- 630 Byzantine emperor Heraclius restores the True Cross to Jerusalem
- 717 Battle of Vincy: Charles Martel and the Austrasians defeat the King of the Franks, Chilperic II, and his mayor, Ragenfrid, in Cambrai during the Frankish Civil War
- 1188 Antoku ascends the throne as the 81st Emperor of Japan
1349 Black Death Massacre: Between 100 and 3,000 Jews are killed in Black Death riots in Erfurt, Germany; part of a wave of pogroms across Western Europe
King Henry V
1413 Henry of Monmouth, Prince of Wales, becomes King Henry V of England upon the death of his father
James I Addresses Parliament
1610 King James I of England and VI of Scotland addresses the English House of Commons
- 1681 Third Exclusion Parliament meets in Oxford and lasts for one week, the last time Parliament meets outside Westminster
Queen Anne Addresses Parliament
1702 Queen Anne addresses English parliament
- 1788 Fire destroys 856 buildings in New Orleans, Louisiana
Olaudah Equiano Petitions the King
1788 Olaudah Equiano (aka Gustavus Vassa), a freed slave, petitions King George III and Queen Charlotte, to free enslaved Africans
- 1791 Captain Hopley Yeaton becomes the first commissioned officer in the Revenue Marine, later the Revenue Cutter Service, the forerunner of the modern US Coast Guard
- 1804 Napoleonic Code is adopted in France, stressing clearly written and accessible law
- 1821 First revolutionary act in the Monastery of Agia Lavra, Kalavryta, during the Greek War of Independence
- 1821 Merger of the Hudson Bay Company and the North West Company, creating a monopoly of the fur trade in British North America [1]
- 1824 Fire at a Cairo ammunition dump kills 4,000 horses
String Quartet No. 13
1826 Beethoven's "String Quartet No. 13" in B flat major (Op 130) premieres in Vienna
- 1844 Origin of Baha'i Era-Baha'i calendar starts here (Baha 1, 1)
- 1844 The original date predicted by William Miller of Massachusetts for the return of Christ and the end of the world
- 1859 Scottish National Gallery opens in Edinburgh
- 1859 Zoological Society of Philadelphia, 1st in US, incorporated
The Mill on the Floss
1860 English novelist George Eliot finishes her novel "The Mill on the Floss" in Wandsworth, London
- 1863 Naval Engagement at Havana, Cuba: USS Henrick Hudson vs Confederate blockade runner Wild Pigeon
- 1864 Battle at Henderson's Hill (Bayou Rapids) Louisiana
- 1865 Battle of Bentonville ends, last Confederate effort to stop Sherman
- 1866 US Congress authorizes national soldiers' homes
- 1868 1st US professional women's club, Sorosis, forms in NYC
- 1885 2nd French government of Ferry resigns
- 1888 Arthur Pinero's "Sweet Lavender" premieres in London
- 1890 Austrian Jewish communities are defined by law
- 1899 British & French accord over West Africa
- 1907 US sends troops to Honduras to halt the Nicaraguan army takeover
- 1909 Germany sends Russia a diplomatic notes requesting recognition of the Austrian annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and cessation of support to Serbia in the controversy
- 1909 Moran & MacFarland (US) wins Europe's 1st 6 day bicycle race (Berlin)
- 1913 -26] Flood in Ohio, kills 400
- 1916 JP Van Limburg Stirum succeeds AWF Idenburg as Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies
- 1917 Loretta Walsh becomes US Navy's 1st female Petty Officer
- 1918 World War I: Germany launches Somme offensive
- 1921 Walter Kerr Theater (Ritz, CBS, NBC, ABC) opens at 223 W 48th St NYC
- 1922 KGW-AM in Portland OR begins radio transmissions
- 1923 US foreign minister Charles Hughes refuses USSR recognition
- 1924 1st foreign language course broadcast on US radio (WJZ, NYC)
- 1924 Mass Investors Trust becomes 1st mutual fund set up in US
- 1925 Edinburgh's Murreyfield Stadium officially opens
- 1925 Iran adopts Khorshidi solar Hijri calendar
- 1925 Tennessee Governor Austin Peay passes the "Butler Act," making Tennessee the first state to outlaw teaching the theory of evolution (repealed in 1967)
- 1927 Guomindang Army conquers Shanghai as British marines flee
- 1931 KRO-broadcast studio initiated in Hilversum Holland
The Day of Potsdam
1933 Day of Potsdam in Nazi Germany, a ceremony to open the new Reichstag after the fire in February; Adolf Hitler and Paul von Hindenburg shake hands in public
- 1934 Fire destroys Hakodate, Japan, killing about 1,500
- 1935 Jean Anouilh's play "Y avait un prisonnier" premieres in Paris
- 1935 Persia is officially renamed Iran
- 1937 Ponce massacre, police kill 19 at Puerto Rican Nationalist parade
- 1939 Nazi Germany demands the return of Danzig (Gdańsk) from Poland
Louis vs Simon
1941 In a hard fought 15th title defense Joe Louis KOs Abe Simon in the 13th round at Olympia Stadium, Detroit to retain NYSAC heavyweight boxing crown
- 1942 Convoy QP9 departs Great Britain to Murmansk
- 1943 Massacre of the town of Kalavryta, Greece by German Nazi troops.
South of France Invasion Postponed
1944 US General Eisenhower postpones invasion of the south of France until after Normandy
- 1945 1st Japanese kamikaze "flying bombs" (MXY-7 Ohka) attack Okinawa
- 1945 During WW II Allied bombers begin 4-day raid over Germany
- 1945 Dutch Resistance fighter Hannie Schaft arrested by Nazi police
- 1946 Kenny Washington signs with Rams, 1st black NFLer since 1933
- 1946 UN set up temporary HQ at Hunter (now Lehman) College (Bronx)
Fulgens Radiatur
1947 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Fulgens radiatur
- 1947 Test Cricket debut of Bert Sutcliffe, NZ v England at Christchurch
Executive Order 9835
1947 US President Harry Truman signs Executive Order 9835 requiring all federal employees to have "complete and unswerving loyalty to the United States"
- 1948 "Stop the Music" with Bert Parks premieres on ABC radio
- 1949 WTVJ TV channel 4 in Miami, FL (NBC/CBS) begins broadcasting
- 1951 2,900,000 US soldiers in Korea
- 1952 -22] Tornadoes in Arkansas, Tennessee, Missouri, Mississippi, Alabama and Kentucky cause 343 deaths
First Rock & Roll Concert
1952 20,000 people attempt to attend the first-ever rock & roll concert when Alan Freed presents "The Moondog Coronation Ball" at the old 12,000-seat Cleveland Arena; performers include Paul Williams and the Hucklebuckers, Tiny Grimes and the Rocking Highlanders, The Dominoes, and Varetta Dillard
- 1953 NBA record 106 fouls & 12 players foul out (Boston-Syracuse)
- 1954 KFBB TV channel 5 in Great Falls, MT (ABC/CBS/NBC) begins broadcasting
- 1955 Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus advocates for Cyprus to join Greece
- 1955 Brooklyn Bulletin ask Dodger fans not to call their team "Bums"
- 1956 "The Rose Tattoo" wins 3 Academy awards, including Anna Manini for Best Actress and Cinematography (Black & White)
- 1958 Dr. Ernest Lawrence, nuclear scientist and Nobel laureate, receives first West Point Sylvanus Thayer Award, presented to an outstanding US citizen whose service in the national interest exemplifies devotion to ideals of West Point motto: "Duty, Honor, Country"
- 1958 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
- 1960 Sharpeville Massacre: Police kill 72 in South Africa & outlaws ANC
Sports History
1961 Art Modell purchases Cleveland Browns for then record sum ($3,925,000)
- 1962 Dutch RC bishop Beckers declares himself in favor of birth control
- 1962 Philadelphia Phillies retire pitcher Robin Roberts' # 36
- 1962 Yogi the bear becomes the first creature ejected at supersonic speeds by the US military during testing of ejection seats
1963 Alcatraz prison in San Francisco Bay is closed
- 1963 Martin Walser's "Überlebensgross Herr Krott" premieres in Stuttgart
- 1964 Beatles' single "She Loves You" goes to #1 in the US and stays at #1 for two weeks
- 1965 US Ranger 9 launched; takes 5,814 pictures before lunar impact
- 1966 American medical drama series "Ben Casey", starring Vince Edwards and Sam Jaffe, ends a five season run on ABC-TV
- 1966 US Supreme Court reverses Massachusetts ruling that "Fanny Hill" is obscene
Thoroughly Modern Millie
1967 Musical comedy film "Thoroughly Modern Millie", starring Julie Andrews, Mary Tyler Moore, and Carol Channing, premieres at the Criterion Theatre, NYC
- 1968 "Royals" chosen as the name of new KC AL franchise
- 1968 Hill, Hawkins & Coghill's musical premieres in London
- 1968 Israeli forces cross Jordan River to attack PLO bases
- 1969 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- 1970 Vinko Bogataj crashes during a ski-jumping championship in Germany; his image becomes that of the "agony of defeat guy" in the opening credits of ABC's Wide World of Sports.
- 1971 Vermont seasonal snowfall totals 132.2"
- 1971 WCPB TV channel 28 in Salisbury, MD (PBS) begins broadcasting
- 1972 US Supreme Court rules states can't require 1-yr residency to vote
- 1973 First Met Gala held with a theme honoring designer Balenciaga in New York
Sports History
1973 Montreal Canadiens' left wing Frank Mahovlich becomes 5th NHL player to score 500 goals
Event of Interest
1973 White House Counsel John Dean tells US President Richard Nixon, "There is a cancer growing on the Presidency"
- 1974 Attempt made to kidnap Princess Anne in London's Pall Mall
- 1975 Ethiopia abolishes its monarchy after 3,000 years
- 1978 Padres fire Al Dark (2nd manager ever fired during spring training)
- 1978 San Francisco passes the most comprehensive homosexual rights bill in US history
- 1979 Egyptian Parliament unanimously approve peace treaty with Israel
Television Finale
1980 On season finale cliffhanger of TV show "Dallas", villain J.R. Ewing is shot by unknown assailant
- 1981 9-time World Grand Prix motorcycle champion Mike Hailwood along with his 9-year-old daughter Michelle are killed when his Rover SD1 collides with a truck near their home in Tanworth-in-Arden in England
- 1982 "Little Johnny Jones" opens & closes at Alvin Theater NYC
- 1982 Jerry Pate celebrates golf win by jumping into the water hazard
- 1983 Only known typo on Time Magazine cover (control=contol), all recalled
- 1984 NFL owners pass the infamous anti-celebration rule
Music History
1984 Part of Central Park in New York City is named "Strawberry Fields" honoring John Lennon
- 1984 Soviet sub crashes into USS aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk off Japan
Hall of Fame
1985 Arthur Ashe is nominated for the International Tennis Hall of Fame
- 1985 Bloodbath at Langa (Uitenhage) South-Africa, 19 killed
Sports History
1985 Canadian Rick Hansen sets off on his 'Man in Motion' world tour in his wheelchair raising money for spinal research, from Oakridge Mall, Vancouver (successfully completes May 1987) [1]
- 1986 Kania skates ladies world record 500 m (39.52 sec) & 3 km (4:18.02)
- 1986 Pittsburgh Associates buy Pittsburgh Pirates for $218 million
- 1987 PSV sells soccer player Ruud Gullit to AC Milan (Ÿ17 million)
- 1989 1st sea test of Trident 2 missile self-destructs, Cape Canaveral, Florida
- 1990 "Normal Life" starring Max Gail, Moon Unit and Dweezil Zappa premieres on CBS-TV
- 1990 Namibia becomes independent of South Africa, Sam Nujoma becomes president
- 1991 27 crew members are lost at sea when two US Navy anti-submarine planes collide
- 1991 Quebec Nordiques goaltender Ron Tugnutt sets NHL modern-day record for most saves in a regular season non-loss game (70 of 73 shots in 3-3 tie with the Boston Bruins
Pro Wrestling
1991 Tatsumi Fujinami beats Ric Flair for NWA wrestling championship
- 1991 UN Security Council panel lifts the food embargo on Iraq
- 1992 Pakistan scores 6-264 to overhaul NZ in exciting World Cup cricket semi
Beatification
1993 Pope John Paul II beatifies Duns Scotus, a philosopher-theologian of the Middle Ages
- 1993 South Africa White Wolves kill 5-year-old black girl
- 1994 Anne P Sidamon-Eristoff named chairwoman of Museum of National History
Music History
1994 English actor Dudley Moore arrested for hitting his girlfriend
- 1994 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) enters into force after being ratified by the required number of nations
- 1995 NYC agrees to sell its 2 owned radio stations (WNYC AM & FM)
Selena
1997 Film "Selena" is released based on the life of singer Selena Quintanilla-Pérez, starring Jennifer Lopez in her breakthrough role, directed by Gregory Nava
- 1997 Ice Dance Championship in Lausanne, Switzerland won by Oksana Grishuk & Evgeny Platov (Rus)
- 1999 Swiss aviator Bertrand Piccard and British aviator Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon
- 2000 NSYNC release their 4th studio album “No Strings Attached” (2000 Billboard Album of the Year)
- 2002 Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and three others are charged with murder for the kidnapping and killing of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in Pakistan
- 2002 Schoolgirl Amanda Dowler is abducted in broad daylight on her way home from Heathside School in Walton-on-Thames, England
- 2004 In Malaysia, the 11th Federal and State elections are held, returning the ruling coalition Barisan Nasional to power with an increased majority
- 2004 Western series "Deadwood" created by David Milch, starring Ian McShane and Timothy Olyphant, premieres on HBO
Event of Interest
2006 First ever tweet sent out by Twitter founder Jack Dorsey: "just setting up my twttr"
- 2006 Immigrant workers building the Burj Khalifa and a new terminal at Dubai International Airport in the United Arab Emirates join together and riot, causing $1 million in damage
- 2012 Five former Guatemalan paramilitaries are sentenced to 7,710 years in jail for their role in the Plan de Sanchez massacre in 1982
- 2012 Greek Parliament votes in favour of an international bailout deal
- 2012 Sergio Agüero & Samir Nasri score to give Manchester City 2-1 win over Chelsea at City of Manchester Stadium; EPL record 20th consecutive home win; streak ends with 3-3 draw v Sunderland 31/3
- 2013 12 people are killed and 30 are injured by a car bombing in Peshawar, Pakistan
- 2013 24 people are killed and 100 are injured by a tornado and hail storm in southern China
- 2013 42 people are killed and 84 are injured by a bombing in a mosque in Damascus, Syria
- 2013 A barter dispute gets out of control and results in 10 people being killed, 20 injured, and four mosques burnt to the ground in Myanmar
- 2013 At least 45 people drown and 60 are missing after a Nigerian boat sinks off the shore of Gabon
- 2013 European Space Agency reveals new data indicating that the universe is 13.82 billion years old
- 2013 Martin Gould defeats Ali Carter to win the snooker 2013 Championship League
Olympic Gold
2014 Canadian freestyle skier (moguls) and two-time Olympic gold medalist Alexandre Bilodeau retires at 26
- 2014 Russia formally annexes Crimea amid international condemnation
- 2017 Haitian-American singer Wyclef Jean wrongly identified as a suspect, handcuffed and detained by LA county sheriff’s department
- 2018 African trade deal agreed by 44 African countries in Kigali, Rwanda
- 2018 Austin bombing suspect Mark Conditt kills himself in chase with police in Austin, Texas
- 2018 China announces greater controls over the media, including merging state-run radio and television broadcasters into a single conglomerate called “Voice of China”
- 2018 Dave Patterson and John Hennessy win the Turing Award for their work on RISC computer chips
- 2018 English TV presenter Ant McPartlin charged with drink driving following an accident in London
Event of Interest
2018 Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg admits they "made mistakes" after data on 50 million users is harvested by Cambridge Analytica
- 2018 Nigerian government confirms 101 out of 110 schoolgirls kidnapped from Dapchi returned
- 2018 Palestinian teenager Ahed Tamimi accepts plea deal for 8 months in prison after slapping Israeli officer
- 2018 Peru's President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski offers his resignation amid vote-buying scandal
- 2018 Suicide bomber kills 31 in crowd celebrating Persian New Year in Kabul, Afghanistan
- 2019 A huge blast from a chemical factory in Chenjiagang Chemical Industry Park in eastern China is so big it registers as an earthquake, kills 78 people and injuries 617
- 2019 Bangladeshi woman with two uteruses safely gives birth to twins 26 days after giving birth to another child
Film & TV History
2019 Emilia Clarke reveals she suffered two brain aneurysms while filming "Games of Thrones" in an article for "The New Yorker"
Event of Interest
2019 Former Brazilian President Michel Temer is arrested in São Paulo as part of a large corruption investigation
- 2019 Governor of Missouri Mike Parson declares a state of emergency as flooding from Nebraska and Iowa flows downstream into the state
Sports History
2019 Japanese baseball right fielder Ichiro Suzuki finishes his career with a record 4,367 base hits (NPB & MLB) as Seattle Mariners beat the Oakland A's, 5-4 in Tokyo, Japan
Event of Interest
2019 Levi Strauss & Company is traded publicly for the second time in its history on the New York Stock Exchange
Event of Interest
2019 New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announces a ban on military-style semiautomatic weapons, 6 days after the Christchurch terrorist attack
- 2019 Overloaded boat sinks in the Tigris river near Mosul, Iraq, drowning nearly 100
Music Concert
2019 Ringo Starr's fourteenth All-Starr Band debuts in concert; members include: Steve Lukather, Gregg Rolie, Colin Hay, Hamish Stuart, Gregg Bissonette, and Warren Ham
- 2020 Italy records record daily death toll of 793 for COVID-19 as the worldwide death tolls surpasses 12,000 with 299,000 known infections (Johns Hopkins figures)
- 2021 45 crushed to death in a crowd paying respects to the late President John Magufuli at a stadium in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
- 2022 178 wildfires have burnt more than 108,000 acres across southwest Texas according to local fire officials with 23 still active [1]
- 2022 China Eastern Airlines jetliner crashes in mountains in Guangxi region, China, with 132 people on board
- 2022 Ketanji Brown Jackson's Supreme Court confirmation hearings begin in Washington D.C.
Event of Interest
2022 Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador inaugurates Felipe Angeles International Airport to serve Mexico City [1]
- 2023 5th World Baseball Classic: Japan wins the international tournament for their third time, with a 3-2 win over United States at LoanDepot Park in Miami, Florida
- 2023 6.5-magnitude earthquake strikes Afghanistan's north-east near the border with Pakistan, killing at least 19 and injuring over 200 people [1]
- 2023 Ugandan government passes Anti Homosexuality Bill, including punishment of 10 years in prison for identifying as LGBTQ+ [1]
Brain-Chip Patient Plays Chess
2024 Elon Musk's Neuralink company posts a video of a patient playing chess online using a brain implant [1]
- 2024 Social media company Reddit makes it's debut on the New York Stock Exchange, it's shares rising 48% [1]
- 2025 Major power outage caused by a fire at a nearby electricity substation forces Heathrow Airport, London, to shut down completely, stopping more than 1,300 flights and disrupting more than 270,000 passenger journeys [1]
Event of Interest
2026 UK version of "Saturday Night Live," created by Lorne Michaels and featuring comedians Hammed Animashaun, Ayoade Bamgboye, and Larry Dean, premieres on Sky One
