- 354 Roman Emperor Constantius gives grand circus and theater shows to mark 30th year of his reign as Caesar in Arles
- 680 Al-Hussein (Al-Ḥusayn ibn) and his followers are killed at Karbala by the army of Yazid, the Umayyad caliph, on their way to Kufa
- 732 The Battle of Tours: The Umayyad army, led by Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi, is defeated by the Frankish-Aquitainian force led by Charles Martel during the Umayyad invasion of Gaul
- 1375 West Frisian seawall breaks, flooding the northern Netherlands
- 1471 Battle of Brunkeberg: Swedish regent Sten Sture defeats forces led by Danish King Christian I
- 1549 Edward Seymour, first Duke of Somerset, is dismissed for mismanagement as Treasurer and Lord Protector of the Realm and imprisoned
- 1575 Battle of Dormans: Roman Catholic forces under Duke Henry of Guise defeat the French Protestants, capturing Philippe de Mornay among others
- 1578 German Count Johan Casimir occupies Ghent with 500 horsemen, subsidized by England
- 1631 Saxon army occupies Prague
- 1684 Advert in a tavern in Ludgate Hill, London, to view a rhinoceros is published; it is the first rhinoceros in Europe since 1515 [1]
- 1695 King William III escapes from the Southern Netherlands back to England
- 1720 French government proclaims a strike on banknotes
War of the Polish Succession
1733 France declares war on Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI
- 1760 Suriname’s colonial regime signs a treaty with the Aukaners (formerly enslaved people)
- 1780 The Great Hurricane of 1780 hits Barbados and goes on to kill 20,000 to 30,000 people in the Caribbean, making it the deadliest recorded hurricane in the Atlantic
- 1787 Amsterdam surrenders to the Prussian invasion army
- 1799 Convention of Alkmaar: British-Russian invasion army departs Holland
- 1802 First non-Indigenous settlement in Choctaw Territory of Oklahoma
1st President of Mexico
1824 Guadalupe Victoria takes office as the first (interim) President of the United Mexican States
Billiard Ball Patented
1865 John Wesley Hyatt patents the billiard ball made from cellulose nitrate (celluloid) in Albany, New York (patent US50359A)
- 1868 Cuba revolts for independence against Spain
- 1868 First written account of a Canadian football game
1871 The Great Chicago Fire is finally extinguished after three days, leaving approximately 300 dead, 100,000 homeless, and causing $222 million in damage
- 1874 Fiji becomes a British colony
- 1886 First dinner jacket (tuxedo) worn to an autumn ball at Tuxedo Park in New York
- 1888 Teetotalers’ excursion train crashes, killing 64 at Mud Run, Pennsylvania
- 1889 Barnard College is founded in New York City after Columbia University refuses to admit women
- 1892 Entire Hong Kong national cricket team dies in shipwreck off Taiwan
- 1899 African-American inventor Isaac R. Johnson patents the bicycle frame
- 1900 Foreign ministers in Peking begin their first serious negotiations over what conditions their nations will impose on the Chinese after putting down the Boxer Uprising
- 1900 In Manchuria, Russia captures the major city of Mukden as part of its plan to take over the entire province
Women’s Social and Political Union
1903 The Women’s Social and Political Union is formed by Emmeline Pankhurst to fight for women’s rights in Britain
- 1904 Boston pitchers achieve 148 complete games, an AL record, also a record for total complete games: AL 1,098, NL 1,089
- 1904 Liberty Theatre opens at 234 W 42nd St NYC
Wuchang Uprising
1911 Chinese revolutionaries begin an armed rebellion against the ruling Qing dynasty in Wuchang, causing the Viceroy of Huguang to flee the city (Taiwan National Day)
- 1911 The KCR East Rail commences service between Kowloon and Canton
- 1913 British passenger ship Volturno catches fire in the Atlantic, killing 136
- 1913 Gamboa Dam in Panama is blown up; Atlantic and Pacific waters mix
1st President of China
1913 Yuan Shikai is installed as the first President of China
The Woman Without a Shadow
1919 Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s opera “Die Frau ohne Schatten” (The Woman Without a Shadow) premieres in Vienna, Austria
Chiang Kai-shek Rises to Power
1928 Chiang Kai-shek becomes Director of the State Council of China
- 1930 AP votes Joe Cronin unofficial AL MVP, and BWA names Hack Wilson NL MVP
- 1930 NY Yankees announce the signing of former Chicago Cubs manager Joe McCarthy as team manager for four years
- 1931 A.J. Bennett hits H. Garbarino for the first scoring pass in Canada’s Big Four
- 1931 William Walton’s “Belshazzar’s Feast” premieres in Leeds
- 1932 “Betty & Bob” premieres on radio
- 1932 Dnieper Dam in the USSR, the world’s largest dam, is put into operation
- 1933 First synthetic detergent, “Dreft” by Procter & Gamble, goes on sale
- 1935 Coup under Gen Georgios Kondylis in favor of Greek monarchy
- 1935 League of Nations denounces Italian invasion of Abyssinia
Sudetenland Annexed
1938 Germany completes its annexation of Czechoslovakia’s Sudetenland
- 1941 RAF bombs Piraeus to prevent German heavy armor from advancing
- 1941 WW2: Battle of Moscow – German Wehrmacht forces encounter stronger than expected resistance at the Mozhaisk line, west of Moscow
- 1942 1,300 Austrian Jews are transported to Theresienstadt concentration camp
- 1943 US bombers accidentally strike Enschede, Netherlands, causing 151 deaths
- 1944 Admiral Halsey’s Task Force 30 bombs Okinawa; 700 die
- 1946 Max Frisch’s play “Die Chinesische Mauer” (The Chinese Wall) premieres in Zürich
- 1954 1st National Film Awards (India): “Shyamchi Aai” wins the Golden Lotus
Viet Minh Take Hanoi
1954 Ho Chi Minh enters Hanoi after the withdrawal of French troops
- 1957 A fire at the Windscale nuclear plant in Cumbria, England, becomes the world’s first major nuclear accident
Eisenhower Apologizes to African Diplomat
1957 US President Eisenhower apologizes to the finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbedemah, after he is refused service in a restaurant in Dover, Delaware
- 1957 USSR performs a nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya, USSR
- 1958 US performs a nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- 1958 USSR performs a nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya, USSR
- 1959 Lee Harvey Oswald signs the guestbook in a hotel in Helsinki
- 1959 Pan Am begins regular flights around the world
- 1960 16 California Poly football team members die in a plane crash in Toledo
- 1960 Cyclone hits coast of Bay of Bengal, killing about 4,000
- 1960 Ron Stewart of Ottawa rushes for a CFL record of 287 yards
- 1960 WGTE TV channel 30 in Toledo, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
- 1961 Expansion draft stocks Houston Astros and New York Mets
- 1961 Otis M. Smith is appointed to the Michigan Supreme Court
- 1961 US performs a nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
The Bob Newhart Show
1961 Variety TV show “The Bob Newhart Show” premieres on NBC in the US
- 1962 Indians assault Chinese positions in North India attack
From Russia With Love
1963 “From Russia With Love,” the second James Bond film based on a novel by Ian Fleming, starring Sean Connery and Daniela Bianchi, premieres in London
Nobel Peace Prize
1963 American chemist and anti-nuclear weapons campaigner Linus Pauling wins the Nobel Peace Prize on the same day the first nuclear test ban treaty comes into effect [1]
- 1963 France cedes control of the Bizerte naval base to Tunisia
- 1963 Netherlands population reaches 12,000,000
- 1964 XVIII Summer Olympic Games open at the National Stadium in Tokyo, Japan
- 1965 The Supremes appear on “The Ed Sullivan Show”
- 1965 The Vinland Map, the first known map of America drawn around 1440, is introduced by Yale University
- 1966 The Beach Boys release their influential single “Good Vibrations”
Borstal Boy
1967 Brendan Behan‘s “Borstal Boy” premieres in Dublin as a play adapted by Frank McMahon and starring Frank Grimes
- 1968 George Harrison forms the music publishing company Singsong Ltd, though it only ever publishes one song, “Old Brown Shoe”
- 1968 US performs a nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Vice President Resigns
1973 US Vice President Spiro Agnew resigns after pleading no contest to allegations of tax fraud
- 1974 Canadian cyclist John Hathaway begins a two-year ride of 50,600 miles
Labour Wins Election
1974 Labour Party, led by Harold Wilson, wins UK general election
- 1974 MLB Oakland A’s Mike Andrews files a $25 million lawsuit against team owner Charlie Finley
- 1974 The Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) and its political wing, the Irish Republican Socialist Party (IRSP), are founded at the Spa Hotel in the village of Lucan near Dublin
- 1975 Israel formally signs the protocol for the Sinai II Agreement with Egypt in Jerusalem [1]
Lisztomania
1975 Ken Russell’s surreal biographical musical comedy film “Lisztomania”, starring Roger Daltrey as 19th-century Hungarian composer Franz Liszt, with a soundtrack arranged by progressive rock keyboardist Rick Wakeman, premieres
Arrest of Jiang Reported
1976 Beijing reports the arrest of Mao Zedong‘s widow Jiang Qing, which happened four days earlier
- 1976 Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, opens with the NY Giants losing 24–14 to the Dallas Cowboys in front of 76,042 fans
- 1976 Greece’s 98-year-old Dimitrion Yordanidis is the oldest man to compete in a marathon; he finishes in 7:33
- 1977 Amnesty International wins the Nobel Peace Prize, recognizing its significant role in human rights activism
- 1978 Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler and Joe Perry are injured by a cherry bomb
- 1978 British pop music magazine “Smash Hits” is first published
- 1978 Steve Perry joins Journey
Susan B. Anthony Coin
1978 US Congress approves dollar coin honoring women’s suffrage campaigner Susan B. Anthony
- 1979 An unprecedented 2.9 inches of snow is measured in Central Park in New York City
- 1979 Nordiques’ Real Cloutier sets an NHL record with a hat trick in his first game
- 1979 Panama assumes sovereignty over the Canal Area (Canal Zone)
- 1979 Rock band Fleetwood Mac gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
- 1980 4,500 die when a pair of earthquakes strike NW Algeria
Private Benjamin
1980 Comedy film “Private Benjamin,” starring Goldie Hawn, is released
- 1980 Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope network is dedicated
- 1980 Yankees lose 4-2 and are swept by Royals in AL Championship Series
- 1982 Hernán Siles Zuazo is installed as president of Bolivia
Canonization of Maximilian Kolbe
1982 Pope John Paul II canonizes Rev. Maximilian Kolbe, who volunteers to die in place of another inmate at Auschwitz concentration camp, as a saint
- 1982 US imposes sanctions on Poland for banning the Solidarity trade union
PM Yitzḥak Shamir
1983 Israel’s Knesset votes 60-53 to endorse Yitzhak Shamir as Prime Minister
- 1983 NBC premieres the true-life drama “Adam,” based on the murder of John Walsh’s son
- 1983 Tom Monaghan becomes CEO of Detroit Tigers
- 1985 Sudan adopts an interim constitution
- 1985 US fighter jets force an Egyptian plane carrying the hijackers of the Italian ship Achille Lauro to land in Italy, and the gunmen are placed in custody
- 1986 7.5 magnitude earthquake strikes San Salvador, El Salvador
- 1987 Garfield Park Nature Center opens, the latest in Cleveland Metroparks
- 1987 Giants’ Jeffrey Leonard hits a playoff record home run in his fourth consecutive game
- 1987 Hartford center Doug Jarvis ends his career having played an NHL record 964 consecutive games as the Whalers lose 6-2 to the New York Rangers
- 1988 NBC premieres the tele-biopic “Winnie,” based on the life of Winifred Sprockett and starring Meredith Baxter
- 1990 American Petroleum Institute (API) reports crude inventories dropped by more than 4 MMB in the last week
- 1990 US 67th manned space mission STS 41 (Discovery 11) returns from space
- 1991 Ex-postal worker Joseph Harris kills four postal workers
- 1991 Greyhound Bus exits bankruptcy
- 1991 The US cuts all foreign aid to Haiti
- 1992 Floriade (Flower Show) closes in The Hague, Netherlands
- 1993 Ferry boat leaves for west coast of South Korea, 120 are killed
- 1994 Lt. General Raoul Cédras resigns as the dictator of Haiti
- 1994 MPAA chief Jack Valenti holds a meeting to determine new movie ratings
- 1994 Nobel Prize in Physiology is awarded to Alfred G. Gilman and Martin Rodbell for G-protein discoveries
- 1994 NY Giants retire Lawrence Taylor‘s #56
- 1994 Value of Russian ruble decreases to 3,081 rubles per dollar
- 1995 “Garden District” opens at Circle in the Square Theatre NYC
- 1995 Israel begins West Bank pullback and frees hundreds of Palestinian prisoners
- 1995 Most Dutch telephone numbers increase to 10 digits
- 1995 Robert E. Lucas is awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics
- 1996 Cornerstone dedication for Holocaust Museum in New York City
- 1997 Austral Airlines DC-9-32 crashes and explodes near Nuevo Berlin, Uruguay, killing 74
Imran Khan Elected
2002 Former cricketer Imran Khan elected to the Pakistani Parliament after winning the seat of Mianwali-I
Nobel Prize in Literature
2002 Hungarian writer and Holocaust survivor Imre Kertész is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature
Nobel Peace Prize
2003 Shirin Ebadi is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her significant and pioneering efforts for democracy and human rights, becoming the first Iranian Muslim woman to receive the prize
- 2004 Having already clinched his record 7th F1 World Drivers’ Championship, German Ferrari driver Michael Schumacher wins a record 13th race of the season with a victory at the Japanese Grand Prix in Suzuka
Grand Coalition
2005 Negotiations between the CDU/CSU and SPD in Germany conclude with the two parties agreeing to form a grand coalition with Angela Merkel as chancellor after both parties lose seats in the 2005 German federal election
- 2008 Singapore becomes the first Asian country to slip into a recession since the credit crisis begins as growth falters due to decreased demand for exports, a reduction in tourism, and the end of the real estate boom
- 2009 After closing borders for nearly 200 years, Armenia and Turkey sign protocols in Zurich to reopen their borders
- 2010 The Netherlands Antilles are dissolved
- 2013 Alice Munro is awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature
- 2015 Bombing at a peace rally in Ankara, Turkey kills at least 95 and injures 200
Woodley Arrested for Pipeline Protest
2016 Actress Shailene Woodley is arrested for trespassing while protesting against the proposed Dakota Access Pipeline
- 2016 Nobel Prize in Economics is awarded to UK-born Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmström of Finland for their work on contract theory
- 2017 Joel Embiid signs a five-year, $148 million designated rookie scale maximum contract extension with the 76ers
- 2018 Flash floods kill at least 10 in Sant Llorenç des Cardassar, Majorca, Spain
- 2018 Hurricane Michael makes landfall near Mexico Beach, Florida, as a Category 4 hurricane with winds of 155 mph (250 km/h), going on to kill 27 people, having killed 15 in Central America
- 2019 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk after a year’s delay due to a Swedish Academy scandal
- 2019 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to Austrian Peter Handke
- 2019 3,500 women are allowed to attend a football match in Iran for a World Cup qualifier in Tehran for the first time since the Islamic Revolution
- 2020 Italian teenage computer genius Carlo Acutis, who dies of leukemia at 15, is beatified by the Catholic Church in Assisi, Italy
Taiwan Defiant
2021 Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen says the country won’t bow to Chinese pressure in a defiant speech on Taiwanese National Day, a day after Chinese President Xi Jinping vows to “fulfil reunification”
Nobel Prize for Economics
2022 Nobel Prize in Economics is awarded to Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond, and Philip Dybvig for discoveries that improve how society deals with financial crises [1] [2]
- 2023 Revival of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s musical “Merrily We Roll Along,” based on George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart’s play and starring Jonathan Groff and Daniel Radcliffe, opens at Hudson Theatre in New York City and wins 4 Tony Awards
- 2024 About 120 people are massacred by an armed gang in the Haitian town of Pont-Sondé amid a worsening gang crisis in the country [1]
- 2024 Harry Brook’s 317 and Joe Root’s 262 share the highest-ever partnership (454) by England on day four of the first Test against Pakistan in Multan; it is the fourth-highest partnership of all time in Test cricket
I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest with You
2024 Miranda Hart releases her memoir “I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest with You,” revealing her struggle with Lyme disease
- 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to South Korean author Han Kang [1]
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