- 694 Visigothic King Egica of Hispania opens the Seventeenth Council of Toledo, will decree Jews be deprived of their property (not really enforced)
- 1282 Pope Martinus IV excommunicates king Pedro III of Aragon
- 1313 Louis the Bavarian defeats his cousin Frederick I of Austria at the Battle of Gammelsdorf
- 1330 Battle of Posada, Wallachian voievode Basarab I defeats the Hungarian army in an ambush
- 1494 Piero the Unfortunate of the de’ Medici family, ruler of Florence, loses power and flees the state
Stockholm Bloodbath
1520 Height of the Stockholm Bloodbath – King Christian II of Denmark, Norway and Sweden executes Swedish nobles
1620 After a month of delays off the English coast and about two months at sea, the Mayflower spots land (Cape Cod)
Shaftesbury Dismissed
1673 English King Charles II dismisses the Earl of Shaftesbury from his post as Lord Chancellor
- 1681 Hungarian parliament promises protestants freedom of religion
- 1697 Pope Innocent XII orders the city of Cervia to be rebuilt in a safer location in northern Italy
- 1720 Rabbi Yehuda Hasid synagogue set afire
- 1729 Spain, France & Britain sign Treaty of Seville
- 1764 Mary Campbell, a captive of the Lenape during the French and Indian War, is handed over to forces commanded by Colonel Henry Bouquet
- 1794 Russian troops occupy Warsaw
Napoleon First Consul
1799 Napoleon Bonaparte pulls off a coup and becomes the dictator of France under the title of First Consul
- 1811 Karol Kurpiński’s opera “Lucifer’s Palace” premieres at the Warsaw Opera
Jackson Repels Creek Attack
1813 During Creek War General Andrew Jackson, responding to White Stick Creek Indian plea at Fort Leslie, drives off attacking force of Red Stick Creek Indians at Talladega, Alabama
- 1821 1st US pharmacy college holds 1st classes, Philadelphia
- 1842 First US design patent for typefaces and borders is issued to George Bruce of New York City
- 1848 Post office at Clay & Pike opens, 1st in San Francisco
- 1848 Robert Blum, a German revolutionary and MP (Liberal), is executed in Vienna.
- 1851 Kentucky marshals abduct abolitionist minister Calvin Fairbank from Jeffersonville, Indiana, and take him to Kentucky to stand trial for helping a slave escape
- 1853 Origin of Carrington rotation numbers, a system for numbering the Sun’s rotations, created by atronomer Richard Carrington
- 1857 Atlantic Monthly magazine 1st published
- 1861 First documented Canadian football game is held at the University of Toronto
General Grant bars Jews
1862 US General Ulysses S. Grant issues orders to bar Jews from serving under him
- 1864 First export of goods from Burrard Inlet, British Columbia, to a foreign country
Event of Interest
1864 US Civil War: Union General Sherman issues preliminary plans for his “March to the Sea”
- 1867 Tokugawa Yoshinobu, the 15th and last Tokugawa Shogun in Japan, resigns due to intense political pressure from pro-imperial factions
- 1872 The Great Boston Fire of 1872. Close to 1,000 buildings destroyed
- 1877 American Chemical Society chartered in NY
- 1878 First performance of the New York Symphony Orchestra, led by Leopold Damrosch; the group competes with the New York Philharmonic until merging in 1928
- 1885 Edward Jakobowski’s opera “Ermine” premieres in London at the Comedy Theatre
- 1888 Jack the Ripper’s fifth and probably last victim, Mary Jane Kelly, is found on her bed
- 1900 China has resumed nominal control of Manchuria, but in a secret agreement the Chinese governor of Manchuria grants Russia such rights as keeping troops along the railroad lines and controlling civil administration
- 1902 Shipwreck of the Elingamite, sailing from Sydney to Auckland, in the Three Kings islands with the loss of 45 lives
- 1904 First airplane flight to last more than 5 minutes, when Wilbur Wright flies the Wright Flyer II for 5 minutes and 4 seconds, covering 2.75 miles (4.4 km)
- 1905 Swedish mine workers win 5 month strike for minimum wages
First Foreign Presidential Trip
1906 Theodore Roosevelt is 1st US President to visit another country (Puerto Rico and Panama)
- 1907 Edmonton Rugby Foot-ball Club 1st game, loses to Calgary City Rugby Foot-ball Club 26-5 at Edmonton Exhibition Grounds
1907 The Cullinan Diamond, the largest ever discovered and weighing 8.8 carats, is presented to King Edward VII on his 66th birthday
- 1912 Ferenc Molnàr’s play “Farkas” premieres in Budapest
- 1912 Ottoman garrison surrenders Thessaloniki / Salonika to the Greek army (OS Oct 27)
- 1913 Storm “Freshwater Fury” sinks 8 ore-carriers on Great Lakes
- 1914 Off Cocos Island, near Sumatra, the Australian cruiser ‘Sydney’ sinks German cruiser ‘Emden’, which has been attacking ships in the Pacific
- 1916 Ammunitions ship explodes at Bakaritsa harbour, near Archangel, Soviet Union, approx. 600 killed, 800 injured (OS 26 Oct)
Wilhelm II Abdicates
1918 Emperor Wilhelm II abdicates after German defeat in World War I
- 1918 Following the collapse of Germany in World War I, the Weimar Republic of Germany is proclaimed
Fascist Party
1921 Partito Nazionalista Fascista formed in Italy by Benito Mussolini at Third Fascist Congress in Rome
Frederick Soddy
1922 Frederick Soddy wins the 1921 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (announced in 1922 due to a technicality)
- 1925 German NSDAP (Nazi party) forms Schutzstaffel (SS)
Cosmic Rays Discovery
1925 Robert A. Millikan confirms the existence of cosmic rays from outer space in a speech to the National Academy of Sciences at Madison, Wisconsin
- 1927 Pastor of Have begins blessing of motorcars and motors
- 1930 First nonstop airplane flight from New York to Panama, piloted by Roy W. Ammel
- 1932 Hurricane storm wave sweeps over Santa Cruz del Sur Cuba kills 2,500
- 1932 Riots between conservative and socialist supporters in Switzerland kill 12 and injure 60.
- 1935 Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) labor union forms
- 1936 Albanian government of Frasheri falls
- 1936 American fashion designer Ruth Harkness captures a panda cub named Su Lin in China to fulfill her late husband’s dream of bringing a panda to the US; it becomes the first live panda cub to enter the US
- 1937 Japanese army conquers Shanghai
- 1937 St Louis Cards Triple Crown winner Joe Medwick is named NL MVP
- 1938 Al Capp, cartoonist of Li’l Abner, creates Sadie Hawkins Day
- 1938 Kristallnacht begins: pogrom against Jews in Germany and Austria – first large-scale physical act of anti-Jewish violence, begins [1]
- 1939 Nobel Prize for physics awarded to American Ernest Lawrence for his invention of the cyclotron
Ninotchka
1939 Romantic comedy film “Ninotchka” directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starring Greta Garbo premieres
- 1939 Venlo-incident: German Abwehr kills 2 British agents
- 1941 Hitler threatens Clemens August, Graf von Galen and Bishop of Münster
- 1942 German occupiers install Erik Scavenius as Danish premier
- 1942 Transport number 44 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
- 1944 Red Cross wins Nobel peace prize
- 1944 Walcheren purged of Nazi troops
- 1949 Costa Rica adopts Constitution
- 1950 Boston Brave Sam Jethroe wins NL Rookie of Year
- 1950 Phillies skipper Eddie Sawyer selected as Manager of Year
- 1950 White Sox release Luke Appling, who had been a Sox since 1930
- 1953 Cambodia (aka Kampuchea) gains independence from France, within the French Union
- 1953 KTVQ TV channel 2 in Billings, MT (CBS/NBC) begins broadcasting
- 1953 Supreme Court rules Major League baseball exempt from anti-trust laws
- 1955 Michael Gazzo’s “Hatful of Rain” premieres in NYC
- 1955 NZ all out for 70 v Pakistan at Dacca
- 1955 UN disapproves of South Africa’s apartheid politics
1960 American bass baritone Paul Robeson gives the first performance at the Sydney Opera House, singing to workers from the scaffolding during construction of the building
- 1961 Paddy Chayefsky’s “Gideon” premieres in NYC
- 1961 PGA eliminates caucasians only rule
The Beatles Meet Epstein
1961 The Beatles meet future manager Brian Epstein after a lunch time performance at The Cavern Club in Liverpool, England
- 1961 The X-15 rocket plane under USAF Major Robert M. White achieves a world record speed of 4,093 mph (Mach 6.04) and reaches 101,600 feet (30,970 m or over 19 miles) altitude
- 1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- 1963 Coal-dust explosion and the resulting buildup of carbon monoxide kills 458 at Mitsui Miike Coal Mine in Omuta, Japan
- 1963 Tsurumi rail accident on Tōkaidō Main Line, two passenger trains collide with derailed freight train, killing 162 people. in Yokohama, Japan
Sato Prime Minister
1964 Eisaku Satō becomes Prime Minister of Japan after Hayato Ikeda resigns due to ill health
Derry Loyalist March
1968 Ian Paisley and Ronald Bunting lead a Loyalist march to the Diamond area of Derry, North Ireland
With A Little Help From My Friends
1968 Joe Cocker‘s version of The Beatles song “With A Little Help From My Friends” becomes No. 1 single in the UK
- 1968 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
An Evening with Julie Andrews & Harry Belafonte
1969 “An Evening with Julie Andrews and Harry Belafonte “, music special with arrangements by Michel Legrand, premieres on NBC-TV
- 1969 “Bridge over Troubled Water” single recorded by Simon & Garfunkel
- 1970 Comedy troupe “The Goodies” make their television debut on the BBC
- 1970 The Irish School of Ecumenics is founded by Michael Hurley
- 1970 Trial of Seattle 8 anti-war protesters begins
- 1970 William Grant Still’s Symphony No. 5 (“Western Hemisphere”), premiere performance, by the Oberlin College Orchestra led by Robert Baustian
- 1971 David Storey’s “Changing Room” premieres in London
- 1971 John List kills family & moves to Colorado
- 1972 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Ringo
1973 Apple Records releases “Ringo”, Ringo Starr‘s third studio album, in the UK – a week after its US release; his biggest commercial and critical success, featuring the singles “Photograph”, “You’re Sixteen”, and “Oh My My”
Piano Man
1973 Columbia Records releases “Piano Man”, singer-songwriter Billy Joel‘s second studio album
- 1973 Fire at Taiyo department store, kills 101 & injures 84 (Kumamoto Japan)
- 1973 Government De Uyl decides Palestijnse fugitives to support
- 1976 Oakland A’s release Billy Williams, ending his Hall of Fame baseball career
- 1976 UN General Assembly condemns apartheid in South Africa
- 1977 Cincinnati Reds’ George Foster wins NL MVP
- 1978 North American Soccer League (NASL) realigns its 24 teams into 6 divisions
- 1979 False alarm of a Soviet ballistic missile attack by US NORAD system after technician fails to code a test properly
- 1982 Brewers’ Robin Yount wins AL MVP unanimously
- 1983 Amsterdam brewer Freddie Heineken kidnapped
- 1983 Discovery flies from Vandenberg AFB to Kennedy Space Center
Holmes vs. Smith
1984 Larry Holmes TKOs Bonecrusher Smith in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
- 1984 Most shots in a NY Islander game (88 – Isles 45, NY Rangers 43)
- 1984 Vietnam Veterans Memorial (“3 Servicemen”) completed
A Nightmare on Elm Street
1984 Wes Craven‘s horror film “A Nightmare on Elm Street” premieres in the US
1985 Russia’s Garry Kasparov, at 22, becomes the youngest World Chess Champion with a 13-11 win over fellow countryman Anatoly Karpov
1989 East Berlin opens its borders at the Bornholmer Strasse crossing when thousands arrive after East German government official Günter Schabowski mistakenly announces that restrictions on travel to the West will be lifted “immediately, without delay”
- 1990 A new democratic constitution is issued in Nepal
- 1990 Tanzania government of Malecela forms
- 1991 Houston’s Roman Anderson is the first NCAA player to kick 400 points
- 1991 Joint European Torus (JET) scientists in Culham England successfully harness nuclear fusion to produce the first large amount of controlled fusion power
- 1992 Howard Stern Radio Show begins broadcast in Las Vegas, Nevada on KFBI
- 1992 Prix Goncourt awarded to Patrick Chamoiseau for “Texaco”
- 1993 Stari Most (the “old bridge”, built in 1566) in Mostar, Bosnia, collapses after several days of bombing.
- 1993 The Serbian army fires on a school in Sarajevo; nine children die
- 1994 Chandrika Kumaratunga is chosen as the first female president of Sri Lanka
- 1994 Darmstadtium, chemical element 110, is discovered at GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research near Darmstadt, Germany
- 1995 Matthew Bourne’s innovative production of “Swan Lake” with all-male swans premieres at Sadler’s Wells in London [1]
Holyfield vs. Tyson
1996 Evander Holyfield upsets Mike Tyson in 11th-round knockout in Las Vegas to regain WBA heavyweight boxing title; second boxer, after Muhammad Ali, to win a heavyweight title 3 times
- 1997 “The Scarlet Pimpernel” opens at Minskoff Theater NYC
- 1998 Brokerage houses are ordered to pay $1.03 billion to NASDAQ investors to compensate for price-fixing, the largest civil settlement in US history
- 1998 Capital punishment in the United Kingdom, already abolished for murder, is completely abolished for all remaining capital offences
- 1999 TAESA Flight 725 crashes a few minutes after leaving Uruapan Airport en route to Mexico City, killing 18 people
- 2003 A suicide-terrorist attack in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, kills 17 people
- 2004 Video game Halo 2 a first person shooter first released on Xbox by Bungie Studios
- 2005 Suicide bombers attack three hotels in Amman, Jordan, killing at least 60 people
- 2005 Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan
Bowie’s Last Performance
2006 British rocker David Bowie performs on stage for the final time – three songs at a charity concert in New York City’s Hammerstein Ballroom: “Wild Is the Wind”, “Fantastic Voyage”, and a duet of “Changes” with Alicia Keys
As I Am
2007 Alicia Keys releases her 3rd studio album “As I Am” (Grammy Award Best Female R&B Vocal Performance 2008, 2008 Billboard Album of the Year)
- 2009 Joe Cada becomes the youngest winner of the World Series of Poker at the age of 21
- 2012 25 people are killed and 62 injured after a train carrying liquid fuel bursts into flames in Burma
- 2012 An Algerian C-295 military transport plane crashes near Avignon, France, killing 6 people
- 2013 8 people are killed by a gunman in Cali, Columbia
- 2014 Asia-Pacific countries, including China and the United States, announce plans to co-operate more closely in the fight against corruption
- 2014 Celebrations held in Germany to mark the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall; white balloons marking a stretch of the wall symbolize its disappearance
- 2014 Top African business leaders establish an emergency fund to help countries hit by the Ebola outbreak
- 2014 United States lead air strikes in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul against Islamic State (IS)
Love Yourself
2015 “Love Yourself” single released by Justin Bieber (Billboard Song of the Year 2016, Grammy Song of the Year)
- 2015 “Reclining Nude” by Italian artist Modigliani fetches 2nd highest auction price at $170.4m
- 2015 San Diego’s SeaWorld announces it will overhaul its killer whale show after controversy over the whales treatment
- 2015 Tim Wolfe, President of the University of Missouri, resigns amid protests of endemic racism on campus
- 2015 World Anti-Doping Agency commission report recommends Russian Federation be banned from athletics competitions for running a “state-supported” doping programme
- 2017 Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore accused of sexual misconduct with teenage girls in “Washington Post” report
- 2017 Five women detail sexual misconduct by comedian Louis C.K. in “New York Times” report
- 2017 Saudi Arabia’s attorney general Sheikh Saud al-Mojeb says 201 more people have been held for questioning in anti-corruption drive
Trump Alleges Forest Mismanagement
2018 Amid Californian forest fires US President Donald Trump accuses state forest management of “gross mismanagement”, threatens to withhold funding
- 2018 Attacker stabs three, killing one in Melbourne, Australia, with homeless man hailed as hero for using shopping trolley to stop him
- 2018 Mudslide after heavy rain in Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil kills 10
- 2018 Three car bombs explode in Mogadishu, Somalia, killing 52 people and injuring 100
- 2019 India’s Supreme Court rules in favor of Hindus over Muslims in dispute over who has right to holy site in city of Ayodhya
- 2019 Kartarpur corridor opens allowing Sikh worshippers from India to access holy site of Gurdwara Darbar Sahib Kartarpur in Pakistan without a visa
- 2019 Prominent Russian history professor Oleg Sokolov discovered with severed arms of his murder victim in his backpack when rescued from Moika River, St Petersburg
- 2019 Unprecedented 70 bush fires in New South Wales, Australia, destroys 100 homes killing three people with seven missing
KSI vs Logan Paul
2019 YouTubers KSI and Logan Paul‘s second boxing match; KSI wins by split decision
- 2020 2020 becomes busiest Atlantic hurricane season ever as tropical storm Theta named record 29th storm
- 2020 Drugmakers BioNTech and Pfizer announce their COVID-19 vaccine is over 90% effective in a first look at the results from their phase 3 trial involving nearly 44,000 people
- 2020 Peru’s Congress votes to impeach and oust President Martín Vizcarra on corruption charges
- 2020 US Attorney General William Barr controversially approves federal investigations into voter fraud for the US elections
- 2020 US recorded COVID-19 cases pass 10 million, with 1 million new cases recorded in 10 days. Death toll over 237,000. [1]
- 2021 105-year-old Julia Hawkins sets a world record as the first woman and first American of her age to run 100 meters at Louisiana Senior Olympic Games [1]
EU Accuses Lukashenko
2021 EU accuses Belarus leader Alexander Lukashenko of “inhuman, gangster-style approach” to thousands of migrants massing on their border with Poland in freezing conditions
Sports History
2022 Caitlin Clark makes her sophomore season debut with 26 points, eight rebounds, and six assists for Iowa against New Hampshire
- 2022 Ukrainian army says it has made major gains towards taking back the city of Kherson from Russian control [1]
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