- 740 An earthquake strikes Constantinople, causing damage to city walls and buildings
- 1366 Comet 55P/1366 U1 (Tempel-Tuttle) approaches within 0.0229 astronomical units of Earth
- 1387 Amsterdam buccaneer Herman of Kuinre signs loyalty vow for peace
- 1407 Mobs attack Jewish community of Kraków
- 1492 Lead (graphite) pencils are first used
- 1524 Spanish troops give Milan to France
Lord Chancellor Thomas More
1529 Thomas More appointed Lord Chancellor of England
- 1667 Arung Palakka’s Bugis forces occupy Makassar, southern Sulawesi
Penn Acquires Delaware
1682 William Penn accepts area around Delaware River from Duke of York
Franklin Seeks French Support
1776 Benjamin Franklin departs for France on a mission to seek French support for the American Revolution
Jackson vs Adams
1824 First presidential election in American history where the popular vote is important with 18 states choosing presidential electors by popular vote. Andrew Jackson wins the most votes but is short of a majority, forcing a contingent election in the House of Representatives which John Quincy Adams wins.
Northwest Passage
1850 Robert McClure sights the fabled Northwest Passage for the first time, from Banks Island towards Melville Island
1861 The Pony Express (Missouri to California) ends after 19 months
- 1863 Football Association forms in England, standardizing soccer and splitting from rugby
- 1863 International conference begins in Geneva aimed at improving medical conditions on battlefields, leads to the formation of the Red Cross
Ambush of Bloody Bill
1864 Union troops ambush and kill Bill William T. Anderson known as “Bloody Bill” near Albany, Missouri
Bruckner’s Symphony No. 2
1873 Anton Bruckner leads the Vienna Philharmonic in the premiere of his “Symphony No. 2”
- 1876 South Carolina Governor Chamberlain sends a company of federal troops to quell racial disturbances in Cainhoy
1881 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral: The most famous shootout in the Wild West occurs between lawmen, including Wyatt Earp, and the Cowboys, with Tom and Frank McLaury and Billy Clanton killed
Southern Horrors
1892 “Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases” first published by African American journalist Ida B. Wells in Memphis, Tennessee
Emperor Fires Chancellor and PM
1894 German Emperor Wilhelm II fires chancellor Leo von Caprivi and Prime Minister of Prussia Botho zu Eulenburg
- 1896 Abyssinia & Italy sign peace treaty
- 1901 First recorded use of a “getaway car” occurs after a shop is held up in Paris
- 1903 Yerba Buena is first Key System ferry to cross San Francisco Bay
- 1905 First Soviet (workers’ council) formed, St Petersburg, Russia
- 1905 Sweden recognises Norway as an independent constitutional monarchy, effectively dissolving the United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway
Assassination of Itō Hirobumi
1909 Itō Hirobumi, Resident-General of Korea, and former Japanese Prime Minister is shot and killed by Korean nationalist An Jung-geun in Harbin, China
- 1912 Serbian troops over run Skopje (Uskup)
- 1912 Woolwich Foot Tunnel under the Thames river in England opens
Sanger Arrested for Obscenity
1916 American sex educator Margaret Sanger is arrested for obscenity for advocating birth control
- 1917 Petrograd Soviet accepts establishment of Military
- 1917 World War I: Brazil declares it is in a state of war with the Central Powers
1918 Cecil Chubb gives the prehistoric monument Stonehenge to the British nation
1918 Germany’s supreme commander General Eric Ludendorff resigns, protesting the terms to which the German Government has agreed in negotiating an armistice
- 1918 Soldiers revolt at Harskamp, Veluwe
- 1919 B C Hilliam’s musical “Buddies” premieres in NYC
Elgar’s Cello Concerto
1919 Edward Elgar‘s Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85, his last notable work, premieres at Queen’s Hall, London
Prohibition Enforcement Bill
1919 US President Woodrow Wilson‘s veto of Prohibition Enforcement Bill is overridden
- 1921 Solomon Porter Hood named US minister to Liberia
Baghdad Archaeological Museum
1922 Gertrude Bell appointed Honorary Director of Antiquities in new Department of Antiquities in Baghdad, Iraq (origin of the Baghdad Archaeological Museum)
Fascists Seize Power
1922 Italian government resigns under pressure from fascists led by Benito Mussolini
Creole Love Song
1927 American jazz vocalist Adelaide Hall makes her 1st recordings – “Creole Love Call” and “Blues I Love to Sing” – with the Duke Ellington Orchestra, for Victor Records in Camden, New Jersey
- 1930 Dmitri Shostakovich‘s ballet “Zolotoi vek” (The Golden Age) premieres in Leningrad
- 1931 Eugene O’Neill‘s play cycle “Mourning Becomes Electra” premieres in NYC
- 1933 French government of Albert Sarraut forms
- 1934 While Washington Senators player-manager Joe Cronin honeymoons with Mildred Robertson, owner Clark Griffith’s niece and adopted daughter, he is sold to Red Sox
- 1939 Polish Jews forced into obligatory work service
- 1940 RMS Empress is disabled by a German bomb off Ireland’s west coast – sunk two days later allowing most passengers to survive
- 1940 The P-51 Mustang makes its maiden flight.
- 1942 Battle of Santa Cruz: Japanese naval offensive against US forces near Solomon Islands
- 1942 Fourth day of battle at El Alamein: Australian breakthrough
- 1942 Second day of Battle of Henderson Field, Guadalcanal
- 1943 World War II: First flight of the Dornier Do 335 “Pfeil”.
- 1947 Maharajah of Jammu & Kashmir accedes to India
- 1947 The British military occupation ends in Iraq
Minimum Wage Increases
1949 US President Harry Truman increases minimum wage from 40 cents to 75 cents
Missionaries of Charity
1950 Mother Teresa founds Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, India
- 1950 South Korean troops reach Chosan at Chinese boundary
- 1951 Emile Zatopek runs world record 30,000m, 25,000m & 15 miles
Marciano TKOs Louis
1951 Future world heavyweight boxing champion Rocky Marciano defeats former champion Joe Louis by TKO in the 8th round at Madison Square Garden
- 1956 UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency statute approved
- 1956 Vietnam promulgates its constitution
- 1958 Pan Am flies the first transatlantic jet from New York to Paris
- 1958 US performs a nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- 1960 MLB: American League approves existing Washington Senators move to become Minnesota Twins, and two new expansion franchises – Los Angeles Angels & Washington (D.C.) Senators; 1961 season schedule grows from 154 to 162 games
- 1961 First test flight of Saturn launch vehicle
Khrushchev’s Missile Deal
1962 Nikita Khrushchev sends note to JFK offering to withdraw his missiles from Cuba if US closes its bases in Turkey. Offer is rejected and JFK warns Russia that the USA will not allow Soviet missiles to remain in Cuba.
- 1962 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
- 1963 US performs underground nuclear test at Fallon, Nevada
- 1964 Eric Edgar Cooke becomes last person in Western Australia to be executed.
- 1965 Queen Elizabeth decorates The Beatles with medals making them members Order of the British Empire (MBE) at Buckingham Palace
- 1965 Sylvia Likens is tortured and murdered by her caregiver, Gertrude Baniszewski, Baniszewski’s children, and several neighborhood members (torture lasts three months)
- 1966 First Pacific communications satellite launched, Intelsat 2
- 1966 US aircraft carrier Oriskany catches fire at Gulf on Tonken, 43 die
- 1968 Charlie Hickcox wins his 3rd gold medal of the Mexico City Olympics when he leads the US men’s 4 x 100m medley relay team with teammates Don McKenzie, Doug Russell & Ken Walsh to world record 3:54.9
- 1968 First European satellite launched, Esro 1, at Cape Kennedy
Foreman Wins Olympic Gold
1968 Future world heavyweight boxing champion George Foreman wins the Olympic heavyweight gold medal when the final against Jonas Čepulis (Soviet Union) is stopped in round 2 at the Mexico City Games
- 1968 Italian diver Klaus Dibiasi wins first of 3 consecutive men’s 10m platform gold medals when he comfortably beats Álvaro Gaxiola of Mexico at the Mexico City Olympics
- 1968 Japanese gymnast Akinori Nakayama wins 3 individual gold medals on the one day (horizontal bar, rings & parallel bars) at the Mexico City Olympics; with team victory, 4 gold for the Games
- 1968 Japanese gymnasts sweep the medals in the men’s floor exercise competition at the Mexico City Olympics; Sawao Kato wins his 3rd gold of the Games ahead of teammates Akinori Nakayama and Takeshi Katō
- 1968 KMIR TV channel 36 in Palm Springs, CA (NBC) begins broadcasting
- 1968 Soviet Union launches spacecraft Soyuz 3
- 1968 Striker Antal Dunai scores twice as Hungary outclasses Bulgaria 4-1 to take the men’s football gold medal at the Mexico City Olympics
- 1968 The Soviet Union wraps up the volleyball double at the Mexico City Olympics; both men’s & women’s teams take gold at the end of their respective round-robin competitions
- 1969 WHMA (now WJSU) TV channel 40 in Anniston, AL (CBS) 1st broadcast
- 1970 Tanzania begins building railway Lusaka-Drone ash Salaam
- 1970 The “Doonesbury” comic strip debuts in 28 newspapers
- 1971 An Assembly, attended only by Nationalist politicians, and acting as an alternative to Stormont, meet in Dungiven Castle
- 1971 UN votes to replace Taiwan with China
First Instant Camera
1972 Edwin Land introduces the first truly instant camera the Polaroid SX-70 camera at an event in Miami, Florida
1972 Guided tours of the former prison at Alcatraz by the National Park Service begin
- 1972 Ringo Starr and singer Lulu appear in non-speaking cameos on “Monty Python’s Flying Circus” program
- 1973 Israeli forces reach Suez, trapping Egyptian army
Nixon Releases Watergate Tapes
1973 President Nixon releases first White House tapes on Watergate scandal
- 1973 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
- 1973 Wings release single “Helen Wheels”
- 1973 Yom Kippur War ends with Israel 65 miles from Cairo and 26 miles from Damascus
- 1974 Cleveland Coliseum opens for NBA’s Cavaliers & MISL’s Crunch
1st Egyptian President to Visit the US
1975 Anwar Sadat becomes the 1st Egyptian president to officially visit the United States
- 1975 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
- 1975 Cuba beats Mexico for its 4th Pan Am Games Gold Medal in baseball
- 1976 Transkei gains independence, not recognized outside of South Africa
- 1976 Trinidad & Tobago becomes a republic
- 1977 5th & final test of space shuttle Enterprise
- 1977 Dr Clifford R. Wharton Jr. named chancellor of State University of New York
- 1977 Last natural case of smallpox is discovered in Merca District, Somalia, and is considered the anniversary of the eradication of smallpox, the most spectacular success of vaccination
- 1977 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- 1978 Independent Counsel Act is signed into law.
- 1978 Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat named joint winners of 1978 Nobel Peace Prize
- 1979 Park Chung-hee, President of South Korea is assassinated by KCIA head Kim Jae-kyu. Choi Kyu-ha becomes the acting President; Kim is executed the following May.
- 1980 St Louis Cardinals sack Baltimore Colt QBs an NFL record tying 12 times
- 1982 MLB Philadelphia Phillies Steve Carlton becomes 1st pitcher to win four Cy Young awards
US Budget Deficit Reaches Record
1982 US budget deficit reaches then record $110.7 billion for fiscal year 1982, the first full year of the Ronald Reagan‘s presidency
- 1983 Hugh Whitemore’s “Pack of Lies” premieres in London
- 1983 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
- 1984 Stephanie Fae Beauclair (“Baby Fae”) receives a baboon heart transplant and lives for 21 days
- 1985 CBS’ premiere of fact based TV film “Children of the Night”, based on sociology student Lois Lee’s
expose on female crime and inconsistent enforcement of prostitution laws in Los Angeles - 1985 Doug Harvey‘s #2 jersey is retired by the Montreal Canadiens
- 1985 Hurricane Juan kills 97 in US
1986 French McLaren driver Alain Prost retains his Formula 1 World Drivers Championship with victory in season ending Australian Grand Prix in Adelaide; wins title by 2 points from Nigel Mansell
- 1987 Dow Jones Industrial Average down 156.83 points
- 1987 Head of Salvadoran Human Rights Comm assassinated by death squads
- 1988 The US and Soviet Union collaborate in “Operation Breakthrough” to free two young gray whales trapped in the Arctic ice near Point Barrow, Alaska
- 1992 London Ambulance Service thrown into chaos after implementation problems with a new Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) system
- 1992 The Charlottetown Accord fails to win majority support in a Canada wide referendum.
- 1993 NFL announces new expansion team, Carolina Panthers in Charlotte
- 1993 NJ Devils lose 2-0 to Montreal, after winning 1st 7 games of 1993
- 1994 Jordan & Israel sign peace accord
- 1995 Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Mossad agents assassinate Islamic Jihad leader Fathi Shikaki in his hotel in Malta.
- 1997 Jacques Villeneuve finishes 3rd in European Grand Prix at Jerez, Spain; first Canadian to win F1 World Drivers Championship; wins by 39 points from Michael Schumacher
- 1999 Britain’s House of Lords votes to end the right of hereditary peers to vote in Britain’s upper chamber of Parliament.
- 2000 Laurent Gbagbo takes over as president of Côte d’Ivoire following a popular uprising against President Robert Guéï
- 2001 The United States passes the USA PATRIOT Act into law.
- 2002 Moscow Theatre Siege ends: Approximately 50 Chechen rebels and 150 hostages die when Russian Spetsnaz storm a theater building in Moscow, which had been occupied by the rebels during a musical performance three days before
- 2003 The Cedar Fire, the second-largest fire in Californian history, kills 15 people, consumes 250,000 acres (1,000 km²), destroys 2,200 homes around San Diego
- 2011 Argentine intelligence officer Alfredo Astiz, known as “The Blonde Angel of Death” and others are jailed for life for crimes against humanity, including the deaths of the founders of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo [1]
- 2012 41 people are killed and 50 injured by a suicide bombing of a mosque in Maymana, Afghanistan
- 2012 64 people are killed in West Burma after continued sectarian clashes
- 2012 China blocks the New York Times from searches and social media in response to an investigation into Premier Wen Jiabao
- 2012 Hurricane Sandy makes landfall in the Bahamas killing 2 people and causing over $300 million in damage
- 2014 American tennis star Serena Williams beats Simona Halep of Romania 6–3, 6–0 to successfully defend her WTA Finals title in Kallang, Singapore
- 2015 7.5 magnitude earthquake hits northern Pakistan and Afghanistan killing over 300
- 2015 Rashid Khan makes his Twenty20 International (T20I) debut for Afghanistan against Zimbabwe
- 2015 World Health Organization classifies processed meat as carcinogenic
- 2016 Jesus’ supposed tomb is opened for the first time in 500 years by archaeologists for restoration at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem [1]
Royal Cremation Ceremony
2017 Cremation ceremony for King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand held in Bangkok, a year after his death
- 2017 Explosion and fire at a fireworks factory in Tangerang, Indonesia kills 47 and injuries dozens
Jacinda Sworn-in as PM
2017 Jacinda Ardern is sworn in as Prime Minister of New Zealand, becoming the then world’s youngest female head of government
Opioid Crisis
2017 US President Donald Trump declares the opioid crisis a public health emergency
- 2018 Irish singer Sinéad O’Connor announces she has converted to Islam
- 2018 Rhine River in drought with lowest levels since 1920s forces German government to release oil reserves after barge shipments disrupted
- 2018 Trump supporter Cesar Sayoc arrested for sending 14 pipe bombs to prominent US Democrats
Carbon Neutral Goal
2020 Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga says the country will becomes carbon neutral by 2050
- 2020 Melbourne officials announce end to their three-month lockdown as city records no new cases of COVID-19 for 1st time since June
- 2020 NASA announces there is more water on the Moon than previously thought in sunlit as well as shadowed regions [1]
- 2020 Pakistan’s first metro line, the Orange Line, opens in Lahore
- 2020 Police officers in Philadelphia shoot and kill black man Walter Wallace Jr. armed with a knife, prompting protests and the city to impose a curfew
- 2020 Silverado wildfire breaks out in Orange County, California forcing 60,000 people to evacuate
- 2020 US Senate confirms Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court sealing a conservative 6-3 majority
- 2021 UN report says current climate pledges put world on course for “catastrophic” average 2.7-degree Celsius temperature rise this century ahead of Glasgow climate summit [1]
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
2022 “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” has its world premiere in Hollywood starring Letitia Wright, Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira
- 2022 European Union’s tallest building, the Varso Tower, a skyscraper in Warsaw, Poland, at 310 metres high, is completed [1]
- 2022 Thousands of protesters in Saqez, Iran defy security forces to mark 40-day Arba’een (period of mourning) for Mahsa Amini, a 22-year old who died in police custody for not wearing a hijab properly [1]
- 2024 Israel carries out a series of airstrikes on Iranian military targets in and around Tehran [1]
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