Battle at Cibalae
314 Battle at Cibalae: Roman emperor in the west Constantine the Great beats emperor in the east Licinius
- 451 Council of Chalcedon (4th ecumenical council) opens - acts of second Council of Ephesus annulled and doctrine of Pope Leo's Tome adopted
- 876 Battle at Andernach: East Frankish king Louis the Younger heavily defeats the West Frankish king Charles the Bald
- 1075 Dmitar Zvonimir is crowned king of Croatia
- 1085 San Marcos ministry in Venice initiated
The Great Stand on the Ugra River
1480 Great Stand on the Ugra river: Standoff between forces of Akhmat Khan, Khan of the Great Horde and Ivan III, Grand Prince of all Rus. Ends with a Tatar-Mongol retreat, leading to the disintegration of the Horde.
Treaty of Munich
1619 Duke of Bavaria Maximilian I and Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II sign the Treaty of Munich
Cádiz Expedition
1625 English Admiral George Villiers' fleet sails from Plymouth to Cadiz, Spain
- 1633 Massachusetts Bay Colony forms its first government
Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal
1645 First hospital in Montreal, Quebec founded, the Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal by nurse Jeanne Mance
Cook Lands in NZ
1769 Captain James Cook lands in New Zealand for the first time, near present-day Gisborne at Poverty Bay on the East Coast of the North Island. A misunderstanding, possibly over a ceremonial challenge causes the English to shoot and kill Ngāti Oneone leader, Te Maro. [1]
Continental Army Bars Blacks
1775 Officers decide to bar slaves and free blacks from the Continental Army
Blake Enters Royal Academy
1779 English engraver and poet William Blake begins study at the Royal Academy, Old Somerset House, London
- 1806 British forces lay siege to French port of Boulogne using Congreve rockets, invented by Sir William Congreve
- 1813 Treaty of Ried between Bavaria & Austria
- 1815 Joachim Murat's French forces land at Pizzo, Italy
- 1818 Jack Broughton designed padded gloves first used in a competitive boxing match between 2 unnamed English boxers at Aix-la-Chapelle in France
Peruvian Navy Founded
1821 The government of General José de San Martín establishes the Peruvian Navy
- 1822 First eruption of Galunggung in Java sends boiling sludge into valley
- 1840 "Ke Kumukānāwai a me nā Kānāwai o ko Hawaiʻi Pae ʻĀina, Honolulu, 1840", the 1st written Constitution of the Hawaiian Kingdom enacted by King Kamehameha III and Kuhina Nui (Prime Minister) Kekāuluohi
- 1840 First Hawaiian constitution proclaimed
- 1856 The Second Opium War or second Anglo-Chinese War: begins with the Arrow Incident on the Pearl River
- 1860 Telegraph line between LA & San Francisco opens
- 1862 Battle of Perryville, Kentucky - Confederate invasion halted
- 1865 Earthquake in Santa Cruz Mountains
- 1871 Forest fire destroys Peshtigo, Wisconsin, killing between 1,200 and 2,500 people, making it then the deadliest wildfire in recorded history
Great Chicago Fire
1871 The Great Chicago Fire kills an estimated 300 people and destroys over 4 square miles (10 square km) of buildings and the original Emancipation Proclamation
Prelude in C-sharp-Minor
1892 Sergei Rachmaninoff first performs "Prelude in C-sharp-Minor" in Moscow
- 1895 Ohio Valley Improvement Association forms
Mahler Heads Court Opera
1897 Emperor Franz Joseph I names composer Gustav Mahler as Director of the Vienna Court Opera
- 1898 First Canadian Intercollegiate football game: McGill beats Queen's, 3-2
- 1903 J M Synge's play "In the Shadow of the Glen" premieres in Dublin
- 1904 Vanderbilt Cup, first major trophy in American auto racing is conducted on public roads in Nassau County area of Long Island, NY; inaugural winner, American driver George Heath in a Panhard
- 1906 Karl Nessler demonstrates first 'permanent wave' for hair in London
- 1908 Chicago Cubs beat NY Giants 4-2 in a playoff to win NL pennant
- 1908 NY Giants set season attendance record at 910,000 (broken in 1920)
- 1912 Montenegro declares war on Turkey, beginning 1st Balkan War
- 1915 Battle of Loos on WWI Western Front ends, German forces contain British attack (85,000 casualties)
Bolshevik Takeover
1917 Leon Trotsky named chairman of the Petrograd Soviet as Bolsheviks gain control
Sgt. Alvin York Kills 25 German Soldiers
1918 American soldier Alvin York single-handedly attacks German gun nest, killing at least 25 and capturing 132 Germans
Labour Lose to Conservatives
1924 British Labour government of Ramsay MacDonald falls to Conservatives
1st Laurel and Hardy Film
1927 "The Second Hundred Years" silent short film released starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy - 1st Laurel and Hardy film with them appearing as a team
- 1928 Joseph Szigeti debuts Alfredo Casella's Violin Concerto
- 1929 Mohammed Nadir Khan occupies Kabul Afghanistan and drives out Habibullah Ghazi
- 1932 The Indian Air Force is established
- 1933 Coit Tower dedicated in San Francisco as a monument to firefighters
- 1933 Martinez Barrios forms new Spanish government
Lindbergh Murder
1934 Bruno Hauptmann is indicted for the murder of Charles Lindbergh's son
Capricorn Concerto
1944 Samuel Barber's "Capricorn Concerto" premieres at The Town Hall, NYC, in a performance by Daniel Saidenberg and his Little Symphony
- 1945 Microwave oven patented by US inventor Percy Spencer
Nuclear Secret
1945 US President Harry Truman announces atomic bomb secret shared with Britain and Canada
Alabama Bars Robinson All-Stars
1953 Birmingham, Alabama, bars Jackie Robinson's Negro-White All-Stars from playing there Robinson gives in & drops white players from his group
- 1953 WTAP TV channel 15 in Parkersburg-Marietta, WV (NBC) begins
- 1955 World's most powerful aircraft carrier, USS Saratoga, launched
- 1957 Brooklyn Dodgers announce move to Los Angeles
- 1957 Procter & Gamble director N McElroy becomes US Secretary of Defense
- 1957 Soviet spy Jack Sobel sentenced to 7 years (NYC)
- 1957 Turkish & Syrian border guards exchange fire
- 1958 Dr Ake Senning installs first pacemaker (Stockholm)
- 1958 KCMT TV channel 7 in Alexandria, MN (CBS/NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
- 1958 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Harold Macmillan Wins Election
1959 Conservatives led by Harold Macmillan win the British general election
- 1961 American Phil Hill's Ferrari team does not participate in season ending US Grand Prix at Watkins Glen having already clinched World Drivers Championship; English driver Innes Ireland wins Lotus' first ever Grand Prix
- 1961 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya, USSR
- 1962 Algeria admitted as 109th member of UN
- 1962 North Korea reports 100% election turnout, miraculously 100% vote for the Workers' Party
- 1962 Spiegel scandal: Der Spiegel publishes article "Bedingt abwehrbereit" ("Conditionally prepared for defense") about NATO manoeuver called "Fallex 62", uncovering sorry state of West German army. Magazine soon accused of treason.
- 1963 Sultan of Zanzibar cedes his mainland possessions to Kenya
- 1964 Gilroy Roberts becomes first US chief engraver to retire (than die)
Music History
1964 Ringo Starr passes his driving test
Event of Interest
1967 Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in Bolivia
Nobel Prize in Literature
1970 Soviet author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wins the Nobel Prize for Literature
- 1970 The Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) propose that a system of Proportional Representation (PR) should be used in elections in Northern Ireland
Imagine
1971 Apple Records releases John Lennon's second solo studio album, "Imagine" in UK; it tops the charts in US, UK, Australia, and 3 other countries
- 1971 John Lennon releases his megahit single "Imagine"
- 1971 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
F1 World Champion
1972 Despite retiring with suspension trouble at the US Grand Prix at Watkins Glen, Emerson Fittipaldi becomes first Brazilian to win the Formula 1 World Drivers Championship; wins by 16 points from Jackie Stewart
- 1972 Harold Carmichael begins NFL streak of 127 consecutive game receptions
Sports History
1972 In Game 2 of ALCS, Oakland A's Bert Campaneris fires his bat at Det pitcher
- 1972 International music revue "From Israel with Love" closes limited run at Palace Theater, NYC, after 8 performances
- 1972 MLB Detroit Tiger pitcher Lerrin LaGrow and Oakland A's shortstop Bert Campaneris, each fined and suspended when Campaneris flung his bat at the mound after getting hit by a pitch
- 1973 OPEC meets with oil companies to discuss revision of 1971 Tehran agreement and oil prices; negotiations fail.
- 1973 Spyris Markezinis forms government in Greece
- 1974 Franklin National Bank collapses due to fraud and mismanagement; at the time it was the largest bank failure in the history of the United States.
- 1975 San Antonio Spurs, then members of the ABA, defeat the NBA's Atlanta Hawks, 109-107 in the first basketball game ever played in the Louisiana Superdome
Music History
1976 EMI signs British punk rock band "Sex Pistols"
- 1977 Largest baseball crowd in Penns, 64,924 see Dodgers beat Phillies 4-1 in 4th NL championship game (Dodgers win pennant)
F1 World Champion
1978 American Mario Andretti in a Lotus finishes 10th in the season ending Canadian Grand Prix at Île Notre-Dame Circuit, but wins his first Formula 1 World Drivers Championship by 13 points from Ronnie Peterson
- 1978 Ken Warby sets world water speed record at 275.97 knots (511.10 km/h; 317.58 mph) on Blowering Dam, Tumut River NSW, Australia
- 1978 Yanks win 3rd straight AL Championship, all against Kansas City
- 1980 British Leyland starts selling Mini Metro
- 1980 USSR & Syria sign peace treaty
- 1980 USSR performs nuclear test
Event of Interest
1981 US President Ronald Reagan greets predecessors Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon before sending them to Egypt for Anwar Sadat's funeral
My Favorite Year
1982 MGM releases comedy film "My Favorite Year", directed by Richard Benjamin, and starring Peter O'Toole, Mark Linn-Baker, Jessica Harper, and Joseph Bologna
- 1982 New Jersey Devils 1st NHL victory; beat New York Rangers 3-2 at Meadowlands
- 1982 Poland bans Solidarity & all labor unions
- 1983 1st regular season Islander OT game beat Caps 8-7
- 1983 Washington Capitals 1st NHL overtime game losing to NY Islanders 8-7
- 1984 NBC's premiere of TV made "The Burning Bed", based on Francine Hughes
- 1985 "Rembrandt & Hitler or Me" premieres in Amsterdam
- 1985 Alain Boubil and Herbert Kretzner's musical "Les Misérables" premieres in London at the Barbican Centre
Music History
1985 Little Richard seriously injured in a single car accident in Los Angeles
- 1986 Mike Scott ties playoff record of 14 strikeouts, beats Mets 1-0
- 1986 Run-DMC calls for a day of peace among LA street gangs
Music History
1988 Finishing 741-week stay, Pink Floyd's album "The Dark Side of the Moon" makes final appearance (of initial run) on Billboard 200 Albums chart
- 1988 Fire in the Space Needle causes evacuation and results in damages of $2,000 in Seattle, Washington
- 1988 Jay Howell ejected in NLCS game 3 for having pine tar on his glove
- 1990 Israeli police kill 17 Palestinian rioters
- 1990 US doctors Joseph E. Murray & E. Donnall Thomas win Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for bone marrow transport to treat cancer and blood diseases
- 1991 Discovery of a African-American cemetery in Manhattan announced - largest and earliest burial ground of free and enslaved Africans in America, later a National Monument [1]
Event of Interest
1991 The Croatian Parliament cuts all remaining ties with Yugoslavia
- 1992 Nobel Prize for literature is given to West Indies poet Derek Walcott
- 1992 Ottawa Senators 1st NHL game
- 1992 Pioneer Venus Orbiter (1st Venus orbiter-1978), crashes into Venus
- 1992 Video game Mortal Kombat first released as a 2D fighting game by Midway Games
Private Parts
1993 Howard Stern releases his 1st book "Private Parts"
- 1993 UN lifts remaining economic sanctions against South Africa
- 1994 BPAA US Women's Bowling Open won by Aleta Sill
NFL Record
1995 Dolphin's Dan Marino breaks Tarkenton's NFL career completions record
- 1995 Edgar Martinez drives home tying & winning runs to rally Mariners to 6-5 win in bottom of 11th to beat Yankees & win AL Division Series
Nobel Prize in Literature
1998 José Saramago is the first person from Portugal to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature
- 1998 Oslo Gardermoen airport opening after the close down of Fornebu.
Impeachment Trial of Bill Clinton
1998 US House of Representatives votes to begin impeachment hearings against President Bill Clinton on charges of lying about his affair with Monica Lewinsky
- 1999 New Coligny Calendar, NCC, The beginning of a new era of the Coligny calendar, the oldest material Celtic calendar.
F1 World Champion
2000 German Ferrari driver Michael Schumacher wins Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka to clinch his 3rd, and 1st of 5 straight F1 World Drivers Championships
- 2000 Musical "Peter Pan" starring Cathy Rigby, and filmed before a live audience, premieres on A&E TV
- 2001 A twin engine Cessna and Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) jetliner collide in heavy fog during takeoff from Milan, Italy killing 118.
Event of Interest
2001 US President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security
Nobel Prize for Economics
2003 Clive Granger and Robert F. Engle awarded Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences “for methods of analyzing economic time series with time-varying volatility (ARCH)”
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
2003 Peter Agre and Roderick MacKinnon win the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes
Nobel Peace Prize
2004 Kenyan Wangari Maathai is the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for "her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace"
Martha Stewart Jailed
2004 Martha Stewart begins 5 months incarcerated at Federal Prison Camp, Alderson for insider trading and obstruction of justice
Sports History
2005 NHL great Wayne Gretzky gets his first win as a coach as the Phoenix Coyotes beat the Minnesota Wild 2-1 at Jobing.com Arena, Phoenix
- 2005 The Kashmir earthquake hits parts of northern South Asia at 03:50 UTC.
- 2008 Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology awarded jointly to Harald zur Hausen (cause of cervical cancer) and Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, Luc Montagnier (discovery of HIV)
- 2011 Irish professional darts player Brendan Dolan plays 1st perfect 9 dart game on TV in semi-final against James Wade at PDC World Darts Championship in Dublin
- 2012 35 people are killed by a Nigerian military bomb struck a convoy in Maiduguri
Lincoln
2012 Film "Lincoln" directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Daniel Day-Lewis, base on the biography by Doris Kearns Goodwin premieres
Hugo Chávez Re-elected
2012 Hugo Chávez is re-elected as president of Venezuela for a fourth term
Nobel Prize in Medicine
2012 John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka win the 2012 Nobel Prize for Medicine for their work on reprogramming end stage cells to become pluripotent
- 2012 Mustafa A.G. Abushagur, the first elected Libyan Prime Minister, is voted out of office by the Libyan parliament
- 2013 Peter Higgs and François Englert win the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on the origin of the mass of subatomic particles
- 2014 Eric Betzig, Stefan Hell and William Moerner win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy
- 2014 The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra is awarded the third $1 million Birgit Nilsson Prize
- 2015 "Once Upon a Time in Shaolin" hip hop album by Wu-Tang released - the most expensive piece of music ever with just one physical two-CD copy, auctioned for about $2 million [1]
Music History
2015 American actress and singer Selena Gomez reveals she has Lupus
- 2015 Nobel prize for Literature awarded to Belarusian journalist and author Svetlana Alexievich
- 2016 140 people are killed in an air strike during a wake in Sanaa, Yemen
- 2016 New Zealand routs South Africa, 57-14 in Durban to win their 4th Rugby Championship; undefeated All Blacks score 9 tries to 1, 2 each to Israel Dagg, TJ Perenara and Beauden Barrett
- 2017 Wildfires ignite in Northern Californian wine country, killing at least 41 over the next week, with 20,000 evacutated
- 2018 Major climate report by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for the UN says planet will warm 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit (1.5 degrees Celsius) by 2040 with dire results
Sports History
2018 New Orleans quarterback Drew Brees becomes NFL's all-time leader in passing yards; needs 201 yards to pass Peyton Manning's record; gets 363 & 3 TD's in Saints 43-19 win v Washington Redskins at the SuperDome
- 2018 Nobel prize for Economics awarded to William Nordhaus for climate change and Paul Romer for endogenous growth theory
- 2018 Red Sox utility Brock Holt becomes first MLB player to hit for the cycle in a postseason game during Boston's 16-1 Game 3 rout of the NY Yankees in the AL Division Series at Yankee Stadium
- 2019 FBI confirm Samuel Little is America's most prolific serial killer, after verifying more than half of his 93 confessed murders
- 2019 Montgomery, Alabama, home of the US civil rights movement, elects Steven Reed as its first black mayor in 200 years
- 2019 Noble Prize for Physics awarded to James Peebles (work on evolution of the universe), and Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz (discovery of planet 51 Pegasi b, orbiting another star)
- 2020 American poet Louise Glück is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature
- 2020 FBI charge 13 men with plotting to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer and storm the Michigan Capitol
Nobel Peace Prize
2021 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to journalists Maria Ressa of the Philippines and Dmitry Muratov of Russia "for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression" [1]
Verstappen Wins 3rd F1 Title
2023 Dutch driver Max Verstappen scores his 14th win of the F1 season with a dominant victory in the Qatar Grand Prix at the Lusail Circuit; clinches his third consecutive Formula 1 title
- 2023 Israel formally declares war on Hamas as the death toll reaches about 1,100 on both sides and Israel increases airstrikes on Gaza [1]
- 2023 South Australia cricket batsman Jake Fraser-McGurk breaks AB de Villiers' 2015 record for the fastest century in a List A game, plundering a 29-ball hundred against Tasmania in Adelaide; out on 125 from 38 balls
