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96 — Emperor Domitian is assassinated as a result of a plot by his ...
324 — Constantine the Great decisively defeats Licinius in the Battle ...
1048 — Battle of Kapetron between a combined Byzantine-Georgian army ...
1066 — Norwegian king Harald Hardrada lands with Tostig Godwinson at ...
1180 — Philip Augustus becomes king of France at the age of fifteen.
1454 — Thirteen Years' War: In the Battle of Chojnice, the ...
1544 — The expedition of Juan Bautista Pastene makes landfall in San ...
1618 — The twelfth baktun in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar ...
1714 — George I arrives in Great Britain after becoming king on ...
1739 — The Treaty of Belgrade is signed, whereby Austria cedes lands ...
1759 — French and Indian War: The Articles of Capitulation of Quebec ...
1793 — The first cornerstone of the United States Capitol is laid by ...
1809 — The Royal Opera House in London opens.
1810 — First Government Junta in Chile. Though supposed to rule only ...
1812 — The 1812 Fire of Moscow dies down after destroying more than ...
1837 — Tiffany & Co. (first named Tiffany & Young) is founded ...
1838 — The Anti-Corn Law League is established by Richard Cobden.
1850 — The U.S. Congress passes the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.
1851 — First publication of The New-York Daily Times, which later ...
1860 — Wars of Italian Unification: Battle of Castelfidardo: Royal ...
1860 — Second Opium War: Battle of Zhangjiawan: Now heading towards ...
1862 — The Confederate States celebrate for the first and only time a ...
1863 — American Civil War: The Battle of Chickamauga begins between ...
1864 — American Civil War: John Bell Hood begins the ...
1867 — The fourth and current State Constitution of Maryland is ...
1867 — The first provincial election for the Nova Scotia Legislative ...
1870 — During an expedition to the Wyoming Territory, Henry D. ...
1873 — The U.S. bank Jay Cooke & Company declares bankruptcy, ...
1879 — The Blackpool Illuminations are switched on for the first time.
1882 — The Pacific Stock Exchange opens.
1885 — Five Chinese people were lynched outside of Pierce City in the ...
1897 — Veal Oscar, a dish of veal, seafood, asparagus, and Bernaise ...
1898 — The Fashoda Incident triggers the last war scare between ...
1906 — The 1906 Hong Kong typhoon kills an estimated 10,000 people.
1910 — In Washington, D.C., George Owen Squier demonstrated the first ...
1914 — The Irish Home Rule Act becomes law, but is delayed until ...
1915 — The Saturday Evening Post publishes the short story ...
1919 — In the Netherlands, a law granting full voting rights to women ...
1919 — Fritz Pollard becomes the first African American to play ...
1921 — Rif War: In Ajdir, Spanish Morocco, a secessionist group of ...
1922 — The Kingdom of Hungary is admitted to the League of Nations.
1924 — The U.S. ends its military occupation of the Dominican ...
1926 — A hurricane devastates Miami, Florida, killing 372 people.
1927 — The Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air.
1928 — Juan de la Cierva makes the first Autogyro crossing of the ...
1931 — Imperial Japan instigates the Mukden incident as a pretext to ...
1932 — The body of actress Peg Entwistle is discovered by police, two ...
1934 — The Soviet Union is admitted to the League of Nations.
1939 — World War II: The radio show Germany Calling begins ...
1939 — World War II: The Polish government of Ignacy Mościcki flees ...
1941 — World War II: The Soviet Union introduces conscription for all ...
1943 — World War II: Adolf Hitler orders the deportation of Danish ...
1944 — World War II: The Battle of Arracourt begins.
1944 — World War II: Operation Market Garden results in the ...
1944 — World War II: The British submarine HMS Tradewind torpedoes ...
1945 — General Douglas MacArthur moves his general headquarters from ...
1947 — The National Security Act reorganizes the United States ...
1948 — Margaret Chase Smith of Maine becomes the first woman elected ...
1948 — Operation Polo is terminated after the Indian Army accepts the ...
1950 — TV Tupi Difusora, the first television station to broadcast in ...
1950 — Korean War: U.S. Eighth Army and United Nations forces break ...
1954 — Finnish president J. K. Paasikivi becomes the first Western ...
1955 — A four-person landing party, led by Lt.-Cdr. Desmond Scott RN, ...
1958 — The Bank of America introduces its first credit card, the ...
1960 — Fidel Castro arrives in New York City as the head of the Cuban ...
1961 — United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld dies in an ...
1962 — Aeroflot Flight 213 crashes into a mountain near Chersky ...
1962 — Burundi, Jamaica, Rwanda and Trinidad and Tobago are admitted ...
1964 — The first television adaptation of Charles Addams's ...
1964 — The wedding of Constantine II of Greece and Princess ...
1965 — Mel Brooks and Buck Henry's spy-comedy series Get Smart ...
1973 — The Bahamas, East Germany and West Germany are admitted to the ...
1974 — Hurricane Fifi strikes Honduras with 110 mph winds, killing ...
1977 — Voyager I takes the first distant photograph of the Earth and ...
1980 — Soyuz 38 carries two cosmonauts (including one Cuban) to the ...
1981 — The Assemblée Nationale votes to abolish capital punishment in ...
1984 — Joe Kittinger completes the first solo balloon crossing of the ...
1988 — The Magna Charta Universitatum, asserting key principles ...
1988 — General Henri Namphy, president of Haiti, is ousted from power ...
1988 — The 8888 Uprising in Myanmar comes to an end.
1989 — An attempted coup d'état against Burkina Faso president ...
1990 — Liechtenstein becomes a member of the United Nations.
1992 — An explosion rocks Giant Mine at the height of a labor ...
1997 — The Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention is adopted.
1997 — United States media magnate Ted Turner donates US$1 billion to ...
2001 — First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in ...
2006 — The CW Television Network debuts in the US, following the ...
2007 — Buddhist monks join anti-government protesters in Myanmar, ...
2009 — After 72 years on radio and television, CBS Television ...
2010 — Philippe Croizon becomes the first quadruple amputee to swim ...
2011 — The 2011 Sikkim earthquake is felt across northeastern India, ...
2014 — Scotland votes against independence from the United Kingdom, ...
2015 — Two security personnel, 17 worshippers in a mosque, and 13 ...
2016 — The 2016 Uri attack in Jammu and Kashmir, India by terrorist ...
2017 — Toy retail chain Toys "R" Us files for bankruptcy ...
2018 — Cannabis is legalized in South Africa, through a ruling of the ...