Septimius Severus Emperor
193 Septimius Severus is proclaimed Roman Emperor by the army in Illyricum
Louis the Pious' Close Shave
817 Louis the Pious, King of the Franks, barely survives when wooden gallery collapses in Aachen, prompts him to later name his succession
Schmalkaldic League
1538 Danish king Christian III enters Schmalkaldische Union
- 1555 Marcello Cervini elected Pope Marcellus II
- 1595 Spanish Mendaña and Queirós Expedition departs Callao, Peru, led by Alvaro de Mendan accompanied by 378 men, women and children in four ships to colonise the Solomon Islands (find Marquesas instead) [1]
- 1609 Spain & Netherlands sign 12 Year Resistant Pact
- 1621 Spain & Netherlands 12 Year Resistant Pact ends
- 1667 1st public art exhibition at the Palais-Royale in Paris
- 1682 French explorer René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle claims lower Mississippi (Louisiana) for France [1]
- 1691 French troops occupy Mons
- 1731 British mariner Robert Jenkins' ear is cut off by Spanish Guarde Costa in the Caribbean, catalyst for a later war between Britain and Spain
1st Resistance to the British
1768 John Hancock refuses to allow two British customs agents to go below deck of his ship, considered by some to be the first act of physical resistance to British authority in the colonies
D'Alembert Permanent Secretary
1772 Philosopher and mathematician Jean-Baptiste Le Rond d'Alembert becomes permanent secretary of the French Academy of Sciences
- 1783 Tippu Sahib drives out British from Bednore, India
- 1784 Great Britain ratifies the Treaty of Paris, signed September 3, 1783, ending the American Revolutionary War
- 1808 Mayor Wolters offers French King Louis Napoleon townhall as a palace
- 1814 Elias Canneman (L) resigns as minister of Finance of the Netherlands
- 1816 African Methodist Episcopal Church organizes (Philadelphia)
- 1829 Danzig (Gdańsk) dike break flood kills 1,200
- 1833 1st US tax-supported public library in Peterborough, New Hampshire
- 1838 UK National Gallery re-opens in its new dedicated building in Trafalgar Square, London
- 1860 Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville uses his phonautograph to make a 10-second recording of "Au Clair de la Lune"
- 1864 Battle of Pleasant Hill, Louisiana, Confederate assault repulsed by Union side with high cost of estimated 3,100 causalities
- 1864 Union surgeon Mary Edwards Walker is captured by Confederate troops and arrested as a spy during US Civil War
The South Surrenders
1865 Confederate General Robert E. Lee and 26,765 troops surrender at Appomattox Court House to US Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant ending the Civil War in North Virginia
Civil Rights Bill Passes
1866 Civil Rights Bill passes over President Andrew Johnson's veto
Bruckner's 5th Symphony
1894 1st performance of Anton Bruckner's 5th Symphony in B in Graz, Austria-Hungary, abridged and re-orchestrated by conductor Franz Schauk without the composer's approval
Flack Wins the Double
1896 Australian athlete Edwin Flack claims the middle distance double at the Athens Olympics winning the 800m final in 2:11.0; his 2nd victory of the Games after success in the 1500m
- 1896 Greek shooter Pantelis Karasevdas scores a perfect 40 hits to win the military rifle event at the Athens Olympics; Greek 1-2-3 with Pavlos Pavlidis and Nicolaos Trikupis taking out the minor placings
- 1909 The US Congress pass the Payne-Aldrich bill, raising certain tariffs on goods entering the United States
- 1912 1st exhibition baseball game at Fenway Park (Red Sox vs Harvard)
- 1913 Brooklyn Superbas' (later Dodgers) Ebbets Field opens; visiting Philadelphia Phillies win, 1-0
- 1914 "World, the Flesh & the Devil", 1st color film, shown in London
- 1914 Tampico incident - US ship crew arrested in Mexico
US Refuses to Recognize Huerta
1914 US President Woodrow Wilson refuses to recognize Victoriano Huerta as President of Mexico on the ground that the dictator has not been elected by the people
SS Libau Sets Sail
1916 The Libau sets sail from Germany with a cargo of 20,000 rifles to assist Irish republicans; Captain Karl Spindler changes the name of the vessel to the Aud to avoid British detection
- 1917 Battle of Arras begins
Vimy Ridge
1917 Vimy Ridge in France stormed by Canadian troops
- 1923 In 'Adkins vs Children's Hospital', the US Supreme Court finds that the minimum wage law for women and children, adopted by the District of Columbia, is unconstitutional
- 1923 Sean O'Casey's "Shadow of a Gunman" premieres in Dublin
Lazarus Laughed
1928 Eugene O'Neill's play "Lazarus Laughed" premieres in Pasadena, with a masked chorus of over 100
- 1928 Top-Oss soccer team forms in Oss
- 1928 Turkey passes separation of church & state
Chicago Wins Game Three
1931 Stanley Cup Final Game Three: Chicago Black Hawks defeat Montreal Canadiens 3-2 (Canadians eventually win in best of five series)
Event of Interest
1932 German banking regulator Hans Luther is shot and suffers a shoulder wound at the Potsdam, Germany train station by an assailant who disliked his fiscal policies
- 1932 Stanley Cup Final, Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, ON: Toronto Maple Leafs beat New York Rangers, 6-4 for 3-0 series sweep; Toronto's first SC as the Maple Leafs
- 1935 Stanley Cup Final, Montreal Forum, Montreal, Quebec: Montreal Maroons beat Toronto Maple Leafs, 4-1 for 3-0 series sweep; Maroons last defunct team to win the Cup
Marian Anderson at the Lincoln Memorial
1939 American contralto Marian Anderson sings before 75,000 at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C; appearance organized after Anderson was denied permission to sing to an integrated audience in Constitution Hall [1] [2]
- 1940 German cruiser Blucher torpedoed and capsizes in Oslofjord, 1,000 die
- 1940 Nazi Germany invades Denmark and Norway, and Denmark surrenders after a six-hour battle
- 1941 LPGA Titleholders Championship Women's Golf, Augusta CC: Dorothy Kirby wins comfortably by 16 strokes ahead of Helen Sigel
- 1941 PGA establishes Golf Hall of Fame
Gretchaninov's 4th Symphony
1942 Alexander Gretchaninov's 4th Symphony premieres at Carnegie Hall, NYC, with John Barbirolli conducting the New York Philharmonic
- 1942 Battle of Bataan; US-Filipino forces overwhelmed by Japanese at Bataan
- 1945 Battleship Admiral Scheer sunk by RAF bombing in Kiel
- 1945 Liberty ship at Bari Italy carrying aerial bombs explodes, kills 360
- 1945 NFL requires players to wear long stockings
- 1945 World War II: The Battle of Königsberg, East Prussia, ends.
- 1946 Stanley Cup Final, Montreal Forum, Montreal, Quebec: Montreal Canadiens beat Boston Bruins, 6-3 for a 4-1 series victory
- 1947 Atomic Energy Commission confirmed
Leo Durocher Suspended
1947 Baseball Commissioner Happy Chandler suspends Brooklyn Dodger Leo Durocher for 1 year for "association with known gamblers"
- 1947 Tornadoes striking West Texas & Oklahoma kill 169, injuring 1,300
- 1948 Massacre at Deir Yassin.
- 1949 UN International Court of Justice holds Albania responsible for incidents in Corfu Channel and awards Britain damages
- 1950 4th Tony Awards: "The Cocktail Party" (play) & "South Pacific" (musical) win
- 1952 Hugo Ballivian's government is overthrown by the Bolivian National Revolution, starting a period of agrarian reform, universal suffrage and the nationalisation of tin mines
- 1954 7th Cannes Film Festival: "Gate of Hell" directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa wins the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film
- 1954 WECT TV channel 6 in Wilmington, NC (NBC/CBS) begins broadcasting
- 1955 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Music History
1957 Howard Hanson's "Song of Democracy" premieres in Washington, D.C.
- 1959 13th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics sweep Minnesota Lakers in 4 games, first of Boston Celtics record 8 straight titles
- 1959 Baltimore Orioles pull their 2nd triple play (3-6-3 vs Washington Senators)
NBA Record
1959 Bill Sharman hits a NBA record 56 consecutive foul shot
- 1959 NASA names 1st 7 astronauts for Project Mercury
- 1960 South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd survives an assassination attempt by David Pratt despite being twice shot in the face
Academy Awards
1962 34th Academy Awards: "West Side Story" (Best Picture, Director, and 8 more), Sophia Loren (Two Women) & Maximilian Schell (Judgement At Nuremberg) win
Event of Interest
1962 US President JohnF. Kennedy throws out 1st ball at Washington's new DC Stadium
Event of Interest
1963 Winston Churchill becomes 1st honorary US citizen
Baseball Record
1965 1st baseball game at Houston Astrodome, Astros beat NY Yankees 2-1 in exhibition as Mickey Mantle hits MLB's 1st indoor homerun; US President Lyndon Johnson and wife Lady Bird attend
Event of Interest
1968 Martin Luther King Jr., buried in Atlanta
- 1968 Minn's Wayne Connelly is 1st to score on a Stanley Cup penalty shot
- 1968 Ralph Aberbathy elected to head So Christian Leadership Conference
- 1969 1st flight of Concorde 002 (Filton-Bristol)
- 1969 Chic Cub Billy Williams hits 4 consecutive doubles beat Phillies 11-3
It Don't Come Easy
1971 Ringo Starr releases single "It Don't Come Easy", produced by George Harrison, in the UK
- 1972 New Zealand cricket opening batsmen Glenn Turner (259) & Terry Jarvis (187) make 387 partnership in 4th Test v WI in Georgetown, Guyana
- 1972 USSR & Iraq sign friendship treaty
Paper Moon
1973 "Paper Moon" film starring Ryan O'Neal and his daughter, Tatum O'Neal, directed by Peter Bogdanovich premieres in Hollywood, California; Tatum O'Neal becomes youngest (age 10) Academy Award winner (Supporting Actress)
- 1973 Netherlands recognizes North Vietnam
- 1973 Otto Kerner, former governor of Illinois, convicted for his role in an illegal racetrack scheme
- 1975 24 OECD members sign an agreement to establish a $25 billion lending facility to provide assistance to industrial nations hurt by high oil prices
All the President's Men
1976 "All the President's Men", directed by Alan J. Pakula, based on the non-fiction book by journalists Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward detailing their Watergate investigation, starring Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford, is released
Sports History
1978 In separate NBA games Denver's David Thompson scores 73 points & San Antonio's George Gervin scores 63 points (33 in 1 quarter)
Academy Awards
1979 51st Academy Awards: "The Deer Hunter", Jon Voight & Jane Fonda win
- 1980 Belgium's Marten's government resigns
- 1980 Los Angeles Kings tie NHL record with two shorthanded playoff goals (vs NY Islanders)
- 1980 Soyuz 35 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6
Sports History
1981 LA Dodgers Fernando Valenzuela's 1st start, beats Astros 2-0
#1 in the Charts
1983 David Bowie's single "Let's Dance" becomes his 1st song to hit #1 in both the US and the UK
Academy Awards
1984 56th Academy Awards: "Terms of Endearment", Robert Duvall & Shirley Maclaine win
Academy Awards
1984 56th Academy Awards: Linda Hunt becomes the first person to win an Oscar for portraying a character of the opposite sex, Billy Kwan in The Year of Living Dangerously (1982)
- 1984 Canada Health Act, the country's public funded heath insurance scheme (Medicare), passed by the Canadian House of Commons [1]
Sports History
1985 White Sox pitcher Tom Seaver starts a record 15th opening day game
Film & TV History
1986 TV show "Dallas" announces it will revive killed Bobby Ewing character
Stanley Cup
1987 For 3rd time, Wayne Gretzky, scores 7 points (1 goal, 6 assists) in a Stanley Cup game and passes Jean Béliveau as all time playoff scoring champ
- 1988 NHL New Jersey Devils win 3-0 over New York Islanders; Devils lead 2-1 in playoff 1st round
- 1988 US imposes economic sanctions on Panama
Sports History
1989 Mike Tyson strikes a parking attendant when asked to move his car
Baseball Record
1989 Rickey Henderson steals his 800th career base in NY's 4-3 loss to Clev
- 1989 Washington, D.C. march supporting 1973 Roe vs Wade decision (allow abortions)
- 1990 "Capital News" starring Lloyd Bridges premieres on ABC-TV
Contract of Interest
1990 Don Mattingly signs a $19.7 million 5-year contract extension with New York Yankees
Election of Interest
1992 John Major elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after his Conservative Party wins the most votes in British electoral history
- 1992 Record 18 golfers shoot in 60s in Masters round 1 (old record 12)
Event of Interest
1992 US Fed court finds Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega guilty of 8 out of 10 drug and racketeering charges
Music Concert
1994 Rock for the Rainforest benefit concert held at Carnegie Hall, NYC; performers include: Sting, Elton John, James Taylor, Whitney Houston, Luciano Pavarotti, Aaron Neville, Tammy Wynette, Branford Marsalis, and Larry Adler
- 1994 STS-59 (Endeavour) launches into orbit
- 1997 Cleveland Indians pitcher Jose Mesa is acquitted of rape
- 1997 Major League Soccer announces Miami & Chicago expansion
- 1997 NFL announces it will give $3M to CFL & possible "World Classic Bowl"
- 1999 Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara, President of Niger, is assassinated at the airport in Niamey, Niger
Event of Interest
2002 Funeral of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother at Westminster Abbey UK. More than a million people line the streets
Invasion of Iraq
2003 Baghdad falls to US forces, ending the invasion of Iraq, resulting in widespread looting
Parks and Recreation Debuts
2009 Mockumentary "Parks and Recreation" starring Amy Poehler, Nick Offerman and Aziz Ansari debuts on NBC in the US
- 2011 Gunman murders five people, injures eleven, and commits suicide in a mall in the Netherlands
- 2012 "The Lion King" becomes highest grossing Broadway show, overtaking "The Phantom of the Opera"
- 2013 12 civilians and UN peacekeepers are killed in an ambush in Jonglei, Sudan
- 2013 13 people are killed and 3 are injured from a shooting spree in Velika Ivanča, Serbia
- 2013 37 people are killed and 850 are injured after a magnitude 6.1 earthquake strikes Iran
- 2013 The French Senate approves a bill for same-sex marriage
- 2014 Joel Embiid declares for the 2014 NBA draft, forgoing his final three years of college eligibility
- 2014 Stuart Parkin is awarded the Millennium Technology Prize for his work on magnetic storage
- 2017 Suicide car bombing in Mogadishu, Somalia kills at least 17, Al-Shabaab group claim responsibility
- 2017 Twitter footage of passenger forcibly removed from United Airlines flight in Chicago after flight overbooked causes outrage
- 2017 Two Egyptian coptic churches in Tanta and Alexandria attacked by suicide bombers leaving at least 44 dead
Music History
2018 Fleetwood Mac announce new members Neil Finn and Mike Campbell after firing long-standing member Lindsey Buckingham
Event of Interest
2018 US Senator Tammy Duckworth of Illinois becomes the first senator to give birth while in office
- 2019 Nine prominent Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters found guilty on public nuisance charges for their part in 2014 "Umbrella Movement"
- 2019 Wolves have returned to the Netherlands after 140 years claim ecologists
- 2021 La Soufrière volcano begins erupting on the Caribbean island of St. Vincent with a plume of ash 20,000 feet into the sky
- 2021 San Diego Padres pitcher Joe Musgrove no-hits the Texas Rangers, 3-0 at Globe Life Field, Arlington, TX
- 2022 Joel Embiid is named the NBA scoring champion, averaging 30.6 points per game
- 2023 Joel Embiid is named the NBA scoring champion for the second straight season, averaging 33.1 points per game
Sports History
2023 Kawhi Leonard leads the Los Angeles Clippers to a win over the Phoenix Suns, securing the fifth seed in the Western Conference playoff bracket
- 2023 Kuwaiti media outlet, Kuwaiti News unveils virtual news presenter on Twitter speaking Arabic, using artificial intelligence (although China was the 1st in 2018) [1]
- 2024 A group of older Swiss women win a landmark climate change case at the European Court of Human Rights, ruling the women's rights had been violated by not fully addressing climate change [1]
- 2024 Arizona Supreme Court upholds a 1864 law banning all abortions except to save a woman's life [1]
- 2024 James and Jennifer Crumbley, the first parents held criminally responsible for a US mass school shooting committed by their child, are sentenced to 10-15 years for manslaughter in Michigan [1]
- 2024 Simon Harris becomes Ireland's youngest taoiseach at 37 after the resignation of Leo Varadkar [1]
