat Canada by 60 runs to win the 1st ICC Trophy
- 1981 12-bottle case of 1979 Napamedoc Cabernet wine auctioned for $24,000
- 1981 Riots at Casablanca, kills 66-200
- 1981 Socialists/communists win French parliamentary election
- 1983 Stephanie Kay Ashmore, of Alabama, 18, crowned America's Junior Miss
- 1985 American, Brazilian & West German forensic pathologists confirm skeletal remains exhumed in Brazil were Nazi Dr Josef Mengele
- 1986 "Living on Video" by Trans-X peaks at #61
- 1986 "Vienna Calling" by Falco peaks at #18
- 1987 Discovery rolls over from OPF to Vandenberg AFB
- 1988 Many killed at demonstration against General Ne Win in Rangoon
- 1988 Rascals begin 1st tour in 20 years
- 1989 Supreme Court rules ok to burn US flag as a political expression
- 1990 7.7 Manjil-Rudbar Earthquake with hundreds of aftershocks hits Iran; killing about 50,000
- 1990 NYC's Zodiac killer shoots 4th victim, Larry Parham
- 1990 Parliaments of W & E Germany recognize Oder-Neissegrens
- 1990 US House of Representatives votes 254-177 to stop US flag burning, doesn't pass
- 1991 Jirg Haider resigns as premier of Austrian province of Karinthia
- 1991 P.V. Narasimha Rao becomes Prime Minister of India as head of the Congress minority government
- 1993 English mathematician Andrew Wiles proves last theorem of Fermat
- 1993 STS-57 (Endeavour) launches into orbit
- 2000 Section 28 (outlawing the 'promotion' of homosexuality in the United Kingdom) is repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote
- 2001 Total solar eclipse in Madagascar-Indian Ocean (4m56s)
- 2001 A federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, indicts 13 Saudis and a Lebanese in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 American servicemen
Event of Interest
2001 Mexican artist Frida Kahlo is the 1st Hispanic woman to be honored on a US postage stamp
Frida Kahlo
Historic Publication
2003 "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" the 5th book of the series by J. K. Rowling is published worldwide in English
J. K. Rowling
- 2004 SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight
- 2006 Pluto's newly discovered moons are officially named Nix and Hydra
- 2012 Moody's downgrades 15 major banks in the UK, US, Canada and Europe
- 2012 A boat of 200 asylum seekers headed to Australia capsizes and 110 survivors are rescued
- 2013 15 people are killed and 20 are injured after a suicide bomber attacks a mosque in Peshawar, Pakistan
- 2015 Hackers ground 1400 passengers by attacking IT system at Warsaw Chopin airport in Poland
- 2015 94 people die & 45 are hospitalized after drinking moonshine in Mumbai, India
- 2017 Romanian Prime Minister Sorin Grindeanu outed after losing no-confidence vote 241-7
- 2017 In landmark case Israeli woman wins sexism case against airline El Al after asked to change seat away from a man