Today in History
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| Pompei buried by Mt Vesuvius | ||
| 1210 King John of England begins imprisoning Jews | ||
| 1248 Earl Willem II of Holland crowned as RC German emperor | ||
| 1349 Duke of Brabant orders execution of all Jews in Brussels, accusing them of poisoning the wells | ||
| 1462 Arch duke Albrecht VI van Habsburg occupies Vienna | ||
| 1500 Benvenuto Cellini, sculptor/goldsmith/author (Perseus) was born | ||
| 1512 Michelangelo's paintings on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel were first exhibited to the public | ||
| 1570 Netherlands hit by flood disaster, 1,000s killed | ||
| 1604 William Shakespeare's tragedy ''Othello'' was first presented, at Whitehall Palace in London | ||
| 1623 Fire at Plymouth, Massachusetts destroys several buildings | ||
| 1628 French king Louis XIII occupies La Rochelle | ||
| 1671
French King Louis XIV & RC German emperor Leopold I sign secret anti-Dutch treaty |
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| 1700 Charles II of Spain died and was succeeded by Philip V, marking the start of the War of Spanish Succession. | ||
| 1721 Prince Eugenius of Savoye unveals statue of himself | ||
| 1755 A devastating earthquake reduced almost two-thirds of Lisbon to rubble and resulted in the deaths of an estimated 60,000 people. | ||
| 1757 Antonio Canova, Italian sculptor was born | ||
| 1762 French troops capitulated at Cassel and evacuated the right bank of the Rhine during the Seven Years War. | ||
| 1765 Stamp Act goes into effect in British colonies | ||
| 1776 Mission San Juan Capistrano founded in California | ||
| 1784 Maryland grants citizenship to Lafayette & his descendents | ||
| 1849 Dutch govt of Thorbecke forms | ||
| 1856 Following a Persian invasion of Afghanistan to occupy Herat, Britain declared war on Persia. | ||
| 1865 Zutphen-Fishing Dutch railway opens | ||
| 1866 1st Civil Rights Bill passes | ||
| 1871 Stephen Crane, the American writer best known for his novel "The Red Badge of Courage," was born. | ||
| 1876 King Willem III opens North Sea Canal (Amsterdam-IJmuiden) | ||
| 1877 Dutch govt of Heemskerk-Van Lynden resigns | ||
| 1878 Edward Scripps & John Sweeney found Penny Press (Cleveland Press) | ||
| 1885 Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Immortale Dei | ||
| 1889 North & South Dakota entered the union as the 39th & 40th states | ||
| 1914 German-British fleet battle at Coronel, Chile | ||
| 1914 Pope Benedictus Xv's encyclical Ad beatissimi, against integrity | ||
| 1918 102 die in a NYC BMT subway derailment at Malbone Street Brooklyn | ||
| 1918 Yugoslav battleship Viribus Unitis sunk by Italians | ||
| 1922 Ottoman Empire abolished | ||
| 1922 Queen Wilhelmina opens Dutch Historical Maritime museum in Amsterdam | ||
| 1928 Graf Zeppelin sets airship distance record of 6384 km | ||
| 1929 Lundy, part of British Isles, issue their own stamps | ||
| 1936 Italian dictator Benito Mussolini proclaimed the Rome-Berlin Axis after a visit to Berlin by Italian Foreign Secretary Ciano. | ||
| 1939 1st jet plane, Heinkel He 178, demonstrated to German Air Ministry | ||
| 1939 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Sertum laetitiae | ||
| 1940 1st US air raid shelter, Fleetwood, Pa | ||
| 1942 10th day of battle at El Alamein | ||
| 1942 Vice-admiral Cunningham becomes British commander-in-chief | ||
| 1945 1st issue of Ebony magazine published by John H Johnson | ||
| 1946 West German state of Niedersachsen formed | ||
| 1950 An unsuccessful attempt to assassinate U.S. President Harry Truman was made by two members of a Puerto Rican nationalist movement. | ||
| 1952 Fusion occurs for 1st time on Earth | ||
| 1954 Algeria begins rebellion against French rule | ||
| 1954 General Fulgencio Batista elected pres of Cuba | ||
| 1955 Time bomb aboard United DC-6 kills 44 above Longmont Colorado | ||
| 1956 Delhi becomes a territory of Indian union | ||
| 1956 Indian state of Madhya Pradesh forms | ||
| 1956 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Laetamur admodum | ||
| 1959 Patrice Lumumba arrested in Belgian Congo | ||
| 1963 South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother Ngo Dinh Nhu were killed in a military coup | ||
| 1964 Vietcong-assault on airport Bien Hoa at Saigon | ||
| 1968 University of Suriname opens | ||
| 1970 Fire on Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, France, 144 die | ||
| 1981 Antigua & Barbuda gains independence from Britain (National Day) | ||
| 1984 Rajiv Gandhi was sworn in as Indian prime minister amid anti-Sikh riots following the assassination of Indira Gandhi. | ||
| 1986 Fire in Sandoz-factory Basel, 30 tons of chemicals in the Rhin | ||
| 1987 Veteran revolutionaries left the center-stage of Chinese politics, including Deng Xiaoping. He was one of more than 90 members to step down from the party's guiding Central Committee | ||
| 1989 Scandinavian Airlines System bans smoking on many flights | ||
| 1993 The Maastricht Treaty came into effect, creating a new "European Union." | ||
| 1995 South Africans voted in their first all-race local government elections, completing the destruction of the apartheid system. | ||