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Events
12 BC
– The
Roman Emperor
Augustus
is named
Pontifex Maximus
, incorporating the position into that of the Emperor.
845
– Execution of the
42 Martyrs of Amorium
at
Samarra
961
–
Byzantine
conquest of
Chandax
by
Nikephoros Phokas
, end of the
Emirate of Crete
1204
– The
Siege of Château Gaillard
ends in a French victory over King
John of England
, who loses control of
Normandy
to King
Philip II Augustus
.
1454
–
Thirteen Years' War
: Delegates of the
Prussian Confederation
pledge allegiance to King
Casimir IV of Poland
who agrees to commit his forces in aiding the Confederation's struggle for
independence
from the
Teutonic Knights
.
1521
–
Ferdinand Magellan
arrives at
Guam
.
1665
– The first joint Secretary of the
Royal Society
,
Henry Oldenburg
, publishes the first issue of
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
1788
– The
First Fleet
arrives at
Norfolk Island
in order to found a
convict settlement
.
1820
– The
Missouri Compromise
is signed into law by President
James Monroe
. The compromise allows
Missouri
to enter the
Union
as a
slave state
, brings
Maine
into the Union as a
free state
, and makes the rest of the northern part of the
Louisiana Purchase
territory slavery-free.
1834
–
York
,
Upper Canada
is incorporated as
Toronto
.
1836
–
Texas Revolution
:
Battle of the Alamo
– After a thirteen-day
siege
by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, the 187 Texas volunteers, including frontiersman
Davy Crockett
and colonel
Jim Bowie
, defending the
Alamo
are killed and the fort is captured.
1857
– The
Supreme Court of the United States
rules in the
Dred Scott v. Sandford
case.
1869
–
Dmitri Mendeleev
presents the first
periodic table
to the Russian Chemical Society.
1882
– The
Serbian kingdom
is re-founded.
1899
–
Bayer
registers "
Aspirin
" as a
trademark
.
1902
–
Real Madrid C.F.
is founded.
1912
–
Italian
forces become the first to use
airships
in war, as two dirigibles drop bombs on Turkish troops encamped at
Janzur
, from an altitude of 6,000 feet.
1921
–
Portuguese Communist Party
is founded as the Portuguese Section of the
Communist International
.
1930
–
International Unemployment Day
demonstrations globally initiated by the Comintern
1943
–
Norman Rockwell
published
Freedom from Want
in the
The Saturday Evening Post
with a matching essay by
Carlos Bulosan
as part of the
Four Freedoms
series.
1945
–
World War II
:
Cologne
is captured by American Troops.
1946
–
Ho Chi Minh
signs
an agreement
with France which recognizes
Vietnam
as an autonomous state in the
Indochinese Federation
and the
French Union
.
1951
– The trial of
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
begins.
1953
–
Georgy Malenkov
succeeds
Joseph Stalin
as
Premier of the Soviet Union
and
First Secretary
of the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union
.
1957
–
Ghana
becomes the first
Sub-Saharan
country to gain independence from the British
1962
–
Ash Wednesday Storm of 1962
begins on the mid-Atlantic coast of the United States.
1964
–
Nation of Islam
leader
Elijah Muhammad
officially gives
boxing
champion
Cassius Clay
the name
Muhammad Ali
.
1964 –
Constantine II
becomes King of Greece.
1965
– Premier
Tom Playford
of
South Australia
loses power after 27 years in office.
1967
–
Joseph Stalin
's daughter
Svetlana Alliluyeva
defects
to the United States.
1968
– The first of the
East L.A. walkouts
take place at several high schools.
1968 – Three rebels are executed by
Rhodesia
, the first executions since
UDI
, prompting international condemnation.
1970
– An explosion at the
Weather Underground
safe house in Greenwich Village kills three.
1975
– For the first time the
Zapruder film
of the
assassination of John F. Kennedy
is shown in motion to a national TV audience by
Robert J. Groden
and
Dick Gregory
.
1975 –
Algiers Accord
:
Iran
and
Iraq
announce a settlement of their border dispute.
1981
– After 19 years of presenting the
CBS Evening News
,
Walter Cronkite
signs off for the last time.
1983
– The first
United States Football League
game is played.
1987
– The British ferry capsizes in about 90 seconds killing 193.
1988
– Three
Provisional Irish Republican Army
volunteers are killed by
Special Air Service
on the territory of
Gibraltar
in the conclusion of
Operation Flavius
.
1990
– Ed Yielding and Joseph T. Vida set the
transcontinental speed record
flying a
SR-71 Blackbird
from Los Angeles to Virginia in 64 minutes, averaging 2,124 mph.
1992
– The
Michelangelo computer virus
begins to affect computers.
2008
– A
suicide bomber kills 68 people
(including first responders) in
Baghdad
on the same day that
a gunman kills eight students
in
Jerusalem
.
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