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- 0630 Byzantine emperor Heraclius restores the True Cross to Jerusalem.
- 0717 Battle of Vincy between Charles Martel and Ragenfrid.
- 1188 Accession to the throne of Japan by emperor Antoku.
- 1349 Three thousand Jews killed in Black Death riots in Efurt Germany
- 1413 Henry V becomes King of England.
- 1421 Battle of Beauge-French beat British
- 1492 Alonzo Pietro, pilot, sailed with Columbus
- 1556 In Oxford, Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer is burned at the stake.
- 1610 King James I addresses English House of Commons
- 1666 Intendant Jean Talon starts census of New France; 3,000 persons counted in the first Canadian census
- 1681 3rd Exclusion Parliament meets in London
- 1702 Queen Anne Stuart addresses English parliament
- 1788 A fire destroys 856 buildings in New Orleans and leaves most of the town in ruins.
- 1788 Fire destroyed 856 buildings in New Orleans LA
- 1788 Gustavus Vassa petitions Queen Charlotte, to free enslaved Africans
- 1790 Thomas Jefferson reports to President Washington in New York as Secretary of State
- 1791 Bangalore in India is seized by the British under Lord Cornwallis in the Third Mysore War
- 1791 Captain Hopley Yeaton of New Hampshire becomes first commissioned officer in USN
- 1800 With the church leadership driven out of Rome during an armed conflict, Pius VII is crowned Pope in Venice with a temporary papal tiara made of papier-mch.
- 1801 The Battle of Alexandria is fought between British and French forces near the ruins of Nicopolis in Egypt.
- 1804 After four years of debate and planning, French leader Napoleon Bonaparte enacts a new legal framework known as the "Napoleonic Code."
- 1804 Code Napolon is adopted as French civil law.
- 1821 First revolutionary act in Monastery of Agia Lavra, Kalavryta, Greek War of Independence.
- 1821 Party leaves Sydney to establish a penal settlement at Port Macquarie, NSW.
- 1824 Fire at Cairo ammunitions dump kills 4,000 horses
- 1829 Earthquake in Spain kills 6,000.
- 1835 Charles Darwin & Mariano Gonzales meet at Portillo Pass
- 1843 Preacher William Miller of Massachusetts predicts the world will end today, he was wrong
- 1844 Origin of Bahá'í Era-Bahá'í calendar starts here (Bahá 1, 1)
- 1844 The Bah' calendar begins. This is the first day of the first year of the Bah' calendar. It is annually celebrated by members of the Bah' Faith as the Bah' New Year or Nw-Rz.
- 1844 The original date predicted by William Miller for the return of Christ.
- 1849 The Norwegian city of Hamar is reestablished by royal decree.
- 1851 Yosemite Valley discovered in California
- 1857 An earthquake in Tokyo, Japan kills over 100,000.
- 1857 Earthquake hits Tokyo; about 107,000 die
- 1859 Scottish National Gallery opens in Edinburgh
- 1859 Zoological Society of Philadelphia, 1st in US, incorporated
- 1860 US extradition treaty with Sweden
- 1864 Battle at Henderson's Hill (Bayou Rapids) Louisiana
- 1865 Battle of Bentonville ends, last Confederate effort to stop Sherman
- 1866 Congress authorizes national soldiers' homes
- 1871 Journalist Henry M Stanley begins his famous expedition to Africa
- 1871 Journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his trek to find the missionary and explorer David Livingstone.
- 1871 Otto von Bismarck elevated Fürst
- 1871 Otto von Bismarck is appointed Chancellor of the German Empire.
- 1874 US Grant's daughter Nellie marries in the White House
- 1890 Austrian Jewish communities are defined by law
- 1891 A Hatfield marries a McCoy, ends long feud in West Virginia; it started with an accusation of pig-stealing & lasted 20 years
- 1898 Explosion in mine at Dudley Colliery, Stockton, near Newcastle, NSW, kills 15 men.
- 1899 British & French accord about West-Africa
- 1907 US invades Honduras
- 1911 H.R.H. the Duke of Connaught 1850-1942 appointed the Canadian Governor General
- 1913 Flood in Ohio, kills 400
- 1913 Over 360 are killed and 20,000 homes destroyed in the Great Dayton Flood in Dayton, Ohio.
- 1917 Loretta Walsh becomes first woman Navy petty officer when sworn in as Chief Yeoman.
- 1918 During World War I, the Second Battle of the Somme, the first major German offensive in over a year, begins on the Western Front
- 1919 Navy installs and tests Sperry gyrocompass, in first instance of test of aircraft gyrocompass
- 1919 The Chinese High School is established in Singapore by Tan Kah Kee.
- 1923 US foreign minister Charles Hughes refuses USSR recognition
- 1924 Mass Investors Trust becomes first mutual fund set up in US
- 1925 Edinburgh's Murreyfield Stadium officially opens
- 1925 Iran adopts Khorshidi solar Hijrah calendar
- 1927 Guomindang Army conquerors Shanghai as British marines flee
- 1928 Charles Lindbergh is presented the Medal of Honor for his first trans-Atlantic flight.
- 1933 Construction of Dachau, the first Nazi Germany concentration camp, is completed.
- 1933 Hitler, Göring, Prince Ruprecht, Brüning & top army meet in Berlin
- 1934 Fire destroys Hakodate Japan, killing about 1,500
- 1935 Persia officially renamed Iran
- 1935 Shah Reza Pahlavi formally asks the international community to call Persia by its native name, Iran, which means 'Land of the Aryans'.
- 1937 Ponce Massacre: 18 people and a 7-yr-old girl in Ponce, Puerto Rico are gunned down by a police squad acting under orders of US-appointed PR Governor, Blanton C. Winship.
- 1937 Ponce massacre, police kill 19 at Puerto Rican Nationalist parade
- 1939 Nazi-Germany demands Gdansk (Danzig) from Poland
- 1940 Paul Reynaud becomes Prime Minister of France.
- 1941 Joe Louis KOs Abe Simon in 13 for heavyweight boxing title
- 1942 Convoy QP9 departs Great Britain to Murmansk
- 1942 Heavy German assault on Malta
- 1942 The Flying Tigers were incorporated into the U.S. Army Air Force
- 1943 British 8th army opens assault on Mareth line, Tunisia
- 1943 Massacre of the town of Kalavryta, Greece by German Nazi troops.
- 1944 General Eisenhower postpones S France invasion until after Normandy
- 1945 Bureau of Aeronautics initiates rocket-powered surface-to-air guided missile development by awarding contract to Fairchild
- 1945 During WWII Allied bombers begin 4-day raid over Germany
- 1945 Dutch Resistance fighter Hannie Schaft arrested by Nazi police
- 1945 The first Japanese flying bombs (ochas) attack Okinawa
- 1946 UN set up temporary HQ at Hunter (now Lehman) College (Bronx)
- 1947 President Truman signs Executive Order 9835 requiring all federal employees to have allegiance to the United States
- 1951 2,900,000 US soldiers in Korea
- 1952 Alan Freed presents Moondog Coronation Ball at old Cleveland Arena, 25,000 attend first rock & roll concert ever
- 1952 Tornadoes in Arkansas, Tennessee, Missouri, Mississippi, Alabama & Kentucky cause 343 deaths
- 1955 Visitor posting - Catherine E. A. is born- 11-10 -55 her adoption is finalized. She goes on to have 3 children, divorces and lives happily with her dogs til her death in ??? - USA
- 1958 Visitor posting - Laura Alice is born
- 1958 Visitor posting - Alex Lyons was born - United Kingdom [email protected]
- 1960 Apartheid: Massacre in Sharpeville, South Africa: Police open fire on a group of unarmed black South African demonstrators, killing 69 and wounding 180.
- 1960 In the black township of Sharpeville in Transvaal, South Africa, Afrikaner police open fire on a group of peaceful black demonstrators, killing sixty-nine people and wounding nearly two hundred in a hail of sub-machine gunfire.
- 1961 Beatles' first appearance at the Cavern Club
- 1962 A bear becomes the first creature to be ejected at supersonic speeds
- 1962 Actor Matthew Broderick born this day.
- 1962 Taco Bell founded.
- 1963 Alcatraz federal penitentiary in San Francisco Bay closed
- 1963 Alcatraz, a federal penitentiary on an island in San Francisco Bay, closes.
- 1964 Beatles' "She Loves You", single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks
- 1964 In Copenhagen, Denmark, Gigliola Cinquetti wins the ninth Eurovision Song Contest for Italy singing "Non ho l'et" ("I'm not old enough").
- 1965 Ranger program: NASA launches Ranger 9 which is the last in a series of unmanned lunar space probes.
- 1965 US Ranger 9 launched; takes 5,814 pictures before lunar impact
- 1966 Supreme Court reverses Massachusetts ruling that "Fanny Hill" is obscene
- 1968 Battle of Karameh in Jordan between Israeli Defense Forces and Fatah.
- 1968 Israeli forces cross Jordan River to attack PLO bases
- 1968 Portuguese socialist Mario Soares banished to Sao Tomé
- 1969 John & Yoko stage their first bed-in for peace (Amsterdam Hilton)
- 1970 In Amsterdam, Netherlands, Dana wins the fifteenth Eurovision Song Contest for Ireland singing "All Kinds of Everything".
- 1970 The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto.
- 1970 Vinko Bogataj crashes during a ski-jumping championship in Germany; his image becomes that of the "agony of defeat guy" in the opening credits of ABC's Wide World of Sports.
- 1971 Vermont seasonal snowfall totals 132.2"
- 1973 Frank Mahovlich becomes 5th NHLer to score 500 goals
- 1974 Attempt made to kidnap Princess Anne in London's Pall Mall
- 1975 Ethiopia ends monarchy after 3000 years
- 1975 Malcolm Fraser successfully challenges Bill Snedden for the leadership of Australia's Liberal Party;
- 1977 In Iran a 7.0 earthquake was was centered in the Bandar Abbas area, near the Persian Gulf. The earthquake killed 167, injured 556, and caused considerable damage over an area of 550 square kilometers north of Bandar Abbas
- 1977 Off Newfoundland the Greenpeace Foundation abandons protest against annual seal hunt off coast of Newfoundland; due to bad weather, ice conditions, and lack of money
- 1979 Egyptian Parliament unanimously approve peace treaty with Israel
- 1980 On TV show Dallas, JR is shot
- 1980 On the season finale of the soap opera Dallas, the infamous character J.R. Ewing is shot by an unseen assailant, leading to the catchphrase "Who Shot JR?"
- 1982 In the Hokkaido, Japan Region a 6.7 earthquake injured 110 and caused extensive damage (VI JMA) in southern Hokkaido
- 1982 Movie "Annie" premieres
- 1983 Only known typo on Time Magazine cover (control=contol), all recalled
- 1984 Part of Central Park is named Strawberry Fields honoring John Lennon
- 1984 Soviet sub crashes into USS aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk off Japan
- 1985 Arthur Ashe is named to International Tennis Hall of Fame
- 1985 Bloodbath at Langa (Uitenhage) South-Africa, 19 killed
- 1985 Canadian paraplegic athlete and humanitarian Rick Hansen begins his circumnavigation of the globe in a wheelchair in the name of spinal cord injury medical research.
- 1986 199.22 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange
- 1987 PSV sells soccer player Ruud Gullit to AC Milan (ƒ17 million)
- 1989 Sports Illustrated reports allegations tying baseball player Pete Rose to baseball gambling.
- 1989 The first sea test of Trident 2 missile self-destructs, Cape Canaveral
- 1990 "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" opens at Eugene O'Neill NYC for 149 performances
- 1990 Namibia becomes independent after 75 years of South African rule.
- 1991 27 lost at sea when 2 US Navy anti-submarine planes collide
- 1991 A Saudi transport plane trying to land in bad weather and heavy smoke from burning Kuwaiti oil wells crashes, killing 92 Senegalese soldiers and six Saudi crew.
- 1991 Largest wrestling crowd in Japan (64,500) at Tokyo Dome
- 1991 Tatsumi Fujinami beats Ric Flair for NWA wrestling championship
- 1991 The Canadian Supreme Court rules 9-0 that the fetus is not a legal person
- 1991 UN Security Council panel decided to lift the food embargo on Iraq
- 1993 Pope John Paul II declares Duns Scotus, a saint
- 1993 South Africa White Wolves kill 5 year old black girl
- 1994 66th Academy Awards: "Schindler's List", Tom Hanks & Holly Hunter win
- 1994 Dudley Moore arrested for hitting girlfriend
- 1996 Visitor posting - Laura S. was born on this day - USA
- 1997 World Ice Dance won by Oksana Grishuk & Evgeny Platov (Russia)
- 1998 Australian cricket team suffers its worst defeat in 60 years, beaten by an innings and 219 runs by India in Calcutta
- 1998 Visitor posting - Nicholas Oliver- Born on this day 9:34 am; Became part of my heart and soul forever. - USA
- 1999 Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon.
- 1999 Visitor posting - jessica lujan was born My pet is a dog named Blue - USA
- 2002 British schoolgirl Amanda Dowler is abducted in broad daylight on her way home from Heathside School in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey.
- 2002 In Pakistan, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh along with three other suspects are charged with murder for their part in the kidnapping and killing of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
- 2002 Visitor posting - Madelynn Mongarro was born :-) - USA
- 2004 In Malaysia, the 11th Federal and State elections are held, returning the ruling coalition Barisan Nasional to power with an increased majority.
- 2005 In Red Lake, Minnesota, 10 are killed in a school shooting, the worst since the Columbine High School massacre.
- 2006 Immigrant workers constructing the Burj Dubayy in Dubai, The United Arab Emirates and a new terminal of Dubai International Airport join together and riot, causing $1M in damage.
- 2008 Jewish Holiday - Purim - Work should be avoided. Consult a Rabbi if this is not possible.
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