- 49 BC Julius Caesar’s general Gaius Scribonius Curio is defeated in the Second Battle of the Bagradas River by the Numidians under Publius Attius Varus and King Juba I of Numidia. Curio commits suicide to avoid capture
1215 Pope Innocent III declares the Magna Carta invalid
1349 Black Death Massacre: 6,000 Jews, blamed for spreading the Bubonic Plague, are killed in Mainz, Electorate of Mainz, as part of a wave of pogroms across Western Europe
- 1349 Black Death Massacre: Jews of the Free Imperial City of Cologne set themselves on fire to avoid forced baptism into Christianity amidst Bubonic Plague accusations, part of a wave of pogroms across Western Europe
- 1391 Jews of Palma, Mallorca, are massacred
- 1456 The printing of the Gutenberg Bible is completed
St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre
1572 St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre of Protestants by Roman Catholics begins in Paris with the murder by defenestration of Admiral Gaspard de Coligny and later spreads to the French provinces
1662 Act of Uniformity requires English government and church officials to accept the Book of Common Prayer
William Penn Acquires the Lower Counties
1682 Duke of York, James II, awards the “Three Lower Counties” that form modern-day Delaware to William Penn, ensuring ocean access for his colony of Pennsylvania [1]
- 1690 Job Charnock sets up the East India Company headquarters camp by Kalikata village (modern Kolkata)
- 1704 Battle of Málaga: largest naval battle in the War of the Spanish Succession; tactically indecisive but a strategic victory for the Grand Alliance
- 1751 Thomas Colley is executed in England for drowning a supposed witch
- 1789 French Revolution: The National Assembly proclaims freedom of speech
- 1814 British forces capture Washington, D.C. during the War of 1812 and destroy many landmarks
- 1816 The Treaty of St. Louis is signed by the USA and the united tribes of Ottawa, Ojibwa, and Potawatomi in St. Louis, Missouri
- 1820 Constitutionalist insurrection in Porto, Portugal
- 1826 Netherlands’ South Willems Port (Bosch-Liege) opens
- 1828 Dutch army captures Fort Du Bus in New Guinea
Darwin Invited Aboard HMS Beagle
1831 Naturalist John Henslow writes to Charles Darwin to offer him a place aboard the Admiralty surveying vessel HMS Beagle on a voyage to chart the South American coast [1]
- 1833 HMS Beagle reaches Bahía Blanca, Argentina
1847 Charlotte Brontë sends the manuscript of her novel “Jane Eyre” to the publisher Smith, Elder & Co. in London under her pen name “Currer Bell”
- 1853 First potato chips are prepared by chef George Crum at Moon’s Lake House near Saratoga Springs, New York (popular legend says he invents them, though earlier recipes exist)
- 1854 National Emigration Convention meets in Cleveland
- 1857 The Panic of 1857 begins, setting off one of the most severe economic crises in U.S. history
- 1858 Richmond “Daily Dispatch” reports 90 Black individuals arrested for learning
- 1869 American inventor Cornelius Swarthout patents a stovetop waffle iron
- 1870 The Wolseley Expedition reaches Manitoba to end the Red River Rebellion
- 1876 Riot abolishes fairs in Amsterdam; kills two people
- 1877 American outlaw John Wesley Hardin, wanted for murder, is arrested by Texas Rangers on a train in Pensacola, Florida
- 1893 Tornado destroys the coast of Savannah, Georgia, and Charleston, South Carolina; about 1,000 people die
- 1904 Battle of Liao-Yang: 200,000 Japanese against 150,000 Russians; Japanese achieve a tactical victory
- 1905 Chicago Cubs defeat the Phillies 2-1 in 20 innings
- 1906 Cincinnati Red John Weimer no-hits Dodgers 1-0 in a 7-inning game
Burns KOs Squires
1908 Canadian champion Tommy Burns KOs Bill Squires in the 13th round at Sydney Stadium, Australia, to retain the world heavyweight boxing title; Burns’ third KO of Squires
- 1908 NY Giants scores are shown on electric diamonds known as “Compton’s Baseball Bulletin” at Madison Square Garden
- 1909 Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal
- 1911 Manuel d’Arriaga elected first president of Portugal
- 1912 District of Alaska becomes an organized incorporated territory of the United States
Parade for US Olympians
1912 Ticker-tape parade held in NYC for Jim Thorpe and victorious US Olympians
- 1912 US passes Anti-Gag Law, granting federal employees the right to petition the government
- 1914 Battle of Bergen: Germans defeat Belgian and British troops
- 1914 German troops occupy Namur, Belgium
The Girl from Utah
1914 Paul Rubens and Sidney Green’s musical, with additional songs by Jerome Kern and Herbert Reynolds, “The Girl from Utah” premieres at the Knickerbocker Theatre in NYC
- 1918 Chicago Cubs win earliest pennant ever as season ends September 2
- 1919 Frank King’s daily comic strip “Gasoline Alley” is distributed nationwide by the Chicago Tribune Syndicate, appearing in The New York Daily News among other newspapers
- 1919 Having pitched into the 9th inning, Cleveland’s Ray Caldwell is flattened by a bolt of lightning and goes on to record the final out for the Indians’ 2-1 win over the Philadelphia A’s
- 1920 With British approval, Greece is encouraged to take offensive action against Turkish nationalists in Asia Minor
- 1921 Battle of Sakarya begins between Turkey and Greece and lasts for 21 days as Turkish forces eventually hold the final defensive line before Ankara
- 1921 British airship R-38 crashes into the River Humber, killing 44 people
3 Mile World Record
1923 Paavo Nurmi of Finland runs a world record 3-mile time of 14:11.2 in Stockholm during an intermediate time in a 5000 m event
Earhart’s Record Flight
1932 Amelia Earhart begins the first transcontinental non-stop flight by a woman in Los Angeles, California
- 1936 Australian Antarctic Territory is created
FBI Spies on Fascists and Communists
1936 US President Franklin D. Roosevelt gives the FBI the authority to gather intelligence on fascist and communist groups
- 1937 Basque Army surrenders to the Italian Corpo Truppe Volontarie following the Santoña Agreement during the Spanish Civil War
- 1937 Republican offensive near Belchite, Spain
- 1938 England beats Australia by an innings and 579 runs at The Oval
- 1938 Virgil Trucks strikes out his 418th batter, the highest season total in organized baseball, for Andalusia in an Alabama-Florida League game
- 1939 Germany and the USSR sign a 10-year non-aggression pact
Ted Williams Pitches
1940 MLB Boston Red Sox left fielder Ted Williams pitches the last two innings in a 12-1 loss to the Detroit Tigers, allowing three hits and one run at Fenway Park in Boston
- 1940 WWII: German Luftwaffe bombs London
- 1942 Sea battle off Eastern Solomon Islands between United States Navy and Imperial Japanese Navy
- 1942 Transport #23 departs with French Jews to Nazi Germany
- 1943 Philadelphia A’s drop AL record-tying 20th game in a row, then win the second game
- 1944 French General Leclerc’s troops open an assault on Paris
Feller’s Post War Return
1945 MLB Cleveland Indians ace Bob Feller returns from serving in the US Navy and strikes out 12 batters
Grandstand Manager’s Day
1951 Bill Veeck‘s MLB St. Louis Browns hold “Grandstand Manager’s Day” as coaches hold up placards for fans to vote on strategy options; Browns defeat visiting A’s 5-3
- 1954 International Amateur Athletic Federation recognizes People’s Republic of China
Communist Control Act
1954 US President Eisenhower signs the Communist Control Act, outlawing the Communist Party at the height of McCarthyism
- 1954 William Heatherton’s “Reluctant Debutante” premieres in London
- 1956 First non-stop transcontinental helicopter flight arrives in Washington, D.C.
- 1957 At 17, future England soccer striker Jimmy Greaves scores on his First Division debut for Chelsea against Tottenham Hotspur in a 1–1 draw at White Hart Lane
- 1958 Sergei Popov wins the Stockholm Marathon with a time of 2:15:17.0, setting a world record
- 1959 England completes a 5-0 series sweep of India
- 1959 Hiram L. Fong is sworn in as the first Chinese-American US Senator, while Daniel K. Inouye is sworn in as the first Japanese-American US Representative, both from Hawaii
- 1960 -127°F (-88°C) recorded in Vostok, Antarctica (world record)
- 1960 Sixty people die when a bus plunges off a bridge into the Turvo River, Brazil
- 1961 Former South African Nazi leader Johannes Vorster becomes South Africa’s Minister of Justice
- 1961 Windward Islands Airways International (Winair) forms
Durocher’s Allergic Reaction
1962 Los Angeles Dodgers coach Leo Durocher suffers a near-fatal allergic reaction to a penicillin injection while in the clubhouse at the Polo Grounds in NYC
- 1962 US performs a nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- 1963 24th Venice Film Festival: “Hands Over the City,” directed by Francesco Rosi, wins the Golden Lion
- 1963 First 200-meter freestyle swum in under 2 minutes by Don Schollander (1:58)
- 1963 John Pennel is the first person to pole-vault 17 feet (5.2 m)
- 1966 USSR launches Luna 11 into orbit around the Moon
- 1967 Liberia adopts a national flag designed and hand-stitched by a committee of seven women chaired by Susannah Elizabeth Lewis; all of the women are born in the US
- 1968 France becomes the world’s fifth thermonuclear power with a detonation at Mururoa Atoll in the South Pacific
- 1968 Northern Ireland’s first civil rights march is held; many more marches are held over the following year, and Loyalists organize counter-demonstrations to get the marches banned
- 1969 Peru nationalizes US oil interests
- 1970 Bomb kills one at University of Wisconsin’s Army Math Research Center in Madison
- 1971 India beats England by 4 wickets in their first win against the English
- 1972 Dennis Amiss scores the first one-day international century, 103 against Australia
- 1973 John Adams and his bass drum become a right-field fixture in Cleveland Stadium
- 1975 Davey Lopes steals his 38th consecutive base, then is thrown out stealing
- 1975 Papadopoulos, Pattakos, and Makarezos are sentenced to death in Athens
- 1975 SF Giant Ed Halicki no-hits NY Mets 6-0
- 1975 Tampa Bay Rowdies beat Portland 2-0 for the NASL Cup
- 1976 Soyuz 21 returns to Earth
- 1978 USSR performs an underground nuclear test
- 1979 60,916 NFL fans choose the old Patriots logo over the new
Lennon Murderer Sentenced
1981 Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 years to life for John Lennon‘s murder
- 1982 KC’s John Wathan steals his 31st base en route to 36 for a catcher’s record
Golf Record
1984 Pat Bradley sets an LPGA record for 9 holes with a 28 during the second round of the Columbia Savings National at Green Gables Country Club, Denver, CO
- 1985 STS 51-I mission is scrubbed at T-5 minutes due to bad weather
- 1987 American scientist Peter Schultz announces the possibility of Martian tornadoes
- 1989 British brewery Bass buys Holiday Inn hotel chain
- 1989 Pete Rose is suspended from Major League Baseball for life due to gambling
- 1990 3,500 peacekeepers arrive in Liberia
- 1990 Iraqi troops surround US and other embassies in Kuwait City
- 1991 Sylvester Stallone wins the Cane Pace at Yonkers Raceway
- 1991 Ukraine declares independence from the Soviet Union
- 1992 Diplomatic relations are established between the People’s Republic of China and South Korea
- 1992 Hurricane Andrew hits South Florida, making landfall at Elliott Key and later Homestead; 44 people die, and $25 billion in damage is recorded
- 1992 NFL Cleveland Browns suffer their worst pre-season loss, 56-3, to Minnesota Vikings
- 1992 Screw magazine superimposes a gunsight over a picture of Larry Flynt
- 1992 The first structural steel beams are erected at Jacobs Field (now Progressive Field) baseball stadium in Cleveland, Ohio
- 1993 Padres score 14 in the first inning against Cardinals
- 1994 Israel and the PLO initial an accord granting autonomy to Palestinians in the West Bank in education, health, taxation, social welfare, and tourism
- 1994 Kieren Perkins swims a world record in the 1500 m freestyle (14:41.66)
- 1994 Kieren Perkins swims a world record in the 800 m freestyle (7:46.00)
- 1995 Fire that wipes out 6,000 acres begins in the Hamptons on Long Island
- 1995 Microsoft debuts Windows 95
- 1997 97th US Amateur Golf Championship won by Joel Kribel
- 1997 Gordon Spence discovers 2^2976221 – 1 as the 36th known Mersenne prime
- 1998 British Professor Kevin Warwick is the first human to receive an RIFD (radio-frequency identification) microchip implant to interact with electronic systems
- 1998 The Netherlands is selected as the site for the trial of the two Libyan suspects of the 1988 Pan Am bombing
- 2000 Argon fluorohydride, the first Argon compound ever known, is discovered at the University of Helsinki by Finnish scientists
- 2001 Air Transat Flight 236 runs out of fuel over the Atlantic Ocean due to a fuel leak and makes a successful emergency landing in the Azores, saving all 306 people on board
- 2001 Microsoft releases the software for Windows XP to manufacturing
- 2004 Americans Kerri Walsh and Misty May team up to win the women’s beach volleyball gold at the Athens Olympics beating Brazilian pair Shelda Bede & Adriana Behar 21–17, 21–11
- 2004 Eighty-nine passengers die after two airliners explode after flying out of Domodedovo International Airport near Moscow. The explosions are caused by suicide bombers, reportedly female, from the Russian Republic of Chechnya.
Early Usain Bolt Failure
2004 Future 8-time Olympic gold medalist Usain Bolt of Jamaica finishes 5th in his 200 m heat in 21.05 seconds, failing to qualify for the second round at the Athens Olympics
- 2004 Kenyan runners sweep the medals in the 3000 m steeplechase at the Athens Olympics; Ezekiel Kemboi wins gold ahead of Brimin Kipruto and Paul Kipsiele Koech
- 2004 Moroccan superstar athlete Hicham El Guerrouj wins the first leg of his 1,500/5,000 m double at the Athens Olympics in 3:34.18
- 2004 Roman Šebrle of the Czech Republic (8,893 points OR) edges American Bryan Clay (8,820) in the decathlon at the Athens Olympics
- 2004 Yelena Isinbayeva of Russia vaults 4.91 m to break her own pole vault world record and wins the gold medal from teammate Svetlana Feofanova at the Athens Olympics
Jerry Rice’s One-day Contract
2006 After signing a one-day contract with the San Francisco 49ers, Jerry Rice officially retires from the NFL
- 2006 International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefines the term “planet,” classifying Pluto as a dwarf planet
- 2008 Dániel Varga and Péter Biros score 3 goals each as Hungary wins the men’s water polo gold medal at the Beijing Olympics, their third consecutive Olympic gold medal
- 2008 Samuel Wanjiru becomes the first Kenyan to win the men’s Olympic marathon in Beijing, winning in an Olympic record time; silver medalist Jaouad Gharib of Morocco is also faster than the Olympic record, yet finishes 44 seconds behind
- 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing become the most-watched event on TV ever, with nearly 5 billion viewers, 70% of the world’s population
US Men’s Basketball Gold
2008 The star-studded American men’s basketball team, led by LeBron James, Chris Paul, and Kobe Bryant, wins the gold medal at the Beijing Olympics with a relatively narrow 118-107 victory over Spain
- 2008 XXIX Summer Olympic Games close at the Beijing National Stadium
- 2009 “Love Like Crazy” single is released by Lee Brice (Billboard Song of the Year 2010)
- 2009 Thailand’s GDP grows 2.3% in the second quarter of 2009, technically leaving the recession
Steve Jobs Resigns
2011 Steve Jobs resigns as CEO of Apple Inc. and is succeeded by Tim Cook due to his illness
- 2012 A US jury in California finds Samsung guilty of patent infringement and awards over US$1 billion in damages to Apple, while in a South Korean court, both are found guilty of patent infringement
- 2012 Monsoon rains and floods kill 26 people in Pakistan
- 2012 Yangmingtan Bridge collapses in China, killing three people
- 2013 Four people are killed in a helicopter crash in the Shetland Islands
- 2013 Thirty people are killed in a gang battle involving flamethrowers in Palmasola Prison, Bolivia
- 2014 Nurse William Pooley flies back to the UK for emergency treatment after contracting the Ebola virus while attempting to treat patients in Sierra Leone
- 2015 China stock market’s “Black Monday” sees the Shanghai Composite lose 8.5%, sending other international markets lower
Facebook Logs 1 Billion
2015 Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announces that for the first time, 1 billion people log into Facebook
Hawking’s Black Hole Theory
2015 Physicist Stephen Hawking presents a new theory on black holes at a lecture at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
- 2016 6.2-magnitude earthquake strikes central Italy, northeast of Rome, killing 268 and injuring 400
- 2016 Astronomers announce the discovery of an Earth-like planet named Proxima b orbiting the star Proxima Centauri
- 2017 Largest-ever lottery jackpot win in the US: $758.7 million won by Mavis Wanczyk of Massachusetts in the US Powerball Jackpot
- 2018 Aerosmith lead singer Steven Tyler sends a cease-and-desist letter to US President Trump, demanding he stop using the band’s songs at rallies
Bolsonaro Sends Army to Fight Amazon Fires
2019 Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro orders the army to help contain fires in the Amazon after widespread environmental destruction, wildlife loss and international criticism
- 2019 Britain’s Prince Andrew denies knowing his friend Jeffrey Epstein was involved in sexual trafficking of underage girls after public accusations made against him
- 2019 NASA investigates the first possible crime in space as astronaut Anne McClain allegedly illegally accesses a bank account from space
- 2019 US adventurer Victor Vescovo becomes the first person to visit the deepest point of every ocean when he reaches Molloy Hole in the Arctic
- 2020 First documented case of a person being reinfected with COVID-19 a second time, a Hong Kong man four months after first infection
- 2021 16th Paralympic Games opens in Tokyo, Japan
- 2021 UN says Madagascar is on the brink of the world’s first “climate change famine” with people suffering “catastrophic” levels of hunger after four years without rain [1]
- 2022 British-Belgian teen Mack Rutherford (17) becomes the youngest person to fly solo around the world, landing in Sofia, Bulgaria, after a five-month journey across 52 countries [1]
- 2022 South Korea records the world’s lowest fertility rate at 0.81 (advanced economies average 1.6, population replacement needs 2.1) [1]
- 2023 BRICS meeting of emerging nations in South Africa agrees to invite six new nations to join in an attempt to balance the global power of the US and Europe [1]
- 2023 FIFA opens disciplinary case against Luis Rubiales, head of Spanish football, for kissing a player on the lips during celebrations for the Spanish women’s World Cup win [1]
Trump Gets a Mug Shot
2023 Former US President Donald Trump surrenders at Fulton County Jail to be arrested on charges stemming from his attempts to alter the 2020 Georgia election and gets a mugshot [1]
Chess World Cup
2023 Norwegian Magnus Carlsen defeats Indian teenager Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa in a tiebreak to win his first Chess World Cup championship [1]
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