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- 0049 BC - Julius Caesar's general Gaius Curio is defeated in the Second Battle of the Bagradas River by the Numidians under Attius Varus and King Juba of Numidia. Curio commits suicide to avoid capture.
- 0079 Mount Vesuvius erupts. The cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae are buried in volcanic ash.
- 0079 Mt Vesuvius erupts, buries Pompeii & Herculaneum
- 0410 Rome overrun by Visigoths, symbolized fall of Western Roman Empire
- 0410 The Visigoths under Alaric begin to pillage Rome for three days.
- 1215 Pope Innocent III declares Magna Carta invalid.
- 1313 Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor, dies.
- 1349 Six thousand Jews are killed in Mainz after being blamed for the bubonic plague.
- 1391 Jews massacred in Palma de Mallorca.
- 1456 The printing of the Gutenberg Bible is completed.
- 1511 Alfonso de Albuquerque of Portugal conquers the Sultanate of Malacca.
- 1561 Willem of Orange marries duchess Anna of Saxony.
- 1572 King Charles IX orders massacre of thousands of French Protestants
- 1572 Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre: On the orders of king Charles IX of France, a massacre of Huguenots (French Protestants) begins.
- 1608 The first official English representative to India lands in Surat.
- 1662 Act of Uniformity requires England to accept the Book of Common Prayer.
- 1680 Death of Colonel (Thomas) Blood, Irish adventurer who stole Crown Jewels from Tower of London in 1671.
- 1682 William Penn receives the area that is now the state of Delaware, and adds it to his colony of Pennsylvania.
- 1690 Calcutta, India is founded.
- 1690 Calcutta, India, is founded by the British East India Company.
- 1690 Job Charnock establishes an English trading post in West Bengal, considered the official founding of India's largest city, Calcutta.
- 1751 Thomas Colley executed in England for drowning supposed witch
- 1814 British and Canadian troops invade Washington, D.C. and burn down the White House and several other buildings.
- 1814 British sack Washington, DC, White House burned
- 1814 Washington, D.C. is burned by the British.
- 1816 The Treaty of St. Louis is signed in St. Louis, Missouri.
- 1820 Constitutionalist insurrection at Oporto, Portugal; see Portugal's crises of the Nineteenth Century.
- 1821 New Mexico gains its independence from Spain.
- 1821 The Treaty of Crdoba is signed in Crdoba, now in Veracruz, Mexico, concluding the Mexican War of Independence from Spain.
- 1831 Charles Darwin is asked to travel on HMS Beagle.
- 1847 Charlotte Bront finishes Jane Eyre.
- 1853 Potato chips are first prepared.
- 1853 The first potato chips prepared by Chef George Crum (Saratoga Springs, NY)
- 1854 National emigration convention meets in Cleveland
- 1857 The Panic of 1857 begins, setting off one of the most severe economic crises in U.S. history.
- 1857 Thirty-one people die when ship Lady Bird collides with another vessel off the State of Victoria in Australia
- 1858 In Richmond, Virginia, 90 blacks are arrested for learning.
- 1869 Waffle iron invented
- 1870 The Wolseley Expedition reaches Manitoba to end the Red River Rebellion.
- 1875 Captain Matthew Webb became first person to swim English Channel
- 1909 Workers start pouring concrete for Panama Canal
- 1912 Alaska becomes a U.S. territory.
- 1912 Alaska becomes a United States territory.
- 1912 NYC ticker tape parade for Jim Thorpe & victorious US olympians
- 1912 Territory of Alaska organized
- 1912 US passes Anti-gag law, federal employees right to petition the govt
- 1914 World War I: German troops capture Namur.
- 1916 Official inauguration of the Australian Comforts Fund (ACF) The ACF coordinated the activities of the various State "patriotic funds" set up in 1914 to collect money to send comfort parcels to service personnel overseas
- 1918 Sgt. Samuel Forsyth, NZ Engineers, attached to 2nd Battalion, Auckland Infantry Regiment, won the Victoria Cross at Grevillers, France
- 1928 A subway wreck occurs under Times Square in New York City.
- 1929 Riots in Palestine of 1929: 18 Jews in Safed, 67 in Hebron, and 22 in Jerusalem killed by Arab Palestinians.
- 1929 Turkey and Persia sign a friendship treaty.
- 1931 France and the Soviet Union sign a neutrality/no attack treaty.
- 1931 Resignation of the United Kingdom's Second Labour Government. Formation of the UK National Government.
- 1932 Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the U.S. nonstop, completing a 19-hour flight from Los Angeles to Newark, NJ.
- 1932 Amelia Earhart is the first woman to fly across the United States non-stop (from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey).
- 1932 The first transcontinental non-stop flight by a woman, Amelia Earhart
- 1936 Australian Antarctic Territory created
- 1936 The Australian Antarctic Territory is created.
- 1937 In the Spanish Civil War, the Basque Army surrenders to the Italian Corpo Truppe Volontarie following the Santoa Agreement.
- 1939 Germany & USSR sign 10-year non-aggression pact
- 1939 Germany and Russia sign a 10-year non-agression pact.
- 1939 Last man hanged in New South Wales: axe murderer John Trevor Kelly.
- 1939 The Nazi-Soviet Pact is signed between Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin.
- 1944 World War II: Allied troops start the attack on Paris.
- 1949 The treaty creating NATO goes into effect.
- 1950 Edith Sampson becomes the first black U.S. delegate to the UN.
- 1950 Operation Magic Carpet-45,000 Yemenite Jews move to Israel
- 1954 Communist Control Act passed, at height of McCarthyism
- 1954 Getlio Dornelles Vargas, president of Brazil, commits suicide and is succeeded by Joo Caf Filho.
- 1954 International Amateur Athletic Federation recognizes Red China
- 1954 The Communist Control Act goes into effect. The American Communist Party is outlawed.
- 1959 Hiram L Fong sworn in as first Chinese-American senator while Daniel K Inouye sworn in as first Japanese-American Rep (Both from Hawaii)
- 1960 -127 F (-88ø C), Vostok, Antarctica (world record)
- 1960 60 people die when bus plunges off bridge into Turvo River, Brazil
- 1960 A temperature of 88C (127F) is measured in Vostok, Antarctica a world-record low.
- 1961 Former nazi leader Johannes Vorster becomes South Africa's minister of justice (if the shoe fits...)
- 1963 John Pennel is first to pole-vault 17'
- 1963 The 200-metre freestyle is swum in less than 2 minutes for the first time by Don Schollander (1:58).
- 1966 USSR launches Luna 11 for orbit around Moon
- 1967 Led by Abbie Hoffman, a group of hippies temporarily disrupt trading at the NYSE by throwing dollar bills from the viewing gallery, causing a cease in trading as the brokers scramble to grab them up.
- 1967 Liberian flag designed
- 1967 Mobs from China repeatedly attack British positions along 27km Hong Kong border and are driven off with tear gas.
- 1968 France became world's 5th thermonuclear power
- 1968 France becomes a nuclear power, exploding a hydrogen bomb in the South Pacific.
- 1968 France explodes its first hydrogen bomb, thus becoming the world's fifth nuclear power.
- 1970 Bomb kills 1 at U of Wisconsin's Army Math Research Center in Madison
- 1972 Gordie Howe & Jean Beliveau inducted in Hockey Hall of Fame
- 1975 Royal Commission in Australia finds women in public service work in poor conditions and are underpaid and had limited promotion prospect
- 1976 Soyuz 21 returns to Earth
- 1979 UN's Vienna office begins issuing postage stamps
- 1981 Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 years to life in prison for murdering John Lennon.
- 1981 Mark David Chapman, convicted assassin of ex-Beatle John Lennon, is sentenced in New York to 20-years-to-life in prison.
- 1983 Visitor posting - On this day, Jennifer Renee Echelon-Vengeance was born. And the world cried, to witness such a great epic event. - USA
- 1985 STS 51-I mission scrubbed at T -5m because of bad weather
- 1987 Announcement of possible Martian tornadoes
- 1989 Cincinnati Reds manager Pete Rose is banned from baseball for gambling by Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti.
- 1989 Colombian drug barons declare "total war" on the Colombian government.
- 1989 Pete Rose is suspended from baseball for life for gambling
- 1989 Visitor posting - Kenneth Schiefer was Born. - USA
- 1989 Voyager 2 flies past Neptune
- 1989 Voyager 2 passes Neptune.
- 1990 A judge rules that Judas Priest are not responsible for the deaths of two youths who committed suicide after listening to the band's music.
- 1990 Iraqi troops surround US & other embassies in Kuwait City
- 1990 Sinad O'Connor refuses to perform at the Garden State Arts Plaza in Holmdel, New Jersey if "The Star-Spangled Banner" is played before her show, as is customary. This began the downfall of her career.
- 1990 Visitor posting - Zachary Ryan Palaszewski is born in San Luis Obispo, CA at 7:30 AM - USA
- 1991 Gorbachev resigns as head of USSR Communist Party
- 1991 Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
- 1991 Ukraine declares independence from the USSR
- 1991 Ukraine declares itself independent from the Soviet Union.
- 1991 Visitor posting - Sidney-Rhett Onyeka Nwakanma was born in Lagos Nigeria, the child with the promise to modify and unify Nigeria
- 1992 Diplomatic relations are established between the People's Republic of China and South Korea.
- 1992 Hurricane Andrew hits South Florida as a Category 5 Hurricane.
- 1994 Initial accord between Israel and the PLO about partial self-rule of the Palestinians on the West Bank.
- 1995 Microsoft holds a party for 2,000 industry dignitaries on its Redmond, WA campus, as it introduces the Windows 95 personal computer operating system to the world. (Our webmaster was one of those who attended the event, along with Bill Gates and Jay Leno.)
- 1995 Windows 95, a computer operating system by Microsoft, is released with much fanfare.
- 1998 First RFID human implantation tested in the United Kingdom.
- 1998 The Netherlands is selected as the site for the trial of the two Libyan suspects of the 1988 Pan Am bombing.
- 1999 Visitor posting - Silvio Manuel Pantoja, my boy, was born! - USA [email protected]
- 2000 Argon fluorohydride, the first Argon compound ever known, is discovered at the University of Helsinki by Finnish scientists.
- 2001 Air Transat Flight 236 runs out of fuel over the Atlantic Ocean (en route to Lisbon from Toronto) and makes an emergency landing in the Azores.
- 2004 89 passengers die after two airliners explode after flying out of Domodedovo International Airport, near Moscow. The explosions were caused by suicide bombers (reportedly female) from the Russian Republic of Chechnya.
- 2006 The International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefines the term "planet" such that Pluto is considered a "Dwarf Planet.
- 2007 Visitor posting - together with my wife Salematou Bangoura, our friend interpreter Christine Marais and I Karamba Bayo - I had my interview for the asylum at Chicago - IL
- 2008 Visitor posting - My son, my angel, Haydn Gerald EuGene Desharnais was born at 5:41 am - Canada [email protected]
- 2009 A Malaysian Muslim woman, Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno, who was convicted of drinking alcohol, is granted a reprieve until after Ramadan.
- 2009 According to court documents, the Los Angeles County coroner's preliminary assessment is that Michael Jackson's death was caused by an overdose of the anesthetic propofol.
- 2009 At least 200 children are killed and around 900 hospitalised by Japanese encephalitis in Uttar Pradesh, India.
- 2009 Baitullah Mehsud is confirmed dead by leaders of Pakistan's Taliban.
- 2009 Captain Moussa Dadis Camara who seized power in a military coup in Guinea, refuses to rule out standing for President, after previously promising not to.
- 2009 China is to try 200 people suspected of their involvement in the Ürümqi riots last month.
- 2009 Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro appears on television for the first time in more than a year.
- 2009 Ireland's Green Party and gay rights organisations defend plans to introduce civil partnerships for same-sex couples following criticism of the move by Cardinal Seán Brady, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland.
- 2009 Kenya's fifth national census takes place.
- 2009 Ryan Jenkins, from Megan Wants A Millionaire, is found dead after an apparent suicide.
- 2009 Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill defends his decision to release the man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing, Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi.
- 2009 Sweden's TeliaSonera AB announces cash offers worth around $687.7 million in total for shares it doesn't already own in Baltic operators Teo LT and Eesti Telekom.
- 2009 The district court in Stockholm orders BitTorrent tracker The Pirate Bay's largest ISP, Black Internet, to stop serving the website's traffic
- 2009 Thieves kill an endangered Sumatran Tiger in an Indonesian zoo and steal its body, leaving its intestines behind.
- 2009 Two mass graves containing the remains of communist soldiers dating from the Vietnam War are discovered in central Vietnam.
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