- 406 Radagaisus, Goth leader who invaded Italy with a large force, captured and executed by the Roman army
- 476 Odoacer is proclaimed King of Italy by his troops, becoming the first barbarian King of Italy
- 1046 King Henry III gives money to Utrecht Deventer diocese
- 1059 Treaty of Melfi: Pope Nicholas II recognizes the Norman conquest of Southern Italy by appointing Norman adventurer Robert Guiscard Duke of Apulia and Calabria and Count of Sicily
1305 Scottish patriot William Wallace is executed for high treason by Edward I of England at Smithfield, London
De Bobadilla Arrives in Hispaniola
1500 Governor Francisco de Bobadilla arrives in the Indies and soon after arrests and sends former Governor Christopher Columbus back to Spain in chains
- 1514 Battle of Chaldiran ends with a decisive victory for Sultan Selim I of the Ottoman Empire over Shah Ismail I, founder of the Safavid Empire
Cartier’s Third Voyage
1541 French explorer Jacques Cartier lands near Quebec City on his third voyage to Canada accompanied by five ships and 1500 people to establish a colony (colony fails after two years) [1]
- 1542 Rabbi Joseph Caro completes his major work, the “Beit Yosef,” a voluminous commentary on the “Arba’ah Turim” code
- 1553 Bishop Stephen Gardiner is appointed English Lord Chancellor
- 1566 Beeldenstorm [Iconoclastic Fury] reaches Amsterdam
- 1582 Francis of Valois, Duke of Anjou, pays tribute to the Earl of Flanders
- 1595 Michael the Brave confronts the Ottoman army in the Battle of Calugareni
- 1614 University of Groningen, Netherlands, opens
- 1617 First one-way streets open in London
- 1708 Meidingnu Pamheiba is crowned King of Manipur
- 1711 British fleet under Admiral Hovenden Walker loses 950 men when 8 ships founder on rocks at Île-aux-Oeufs on their way to attack Quebec
- 1784 Eastern Tennessee settlers declare their area an independent state and name it Franklin; a year later, the Continental Congress rejects it
- 1789 French Revolution: The National Assembly proclaims freedom of religious opinions
Levée en masse
1793 French Revolution: The National Convention adopts the levée en masse, conscripting all able-bodied men between 18 and 25 for military service during the French Revolutionary Wars
- 1796 African Methodist Episcopal Church is incorporated
- 1813 Battle of Großbeeren: Prussians under von Bülow repulse French
- 1838 Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in South Hadley, Massachusetts, graduates its first class
- 1839 British capture Hong Kong from China
- 1850 First US National Women’s Rights Convention convenes in Worcester, Massachusetts
- 1862 Skirmish at Big Hill, Kentucky (two Federal regiments)
- 1864 Union troops and fleet occupy Fort Morgan, Alabama
- 1866 Treaty of Prague ends the Austro-Prussian War
- 1869 First carload of rail freight (boots and shoes) arrives in San Francisco from Boston after a 16-day trip
- 1872 First Japanese commercial ship visits San Francisco carrying tea
- 1873 Albert Bridge crossing the River Thames in London opens
- 1879 British Governor-General Charles Gordon of Sudan returns to Cairo
- 1883 Philadelphia Quakers make 27 errors against Providence Grays in a 28-0 shutout defeat at Messer Street Grounds; wild pitches, walks, and passed balls count as errors in MLB prior to 1888
- 1889 First ship-to-shore wireless message (“Sherman is sighted”) is received in the US from Lightship No. 70 to a coastal receiving station at Cliff House in San Francisco
- 1896 First Cry of the Philippine Revolution is made in Pugad Lawin, Quezon City, in the province of Manila
- 1900 National Negro Business League organizes in Boston
Sixth Zionist Congress
1903 Sixth Zionist Congress: Theodor Herzl declares a Jewish state
- 1904 Automobile tire chain patented
- 1906 Chicago White Sox win 19th straight, defeating Washington Senators 4-1 at American League Park
- 1906 Cuba’s first president, Tomás Estrada Palma, asks for US intervention
- 1907 Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Howie Camnitz no-hits the NY Giants, 1-0, in a 5-inning game at the Polo Grounds, NYC
- 1910 Fred Clarke sets a record with four outfield assists for Pittsburgh
War Meeting
1911 British Prime Minister H. H. Asquith holds secret meeting about British strategy in case of war with Germany
- 1914 Battle of Mons: General Alexander von Kluck’s troops force a British withdrawal
- 1914 General von Hausen executes 612 inhabitants of Dinant, Belgium
- 1914 German troops plunder Belgium
- 1914 Japan declares war on Germany in World War I
- 1915 Tsar Nicolaas II takes control of Russian Army
- 1916 Military court of Berlin sentences socialist Karl Liebknecht to 4 years
- 1917 Race riot in Houston, Texas; 2 Black people and 11 white people killed
- 1919 “Gasoline Alley” comic strip premieres in the Chicago Tribune
- 1920 American swimmer Warren Kealoha wins his first of two consecutive Olympic gold medals in the 100 m backstroke, beating teammate Ray Kegeris at the Antwerp Games
- 1920 Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood’s play “The Bat,” based on Rinehart’s novel “The Circular Staircase,” premieres on Broadway in New York
- 1921 Austria and the US formally end the war; the US does the same with Germany on the 25th and Hungary on the 29th
- 1921 British declare a truce with Irish Nationalists Sinn Féin
- 1923 Capt. Lowell Smith and Lt. John P. Richter perform the first mid-air refueling on a De Havilland DH-4B, setting an endurance flight record of 37 hours
Mile World Record
1923 Paavo Nurmi of Finland runs a world record for 1 mile with a time of 4:10.4 in Stockholm; the record stands until 1931
- 1924 Mars makes its closest approach to Earth since the 10th century
- 1929 Arab mobs attack Jews in Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine, triggering a series of violent riots
- 1930 First British Empire Games close in Hamilton, Canada
- 1931 Count Gyula Károlyi becomes Prime Minister of Hungary
- 1931 Philadelphia A’s Lefty Grove loses 1-0 to the Browns after winning 16 straight
- 1933 First televised boxing match, a six-round exhibition at Broadcasting House in London between middleweights Archie Sexton and Laurie Raiteri, airs on BBC TV
Gandhi Released
1933 Mahatma Gandhi released from Indian jail following another hunger strike
Feller’s 1st Game
1936 17-year-old Cleveland Indians future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Bob Feller plays his first MLB game as a starter and strikes out 15 St. Louis Browns in a 4-1 win at League Park, Cleveland
You Can’t Take It With You
1938 “You Can’t Take It With You” from the play by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart, directed by Frank Capra and starring James Stewart and Jean Arthur, premieres and wins Best Picture in 1939
- 1938 England scores 7-903 declared against Australia, with Len Hutton scoring 364
- 1939 British motorist John Cobb breaks the land speed record, reaching 365.85 mph (589.74 kph) on the Bonneville Salt Flats
Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact
1939 Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agree to the Molotov–Ribbentrop non-aggression pact and secretly divide Poland between themselves, setting the stage for World War II
- 1940 German Luftwaffe begins night bombing of London
- 1942 Battle of Stalingrad: 600 Luftwaffe planes bomb Stalingrad, killing 40,000 people
- 1942 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill flies back to London from Cairo, Egypt
- 1942 First US flights land on Guadalcanal
- 1942 Last cavalry charge in history takes place during World War II at Isbuschenskij, Russia, when the Italian Savoia Cavalleria charges Soviet infantry
Johnson Pitches to Ruth
1942 Walter Johnson pitches to Babe Ruth in a pregame attraction that draws 69,000 for the NYY-Washington MLB doubleheader at Yankee Stadium and raises $80,000 for Army-Navy relief
- 1943 Battle of Kursk, the largest tank battle in history, ends after 50 days as the Soviet Union defeats Germany; over 10,000 tanks take part, and nearly 250,000 combatants are killed
- 1943 Red Army recaptures Kharkov
- 1944 94.5°F (34.7°C) in De Bilt, Netherlands, and 101.5°F (38.6°C) in Warnsveld
- 1944 Allied troops capture Marseille, France
- 1944 Drancy internment camp in Drancy is liberated
- 1944 General George Leclerc’s troops advance towards Paris
- 1944 Romanian Royal Coup: King Michael orders forces to cease fire against Allies and dismisses pro-Axis Prime Minister, Marshal Ion Antonescu
- 1944 US 20th Army Corps enters Fontainebleau and Melun de Seine
- 1944 US B-24 crashes into a school in Freckleton, England, killing 76
- 1946 13th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 16, Los Angeles 0 (97,380 attendees)
- 1946 Ordinance No. 46 of the British Military Government constitutes the German state of Schleswig-Holstein
- 1947 US President Truman’s daughter, Margaret, gives her first public singing concert
- 1948 Earl Bernadotte asks for aid for fugitives to Palestine
- 1948 World Council of Churches is formed by 147 churches from 44 countries
- 1950 West Germany and Japan are readmitted to the International Amateur Athletic Federation
- 1952 Arab League security pact goes into effect
- 1952 Giants’ Bob Elliott is ejected for arguing a strike, Bobby Hoffman completes his at-bat, strikes out, and is also ejected for arguing
- 1952 Kitty Wells becomes the first woman to reach #1 on the Billboard Country chart with “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels” and stays at the top for 15 weeks [1]
- 1953 Dutch cyclist Arie Van Vliet becomes world champion sprinter
- 1953 Dutch DC-6 crashes near IJmuiden in the North Sea, killing 21
- 1953 Former Boston Braves pitcher Phil Paine becomes the first major leaguer to play in Japan while on military service with the U.S. Air Force, playing the first of nine games for the Nishitetsu Lions
1953 Italian Ferrari driver Alberto Ascari wins the Swiss Grand Prix at Bremgarten, clinching his second Formula 1 World Drivers’ Championship
- 1953 KBAK TV channel 29 in Bakersfield, CA (ABC) begins broadcasting
- 1953 Phil Grate sets a record for throwing a baseball 443 ft 3 in (135.1 m)
- 1953 USSR performs a nuclear test
- 1954 First flight of the C-130 Hercules transport aircraft
- 1957 US performs a nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site
- 1958 “Musical Marie” Ashton completes a 133-hour piano marathon at the Plaza-Central cinema in England, setting a female record for continuous piano playing
- 1958 People’s Republic of China resumes bombardment of the Quemoy and Matsu islands in the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis
- 1960 World’s largest frog, a Goliath frog weighing 3.3 kg, is found in Equatorial Guinea
- 1961 Belgium sends troops to Rwanda-Urundi
- 1961 East Germany imposes new curbs on travel between West and East Berlin
- 1961 Ranger 1, a US test flight, fails to reach its intended high Earth orbit and re-enters and burns up on August 30, 1961
- 1962 First Europe-US live TV program via Telstar
- 1963 Beatles release single “She Loves You” in the UK
- 1963 Ringo admits he wrote the song “Don’t Pass Me By”
- 1963 US performs a nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- 1966 Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from the Moon
- 1966 The Beatles’ last concert takes place in Queens, New York City, at Shea Stadium before a crowd of 45,000 with 11,000 unsold seats
- 1968 Ringo temporarily quits The Beatles over a disagreement and rejoins the group after a holiday in Sardinia
- 1968 Yankees and Tigers play a 3-3 tie in 19 innings due to a 1 am curfew
- 1969 American Audrey McElmory wins the World Cycling Championships in Brno, Czechoslovakia
- 1969 France’s Une De Mai wins the International Trot at Roosevelt Raceway, becoming the first non-American since 1912 to win a cycling race title
- 1970 Roberto Clemente compiles his record second consecutive 5-hit game
- 1971 WGTU TV channel 29 in Traverse City, MI (ABC) begins broadcasting
- 1972 Four civilians and one British soldier are injured in separate overnight shooting incidents in Northern Ireland
- 1972 MLB Chicago White Sox slugger Dick Allen becomes the fourth player to homer into Comiskey Park’s center field bleachers, a feat previously achieved by only Jimmie Foxx, Hank Greenberg, and Alex Johnson
Republicans Renominate Spiro Agnew
1972 Republican convention in Miami Beach, Florida, renominates Vice President Spiro Agnew, but not unanimously as one vote goes to NBC newsman David Brinkley
- 1975 British “Free” guitarist Paul Kossoff is revived after a heart attack but dies in 1976
- 1975 Classical Way wins the Championship Cup at Roosevelt Raceway
- 1975 Communists take over Laos
- 1975 Ethiopian junta under Mengistu Haile Mariam
- 1975 Philip Kapleau conducts the first jukai ceremony in Poland
- 1975 USSR performs a nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya, USSR
- 1976 A 6.4-magnitude earthquake strikes China, killing thousands
- 1977 First human-powered flight over a mile by Bryan Allen in the Gossamer Condor, designed by Paul MacCready, wins the first Kremer Prize
- 1977 Marxist philosopher Rudolf Bahro is imprisoned in East Germany
- 1978 Iranian students occupy the Iranian embassy in Wassenaar
- 1979 Iranian army opens offensive against Kurds
- 1979 United Nations’ Vienna office opens
- 1980 Charles O. Finley sells the Oakland A’s MLB franchise for $12.7 million to Walter Haas Jr., owner and CEO of Levi Strauss
- 1982 Lebanese Phalangist leader Bachir Gemayel is elected as president
- 1982 Seattle Mariners pitcher Gaylord Perry is ejected for throwing a spitter
- 1982 USSR performs a nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
- 1985 Paul Hornung is awarded $1,160,000 by a Louisville court against the NCAA, which barred him as a college football analyst for betting on games
- 1985 Said Aouita of Morocco sets a 1,500-meter record (3:29.46) in Berlin
- 1985 South African attorney and UDF leader Dullah Omar is arrested
- 1985 West German top counter-espionage agent Hans Tiedge moves to East Germany
- 1987 15-year-old boy hijacks KLM B737 and demands $1 billion
- 1987 Heavy rainfall and floods in Bangladesh kill hundreds of people
Tyson-Green Street-Fight
1988 Mike Tyson and Mitch Green brawl at 4 a.m. in Harlem, NYC
- 1989 Lewis, Everett, Burrell, and Heard run a world record 4 x 200 m (1:19.38)
- 1989 The LA Dodgers beat the Montreal Expos 1-0 in 22 innings with a home run by Rick Dempsey
- 1989 Two million people form a human chain across Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania in a peaceful pro-independence demonstration against Soviet occupation [1]
- 1990 Armenia declares independence from the Soviet Union
- 1990 East and West Germany announce they will reunite on October 3
- 1990 US begins call up of 46,000 reservists to the Persian Gulf
- 1992 Dennis Eckersley, who previously set the record for most consecutive saves (40), is the first pitcher to record 40 saves in four different seasons
- 1992 Wilhelm Verwoerd, grandson of former South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the main architect of apartheid, joins the African National Congress
- 1993 Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches record high of 3,638.96 points
- 1993 Fred McGriff and David Justice are the sixth to hit back-to-back home runs twice in the same game
Grace
1994 Jeff Buckley releases his album “Grace,” featuring his cover of Leonard Cohen‘s “Hallelujah”
- 1995 Indians’ José Mesa sets a record with his 38th consecutive save
Bin Laden’s Declaration of War
1996 Osama bin Laden issues a message entitled “A Declaration of War Against the Americans Occupying the Land of the Two Holy Places”
Bonds 400 Double
1998 San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds becomes the first MLB player to hit 400 home runs and steal 400 bases in a career when he homers off Florida Marlins’ Kirt Ojala at Pro Player Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida
- 2000 A Gulf Air Airbus A320 crashes into the Persian Gulf near Manama, Bahrain, killing 143 people
- 2000 Nicaragua becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty, essentially deprecating the Buenos Aires Convention treaty because all members of the BA Convention are also signatories to Berne
- 2004 An American sweep in the 400 m medals at the Athens Olympics; Jeremy Wariner wins gold in 44.00 ahead of Otis Harris and Derrick Brew
- 2004 Outstanding British athlete Kelly Holmes wins the first leg of her 800/1,500m double at the Athens Olympics, taking the gold medal in 1:56.38
- 2004 Winning pitcher Lisa Fernandez (4-0) leads the US to the softball gold medal at the Athens Olympics, beating Australia 5-1
2005 Hurricane Katrina forms over the Bahamas and later becomes a Category 5 hurricane
- 2005 TANS Peru Flight 204 crashes near Pucallpa, Peru, killing 41
- 2006 Natascha Kampusch, abducted at the age of 10, manages to escape from her captor Wolfgang Priklopil after eight years of captivity
- 2007 The #hashtag is invented and first used in a tweet by US product designer Chris Messina
- 2008 Australian diver Matthew Mitcham wins the men’s 10 m platform gold medal with a final dive at the Beijing Olympics, preventing the Chinese from winning every diving event and achieving the highest score for an individual dive in Olympic history (112.10)
Bekele Double Gold
2008 Ethiopian distance runner Kenenisa Bekele wraps up the 5,000/10,000m double at the Beijing Olympics when he takes gold in the 5,000m in an Olympic record 12:57.82
- 2008 Midfielder Ángel Di María scores a 58th-minute winner as Argentina beats Nigeria 1-0 to win the men’s football gold medal at the Beijing Olympics; 89,102 attend at the National Stadium
US Women’s Basketball Gold
2008 The star-studded American women’s basketball team, led by Lisa Leslie, Sue Bird, and Diana Taurasi, wins the gold medal at the Beijing Olympics with a convincing 92-65 victory over Australia
- 2009 The Tradition Senior Men’s Golf, Crosswater Club: Mike Reid wins his second Champions Tour major with birdie on first playoff hole against John Cook
- 2010 A hostage crisis occurs at the Quirino Grandstand in Manila, where a dismissed police officer takes hostage a tour bus full of Chinese nationals
- 2011 A 5.8 earthquake occurs in Mineral, Virginia, and is felt as far north as Ontario and as far south as Atlanta, Georgia
Muammar al-Gaddafi Overthrown
2011 Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi is overthrown after National Transitional Council forces take control of the Bab al-Azizia compound during the 2011 Libyan Civil War
- 2012 At least 30 people are killed as a result of monsoon rain in Rajasthan, India
- 2012 Four people are killed and 28 injured in a hot air balloon accident in Slovenia
- 2013 26 people are killed and 55 are injured by a suicide bombing in Baghdad, Iraq
- 2013 Fifty people are killed in mosque bombings in Tripoli, Lebanon
- 2013 UN inspectors are stopped by the Syrian government from investigating a reported site of a chemical massacre
- 2014 Alex Puccio places second in the Boulder World Championship in Munich, Germany
- 2015 A 12-year-old boy trips and rips the 17th-century painting “Flowers” by Paolo Porpora, worth $1.5 million, at an exhibition in Taiwan
- 2015 Destruction by ISIS of the first-century AD Temple of Baalshamin in the ancient ruins of Palmyra is confirmed by Syrian officials
- 2015 English IndyCar driver Justin Wilson suffers a head injury during a race crash at Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Pennsylvania
- 2017 Airstrike on hotel in Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, by Saudi-led coalition leaves at least 30 dead
- 2017 India’s toll from swine flu rises above 1,000 for the year, with 22,186 cases reported
- 2017 Nearly 60 million people in the Indus Valley, Pakistan, are at risk from arsenic, according to research published in “Science Advances”
- 2017 US Navy fires Vice Admiral Joseph Aucoin as commander of the Seventh Fleet following a series of collisions in Asian waters
- 2017 World’s driest place, the Atacama Desert in Chile, blooms after unexpected rainfall
Domingo Sings 150th Role
2018 Tenor Plácido Domingo sings his 150th opera role in Bizet’s “The Pearl Fishers” at the Salzburg Festival, Austria
- 2019 Russia launches the first floating nuclear power station, the Akademik Lomonosov, from the port of Murmansk
Jacob Blake Shot by Police
2020 American Black man Jacob Blake is shot and injured by police in front of his children in Kenosha, Wisconsin, prompting violent protests
- 2020 Kellyanne Conway, adviser to President Trump, announces she is stepping away from the White House for family reasons
Donald Trump Renominated
2020 US Republican Party convention begins by formally renominating Donald Trump for a second presidential term
- 2021 US Food and Drug Administration grants full approval to Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for people 16 and over, the first vaccine to move past emergency-use status in the US
- 2021 Video evidence of a Seychelles giant tortoise hunting and eating a bird is revealed for the first time; tortoises were previously thought to be herbivores [1]
Najib goes to Jail
2022 Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak begins a 12-year prison sentence for money laundering after the High Court rejects his final appeal [1]
- 2022 In a US domestic terrorism case, two men are found guilty of plotting to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer [1]
Super Freaky Girl
2022 Nicki Minaj‘s single “Super Freaky Girl” debuts at #1, the first female rapper to do so since Lauryn Hill in 1998 with “Doo Wop (That Thing)” [1]
- 2023 At least 26 people are killed after a railway bridge under construction collapses near the Indian town of Sairang in Mizoram state [1]
- 2023 Greek wildfires claim 20 lives, including 18 migrants trying to cross the border from Turkey [1]
- 2023 India’s Chandrayaan-3 lunar mission is the first to land at the Moon’s southern pole successfully and makes India the fourth country to ever land on the Moon [1]
Wagner Group Plane Crash
2023 Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner mercenary group, is reported killed along with nine others in a plane crash northwest of Moscow, according to the Russian Federal Air Transport Agency
- 2024 Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Angels steals a base and hits a grand slam in a 7-3 win at home over Tampa Bay, becoming just the sixth MLB player to have 40 home runs and 40 stolen bases in a season; he does so in the fewest number of games, 126
- 2024 US independence presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suspends his campaign and endorses Donald Trump [1]
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