- 1346 Charles IV of Luxembourg is elected Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire
- 1347 Heir to the Bohemian throne elected German anti-king Charles IV
- 1405 Chinese fleet commander Zheng He sets sail to the Spice Islands on his first major expedition, leading 208 vessels, including 62 treasure ships with 27,800 sailors
- 1423 Arnold van Egmont becomes Duke of Gelre
- 1476 Giuliano della Rovere is appointed bishop of Coutances
- 1525 Trial against "heretic" John Pistorius at The Hague
Henry VIII Excommunicated
1533 PopeClement VII excommunicates England's KingHenry VIII
- 1536 The Convocation of the clergy subscribe to the Ten Articles, beliefs of the English Church underHenry VIII
- 1576 English explorer Martin Frobisher sights Greenland
- 1588 French King Henri III accept demands of Catholic League
Return of Samuel de Champlain
1616Samuel de Champlain returns to Quebec
- 1635 Armies of Savoy, Mantua and Parma occupy Milan
- 1656 The first Quakers to land in America (Boston), Englishwomen Ann Austin and Mary Fisher, are arrested and jailed by the Puritan colonial government. After 5 years imprisonment they are deported back to Barbados
- 1660 City of Vilnius recaptured from its occupying Muscovite force by army of the Grand Duchy led by Michał Kazimierz Pac[1]
Euclid’s Parallel Postulate
1663 Oxford mathematicianJohn Wallis gives a lecture on Euclid’s parallel postulate, first Western attempt to derive the parallel postulate as a theorem
- 1673 Netherlands and Denmark sign a defense treaty
Battle of Drogheda Boyne
1690 Battle of Drogheda Boyne: KingWilliam III defeats deposed KingJames II of England
- 1708 Battle at Oudenaarde: Great Alliance beats France
- 1735 Mathematical calculations suggest that it was on this day that Pluto moved from the ninth to the eighth most distant 'planet' from the Sun for the last time before 1979
- 1740 Jews are expelled from Little Russia by order of Tsarina Anne
- 1781 Thomas Hutchins designated Geographer of US
Louis XVI Dismisses Jacques Necker
1789 French KingLouis XVI dismisses finance ministerJacques Necker, sparking riots in Paris
- 1792 Prussia army moves into French territory
US Marine Corps Established
1798 US Marine Corps formally established as a distinct military branch by an Act of Congress signed by PresidentJohn Adams
- 1801 French astronomer Jean-Louis Pons discovers his 1st comet
Burr-Hamilton Duel
1804 Vice President of the United StatesAaron Burr mortally wounds former Secretary of the TreasuryAlexander Hamilton in a pistol duel
Avogadro’s Law
1811 Italian scientistAmedeo Avogadro publishes his memoir on the molecular content of gases
- 1812 US invades Canada (Detroit frontier)
In the Cottage Where Burns is Born
1818 English poetJohn Keats writes "In the Cottage Where Burns is Born", "Lines Written in the Highlands", and "Gadfly"
- 1848 Edmund Hickly gets 1st known 10 wicket innings (Kent v England)
- 1848 London's Waterloo Station opens
- 1859 Big Ben's second and current bell first chimes from inside the Clock Tower[1]
- 1861 Battle of Laurel Mountain Virginia - General Morris forces retreat of rebels
- 1861 Battle of Rich Mountain, Virginia - Rosecrans forces rebels to surrender
Halleck Heads Union Forces
1862Abraham Lincoln appoints General Henry Halleck general-in-chief of Union forces in US Civil war
- 1863 Battle at Green River, Kentucky (Morgan's Ohio Raid)
- 1863 Japanese battle cruiser shoots at Dutch warship Medusa, kills 4
- 1863 US military holds 1st draft lottery in New York City; exemptions are offered at cost of $300, a fee only the wealthy could afford
- 1864 Confederate forces led by General Jubal Early begin invasion of Washington, D.C. with the Battle of Fort Stevens
- 1877 Kate Edger becomes New Zealand’s first woman graduate and first woman in the British Empire to earn a Bachelor of Arts
- 1882 British fleet bombards Alexandria, Egypt
- 1888 Pennsylvania's Monongehela River rises 32' after 24 hour rainfall
- 1889 Tijuana in Mexico becomes a city
Incandescent Lamp Controversy
1892 US Patent Office says Joseph Swan rather thanThomas Edison, invented the electric light carbon for the incandescent lamp
PM Wilfrid Laurier
1896Wilfrid Laurier sworn in as the 7th Prime Minister of Canada
The Balloon Expedition to the North Pole
1897Salomon August Andrée and crew leaves Spitsbergen in northern Norway by balloon headed for the North Pole
- 1900 Boer General De la Rey captures Scots Greys and Lincolns
1st Individual Female Olympic Champion
1900Charlotte Cooper beats Hélène Prévost to become the 1st female Olympic tennis champion and the 1st individual female Olympic champion in any sport
Lord Salisbury Resigns
1902 British Prime MinisterLord Salisbury resigns from his third term in office due to ill health
Niagara Movement
1905 Black intellectuals and activists led byW.E.B. Du Bois organize the civil rights Niagara Movement
Murder of Grace Brown
1906 Factory worker Grace Brown is murdered by her boyfriend Chester Gillette at Big Moose Lake New York, later a celebrated case that inspiresTheodore Dreiser's novel "An American Tragedy"
- 1915 German cruiser Königsberg sinks off Dar-es-Salam
- 1916 Battle of Verdun: Germany launches an offensive on Fort Souville in France but are defeated by artillery and machine gunners
- 1916 US Congress passes Federal Aid Road Act
- 1919 Dutch 2nd chamber approves 8-hour day and no Sunday work
- 1920 East and West Prussia vote in a plebiscite to become part of Germany, though a slice of West Prussia will be handed to Poland to provide a 'Polish Corridor'
- 1921 Mongolia gains independence from China (National Day)
- 1922 The Hollywood Bowl opens in Los Angeles
Sports History
1923Harry Frazee, sells the baseball team Red Sox to Ohio businessmen for $1M
- 1924 Muslim-Hindu rebellion in Delhi, India
Hendrikus Colijn Prime Minister
1925 QueenWilhelmina of the Netherlands names Hendrikus Colijn of the Anti-Revolutionary Party as head of Dutch government
- 1931 NY Giants beat Phillies 23-8
Philippe Pétain Heads Vichy Government
1940 MarshallPhilippe Pétain, French hero of World War I, becomes head of the Vichy collaborationist government of France
- 1943 7th day of Battle of Kursk, USSR: Operation Citadel continues
Goering Counterattacks
1943 Counterattack byHermann Goering's armored division in Sicily, Italy
- 1943 Massacres of Poles in Volhynia
- 1943 US 45th Division occupies airport Comiso Sicily
- 1943 US 82nd Airborne division shot at by "friendly fire" in Sicily
- 1944Franklin Roosevelt announces that he will run for a fourth term as President of the United States
- 1946 Kingman Douglass ends term as deputy director of CIA
- 1948 1st air bombing of Jerusalem
Presidential Convention
1952 GeneralEisenhower nominated as Republican US presidential candidate
To Kill a Mockingbird
1960 "To Kill a Mockingbird" byHarper Lee is first published by J. B. Lippincott & Co.
- 1960 Czechoslovakia adopts Constitution
- 1960 Ivory Coast, Dahomey, Upper Volta and Niger declare independence
- 1960 Moise Tsjombe declares Congolese county Katanga independent
- 1961 Gene Kiniski beats Verne Gagne in Minneapolis, to become NWA champ
- 1962 1st transatlantic TV transmission via satellite (Telstar I)
- 1962 Brothers Hank snd Tommie Aaron homer in same inning
- 1962 Cosmonaut Micolaev set then record longest space flight - 4 days
- 1962 Fred Baldasare is 1st to swim English Channel underwater (scuba)
- 1962 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
- 1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- 1963 South-African ANC members Walter Sisulu, Andrew Mlangeni and Govan Mbeki arrested
Event of Interest
1965 Israeli Mapai-party nominatesDavid Ben-Gurion
- 1966 TV quiz show "The Newlywed Game" hosted by Bob Eubanks premieres in the US on ABC
Music History
1967Kenny Rogers forms 1st Edition
Sports History
1968Earl Weaver replacesHank Bauer as manager of Orioles
Sports History
1968 Start ofColin Cowdrey's 100th Test, 1st person to reach the milestone
Space Oddity
1969David Bowie releases the single "Space Oddity" 9 days before Apollo 11 lands on the moon
- 1969 Rolling Stones release "Honky Tonk Woman"
- 1971 Chilean parliament nationalizes American copper mines
- 1971 Phillies Deron Johnson 3 HRs caps his 4 in a row
- 1971 The Irish Republican Army set off a number of bombs in the centre of Belfast injuring a number of people
- 1973 Brazilian Boeing 707 crashes near Paris, 122 killed
- 1974 US House Judiciary Committee releases evidence on Watergate inquiry
- 1974 World Football League kicks off debut season, with 1st games played in Orlando, Philadelphia, Chicago, Memphis, and Birmingham
- 1976 1st US football club in Austria forms (FAAFC-1st Austrian American)
- 1976 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa Atoll
- 1976 In pre-game promo at Atlanta County Stadium, 34 couples wed at home plate followed by Championship Wrestling "Headlocks & Wedlocks"
Event of Interest
1977 US Medal of Freedom awarded posthumously to RevMartin Luther King Jr.
- 1978 Auto with liquid gas crashes and explodes in Spain, 160 killed
- 1979 US Skylab enters atmosphere over Australia and disintegrates
- 1980 American hostage Richard Queen freed by Iran militants due to illness
- 1981 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa Atoll
- 1981 Neva Rockefeller is 1st woman ordered to pay her husband alimony
Sports History
1981Sebastian Coe of UK sets record for 1K (2:12.18)
- 1982 FIFA World Cup Final, Santiago Bernabéu, Madrid, Spain: Italy beats West Germany, 3-1 in front of 90,000
- 1984 Britain's MusicBox begins satellite transmission to Europe
- 1984 Government orders air bags or seat belts would be required in cars by 1989
- 1984 Lucas Mangope re-elected president of Bophuthatswana
Sports History
1985 Astros'Nolan Ryan, 1st to strike out 4000 (Mets' Danny Heep)
- 1985 Refurbished space shuttle Columbia moves overland from Palmdale to Dryden
- 1985 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
World Record
1986Ingrid Kristiansen of Norway runs 10,000m in world record 30:13.74
- 1986 Maricica Puica of Romania runs 2,000 m in 5:28.69 (record for women)
- 1986 Mary Beth Whitehead christens surrogate Baby M, Sara
- 1987 Heart's "Alone" single goes #1 for 3 weeks
- 1987 Orioles' Cal Ripkin becomes 1st to manage 2 sons, as Billy joins Cal
Sports History
1988Mike Tyson hires Donald Trump as an advisor
- 1989 President Ronald Reagan sportscasts All Star Game
- 1990 NYC police arrest "Dartman" (stabbed over 50 women with darts)
- 1990 Oka Crisis: First Nations land dispute in Quebec, Canada begins between Mohawk people and town of Oka
- 1991 Nigeria Airways DC-8 crashes at Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, killing all 261 passengers and crew on board
- 1991 Total solar eclipse is seen in Hawaii
Event of Interest
1992 Presidential candidateRoss Perot at NAACP speech calls them "you people"
- 1994 Suriname guilder devalued to 1USD = SG180 during a period of high inflation
Srebrenica Massacre
1995 More than 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys are massacred by Bosnian Serbs after they overrun the UN 'safe haven' of Srebrenica on directive ofRadovan Karadžić
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2007 "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", the 5th film based on the books byJ. K. Rowling is released
- 2007 15th ESPY Awards: LaDainian Tomlinson, Taryne Mowatt win
- 2010 FIFA World Cup Final, Soccer City, Johannesburg, South Africa: Andrés Iniesta scores an extra time winner as Spain beats the Netherlands, 1-0 for first World Cup title
- 2011 Neptune completes its first orbit since its discovery on September 23, 1846
ESPY Awards
2012 20th ESPY Awards:LeBron James, Brittney Griner win
Steve Nash Traded to the Lakers
2012 Future Basketball Hall of Fame guardSteve Nash is traded by the Phoenix Suns to the Los Angeles Lakers
- 2012 Police academy suicide bombing kills 20 in Sana'a, Yemen
- 2012 S/2012 P 1, the fifth moon of Pluto is discovered
Orange Is the New Black
2013 "Orange Is the New Black" premieres on Netflix starring Taylor Schilling, first series to be nominated for comedy and drama Emmy awards
- 2013 30 people are killed in a wave of bomb and gun attacks across Iraq
- 2014 The UN Security Council calls for a special meeting to discuss the current Israel–Palestinian conflict; Israel continue attacks on Gaza
El Chapo Escapes
2015 Mexican drug lordJoaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán escapes from Altiplano maximum-security prison west of Mexico City via a specially constructed 1.5 km tunnel from his cell to a nearby house
- 2018 Oldest stone tools outside Africa discovered in Lantian country, western China, estimated 2.12 million years old made by hominins
- 2019 Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft lands on the Ryugu asteroid 300m km (185m miles) from earth for a second time to collect samples
- 2019 Last models of Volkswagen's Beetle car are produced in Pueblo, Mexico, ending production worldwide after 80 years
- 2019 US stock markets reach new records, the Dow tops 27,000 points for the first time and the S&P 500 hits 3,000 points
Branson Flies to the Edge of Space
2021 BillionaireRichard Branson flies to the edge of space on his Virgin Galactic rocket plane in space tourism test
- 2021 Rare mass anti-government protests across Cuba due to economic hardships and effects of COVID-19 led to widespread arrests
- 2022 New study suggests dogs can 'see' with their noses " first documentation of a direct connection between the olfactory bulb and occipital lobe in any species"[1]
- 2023 Heavy rains on northern Indian result in 20 deaths with Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand states experiencing landslides and flash floods closing over 700 roads[1]
- 2023 Scientists pick Crawford Lake, Ontario, as reference place beginning a new interval of geologic time, the human-caused Anthropocene Epoch, starting 1950s and ending the Holocene - proposal later rejected[1]
- 2024 Cole Escola's stage comedy "Oh, Mary!" opens at the Lyceum Theatre, NYC
