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Events:C/P.
293 Roman Emperors Diocletian and Maximian appoint Galerius as Caesar to Diocletian, beginning the period of four rulers known as the Tetrarchy.
878 Syracuse, Italy, is captured by the Muslim sultan of Sicily.
879 Pope John VIII gives blessings to duke Branimir and to Croatian people, considered to be international recognition of the Croatian state.
996 Sixteen-year-old Otto III is crowned Holy Roman Emperor.
1349 Duan's Code, the constitution of the Serbian Empire, is enacted by Duan the Mighty.
1502 The island of Saint Helena is discovered by the Portuguese explorer Joγo da Nova.
1554 A royal Charter is granted to Derby School as a grammar school for boys in Derby, England, by Queen Mary I.
1674 The nobility elect John Sobieski King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania.
1725 The Order of St. Alexander Nevsky is instituted in Russia by Empress Catherine I. It would later be discontinued and then reinstated by the Soviet government in 1942 as the Order of Alexander Nevsky.
1758 Ten-year-old Mary Campbell is abducted in Pennsylvania by Lenape during the French and Indian War. (She would be returned some six and a half years later.)
1809 The first day of the Battle of Aspern-Essling between the Austrian army led by Archduke Charles and the French army led by Napoleon I of France sees the French attack across the Danube held.
1851 Slavery is abolished in Colombia, South America.
1856 Lawrence, Kansas is captured and burned by pro-slavery forces.
1863 American Civil War: The Union Army succeeds in closing off the last escape route from Port Hudson, Louisiana, in preparation for the coming siege.
1863 Organization of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Battle Creek, Michigan.
1864 Russia declares an end to the Russian-Circassian War and many Circassians are forced into exile. The day is designated the Circassian Day of Mourning.
1871 French troops invade the Paris Commune and engage its residents in street fighting. By the close of "Bloody Week" some 20,000 communards have been killed and 38,000 arrested.
1871 Opening of the first rack railway in Europe, the Rigi-Bahnen on Mount Rigi.
1879 War of the Pacific: Two Chilean ships blocking the harbor of Iquique (then belonging to Peru) battle two Peruvian vessels in the Battle of Iquique.
1881 The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton in Washington, D.C..
1894 The Manchester Ship Canal in England is officially opened by Queen Victoria, who later knights its designer Sir Edward Leader Williams.
1904 The Fιdιration Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is founded in Paris.
1911 Mexican President Porfirio Dνaz and the revolutionary Francisco Madero sign the Treaty of Ciudad Juαrez to put an end to the fighting between the forces of both men, and thus concluding the initial phase of the Mexican Revolution.
1917 The Commonwealth War Graves Commission is established through Royal Charter to mark, record and maintain the graves and places of commemoration of Commonwealth of Nations military forces.
1917 The Great Atlanta fire of 1917 causes $5.5 million in damages, destroying some 300 acres including 2,000 homes, businesses and churches, displacing about 10,000 people and leading to only fatality (due to heart attack).
1924 University of Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr. murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a "thrill killing".
1927 Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
1932 Bad weather forces Amelia Earhart to land in a pasture in Derry, Northern Ireland, and she thereby becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
1934 Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes the first municipality in the United States to fingerprint all of its citizens.
1936 Sada Abe is arrested after wandering the streets of Tokyo for days with her dead lover's severed genitals in her hand. Her story soon becomes one of Japan's most notorious scandals.
1937 A Soviet station, North Pole-1, becomes the first scientific research settlement to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean.
1939 The Canadian National War Memorial is unveiled by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in Ottawa.
1946 Physicist Louis Slotin is fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
1951 The opening of the Ninth Street Show, otherwise known as the 9th Street Art Exhibition a gathering of a number of notable artists, and the stepping-out of the post war New York avant-garde, collectively known as the New York School.
1961 American civil rights movement: Alabama Governor John Malcolm Patterson declares martial law in an attempt to restore order after race riots break out.
1966 The Ulster Volunteer Force declares war on the Irish Republican Army in Northern Ireland.
1969 Civil unrest in Rosario, Argentina, known as Rosariazo, following the death of a 15-year-old student.
1972 Michelangelo's Pietΰ in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome is damaged by a vandal, the mentally disturbed Hungarian geologist Laszlo Toth.
1976 The Yuba City bus disaster occurs in Martinez, California, 29 people are killed which makes it the deadliest road accident in U.S. history.
1979 White Night riots in San Francisco following the manslaughter conviction of Dan White for the assassinations of George Moscone and Harvey Milk.
1981 Irish Republican hunger strikers Raymond McCreesh and Patsy OHara die on hunger strike in Maze prison.
1981 The Italian government releases the membership list of Propaganda Due, an illegal pseudo-Masonic lodge that was implicated in numerous Italian crimes and mysteries.
1982 Falklands War: British amphibious assault during Operation Sutton lead to the Battle of San Carlos.
1990 The Democratic Republic of Yemen and North Yemen agree to merge into the Republic of Yemen.
1991 Former Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated by a female suicide bomber near Madras.
1991 Mengistu Haile Mariam, president of the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, flees Ethiopia, effectively bringing the Ethiopian Civil War to an end.
1994 The Democratic Republic of Yemen unsuccessful attempts to secede from the Republic of Yemen; a war breaks out.
1996 The ferry MV Bukoba sinks in Tanzanian waters on Lake Victoria, killing nearly 1,000.
1996 The Trappist Martyrs of Atlas, kidnapped during the Algerian Civil War and held for two months, are found dead.
1998 In Miami, Florida, five abortion clinics are hit by a butyric acid attacker.
2001 French Taubira law is enacted, officially recognizing the Atlantic slave trade and slavery as crimes against humanity.
2003 An earthquake hits northern Algeria killing more than 2,000 people.
2005 The tallest roller coaster in the world, Kingda Ka opens at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson Township, New Jersey.
2006 The Republic of Montenegro holds a referendum proposing independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro. The Montenegrin people choose independence with a majority of 55%.
2010 JAXA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, launches the solar-sail spacecraft IKAROS aboard an H-IIA rocket. The vessel would make a Venus flyby late in the year.
End of C/P.
Events:C/P.
293 Roman Emperors Diocletian and Maximian appoint Galerius as Caesar to Diocletian, beginning the period of four rulers known as the Tetrarchy.
878 Syracuse, Italy, is captured by the Muslim sultan of Sicily.
879 Pope John VIII gives blessings to duke Branimir and to Croatian people, considered to be international recognition of the Croatian state.
996 Sixteen-year-old Otto III is crowned Holy Roman Emperor.
1349 Duan's Code, the constitution of the Serbian Empire, is enacted by Duan the Mighty.
1502 The island of Saint Helena is discovered by the Portuguese explorer Joγo da Nova.
1554 A royal Charter is granted to Derby School as a grammar school for boys in Derby, England, by Queen Mary I.
1674 The nobility elect John Sobieski King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania.
1725 The Order of St. Alexander Nevsky is instituted in Russia by Empress Catherine I. It would later be discontinued and then reinstated by the Soviet government in 1942 as the Order of Alexander Nevsky.
1758 Ten-year-old Mary Campbell is abducted in Pennsylvania by Lenape during the French and Indian War. (She would be returned some six and a half years later.)
1809 The first day of the Battle of Aspern-Essling between the Austrian army led by Archduke Charles and the French army led by Napoleon I of France sees the French attack across the Danube held.
1851 Slavery is abolished in Colombia, South America.
1856 Lawrence, Kansas is captured and burned by pro-slavery forces.
1863 American Civil War: The Union Army succeeds in closing off the last escape route from Port Hudson, Louisiana, in preparation for the coming siege.
1863 Organization of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Battle Creek, Michigan.
1864 Russia declares an end to the Russian-Circassian War and many Circassians are forced into exile. The day is designated the Circassian Day of Mourning.
1871 French troops invade the Paris Commune and engage its residents in street fighting. By the close of "Bloody Week" some 20,000 communards have been killed and 38,000 arrested.
1871 Opening of the first rack railway in Europe, the Rigi-Bahnen on Mount Rigi.
1879 War of the Pacific: Two Chilean ships blocking the harbor of Iquique (then belonging to Peru) battle two Peruvian vessels in the Battle of Iquique.
1881 The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton in Washington, D.C..
1894 The Manchester Ship Canal in England is officially opened by Queen Victoria, who later knights its designer Sir Edward Leader Williams.
1904 The Fιdιration Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is founded in Paris.
1911 Mexican President Porfirio Dνaz and the revolutionary Francisco Madero sign the Treaty of Ciudad Juαrez to put an end to the fighting between the forces of both men, and thus concluding the initial phase of the Mexican Revolution.
1917 The Commonwealth War Graves Commission is established through Royal Charter to mark, record and maintain the graves and places of commemoration of Commonwealth of Nations military forces.
1917 The Great Atlanta fire of 1917 causes $5.5 million in damages, destroying some 300 acres including 2,000 homes, businesses and churches, displacing about 10,000 people and leading to only fatality (due to heart attack).
1924 University of Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr. murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a "thrill killing".
1927 Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
1932 Bad weather forces Amelia Earhart to land in a pasture in Derry, Northern Ireland, and she thereby becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
1934 Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes the first municipality in the United States to fingerprint all of its citizens.
1936 Sada Abe is arrested after wandering the streets of Tokyo for days with her dead lover's severed genitals in her hand. Her story soon becomes one of Japan's most notorious scandals.
1937 A Soviet station, North Pole-1, becomes the first scientific research settlement to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean.
1939 The Canadian National War Memorial is unveiled by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in Ottawa.
1946 Physicist Louis Slotin is fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
1951 The opening of the Ninth Street Show, otherwise known as the 9th Street Art Exhibition a gathering of a number of notable artists, and the stepping-out of the post war New York avant-garde, collectively known as the New York School.
1961 American civil rights movement: Alabama Governor John Malcolm Patterson declares martial law in an attempt to restore order after race riots break out.
1966 The Ulster Volunteer Force declares war on the Irish Republican Army in Northern Ireland.
1969 Civil unrest in Rosario, Argentina, known as Rosariazo, following the death of a 15-year-old student.
1972 Michelangelo's Pietΰ in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome is damaged by a vandal, the mentally disturbed Hungarian geologist Laszlo Toth.
1976 The Yuba City bus disaster occurs in Martinez, California, 29 people are killed which makes it the deadliest road accident in U.S. history.
1979 White Night riots in San Francisco following the manslaughter conviction of Dan White for the assassinations of George Moscone and Harvey Milk.
1981 Irish Republican hunger strikers Raymond McCreesh and Patsy OHara die on hunger strike in Maze prison.
1981 The Italian government releases the membership list of Propaganda Due, an illegal pseudo-Masonic lodge that was implicated in numerous Italian crimes and mysteries.
1982 Falklands War: British amphibious assault during Operation Sutton lead to the Battle of San Carlos.
1990 The Democratic Republic of Yemen and North Yemen agree to merge into the Republic of Yemen.
1991 Former Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated by a female suicide bomber near Madras.
1991 Mengistu Haile Mariam, president of the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, flees Ethiopia, effectively bringing the Ethiopian Civil War to an end.
1994 The Democratic Republic of Yemen unsuccessful attempts to secede from the Republic of Yemen; a war breaks out.
1996 The ferry MV Bukoba sinks in Tanzanian waters on Lake Victoria, killing nearly 1,000.
1996 The Trappist Martyrs of Atlas, kidnapped during the Algerian Civil War and held for two months, are found dead.
1998 In Miami, Florida, five abortion clinics are hit by a butyric acid attacker.
2001 French Taubira law is enacted, officially recognizing the Atlantic slave trade and slavery as crimes against humanity.
2003 An earthquake hits northern Algeria killing more than 2,000 people.
2005 The tallest roller coaster in the world, Kingda Ka opens at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson Township, New Jersey.
2006 The Republic of Montenegro holds a referendum proposing independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro. The Montenegrin people choose independence with a majority of 55%.
2010 JAXA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, launches the solar-sail spacecraft IKAROS aboard an H-IIA rocket. The vessel would make a Venus flyby late in the year.
End of C/P.