- 1198 Philips of Zwabia, Prince of Hohenstaufen, crowned King of Germany and King of the Romans
Battle of Interest
1519 Second Battle of Tehuacingo, Mexico: Hernán Cortés vs Tlascala Aztecs
Hernán Cortés
- 1550 William Cecil appoints himself English minister of foreign affairs
Event of Interest
1590 Alexander Farnese's army forces Henry IV of France to raise the siege of Paris
Victory in Battle
1644 Prince Frederick Henry conquers Sas of Gent
Frederick Henry
The Great Fire of London
1666 Great Fire of London ends, leaving 13,200 houses destroyed and 8 dead
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Event of Interest
1698 Russian Tsar Peter the Great imposes a tax on beards
Peter the Great
- 1750 Decree issued in Paderborn Prussia allows for annual search of all Jewish homes for stolen or "doubtful" goods
- 1774 The 1st Continental Congress, a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British colonies that later became the United States, convenes at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia
- 1774 Twelve of the thirteen American colonies adopt a trade embargo against Great Britain at the first Continental Congress at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- 1774 With the meeting of the Continental Congress, Philadelphia becomes the 1st capital of United States
Victory in Battle
1781 American Revolutionary War: French fleet of 24 ships under Comte de Grasse defeat British forces under Admiral Graves at the Battle of the Chesapeake [Battle of the Virginia Capes] and trap Cornwallis
Samuel Hood
- 1786 Montplaisir Ceramic factory opens in Schaarbeek Belgium
Event of Interest
1793 French Revolution: the "Reign of Terror" begins
Georges Danton
- 1795 USA and Algiers sign peace treaty
- 1796 General Salicetti orders equal rights for Jews of Bologna, Italy
- 1798 New conscription law goes into effect in France
- 1800 Malta surrenders to British after they blockade French troops
- 1814 -15] Battle of Masurische Meren: Germans chase Russians out of East Prussia
Event of Interest
1816 Louis XVIII has to dissolve the Chambre introuvable ("Unobtainable Chamber").
Louis XVIII
Election of Interest
1836 Sam Houston elected President of the Republic of Texas
Sam Houston
Event of Interest
1862 General Lee crosses Potomac & enters Maryland
Robert E. Lee
- 1863 Bread revolt in Mobile, Alabama
- 1864 British, French & Dutch fleets attacked Japan in Shimonoseki Straits
- 1864 Achille François Bazaine becomes Marshall of France.
- 1877 Southern blacks led by Pap Singleton settle in Kansas
- 1879 George Washington De Long, American Arctic Explorer, and commander on board the Jeannette, becomes trapped with his crew in pack ice during his attempt to reach the North Pole
- 1882 10,000 workers march in 1st Labor Day parade in NYC
- 1885 1st gasoline pump is delivered to a gasoline dealer (Ft Wayne, Ind)
- 1887 Gas lamp at Theatre Royal in Exeter catches fire killing about 200
- 1889 German Christine Hardt patents the first modern brassiere
- 1895 George Washington Murray elected to Congress from SC
- 1900 France proclaims a protectorate over Chad
- 1905 Lillian Mortimer's "No Mother to Guide" premieres in Detroit
Treaty of Interest
1905 The Treaty of Portsmouth is signed concluding the Russo-Japanese War; US President Theodore Roosevelt will receive the Nobel Peace Prize for his role as mediator
Theodore Roosevelt
- 1905 50 prominent men meet in Sydney's Australia Hotel to found the National Defense League fueled by fear of Japan after its victory over Russia
- 1907 King Edward VII of Great Britain meets Russia's Foreign Minister Alexander Izvolski in an attempt to strengthen Russia's relationship with Britain
- 1910 Jack Coombs begins a record streak of 53 shutout innings
- 1914 French headquarters move to Chatillon-sur-Seine
- 1914 Great Britain, France, Belgium and Russia sign pact of London
- 1914 Proclamation prohibits Canadian mint from issuing gold coins
Historic Communication
1914 US President Woodrow Wilson orders US Navy to make its wireless stations accessible for any transatlantic communications - even to German diplomats sending coded messages; leads to interception of the Zimmermann telegram, helping bring the US into the war
Woodrow Wilson
- 1915 Anti-war conference in Zimmerwald, Switzerland
Event of Interest
1915 Tsar Nicholas II, distressed by increasing Russian losses, assumes personal command of his nation's military forces; clearly a symbolic act and devastating for his leadership
Nicholas II
- 1918 Decree "On Red Terror" is published in Russia
- 1920 Iron monument unveiled at Stone churches, Flanders
- 1925 112 F (44°C), Centerville, Alabama (state record)
- 1929 French premier Aristide Briand requests a United States of Europe
- 1932 The French Upper Volta is broken apart between Ivory Coast, French Sudan, and Niger
- 1937 Spanish Civil War: Llanes falls
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Event of Interest
1939 New Zealand Prime Minister, Michael Joseph Savage declares New Zealand's support for Britain in the war with Germany; Savage famously told the nation 'where she goes, we go. Where she stands, we stand'
Michael Joseph Savage
Event of Interest
1939 J. B. M. Hertzog resigns as South African Prime Minister after losing a vote in parliament on neutrality in WWII
J. B. M. Hertzog
- 1942 Battle at Alam Halfa ends
- 1942 British & US bomb Le Havre & Bremen
- 1943 US airland at Nadzab, New Guinea
- 1944 "Mad Tuesday" 65,000 Dutch nazi collaborators flee to Germany
- 1944 5 resistance fighter executed in Terneuzen
- 1944 Allies liberate Brussels
- 1944 Belgium, Luxembourg & Netherlands sign customs Unity treaty
Event of Interest
1944 British premier Winston Churchill travels to Scotland
Winston Churchill
- 1944 Dutch Armed Forces forms, under prince Bernhard
- 1948 In France, 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.
- 1952 General Carlos Ibáñez elected president of Chile
- 1953 1st privately operated atomic reactor-Raleigh, NC
- 1953 US give Persian premier Zahedi $45 million aid
- 1954 Dutch Super Constellation crashes at Shannon, 28 die
- 1955 Fred Kaps becomes world champion magician
- 1956 20 die in a train crash in Springer NM
Event of Interest
1957 Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista bombs an uprising in Cienfuegos
Fulgencio Batista
- 1957 Yugoslavia bans Milovan Djilas' book "new class marine officers"
Historic Publication
1957 "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac is published by Viking Press in New York
Jack Kerouac
Historic Publication
1958 "Doctor Zhivago" novel by Boris Pasternak published in US
Boris Pasternak
Television Premiere
1958 "The Huckleberry Hound Show" by Hanna-Barbera featuring Yogi Bear premieres on US TV
Joseph Barbera
William Hanna
John F. Kennedy
- 1961 US President JFK signs law against hijacking (death penalty)
- 1961 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- 1967 -23] Hurricane Beuleah, kills 54 in Caribbean, Mexico & Texas
- 1968 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- 1969 Frente Obrero wins Dutch Antilles national elections
- 1970 Estimated 15 cm (6") of rainfall, Bug Point, Utah (state record)
- 1972 Chemical spill with fog sickens hundreds in Meuse Valley Belgium
- 1973 Conference of less developed countries approves forming "producers' associations" and calls for withdrawal of Israeli forces from occupied Arab lands
Assassination Attempt
1975 First Assassination attempt on US President Gerald Ford by Lynette Fromme in Sacramento
Gerald Ford
Conference of Interest
1978 Anwar Sadat, Menachem Begin and Jimmy Carter begin Egypt-Isreal peace conference at Camp David
Anwar Sadat
Menachem Begin
Jimmy Carter
- 1979 Canada puts its first gold bullion coin on sale
Event of Interest
1979 Earl of Mountbatten's Ceremonial Funeral held in Westminster Abbey
Lord Mountbatten
- 1979 Iranian army occupies Piranshahr
- 1980 Poland party leader Edward Gierek resigns
- 1980 World's longest road tunnel, St Gotthard in Swiss Alps, opens
- 1982 Eddie Hill sets propeller-driven boat water speed record of 229 mph
- 1983 8th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 3-lands at Edwards AFB
- 1983 Elmer Trettr sets record for highest terminal velocity at 201.34 mph
- 1984 12th Space Shuttle Mission (41-D) -Discovery 1- lands at Edwards AFB
- 1986 Hijacking of aircraft Pan Am 73 at Karachi airport, Pakistan, 20 passengers killed
- 1986 NASA awards study contracts to 5 aerospace firms
- 1986 NASA launches DOD-1
- 1987 Carlton Fisk clubs his 300th career HR off Danny Jackson
- 1989 Deborah Norville becomes news anchor of Today Show
Event of Interest
1990 Iraqi President Saddam Hussein urges Arabs to rise against the West
Saddam Hussein
Event of Interest
1991 Nelson Mandela chosen as president of African National Congress
Nelson Mandela
- 1993 Noureddine Morceli runs world record mile (3:44,39)
- 1994 Kirgizia government resigns
- 1996 Following US cruise missile strikes on Iraq, crude oil prices rise as the market speculates when Iraq will begin exporting oil under UN Resolution 986
- 2000 The Haverstraw-Ossining Ferry makes its maiden voyage.
- 2005 Mandala Airlines Flight 91 crashes into a heavily-populated residential area, seconds after taking off from Medan in Sumatra, Indonesia, killing 100 people on board and 49 people on the ground
- 2007 Three terrorists suspected to be a part of Al-Qaeda are arrested in Germany after allegedly planning attacks on both the Frankfurt International airport and US military installations.
- 2009 Denmark celebrates the first national flagday, in memory of the fallen Danes in international operations since 1948.
- 2012 54 people are killed and 50 injured after a firecracker factory explodes in Nadu
- 2012 Austerity measure requires Greece to increase its maximum working days to six per week
- 2012 25 are killed and 4 wounded after an ammunition store exploded in Afyon, Turkey
- 2014 World Health Organization estimates 1,900 people have died from the Ebola virus out of 3,500 infected in Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, and Sierra Leone
- 2015 US health officials confrim a salmonella outbreak linked to cucumbers from Mexico is responsible for 1 death and for making hundreds sick
Hurricane Irma
2017 Hurricane Irma becomes the most powerful hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic Basin region with winds of 185mph (280km/h)
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- 2017 Barry Callebaut announce a 4th type of chocolate, "Ruby", made from the Ruby cocoa bean
- 2017 Togo's government shuts down the internet for a week to quell government opposition
- 2017 Brenda Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond, becomes the first woman President of the UK Supreme Court
- 2018 Anonymous senior White house official opinion piece "I am part of the resistance inside the Trump administration" published by the New York Times
Event of Interest
2018 UK Prime Minister Theresa May confirms in parliament two Russian military intelligence officers undertook novichok nerve agent attack, prompts international condemnation
Theresa May
- 2019 New theory the Loss Ness monster may be a giant eel after DNA study reveals no plesiosaur or sturgeon DNA found
- 2019 South African women march on parliament to protest violence against women after month where 30 killed by their spouses
- 2019 Erramatti Mangamma becomes the world's oldest living mother giving birth to twins aged 74 in Hyderabad, India