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- 0451 The Battle of Avarayr between Armenian rebels and the Sassanid Empire takes place. The Armenians are defeated militarily but are guaranteed freedom to openly practice Christianity.
- 0961 German King Otto II crowned
- 1328 William of Ockham forced to flee from Avignon by Pope John XXII
- 1328 William of Ockham, Franciscan Minister-General Michael of Cesena and two other Franciscan leaders secretly leave Avignon, fearing a death sentence from Pope John XXII.
- 1521 Edict of Worms outlaws Martin Luther & his followers
- 1521 Martin Luther is banned by the Edict of Worms for his writings and religious beliefs
- 1538 Geneva expels John Calvin and his followers from the city. Calvin lives in exile in Strasbourg for the next three years.
- 1538 Genève throws out Calvijn
- 1637 Pequot War: A combined Protestant and Mohegan force under German Captain John Mason attacks a Pequot village in Connecticut, massacring approximately 500 Native Americans.
- 1637 The first battle of Pequot at New Haven CT kills 500 Indians
- 1647 Alse Young becomes the first person executed as a witch in the American colonies, when she is hanged in Hartford, Connecticut.
- 1647 Massachusetts disallows priest access to colony
- 1670 In Dover, Charles II of Great Britain and King Louis XIV of France sign the Secret Treaty of Dover.
- 1736 Battle of Ackia (Louisiana), British & Chickasaw Indians defeat the French
- 1736 Battle of Ackia: British and Chickasaw soldiers repel a French and Choctaw attack on the Chickasaw village of Ackia, near present-day Tupelo, Mississippi. The French, under Louisiana governor Jean Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville, had sought to link Louisiana with Acadia and the other northern colonies of New France.
- 1770 The Orlov Revolt, a first attempt to revolt against the Turks before the Greek War of Independence ends in disaster for the Greeks.
- 1781 Bank of North America incorporated in Philadelphia
- 1788 Mary Clark of England gives birth to a baby without a brain
- 1790 Territory South of River Ohio created by Congress
- 1798 British kill about 500 Irish insurgents at the Battle of Tara
- 1805 Lewis & Clark first see Rocky Mountains
- 1805 Napolean Bonaparte is crowned King of Italy
- 1805 Napoleon is crowned king of Italy
- 1805 Napolon Bonaparte (Napoleon I) assumes the title of King of Italy and is crowned with the Iron Crown of Lombardy in the Duomo di Milano gothic cathedral in Milan.
- 1805 The emperor Napoleon crowns himself with the old iron crown of the Lombard kings May 26 in the cathedral at Milan, he appoints his stepson Eugène Beauharnais viceroy June 7, but a Third Coalition mobilizes against him; Austria, Russia, and Sweden make alliances with Britain, while Napoleon gains support from Spain, Bavaria, Württemberg, Baden, Hesse, and Nassau
- 1807 French forces take Danzig and defeat the Russians June 14 in the Battle of Friedland
- 1824 Brazil is recognized by US
- 1828 Mysterious feral child Kaspar Hauser is discovered wandering the streets of Nuremberg.
- 1830 The Indian Removal Act is passed by the U.S. Congress; it is signed into law by President Andrew Jackson two days later.
- 1834 Portuguese Civil war ends, Dom Miguel capitulates
- 1860 Garibaldi occupies Palermo Italy
- 1861 Postmaster General Blair announces end of postal connection with the South
- 1861 Union blockades New Orleans LA & Mobile AL
- 1864 Montana is organized as a United States territory.
- 1864 Skirmish along the Totopotomoy Creek VA
- 1864 Territory of Montana is formed
- 1865 Arrangements are made in New Orleans for the surrender of Confederate forces west of the Mississippi during the U S Civil War
- 1865 Battle of Galveston TX, surrender of Edmund Kirby Smith
- 1869 Boston University is chartered by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
- 1876 HMS Challenger returns from 128,000-km oceanographic exploration
- 1884 Fred Spofforth takes 7-34 & 7-3 vs England XI in 4 hours
- 1887 Racetrack betting becomes legal in New York state
- 1889 Opening of the first Eiffel Tower elevator to the public.
- 1894 Emanuel Lasker (26) becomes World Champion chess player
- 1896 Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
- 1896 Dow Jones begins an index of 12 industrial stocks (closing is 40.94)
- 1896 James Dunham murders six people in Campbell, California.
- 1896 Last Czar of Russia, Nicholas II, crowned
- 1896 Nicholas II becomes Tsar of Russia.
- 1898 San Fransisco approves City Charter, allows Municipal ownership of utiliies
- 1900 British troops under Ian Hamilton attack the Vaal in South Africa
- 1905 A pogrom against Jews in Minsk Belorussia
- 1906 Archaeological Institute of America forms
- 1906 Vauxhall Bridge is opened in London.
- 1906 Visitor posting - Myrtle Christensen - USA [email protected]
- 1908 At Masjed Soleyman ( ) in southwest Persia, the first major commercial oil strike in the Middle East is made. The rights to the resource are quickly acquired by the United Kingdom.
- 1913 Actors' Equity Association forms (NYC)
- 1913 Emily Duncan becomes the Britain's first woman magistrate.
- 1913 The Actors' Equity Association is organized
- 1915 H H Asquith forms a coalition government in England
- 1917 A powerful F4 tornado rips Mattoon, Illinois apart, killing 101 persons and injuring 689. It was the world's longest-lasting tornado, lasting for over 7 hours and traveling 293 miles, spreading death and destruction along its path.
- 1918 Georgian Social Democratic Republic declares independence from Russia
- 1918 Kyarra, torpedoed by a German submarine UB57 2 miles off Anvil Point off the Dorset coast while on a voyage from London to Sydney with a general cargo. 6 lives were lost.
- 1922 Lenin suffers a stroke
- 1923 Socialist Workers Youth International forms in Hamburg
- 1924 President Coolidge signs Immigration Law (restricting immigration)
- 1925 Babe Ruth is finally out of bed, 5 weeks after ulcer surgery
- 1926 Lebanon adopts constitution
- 1930 Supreme Court rules buying liquor does not violate the Constitution
- 1932 Admiral Makoto Saito forms parliament in Tokyo
- 1932 Canadian Radio Broadcasting Act passed, providing for establishment of the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission.
- 1933 2nd emergency Dutch Government of Colijn forms
- 1934 Century of Progress Exposition reopens in Chicago
- 1935 Police kill 10, wound 100 in the "Memorial Day Massacre" in South Chicago.
- 1936 In the House of Commons of Northern Ireland, Tommy Henderson begins speaking on the Appropriation Bill. By the time he sat down in the early hours of the following morning, he had spoken for 10 hours.
- 1936 The first Government of Zealand in Belgium ends
- 1937 Dutch Rail NV at law forms
- 1937 San Francisco Bay's Golden Gate Bridge opens
- 1938 House Committee on Un-American Activities begins work
- 1938 The House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session.
- 1940 HMS CURLEW (AA), sunk in Lavangs Fiord, Ofotfiord near Narvik, northern Norway by German Ju88 bombers.
- 1940 Operation Dynamo begins evacuating defeated Allied troops from Dunkirk
- 1940 The "Miracle of Dunkirk" evacuation begins in France during World War II
- 1941 American Flag House (Betsy Ross' Home) given to city of Philadelphia
- 1941 Ark Royal airplane sights German battleship Bismarck
- 1941 German occupiers begin youth labor
- 1942 Anglo-Soviet Treaty signed in London
- 1942 Belgian Jews are required by Nazis to wear a Jewish star
- 1942 Tank battle at Bir Hakeim: African corps vs British army
- 1943 Jews riot against Germany in Amsterdam
- 1943 Premier Churchill & General Marshall fly from US to North Africa
- 1943 The first president of a black country to visit US (Edwin Barclay, Liberia)
- 1945 US drop fire bombs on Tokyo
- 1946 Klement Gottwald becomes premier of Czechoslovakia
- 1946 Patent filed in US for H-Bomb
- 1948 Entire Hagana-arm forces sworn-in as Israeli soldiers
- 1948 South Africa elects a nationalist government with apartheid policy
- 1953 Dutch Convair crashes at Schipholweg, 2 die
- 1955 Conservatives win British parliamentary election
- 1955 Khrushchev arrives in Belgrade
- 1956 Aircraft carrier "Bennington" burns off Rhode Island, killing 103
- 1958 Ceylon emergency crisis proclaimed
- 1958 The HSS-1N helicopter, capable of day and night antisubmarine warfare under instrument flight conditions, was publicly flown at NAS Corpus Christi
- 1958 Union Square, San Fransisco becomes state historical landmark
- 1960 The Soviets are accused by UN Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge of concealing a microphone inside a wood carving of the Great Seal of the United States that was presented to the U S embassy in Moscow
- 1961 Freedom Ride Coordinating Committee establishes in Atlanta
- 1961 USAF bomber flies the Atlantic in a record of just over 3 hours
- 1963 15th Emmy Awards: Dick Van Dyke Show, E G Marshall & Shirley Booth
- 1963 Organization of African Unity forms
- 1965 Dutch Voting Rights Bill passes
- 1965 Revised international Convention on Safety of Life at Sea takes effect
- 1966 British Guiana gains independence, becoming Guyana.
- 1966 Buddhist sets self on fire at US consulate in Hué South-Vietnam
- 1966 Guyana (formerly British Guiana) declares independence from UK
- 1966 Number one hit on UK music charts - The Rolling Stones - Paint It Black
- 1969 Apollo 10 astronauts returned to Earth
- 1969 John & Yoko begin their 2nd bed-in (Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montréal)
- 1969 The Apollo 10 astronauts return to earth after their successful 8-day rehearsal for the first manned moon landing
- 1970 The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 becomes the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2.
- 1971 Soviet Union's Concorde, TU-144, makes its first appearance
- 1972 Joe Frazier TKOs Ron Stander in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
- 1972 Nixon & Brezhnev signs SALT accord
- 1972 The British state-owned travel firm Thomas Cook & Son is sold to a consortium of private businesses headed by the Midland Bank.
- 1972 Willandra National Park is established in Australia.
- 1973 "Funky Worm" by Ohio Players hits #15
- 1973 "Super Fly Meets Shaft" by John & Ernest hits #31
- 1973 Bahrain adopts it's constitution
- 1973 Beatles' "The Beatles 1967-1970" album goes #1
- 1974 During a David Cassidy concert in London a 14 year old is trampled
- 1975 Tennis game in the Surrey championships lasts 31 minutes
- 1977 "Beatlemania" opens in Winter Garden Theater on Broadway
- 1977 George Willig climbs NYC World Trade Center
- 1977 George Willig climbs the South Tower of New York City's World Trade Center.
- 1977 Movie "Star Wars" debuts
- 1978 In Atlantic City, New Jersey, Resorts International, the first legal casino in the eastern United States, opens.
- 1978 The first legal casino east of the Mississippi opens in Atlantic City, New Jersey
- 1978 The first legal gambling casino opens in Atlantic City
- 1979 "Dancin' Fool" by Frank Zappa hits #45
- 1979 Number one hit on UK music charts - Blondie - Sunday Girl
- 1980 Soyuz 36 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Hungarian) to Salyut 6
- 1981 Marine jet crashes on flight deck of USS Nimitz, killing 14
- 1981 Soyuz T-4 returns to Earth
- 1981 Visitor posting - John Crawford Thomas is born, sleeping... - USA
- 1981 The Italian Prime Minister Arnaldo Forlani and his coalition cabinet resign following a scandal over membership of the pseudo-masonic lodge P2 (Propaganda Due).
- 1982 Aston Villa wins 27th Europe Cup 1 of Rotterdam
- 1982 British ship Atlantic Conveyor & Coventry were hit in Falkland war
- 1983 NASA launches Exosat
- 1983 Strong 7.7 magnitude earthquake strikes Japan, triggers a tsunami that kills at least 104 people, injures thousands. Many missing people and thousands of buildings destroyed.
- 1984 Frisbee is kept aloft for 1,672 seconds in Philadelphia
- 1984 Tulsa OK gets 13" of rain, 14 die
- 1985 Danny Sullivan wins Indianapolis 500 by 24 seconds following a spin
- 1985 Explosions destroys 2 tankers off of Gibraltar, 30 die
- 1987 Cecilia Bolocco, 22, of Chile, crowned 36th Miss Universe
- 1987 Great offensive against Tamil-rebellion in Jaffra Sri Lanka
- 1987 Supreme Court ruled dangerous defendants could be held without bail
- 1987 William H Webster replaces Robert M Gates as 14th director of CIA
- 1989 Danish parliament allows legal marriage among homosexuals
- 1991 All 223 passengers aboard a Laudia Air Boeing 767 are killed when the plane crashes in Thailand
- 1991 Lauda Air Flight 004 explodes over rural Thailand, killing 223.
- 1991 Zviad Gamsakhurdia becomes the first democratically elected President of the Republic of Georgia in the post-Soviet era.
- 1992 Charles Geschke, co-founder of Adobe Systems, Inc. was kidnapped at gunpoint from the Adobe parking lot in Mountain View, California for $650,000 and is held hostage in a rented house in Hollister, California. The FBI rescues him four days later.
- 1992 Weird Al Yankovic begins his Off The Deep End tour
- 1993 Emmy 20th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 14th time
- 1993 Visitor posting - Daniel Martinez was born. - USA
- 1993 Olympique Marseille wins 38th Europe Cup I at Munich
- 1994 Michael Jackson (35) weds Elvis' daughter Lisa Marie Presley (26)
- 2002 The Mars Odyssey finds signs of huge water ice deposits on the planet Mars.
- 2002 lvaro Uribe becomes President of Colombia.
- 2003 Only three days after a previous record, Sherpa Lakpa Gelu climbs Mount Everest in 10 hours 56 minutes. The tourism ministry of Nepal confirms this record in July that year.
- 2004 The New York Times publishes an admission of journalistic failings, claiming that its flawed reporting and lack of skeptism towards sources during the buildup to the 2003 war in Iraq helped promote the belief that Iraq possessed large stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction.
- 2004 The U.S. Army veteran Terry Nichols is found guilty of 161 state murder charges for helping carry out the Oklahoma City bombing.
- 2006 The 2006 Java earthquake kills over 5,700 people, leaves 200,000 homeless.
- 2010 Former model Angela Sanclemente arrested in Argentina on drug charges. She is suspected head of international operation that uses models as drug mules
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