King Henry IV
1399 Henry of Bolingbroke is crowned King Henry IV of England in Westminster Abbey, a few weeks after deposing Richard II
- 1448 First assembly of Catalan dioceses to choose their syndics (representative) to plead abolition of serfdom to King Alfons IV - 1st official recognition of serfs organizing to defend their rights
- 1483 Rabbi Issac Abarbanel starts his exegesis on Bible
- 1492 English admiral Sir Edward Poynings' fleet occupies Lock
Treaty of Trente
1501 Maximilian I of Austria and King of France Louis XII sign the Treaty of Trente
- 1534 Alessandro Farnese elected as Pope Paul III
Pilgrimage of Grace
1536 Pilgrimage of Grace begins in Northern England, a protest against King Henry VIII's break with the Pope and the dissolution of the monasteries
- 1629 Dutch West Indies Co grants religious freedom in West Indies
- 1652 Prince of Condé flees Paris
- 1659 Major general John Lambert drives out English Rump government
- 1660 Absolute monarchy instituted by decree in Denmark by King Frederik III
- 1702 Dutch and English troops occupy Liège
- 1710 English troops occupy Acadia (Nova Scotia)
Siege of Temeşvar
1716 Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI's troops occupy Temesvar in Romania
Last Drapier Letter
1724 Jonathan Swift publishes last of Drapier's letters
- 1760 Russian and Austrian armies evacuate Berlin
Whirlpool Galaxy
1773 The Whirlpool Galaxy discovered by French astronomer Charles Messier
- 1775 First US Navy forms when Continental Congress orders construction of a naval fleet [1]
- 1792 "Old Farmer's Almanac" is 1st published and edited by Robert Thomas
- 1792 Cornerstone laid for the Executive Mansion (White House) in Washington
- 1812 Battle of Queenstown Heights: British forces defeat United States forces attempting to invade Canada
- 1843 B'nai B'rith founded (NY)
- 1845 Texas ratifies a state constitution
- 1860 1st aerial photo taken in US (from a balloon) of Boston
- 1863 Skirmish at Blountsville, Tennessee (50 casualties)
- 1864 Battle at Darbytown Road, Virginia (337 casualties)
- 1864 Maryland voters adopt new constitution, including abolition of slavery
Mahler's 1st Concert
1870 Gustav Mahler (10) gives his 1st public piano concert in Jihlava, Kingdom of Bohemia (now Czech Republic)
- 1871 The Delphic Fraternity is founded as the Delphic Society at the State Normal School in Geneseo, New York.
- 1881 Revival of Hebrew language as Eliezer Ben-Yehuda & friends agree to use Hebrew exclusively in their conversations
- 1884 International Meridian Conference in Washington DC establishes Greenwich in London, England as the universal time meridian of longitude
- 1885 The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) is founded in Atlanta, Georgia
Nellie Melba Debuts
1887 Australian soprano Nellie Melba makes her operatic debut as Gilda in "Rigoletto" at Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels
- 1890 The Delta Chi fraternity is founded by 11 law students at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
- 1893 Vigilant (US) beats Valkyrie II (UK) in 9th America's Cup, in New York
- 1896 First public screening of a motion picture in New Zealand
- 1899 7,000 laid-off black mine workers of South Africa reach Natal
Coal strike of 1902
1902 US President Theodore Roosevelt threatens to start using army troops to work coal mines struck since 12 may; this brings the owners to agree to abide by a Commission of Arbitration
- 1903 1st Baseball World Series: Boston Americans beat Pittsburgh Pirates, 3-0 in Game 8 at Huntington Avenue for a 5-3 series victory
- 1903 Victor Herbert and by Glen MacDonough's operetta "Babes in Toyland" premieres at Majestic Theater, New York City
- 1914 American inventor Garrett Morgan patents his safety hood device, which would later be refined into the gas mask [1]
- 1914 Pro-German Boers begin opposition to British authority in South Africa
- 1914 The Belgian government in exile installed at St Adresse at Le Havre
- 1917 70,000 people gather to see 'Miracle of the Sun', solar visions reportedly by the Virgin Mary in Fátima, Portugal after prophecies by local children
- 1917 Soviets accept establishment of Petrograd Military
- 1923 Angora (Ankara) becomes Turkey's capital
Cavalcade
1931 Noël Coward's play "Cavalcade" premieres in London
- 1933 JDJ Boularan's "Tovarich" premieres in Paris
- 1933 Soccer team STEVO forms in Geesteren
- 1934 LPGA Western Open Women's Golf, Portland G & CC: Marian McDougall outclassed Mrs Guy Riegel, 9 & 7 to win golf's only major title
- 1936 Explosion caused by leaking gas rips out section 12 of Cleve Stadium
- 1937 A recorded trace of snow in Central Park, NYC
- 1941 Nazis kill 11,000 Jewish children and old people, in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine; additional murders continue on the 14th [1]
- 1943 Italy declares war on former Axis partner Germany
- 1944 Riga, capital of Latvia, freed
- 1944 US 1st army begins battle of Aachen, first German city captured during World War II
- 1947 Children's puppet TV program "Junior Jamboree", later renamed "Kukla, Fran & Ollie" premieres locally on WBKB in Chicago, Illinois
All About Eve
1950 "All About Eve" directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and starring Bette Davis and Anne Baxter premieres (Academy Awards Best Picture 1951)
- 1953 Burglar alarm-ultrasonic or radio waves patented by Samuel Bagno
- 1954 Robert Paul Smith and Max Shulman's "Tender Trap" premieres in NYC
- 1955 1st edition of L'express publishes in Paris
- 1956 WAGM TV channel 8 in Presque Isle, ME (CBS/NBC/ABC) begins
- 1957 German Democratic Republic recalls OstMark & issues new currency
Cuban History
1960 Opponents of Fidel Castro executed in Cuba
- 1960 Third presidential debate with Nixon in Hollywood & Kennedy in NY
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1962 Edward Albee's play "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" opens on Broadway featuring actress Uta Hagen
Olympic Gold
1964 Australian swimmer Dawn Fraser wins her third consecutive Olympic 100m freestyle gold medal at the Tokyo Games; Olympic record 59.05s
- 1964 Soviet spacecraft Voskhod 1 successfully returns to earth with record three crew
- 1964 US sweeps medals in the men's 200m backstroke at the Tokyo Olympics; Jed Graef swims world record 2:10.3 to win gold ahead of teammates Gary Dilley and Bob Bennett
- 1966 173 US aircraft bomb North Vietnam
Music History
1966 Jimi Hendrix Experience rock trio debuts with American guitarist Jimi Hendrix, British bassist Noel Redding and British drummer Mitch Mitchell in Évreux, Normandy, France
- 1966 Vice Admiral Rufus L Taylor (USN) becomes deputy director of CIA
- 1967 CBS radio cancels "House Party"
- 1967 First American Basketball Association (ABA) game is played with Oakland Oaks beating Anaheim Amigos, 132-129; red, white & blue ball and 3-point field goal introduced
- 1967 Seattle SuperSonics (now OKC Thunder) lose NBA debut game, 144-116 to the San Francisco Warriors at Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum
- 1968 Tinker Creek Gorge of Cleveland Metroparks is dedicated
Sports History
1969 Billy Martin (97-65) is fired as manager of AL West-winning Twins
- 1969 Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 8 is launched
Sports History
1970 2 future Basketball Hall of Famers debut; guard Calvin Murphy for San Diego Rockets in 111-96 loss in Chicago; forward Dave Cowens for Boston Celtics in 114-107 loss in New York
- 1970 A man dies in a premature bomb explosion in Dublin, Ireland
- 1970 Angela Davis arrested in NYC
- 1970 USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR
- 1971 WTZH TV channel 24 in Meridian, MS (CBS) suspends broadcasting
- 1972 Aeroflot Il-62 crashes in large pond outside Moscow, 176 die
- 1972 Uruguay to Chile plane crashes in Andes Mountains, (passengers eat crash victims to survive, 16 of 45 rescued 2 months later)
Badlands
1973 "Badlands" directed by Terrence Malick and starring Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek premieres at the New York Film Festival
- 1973 Jordan enters Yom Kippur war
TV Show Appearance
1973 Teri Garr appears on "The Bob Newhart Show" in the episode "Emily in for Carol"
Music History
1975 Rock vocalist Neil Young undergoes throat surgery
- 1976 A Bolivian Boeing 707 cargo jet crashes in Santa Cruz, Bolivia killing 100 (97, mostly children, killed on the ground)
- 1976 First electron micrograph of an Ebola viral particle obtained by Dr. F.A. Murphy, working at the C.D.C.
52nd Street
1978 "52nd Street" 6th studio album by Billy Joel is released (Grammy Award Album of the Year 1979)
- 1978 Graig Nettles at 3rd makes many spectacular plays in WS game 3 as Guidry beats Dodgers, after trailing 2 games to 0 Yanks win next 4
- 1978 Swaziland's new constitution promulgated bans political parties
- 1978 Tiros N, US's 1st third generation weather satellite, is launched
Radio History
1978 US President Jimmy Carter answers callers' questions on National Public Radio
- 1980 Unprovoked slayings of 6 blacks in Buffalo, NY
Election of Interest
1981 Vice President Hosni Mubarak elected President of Egypt
Olympic Gold
1982 IOC Executive Committee approves the reinstatement of Jim Thorpe's gold medals from the 1912 Olympics
- 1983 Ameritech Mobile Communications (now Cingular) launched the first US cellular network in Chicago, Illinois.
- 1984 Blackhawk Bill Gardner scores on 10th penalty shot against Islanders
- 1984 John Henry becomes 1st thoroughbred to win $6 million
- 1984 STS 41-G mission; lands at Kennedy Space Center
- 1985 Belgium premier Martens CVP wins parliamentary election
- 1985 During NLCS, Cards rookie Vince Coleman is injured stretching before game as his left leg is caught in Busch Stadium's automated tarpaulin
- 1986 IOC announces baseball will become a medal sport in 1992
- 1987 1st military use of trained dolphins (US Navy in Persian Gulf)
- 1987 Costa Rican President Oscar Arias wins Nobel Peace Prize
- 1988 Concert at Masada ends Israel's 40th-anniversary festival
- 1988 Shroud of Turin, revered by many Christians as Christ's burial cloth, is shown by carbon-dating tests to be a fake from the Middle Ages
- 1988 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- 1989 Bob Quinn resigns as NY Yankee VP/GM & replaced by Harding Peterson
- 1989 Dow Jones down 190.58 points
- 1990 First Russian Orthodox service in over 70 years held in St Basil's Cathedral, in Red Square, Moscow
- 1990 Target Center, a multi-purpose arena in Minneapolis officially opens
- 1991 Blue Jay Cito Gaston is 1st manager ejected in a playoff game
- 1991 Minnesota Twins win AL pennant beating Toronto in 5 games
- 1993 Captured American Pilot Mike Durant is filmed in an interview in captivity by a CNN camera crew.
- 1993 Greek government of Papandreou forms
- 1993 Mighty Ducks win their 1st NHL game
- 1993 Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Kary Mullis & Michael Smith
- 1993 Nobel prize for physics awarded to Russel Hulse & Joseph Taylor
- 1994 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Japanese writer Kenzaburo Oe
- 1995 Nobel Peace Prize awarded jointly to Polish physicist Joseph Rotblat and the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, for their work to reduce and eliminate nuclear weapons
Film & TV History
1995 Pamela Anderson Lee rushed to hospital with flu like symptoms
F1 World Champion
1996 British Williams driver Damon Hill wins season ending Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka; becomes first son of a F1 World Drivers Champion (Graham Hill 1962, 68) to win title himself; wins by 19 points from Jacques Villeneuve
- 1996 NY Jet Nick Lowrey breaks Jan Stenerud NFL field goal record at 374
- 1996 Yanks (3) & Orioles (3) combine to tie play off record of 6 HRs
- 1997 Andy Green's Jet-powered car reaches record 749.69 MPH
Nobel Prize for Economics
1999 Canadian Robert Mundell is named the winner of the 1999 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics
- 1999 The United States Senate rejects ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).
F1 World Champion
2002 Michael Schumacher wins season ending Japanese F1 Grand Prix for his record 11th victory of the year & 3rd straight World Drivers Championship; title margin: 67 points from Ferrari teammate Rubens Barrichello
Nobel Prize in Literature
2005 English playwright Harold Pinter is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature
Nobel Peace Prize
2006 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to banker Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank for microlending to the poor
- 2008 HM Treasury infused £37 billion ($64 billion, 47 billion euros) of new capital-bailout into Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc, Lloyds TSB and HBOS Plc, to avert a financial sector collapse.
Copiapó Mine Rescue
2010 Copiapó mining accident in Chile comes to a happy end as all 33 miners arrive at the surface after surviving a record 69 days underground
- 2011 Italian conductor Riccardo Muti is awarded the second $1 million Birgit Nilsson Prize
Music History
2012 "I Won't Give Up," a single by Jason Mraz, is certified 4x multi-platinum
- 2012 15 people are killed by a market suicide bombing in Darra Adam Khel, Pakistan
- 2012 Gerhard Richter's Abstraktes Bild sells for $34 million, the highest sold artwork by a living artist
- 2013 109 people are killed in a stampede on a bridge in Datia district, Madhya Pradesh, India
- 2015 Basketball player Lamar Odom is hospitalised after being found unconscious in a brothel in Nevada
- 2015 First Democratic presidential candidates debate, broadcast by CNN and held in Las Vegas, Nevada
- 2015 Marlon James is the first Jamaican writer to win the Man Booker Prize for his novel "A Brief History of Seven Killings"
Film & TV History
2017 Actress Rose McGowan alleges that Harvey Weinstein raped her in 1997
- 2017 Archaeologists announce the discovery of Arabic characters "Allah” and “Ali” on Viking funeral costumes from a grave in Gamla Uppsala, Sweden
- 2017 Hungry bear crisis due to over-fishing leaves 2 people dead and 83 hostile bears shot on Sakhalin Island, Eastern Russia
- 2018 Oldest known human remains from Poland at 115,000 years from revealed to be Neanderthal child from Ciemna Cave eaten by a large bird
Event of Interest
2018 Pope Francis defrocks two Chilean bishops for alleged sexual abuse of minors
- 2019 Ecuadorean President Lenín Moreno cancels his austerity plan, in deal with indigenous leaders, restoring fuel subsidies, ending weeks of violent protests
- 2019 Kenya's Brigid Kosgei sets new world record of 2:14.04 for the women's marathon in Chicago, beating Paula Radcliffe's 16-year-old mark
Battle of Interest
2019 Kurdish forces make a deal with Syrian army for them to patrol border areas in north east Syria to combat Turkish offensive after US President Donald Trump pulls out US forces
- 2019 Pope Francis canonizes John Henry Newman, British theologian and Catholic priest as a saint
Sports History
2019 Simone Biles becomes the most decorated gymnast in history when she wins record 25th medal at the World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany
- 2019 Tunisian presidential election won by academic Kais Saied defeating media mogul Nabil Karoui
- 2021 24-year-old Rumeysa Gelgi from Turkey confirmed as World's tallest living woman by Guinness World Records at 215.16 centimeters 215.16cm (7ft 0.7in) [1]
- 2021 Bow and arrow terrorist attack kills five and injuries two in Kongsberg, Norway
Film & TV History
2021 William Shatner becomes the oldest person to reach space, travelling aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket on a 10 minute flight
- 2022 Jury recommends sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole for shooter who pled guilty to killing 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida in 2018
Music Concert
2022 Ringo Starr cancels five remaining scheduled All-Starr Band tour concert dates in California and Mexico, after getting rebound COVID-19 infection
- 2023 Israel orders 1.1 million people to evacuate from north to south Gaza, in anticipation of a ground invasion of the territory [1]
- 2023 Microsoft completes biggest buyout in gaming history, purchasing Call of Duty maker Activision Blizzard for $69bn after approval by UK regulators [1]
- 2023 NASA launches a spacecraft to explore the metal-rich asteroid Psyche - the largest metallic object in the Solar System [1]
