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- 0066 Emperor Nero creates the legion I Italica.
- 1236 The Lithuanians and Semigallians defeat the Livonian Brothers of the Sword in Battle of iauliai.
- 1499 Switzerland became an independent state.
- 1586 The battle of Zutphen occurs.
- 1598 Ben Jonson is indicted for manslaughter.
- 1656 All female jury hears case of woman who killed her child (acquit her)
- 1692 Last people hanged for witchcraft in the United States.
- 1692 Last person hanged for witchcraft in US
- 1756 Nassau Hall opens at Princeton University
- 1776 American patriot, captain Nathan Hale executed for spying
- 1776 Nathan Hale is hanged for spying during American Revolution.
- 1784 Russia establishes a colony at Kodiak, Alaska.
- 1784 Russian trappers established a colony on Kodiak Island, AK
- 1789 Office of Postmaster General of the US established by Congress
- 1789 The position of United States Postmaster General established.
- 1791 Michael Faraday (chemist, physicist) born
- 1792 Origin of French Republican Era
- 1792 primidi Vendmiaire of year 1 of the French Republican Calendar
- 1792 primidi Vendémiaire of year 1 of the French Republican Calendar
- 1817 John Quincy Adams becomes secretary of State
- 1823 Joseph Smith, Jr. stated that he was directed by God through the Angel Moroni to the place where the Golden plates were stored.
- 1851 The city of Des Moines, Iowa was incorporated as Fort Des Moines.
- 1862 Slavery in the United States: A preliminary version of the Emancipation Proclamation is released.
- 1863 President Lincoln makes his Emancipation Proclamation speech
- 1866 Decisive battle of Curupaity in the War of the Triple Alliance.
- 1868 Race riots in New Orleans La
- 1869 Richard Wagner's opera Das Rheingold debuts in Munich.
- 1869 The opera "Das Rheingold" is produced (Munich)
- 1885 Lord Randolph Churchill makes a speech in Ulster in opposition to Home Rule e.g. "Ulster will fight and Ulster will be right".
- 1888 The first issue of National Geographic Magazine is published
- 1893 The first American-built automobile, built by the Duryea Brothers, is displayed.
- 1896 Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.
- 1903 Italo Marchiony granted patent for the ice cream cone
- 1908 The independence of Bulgaria is recognised.
- 1910 The Duke of York's Cinema opened in Brighton. It is still operating today, making it the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain.
- 1911 Cy Young at 44, wins his 511th & final game
- 1914 German U-Boat, the U-9, sunk three British cruisers in the North Sea
- 1915 Southern Methodist University (Dallas Texas) holds its first class
- 1919 Steel strike begins in US
- 1927 Famous "Long count" fight (Dempsey loses boxing title to Tunney)
- 1927 Jack Dempsey loses the Long Count boxing match to Gene Tunney.
- 1934 An explosion takes place at Gresford Colliery in Wales, leading to the deaths of 266 miners and rescuers.
- 1937 Forest fire kills 14 & injures 50 in Cody Wyoming
- 1937 Spanish Civil War: Pea Blanca is taken; the end of the Battle of El Mazuco.
- 1937 Spanish Civil War: Peña Blanca is taken; the end of the Battle of El Mazuco.
- 1941 On Jewish New Year Day, German SS murder 6,000 Jews in Vinnytsya, Ukraine. Those were the survivors of the previous killings that took place a few days earlier in which about 24,000 Jews were executed.
- 1943 U.S. destroyers and landing craft land Australian troops at Finschhafen, New Guinea.
- 1944 Boulogne reoccupied by Allies
- 1944 World War II, Red Army enters Tallinn.
- 1946 Evelyn Dick charged with butchering husband
- 1948 Visitor posting - Michael Gallison birthday - USA
- 1949 USSR detonates its first atomic bomb
- 1950 Omar N Bradley promoted to rank of 5-star general
- 1951 The first live sporting event seen coast-to-coast in the United States, a college football game between Duke and the University of Pittsburgh, is televised on NBC.
- 1955 Commercial TV begins in England
- 1955 Heavyweight champ Rocky Marciano KOs Archie Moore in 9
- 1955 In Britain, the television channel ITV goes live for the first time.
- 1959 In Chicago, air raid sirens are sounded at 10:30 PM for five minutes, causing many residents to fear the start of a nuclear war. The Chicago White Sox had just won the American League pennant, their first pennant in 40 years, and city officials had ordered the sounding in celebration.
- 1960 Mali (without Senegal) gains independence from France (National Day)
- 1960 The Sudanese Republic is renamed Mali after the withdrawal of Senegal from the Mali Federation.
- 1961 Peace Corps established
- 1964 The Broadway musical Fiddler on the Roof first opens.
- 1965 The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 between India and Pakistan over Kashmir ends after the UN calls for a cease-fire.
- 1966 Number one hit on UK music charts - Jim Reeves - Distant Drums
- 1966 Only 413 show up at a Yankee Stadium game
- 1968 Visitor posting - Douglas Starks Married Lakeeche Hudson - USA
- 1970 Pres Nixon requests 1,000 new FBI agents for college campuses
- 1973 "A Little Night Music" opens at the Majestic Theater on Broadway
- 1973 Henry Kissinger, sworn in as America's first Jewish Secretary of State
- 1973 Number one hit on UK music charts - Wizzard - Angel Fingers
- 1975 Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate President Ford in SF Calif
- 1979 Number one hit on UK music charts - Gary Numan - Cars
- 1979 The South Atlantic Flash or Vela Incident is observed near Bouvet Island, thought to be a nuclear weapons test.
- 1980 Iraq invades Iran.
- 1980 Iraqi troops seize part of Iran in a border dispute; war begins
- 1980 John & Yoko sign a recording contract with Geffen Records
- 1980 USS Eisenhower and Midway continued contingency operations in the northern Arabian Sea as war erupted between Iraq and Iran.
- 1983 NASA launches Galaxy-B
- 1983 Zhu Jianhau (China) sets high jump record at 7'9 3/4"
- 1984 Visitor posting - Bevie marries Mikey in Wahiawa
- 1984 Visitor posting - Mickie Moore was born - USA
- 1985 Rock & country musicians participate in FarmAid in Champaign, Ill
- 1985 The Plaza Accord was signed in New York City.
- 1987 Full House premiered its pilot episode, Our Very First Show (Full House Episode), on the American Broadcasting Company network (ABC Studios). It aired on the ABC Family program.
- 1988 South Korean coaches attack the New Zealand referee after disputing his decision, the Olympic Korean boxer stages a 67 minute sit-in
- 1989 After Hurricane Hugo, Sailors and Marines provide assistance to Charleston, SC, through 10 October.
- 1989 Visitor posting - Kirsty Pocock was born - Ireland
- 1990 Saudi Arabia expells many Jordanian & Yemeni envoys
- 1991 Calif University makes the Dead Sea Scrolls public
- 1991 The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time, by the Huntington Library.
- 1993 Visitor posting - Beth Sellers was born--USA
- 1993 A Transair Georgian Airlines Tu-154 is shot down by a missile in Sukhumi, Georgia.
- 1995 E-3B AWACS crashed outside of Elmendorf AFB, Alaska after multiple bird strikes to two of the four engines soon after takeoff; all 24 on board killed
- 1995 Visitor posting - Derrick Walling was born on this day - USA
- 1997 Bentalha massacre in Algeria; over 200 villagers killed.
- 2001 Visitor posting - Don and Shana get married - USA
- 2002 Armagh win their first All-Ireland.
- 2003 David Hempleman-Adams becomes the first person to cross the Atlantic Ocean in an open-air, wicker-basket hot air balloon.
- 2003 Visitor posting - Birth of Kameron D. Mayes - USA
- 2005 Visitor posting - Evangelina Borjon and Emmanuel Martinez meet for the first time. - USA
- 2006 A German maglev train crashes, killing 23.
- 2006 Hezbollah claims "Divine Victory" over Israel in a massive demonstration in Beirut.
- 2006 The F-14 Tomcat retires from the United States Navy.
- 2007 Visitor posting - Sept 22, 2007 Mohsen Hamedi came to the United States.
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