- 0069 Otho seizes power in Rome, proclaiming himself Emperor of Rome, but only survives for three months before committing suicide.
- 0588 BC - Nebuchadrezzar II of Babylon lays siege to Jerusalem under Zedekiah's reign. The siege lasts until July 18, 586 BC.
- 1559 Elizabeth I of England is crowned in Westminster Abbey by Owen Oglethorpe, the Bishop of Carlisle, instead of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
- 1582 Russia cedes Livonia & Estonia to Poland, loses access to the Baltic
- 1586 Battle at Boxum Spanish troops under Tassis beat state army
- 1680 French explorer Sieur de la Salle builds Fort Crèvecoeur
- 1752 Tobias Smollett publishes pamphlet accusing Fielding of plagiarism
- 1754 Riot at burial of doelist Daniel Raap in Amsterdam
- 1759 British Museum opens in Montague House, London
- 1759 The British Museum opens.
- 1759 UK hist British Museum opens to the public in London
- 1762 Fraunces Tavern opens in New York City NY
- 1777 People of New Connecticut (Vermont) declare independence from England
- 1780 Continental Congress establishes court of appeals
- 1782 Superintendent of Finance Robert Morris goes before the U.S. Congress to recommend establishment of a national mint and decimal coinage.
- 1785 Mozarts string quartet opus 10 premieres
- 1797 The first top hat worn (John Etherington of London)
- 1831 The fir1st US-built locomotive to pull a passenger train makes first run
- 1831 The first US railroad honeymoon trip, Mr & Mrs Pierson, Charleston SC
- 1833 HMS Beagle anchors at Goeree Tierra del Fuego
- 1844 The University of Notre Dame is founded
- 1844 U of Notre Dame receives its charter in Indiana
- 1844 University of Notre Dame receives its charter from Indiana.
- 1847 The first Swedish magazine in US, Skandinavia, published in New York City NY
- 1851 General Arista replaces Mexican President Herrera
- 1857 The first first-class game in Sydney, New South Wales vs Victoria at The Domain
- 1861 Steam elevator patented by Elisha Otis
- 1863 The first US newspaper printed on wood-pulp paper, Boston Morning Journal
- 1865 American Civil War - Fort Fisher North Carolina Falls to the Union, thus cutting off the last major seaport of the Confederacy
- 1865 Fort Fisher, NC falls to Union troops
- 1866 Bedrich Smetana's opera "Branibori vs Cechach," premieres in Prague
- 1870 A political cartoon for the first time symbolizes the United States Democratic Party with a donkey ("A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion" by Thomas Nast for Harper's Weekly).
- 1870 Cartoonist Thomas Nast originates the donkey as a symbol to identify the Democratic party in a political cartoon appearing in Harper's Weekly.
- 1870 Donkey first used as symbol of Democratic Party, in Harper's Weekly
- 1877 US Assay Office in Helena, Montana opens
- 1878 Visitor posting - Women get degrees for first time at London University - United Kingdom
- 1882 The First US ski club forms (Berlin NH)
- 1885 Wilson Bentley takes the first photograph of a snowflake.
- 1886 Weekly Herald, first Vancouver, BC newspaper, publishes first issue
- 1892 Dr. James Naismith publishes, for the first time, the thirteen rules of basketball the game he invented the previous winter, in Springfield, Massachusetts
- 1892 James Naismith publishes the rules for basketball.
- 1895 Albert Trott takes 8-43 on Test debut, then a record
- 1895 French fleet reaches Majunga, Madagascar
- 1907 3-element vacuum tube patented by Dr Lee de Forest
- 1907 Gold dental inlays first described by William Taggart, who invented them
- 1908 Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, the first Greek-letter organization by and for Black college women is established.
- 1908 C Hill & R J Hartigan make 8th wicket partnership 243 for Australia
- 1913 Telephone service begins between New York and Berlin.
- 1915 Japan claims economic control of China
- 1919 2 million gallons of molasses spill in a tidal wave that drowns 21 in Boston MA
- 1919 Ignace Paderewski becomes Premier of Poland.
- 1919 Pianist & statesman Ignace Paderewski becomes first premier of Poland
- 1919 Pianist and statesman Ignace Jan Paderewski becomes the first premier of the new republic of Poland.
- 1919 Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, two of the most prominent socialists in Germany, were tortured and murdered by the Freikorps.
- 1919 Semana Tragica (Tragic Week) Bloodbath in Buenos Aires
- 1919 The Boston Molasses Disaster kills 21 people.
- 1920 Prohibition goes into effect, making it illegal to sell beer and liquor.
- 1922 Irish Free State forms; Michael Collins becomes first premier
- 1923 Lithuania seizes & annexes the country of Memel
- 1924 3rd Dutch government Ruijs de Beerenbrouck forms
- 1925 Hans Luther forms German government, with DNVP
- 1929 Civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta. - USA
- 1930 George Headley scores century on debut vs England (made 176)
- 1934 8.4 earthquake in India/Nepal, 10,700 die
- 1934 Babe Ruth signs a 1934 contract for $35,000 ($17,000 cut)
- 1934 In Bihar-Nepal, India a 8.4 earthquake resulted in 10,700 deaths
- 1934 Visitor posting - RAMANATHAN - India [email protected]
- 1935 300 Dutch ice cream salesmen protest against Italian competition
- 1936 Horace Stoneham elected president of New York Giants
- 1936 Non-profit Ford Foundation incorporates
- 1936 The first all-glass windowless structure in US completed, Toledo, Ohio
- 1939 Municipal Railway & Market St RR begin service to Transbay Terminal
- 1940 German U-Boot torpedoes Dutch trade ship Arendskerk
- 1942 FDR asks commissioner to continue baseball during WWII
- 1943 1,000 workers complete the air conditioning system for the Pentagon
- 1943 Japanese driven off Guadalcanal
- 1943 The world's largest office building, The Pentagon, is dedicated (Arlington, Virginia).
- 1943 Work is completed on the Pentagon, headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense.
- 1944 European Advisory Commission decides to divide Germany
- 1944 General Eisenhower arrives in England
- 1944 In Argentina a 7.8 earthquake resulted in 5000 deaths
- 1944 Vught Concentration Camp puts 74 women in 1 cell, 10 die
- 1945 Every Amsterdammer gets 3 kg sugar beets
- 1945 Red Army frees Crakow-Plaszow concentration camp
- 1945 Visitor posting - Gideon was born - Israel
- 1947 The brutalized corpse of Elizabeth Short ("The Black Dahlia") is found in Leimert Park, Los Angeles, California.
- 1948 Visitor posting - Katherine C. Hill born in New York City in Womans and Childrens Infermary.
- 1949 Mao's Red army conquers Ten-tsin
- 1950 4,000 attend National Emergency Civil Rights Conference in Washington DC
- 1951 "Cloud of Death" rolls down Mount Lamington, New Guinea kills 3-5,000
- 1951 Ilse Koch, The "Bitch of Buchenwald", wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment in a court in West Germany.
- 1951 Supreme Court rule "clear & present danger" of incitement to riot is not protected speech & can be a cause for arrest
- 1953 As he leaves office, Harry Truman becomes the first U.S. President to bid the nation farewell via TV and radio.
- 1953 16 car Federal Express train loses brakes & crashes in Washington DC station
- 1953 German Democratic Republic Minister of Foreign affairs Georg Dertingen arrested for "espionage"
- 1955 The first official act of Princess Beatrice, launches tanker Vasum
- 1955 USSR ends state of war with German Federal Republic
- 1961 Supremes signed with Motown Records
- 1962 50th Australian Mens Tennis Rod Laver beats R Emerson (86 06 64 64)
- 1962 Dutch & Indonesian navy encounter in Etna Bay New Guinea
- 1964 Teamsters negotiate first national labor contract
- 1965 Rock group The Who releases first album "I Can't Explain"
- 1966 First Military Coup in Nigeria, government of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa is overthrown.
- 1967 In the first ever Super Bowl, the Green Bay Packers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs, 35-10.
- 1968 In Sicily a 6.0 earthquake in several s in western Sicily were destroyed by this strong shock. It toppled houses, hospitals, medieval castles, and churches
- 1969 Soyuz 5 launched by Soviet Union
- 1970 After a 32-month fight for independence from Nigeria, Biafra surrenders.
- 1970 Muammar al-Qaddafi is proclaimed premier of Libya.
- 1970 Republic Biafra disbands/joins Nigeria
- 1971 Aswan Dam official opens in Egypt
- 1972 Heavyweight Joe Frazier KOs Terry Daniels
- 1973 4 Watergate burglars plead guilty in federal court
- 1973 Gene Shalit joins the Today Show panel
- 1973 Pope Paul VI has an audience with Golda Meir at Vatican
- 1973 President Nixon suspends all US offensive action in North Vietnam
- 1973 Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, President of the United States Richard Nixon announces the suspension of offensive action in North Vietnam.
- 1974 "Happy Days" begins an 11 year run on ABC
- 1974 Expert panel reports 18½-m gap in Watergate tape, 5 separate erasures
- 1975 Portugal grants independence to Angola.
- 1975 Portugal signs accord for Angola's independence
- 1975 Space Mountain opens (Disneyland)
- 1976 Gerald Ford's would-be assassin, Sara Jane Moore, is sentenced to life in prison.
- 1976 Sara Jane Moore sentenced to life for attempting to shoot President Ford
- 1976 US-German Helios B solar probe launched into solar orbit
- 1977 Coneheads debut on "Saturday Night Live"
- 1977 Number one hit on UK music charts - David Soul - Don't Give Up On Us
- 1977 The Klvesta air disaster kills 22 people, the worst air crash in Sweden's history.
- 1978 Theodore Bundy kills Florida State University co-eds Lisa Levy & Margaret Bowman
- 1981 "Hill Street Blues" premieres on NBC-TV
- 1981 Bob Gibson elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame
- 1983 Dutch political party DS'70 disbands
- 1983 Hartford Whalers smallest crowd 4,812 (beat Devils) during blizzard
- 1983 Javed Miandad & Mudassar Nazar make 451 stand vs India
- 1983 Number one hit on UK music charts - Phil Collins - You Can't Hurry Love
- 1983 Thom Syles keeps a life saver intact in his mouth for over 7 hours
- 1983 Visitor posting - A beautiful baby girl was born. Giving her his own initials, her father named her Julee Ann - USA
- 1984 Hana Mandlikova ends Martina Navratilova's 54-match winning streak
- 1984 Visitor posting - Another son of god was born, named Kenny Joh Petersen - Denmark
- 1985 Mike Gatting & Graeme Fowler both scores 200's vs India
- 1985 Rose Bottle is born
- 1985 Tancredo Neves becomes first elected President of Brazil in 21 years
- 1986 Living Seas opens at World Showcase in EPCOT, Walt Disney World
- 1986 The HBO and Cinemax pay cable television services initiate scrambling of their national satellite feeds on Galaxy 1 with the Videocipher II system.
- 1986 The Living Seas opens at EPCOT Center in Walt Disney World, Florida.
- 1986 Visitor posting - The love of my life, William, was born
- 1988 Arab uprising in Israel begins
- 1988 Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder makes racist remarks about black athletes
- 1988 Kiran More stumps five West Indian batsman at Madras, world Test record
- 1989 Big John Studd wins WWF's first Royal Rumble
- 1989 Cerberal Palsy telethon raises 22,600,000
- 1990 42 year old George Foreman KOs George Cooney in 2 rounds
- 1990 6th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Knots Landing wins
- 1990 A computer problem disrupts AT&T's long distance telephone service around the U.S. for nearly nine hours.
- 1990 AT&T experiences long distance problems due to a computer glitch
- 1990 AT&T's long distance telephone network suffers a cascade switching failure.
- 1990 Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev declares a state of emergency in parts of Azerbaijan and Armenia, due to increased ethnic violence.
- 1990 VIA cuts half of its passenger network. Included in these cuts are a decision to run just one transcontinental train between Toronto and Vancouver via CN through Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Edmonton and Jasper.
- 1991 Australia beat New Zealand 2-0 to win the World Series Cup
- 1991 The United Nations deadline for the withdrawal of Iraqi forces from occupied Kuwait expires, preparing the way for the start of Operation Desert Storm.
- 1991 UN's deadline for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait passes - (they don't)
- 1992 Bulgaria recognizes Macedonia
- 1992 Cleaning woman finds intimate photos of Sarah Ferguson with US man
- 1992 EC recognizes Slovenian and Croatian independence
- 1992 Supreme Court rules 5-3 that Joseph Doherty isn't entitled to asylum
- 1992 The federation of Yugoslavia, intact since 1918, crumbles as the European Community recognizes the republics of Croatia and Slovenia.
- 1992 The international community recognizes the independence of Slovenia and Croatia from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
- 1992 Visitor posting - Makahla Huff was born, Florence, Oregon - USA
- 1993 7.5 earthquake strikes northern Japan, 2 die
- 1993 Salvatore Riina, the Mafia boss known as 'The Beast', is arrested in Sicily after three decades as a fugitive
- 1993 Soap opera "Santa Barbara" final show on NBC TV
- 1993 Top mafia leader Salvatore "Totò" Riina arrested in Palermo
- 1994 15th ACE Cable Awards HBO wins 34 awards, Showtime wins 10
- 1994 Hague motorist with .51% alcohol in blood, breaks Dutch record (.47%)
- 1994 Queen Elizabeth falls off her horse & breaks her left wrist
- 1995 Southern Alabama begins using new area code 334
- 1995 Visitor posting - Corissa Rene Holmes is born into the loving arms of Chris and Lynn Holmes - USA
- 1995 Western Washington begins using new area code 360
- 1996 Visitor posting - Carla Ferreira -the best girl in the world- was born! - USA
- 1997 Chicago Bull Dennis Rodman kicks cameraman, Eugene Amosin the groin
- 1997 Space Shuttle Atlantis docks with Mir Space Station
- 1997 Visitor posting - Merina Hardwick the AMAZING was born!!!!! - USA
- 1998 NASA announces John Glenn, 76, may fly in space again
- 1998 Visitor posting - I love that you actually looked! This website is weird - USA
- 1999 The Racak incident: 45 Albanians in the Kosovo village of Racak were killed by Yugoslav security forces.
- 2001 Wikipedia, a free Wiki content encyclopedia, goes online.
- 2004 Visitor posting - Robbie & Kiesha were married and started their adventure in love
- 2005 An intense solar flare blasted X rays across the solar system. ESA's SMART-1 lunar orbiter discovered elements such as calcium, aluminum, silicon, iron, and other surface elements on the moon.
- 2007 Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, former Iraqi intelligence chief and half-brother of Saddam Hussein, and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, former chief judge of the Revolutionary Court, are executed by hanging in Iraq.
- 2007 Comet McNaught makes perigee after coming close to the sun.
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