Caesar Dalmatius
335 Dalmatius is raised to the rank of Caesar by his uncle Constantine I
- 634 Muslim forces led by Khalid ibn al-Walid capture Damascus, 1st major city of Eastern Roman Empire taken by the Rashidun Caliphate
Battle of Poitiers
1356 English forces under Edward the Black Prince defeat French at the Battle of Poitiers and capture the French King John II during the Hundred Years' War
- 1523 Emperor Charles I & England sign anti-French covenant
- 1559 Five Spanish ships sink in storm off Tampa, about 600 die
- 1642 Perpignan surrenders to French troops
- 1648 First inn opens in New France, a pastry shop and hostelry in Québec owned by Jacques Boisdon [1]
- 1650 Treaty of Harford signed establishing border between New Netherlands and New England, negotiated between Petrus Stuyvesant and Connecticut colony Governor Edward Hopkins
- 1656 Treaty of Labiau: Sweden gives Prussia, Brandenburg
- 1657 Brandenburg & Poland sign Treaty of Wehlau
- 1676 Rebels under Nathaniel Bacon set Jamestown, Virginia, on fire
- 1755 Great Britain & Russia sign military agreement
- 1777 Battle of Freeman's Farm (Bemis Heights) or 1st Battle of Saratoga
- 1778 The Continental Congress passes the first budget of the United States
- 1795 Tula, leader of Curacao slave opposition, imprisoned
Washington's Farewell Address
1796 George Washington's farewell address as US President is published
- 1838 Ephraim Morris granted US patent for a railroad brake
- 1848 Hyperion, moon of Saturn - the first non-round moon - discovered by William Cranch Bond, his son George Phillips Bond and William Lassell
- 1849 1st commercial laundry established, in Oakland, California
- 1854 Henry Meyer patents sleeping rail car
- 1862 -20] Battle at Blackford's Ford, Virginia
- 1862 Battle at Iuka Mississippi (1,700 casualties)
Battle of Chickamauga
1863 Battle of Chickamauga, GA (near Chattanooga) begins; Union forces retreat after a couple days of fighting
- 1864 Third Battle of Winchester, Virginia [Opequon], large bloody battle with the Union army defeating Confederate force with over 9,000 casualties
- 1865 Atlanta University founded
- 1870 Siege of Paris by Prussian Forces begins (lasts until January 28 1871)
- 1876 1st carpet sweeper patented (Melville Bissell of Grand Rapids, Mich)
- 1876 Talks begin to set up a football club in Ottawa
- 1879 The Blackpool Illuminations are switched on for the first time.
- 1879 Thomas Ray becomes youngest to break a world track & field record pole-vaulting 11' 2½" at age 17 years & 198 days
- 1888 One of first known modern beauty contests held in Spa, Belgium
- 1890 Turkish frigate "Ertogrul" burns off of Japan, kills 540
The First Country to Grant Women the Vote
1893 New Zealand becomes the first country to grant all women the right to vote
Leopold Denies Cruelty
1903 King Leopold II denies Belgian cruelty in Congo
- 1904 Gen Nogi's assault on Port Arthur: 16,000 Japanese casualties
Mahler's 7th Symphony
1908 Gustav Mahler's 7th Symphony premieres in Prague, Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic)
Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford
1910 George M. Cohan's musical "Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford" premieres in NYC
- 1911 Red Tuesday; 20,000 Spanish protest for universal rights
- 1912 Pius X encyclical Singular quadam, against interconfess unions
- 1912 Soccer team NAC (Noad Advendo Combination) forms in Breda
- 1912 The wattle is declared Australia's national flower and incorporated into the Commonwealth Coat of Arms
- 1914 Brooklyn Tip-Tops' Ed Lafitte no-hits Kansas City Packers (Federal League), 6-2
- 1916 Belgian troops conquer Tabora, German East Africa
- 1916 First landing at Schiphol Airport, Netherlands (Farman F-22 of Soesterberg)
- 1923 Ernst Tollers "Hinkemann," premieres in Leipzig
- 1926 80,000 demonstrate for democratic peace in Hague
- 1926 The San Siro is inaugurated with a match between AC Milan and Inter.
- 1929 Latvia dictator A Woldemaras chased out
- 1931 Japanese troops conquer Mukden, South Manchuria
- 1931 Lefty Grove wins his 30th game of season over White Sox, 2-1
- 1933 NY Giants clinch the pennant
- 1934 Bruno Haptmann arrested for kidnapping Lindbergh baby
- 1937 Seven convicts take Folsom Prison Warden Clarence Larkin hostage in escape attempt, the warden, a guard, and 2 inmates are killed in ensuing stand-off; 5 remaining prisoners convicted of murder and executed by newly introduced gas chamber in California
- 1939 British Expeditionary Force reaches France
Lord Haw-Haw
1939 Lord Haw-Haw (William Joyce) becomes radio host of Reichsrundfunk Berlin
- 1939 Wehrmacht (German regular army) murders 100 Jews in Lukov Poland
- 1940 Nazi decree forbids gentile woman to work in Jewish homes
Pilecki Volunteers for Auschwitz
1940 Witold Pilecki is voluntarily captured and sent to Auschwitz in order to smuggle out information and start a resistance
Tito Meets Draža
1941 First meeting of partisan leaders Josip Broz Tito and Draža Mihailović in Yugoslavia
- 1941 German army conquers Kiev
- 1941 Nazis force German Jews, 6 & over to wear Jewish stars
- 1943 Fanny Whiteers-Koen breaks jumping world record
- 1943 Liberator bombers sinks U-341
- 1944 Armistice between Finland and Soviet Union is signed. (End of the Continuation War)
- 1944 Luftwaffe bombs Eindhoven: 200 killed
Kim Il-sung Returns from Exile
1945 Kim Il-sung arrives in the harbor of Wonsan, Korea, after 26 years in exile in the Soviet Union
- 1945 Lord Haw Haw (William Joyce) sentenced to death in London
Robinson Rookie of the Year
1947 Jackie Robinson is named 1947 "Rookie of the Year"
- 1949 "Late Spring", Japanese film directed by Yasujirō Ozu, starring Chishū Ryū, Setsuko Hara and Haruko Sugimura, is released in Japan
- 1950 European Payment Union forms in Paris
- 1950 Great Three (England, US, and France) acknowledge Bonn Government as the only German government
- 1950 UN reject membership of China's People Republic
- 1951 1st broadcast of "Search for Tomorrow" on CBS-TV
- 1951 Italian civil servants strike for pay increase
Adventures of Superman
1952 "Adventures of Superman" TV series starring George Reeves premieres in syndication in the US
Charlie Chaplin Banned
1952 The United States bars Charlie Chaplin from re-entering the country after a trip to England
Revolución Libertadora
1955 An army and navy revolt forces Argentine President Juan Perón to resign and flee to Paraguay
Baseball Record
1955 Cubs slugger Ernie Banks hits record 5th grand slam of season
Film & TV History
1959 Nikita Khrushchev is denied access to Disneyland
Event of Interest
1960 "LIFE" magazine celebrates artist Anna Mary "Grandma" Moses' 100th birthday by putting her on their cover
The Twist Dance Craze
1960 Chubby Checker's "The Twist" hits #1 on the Billboard Hot 100
- 1961 Betty and Barney Hill claim that they saw a mysterious craft in the sky and that it tried to abduct them.
- 1962 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
- 1963 Iota Phi Theta Fraternity, Inc. is founded at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland.
- 1965 Erhards CDU wins West German parliament elections
- 1966 Mike Burke named Yankees pres
Sports History
1968 MLB Detroit Tigers pitcher Denny McLain's 31st win of the season, despite Mickey Mantle's 535th career home run, at Tiger Stadium in Detroit
- 1968 Nigerian federal army begins the "final offensive" against the secessionist state of Biafra during the Nigerian Civil War
- 1969 UCLA fires professor Angela Davis for being a communist; termination was overturned in court and she was later fired for using inflammatory language
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
1970 "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" premieres on CBS
Baseball Record
1973 Frank Robinson, Angels OF, homers in record 32nd major league ballpark - Arlington Stadium (Arlington, Texas), against the Rangers
- 1973 NL refuses to allow San Diego Padres move to Washington, D.C.
- 1973 Pirate Radio Free America (off Cape May NJ) forms
- 1973 USSR performs underground nuclear test
Event of Interest
1974 The KGB begin a large-scale operation to discredit Russian novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and cut his communications with Soviet dissidents
Fawlty Towers
1975 "Fawlty Towers" starring John Cleese, Prunella Scales and Andrew Sachs premieres on BBC2 in the UK
- 1975 Indonesia sends troops to Portuguese East Timor
- 1976 New York concert promoter Sid Bernstein offers $230 million to charity for a Beatles reunion; they politely decline
Music Concert
1979 5-day MUSE (Musicians United for Safe Energy) "No Nukes" concert against nuclear power opens at Madison Square Garden, NYC; performers include: Jackson Browne; Bonnie Raitt; Crosby, Stills & Nash; Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band; James Taylor; Carly Simon; Gil Scott-Heron, and the Doobie Brothers
- 1980 "Ordinary People" film directed by Robert Redford and starring Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore and Judd Hirsch premieres (Academy Award - Best Picture, 1981)
- 1980 US Titan II Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile explodes in its storage silo near Damascus, Arkansas; 1 person killed and over 20 injured, but safety features prevented thermonuclear detonation
- 1981 Satellites China 10 & 11 launched into Earth orbit by B-1 rocket
- 1981 Simon & Garfunkel reunite for a concert in Central Park, NYC,
Emmy Awards
1982 34th Emmy Awards: Hill St Blue, Barney Miller, Alan Alda & Carol Kane win
- 1982 New Orleans Saints 1st road shutout victory beating Chicago Bears 10-0
- 1982 Streetcars stop running on Market St, San Francisco after 122 years of service
- 1983 David Slowinski on 2 CRAY-1 comp's find 2^132049-1 prime #
- 1983 St Kitts & Nevis declares independence from the United Kingdom
- 1984 Britain & China complete a proposed agreement to transfer Hong Kong to China by 1997
- 1985 8.1 earthquake in Mexico City kills an estimated 10,000 and leaves 250,000 homeless
Captain EO
1986 3-D short film "Captain EO" with Michael Jackson premieres at Disney theme parks
- 1986 Australian cricketer Dean Jones scores 210 v India at Madras
- 1986 Chicago White Sox Joe Crowley no-hits California Angels, 7-1
- 1986 US Federal health officials announce AZT will be available to AIDS patients
Olympic Games
1988 American diver Greg Louganis smashes his head on diving board during the 3m springboard preliminaries at the Seoul Olympics; recovers to qualify for the final which he wins the following day
- 1988 Australian swimmer Duncan Armstrong sets world record 1:47.25 to win the 200m freestyle gold medal at the Seoul Olympics; beats Anders Holmertz of Sweden by 0.64
- 1988 British swimmer Adrian Moorehouse wins 100m breaststroke gold medal in 1:02.04 at the Seoul Olympics; edges Károly Güttler of Hungary by 0.01
- 1988 Israel launches 1st satellite, for secret military reconnaissance
- 1988 US women's all-round gymnastics team is controversially penalised 0.5 after compulsory round at the Seoul Olympics; substitute an alternate athlete on uneven bars medal podium; Americans finish 4th just 0.3 behind East Germany
Doogie Howser, M.D.
1989 "Doogie Howser, M.D.", starring Neil Patrick Harris as a teenage physician, debuts on ABC
Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814
1989 "Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814" 4th studio album by Janet Jackson is released (Grammy Award Best Long Form Music Video 1990, Billboard Album of the Year 1990)
- 1989 Appeals court restores America's Cup to US after NY Supreme Court gave it to NZ (NZ protested US's use of a catamaran)
- 1989 Chase Manhattan Discovery Center at Brooklyn Botanic Garden opens
- 1989 French DC-10 crashes near Niger, 171 die
Goodfellas
1990 American gangster film "Goodfellas", directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, and Ray Liotta, premieres
- 1991 Colt Precious Bunny wins the 46th Little Brown Jug at Delaware, Ohio
- 1991 Ötzi the Iceman, 3,300 BCE old mummy discovered by German tourists in Italian alps - oldest surviving corpse from Europe
Sports History
1992 Barry Bonds joins Willie Mays, Howard Johnson & Ron Gant as having (2) 30-HR/30-steal MLB seasons
- 1992 Demolition begins of JFK Stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; built in 1926 as Sesquicentennial Stadium, also known as Municipal Stadium, it hosted the 1926 Tunney-Dempsey fight, 41 Army-Navy football games, The Beatles; The Rolling Stones; victory rallies for The NHL Flyers and MLB Phillies; and the US portion of Live-Aid
- 1992 Sergei Boebka pole vaults world record (6.13m)
- 1992 UN Security Council votes 12-0 (3 abstentions) to dump Yugoslavia
Emmy Awards
1993 45th Emmy Awards: Seinfeld, Picket Fences & Ted Danson win
- 1993 Actress Michele Phillips (Knots Landing) is robbed at gunpoint
- 1993 Parliamentary election in Poland
- 1993 San Diego Chargers' kicker John Carney boots 6 field goals in an 18-17 win over Houston to set a new NFL record with 29 consecutive field goals made
Sports History
1993 Tom Glavine wins 20 games in 3 straight years
- 1994 3,000 US militia lands on Haiti
ER
1994 Hospital based drama series "ER" premieres on NBC, created by novelist and filmmaker Michael Crichton, starring George Clooney, Anthony Edwards and Noah Wyle
- 1994 Swedish government of Bildt resigns
- 1994 Volcanic eruption destroys the town of Rabaul on New Britain, Papua New Guinea
- 1995 Colorado Rockies Andres Galarraga becomes 4th team member to hit 30 HRs in the sesaon
- 1995 MLB San Diego Padres Ken Caminiti switch hits HRs in 3rd of 4 games
- 1995 The Washington Post and The New York Times publish the Unabomber's manifesto
Music History
1996 David Hare's play "Skylight" opens at Royale Theater NYC, starring Michael Gambon
- 1997 Guelb El-Kebir massacre in Algeria; 53 killed.
Baseball Record
2000 Ken Griffey Jr. pinch-hits his 400th home run becoming the first major league player to reach the mark as a pinch-hitter
Emmy Awards
2004 56th Emmy Awards: The Sopranos, Arrested Development, James Spader and Allison Janney win
Sports History
2004 NFL Oakland Raider wide receiver Jerry Rice ends NFL streak of 274 consecutive games with a reception in a 13-10 victory over Buffalo Bills [1]
How I Met Your Mother
2005 TV sitcom "How I Met Your Mother" premieres, starring Josh Radnor, Neil Patrick Harris, Cobie Smulders, Jason Segel and Alyson Hannigan
- 2006 Thai military stages a coup in Bangkok. The Constitution is revoked and martial law is declared.
Sports History
2008 Greg Maddux pitches his 5,000th career inning against the San Francisco Giants
Sports History
2008 Thierry Henry scores his first goal for Barcelona in a 3–0 Champions League group stage win over Lyon
Two and a Half Men
2011 Ashton Kutcher debuts on "Two and a Half Men", replacing Charlie Sheen
- 2012 9 people are killed and 20 wounded by a car bombing in Peshawar, Afghanistan
Cheek To Cheek
2014 Columbia Records releases "Cheek To Cheek", a duet album of jazz standards by singers Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga; debuts at #1 on Billboard 200, Jazz Albums, and Traditional Jazz Albums charts.
- 2015 Japan beats South Africa 34-32 in Brighton, England in the biggest upset in Rugby World Cup history
Emmy Awards
2016 68th Emmy Awards: hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, "Game of Thrones", Julia Dreyfus, Rami Malek win
- 2016 Aid convoy into Urum al-Kubra, Syria attacked by air strikes, UN denounces as a war crime
- 2017 7.1 earthquake south east of Mexico City kills over 300
- 2017 New MLB record for most home runs in a season, no. 5,694 hit by Alex Gordon of the Kansas City Royals
United Nations Speech
2017 President Hassan Rouhani of Iran in his UN speech criticizes US President Donald Trump for his comments about Iran in his own UN speech
United Nations Speech
2017 US President Donald Trump addresses the United Nations vowing to “totally destroy North Korea” if threatens the US
- 2018 Korean joint summit in Pyongyang agrees to limit North Korea's weapons programme and to South Korea economic cooperation
- 2019 Likely US drone attack kills at least 30 and injures 28 in Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan
- 2019 North America has lost 3 billion birds (29%) since 1970 according to analysis published in "Science"
- 2019 Taliban suicide truck bombing kills 22 and injures 90 at a hospital in Zabul Province, southern Afghanistan
- 2019 Tropical Depression Imelda hits southeast Texas and Louisiana prompting widespread evacuations
- 2020 US President Donald Trump vows to swear in a new Supreme Court judge, despite the election being only 45 days away
- 2021 73rd Emmy Awards: "The Crown" Best Drama, "Ted Lasso" Best Comedy, "Mare of Easttown" Best Limited Series
- 2021 Body of travelogue blogger Gabby Petito found at Bridger-Teton National Forest, Wyoming
- 2021 Cumbre Vieja volcano erupts on the Spanish island of La Palma, its first eruption since 1971
Event of Interest
2022 British monarch Queen Elizabeth II interred at Windsor Castle after a state funeral at Westminster Abbey in London with an unprecedented 500 world leaders in attendance [1]
- 2022 Magnitude 7.6 earthquake strikes western Mexico on exact anniversary of two previous temblors in 1985 and 2017, killing at least two people, [1]
- 2022 Nigerian authorities says over 300 people have died and 100,000 have been displaced by the worse floods in many years [1]
- 2022 Scientists discover site of the Amazon's tallest tree, an angelim vermelho at 88.5 meters (290 feet) tall and 9.9 meters (32 feet) wide, Iratapuru River Nature Reserve, northern Brazil, [1]
