612 BC Fall of Nineveh to the Babylonians and the forces of Medes, leads to the sack of one of the greatest cities in the world, the destruction of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, and the death of King Sinsharishkun [date approximate]
- 610 Traditional date of Laylat al-Qadr / Night of Power when Muslims believe the Quran is first sent down from heaven to the world and revealed to the Islamic prophet Muhammad
- 654 Pope Eugene I elected to succeed Martinus I
- 843 Treaty of Verdun: Brothers Lotharius I, Louis the German, and Charles the Bald divide France
- 955 Battle of Lechfeld: Otto I, King of the Germans defeats the Hungarian, ending 50 years of Magyar invasion of Western Europe
- 991 Battle of Maldon: English, led by Earl Byrhtnoth, confront a band of inland-raiding Vikings near Maldon in Essex. The battle and the English defeat are immortalized in the well-known Old English poem “The Battle of Maldon.”
- 1304 Battle at Zierik Sea: Dutch and French fleet beat Flemish fleet
- 1316 Second Battle of Athenry, Anglo-Norman victory over Gaelic clan alliance
- 1346 Majorcan explorer Jaume Ferrer sets sail to find the legendary “river of gold” along the West African coast and disappears without a trace
- 1461 Alfonso ed Espina, bishop of Osma, urges for an Inquisition in Spain
- 1500 Portuguese sea captain Diego Diaz is first European to sight Madagascar
- 1511 Portuguese troops occupy parts of Malacca
- 1512 Battle of Saint-Mathieu (also called the Battle of Brest): an English fleet of 25 ships commanded by Sir Edward Howard and a Franco-Breton fleet of 22 ships commanded by René de Clermont
- 1530 Siege of Florence ends with the city’s surrender to the Spanish forces of Charles I, ending the Republic of Florence
- 1557 Battle of St Quentin in Picardy: Lamoraal, Count of Egmont and Philibert, Duke of Savoy (Spanish Empire) beat the Duke of Montmorency (France)
- 1566 Protestant Iconoclasm “Beeldenstorm” (Iconoclastic Fury) begins in the European Low Countries
1628 Swedish warship Vasa sinks in Stockholm, killing 30
- 1675 Portuguese-Jewish synagogue opens in Amsterdam
- 1678 Netherlands and France sign peace treaty in Nijmegen
- 1680 Tewa medicine man Popé leads the Pueblo Rebellion against Spanish colonizers in the New Mexican province, killing 400 and driving out another 2,000
- 1743 Earliest recorded prizefighting rules are formulated
- 1759 Carlos III crowned King of Spain
1776 News of the United States Declaration of Independence reaches London during the American Revolutionary War
Mirabeau Secret Court Dealings Revealed
1792 Papers from the Tuileries Palace, proving the Comte de Mirabeau has secret dealings with the court, are revealed
Insurrection in Paris
1792 Revolutionaries storm the Tuileries Palace in Paris, residence of the royal family
- 1793 Louvre Palace officially opens in Paris as the Musée Central des Arts
- 1809 Area of Quito is the first to declare itself independent of Spain in Latin America, though put down by the Spanish after 24 days (now Ecuador’s National Day)
- 1821 Missouri is admitted as the 24th US state
- 1822 Antioch, Syria, is hit by an earthquake, killing about 20,000 people
- 1831 Hurricane hits Barbados, killing about 1,500 people
- 1833 Chicago incorporates as a village of about 200 people
- 1835 Mob of white people and oxen pull Black school to a swamp out of Canaan, NH
- 1846 US Act of Congress passes establishment of the Smithsonian Institution, now the world’s largest museum and research complex
- 1856 Hurricane washes away 200-300 revelers on Last Island, Louisiana
- 1861 Battle of Wilson’s Creek [Battle of Oak Hills], fought near Springfield, Missouri, General Lyon is killed in a Confederate victory (US Civil War)
- 1862 Battle of the Nueces River in Texas, also known as the Nueces Massacre
- 1869 O. B. Brown patents a moving picture projector
- 1876 First phone call between Brantford and Paris, Canada
Battle of the Big Hole
1877 Battle of the Big Hole: US Army led by Colonel John Gibbon fights the Nez Perce led by Chief Joseph and Looking Glass in Montana; both sides suffer heavy casualties, causing the Nez Perce to continue their long fighting retreat
Combustion Engine Milestone
1893 Rudolf Diesel‘s prototype internal combustion engine, a single 10-foot iron cylinder with a flywheel at its base, runs on its own power for the first time in Augsburg, Germany
Aspirin Synthesized
1897 German chemist Felix Hoffmann first synthesizes acetylsalicylic acid, which is later patented by his company Bayer under the name “aspirin”
Roncalli Made a Priest
1904 Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli (future Pope John XXIII) becomes a priest
- 1904 Battle of the Yellow Sea: Japanese fleet prevents Russians from breaking out of Port Arthur
- 1904 Dutch newspaper “Volk” fires gay journalist Jacob de Cock
Chesbro Streak Ends
1904 NY Highlanders pitcher Jack Chesbro ends string of 30 consecutive complete games in a 5-1 loss to Chicago White Sox at South Side Park, Chicago
- 1906 Pope Pius X condemns the 1905 French “Law on the Separation of the Churches and State,” which grants the state authority to control aspects of Catholic orthodoxy and worship (Encyclical “Gravissimo Officii Munere”)
- 1907 Prince Scipione Borghese wins the Beijing to Paris 7,500-mile auto rally
- 1911 Parliament Act reduces power of UK’s House of Lords
- 1911 The UK House of Commons votes on an annual salary of £400 for its members
- 1913 Treaty of Bucharest ends the Second Balkan War as Bulgaria cedes territory
- 1914 At Liège, German 12″/16.5″ guns reach the Belgian border
- 1914 German battlecruiser Goeben reaches Dardanelles; Turkey joins Germany
- 1914 German troops reconquer Mulhouse in Alsace
- 1914 WWI: French fall back in Alsace
- 1916 Turks annex Persian city Hamadan from Russia
- 1919 Ukrainian National Army massacres 25 Jews in Podolia, Ukraine
- 1920 Allies recognize Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Romania
- 1920 Mamie Smith and her Jazz Hounds record “Crazy Blues” for Okeh Records, the first significant blues hit by an African American artist
- 1920 The Turkish government renounces its claim to Israel and recognizes the British Mandate of Palestine
- 1920 Treaty of Sèvres is signed between victorious WWI Allies and the Ottoman Empire, giving Ottoman territories to France, Greece, and Italy; replaced by Treaty of Lausanne in 1923
1921 Franklin D. Roosevelt is stricken with a paralytic illness at his summer home on the Canadian island of Campobello, which is thought to be polio at the time but could possibly be Guillain-Barré syndrome
- 1925 Hurricane strikes Borculo, Netherlands, killing four people
- 1926 Italian-Spanish peace treaty is signed
- 1929 Grover Alexander beats the Phillies 7-1 for his 373rd and final National League win
- 1932 A 5.1 kg (11.2 pound) chondrite-type meteorite breaks into at least seven pieces and lands near the town of Archie in Cass County, Missouri
- 1932 The Lego Group is founded in Billund, Denmark, by Ole Kirk Christiansen; the name is a contraction of the Danish words “leg godt” (“play well” in English)
- 1936 114°F (46°C) recorded in Plain Dealing, Louisiana (state record)
- 1936 120°F (49°C) recorded in Ozark, Arkansas (state record)
- 1936 First time Olympic cycling road race is conducted as a mass start event with Frenchmen Robert Charpentier and Guy Lapébie taking gold and silver, and France winning the team gold medal
- 1938 119°F (48°C) recorded in Pendleton, Oregon (state record)
- 1939 Second Dutch De Geer government forms (first with Social Democrats)
- 1940 Dutch Prince Bernhard Fund forms
FDR, Churchill Meet Again
1941 Franklin D. Roosevelt and Churchill’s second meeting takes place in Placentia Bay, Newfoundland
- 1942 200 Jews escape the Mir Ghetto in Poland
Montgomery Commands 8th Army
1942 General Bernard Montgomery is appointed commander of the British 8th Army in North Africa
Kaiser Permanente Health Care
1942 Henry J. Kaiser opens the Kaiser Richmond Field Hospital for Kaiser Shipyards in Richmond, California, pioneering the Kaiser Permanente healthcare model
- 1943 Dutch submarine attacks Hertengbeest Island, NW Bali
Patton Slaps US Soldier
1943 US General George S. Patton slaps a battle-fatigued soldier at an evacuation hospital, calling him “cowardly,” and threatens him with a pistol
- 1944 Battle for Guam ends with US troops recapturing Guam from the Japanese
- 1944 Braves’ Red Barrett throws only 58 pitches to shut out the Cincinnati Reds 2-0
- 1944 Race riots in Athens, Alabama
- 1944 The combined US and French offensive begins at Alencon
Japan Willing to Surrender
1945 Japan announces its willingness to surrender to the Allies, provided Emperor Hirohito‘s status remains unchanged
- 1948 ABC enters network TV at 7 pm (WJZ, NY)
- 1948 Allen Funt’s “Candid Camera” TV debuts on ABC
Charles vs Lesnevich
1949 Ezzard Charles TKO’s Gus Lesnevich in the 8th round for the heavyweight boxing title
- 1949 US National Military Establishment renamed Department of Defense
- 1954 All-time great English jockey Sir Gordon Richards retires from the saddle with a British record 4,870 winning rides
- 1954 At Massena, New York, the groundbreaking ceremony for the St. Lawrence Seaway is held
- 1954 Dutch Indonesian Union breaks up
- 1956 23rd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Cleveland 26, All-Stars 0 (75,000 attendees)
- 1957 The US performs a nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site
- 1960 Discoverer 13 launches into orbit and returns the first object from space
Music History
1963 “Little” Stevie Wonder‘s single “Fingertips (Part 2)” begins a three-week run, making him the youngest singer to top the charts at 13
- 1964 WJSP TV channel 28 in Columbus, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting
- 1965 USAF test pilot Joe Engle in the X-15 reaches an altitude of 51.3 miles (82.6 km) and a top speed of 3,550 mph (5,713 km/h) (Mach 5.20)
- 1966 NASA launches Lunar Orbiter 1 to the Moon to photograph the lunar surface
- 1968 Race riots in Miami, Chicago, and Little Rock
Baseball History
1969 Don Sutton breaks his 13-game losing streak to the Cubs with a 4-2 win
- 1970 British Home Secretary Reginald Maudling threatens to impose direct rule on Northern Ireland if the agreed reform measures are not carried out
1970 Jim Morrison‘s trial for “lewd and lascivious behavior” begins in Miami, Florida
- 1971 During the internment round-up operation in West Belfast, the Parachute Regiment kills 11 unarmed civilians in what becomes known as the Ballymurphy Massacre
- 1971 Sixteen baseball researchers form the Society for American Baseball Research
Baseball Record
1971 Twins’ Harmon Killebrew becomes the 10th player to amass 500 home runs and adds his 501st
- 1972 A one-million-kilogram meteor grazes the atmosphere above Canada
Wings Arrested
1972 Paul and Linda McCartney and their band Wings are arrested in Gothenburg, Sweden, on drug possession charges when customs officials discover a package of hashish
- 1972 The Great Fireball, a rare daylight meteor visible from Utah, US, to Alberta, Canada, passes 35 miles above Earth’s surface
- 1973 First BART train travels through Transbay Tube to Montgomery St. Station
Music History
1974 Roberta Flack scores her third No. 1 single with “Feel Like Makin’ Love”
Music History
1976 Elton John performs the first of seven sold-out nights at Madison Square Garden, NYC, to conclude his North American tour
- 1976 Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer is shot dead by the British Army as he drives in Belfast; his car goes out of control and kills three children, sparking “peace rallies” throughout the month by the ‘Peace People’
- 1977 About 100 white sympathizers join evicted black squatters in a protest against the demolition of shanty dwellings outside Cape Town, South Africa
- 1977 Phillies and Expos play a doubleheader that ends at 3:23 am
- 1977 Postal employee David Berkowitz is arrested in Yonkers, NY, accused of being the “Son of Sam” .44 caliber killer
- 1977 US and Panama sign Panama Canal Zone accord
- 1977 USSR performs an underground nuclear test
- 1978 USSR conducts a nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya
Off the Wall
1979 “Off the Wall,” the fifth studio album by Michael Jackson, is released (Billboard Album of the Year 1980)
- 1979 Ecuador adopts its 17th constitution, extending citizenship and suffrage to all Ecuadorians over 18
- 1979 Wings release singles “Getting Closer” and “Baby’s Request”
- 1980 Allen, the most powerful hurricane in the Caribbean, hits Brownsville, Texas
- 1981 Coca-Cola Bottling Co. agrees to invest $34 million in Black-owned businesses
Baseball Record
1981 MLB Philadelphia Phillies’ Pete Rose, with his 3,631st career hit, breaks Stan Musial‘s National League hit record
- 1981 Richard Nixon Museum in San Clemente, California, closes
- 1984 Famous Mary Decker-Zola Budd collision during 3000 m at the Los Angeles Olympics; Decker falls, Budd finishes 7th, and Maricica Puică of Romania wins
- 1984 Ian Ferguson of New Zealand wins two canoeing gold medals in the one day, winning the K-1 500 and K-2 500 with Paul MacDonald at the Los Angeles Olympics; he wins K-4 1000 the next day
- 1984 Sweden’s Agneta Andersson wins the women’s canoeing 500 m double at the Los Angeles Olympics with victories in the K-1 and K-2 with Anna Olsson
US Olympic Basketball Gold
1984 The US beats Spain 96-65 to win the men’s basketball gold medal at the Los Angeles Olympics; future ‘dream team’ members Michael Jordan, Patrick Ewing and Chris Mullin feature
Baseball Record
1985 Oakland A’s Dave Kingman becomes the 21st player to hit 400 home runs off Matt Young in Seattle
- 1985 Uno Lindström of Sweden juggles a soccer ball 13.11 miles (21.09 km)
- 1986 Marquis Theatre opens at 1535 Broadway, New York City
Baseball History
1986 Pitcher Bob Forsch hits a grand slam to lead the Cardinals to a 5-4 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates in St. Louis
Billy Martin Day
1986 Yankees retire Billy Martin‘s uniform number 1 during Billy Martin Day at Yankee Stadium
- 1987 Flight Readiness Firing of Discovery’s main engines is successful
- 1987 Kevin Gross is the second pitcher in eight days to be ejected for scuffing the ball
Man of the Moment
1988 Alan Ayckbourn‘s play “Man of the Moment” premieres at Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough
Matt Biondi World Record
1988 Matt Biondi swims a 100 m freestyle world record in 48.42 seconds
- 1988 Rodrigo Borja is installed as president of Ecuador
- 1988 The UN estimates Asia’s population has hit 3 billion
- 1989 A’s bat out of order against White Sox in the third inning
- 1989 Australia is 0-301 at the end of day one of the fifth Test Cricket match at Trent Bridge
- 1990 NASA’s Magellan spacecraft arrives at Venus
- 1990 The massacre of more than 127 Muslims in northeast Sri Lanka by paramilitaries
- 1991 NFL sportscaster Paul Maguire suffers a heart attack at 53
- 1992 Satellite TOPEX/Poseidon launches
- 1992 Soyuz TM-15 lands
- 1993 An earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter Scale hits the South Island of New Zealand
River of Dreams
1993 Columbia Records releases “River of Dreams,” singer-songwriter Billy Joel‘s twelfth and final studio album (unless he changes his mind)
- 1996 Dare & Go ends Cigar’s record-tying victory streak at 16
- 1996 New Zealand beats South Africa 29-18 in Cape Town to win the inaugural Tri Nations Rugby Series with an unbeaten record; All Blacks flyhalf Andrew Mehrtens lands 5 penalties and 2 conversions
- 1996 Parlisha Williams of Louisiana is crowned Ms. Black USA Metroplex
- 1996 Yankees lose, ending third-best home series victory streak at 24
- 1997 Anaheim Angels’ Tony Phillips is arrested for purchasing cocaine
Greg Maddux Signed
1997 Atlanta Braves sign Greg Maddux to a then-record 5-year, $57.5 million deal
- 1998 Royal Proclamation of HRH Prince Al-Muhtadee Billah as the Crown Prince of Brunei
Iraqi Proposal Rejected
2001 US and UK reject a proposal by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to permit the Iraqi government to use $1 billion per year to fund infrastructure improvements and to increase oil production capacity
- 2002 New Zealand beats South Africa 30-23 in Durban to win their fourth Tri Nations Rugby Series; All Blacks score four tries to two
- 2003 The highest temperature ever recorded in the UK: 38.5°C (101.3°F) in Kent, the first time the UK records a temperature over 100°F
- 2006 Scotland Yard disrupts a major terrorist plot to destroy aircraft traveling from the United Kingdom to the United States; all toiletries are banned from commercial aircraft
Phelps’ World Record Medley
2008 American super-star swimmer Michael Phelps wins the 400 m individual medley at the Beijing Olympics in a world record time of 4:03.84
- 2008 British cyclist Nicole Cooke wins the road race at the Beijing Olympics, earning Great Britain’s 200th gold in the modern Olympics
- 2013 Six people are killed after Paluweh volcano erupts in Indonesia
- 2013 Sixteen Royal Guardsmen are killed in a bus accident in Al Hoceima, Morocco
- 2014 Israeli and Palestinian officials agree to a 72-hour ceasefire proposed by Egypt
- 2014 Unrest breaks out in Ferguson, Missouri, after the shooting death of African-American Michael Brown (18) by police officer Darren Wilson
- 2015 110°F (43°C) in Apalachicola, Florida, breaks the state record of 109°F (42.8°C) set in 1931
Google Restructures as Alphabet
2015 Google announces its restructuring as Alphabet, a holding company with Google, YouTube, Android, and Chrome as subsidiaries
- 2016 18-year-old Australian Kyle Chalmers creates a huge upset when he swims a junior world record of 47.58 to win the men’s 100 m freestyle gold medal at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics
- 2016 South Korean shooter Jin Jong-oh recovers from 7th place during the final to set an Olympic record of 193.7 and win gold in men’s 50 m pistol at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics; he is the first shooter to win three consecutive Olympic gold medals in one event
- 2016 Weightlifter Nijat Rahimov of Kazakhstan sets a world record with a 214 kg lift in the clean and jerk and finishes with a 379 kg total to win the gold medal in the men’s 77 kg category at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics
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