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Events
51
–
Nero
, later to become
Roman emperor
, is given the title
princeps iuventutis
(head of the youth).
306
–
Martyrdom
of Saint
Adrian of Nicomedia
.
852
– Croatian
Knez
Trpimir I
issues a
statute
, a document with the first known written mention of the
Croats
name in Croatian sources.
932
– Translation of the
relics
of
martyr
Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia
, Prince of the
Czechs
.
1152
–
Frederick I Barbarossa
is elected
King of Germany
.
1238
– The
Battle of the Sit River
is fought in the northern part of the present-day
Yaroslavl Oblast
of Russia between the
Mongol hordes
of
Batu Khan
and the Russians under
Yuri II
of
Vladimir-Suzdal
during the
Mongol invasion of Rus'
.
1351
–
Ramathibodi
becomes
King of Siam
.
1386
–
Wladyslaw II Jagiello
(Jogaila) is crowned
King of Poland
.
1461
–
Wars of the Roses
in England:
Lancastrian
King Henry VI
is deposed by his
House of York
cousin, who then becomes
King Edward IV
.
1493
– Explorer
Christopher Columbus
arrives back in
Lisbon
, Portugal, aboard his ship
Niña
from
his voyage
to what is now
The Bahamas
and other islands in the
Caribbean
.
1519
–
Hernán Cortés
arrives in Mexico in search of the
Aztec
civilization and its wealth.
1628
– The
Massachusetts Bay Colony
is granted a
Royal charter
.
1665
– English King
Charles II
declares war on the Netherlands marking the start of the
Second Anglo-Dutch War
.
1675
–
John Flamsteed
is appointed the first
Astronomer Royal
of England.
1681
– Charles II grants a land charter to
William Penn
for the area that will later become
Pennsylvania
.
1776
–
American Revolutionary War
: The
Continental Army
fortifies
Dorchester Heights
with
cannon
, leading the
British
troops to abandon the
Siege of Boston
.
1789
– In New York City, the
first
Congress of the United States
meets, putting the
United States Constitution
into effect. The
United States Bill of Rights
is written and proposed to Congress.
1790
– France is divided into 83
départements
, cutting across the
former provinces
in an attempt to dislodge regional loyalties based on ownership of land by the nobility.
1791
– The
Constitutional Act of 1791
is introduced by the
British House of Commons
in London which envisages the separation of Canada into
Lower Canada
(
Quebec
) and
Upper Canada
(
Ontario
).
1791 –
Vermont
is
admitted to the United States
as the fourteenth
state
.
1794
– The
11th Amendment
to the U.S. Constitution is passed by the
U.S. Congress
.
1804
–
Castle Hill Rebellion
: Irish convicts rebel against British colonial authority in the Colony of
New South Wales
.
1814
– Americans defeat British forces at the
Battle of Longwoods
between
London, Ontario
and Thamesville, near present-day
Wardsville
,
Ontario
.
1837
– The city of
Chicago
is incorporated.
1848
–
Carlo Alberto di Savoia
signs the
Statuto Albertino
that will later represent the first
constitution
of the
Regno d'Italia
.
1861
– The
first national flag
of the
Confederate States of America
(the "Stars and Bars") is adopted.
1865
– The
third and final national flag
of the
Confederate States of America
is adopted by the Confederate Congress.
1882
– Britain's first electric trams run in east London.
1890
– The longest bridge in Great Britain, the
Forth Bridge
in Scotland, measuring long, is opened by the
Prince of Wales
, later King
Edward VII
.
1899
–
Cyclone Mahina
sweeps in north of
Cooktown
, Queensland, with a wave that reaches up to inland, killing over 300.
1908
– The
Collinwood school fire
,
Collinwood
near
Cleveland
,
Ohio
, kills 174 people.
1909
– U.S. President
William Taft
used what became known as a
Saxbe fix
, a mechanism to avoid the restriction of the
U.S. Constitution
's
Ineligibility Clause
, to appoint
Philander C. Knox
as
U.S. Secretary of State
1913
–
First Balkan War
: The Greek army
engages the Turks
at
Bizani
, resulting in victory two days later.
1913 – The
United States Department of Labor
is formed.
1917
–
Jeannette Rankin
of
Montana
becomes the first female member of the
United States House of Representatives
.
1918 – The departs from
Barbados
and is never seen again, presumably lost with all hands in the
Bermuda Triangle
.
1933
–
Frances Perkins
becomes
United States Secretary of Labor
, the first female member of the
United States Cabinet
.
1933 – The
Parliament of Austria
is suspended because of a quibble over procedure –
Chancellor
Engelbert Dollfuss
initiates an
authoritarian rule by decree
.
1941
–
World War II
: The United Kingdom launches
Operation Claymore
on the
Lofoten Islands
; the first large scale
British Commando
raid.
1943
– World War II: The
Battle of the Bismarck Sea
in the south-west Pacific comes to an end.
1944
– World War II: After the success of
Big Week
, the
USAAF
begins a daylight bombing campaign of Berlin.
1945
–
Lapland War
: Finland declares war on
Nazi Germany
.
1957
– The
S&P 500
stock market index
is introduced, replacing the S&P 90.
1960
– The French freighter
La Coubre
explodes in
Havana
,
Cuba
killing 100.
1962
– A
Caledonian Airways
Douglas DC-7
crashes shortly after takeoff
from
Cameroon
, killing 111 – the worst crash of a DC-7.
1966
– A
Canadian Pacific Air Lines
DC-8-43
explodes on landing
at
Tokyo International Airport
, killing 64 people.
1970
– French submarine
Eurydice
explodes underwater, resulting in the loss of the entire 57-man crew.
1974
–
People
magazine is published for the first time in the United States as
People Weekly
.
1976
– The
Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention
is formally dissolved in
Northern Ireland
resulting in
direct rule
of Northern Ireland from London by the
British parliament
.
1977
– The
1977 Vrancea earthquake
in eastern and southern Europe kills more than 1,500, mostly in the seriously damaged city of
Bucharest
,
Romania
.
1980
– Nationalist leader
Robert Mugabe
wins a sweeping election victory to become
Zimbabwe
's first black
prime minister
.
1983
–
Bertha Wilson
is appointed the first woman to sit on the
Supreme Court of Canada
.
1985
– The
Food and Drug Administration
approves a
blood test
for
AIDS
infection, used since then for screening all
blood donations
in the United States.
1986
– The
Soviet
Vega 1
begins returning images of
Halley's Comet
and the first images of its nucleus.
1991
–
Sheikh
Saad Al-Salim Al-Sabah
, the
Prime Minister of Kuwait
, returns to his country for the first time since
Iraq
's invasion.
1996
– A
derailed train
in
Weyauwega, Wisconsin
, US, causes the
emergency evacuation
of 2,300 people for 16 days.
1998
–
Gay rights
:
Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services, Inc.
: The
Supreme Court of the United States
rules that federal laws banning on-the-job
sexual harassment
also apply when both parties are the same sex.
2001
–
BBC bombing
: A massive car bomb explodes in front of the
BBC Television Centre
in London, seriously injuring one person. The attack was attributed to the
Real IRA
.
2001 –
Hintze Ribeiro disaster
: A bridge collapses in northern Portugal, killing up to 70 people.
2002
–
Afghanistan
: Seven American
Special Operations Forces
soldiers and 200 Al-Qaeda Fighters are killed as American forces attempt to
infiltrate
the
Shah-i-Kot Valley
on a low-flying helicopter reconnaissance mission.
2009
– The
International Criminal Court
(ICC) issues an arrest warrant for
Sudanese President
Omar Hassan al-Bashir
for
war crimes
and
crimes against humanity
in
Darfur
. Al-Bashir is the first sitting
head of state
to be indicted by the ICC since its establishment in 2002.
2013
– A
plane crash
in
Democratic Republic of the Congo
kills 6 people.
2015
– At least 34 miners
die in a suspected gas explosion
at the
Zasyadko coal mine
in rebel-held Donetsk region of Ukraine.
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