- 0532 Nika riots in Constantinople.
- 0888 Duke Odo becomes king of West-France
- 0888 Odo, Count of Paris becomes King of the Franks.
- 1099 Crusaders set fire to Mara Syria
- 1328 Edward III of England marries Philippa of Hainault, daughter of the Count of Hainault.
- 1547 Earl Henry Howard of Surrey sentenced to death
- 1547 Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey sentenced to death.
- 1559 Elizabeth I crowned Queen of England in Westminster Abbey.
- 1602 William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor is published.
- 1605 The controversial play Eastward Hoe by Ben Jonson, George Chapman, and John Marston is performed, landing two of the authors in prison.
- 1607 Bank of Genoa fails after announcement of national bankruptcy in Spain.
- 1610 Galileo Galilei discovers Callisto, 4th moon of Jupiter.
- 1621 Jan Pieterszoon Coen's fleet sets sail to Moluccas (from Jacarta)
- 1622 Work on the printing of the First Folio of William Shakespeare is suspended.
- 1625 John Milton is admitted to Christ's College, Cambridge at the age of 16.
- 1630 Patent to Plymouth Colony issued
- 1673 Jean Racine's "Mithridate," premieres in Paris
- 1695 Jonathan Swift ordained an Anglican priest in Ireland
- 1733 James Oglethorpe & 130 English colonists arrive at Charleston, SC
- 1770 De Beaumarchais' "Les Deux Amis," premieres in Paris
- 1785 John Walter publishes first issue of London Times
- 1794 Congress changes US flag to 15 stars & 15 stripes
- 1822 The patterns of the Greek flag are adopted by the First National Assembly at Epidaurus.
- 1830 Great fire in New Orleans thought to be set by rebel slaves
- 1832 President Andrew Jackson writes Vice President Martin Van Buren expressing his opposition to South Carolina's defiance of federal authority in the Nullification Crisis.
- 1840 The steamship Lexington burns and sinks four miles off the coast of Long Island with the loss of 139 lives.
- 1842 On this day Dr.William Brydon, a surgeon in the British Army during the First Anglo-Afghan War, became famous for being the sole survivor of an army of 16,500 when he reached the safety of a garrison in Jalalabad.
- 1847 The Treaty of Cahuenga ends the Mexican-American War in California.
- 1849 Vancouver Island granted to Hudson's Bay Co
- 1854 Anthony Foss patents the accordion
- 1863 Chenille manufacturing machine patented by William Canter, New York City NY
- 1863 Thomas Crapper pioneers one-piece pedestal flushing toilet
- 1864 Composer Stephen Foster dies in New York at age 39, while recuperating from loss of blood from a fever-induced fall in his hotel room.
- 1865 Amphibious attack on Fort Fisher, NC
- 1869 Colored National Labor Union, first Black labor convention
- 1869 National convention of black leaders meets in Washington D.C..
- 1873 PBS Pinchback relinquishes office at Louisiana Governor
- 1874 Battle between jobless & police in New York City NY, 100s injured
- 1874 Imperial Russian Government issues second decree which amended the one of June 4, 1871. The second decree instituted compulsory military conscription for the German colonists. These two decrees impelled thousands of German Russians to immigrate to North and South America.
- 1874 US troops land in Honolulu to protect the king
- 1882 Richard Wagner completes his opera "Parsifal"
- 1883 Fire in circus Ferroni in Berditschoft Poland kills 430
- 1883 Henrik Ibsen's "En Folkefiende," premieres in Oslo
- 1888 National Geographic Society founded (Washington DC)
- 1893 British Independent Labor Party forms (Keir Hardie as its leader)
- 1893 The Independent Labour Party of the UK has its first meeting.
- 1893 US Marines land in Honolulu from the U.S.S. Boston to prevent the queen from abrogating the Bayonet Constitution.
- 1894 Revolution in Sicily crushed by government troops
- 1895 Oscar Wilde's "Ideal Husband," premieres in London
- 1898 Emile Zola publishes his open letter (J'accuse) in defense of Captain Alfred Dreyfus in Paris
- 1899 The Canadian Northern Railway is formed by the amalgamation of the Winnipeg Great Northern Railway and the Lake Manitoba Railway and Canal Company. William Mackenzie and Donald Mann then proceeded to expand the Canadian Northern system so that by 1915 the system comprised 9,362 miles of trackage.
- 1902 Textile workers strike in Enschede Netherlands till June 1
- 1906 The first radio set advertised (Telimco for $7.50 in Scientific American) claimed to receive signals up to one mile
- 1908 French pilot Henry Farman is first European to fly roundtrip
- 1910 JM Synge's "Deirdre of the Sorrows," premieres in Dublin
- 1910 Opera was broadcast on the radio for the first time Enrico Caruso singing from the stage of New York's Metropolitan Opera House.
- 1911 Gerhart Hauptmann's "Die Ratten," premieres in Berlin
- 1911 Roald Amundsens anchors at Walvis Bay
- 1911 South Africa's first win over Australia, at Adelaide
- 1912 -40ºF (-40ºC), Oakland MD (state record)
- 1914 IWW-leader/songwriter Joe Hill arrested "Girl from Utah" East-Prussia
- 1915 An Earthquake in Avezzano, Italy kills 29,800.
- 1915 Earthquake in Avezzano Italy kills 30,000
- 1915 SS Roebuck, formerly on the Channel Islands service, she was taken over for government service after the outbreak of war and renamed HMS Roedene under which name while at Scapa Flow she dragged her anchor and fell across the bows of the battleship HMS Imperieuse, after which she sank.
- 1915 W Churchill presents plan for assault on Dardanelles
- 1920 New York Times editorial (falsely) reports rockets can never fly
- 1924 Nationalist Wafd-party wins Egyptian parliament elections
- 1927 US & Mexico battle over oil interests
- 1929 Humanist Society established, Hollywood CA
- 1930 "Mickey Mouse" comic strip first appears
- 1930 Mickey Mouse comic strip makes its first appearance.
- 1934 the Candidate of Science degree is established in the USSR.
- 1935 A plebiscite in Saarland shows that 90.3% of those voting wish to join Nazi Germany.
- 1935 Plebiscite in Saar, indicates a desire (90.3%) to join Nazi Germany
- 1937 The U.S. government announces that Americans are cannot actively participate in the Spanish Civil War.
- 1938 Church of England accepts theory of evolution.
- 1939 Belgian premier signs Burgos-treaty for trade relations with Franco
- 1939 The Black Friday bushfires burn 20,000 square kilometres of land in Australia, claiming the lives of 71 people.
- 1941 Novelist James Joyce dies during an eye operation in Zurich, Switzerland at age 58.
- 1942 German U-boats begin harassing shipping on US east coast
- 1942 Henry Ford patents a method of constructing plastic auto bodies
- 1942 Interallied war trial conference publishes St James Declaration
- 1942 World War II: First use of aircraft ejection seat. German test pilot in a Heinkel He 280 jet fighter.
- 1943 HMCS Ville de Quebec (Corvette) make Canada's first U-Boat sinking in the Mediterranean
- 1943 Hitler declares "Total War"
- 1943 Russian offensive at Don under General Golikov
- 1943 US infantry captures Galloping Horse-ridge Guadalcanal
- 1945 Prokofchev's 5th Symphony premieres in Moscow
- 1951 German General F Christian freed early from Dutch prison
- 1953 Gas explosion in Belgium coal mine kills 14
- 1953 Marshal Josip Broz Tito is chosen as President of Yugoslavia.
- 1954 Military rule in Egypt; 318 Mohammedan Brotherhood arrested
- 1955 Visitor posting - David Randal Luckow born - USA
- 1957 Visitor posting - Ray Parks was born
- 1957 Wham-O Company produces the first Frisbee
- 1958 9,000 scientists of 43 nations petition UN for nuclear test ban
- 1958 Moroccan Liberation Army ambushes Spanish patrol in the Battle of Edchera.
- 1958 US newspaper "Daily Worker" ceases publication
- 1958 Visitor posting - Susan Irene Wright was born in Philadelphia, Pa, USA
- 1959 De Gaulle grants amnesty to 130 to Algerian death row convicts
- 1959 King Boudouin promises Belgian Congo independence
- 1962 Comedian Ernie Kovacs is killed in a car crash in Los Angeles.
- 1963 Visitor posting - Joe Christopher Trujillo born in Alamosa, Colorado
- 1964 Hindu-Muslim rioting breaks out in the Indian city of Calcutta - now Kolkata - resulting in the deaths of more than 100 people.
- 1964 Karol Wojtyla becomes archbishop of Krakow
- 1964 USS Manley evacuates 54 American and 36 allied nationals after Zanzibar government is overthrown
- 1964 Visitor posting - Born, studied in Mumbai, India - Working, living in Kuwait. Met my lovely husband Ignatius in 1987 and got married in 1996. A lovely friend turned out to be my husband. Who made me think to marry. He is an understanding, caring, kind and outstanding husband. I love to read and go jogging. I have even told my husband if I die see that you put my books in my coffin so that I can sleep and read till my Jesus comes to take me home. - India
- 1966 First black selected for Presidential cabinet (LBJ selects Robert C Weaver-HUD)
- 1966 Robert C. Weaver becomes the first African American Cabinet member by being appointed United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
- 1967 Coup in Togo
- 1967 Rolling Stones appear on Ed Sullivan Show
- 1968 "Hallelujah, Baby!" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City NY after 293 performances
- 1968 Beginning of Tet-offensive in Vietnam
- 1968 Johnny Cash records his landmark album At Folsom Prison live at Folsom State Prison
- 1968 Minnesota North Stars center Bill Masterton fatally injured (dies on 15th)
- 1969 Visitor posting - Dan Nelson born - USA
- 1969 Beatles release "Yellow Submarine" album
- 1970 Visitor posting - Nicole L Chiasson - born Toronto ON Canada
- 1972 Prime Minister Kofi Busia and President Edward Akufo-Addo of Ghana are ousted in a bloodless military coup by Col. Ignatius Kutu Acheamphong.
- 1974 Seraphim is elected elected Archbishop of Athens and All Greece.
- 1978 Former U.S. Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey dies in Waverly, Minnesota, at age 66.
- 1979 Charlie Daniels hosts the Volunteer Jam
- 1979 YMCA files libel suit against Village People's YMCA song
- 1980 Head of narcotic brigade arrested for drug smuggling in Belgium
- 1980 Togo's constitution becomes effective
- 1981 Barbara Sonntag, Colorado, crochets record 147 stitches/minutes for 30 minutes
- 1982 Hank Aaron & Frank Robinson elected to Hall of Fame
- 1982 Seventy-eight people die in Washington, D.C., when an Air Florida 737 crashes into a bridge after takeoff and falls into the Potomac River.
- 1982 Shortly after takeoff, Air Florida Flight 90 737 jet crashes into Washington, DC's 14th Street Bridge and falls into the Potomac River, killing 78 including four motorists. In a freaky coincidence, a Washington DC Metro Rail train derailed, killing 3 people.
- 1983 Alan Webb (American record holder in the mile) is born.
- 1984 Visitor posting - Gaya Lokesh Govindaraj born - India [email protected]
- 1985 99-year-old Otto Bucher scores a hole-in-one at Spanish golf course
- 1985 Express train derails in Ethiopia, kills at least 428
- 1986 A month-long violent struggle begins in Aden, South Yemen between supporters of Ali Nasir Muhammad and Abdul Fattah Ismail, resulting in thousands of casualties.
- 1986 Bloody coup overthrows government of South Yemen
- 1986 NCCA institutes eligibility requirements based on college exams
- 1987 7 top New York Mafia bosses sentenced to 100 years in prison each
- 1987 W German police arrest Mohammed Ali Hamadi, suspect in 1985 hijacking
- 1988 Visitor posting - Cara Jane Gorman is born.
- 1989 "Friday the 13th" virus strikes hundreds of IBM computers in Britain
- 1989 Ruins of Mashkan-shapir (occupied 2050-1720 BC) found in Iraq
- 1989 Soap opera "Ryan's Hope" final episode after 13½ year run
- 1989 Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz begins 1-year jail sentence
- 1990 L. Douglas Wilder becomes the first elected African American governor as he takes office in Richmond, Virginia.
- 1990 Number one hit on UK music charts - New Kids On The Block - Hangin' Tough
- 1991 42 killed in exhibition soccer match in Johannesburg South Africa
- 1991 President Mario Soares of Portugal re-elected
- 1991 Soccer stadium riot in Orkney South Africa, at least 40 die
- 1991 Soviet Union military troops attack Lithuanian independence supporters in Vilnius.
- 1991 UN Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar meets with Saddam Hussein in Baghdad
- 1992 Japan apologizes for forcing Korean women into sexual slavery during World War II.
- 1992 Japan formally apologizes for forcing thousands of Korean women to serve as sex slaves for Japanese troops during WWII.
- 1992 US serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer pleads guilty but insane
- 1993 STS-54 (Endeavour) launches into orbit
- 1994 Tonya Harding's bodyguard, Shawn Eric Eckardt & Derrick Brian Smith arrested & charged with conspiracy in attack of skater Nancy Kerrigan
- 1995 America3 becomes first all-female crew to win an America's Cup race
- 1995 Lamberto Dini becomes prime minister of Italy.
- 1995 Philippine authorities unearth a plot by militant Muslims to assassinate Pope John Paul II during his visit.
- 1995 The National Hockey League teams unanimously ratify agreement to end the players strike
- 1996 Visitor posting - Stefan Radenkovic born. My pet is a hamster named Hrle - USA
- 1998 CBS pays $4 billion to televise AFC games for 8-years
- 1998 Visitor posting - Schauniandystia Alexus Dutton is born - USA
- 1999 Michael Jordan announces his retirement from the Chicago Bulls (for the second and final time).jan14
- 2001 An earthquake hits El Salvador, killing more than 800.
- 2003 Visitor posting - The Queen has knee arthroscopy at King Edward VII hospital, London - United Kingdom
- 2006 Visitor posting - Riya Gosai was born - USA
- 2007 Two thirds of the Venus's southern hemisphere suddenly brightened.
- 2010 Visitor posting - Bailey's 11th birthday! - USA
- 2011 Visitor posting - Schauniandystia A. Dutton's 13th birthday - USA
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