1501 Michelangelo is awarded a contract to create a statue of David at Florence Cathedral by the Overseers of the Office of Works (the Operai) of the Duomo
1513 Battle of the Spurs at Guinegate (now Enguinegatte): King Henry VIII of England and Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I defeat French forces, capturing the town and routing the French cavalry
Treaty of Speyer
1570 Treaty of Speyer establishing Principality of Transylvania signed by King of Hungary John Sigismund Zápolyai and Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian II
- 1691 Yorktown, Virginia founded
- 1743 Champion of England titleholder Jack Broughton publishes “Rules of the Ring,” the earliest boxing code
- 1748 Dutch East Indiaman The Geldermalsen sails to the East Indies
- 1777 American militiamen defeat British forces at the Battle of Bennington near Vermont, during the American Revolutionary War
- 1780 British decisively defeat Americans in Battle of Camden, South Carolina
- 1787 Turkey declares war on Russia (Russo-Turkish War 1787-92)
- 1794 Hungarian revolutionary Ignác Martinovics is arrested in Vienna
- 1797 Comet C/1797 P1 (Bouvard-Herschel) approaches 0.0879 AU of Earth
British Capture Detroit
1812 General Hull surrenders Detroit and Michigan Territory to British forces under the command of Major General Sir Isaac Brock, who captures Fort Detroit with the help of Indigenous warriors led by Tecumseh
- 1861 Skirmishes in Fredericktown/Kirkville, Missouri
Trading Ban Between Union and Confederacy
1861 US President Abraham Lincoln prohibits Union states from trading with Confederacy
- 1863 Chickamauga campaign of the US Civil War begins in Georgia
- 1864 Federal assault on 4th day of battle at Deep Bottom Run, Virginia
- 1864 Palace for People’s Industry officially opens in Amsterdam
- 1865 Restoration Day in the Dominican Republic: The Dominican Republic regains its independence after four years of fighting against the Spanish annexation
Battle of Acosta Ñu
1869 War of the Triple Alliance: A Paraguayan battalion composed of children is massacred by the Brazilian Army during the Battle of Acosta Ñu
- 1870 Fred Goldsmith demonstrates that the curveball is not an optical illusion
Siegfried
1876 Richard Wagner‘s opera “Siegfried” premieres at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus as part of the first complete performance of The Ring cycle
Rodin’s Gates of Hell
1880 The French state commissions sculptor Auguste Rodin for a large sculpted doorway “The Gates of Hell” for the proposed Musée des Arts Décoratifs
Bennington Battle Monument
1891 President Benjamin Harrison attends the dedication of the Bennington Battle Monument in Bennington, Vermont
- 1894 Indian chiefs from the Sioux and Onondaga tribes meet to urge their people to renounce Christianity and return to their traditional faith
- 1896 Gold is first discovered in the Klondike at Bonanza Creek in Yukon, Canada, by George Carmack
- 1898 Edwin Prescott patents the first vertical loop-the-loop roller coaster
- 1905 Mbunga Rebellion occupies German post Ifakara, East Africa
- 1906 8.6 earthquake destroys Valparaiso, Chile; fire kills 20,000
- 1907 Mulay Hafid is proclaimed Sultan of Morocco by supporters, leading to civil war; Mulay is supported by Germany, while France supports the existing Sultan
Young Turks Announce Reforms
1908 The Committee of Union and Progress, “The Young Turks,” announces a program for reforms and respect for the rights of all within the Ottoman Empire, regardless of race or religion
- 1913 Tōhoku Imperial University of Japan (modern-day Tōhoku University) admits its first female students
- 1914 German army occupies the last fort at Liège, Belgian General Leman captured
- 1914 World War I: Battle of Cer begins
- 1915 Kansas City Packers’ Alex Main no-hits Buffalo Blues (Federal League), 5-0
- 1918 US troops overrun at Archangelsk by Bolshevik troops
- 1920 Cleveland Indians shortstop Ray Chapman is hit in the head by NY Yankees pitcher Carl Mays and dies the next day in the only MLB game-related fatality
- 1921 Members of the Dáil (parliament) swear allegiance to the Irish Republic at their first meeting, held at Dublin’s Mansion House
- 1922 AT&T radio station WBAY becomes WEAF (NYC)
- 1924 Conference on German recovery payments opens in London
- 1924 Dutch-Turkish peace treaty is signed
- 1928 Belgian cyclist Georges Ronsse wins men’s road race at UCI Road World Championships in Budapest, Hungary
- 1930 First British Empire Games open in Hamilton, Canada
- 1930 The first color sound cartoon “Fiddlesticks” is released by Ub Iwerks (formerly of Walt Disney Studios)
- 1934 US explorer William Beebe descends 3,028 feet (923 meters) in a Bathysphere off the coast of Bermuda
- 1936 The Berlin Olympic equestrian competition concludes with Germany winning all 6 gold medals in an unprecedented team achievement
- 1936 XI Summer Olympic Games close at Olympiastadion in Berlin, Germany
- 1940 Forty-five German aircraft are shot down over England
Blood for Britain
1940 Pioneering “Blood for Britain” program sending blood plasma for WWII wounded from the US, headed by Charles R. Drew, officially begins in Britain
- 1941 HMS Mercury, the Royal Navy Signals School and Combined Signals School, opens at Leydene near Petersfield, England
- 1943 First Long Tom bombs on Italian mainland from Sicily
- 1944 2nd Canadian Division occupies Falaise, Normandy, during Operation Intractable
- 1944 The Dutch begin diplomatic contact with the Vatican in London
- 1944 US 15th Army Corps reaches Eure and surrounds Dreux, France
- 1945 The last Chinese Emperor and ruler of the Japanese puppet state Manchukuo, Puyi, is captured by Soviet troops while preparing to board a plane to escape to Japan
- 1946 Direct Action Day: Widespread riots erupt in Calcutta between Muslims and Hindus over whether Pakistan should be a separate state, killing over 4,000 and leaving 100,000 homeless
Pirates 12 Cardinals 7
1947 Future Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder Ralph Kiner hits three successive home runs for host Pittsburgh Pirates in a 12-7 win over St. Louis Cardinals; both clubs smash a then MLB record of 10 home runs
- 1954 200 pilgrims drown in Farahzad, Iran, during a flood caused by a rainstorm
- 1954 American brand management company Authentic Brands Group first publishes sports magazine “Sports Illustrated”
- 1955 Fiat Motors orders the first private atomic reactor
- 1956 Adlai E. Stevenson is nominated as the US Democratic presidential candidate
- 1956 MLB Cleveland Indians’ Rocky Colavito hits his first grand slam, Cleveland 5, Tigers 4
- 1959 USSR introduces installment buying
- 1960 Britain grants independence to the Crown Colony of Cyprus
- 1960 Joseph Kittinger parachutes from a balloon at 31,330 m (102,800 ft)
- 1961 250,000 West Berliners demonstrate against the division of Berlin
Ringo Starr Joins The Beatles
1962 Ringo Starr replaces Pete Best as the Beatles’ drummer, with the first official concert two days later
- 1963 Independence is restored to the Dominican Republic
- 1964 Mildred Sampson of New Zealand runs the female world marathon record of 3:19:33 in Auckland, New Zealand
- 1964 St. Louis Cardinals center fielder Curt Flood gets eight straight hits in a doubleheader split against the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium
Miami Dolphins Franchise
1965 The American Football League’s ninth franchise is officially awarded to Joe Robbie and television star Danny Thomas; the Miami Dolphins start play in the AFL’s Eastern Division in 1966
- 1966 Colgems Records releases the Monkees’ debut single “Last Train to Clarksville” with Micky Dolenz singing lead on the tune written by Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart
- 1966 The Beatles perform in concert at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for their second and final show in the city
- 1967 WFIQ TV channel 36 in Florence, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
1969 Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young perform their first public show at the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago with singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell as their opening act
- 1969 First performance of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (Auditorium Theater, Chicago)
- 1969 V.V. Giri is elected the fourth President of India
- 1969 WATL TV channel 36 in Atlanta, GA begins broadcasting
- 1971 Over 8,000 workers go on strike in Derry, Northern Ireland, in protest against the introduction of internment, which allows suspected terrorists to be indefinitely detained without trial
Coup Attempt Fails
1972 King of Morocco Hassan II‘s Boeing 727 is attacked and shot at by six F-5 military jets during a failed coup attempt by General Mohamed Oufkir. Reportedly, King Hassan grabbed the radio and told the rebel pilots “Stop firing! The tyrant is dead!” fooling the pilots to break off the attack.
- 1972 Philip Potter is appointed Secretary-General of the World Council of Churches
- 1972 USSR performs a nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeastern Kazakhstan
- 1976 St. Louis Cardinals beat San Diego Chargers 20-10 in Tokyo, Japan (NFL Expo)
- 1977 US performs a nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- 1977 Yankees blow a 9-4 lead in the 9th but beat Chicago 11-10 in the bottom of the 9th
- 1980 British rock keyboardist Jools Holland quits band Squeeze to pursue a solo career
- 1980 Cozy Powell quits Rainbow
- 1981 American swimmer Mary T. Meagher breaks her own world women’s 100 m butterfly record (57.93) in Brown Deer, Wisconsin, and holds the 100/200 m double world record
- 1981 Highest score in World Cup soccer match (Australia-31, American Samoa-0)
- 1984 A federal jury in Los Angeles acquits automaker John Z. DeLorean of cocaine charges
- 1984 Largest harness racing purse ($2,161,000—Nihilator wins $1,080,500)
- 1984 NASA launches AMPTE
- 1984 Sunken liner Andrea Doria’s safe is opened
- 1986 Sudanese rebels shoot down a Fokker F-27, killing 57 people
- 1987 Astrological Harmonic Convergence – Dawn of a New Age
- 1987 New York Mets beat Chicago Cubs 23-10 at Wrigley Field, Chicago; Greg Maddux records the loss
- 1987 Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashes in Detroit; 156 die, 1 survives
- 1988 IBM introduces software for artificial intelligence
- 1989 A solar flare from the Sun creates a geomagnetic storm that affects microchips, leading to a halt in all trading on Toronto’s stock exchange
- 1989 Roger Kingdom of the USA sets the 110 m hurdle record (12.92) in Zurich, Switzerland
- 1990 China performs a nuclear test at Lop Nur, PRC
- 1990 Iraq orders 4,000 Britons and 2,500 Americans in Kuwait to Iraq
De Klerk, Mandela Hold Emergency Talks
1990 South African President F. W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela hold emergency talks in Pretoria about increasing violence in Soweto
- 1991 Belgian census shows 10,000,963 inhabitants
1992 British Williams driver Nigel Mansell finishes second in the Hungarian Grand Prix at the Hungaroring to clinch his first Formula 1 World Drivers’ Championship
- 1992 Moses Kiptanui of Kenya runs a world 3,000 m record of 7:28.96 in Cologne, Germany
- 1993 South Africa relinquishes sovereignty over Walvis Bay
- 1993 The Debian distribution first announced by Ian Murdock, a student at Purdue University (Murdock initially called his system the “Debian Linux Release”)
- 1994 Chandrika Kumaratunga’s People’s Alliance wins a closely fought parliamentary election in Sri Lanka, securing 105 seats
- 1997 For only the second time, the Stanley Cup leaves North America and heads to Russia
- 1997 New Zealand beats Australia 36-24 in Dunedin to retain the Tri Nations Rugby Series with an unbeaten record; All Blacks flyhalf Carlos Spencer lands five penalties and three conversions; halftime NZ 36-0
- 1997 The South African soccer team, Bafana Bafana wins against the national team of the Democratic Republic of the Congo at First National Bank stadium, Johannesburg, South Africa
- 2000 “Hanging by a Moment” single released by Lifehouse (Billboard Song of the Year 2001)
- 2002 Africa Women’s Peace Train leaves Kampala for Johannesburg
Ronaldo Debuts with Man U
2003 Cristiano Ronaldo (18) makes his debut for Manchester United and the Premier League in a 4–0 home victory over Bolton Wanderers
- 2003 New Zealand beats Australia 21-17 at Eden Park, Auckland, to win its 5th Tri Nations Rugby Series; the All Blacks have an undefeated 4-0 record and regain the Bledisloe Cup from the Wallabies
- 2003 US Representative from South Dakota Bill Janklow hits and kills a motorcyclist with his car at a rural intersection near Trent, South Dakota; he is eventually convicted of manslaughter and resigns from Congress
- 2004 Australian swimmer Ian Thorpe wins the men’s 200 m freestyle in an Olympic record time of 1:44.71, achieving the 200/400 m freestyle double at the Athens Olympics
- 2005 West Caribbean Airways Flight 708 crashes near Machiques, Venezuela, killing all 160 aboard
Phelps Wins 100m Butterfly
2008 American swimmer Michael Phelps wins his seventh of eight gold medals at the Beijing Olympics when he wins the 100 m butterfly in an Olympic record of 50.58, beating Milorad Čavić of Serbia by 0.01
- 2008 British cyclist Bradley Wiggins becomes the first rider to successfully defend his Olympic title in the individual pursuit when he takes gold at the Beijing Olympics
Ainslie Wins 3rd Gold
2008 British sailor Ben Ainslie convincingly wins the Finn class at the Beijing Olympics, earning his third gold medal in as many Games
- 2008 British swimmer Rebecca Adlington wraps up the 400/800 m freestyle double at the Beijing Olympics with a world record of 8:14.10 in the 800
- 2008 British team of Tom James, Steve Williams, Pete Reed, and Andrew Triggs Hodge win the men’s rowing coxless fours in Beijing, the third consecutive Olympics in which Great Britain wins gold in this event
- 2008 César Cielo wins the men’s 50 m freestyle in 21.30 seconds in Beijing, earning Brazil’s first-ever Olympic gold medal in swimming
Bolt wins Record 100m Gold
2008 Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt sets a new world record of 9.69 seconds to win the 100 m gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics
- 2008 Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe swims a world record 2:05.24 to beat American Margaret Hoelzer by 1.01 seconds and win the 200 m backstroke at the Beijing Olympics
- 2008 New Zealand rowers Caroline and Georgina Evers-Swindell successfully defend their 2004 Olympic title in the women’s double sculls by beating Germany by 0.01 seconds at the Beijing Games
- 2008 Romanian rower Georgeta Andrunache wins the women’s coxless pairs at the Beijing Olympics, earning her fifth career gold medal and her third consecutive Olympic gold in the event
- 2008 South Korean weightlifter Jang Mi-Ran wins the women’s unlimited (+75 kg) division at the Beijing Olympics by breaking world records five times: once in snatch, twice in clean and jerk, and twice in total
- 2011 World Youth Day 2011, organized by the Catholic Church, begins in Madrid
- 2012 113 people are killed and over 200 wounded in a series of attacks across Iraq
- 2012 South African police open fire on striking mine workers and kill at least 34 people
- 2016 Georgian weightlifter Lasha Talakhadze sets a world record of 473 total kilograms to win the men’s +105 kg gold medal at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics
- 2016 New Zealand canoeist Lisa Carrington retains her K-1 200 m Olympic title with a time of 39.864 seconds at the Rio de Janeiro Games
- 2016 Russian pair Natalia Ishchenko and Svetlana Romashina retain their Olympic synchronized swimming duet title at the Rio de Janeiro Games with a final score of 194.9910
- 2016 Wildfire breaks out in San Bernardino County, California, engulfing 15,000 acres and prompting the evacuation of 82,000 people
- 2017 Baltimore City Council removes Confederate statues under the cover of darkness in response to Charlottesville violence
Highest-Paid Actress
2017 Emma Stone is the year’s highest-paid actress with $26 million, according to Forbes
- 2017 Last batch of FARC rebel weapons is removed by the UN in Colombia
- 2017 Lebanon’s parliament abolishes Article 522, which exempts rapists from prosecution if they marry their victim
- 2017 Over 100 Maasai houses are destroyed in Tanzania by game park authorities as part of a border dispute near Serengeti National Park
Duterte’s War on Drugs
2017 Philippine police kill 32 in raids near Manila, the most deadly night in President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs
- 2017 Three suicide bombers kill 27 people outside a refugee camp near Maiduguri in Borno State, Nigeria; Boko Haram is suspected
- 2018 Brandt Snedeker shoots 10th sub-60 round in PGA history with an 11-under par 59 in the opening round of the Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, North Carolina
- 2018 British Columbia, Canada, declares a state of emergency with 566 wildfires burning, prompting the evacuation of 3,000 people
- 2018 Brooke Raboutou wins a gold medal in lead climbing at the IFSC Youth World Championships in Moscow, Russia
Predator Priests Statement
2018 Pope Francis and the Vatican issue a statement in support of the 300 victims of “predator priests” in Pennsylvania
Best-Paid Actress
2018 Scarlett Johansson is the world’s highest-paid actress of the year, earning $40.5 million according to Forbes
- 2018 Unprecedented flooding and landslides in Kerala, India, are reported to have killed 106 people, leaving 150,000 homeless
- 2018 World’s first floating dairy farm opens in Merwehaven Harbour, Rotterdam, Netherlands, with 40 cows milked by robots
- 2019 Huge fire in Chalantika slum in Dhaka, Bangladesh, destroys 1,200 houses and leaves up to 10,000 people homeless
- 2020 At least 17 people are killed in an attack on a beach resort in Mogadishu, Somalia, by the al-Shabab group
- 2020 Biggest protests in Thailand in six years as 10,000 people demonstrate in Bangkok for reform of the government and monarchy
- 2020 Japan’s economy, the world’s third largest, posts its worst-ever decline, falling 7.8% in the April-June quarter
Demonstrations in Belarus
2020 Largest-ever demonstration in Belarus as 100,000 people gather in Minsk to protest against controversial election results and regime of Alexander Lukashenko
World Snooker Championship
2020 World Snooker Championship, Crucible Theatre, Sheffield: Englishman Ronnie O’Sullivan wins his sixth world title with an 18-8 win over countryman Kyren Wilson
- 2021 First Marvel film with an Asian superhero, “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings,” starring Simu Liu, premieres in Los Angeles
- 2021 First official water shortage declared at Lake Mead, a major reservoir on the Colorado River supplying 40 million people, with cuts mandated mainly for Arizona
- 2021 Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin and his cabinet resign after losing their majority amid political turmoil
Morrison’s Secret Portfolios
2022 Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese reveals former PM Scott Morrison secretly appointed himself to five ministerial portfolios between March 2020 and May 2021 [1]
- 2022 Philadelphia Phillies’ 11-4 win over the visiting Cincinnati Reds makes them the 9th MLB team with 10,000 franchise victories (and the last of those founded in the 19th century); they were the first to lose 10,000 in 2007
- 2022 Sections of China’s Yangtze River launch weather modification programs due to severe drought conditions, including seeding clouds with silver iodide rods to induce rain
- 2022 US President Joe Biden signs the Inflation Reduction Act into law with $370 billion of spending and tax cuts to combat climate change [1]
- 2023 British Museum reveals a staff member has been dismissed for stealing about 2,000 objects, including jewelry and semi-precious stones [1]
- 2023 Longest survival of a pig’s kidney transplant: the kidney survives a month in the body of a brain-dead man in research at NYU Langone Health [1]
- 2023 Ötzi the Iceman, the 5,300-year-old mummy, has dark skin, dark eyes, and is descended from early Anatolian farmers according to results from an updated DNA study [1]
- 2023 The Northwest Territories in Canada declare a state of emergency due to wildfires and order an evacuation of the city of Yellowknife, affecting 22,000 people [1]
- 2024 US President Joe Biden designates the site of the 1908 two-day race riot in Springfield, Illinois, as a national monument, intended to be a solemn reminder of the events which sparked the formation of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) [1]
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