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- 421 Flavius Constantine becomes Co-Emperor as Emperor Constantius III of the Western Roman Empire with Honorius
- 628 Smoke Imix [Smoke Jaguar] becomes the 12th ruler of the Maya city of Copán - will rule for 67 years
- 1526 Heavy storm strikes Dutch coast, killing large numbers
University of Leiden
1575 University of Leiden established by William I of Orange, given the motto "Praesidium Libertatis" (oldest university in Netherlands)
Leader of the Dutch Revolt William I of Orange
Queen of Scots Beheaded
1587 Mary, Queen of Scots, is beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle aged 44 after being convicted of plotting to assassinate Elizabeth I in the Babington Plot
Depiction of the execution on Mary, Queen of Scots at Fotheringhay Castle in Northamptonshire
- 1600 Vatican convicts scholar and wayward friar Giordano Bruno of heresy and turn him over civil authorities upon his refusal to recant to mete out his punishment of death [1]
- 1601 Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, leads an unsuccessful revolt in London against Queen Elizabeth
James I Dissolves Parliament
1622 King James I disbands the English parliament
King of Great Britain James I and VI
- 1627 Gunpowder is used in a mining operation instead of mechanical tools in present-day Slovakia, reportedly the first time explosives had been used in mining
- 1649 Sobornoye Ulozheniye of 1649: Russia adopts new code of laws, consolidating serfdom (OS 29 Jan) [1]
Newton's 1st Optics Paper
1672 Isaac Newton reads first optics paper before the Royal Society in London
Physicist and Mathematician Isaac Newton
- 1690 French and Native American troops attack and destroy Schenectady settlement in New York Province, either killing or capturing its inhabitants, revenge for the Lachine massacre
- 1690 Lord Halifax resigns as Lord Privy Seal
- 1693 William & Mary College is chartered in Williamsburg in the Dominion and Colony of Virginia (second in North America)
- 1726 The Supreme Privy Council is established in Russia
- 1743 Comet C/1743 C1 approaches within 0.0390 AUs of Earth
- 1744 French and Spanish fleet leave Toulon
- 1750 Minor earthquake in London
Premiere of Stella
1776 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's play "Stella" premieres in Hamburg
Poet and Philosopher Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- 1802 Simon Willard patents banjo clock
Battle of Eylau
1807 Battle of Eylau ends inconclusively between Napoleon's forces and the Russian Empire, first battle Napoleon isn't victorious
French Emperor Napoléon Bonaparte
- 1809 Franz I of Austria declares war on France
- 1837 1st US Vice-President chosen by Senate, Richard Johnson (Van Buren admin)
- 1849 New Roman Republic established in Italy
- 1855 The Devil's Footprints, hoof-like marks mysteriously appear for over 60km after a snowfall in southern Devon, England
- 1855 The Smithsonian Institution Building 'The Castle' first opens to the public on the Mall in Washington D.C.
- 1861 Confederate States of America organizes in Montgomery, Alabama (US Civil War)
- 1862 Battle of Roanoke Island NC, Federals gain control of Pamlico Sound
- 1865 Martin Robison Delany, 1st black major in US Army appointed during US Civil War
- 1867 The Ausgleich (compromise) establishes the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary
- 1879 Sandford Fleming first proposes dividing the world into 24 equal time zones and adopting a Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute (adopted 1884)
- 1883 Louis Waterman begins experiment to invent the fountain pen
- 1887 Aurora Ski Club of Red Wing, Minnesota becomes the 1st US ski club
- 1887 The Dawes Act authorizes the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal land and divide it into individual allotments. Those who accepted allotments and lived separately from the tribe were granted United States citizenship.
- 1889 Flood ravages Dutch coast
- 1894 US Enforcement Act repealed, making it easier to disenfranchise blacks
- 1896 Georges Feydeau's farce "Le Dindon" premieres in Paris
- 1898 John Ames Sherman patents 1st envelope folding & gumming machine in Massachusetts
- 1905 Cyclone hits Tahiti & adjacent islands, killing some 10,000 people
- 1909 France & Germany sign treaty about Morocco
- 1910 The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce
- 1911 US helps overthrow President Miguel Devila of Honduras
- 1912 1st eastbound US transcontinental flight lands in Jacksonville, Florida
- 1912 British Emissary journeys to Berlin to suggest that Britain might support German colonial aspirations in Africa if Germany agrees to hold her current naval strength
- 1914 General Zamon becomes President of Haiti
- 1916 French cruiser "Admiral Charner" torpedoed off Syrian coast, kills 374
- 1916 NL votes down Charlie Ebbets proposal to limit 25 cent seats
- 1918 "Stars & Stripes,", weekly US armed forces newspaper, 1st published
- 1920 Bolshevik troops capture Odessa, bringing an end to foreign involvement in the resistance against Bolshevik rule
- 1920 Swiss men vote against women's suffrage
- 1922 Radio arrives at the White House
- 1923 Coal mine explosion at Dawson, New Mexico kills 120
- 1923 German NSDAP Volkischer Beobachter newspaper becomes a daily
- 1924 1st US coast-to-coast radio hookup: General John Joseph Carty speech in Chicago
Marcus Garvey Imprisoned
1925 Marcus Garvey enters federal prison in Atlanta
Black Nationalist Marcus Garvey
- 1926 German Reichstag decides to apply for League of Nations membership
- 1927 Belgian-Swiss treaty signed
- 1928 1st transatlantic TV image received at Hartsdale, NY
- 1929 KOY-AM in Phoenix Arizona begins radio transmissions
- 1931 Gas explosion Fire in Fushun-coal mine, Manchuria kills 3,000
- 1933 -23°F (-31°C), Seminole, Texas (state record)
- 1933 1st flight of all-metal Boeing 247
- 1934 Export-Import Bank organizes in Washington, D.C.
- 1934 Gaston Doumergue forms new French government
Event of Interest
1936 Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru succeeds Mahatma Gandhi as chairman of India Congress Party
1st Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru
Masque of Kings
1937 Maxwell Anderson's dramatic play "Masque of Kings" premieres in NYC
Playwright Maxwell Anderson
- 1940 Lodtz, 1st large ghetto established by Nazis in Poland
- 1941 Radio presenter and National Socialist Max Blokzijl begins Nazi propaganda on Dutch national radio (executed for it in 1946)
Internment of Japanese Americans
1942 Congress advises FDR that, Americans of Japanese descent should be locked up en masse so they wouldn't oppose the US war effort
32nd US President Franklin D. Roosevelt
- 1942 Japanese armored barges cross Strait of Johore to attack Singapore (WWII)
Hitler Appoints Speer
1942 Nazi architect Albert Speer appointed Minister of Armaments by Adolf Hitler after death of Fritz Todt in a plane crash
Nazi Minister of Armaments and War Production Albert SpeerDictator of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler
- 1943 Red Army recaptures Kursk on the eastern front
- 1944 1st African American reporter accredited to White House, Harry McAlpin
- 1944 German submarine U-762 sunk off Ireland by British forces with the loss of all 50 crewmen
- 1945 Allied air attack on Goch, Kleef, Kalkar and Reichswald
Salazar Forbids Opposition
1946 Portuguese Dictator António de Oliveira Salazar forbids opposition parties
Dictator of Portugal António de Oliveira Salazar
- 1947 Jan van der Hoorn wins 8th Dutch 11-cities skating race (10:51)
- 1949 Hungarian cardinal József Mindszenty sentenced to life in prison
Georgy Malenkov Resigns
1955 Georgy Malenkov resigns as USSR premier and is replaced by Nikolai Bulganin
Soviet Leader Georgy Malenkov
- 1955 The Government of Sindh abolished Jagirdari system in the province. One million acres (4000 km²) of land thus acquired is to be distributed among the landless peasants.
- 1956 Mine disaster in Quaregnon Belgium, 8 die
- 1958 Edgar Whitehead succeeds Garfield Todd as premier of South Rhodesia
- 1958 French planes bomb Sakiet, Tunisia, 75 die
House of Windsor
1960 Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom issues an Order-in-Council, stating that she and her family would be known as the House of Windsor, and that her descendants will take the name "Mountbatten-Windsor"
Queen of the United Kingdom Elizabeth II
- 1960 US Congress opens hearings looking into payola
- 1962 In Paris, 8 people killed at a protest against independence for the French colony Algeria
- 1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- 1963 1st transmission of Clandestine Voice of Iraqi People (Communist)
- 1963 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- 1964 US Rep Martha Griffiths address gets civil rights protection for women being added to the 1964 Civil Rights Act
- 1965 Eastern DC-7B crashes into Atlantic off Jones Beach, NJ, kills 84
- 1965 President Johnson deploys 1st US combat troops to South Vietnam, with 3500 marines sent to protect key US airbase near Da Nang
- 1967 English Pirate Radio UKGM closes down
- 1967 Peter (Asher) & Gordon (Waller) discontinue their singing partnership
- 1967 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- 1968 Orangeburg Massacre: highway patrol officers kill 3 students and injure 27 others demonstrating at South Carolina State University, 1st student killing by law enforcement in the US
- 1969 Last edition of American magazine "Saturday Evening Post"
- 1969 Meteorite weighing over 1 ton falls in Chihuahua, Mexico
- 1971 NASDAQ Composite stock market index debuts with 50 companies and a starting value of 100
- 1971 Operation Lam Son 719 begins, a limited South Vietnamese incursion into Laos
- 1973 Jean Kerrs "Finishing Touches" premieres in NYC
- 1973 Mushtaq & Asif Iqbal make 350 stand for Pakistan's 4th wicket v NZ
- 1973 Senate names seven members to investigate Watergate scandal
- 1974 Three US astronauts return to Earth after a 85 days in the US space station, Skylab
- 1975 1800 Unification church couples wed in Korea
- 1976 Largest crowd at Cleveland Coliseum (Cavs vs Wash-21,130)
- 1977 Earthquake in San Francisco, at 5.0, strongest since 1966
Larry Flynt Sentenced
1977 Hustler publisher Larry Flynt sentenced on obscenity charges
Magazine Publisher Larry Flynt
- 1978 Crown Prince Sad Abdallah al-Salim Al Sabah becomes Prime Minister of Kuwait
- 1978 Proceedings of the United States Senate are broadcast on radio for the first time.
- 1979 Denis Sassou-Nguesso becomes the President of the Republic of the Congo for the first time
- 1979 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- 1981 US female Figure Skating championship won by Elaine Zayak
Ariel Sharon Resigns
1983 Ariel Sharon resigns from Israeli government after an inquiry shows he was indirectly responsible for the killings of hundreds of people in 1982
General and Prime Minister of Israel Ariel Sharon
- 1983 Eric Peters sets transatlantic sailboat record (E-W)-46 days
- 1983 Prize stallion and Derby winner Shergar kidnapped in Ireland, never to be found causing Lloyd's of London to payout $10.6 million insurance
- 1983 Tina Howe's play "Painting Churches" premieres in NYC
- 1984 For the 1st time eight people are in space
- 1984 Soyuz T-10 launches with crew of 3 to Salyut 7
Opposition Leader Returns
1985 Opposition leader Kim Dae-jung returns to South Korea
8th President of South Korea Kim Dae-jung
- 1986 1984 Summer Olympics LAPD bomb squad chief Arleigh McCree, and his partner Officer Ronald Ball of the Firearms and explosives unit are killed while trying to dismantle two pipe bombs
- 1988 NASA launches DOD-2
- 1989 5 cm of snow falls in outskirts of Los Angeles
- 1989 US Boeing 707 crashes into Santa Maria mountain, 145 die
- 1990 David Hares play "Racing Demon" premieres in London at the National Theatre
- 1992 Ulysses spacecraft passes Jupiter
- 1993 Suchoi-24 crashes into Tupolev passenger flight, 134 die
- 1995 6.4 earthquake at Trujillo, Colombia (46+ killed)
- 1996 The massive Internet collaboration "24 Hours in Cyberspace" takes place
- 1996 The U.S. Congress passes the Communications Decency Act.
- 2005 Leaders of both Palestine and Israel declare a truce in what many hope will be a "new era of peace"
- 2008 Nebraska bans electric chair as sole execution method
Grammy Awards
2009 Al Gore's book "An Inconvenient Truth" wins a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album
45th Vice President of the United States Al Gore
- 2010 747-8 Freighter takes off for its maiden flight from Paine Field, Washington
- 2013 100, 000 people march to demand justice for the atrocities of the Bangladesh Liberation War in Dhaka
- 2013 16 people are killed and 27 are wounded by a market bombing in Kalaya, Pakistan
- 2013 29 people are killed and 69 are injured in a series of Iraq bombings
- 2013 A massive blizzard begins in the US and Canada that resulted in 15 deaths, 5,300 cancelled flights, and loss of power for 900,000 people
- 2014 15 people are killed & 130 injured in a hotel fire in Medina, Saudi Arabia
- 2014 17 people are killed after a truck & bus collide in Mendoza, Argentina
- 2015 Ivory Coast wins the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations football championship
Jeff Sessions Confirmed
2017 US Senate confirms Jeff Sessions Attorney General, after controversy and protests
US Senator and US Attorney General Jeff Sessions
- 2018 Bangladesh court sentences former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia to 5 years in prison for corruption
- 2018 Twitter reports its first quarterly profit as a public company
Bezos Accuses National Enquirer
2019 Amazon founder Jeff Bezos accuses The National Enquirer and its owner, American Media Inc, of blackmail over private messages detailing an extramarital affair
Amazon Entrepreneur Jeff Bezos
- 2019 Thai King Vajiralongkorn issues royal decree calling Princess Ubolratana 's candidacy for Prime Minister for Thai Raksa Chart political party “improper and highly inappropriate”
- 2019 Washington's Governor Jay Inslee declares a state emergency after heavy snowfall
- 2020 Gunman shoots and kills 29 people in a shopping center in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand, with 57 injured. Shooter shot and killed by security forces a day later.
- 2020 Irish General Election: No party wins a majority, Sinn Féin 37 seats and the popular vote, Fianna Fáil 38 seats, Leo Varadkar's ruling Fine Gael only 35 seats
- 2021 Martial law declared in Mandalay, Myanmar, amid continuing protests against the country's military coup
- 2021 South Africa halts rollout of Oxford AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine after research into the South African variant showed no protection against mild and moderate illness
- 2022 Horn of Africa with 13 million people now facing humanitarian crisis amid drought where the rainy season has failed three years in a row, according to UN World Food Program [1]
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