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Events
1066
–
Edward the Confessor
dies childless, sparking a succession crisis that will eventually lead to the
Norman conquest of England
.
1477
–
Battle of Nancy
:
Charles the Bold
is killed and
Burgundy
becomes part of France.
1500
– Duke
Ludovico Sforza
conquers
Milan
.
1527
–
Felix Manz
, a leader of the
Anabaptist
congregation in
Zürich
, Switzerland, is
executed
by drowning.
1554
– A great fire occurs in
Eindhoven
, Netherlands.
1675
–
Battle of Colmar
: The French army beats
Brandenburg
.
1757
–
Louis XV of France
survives an
assassination
attempt by
Robert-François Damiens
, the last person to be
executed
in France by
drawing and quartering
, the traditional and gruesome form of capital punishment used for
regicides
.
1781
–
American Revolutionary War
:
Richmond, Virginia
, is burned by
British
naval forces led by
Benedict Arnold
.
1846
– The
United States House of Representatives
votes to stop sharing the
Oregon Territory
with the United Kingdom.
1875
– The
Palais Garnier
, one of the most famous
opera houses
in the world, is inaugurated in Paris.
1895
–
Dreyfus affair
: French army officer
Alfred Dreyfus
is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on
Devil's Island
.
1896
– An Austrian newspaper reports that
Wilhelm Röntgen
has discovered a type of
radiation
later known as
X-rays
.
1911
–
Kappa Alpha Psi
, the world's second oldest and largest
black fraternity
, is founded at
Indiana University
.
1912
– The
Prague Party Conference
takes place.
1913
–
First Balkan War
: During the
Battle of Lemnos
, Greek admiral
Pavlos Kountouriotis
forces the Turkish fleet to retreat to its base within the
Dardanelles
, from which it did not venture for the rest of the war.
1914
– The
Ford Motor Company
announces an
eight-hour workday
and that it would pay a "
living wage
" of at least US$5 for a day's labor.
1919
– The
German Workers' Party
, which would become the
Nazi Party
, is founded.
1925
–
Nellie Tayloe Ross
of
Wyoming
becomes the first female governor in the United States.
1933
– Construction of the
Golden Gate Bridge
begins in
San Francisco Bay
.
1944
– The
Daily Mail
becomes the first transoceanic newspaper.
1945
– The
Soviet Union
recognizes the new pro-Soviet government of Poland.
1949
– United States President
Harry S. Truman
unveils his
Fair Deal
program.
1957
– In a speech given to the
United States Congress
, United States President
Dwight D. Eisenhower
announces the establishment of what will later be called the
Eisenhower Doctrine
.
1968
–
Alexander Dubcek
comes to power: "
Prague Spring
" begins in
Czechoslovakia
.
1969
–
The Troubles
: The
Royal Ulster Constabulary
raid the
Bogside
area of
Derry
, damaging property and beating residents. In response, residents erect barricades and establish
Free Derry
.
1972
– United States President
Richard Nixon
orders the development of a
Space Shuttle
program.
1974
– An earthquake in
Lima
,
Peru
, kills six people, and damages hundreds of houses.
1974 – Warmest reliably measured temperature in Antarctica of +59 °F (+15 °C) recorded at
Vanda Station
1975
– The
Tasman Bridge
in
Tasmania
, Australia,
is struck
by the bulk ore carrier
Lake Illawarra
, killing twelve people.
1976
– The
Khmer Rouge
proclaim the Constitution of
Democratic Kampuchea
.
1976 – The Troubles: In response to the
killing of six Catholics
the night before, gunmen
shoot dead ten Protestant civilians
after stopping their minibus at Kingsmill in
County Armagh
,
Northern Ireland
, UK.
1991
–
Georgian
forces enter
Tskhinvali
, the capital of
South Ossetia, Georgia
, opening the
1991–92 South Ossetia War
.
1991 – The
United States Embassy to Somalia
in
Mogadishu
is
evacuated by helicopter airlift
days after violence enveloped Mogadishu during the
Somali Civil War
1993
– The oil tanker
MV Braer
runs aground on the coast of the
Shetland
Islands, spilling 84,700 tons of crude oil.
2005
–
Eris
, the most massive and second-largest known
dwarf planet
in the
Solar System
, is discovered by the team of
Michael E. Brown
,
Chad Trujillo
, and
David L. Rabinowitz
using images originally taken on October 21, 2003, at the
Palomar Observatory
.
2014
– A launch of the communication satellite
GSAT-14
aboard the
GSLV MK.II D5
marks the first successful flight of an
Indian cryogenic engine
.
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