476 Orestes, father of Emperor Romulus Augustulus is captured and executed by Odoacer and his followers
- 1521 Belgrade captured by troops of Turkish Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent
- 1542 Battle of Wofla, Turkish-Portuguese War: The Portuguese are defeated and forced to flee by the forces of Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi in modern-day Ofla, Ethiopia. Portuguese commander Christovão da Gama is captured and later executed.
Hudson Explores Delaware Bay
1609 English explorer Henry Hudson is the first European to sail into Delaware Bay, naming it South Bay
Emperor Ferdinand II
1619 Ferdinand II is elected Holy Roman Emperor and rules until 1637
- 1655 Director of the colony of New Netherland, Peter Stuyvesant, bars Jews from military service
1830 The first American-built locomotive, “Tom Thumb,” races a horse-drawn car from the Stockton and Stokes stagecoach company from Baltimore to Ellicott Mills; due to mechanical problems, the horse wins!
1833 Britain’s Slavery Abolition Act gains royal assent
- 1837 Pharmacists John Lea and William Perrins manufacture Worcestershire sauce
- 1840 Nine Jewish prisoners are released from Damascus jails
- 1845 Scientific American magazine publishes its first issue
- 1849 Venice under Daniele Manin surrenders to Austrians under Radetsky, having been under siege since July 20 after proclaiming independence
- 1859 A geomagnetic storm causes the Aurora Borealis to shine so brightly that it is seen clearly over parts of the USA, Europe, and even as far afield as Japan
- 1861 Battle of Hatteras Inlet Batteries: Union Army and Navy in their first combined operation take Fort Clark in North Carolina
- 1862 Battle of Groveton, Virginia (Manassas Plains)
- 1862 Battle of Thoroughfare Gap, Virginia
- 1862 Belle Boyd is released from Old Capitol Prison in Washington, D.C.
- 1867 The United States formally takes control of Midway Atoll, years after it was sighted and claimed by Captain N.C. Brooks
1884 First known photograph of a tornado is taken near Howard, South Dakota
- 1884 MLB pitcher Mickey Welch sets a record for most consecutive batters struck out to begin a game, striking out the first nine men he faces
- 1898 Caleb Bradham renames his carbonated soft drink “Pepsi-Cola”
- 1907 United Parcel Service is founded by James E. Casey in Seattle, Washington
- 1910 Nicholas I of Montenegro again proclaims himself king (first assumed power 1860) after his reign interrupted by Turkish rule
Peace Palace Opens
1913 Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands opens the Peace Palace in The Hague, Netherlands, an international law administrative building housing the Permanent Court of Arbitration [1]
- 1914 World War I: Battle of Helgoland Bight (North Sea); British fleet decisively defeats Germans; nearly 800 die, and over 200 are wounded
Evacuation of Amiens
1914 World War I: British General John French orders the civilian evacuation of Amiens, France, as German forces push in from Belgium
Battle of Tannenberg
1914 World War I: Third day of the Battle of Tannenberg near Allenstein, East Prussia (present-day Poland) with violent German vs. Russian battles
- 1916 Germany declares war on Romania
- 1916 Italy declares war on Germany
- 1917 Ten suffragists are arrested while picketing the White House
- 1918 MLB Cleveland Indians outfielder Tris Speaker is suspended for the season due to an assault on umpire Tom Connolly
- 1920 American swimmer Norman Ross wins his second of three gold medals at the Antwerp Olympics, beating teammate Ludwig Langer in the men’s 400 m freestyle, and also wins the 1500 m and 4 x 200 m freestyle relay
World Record 300m
1920 Ethelda Bleibtrey leads an American medal sweep in the Antwerp Olympics women’s 300 m freestyle with a world record swim of 4:34.0
- 1921 Second Pan-African Congress meets in London, Brussels, and Paris
- 1922 Albert von Tilzer and Neville Fleeson’s musical “The Gingham Girl” premieres in New York City
- 1922 WEAF in New York City airs the first radio commercial for Queensboro Realty, costing $100 for 10 minutes
- 1924 Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union
- 1925 Meteorite falls on Ellemeet, Schouwen, Devil’s Island
- 1926 Indian Emil Levsen pitches a complete doubleheader victory for the Red Sox
- 1929 English cricket all-rounder Frank Woolley scores 176 for Kent against Middlesex at Lord’s in his 100th first-class hundred
- 1937 Toyota Motors becomes an independent company
- 1938 Mauthausen concentration camp opens in Austria
- 1938 Northwestern University awards honorary degree to dummy Charlie McCarthy
- 1938 On Connie Mack Day at Philadelphia’s Shibe Park, the A’s win a doubleheader
Monty Takes Command
1939 Gen. Bernard Montgomery (“Monty”) becomes commander of the 3rd “Iron” Infantry Division
- 1939 Journalist Clare Hollingworth observes “large numbers of troops, literally hundreds of tanks, armored cars, and field guns” Germany has aligned along the Polish border. Three days later, Hitler invades Poland and WWII begins.
- 1939 Netherlands mobilizes
- 1939 Sammy Fain and Jack Yellen’s musical “George White’s Scandals” premieres in New York City
- 1940 French colonies Cameroon and Congo-Brazzaville support Gen. de Gaulle
- 1941 8th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chicago Bears 37, All-Stars 13 (98,203)
- 1941 Last meeting of resistance fighter Comte d’Estienne d’Orves
- 1942 9th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chicago Bears 21, All-Stars 0 (101,100 attendees)
- 1942 Swedish runner Gunder Hägg sets a world record of 8:01.2 in the 3000 m
- 1942 Transport #25 departs with French Jews to Nazi Germany
Mussolini Transferred
1943 Benito Mussolini is transferred from La Maddalena, Sardinia, to Gran Sasso
- 1943 Denmark declares a general strike against Nazi occupiers
- 1944 Last German troops in Marseille surrender, and Toulon is cleared
- 1944 US air raid on Ambon Island, Dutch East Indies
Riot Stops Robeson Singing
1949 Riot prevents Paul Robeson from singing near Peekskill, New York
- 1950 Earle and Roy Mack purchase 54% of the Philadelphia A’s from Connie Mack Jr.
- 1951 Braves sell pitcher Johnny Sain to the Yankees for $50,000
- 1951 Pirates snap NY Giants’ 16-game winning streak
- 1952 Germany and Israel reach an agreement on reparations payments
- 1952 Yakov Malik succeeds Valerian Zorin as Soviet Foreign Minister
Murder of Emmett Till
1955 Chicago Black teenager Emmett Till is kidnapped, beaten, and shot dead by white men in Money, Mississippi; his killers are eventually acquitted, but the case helps ignite the US civil rights movement. [1]
- 1955 Rams beat Giants 23-17 in the first NFL preseason sudden-death football game
- 1956 17th Venice Film Festival opens: no Golden Lion awarded
- 1957 Strom Thurmond, a Democratic senator from South Carolina, begins the longest filibuster of 24 hours and 18 minutes against the Civil Rights Act of 1957
- 1958 American baseball player Nellie Fox sets a record for consecutive games without striking out (98)
- 1960 White Sox’s Ted Kluszewski’s three-run home run is disallowed as the umpire calls time
- 1962 55.9 cm of rainfall recorded in Hackberry, Louisiana (state record)
- 1962 Dr. Geza de Kaplany tortures his wife with acid to punish her for supposed infidelity
Ya Ya (Parts 1 + 2)
1962 Tony Sheridan and The Beat Brothers (also known as The Beatles) record “Ya Ya” (Parts 1 & 2) in Hamburg, Germany
- 1963 Evergreen Point Floating Bridge connecting Seattle and Bellevue opens
1963 Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his “I Have a Dream” speech during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom civil rights march at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
- 1964 Race riot in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, sparked by police reaction to a domestic dispute, fuels a traffic tie-up; riots and looting continue for 3 days, with 2 killed, hundreds injured, and $4 million in damage in the city’s North Philadelphia neighborhood
- 1964 US performs a nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- 1964 US weather satellite Nimbus 1 is launched
- 1965 First Subway sandwich shop opens in Bridgeport, Connecticut
- 1967 Asif Iqbal and Intikhab Alam make a 190-run stand for the 9th wicket against England
- 1967 MLB Boston Red Sox sign first free-agent outfielder Ken Harrelson for a $75,000 bonus
- 1967 WCBS-AM (880) radio in NYC begins its all-news format; the AM station is knocked off the air just beforehand, moving the debut to the FM sister station (101.1)
Criticism of Northern Irish Police
1968 Northern Irish MP Gerry Fitt tables a House of Commons motion criticizing the Royal Ulster Constabulary at Dungannon, stating that “citizens of Northern Ireland should be allowed the same rights of peaceful demonstration as those in other parts of the United Kingdom”
- 1968 Police and anti-war demonstrators clash at Chicago’s Democratic National Convention
- 1970 “I’ll Be There” single by The Jackson 5 is released (Billboard Song of the Year 1970)
- 1970 Phillies’ Larry Bowa steals home for the second time in 1970
- 1971 The US dollar is allowed to float against the Japanese yen for the first time
World Record 100m Relay
1972 American 4 x 100 m freestyle relay team of David Edgar, John Murphy, John Heidenreich, and Mark Spitz swim a world record 3:26.42 to beat the Soviet Union for the gold medal at the Munich Olympics
World Record 200m Medley
1972 Australian teenage swimmer Shane Gould sets a world record of 2:23.07 to beat German Kornelia Ender in the 200 m individual medley at the Munich Olympics; her first of three gold medals at the Games
- 1972 North Korean shooter Ri Ho-jun wins the 50 m rifle prone event at the Munich Olympics; his nation’s first Olympic gold medal
Darling of Munich
1972 Soviet gymnast Olga Korbut becomes a media darling at the Munich Olympics, winning gold in the team all-around, followed by two individual golds and a silver
- 1972 USSR performs a nuclear test in Novaya Zemlya, USSR
- 1973 “Smoke on the Water” single by British rock band Deep Purple goes gold
- 1973 A 6.8-magnitude quake centered in Oaxaca State, Mexico, kills 527
- 1973 Bobby “Boris” Pickett’s song “Monster Mash” goes gold
- 1973 France conducts a nuclear test at Mururoa Atoll
- 1973 India and Pakistan sign a prisoner of war agreement
- 1973 Norrmalmstorg robbery and its six-day siege end in Stockholm with a successful police tear-gas operation, the first Swedish crime broadcast live on TV and the origin of the term Stockholm Syndrome [1]
Let’s Get It On
1973 Tamla/Motown Records releases “Let’s Get It On,” the 13th studio album by Marvin Gaye
- 1973 USSR performs an underground nuclear test
- 1974 Soyuz 15 returns to Earth
- 1976 Toronto Metros-Croatia beat the Minnesota Kicks to the win the 1976 North American Soccer League championship
- 1976 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
- 1977 MLB California Angels pitcher Nolan Ryan strikes out 300 batters for the fifth consecutive year
- 1977 New York Cosmos defeat Seattle Sounders 2-1 at Civic Stadium in Portland, Oregon, winning their second North American Soccer League championship
- 1977 NY Yankee Ron Guidry faces just 28 batters in 1-0 win over Texas Rangers
- 1978 Donald Vesco rides a 21-foot-long Kawasaki motorcycle at 318.598 mph (512.73 km/h)
- 1978 Ja’afar Sharif-Emami is appointed premier of Iran
- 1979 IRA bomb explodes in Brussels’ Grand Place
- 1979 Train crash in Nijmegen, Netherlands, kills 7
- 1980 First use of a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machine to scan the human body at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Scotland
1981 John Hinckley Jr. pleads not guilty to all charges in the attempted assassination of US President Ronald Reagan
- 1981 National Centers for Disease Control announce a high incidence of Pneumocystis and Kaposi’s sarcoma in gay men
- 1982 First Gay Games are held in San Francisco
- 1982 The USSR performs an underground nuclear test
- 1983 Greg Luzinski becomes the first player to hit three home runs onto the roof at Comiskey Park, Chicago
- 1983 Joseph Kreckman sets a record of 2,215 clay pigeons shot in an hour
- 1984 USSR performs an underground nuclear test
Tina Turner’s Hollywood Star
1986 American rock singer Tina Turner receives a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame in Hollywood, California
- 1986 Bolivian President Víctor Paz Estenssoro calls a state of siege
- 1986 US Navy officer Jerry A. Whitworth is sentenced to 365 years for espionage
- 1987 Mike Schmidt surpasses Ted Williams and Willie McCovey with 522 home runs
- 1988 40th Emmy Awards: thirtysomething, The Wonder Years, and Richard Kiley win
- 1988 70 people are killed in a crash of three Italian Air Force fighters at an air show in Ramstein, Germany
- 1988 Eric Meeks wins the 88th US Golf Amateur Championship
- 1989 First regular-season matchup of defending Cy Young Award winners
- 1989 Frank Viola and the NY Mets outduel Orel Hershiser and the LA Dodgers, winning 1-0
- 1990 Chicago Cubs’ Ryne Sandberg is the first second baseman to hit 30 home runs in consecutive seasons
- 1990 F5 strength tornado hits Plainfield, Illinois, killing 29 and injuring 353
- 1991 Lexington Avenue IRT subway train derails at Union Square, killing 5
- 1991 Red Tom Browning vs. Expos’ Dennis Martínez, both perfect game pitchers
- 1992 Brewers beat Blue Jays 22-2 with an AL record of 31 hits in 9 innings
- 1992 Test cricket debut of Muttiah Muralitharan against Australia in Colombo
- 1993 Dam breaks in Qinghai, West China, killing 223 people
- 1993 Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore Ong Teng Cheong is elected president
- 1993 Jakovlev-42 crashes in Tajikistan, killing 76
- 1993 Long Beach, California, defeats Panama for the Little League World Championship
- 1994 First Japanese Gay Pride Parade
- 1995 Kuwaiti Oil Minister Abdul Mohsen al-Medej announces that his country will increase its oil production capacity to as much as 3.5 million barrels per day by 2005
- 1995 Last day of Test Cricket for Richie Richardson
- 1995 Northants 7-781 declared defeat Nottinghamshire 527 and 157
- 1997 Belgian amusement park riders are stuck upside down for 90 minutes
- 1997 Officially 98 and unofficially up to 400 villagers are massacred in Rais by the Armed Islamic Group in one of Algeria’s bloodiest massacres
- 1998 Pakistan’s National Assembly passes a constitutional amendment to make the “Qur’an and Sunnah” the “supreme law,” but the bill is defeated in the Senate
- 1999 Philip Glass’s Symphony No. 5 “Requiem, Bardo, Nirmanakaya” for chorus and orchestra premieres at the Salzburg Festival, led by Dennis Russell Davies in Salzburg, Austria
- 2003 Electricity blackout cuts off power to around 500,000 people living in southeast England and brings 60% of London’s Underground rail network to a halt
- 2004 A huge upset at the Athens Olympic Stadium in the men’s 4×100 m relay; Great Britain (38.07) edges the United States (38.08) to win the gold medal
- 2004 British athlete Kelly Holmes wraps up the 800/1500 m double at the Athens Olympics, winning the 1500 m in 3:57.90
- 2004 Carlos Tevez scores the winner as Argentina beats Paraguay 1-0, maintaining an undefeated record to win the men’s football gold medal at the Athens Olympics
- 2004 Led by San Antonio Spurs shooting guard Manu Ginóbili, Argentina beats Italy 84-69 for the Olympic basketball gold medal in Athens; star-studded US team wins bronze
- 2004 Moroccan super star athlete Hicham El Guerrouj wraps up the 1500/5000 m double at the Athens Olympics winning the 5000 m gold in 13:14.39
- 2004 The diving competition at the Athens Olympics concludes with the Chinese contingent dominant, winning 6 of the 8 gold medals
- 2004 The US women’s basketball team goes through the Athens Olympics undefeated to win its fifth Olympic gold medal, beating Australia 74-63 in the final
- 2005 The Tradition Senior Men’s Golf, Reserve Vineyards & GC: Loren Roberts wins the first of four Champions Tour majors with a bogey on the second playoff hole against Dana Quigley
Venetian Macao Opens
2007 The Venetian Macao, the second-largest casino in the world, owned by Las Vegas Sands, opens in Macao
Oasis Break Up
2009 Noel Gallagher, the guitarist of the British pop-rock band Oasis, quits the band, citing an inability to be with his brother Liam
Mitt Romney Nominated
2012 Mitt Romney is officially nominated as the United States Republican Party’s candidate
- 2013 51 people are killed in a series of bombings across Iraq
- 2013 China and Russia walk out of a UN Security Council meeting after the US pushes for immediate action against Syria’s alleged use of chemical weapons
- 2017 English actor Ed Skrein pulls out of the role in the movie “Hellboy” after whitewashing criticism
- 2017 Investigation into German nurse Niels Högel, serving a life sentence for killing two patients, concludes he probably killed 86 more
- 2017 Kenya enacts the world’s toughest ban on plastic bags with a possible US$38,000 fine and four years in jail
- 2017 Matt Vogel debuts as the voice of Kermit the Frog in the “Muppet Thought of the Week” video
- 2017 North Korea launches a missile that flies over Japan, and the country’s J-Alert warning system warns people to take cover
Aretha Franklin Lies in State
2018 Aretha Franklin lies in state at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit in a 24-karat gold coffin
- 2018 Chinese ride-sharing firm Didi Chuxing issues a public apology after a second Hitch passenger is killed within three months
- 2018 Puerto Rico raises the official death toll of the 2017 Hurricane Maria from 64 to 2,975
Johnson Prorogues Parliament
2019 British Prime Minister Boris Johnson prorogues Parliament, suspending it for five weeks to limit opposition to a no-deal Brexit, prompting a furious backlash
Greta Sails to NY
2019 Climate change activist Greta Thunberg arrives in New York after sailing across the Atlantic in an emissions-free voyage
- 2019 Discovery of a 3.8-million-year-old skull of the early human ancestor Australopithecus anamensis, found by Yohannes Haile-Selassie at Miro Dora, Ethiopia, upends previous evolutionary theory published in the journal “Nature”
Italian Coalition Forms
2019 New Italian coalition government formed by the anti-establishment Five Star Movement and the center-left Democratic Party ousts Matteo Salvini
- 2019 US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand ends her campaign for president
- 2020 Japanese tech company SkyDrive says it completed the first manned test flight of a flying car
- 2021 MLB Los Angeles Angels pitcher and designated hitter Shohei Ohtani becomes the first player in team history to reach 20 stolen bases and hit 40 home runs in a season during a 10-2 win over the San Diego Padres
Most Expensive Sports Memorabilia
2022 A 1952 Mickey Mantle baseball card sells for $12.6 million at auction, becoming the world’s most expensive piece of sports memorabilia [1]
- 2022 Pakistan appeals for international aid as the death toll from monsoon rains and floods rises to over 1,000 people
- 2023 Barbie becomes Warner Bros’ highest-grossing global release, overtaking Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, earning $1.34 billion [1]
- 2024 2024 Summer Paralympics, the 17th Paralympic Games, open in Paris, France
- 2024 South Korean K-pop singer Taeil leaves his band Neo Culture Technology (NCT) after charges in a “criminal case related to a sexual crime” [1]
- 2024 The US completes its largest dam removal project on the Klamath River at the California-Oregon border, advocated for by tribal nations to restore the salmon population [1]
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