Battle of Neville’s Cross
1346 Battle of Neville’s Cross: King David II of Scotland is captured by Edward III of England at Calais and imprisoned in the Tower of London for 11 years
- 1387 Monastary of Windesheim consecrated in the Netherlands
- 1404 Cosma de’ Migliorati is elected Pope Innocentius VII
- 1448 Second Battle of Kosovo, where the mainly Hungarian army led by John Hunyadi is defeated by an Ottoman army led by Sultan Murad II
- 1456 University of Greifswald is established, making it the second oldest university in northern continental Europe and, for a period, the oldest in Sweden and Prussia
- 1483 Tomás de Torquemada is appointed Inquisitor General of Spain
Sale of Dunkirk
1662 Charles II of Great Britain sells Dunkirk to France for 2.5 million livres (320,000 English pounds)
Cook’s Third Voyage
1776 Captain James Cook arrives in Cape Town with Resolution on his third trip to the Pacific Ocean
- 1777 British General John Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga during the American Revolutionary War
- 1787 Boston African Americans petition the legislature for equal school facilities
- 1797 Peace of Campo Formio: Austrian Netherlands become part of France
- 1800 Dutch colony Curaçao transferred to Great Britain
- 1806 Emperor Jacques I of Haiti, former leader of the Haitian Revolution, is assassinated
- 1808 Political rights of Jews are suspended in the Duchy of Warsaw
- 1814 London Beer Flood: A burst vat at Meux & Company Brewery floods city streets with over 300,000 gallons of porter ale, killing eight, with a possible ninth later from alcohol poisoning [1]
Don Sanche
1825 “Don Sanche,” the first opera by Franz Liszt, premieres in Paris
- 1829 Delaware River and Chesapeake Bay Canal formally open
- 1829 First supposed attack on abandoned German teenager Kaspar Hauser
Piano Concerto No. 1
1831 Felix Mendelssohn‘s 1st Piano Concerto in G premieres in Munich, Germany, with the composer as soloist
1860 1st British Open Men’s Golf, Prestwick GC: Willie Park Sr. wins the inaugural event by two strokes over fellow Scot Tom Morris Sr.
Grant Takes on the Klan
1871 US President Ulysses S. Grant suspends habeas corpus in parts of South Carolina during prosecutions against Ku Klux Klan
Stanley Reaches Lualaba River
1876 Henry Morton Stanley reaches the Lualaba River, a headstream of the Congo River, and travels down it, proving it is not the source of the Nile
Macdonald Re-elected
1878 After serving as the opposition for five years, John A. Macdonald is re-elected as Prime Minister of Canada
- 1885 Baseball sets all players’ salaries at $1,000-$2,000 for the 1885 season
Optical Phonograph
1888 Thomas Edison writes a letter to the US Patent Office describing his idea for “a device that would do for the eye what the phonograph does for the ear”
Transatlantic Wireless
1907 Guglielmo Marconi‘s company begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service between Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada and Clifden, Ireland
- 1912 Bulgaria, Greece, and Serbia declare war on Turkey
- 1916 Dutch women demonstrate for women’s suffrage
- 1917 First British bombing of Germany
- 1918 De Kooy Airport in the Netherlands opens
- 1918 Yugoslavia proclaims itself a republic
- 1919 Radio Corporation of America (RCA) is created as a subsidiary of General Electric
- 1920 The Decatur Staleys, later known as the Chicago Bears, play their first American Professional Football Association game against an affiliated APFA team and defeat the Rock Island Independents 7-0 at Douglas Park, Rock Island, Illinois
- 1921 Belgium’s public library law goes into effect
- 1922 Scottish worker begins hunger march from Glasgow to London
- 1923 Radboud University Nijmegen opens in the Netherlands
- 1927 Ban Johnson, in failing health, retires as president of MLB’s American League
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939 “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,” directed by Frank Capra and starring James Stewart and Jean Arthur, is released
1943 Burma Railway, built by Allied POWs and Asian laborers, is completed for use by the Japanese army
- 1943 Liberators sink U-540 & U-631
Loyalty Day
1945 Loyalty Day in Argentina, mass demonstrations are held to release Juan Perón
Around the World in 80 Days
1956 “Around the World in 80 Days,” based on the book by Jules Verne, directed by Michael Anderson, and starring David Nivon and Cantinflas, premieres in New York
Game of the Century
1956 Chess “Game of the Century”: 13-year-old Bobby Fischer defeats 1953 US Champion Donald Byrne in the Rosenwald Memorial Tournament at the Marshall Chess Club in New York City
- 1956 England’s first large-scale nuclear power station opens
- 1956 Pakistan defeats Australia by nine wickets at first attempt
- 1957 Dike Marken-Dutch mainland closes
Nobel Prize in Literature
1957 French author Albert Camus is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature
- 1957 II Tsjoendrigar becomes Prime Minister of Pakistan
1957 Musical film “Jailhouse Rock,” starring Elvis Presley, premieres in Memphis, Tennessee
- 1959 Queen Elizabeth II is fined $140 for withdrawing her race horse
- 1959 Stinchcomb Memorial in Cleveland Metroparks is dedicated
- 1960 US and Britain sign an accord granting the US access to the British nuclear submarine base in Holy Loch, Scotland
- 1961 22nd Congress of the CPSU opens in Moscow
- 1961 Battle of Paris: police kill 210 Algerians
- 1962 The Beatles make their live television debut, appearing on Manchester’s local “People And Places” program, performing “Some Other Guy” and their new single “Love Me Do”
- 1963 The Beatles record “I Want to Hold Your Hand” at EMI Studios in London
- 1964 Australian athlete Betty Cuthbert wins her fourth career Olympic gold medal as she triumphs in the women’s 400 m at the Tokyo Games with an Olympic record of 52.0
- 1964 In the first Olympic women’s pentathlon, Irina Press of the Soviet Union sets a world record with 5,246 points to win the gold medal at the Tokyo Games
- 1964 US swimmers go 1-2-3 in the women’s 400 m individual medley at the Tokyo Olympics; Donna de Varona wins gold in an Olympic record of 5:18.7 ahead of teammates Sharon Finneran and Martha Randall
- 1965 WBMG TV channel 42 in Birmingham, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting
- 1967 Barbra Streisand stars in the “Belle of 14th Street” special on CBS
- 1967 Galt MacDermot, Gerome Ragni, and James Rado’s musical “Hair” opens off-Broadway at Joseph Papp’s Public Theater in New York City
- 1967 Memorial service for musical act manager Brian Epstein at New London Synagogue; mourners include Cilla Black, Gerry Marsden, The Fourmost, Billy J. Kramer, and The Beatles
- 1967 Pop singer-songwriter duo Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart guest star in the “Jeannie, the Hip Hippie” episode of the American TV sitcom “I Dream of Jeannie” while record producer Phil Spector makes a cameo appearance
- 1967 USAF test pilot William “Pete” Knight reaches an altitude of 102,100 feet (31.1 km) in the experimental X-15 spaceplane
- 1967 USSR performs a nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeastern Kazakhstan
Bullitt
1968 “Bullitt,” directed by Peter Yates and starring Steve McQueen and Jacqueline Bisset, is released
- 1968 Björn Ferm of Sweden beats Hungary’s András Balczó by just 11 points to take the gold medal in the modern pentathlon at the Mexico City Olympics
- 1968 Soviet athlete Viktor Saneev sets a world record of 17.39m to win the triple jump at the Mexico City Olympics; the world record is improved five times by three different athletes during the competition
- 1968 US men’s 4 x 100 m freestyle relay team of Zac Zorn, Stephen Rerych, Ken Walsh, and Mark Spitz swims a world record of 3:31.7 to outclass the Soviet Union and Australia and win the gold medal at the Mexico City Olympics
- 1969 Plastic Ono Band’s “Cold Turkey” is released in the UK
- 1969 Soyuz 7 returns to Earth
- 1969 The NY Nets move from Commack to Island Garden, Hempstead, NY
President Sadat Sworn In
1970 Anwar Sadat is sworn in as the third President of Egypt
- 1971 Cleveland Metroparks’ Rocky River Nature Center opens
- 1971 It is estimated today that approximately 16,000 households are withholding rent and rates for council houses as part of the campaign of civil disobedience against internment organized by the Social Democratic and Labour Party, Northern Ireland
- 1972 Bob Randall’s “6 Rms Riv Vu” premieres in New York City
- 1972 Chuck Berry‘s single “My Ding-a-Ling” reaches #1
- 1972 The Ulster Defence Association opens fire on the British Army in several areas of Belfast
- 1973 OPEC oil ministers use oil as an economic weapon in the Arab-Israeli War, mandate a cut in exports, and recommend an embargo against unfriendly states [1]
- 1974 NBA New Orleans Jazz begin a 28-game road losing streak against the Knicks in New York City; their first road victory comes in February
- 1974 NHL Washington Capitals achieve their first franchise home victory, defeating the Chicago Blackhawks 4-3
- 1975 First Space Shuttle main engine test at National Space Technology Laboratories in Pearl River, Mississippi
- 1975 UN drafts a resolution for consideration saying, in part, “Zionism is a form of racism”
- 1976 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, China
- 1977 Canada begins regular live TV coverage of Parliament
- 1977 West German commandos storm a hijacked Lufthansa plane in Mogadishu, Somalia, freeing all 86 hostages and killing 3 of the 4 hijackers
- 1978 NY Islanders start a streak of 23 undefeated games at home (15-0-8)
- 1978 US President Jimmy Carter presents Congressional Medal to American opera singer Marian Anderson
Citizenship Restored to Jefferson Davis
1978 US President Jimmy Carter signs bill restoring US citizenship to Civil War era Confederacy President Jefferson Davis
- 1978 USSR performs an underground nuclear test
- 1978 Yankees win the 22nd World Championship, capping their great comeback year
- 1979 D. Bautista of Mexico completes a 20,000 m walk in a record time of 1:20:06.8
Department of Education
1979 US President Jimmy Carter signs legislation creating Department of Education
- 1981 Brazilian Nelson Piquet, driving for Brabham, finishes 5th in the season-ending Caesars Palace Grand Prix in Las Vegas to clinch his first Formula 1 World Drivers’ Championship by 1 point from Carlos Reutemann
- 1982 First live orchestra on a US commercial network since 1954 (National Symphony)
- 1982 USSR performs a nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
- 1983 Nobel Prize in Economics awarded to Gérard Debreu
- 1983 STS-9 vehicle moves to the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center in Florida due to an SRB nozzle problem
- 1984 Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded to Bruce Merrifield
- 1985 French author Claude Simon wins the Nobel Prize in Literature
- 1985 Lou Piniella is named NY Yankees manager
- 1986 US Senate approves immigration bill prohibiting the hiring of illegal aliens and offers amnesty to those who entered prior to 1982
- 1987 US First Lady Nancy Reagan undergoes a modified radical mastectomy
- 1988 31 reported dead as Ugandan jetliner crashes in fog near Rome
- 1988 Dallas Green replaces Lou Piniella as manager of the NY Yankees
- 1988 Lyndon LaRouche pleads not guilty to fraud and conspiracy indictment
- 1988 Philip Morris announces an $11 billion tender offer for Kraft
Storm Front
1989 Columbia Records releases “Storm Front,” singer-songwriter Billy Joel‘s 11th studio album
- 1990 Green Day singer Billie Joe Armstrong drops out of school to pursue a career in music
- 1991 Ángel Cordero Jr. is the third jockey to win 7,000 horse races
- 1991 Blue Man Group’s first performance in New York City
- 1991 News anchor Bree Walker Lampley files an FCC complaint that LA radio station KFI-AM personally attacks her by discussing her having a deformed baby
- 1991 Pitts Penguin Paul Coffey sets an NHL defenseman scoring record with 1,053 career points (309 goals and 744 assists)
- 1994 Billy Joel performs the opening concert at Cleveland’s Gund Arena
- 1994 Kapil Dev‘s final One-Day International against West Indies
- 1995 Keith Moore is sentenced to six years for robbing Sting of $9,000,000
- 1996 Ronald Harwoods’s stage drama “Taking Sides”, starring Ed Harris, opens at the Atkinson Theatre, New York City; runs for 85 performances
- 1998 In Jesse, in the Niger Delta, Nigeria, a petroleum pipeline explodes, killing about 1,200 villagers, some of whom are scavenging gasoline
- 2000 Train crash at Hatfield, north of London, leads to the collapse of Railtrack
- 2003 Eunuchs in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh form the political party Jiti Jitayi Politics
- 2003 Pinnacle is fitted on the roof of Taipei 101, a 101-floor skyscraper in Taipei, allowing it to surpass the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur by 50 meters (165 feet) to become the world’s tallest high-rise
Arsenal’s All-Time Top Scorer
2005 Thierry Henry becomes Arsenal’s all-time leading scorer with two goals against Sparta Prague in the UEFA Champions League
- 2006 The United States population reaches 300 million
Congressional Gold Medal
2007 The Dalai Lama receives the United States Congressional Gold Medal
- 2008 Iran attempts to create the world’s largest sandwich (1,500 meters) but fails when crowds eat it before it can be measured
Most Runs in Test Cricket
2008 Sachin Tendulkar becomes the highest run-scorer ever in Test cricket, surpassing Brian Lara‘s record and passing 12,000 runs against Australia in Mohali
Canonization of Brother André
2010 Brother André is the first Canadian to be canonized post-Federation by Pope Benedict XVI [1]
- 2010 The Teshima Art Museum, designed by architect Ryue Nishizawa and artist Rei Naito, opens on the island of Teshima, Japan [1]
- 2012 Exoplanet Alpha Centauri Bb is discovered orbiting Alpha Centauri and announced (later thought to be a false finding)
- 2012 Lance Armstrong loses a host of endorsements in the wake of his doping scandal
- 2012 Tens of thousands protest against austerity measures in Greece
- 2013 59 people are killed in a wave of attacks on Shia Muslims in Iraq
- 2013 Microsoft releases Windows 8.1
- 2015 Amy Schumer‘s comedy special “Amy Schumer: Live at the Apollo” premieres on HBO
Madrid’s All-Time Top Scorer
2015 Star forward Cristiano Ronaldo becomes Real Madrid’s all-time leading scorer across all competitions, overtaking club legend Raúl with his 324th goal in a 3-0 win over Levante
Open Society Foundations
2017 George Soros announces he has donated $18 billion to his grant-making network, the Open Society Foundations
- 2017 Islamic State headquarters in Raqqa is declared under full control of the US-led alliance by Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) spokesperson Talal Sello after four months of fighting
Marawi Liberated
2017 Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte declares the city of Marawi “liberated” from militants
- 2018 Australian state of Queensland decriminalizes abortion
- 2018 Canada legalizes the sale of recreational cannabis, becoming the second country to do so after Uruguay
- 2018 India’s junior foreign minister, M.J. Akbar, is the highest official to resign in a #MeToo case after sexual harassment accusations by numerous women
- 2018 Puppeteer Caroll Spinney, known for performing Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch, leaves “Sesame Street” after 50 years
- 2018 Student shoots and detonates a bomb, killing 20 and injuring 40 at Kerch Polytechnic College, Crimea
- 2018 The revived sitcom “The Conners” debuts on ABC TV starring Sara Gilbert, Laurie Metcalf, and John Goodman, without fired former star Roseanne Barr
Song of the Decade
2019 Lana Del Rey‘s ballad “Video Games” is named Song of the Decade at the Q Awards in London
Mulvaney Admits Aid Withheld
2019 Mick Mulvaney, President Trump‘s acting chief of staff, says the White House withheld nearly $400 million in military aid from Ukraine to further Trump’s own political interests
- 2019 The “Blob,” a mysterious yellow slime organism (Physarum polycephalum) with 720 sexes that can move, heal itself, and solve problems without a brain or nervous system, goes on display at Paris Zoological Park
- 2019 The number of US adults identifying as Christian falls 12% in a decade to two-thirds, and the number of born-again Protestants falls to 16%, according to the Pew Research Center
Turkey Agrees to Syrian Ceasefire
2019 Turkey agrees to a ceasefire in Northern Syria for five days to allow the withdrawal of Kurdish troops after talks between US Vice President Mike Pence and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Brexit Deal Announced
2019 UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announces a new Brexit deal with the EU, removing the Northern Ireland backstop clause
- 2020 Chicago is declared the “rattiest city” in America for the sixth year in a row by pest control service Orkin
Jacinda’s Landslide Win
2020 The Labour Party, headed by Jacinda Ardern, is re-elected in a landslide in New Zealand’s general election
2022 FIFA Ballon d’Or: Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema wins his first award; Barcelona midfielder Alexia Putellas claims women’s award for a second-straight season
- 2022 Shehan Karunatilka is the second Sri Lankan author to win the Booker Prize with his novel “The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida” [1]
Belt and Road Initiative
2023 China’s President Xi Jinping celebrates 10 years of its Belt and Road project at a summit in Beijing attended by Russian leader Vladimir Putin [1]
- 2023 India’s Supreme Court rules against legalising same-sex marriage and adoption for queer couples [1]
Hamas Leader Killed
2024 Israel claims to have killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, one of the masterminds of the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel, during a battle in Rafah, Gaza [1]
- 2024 Teen smoking in the US falls to its lowest level in 25 years, decreasing by 20% in a year from 2.8 million to 2.25 million, including e-cigarettes [1]
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