- 64 Circus Maximus in Rome catches fire
- 532 Start of Dionysian Pascal Cycle
- 711 Muslim forces under Tariq ibn Ziyad defeat the Visigoths led by their king Roderic
- 1195 Battle at Alarcos: Almohads led by Abu Yusuf Yaqub al-Mansur defeats army of Alfonso VIII of Castile
Mansa Musa Arrives in Cairo
1324 Mansa Musa, ruler of the Mali Empire, arrives in Cairo on his way to Mecca, with a procession of 600,000 men, 12,000 slaves and 80 camels carrying 136 kg (300 pounds) of gold each
- 1380 Thomas of Buckingham’s invasion army lands on Calais
Holland Pledged to Philip the Good
1425 Duke John VI of Brabant pledges Holland/Zealand to Philip the Good
Sinking of the Mary Rose
1545 King Henry VIII‘s flagship Mary Rose sinks at Portsmouth; 73 die
- 1551 Treaty of Karlsburg: Arch Duke Ferdinand of Austria recognized as King of Hungary and Transylvania
Albert Frederick Duke of Prussia
1569 Albert Frederick follows his father becoming Duke of Prussia after a symbolic ceremony of feudal homage to Polish King Sigismund Augustus
Kepler’s Epiphany
1595 Astronomer Johannes Kepler has an epiphany and develops his theory of the geometrical basis of the universe while teaching in Graz, Austria
- 1688 Soldiers killed governor of Aerssen in Paramaribo
Swedish Occupy Kraków
1702 Great Northern War: Swedish troops under King Charles XII occupy Kraków, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
HMS Beagle at Ascension Island
1836 HMS Beagle with Charles Darwin arrives in Ascension Island
1843 Steamship SS Great Britain is launched, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, it is the first ocean-going craft with an iron hull or screw propeller and the largest vessel afloat in the world
- 1845 Fire in NYC destroys 1,000 homes and kills many
- 1848 German Parliament demands Dutch province of Limburg
Wreck of the Elizabeth
1850 American cargo ship ‘Elizabeth’, returning from Italy, wrecks in a storm of coast of Fire Island, New York, killing 10, including journalist Margaret Fuller, her husband, and child [1]
3rd Reconstruction Act
1867 US Congress passes 3rd Reconstruction Act over President Andrew Johnson‘s veto
Red River Rebellion
1869 Louis Riel speaks at a meeting of Metis residents about rights, setting in motion the events now referred to as the Red River Rebellion
- 1870 France declares war on Prussia; Franco-Prussian war begins
- 1875 Emma Abbott, a floating hospital for sick children, makes trial trip, NYC
- 1877 1st Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: 27-year-old English rackets player Spencer Gore wins inaugural event; beats William Marshall 6-1, 6-2, 6-4
- 1877 Russo-Turkish War: First Russian assault on Plevna, Ottoman Empire (now Pleven, Bulgaria) fails; 3,000 Russian and 2,000 Turk casualties
- 1880 San Francisco Public Library starts lending books
Sitting Bull Surrenders
1881 Sioux Indian Chief Sitting Bull surrenders to US federal troops at Fort Buford in the Territory of Montana [1] [2]
- 1899 National Brotherhood of Electrical Workers forms
- 1900 Luxembourg born Michel Théato representing France wins Paris Olympics marathon in 2:59:45 ahead of another French athlete Émile Champion
- 1903 1st Tour de France: French rider Maurice Garin wins inaugural event
- 1904 Dutch Premier Kuypers disbands 1st Chamber
- 1905 Llamas war party attacks group of 60, fleeing French mission at Tzekou, (Chinese-Tibetan border) murdering most with Scottish botanist George Forrest escaping by hiding for nine days [1]
- 1907 Under pressure from the Japanese, the Emperor of Korea abdicates in favor of his son, a figurehead
- 1908 Dutch football club Feyenoord is established in Rotterdam as Wilhelmina; reverts to SC Feijenoord 1912; updated to SC Feyenoord 1974 and to Feyenoord Rotterdam 1978
- 1909 Cleveland shortstop Neal Ball completes the first modern MLB unassisted triple play in the Indians’ 6-1 win over the Boston Red Sox
- 1912 A meteorite of estimated 190kg mass explodes over Holbrook in Navajo County, Arizona, causing approximately 16,000 pieces of debris to rain down on the town
- 1913 Billboard publishes its earliest known chart, “Last Week’s 10 Best Sellers Among Popular Songs.” The #1 song is “Malinda’s Wedding Day” by singers Byron Harlan and Arthur Collins, recorded in Camden, New Jersey.
- 1914 Boston Braves begin drive from last to the NL pennant with a 3-2 win against the 2nd placed Cincinnati Reds
- 1915 Dutch accidents at sea law enforced
- 1915 The Washington Senators set a MLB record 8 stolen bases in an innings (1st) in 11-4 win v Cleveland
- 1918 Washington Senators catcher Eddie Ainsmith applies for draft deferment; Secretary of War, Newton D Baker rules baseball players not draft exempt but later moves date to 1 September; both leagues end regular season 2 September
- 1918 World War I: German armies retreat across Marne River in France
- 1919 Following Peace Day celebrations marking the end of World War I, ex-servicemen rioted and burnt down Luton Town Hall.
Weissmuller Breaks 1 Minute Barrier
1922 American swimmer Johnny Weissmuller first to break 1 minute barrier for 100m freestyle; swims 58.6s at Alameda, CA
- 1923 WRC-AM in Washington, D.C. begins radio transmissions
- 1928 King Fuad of Egypt seizes power and disbands parliament
First Expedition to Antarctic Interior
1930 Richard E. Byrd, Laurence McKinley Gould, and their polar expedition team return to the United States following the first exploration of the interior of Antarctica
Rival Brothers Make HR
1933 Rick Ferrell (Red Sox) and Wes Ferrell (Cleveland Indians), two brothers on opposite teams, hit home runs in the same game, a first in MLB history
Feller Makes Debut
1936 17-year-old Cleveland Indians future Baseball HOF pitcher Bob Feller makes his MLB debut in relief in 9-5 loss to Senators at Griffith Stadium, Washington
Hitler Orders British Surrender
1940 Adolf Hitler orders Great Britain to surrender – they decline
- 1940 Nazi occupiers imprison 231 prominent Dutch citizens in Buchenwald
- 1940 Nazi occupiers in Netherlands forbid anti-nazi films
BBC Plays Morse Code
1941 BBC World Service begins playing V(ictory) (“…-” in Morse code) (opening of Ludwig van Beethoven‘s 5th symphony)
- 1941 First US Army flying school for black cadets dedicated in Tuskegee, Alabama
Fair Employment Practice Committee
1941 US President Franklin D. Roosevelt appoints the Fair Employment Practice Committee (FEPC)
- 1942 German occupiers confiscate bicycles in Rotterdam and The Hague
- 1942 Transport #7 departs Drancy, France with 999 French Jews sent to Auschwitz Concentration camp; 17 survive until the war’s end
- 1943 500 allied air forces raid Rome during WW II
- 1944 1,200+ 8th US Air Force bombers bomb targets in SW Germany
- 1944 500 15th US Air Force Liberators/Flying Fortresses bomb Munich vicinity
- 1944 Allied troops occupy Faubourg de Vaucelles, at Caen
- 1944 Claus von Stauffenberg visits RC church in Berlin-Dahlem
- 1944 Danish resistance fails in assault on Taarbaek Fort near Copenhagen
- 1944 Democratic convention opens in Chicago, goes on to nominate President Franklin D. Roosevelt
- 1944 Japanese aircraft carriers Taiho and Shokaku sink in Marianas
- 1944 NY archbishop Spellman flies to Europe
- 1944 US general Omar Bradley flies to England
- 1945 USS Cod saves 51 sailors from Dutch sub in only sub-to-sub rescue
Yankees Sign 1st Black Players
1950 NY Yankees sign their 1st Black players, Elston Howard and Frank Baines
- 1952 Freddie Trueman takes 8-31, India all out 58 at Old Trafford
- 1952 India all out 82 in 2nd innings after making 52 earlier in the day
- 1952 XV Summer Olympic Games open at the Helsingin Olympiastadion, Helsinki, Finland
- 1953 KIMA TV channel 29 in Yakima, WA (CBS) begins broadcasting
- 1953 WAKR (now WAKC) TV channel 23 in Akron, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
Elvis’ Debut Single
1954 Elvis Presley‘s debut single, a cover of Arthur Cruddup’s “That’s All Right” is released
- 1955 Balclutha ties up at Pier 43 in San Francisco and becomes a floating museum
- 1955 First performance of Gerald Finzi’s Cello Concerto, his last major work; John Barbirolli leads the Hallé Orchestra, with soloist Christopher Bunting at Cheltenham Music Festival in Gloucestershire, England
- 1955 Yarkon Water Project opens to supply water to the Negev Desert in Israel
- 1956 US refuse to lend Egypt money to build a second Aswan Dam
- 1957 1st rocket with nuclear warhead fired, Yucca Flat, Nevada
- 1957 US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
- 1960 Italian government of Tambroni resigns
- 1961 1st in-flight movie shown on TWA
- 1962 Hungarian communist party expels Rákosi & Gero
- 1963 NASA civilian Test pilot Joe Walker in X-15 reaches 105 km
- 1964 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
- 1965 Shooting begins on Star Trek 2nd pilot “Where No Man Has Gone Before”
- 1966 France performs nuclear test at Fangataufa Island
- 1966 Governor James Rhodes declares state of emergency in Cleveland (race riot)
- 1967 First air-conditioned NYC subway car (R-38 on the F line)
- 1967 Race riots in Durham, North Carolina
- 1967 US launches Explorer 35 for lunar orbit (800/7400 km)
1969 Apollo 11 goes into lunar orbit
- 1971 Sudan military coup under maj Hashem al-Atta, Numeiry flees
1973 NY Mets future Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder Willie Mays is named to NL All Star team for 24th time (ties Stan Musial)
- 1974 Cleveland Indians pitcher Dick Bosman no-hits Oakland A’s, 4-0
- 1974 Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 14 lands back on earth
- 1975 New York Yankees catcher Thurman Munson’s first-inning single and RBI are nullified because tar on his bat handle exceeds the 18-inch limit; Minnesota Twins win 2-1
Music History
1976 Allman Brother’s roadie Scooter Herring sentenced to 75 years for providing drugs for the group, based on Gregg Allman‘s testimony
- 1976 British rock group Deep Purple disbands
- 1976 Sagarmatha National Park in Nepal is created.
- 1977 Floods in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, kill 76
- 1978 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa Atoll
- 1978 New York Yankees start historic 14 game comeback with 2-0 win over the Minnesota Twins at Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington, MN
- 1979 2 supertankers collide off Tobago-260,000 tons of oil spill
- 1979 Patricia Harris becomes sect of HEW
- 1980 USSR’s Walter Polovchak is placed in US custody at 12 after his asylum application
- 1980 XXII Summer Olympic Games open in Moscow, Russia; led by United States, 66 nations boycott event because of Soviet-Afghan war
- 1981 South African Springbok rugby team arrives in New Zealand beginning 56 days of ‘near civil war’ in the country between anti-apartheid protesters and tour supporters [1]
Geraldine Ferraro
1984 Geraldine Ferraro (US Representative, New York), becomes the 1st US female major-party vice-presidential nominee, officially joining Walter Mondale‘s Democratic Party ticket
- 1985 Christa McAuliffe chosen as first school teacher to fly aboard the space shuttle
- 1985 The Val di Stava Dam collapse killing 268 people in Val di Stava, Italy
Boxing Title Fight
1986 Tim Witherspoon KOs Frank Bruno in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
Baseball Record
1987 New York Yankees Don Mattingly sets AL record of extra base hits in 10 consecutive games
Baseball History
1989 Cleveland Indians Joe Carter has his 4th 3 HR game
- 1989 NFL owners vote unanimously to form World League of American Football – operated 1991-2007
- 1989 United Airlines DC-10 crashes at Sioux City Iowa, kills 112
- 1990 BASF plant in Cincinnati explodes in flames, 1 dies
Baseball History
1990 Dave Righetti pitches in his 499th game as a NY Yankee, passing Whitey Ford in most appearances as a NY Yankee
- 1990 Richard Nixon library opens in Yorba Linda, California
Sports History
1991 Mike Tyson rapes a Miss Black America contestant (Desiree Washington)
- 1994 Bomb explosion in Alas Airlines at Colon Panama, killing 21
- 1994 First game ever canceled at Seattle Kingdome due to falling tiles
- 1994 Leonid Kvetjsma sworn in as Ukraine president
- 1996 Jason Gallian scores 312 in 683 mins for Lancashire v Derbyshire
- 1996 XXVI Summer Olympic Games open in Atlanta, Georgia
- 1998 Goodwill Games IV opens in New York City
- 2001 Michael Brunet discovers the skull of Sahelanthropus tchadensis in the Djurab Desert, Chad, one of the oldest known species in the human family tree and 6-7 million years old
- 2009 The Wesley Impact: black spot the size of Earth is discovered on Jupiter after unknown object crashes onto the planet
Captain America: The First Avenger
2011 “Captain America: The First Avenger”, directed by Joe Johnston, starring Chris Evans and Hayley Atwell, premieres in Los Angeles, California
- 2013 20 people are killed by a suicide bombing in Diyala, Iraq
Stars Dance
2013 Selena Gomez releases her debut solo studio album “Stars Dance”
- 2015 World Health Organization puts world’s Ebola death toll at 11,284
Despacito
2017 “Despacito” by Luis Fonsi featuring Daddy Yankee becomes the most streamed song ever, played 4.6 billion times
- 2017 Archaeological dig in Kakadu National Park extends Aboriginal peoples time in Australia to 65,000 to 80,000 years ago
- 2017 BBC publishes salaries of its top-earning journalists and presenters, two-thirds male, Chris Evans highest at over £2.2 million
DNA Solves 41 Year Mystery
2017 Investigators using DNA identify 16-year-old James Byron Haakenson as a victim of serial killer John Wayne Gacy, 41 years after his disappearance
- 2017 US scientists calculate the total amount of plastic ever produced: 8.3 billion tonnes, equal to the weight of 1 billion elephants
- 2018 A duck boat sinks in Table Rock Lake, Missouri, drowning 17 people
2018 Airbus Beluga XL, painted to look like the whale, makes its first flight, landing in Toulouse-Blagnac, France
- 2018 Brazilian soccer international goalkeeper Alisson transfers from Roma to Liverpool for a world record shot blocker’s fee of £66.8m
- 2018 First commercial flight, the “bird of peace” between Ethiopia and Eritrea in 20 years lands in Asmara, Eritrea, reuniting families
- 2018 Israel’s parliament passes controversial “nation state” law giving only Jews self-determination, relegating Arabic to “special status”
- 2018 Largest intact sarcophagus of its kind ever found (2000 years old) opened in Alexandria, contains 3 skeletons, not a curse as feared
- 2018 Russian ship Dmitri Donskoii, with possible cargo of gold coins is discovered in waters between South Korea and Japan where it sunk in 1905
- 2019 Heat wave begins across the east of America affecting 100 million people and killing 6, with New York city declaring a state of emergency
- 2019 Largest wind farm in Africa opens at Lake Turkana, Kenya, generating 310 megawatts
- 2019 UK oil tanker Stena Impero seized by Iranian Revolutionary Guard in the Strait of Hormuz
- 2020 First Arab interplanetary mission, the Mars “Hope” orbiter launches on board Japanese H-2A rocket from Tanegashima Space Center
2020 Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani says 25 million Iranians already infected with COVID-19, 35 million at risk (official figure just 269,440)
- 2020 Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler criticizes federal policing of protesters in his city, calling it unconstitutional
Hamilton Equals Schumacher record
2020 World Formula 1 drivers champion Lewis Hamilton wins a record 8th Hungarian Grand Prix in Budapest to equal Michael Schumacher’s record of wins at a single circuit (French GP)
- 2021 Bomb attack on al-Wuhailat market in Baghdad, Iraq, ahead of Eid al-Adha festival, kills 25 people
- 2021 Peruvian union leader Pedro Castillo declared winner of the country’s presidential election (11 April), defeating Keiko Fujimori by only 44,000 votes
- 2021 UK lifts most COVID-19 restrictions on so-called “Freedom Day” despite 50,000 new daily infections
- 2022 Temperatures exceed 40°C in parts of England for first time
- 2023 Massive landslide after heavy monsoon rains in India leaves at least 27 dead in Irshalwadi village near Mumbai, with 78 still missing
- 2023 Scientists discover metals can self-heal after observing metals cracking and fusing back together, paving the way for future self-healing structures and vehicles [1]
- 2024 At least 15 people die when a bridge collapses in Shangluo in China’s Shaanxi province after heavy rains and flash flooding [1]
- 2024 Missouri woman Sandra Hemme released from prison after her 43 year conviction for murder was overturned – longest known wrongful conviction of a woman in US history [1]
- 2024 Thirteen sharpnose sharks are the first to test positive for cocaine off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil [1]
- 2024 Widespread technology outage grounds flights and shuts down bank and media companies around the world, caused by an update error by cyber security firm CrowdStrike [1]
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