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- 1124 David I becomes King of Scotland.
- 1124 Scotland's Alexander I dies at age 46 after a 17-year reign and is succeeded by his brother David, 40, who has ruled in the south since the death of their grandfather Edgar in 1107
- 1296 Battle of Dunbar: The Scots are defeated by Edward I of England.
- 1509 Pope Julius II places the Italian state of Venice under interdict.
- 1521 Battle of Mactan: Explorer Ferdinand Magellan is killed by natives in the Philippines led by chief Lapu-Lapu.
- 1521 Ferdinand Magellan world traveler, killed by Filipino natives
- 1539 Re-founding of the city of Bogot, New Granada (nowadays Colombia), by Nikolaus Federmann and Sebastin de Belalczar.
- 1565 Cebu is established becoming the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines.
- 1565 First Spanish settlement in Philippines, Cebu City, forms
- 1578 Duel of the Mignons claims the lives of two favorites of Henry III of France and two favorites of Henry I, Duke of Guise.
- 1650 The Battle of Carbisdale: A Royalist army invades mainland Scotland from Orkney Island but is defeated by a Covenanter army.
- 1667 The blind, impoverished John Milton sells the copyright of Paradise Lost for 10.
- 1749 First performance of Handel's Fireworks Music in Green Park, London.
- 1773 British Parliament passes the Tea Act (Boston won't like this)
- 1773 The Parliament of Great Britain passes the Tea Act, designed to save the British East India Company by granting it a monopoly on the North American tea trade.
- 1805 First Barbary War: United States Marines and Berbers attack the Tripolitan city of Derna (The "shores of Tripoli" part of the Marines' hymn).
- 1805 Naval forces capture Derne, Tripoli; raise first U.S. flag over foreign soil
- 1805 US Marines attack shores of Tripoli
- 1810 Beethoven composes his famous piano piece, Fr Elise.
- 1813 Americans under Gen Pike capture Toronto; Pike is killed
- 1813 U.S. Navy and Army forces capture York (now Toronto), Canada
- 1813 War of 1812: United States troops capture the capital of Ontario, York (present day Toronto, Canada).
- 1827 The Petrel, Australian Coal carrying ship sinks in stormy seas, off Hope Bay, Tasmania.
- 1828 Visitor posting - London Zoo opened in Regent's Park - United Kingdom
- 1838 Fire destroys half of Charleston
- 1840 Foundation stone for new Palace of Westminster, London, laid by wife of Sir Charles Barry.
- 1859 "S.S. Pomona" sinks in North Atlantic drowning all 400 aboard
- 1861 President Abe Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus
- 1861 President Lincoln extended blockade of Confederacy to VA and NC ports
- 1861 President of the United States Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus.
- 1861 West Virginia secedes from Virginia after Virginia secedes from US
- 1865 1,450 paroled Union POWs killed when steamer "Sultana" blows up
- 1865 Body of John Wilkes Booth brought to Washington Navy Yard.
- 1865 Cornell University (Ithaca NY) is chartered
- 1865 Steamboat "Sultana" explodes in Mississippi River, kills up to 2,000
- 1865 The New York State Senate creates Cornell University as the state's land grant institution.
- 1865 The steamboat Sultana, carrying 2,400 passengers, explodes and sinks in the Mississippi River, killing 1,700, most of whom were Union survivors of the Andersonville Prison.
- 1874 White League, Paramilitary white supremacist organization, forms
- 1893 John Murray Corse US general (Union), dies on his 58th birthday
- 1897 Grant's Tomb (famed of song & legend) dedicated
- 1902 Julius Sterling Morton who started Arbor Day, dies at 72
- 1903 Long Island's Jamaica Race Track opens
- 1904 The Australian Labor Party becomes the first such party to gain national government, under Chris Watson.
- 1908 4th modern Olympic games opens in London
- 1909 Sultan of Turkey Abdul Hamid II is overthrown
- 1911 Following the resignation and death of William P. Frye, a compromise is reached to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the United States Senate.
- 1914 Honduras becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
- 1918 Lt. George Burdon McKean (14th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Gavrelle France
- 1919 A Schwassmann discovers asteroid #912 Maritima
- 1922 Yakut ASSR formed in Russian SFSR
- 1931 100ø F (38ø C), Pahala, Hawaii (state record)
- 1932 Apollo asteroid discovered, with a perigee of 2 million miles
- 1932 Hart Crane sailing from Mexico to NY commits suicide
- 1933 Jessop & Son department store in Nottingham, England, acquired by John Lewis Partnership. The partnership's first shop outside London.
- 1936 The United Auto Workers (UAW) gains autonomy from the American Federation of Labor.
- 1937 US Social Security system makes its first benefit payment
- 1940 Himmler issues directive to establish a concentration camp at Auschwitz.
- 1941 World War II: German troops enter Athens.
- 1942 Tornado destroys Pryor Oklahoma killing 100, injuring 300
- 1945 2nd Republic of Austria forms
- 1945 World War II: Last German troops are expelled from Finnish Lapland (the last day of World War II going on in Finland). The day is the national war veteran day in Finland.
- 1945 World War II: The Vlkischer Beobachter, the newspaper of the Nazi Party, ceases publication.
- 1947 Babe Ruth Day celebrated at Yankee Stadium & through the US
- 1948 Arab legion attacks Gesher bridge on Jordan River
- 1950 Apartheid: In South Africa, the Group Areas Act is passed formally segregating races.
- 1950 South Africa passes Group Areas Act segregating races
- 1951 Visitor posting - Captain PJ Papnick was born - USA
- 1956 Heavyweight champ, Rocky Marciano, retires undefeated from boxing
- 1957 Mario A Gianini creator of the maraschino cherry, dies
- 1959 "Today" show goes abroard the first time (Paris France)
- 1959 Gordon Armstrong inventor of baby incubator, dies
- 1959 The last Canadian missionary leaves the People's Republic of China.
- 1960 France grants Togo independence
- 1960 Togo gains independence from French-administered UN trusteeship.
- 1961 NASA launches Explorer 11 into Earth orbit to study gamma rays
- 1961 Sierra Leone is granted its independence from the United Kingdom, with Milton Margai as the first Prime Minister.
- 1961 UK grants Sierra Leone independence
- 1964 John Lennon's "In His Own Write" is published in the US
- 1965 Visitor posting - Lorna Elizabeth Mitchell was born - United Kingdom
- 1965 Alan Bunce actor (Albert-Ethel & Albert), dies at 61
- 1965 Edward R Murrow newscaster (Person to Person), dies at 57
- 1965 RC Duncan patents "Pampers" disposable diaper
- 1967 Expo '67 opens in Montreal
- 1967 Expo 67 officially opens in Montreal, Canada with a large opening ceremony broadcast around the world. It opens to the public the next day.
- 1967 Number one hit on UK music charts - Sandie Shaw - Puppet On A String
- 1968 Jimmy Ellis beats Jerry Quarry for heavyweight boxing title
- 1970 Arthur Shields actor (Your Show Time), dies at 73
- 1972 Apollo 16 returns to Earth
- 1972 Constructive Vote of No Confidence against German Chancellor Willy Brandt fails under obscure circumstances.
- 1972 Kwame Nkrumah president of Ghana, dies at 62
- 1972 NYC Mayor John Lindsey appeals that John Lennon not be deported
- 1973 William D. Ruckelshaus was appointed Acting Director of the FBI by President Nixon following the resignation of L. Patrick Gray III.
- 1974 10,000 march in Washington, D.C., calling for impeachment of US President Richard Nixon
- 1974 Pan Am 707 crashes into mountains of Bali, killing 107
- 1977 28 people are killed in the Guatemala City air disaster.
- 1977 Visitor posting - Shelly was born! - USA
- 1977 H-E Schuster discovers asteroid #2234 Schmadel
- 1978 Former Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman is released from an Arizona prison after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes.
- 1979 Ira Attebury, a 64 year old disabled truck driver, opened fire on the Battle of Flowers parade in San Antonio, Texas, killing 2, and injuring 51. He killed himself. - USA
- 1979 George Harrison releases "Love Comes to Everyone"
- 1979 Visitor posting - Carey Snody born - USA
- 1979 Visitor posting - marc moellering was born - USA
- 1981 Beatle Ringo Starr marries actress Barbara Bach
- 1981 The first female soccer official is hired by the NASL
- 1981 Xerox PARC introduces the computer mouse.
- 1982 Tom Tully actor (Line-up, Shane), dies at 85
- 1982 Visitor posting - Rachel Evans was born - United Kingdom
- 1982 Trial of John W Hinckley Jr attempted assassin of Reagan, begins
- 1983 Nolan Ryan becomes strikeout king (3509), passing Walter Johnson
- 1984 Asteroid #3625 discovered
- 1984 Over 70 inches of snow falls on Red Lake Montana
- 1985 Visitor posting - i john cruickshank of corby, england was born - United Kingdom
- 1986 Captain Midnight (John R MacDougall) interrupts HBO
- 1987 Visitor posting - Christy was born
- 1987 The U.S. Justice Department bars the Austrian Chancellor Kurt Waldheim from entering the United States, saying he had aided in the deportation and execution of thousands of Jews and others as a German Army officer during World War II.
- 1989 Beijing students take over Tiananmen Square in China
- 1989 Mandatory seatbelt law goes into effect in Italy
- 1990 50th annual barbershop quartet singing convention held (Mich)
- 1990 Dodger Orel Hershiser undergoes career-threatening shoulder surgery
- 1992 Betty Boothroyd becomes the first woman to be elected Speaker of the British House of Commons in its 700-year history.
- 1992 Visitor posting - April 27 1992 Erick Martin Frayre was Born!
- 1992 Russia and 12 other former Soviet republics win entry into the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
- 1992 The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, comprising Serbia and Montenegro, is proclaimed.
- 1993 All members of the Zambia national football team lose their lives in a plane crash off Libreville, Gabon in route to Dakar, Senegal to play a 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifying match against Senegal.
- 1993 Visitor posting - Damon Samuel born at Whiteman AFB, MO - USA
- 1994 South African general election, 1994: The first democratic general election in South Africa, in which black citizens could vote.
- 1995 Visitor posting - Sarah Elisabeth Pasley is Born - USA
- 1995 Visitor posting - A very proper lady, Matilda, was born. - USA
- 1995 Visitor posting - KATIE JONES was born! I don't have a pet... - USA
- 1996 The Israeli military operation in Lebanon, Operation Grapes of Wrath, ends after 16 days of heavy bombing.
- 2001 Visitor posting - Michael James born in Prince Frederick - USA
- 2002 The last successful telemetry from NASA space probe Pioneer 10.
- 2005 The Superjumbo jet aircraft Airbus A380 makes its first flight from Toulouse, France.
- 2006 Visitor posting - Christian Armand is born in SJ
- 2007 Estonian authorities remove the Bronze Soldier, a Soviet Red Army war memorial in Tallinn, amid political controversy with Russia.
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