Gregory of Tours
573 Georgius Florentius, later Gregory, consecrated as Bishop of Tours in Rheims by King Sigebert I of Austrasia and his wife Brunhilda
- 851 Erispoe defeats Charles the Bald near the Breton town of Jengland
- 1138 English defeat the Scottish at Cowton Moor, Yorkshire; banners of various saints are carried into battle, leading to the name Battle of the Standard
- 1454 Jews are expelled from Brunn Moravia by order of King Ladislaus the Posthmus
Battle of Bosworth Field
1485 Battle of Bosworth Field: Henry Tudor‘s forces defeat English King Richard III during the last battle in the Wars of the Roses. Richard is killed, becoming the last English monarch to die in battle.
- 1559 Spanish Archbishop Bartolomé de Carranza is arrested as a heretic
Assassination Attempt on Admiral Coligny
1572 Failed assassination attempt on Gaspard de Coligny, a French nobleman, admiral, and Huguenot leader in the French Wars of Religion; he is killed two days later
- 1639 Madras (now Chennai), India, is founded by the British East India Company on a sliver of land bought from local Nayak rulers
- 1642 English Civil War begins between Royalists and Parliamentarians
- 1654 Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam (modern-day Manhattan) aboard the Peartree as one of the first Jewish colonists
Historic Siege
1707 Prince Eugene of Savoy leads the Austrian Imperial army to break the Great Siege of Turin, saving northern Italy from French control, an event still celebrated today [1]
- 1717 Spanish troops land on Sardinia
- 1762 Ann Franklin publishes the Newport Mercury, becoming the first American female editor and publisher and the first woman inducted into the University of Rhode Island’s Journalism Hall of Fame
- 1766 British expedition to find Terra Australis departs Plymouth, England, with two ships captained by Samuel Wallis and Philip Carteret, becoming two separate voyages when the ships lose each other entering the Pacific Ocean [1]
Cook Claims NSW
1770 British explorer James Cook‘s claims the east coast of Australia for the British Crown and names it New South Wales [1]
Proclamation of Rebellion
1775 King of Great Britain and Ireland, George III, proclaims the American colonies to be in open rebellion and orders his officials to suppress them
- 1780 HMS Resolution returns to England without Captain James Cook
- 1782 Fire in Cibali, Istanbul, destroys 7,000 homes
- 1787 John Fitch’s steamboat completes its tests years before Fulton
- 1788 Sierra Leone is settled by British as a haven for former slaves
- 1791 Haitian Slave Revolution begins under Vodou priest Boukman
Irish Rebellion of 1798
1798 French troops land at Kilcummin Harbour in County Mayo, Ireland, to aid Wolfe Tone‘s United Irishmen in the Irish Rebellion
- 1812 Swiss traveler Johann Ludwig Burckhardt is the first European to rediscover the Nabataean city of Petra in modern-day Jordan
- 1826 Colonies led by Jedediah Strong Smith move near Salt Lake, Utah
- 1827 José de La Mar becomes President of Peru
- 1848 The United States annexes New Mexico
- 1849 Austria launches pilotless balloons against the Italian city of Venice in the first aerial bombing in history
- 1851 Goldfields discovered in Australia
- 1851 The 100 Guineas Cup yacht race is held around the Isle of Wight, the first race of the oldest international sporting competition now known as the America’s Cup. In the race, US schooner “America” beats the British cutter “Aurora” by 24 minutes, prompting spectator Queen Victoria to ask who was in second place and the famous reply, “Your majesty, there is no second.”
- 1862 Battle of Catlett’s Station, Virginia
Stuarts Raid of Revenge
1862 Confederate Major General J.E.B. Stuart, in a retaliatory raid, captures the dress coat of Union General John Pope at Catlett Station, Virginia [1]
- 1862 Santee Sioux Indians attack Fort Ridgely
1864 First Geneva Convention adopted in Geneva “for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field” is signed by 12 nations
- 1865 William Sheppard is issued the first US patent for liquid soap
- 1872 Australia’s Overland Telegraph Line, one of Australia’s greatest logistical and engineering feats, allows fast communication between Australia and the world for the first time [1]
- 1875 The Treaty of St. Petersburg between Japan and Russia is ratified, providing for the exchange of Sakhalin for the Kuril Islands
Natal Indian Congress
1894 Mahatma Gandhi forms the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) in order to fight discrimination against Indian traders in the British Colony of Natal in South Africa
- 1901 Cadillac Motor Company is founded
Teddy Goes for a Spin
1902 US President Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first US president to ride in an electric car
- 1906 The first Victor Victrola is manufactured by the Victor Talking Machine Company in Camden, New Jersey
1909 First international flying event, the French air show Grande Semaine d’Aviation de la Champagne, is held near Reims in France, sponsored by Moët et Chandon, Mumm, and other makers of champagne
Fire at Wolf House
1913 Jack London‘s 15,000-square-foot stone mansion, called Wolf House, burns down two weeks before he plans to move in with his family
- 1914 Battle in Ardennes, Belgium: Neufchâteau, Rossignol, Tintigny, and Virton
- 1914 Battle of Charleroi begins as General von Bülow’s troops defeat the French
- 1914 Canada’s Finance Act, 1914, receives royal assent
- 1914 First encounter between British and German troops in Belgium
- 1914 General Martos’ troops occupy Soldau and Neidenburg, East Prussia
- 1914 German troops execute 384 inhabitants of Tamines, Belgium
- 1917 Pittsburgh Pirates play their fourth straight extra-inning game; left fielder Carson Bigbee sets an MLB record with 11 at-bats in a 22-inning, 6-5 loss to the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field
- 1920 The first Salzburg Festival opens with an outdoor performance of Austrian poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s stage drama “Jedermann” in front of the Salzburg Cathedral
Rise of J. Edgar Hoover
1921 J. Edgar Hoover appointed Assistant Director of the Bureau of Investigation
Cosgrave Replaces Collins
1922 William T. Cosgrave replaces Michael Collins as Chairman of the Provisional Government of the Irish Free State after the latter is ambushed and killed in a shootout with anti-Treaty forces
- 1926 Gold discovered in Johannesburg, South Africa
- 1926 Greek dictator Theódoros Pángalos is overthrown
- 1932 BBC begins experimental regular television broadcasts
- 1933 18th International Zionist Congress opens in Prague, Czechoslovakia
- 1933 Chicago Cubs president William Veeck Sr. urges MLB to incorporate midsummer interleague games and a split season
- 1939 Dutch border guards take positions for German invasion
- 1939 Premier De Geer recalls Dutch holidaymakers in Black Forest
- 1941 Nazi troops reach Lenningrad
- 1942 Brazil declares war on Germany, Japan, and Italy
- 1943 Soviet troops free Kharkov
- 1944 Last transport of French Jews to Nazi Germany
- 1945 Bob Cristofani scores 110 for Australian Services at Old Trafford
- 1946 Baseball approves a 168-game schedule but later rescinds it
- 1946 Mikko Hietanen wins the Oslo marathon (2:24:55)
- 1947 14th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 16, Chicago Bears 0 (105,840 attendees)
- 1950 Abdel Rehim swims across the English Channel in 10 hours and 50 minutes
Gibson 1st Black Player
1950 Althea Gibson becomes the first Black competitor in a US national tennis competition
1954 Juan Manuel Fangio of Argentina clinches his second Formula 1 World Drivers’ Championship by winning the Swiss Grand Prix at Bremgarten in a Maserati
- 1954 WPTV TV Channel 5 in Palm Beach, FL (NBC) begins broadcasting
Love Me Tender
1956 Elvis Presley begins filming “Love Me Tender” (The Reno Brothers)
Eisenhower Nominated
1956 US President Eisenhower and Vice President Richard Nixon renominated by Republican convention in San Francisco
Rademacher vs Patterson
1957 Olympic heavyweight boxing champion Pete Rademacher becomes the first to contest the world title in his first professional bout and is knocked out by Floyd Patterson in the 6th round at Sicks’ Stadium, Seattle
- 1958 Great Britain performs an atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
- 1958 Toronto’s Boyd Carter (15 yards) and Dave Mann (116 yards) combine for a CFL record for the longest punt return in a 15-14 win over the Montreal Alouettes in Toronto
- 1959 American Football League is officially named at a meeting in Dallas, Texas; charter members are Dallas, New York, Houston, Denver, Los Angeles, and Minneapolis-Saint Paul
Baseball Record
1959 Cincinnati Reds future Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder Frank Robinson hits three consecutive home runs (six RBIs) in an 11-4 win over the St. Louis Cardinals at Crosley Field
Baseball Record
1960 Gil Hodges sets the NL right-handed home run record with #352
- 1962 Savannah, the world’s first nuclear-powered ship, completes its maiden voyage from Yorktown, Virginia, to Savannah, Georgia
- 1962 USSR performs a nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya, Soviet Union
- 1963 NASA civilian test pilot Joe Walker in the X-15 rocket plane achieves a world record altitude of 354,200 feet (107,960 m; 67 miles)
Is This America?
1964 Civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer speaks at the US Democratic National Convention about her terrifying experiences with voter registration as a Black woman in Mississippi [1]
- 1964 Guinea, Liberia, and Ivory Coast form a joint market
- 1964 The Supremes’ “Where Did Our Love Go” reaches #1
- 1965 San Francisco Giants pitcher Juan Marichal hits LA Dodgers catcher John Roseboro on the head with his bat, causing a 14-minute brawl
- 1966 The Beatles arrive in New York City and hold two press conferences, one for the press and one for their fans
- 1968 The Society of Labour Lawyers (SLL) publishes an “interim report” about alleged discrimination in Northern Ireland; the report is heavily criticised by unionists
- 1969 Gloria O. Smith of New York is crowned the second Miss Black America
Last Beatles Photo Shoot
1969 The Beatles’ last official group photo session takes place at John and Yoko’s home, Tittenhurst Park, near Ascot, England
- 1971 Approximately 130 non-Unionist councillors announce their withdrawal from participation in district councils across Northern Ireland in protest against internment, which allows suspected terrorists to be indefinitely detained without trial
- 1971 Bolivian military coup led by army Col. Hugo Banzer drives out leftist President Juan José Torres
- 1971 FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and US Attorney General John Mitchell announce the arrest of 20 members of the “Camden 28”, a religious-left anti-war activist group intent on disrupting the military draft in Camden, New Jersey [1] [2] [3]
- 1972 IRA bomb explodes prematurely at a customs post in Newry, County Down; nine people, including three members of the IRA and five Catholic civilians, are killed in the explosion
- 1972 Rhodesia is expelled by the International Olympic Committee for its racist policies
- 1973 Chilean parliament accuses President Allende of violating laws
- 1975 McNichols Sports Arena in Denver opens
- 1978 Left-wing Sandinistas revolutionaries occupy National Palace in Managua, Nicaragua
- 1979 200 Black leaders meet in New York to support Andrew Young
White Sox Sold
1980 Bill Veeck agrees to sell MLB’s Chicago White Sox to Eddie DeBartolo Sr. for $20,000,000, but AL owners block the sale
- 1980 Leaders of Port Elizabeth’s Black secondary school children in South Africa decide to end a four-month boycott of classes
Sharon Urges Peaceful Coexistence
1982 Israeli General Ariel Sharon urges Palestinians to discuss peaceful coexistence
- 1984 American Evelyn Ashford ties the world women’s 100 m record in 10.76 seconds
- 1984 Mets pitcher Dwight Gooden becomes the 11th rookie to strike out 200
Republicans Renominate Ronald Reagan
1984 Republican convention in Dallas renominates President Ronald Reagan and Vice President George H.W. Bush
- 1984 The last Volkswagen Rabbit is produced
- 1984 The United Democratic Front, an internal coalition of anti-apartheid groups in South Africa, organizes a highly successful boycott of the Colored and Indian elections to parliament
- 1985 Airtours Boeing-737 crashes at Manchester airport, killing 55
- 1986 NASA announces tests designed to verify ignition pressure dynamics
- 1988 Australia unveils its first platinum coin (Koala)
- 1988 NBC premieres “Later” with Bob Costas; the first guest is Linda Ellerbee
- 1988 US performs a nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- 1989 The first complete ring around Neptune is discovered
O.J. Simpson Linked to Murder
1994 DNA testing links O.J. Simpson to the murders of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman
- 1994 Wim Cook government forms in Netherlands
- 1996 ANC makes its first submission to Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)
- 1998 South Africa beats Australia 29-15 in Johannesburg to win its first Tri Nations Rugby Series with an unbeaten record; Springboks fullback Percy Montgomery lands five penalties and two conversions
- 2003 Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is suspended after refusing to comply with a federal court order to remove a rock inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the lobby of the Alabama Supreme Court building
2004 “The Scream” (1910 painted version) and “Madonna”, two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from the Munch Museum in Oslo, Norway
- 2004 After winning the doubles tennis gold medal at the Athens Olympics, Chile’s Nicolás Massú wins the men’s singles gold 6–3, 3–6, 2–6, 6–3, 6–4 over American Mardy Fish
Gatlin Wins 100m
2004 American sprinter Justin Gatlin wins the coveted Olympic 100 m gold medal in Athens in 9.85 seconds, ahead of Francis Obikwelu of Portugal and American Maurice Greene
- 2004 Athens Olympic marathon is run on the same route as the 1896 Games, starting at the site of the Battle of Marathon to the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens: Mizuki Noguchi of Japan wins women’s gold in 2:26:20
Henin Olympic Tennis Champion
2004 Justine Henin of Belgium wins the women’s singles tennis gold medal at the Athens Olympics 6-3, 6-3 over Amélie Mauresmo of France
- 2004 The rowing program at the Athens Olympics ends with the United States winning the men’s eights, and Romania taking the gold in the women’s eights
- 2007 The Storm botnet, a botnet created by the Storm Worm, sends out a record 57 million emails in one day
- 2007 The Texas Rangers rout the Baltimore Orioles 30-3, the most runs scored by a team in modern MLB history
- 2008 American decathlete Bryan Clay wins 4 of the 10 events and finishes second in 2 others to dominate the field and take the gold medal at the Beijing Olympics
- 2008 Anne-Caroline Chausson of France and Māris Štrombergs of Latvia win the inaugural gold medals in BMX, winning the women’s and men’s events respectively at the Beijing Olympics
- 2008 Ethiopian distance runner Tirunesh Dibaba wraps up the women’s 5,000/10,000 m double at the Beijing Olympics as she takes gold in the 5 km with an Olympic record of 15:41.40
- 2008 Maurren Higa Maggi wins the women’s long jump with a leap of 7.04 m at the Beijing Olympics, Brazil’s first-ever gold medal in any women’s individual event
- 2008 Russia wins the women’s 4 × 100 m relay ahead of Belgium and Nigeria at the Beijing Olympics; disqualified in 2016 when reanalysis of Yulia Chermoshanskaya’s samples result in positive test for prohibited substances
- 2008 Steve Hooker wins the men’s pole vault with 5.96 m at the Beijing Olympics, Australia’s first gold medal in men’s athletics since 1968
Jamaica Sets Relay Record
2008 The Jamaican team led by Usain Bolt smashes the world 4 x 100m relay record in the final at the Beijing Olympics; disqualified in 2017 as Nesta Carter tests positive for a prohibited substance
- 2012 47 people are killed in the Syrian civil war
- 2012 48 people are killed in Kenyan tribal wars between the Pokomo and Orma
- 2012 Russia and Vanuatu become members of the World Trade Organization
- 2013 14 people are killed by a suicide bombing in Western Iraq
- 2014 Second Ebola death in Nigeria, Africa’s most populated country
- 2015 A vintage Hawker Hunter plane crashes onto the A27 dual carriageway during the Shoreham Airshow in England, killing at least 11 people
- 2017 India’s highest court outlaws instant divorce for Muslim men (talaq, talaq, talaq)
- 2017 Missouri Governor Eric Greitens grants stay of execution for Marcellus Williams in light of possible new DNA eividence
- 2018 Australia’s House of Representatives closes early due to the Liberal Party leadership battle
- 2018 Discovery of a bone of a 90,000-year-old hybrid human, half Neanderthal, half Denisovan, from Anuy River, Siberia, is published in “Nature”
Clooney Richest Year Ever
2018 Forbes says George Clooney makes more money in a single year ($239 million) than any actor ever, due to the sale of an alcohol company, followed by Dwayne Johnson ($124 million)
- 2018 Longest-ever bull market for Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index at 3,453 days (using a 19.9% decline in 1990 as the start; usually 20%)
- 2019 Bielefeld in Germany offers a €1 million prize to anyone who can prove the town doesn’t exist to disprove a 25-year-old conspiracy theory
- 2019 Russia launches Fedor, the first life-sized robot, into space to the International Space Station on a Soyuz rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- 2019 South Korea says it is leaving an intelligence-sharing pact with Japan in an escalation of the rift between the two countries
- 2020 Fires burning in Northern California are declared a major disaster with the LNU Lightning Complex Fire (341,243 acres) and the SCU Lightning Complex Fire (339,968 acres) among the three largest wildfires in state history
- 2020 Mexico’s COVID-19 death toll surpasses 60,000, the world’s third highest
- 2020 Thirteen people die in a stampede at an illegal disco in Lima, Peru, during a police raid to shut it down
Baker Honored with Panthéon
2021 Josephine Baker will be the first Black woman to be interred in the Panthéon in Paris, according to the French government
- 2021 Tropical storm Henri makes landfall near Westerly, Rhode Island
Kamala Harris Visits South East Asia
2021 US Vice President Kamala Harris arrives in Singapore to begin a short visit of South East Asia
Fauci Steps Down
2022 Dr. Anthony Fauci announces he will step down as chief medical advisor to the US President and as Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases [1]
- 2022 One of world’s longest school closures ends in the Philippines as schools reopen for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic after only online learning [1]
- 2023 Eight people are dramatically rescued from a cable car after 14 hours in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, northwest Pakistan [1]
- 2023 Thailand’s parliament picks real estate tycoon Srettha Thavisin as Prime Minister after a three-month delay [1]
- 2024 A suspicious fire destroys Jay Littleton Ball Park in Ontario, California; the 1937 structure is used for several movies, including “Eight Men Out,” “A League of Their Own,” and “The Babe”
- 2024 The largest diamond in more than a century, at 2,492 carats, is found in a mine in Botswana and is displayed by the country’s President Mokgweetsi Masisi [1]
- 2024 Vice President Kamala Harris accepts the Democratic nomination for U.S. President on the last day of the party’s national conference in Chicago [1]
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