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Events:C/P.
68 The Roman Senate proclaims Galba as emperor.
218 Battle of Antioch: Elagabalus defeats with support of the Syrian legions the forces of emperor Macrinus. He flees, but is captured near Chalcedon and later executed in Cappadocia.
793 Vikings raid the abbey at Lindisfarne in Northumbria, commonly accepted as the beginning of the Scandinavian invasion of England.
1191 Richard I arrives in Acre (Palestine) thus beginning his crusade.
1405 Richard le Scrope, Archbishop of York and Thomas Mowbray, Earl of Norfolk, are executed in York on Henry IV's orders.
1690 Siddi general Yadi Sakat, razes the Mazagon Fort in Mumbai.
1776 American Revolutionary War: Battle of Trois-Riviθres American attackers are driven back at Trois-Riviθres, Quebec.
1783 The volcano Laki, in Iceland, begins an eight-month eruption which kills over 9,000 people and starts a seven-year famine.
1789 James Madison introduces twelve proposed amendments to the United States Constitution in the House of Representatives; by 1791, ten of them are ratified by the state legislatures and become the Bill of Rights; another is eventually ratified in 1992 to become the 27th Amendment.
1794 Robespierre inaugurates the French Revolution's new state religion, the Cult of the Supreme Being, with large organized festivals all across France.
1856 A group of 194 Pitcairn Islanders, descendants of the mutineers of HMS Bounty, arrives at Norfolk Island commencing the Third Settlement of the Island.
1861 American Civil War: Tennessee secedes from the Union.
1862 American Civil War: Battle of Cross Keys Confederate forces under General Stonewall Jackson save the Army of Northern Virginia from a Union assault on the James Peninsula led by General George B. McClellan.
1887 Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,791 for the 'Art of Applying Statistics' his punched card calculator.
1906 Theodore Roosevelt signs the Antiquities Act into law, authorizing the President to restrict the use of certain parcels of public land with historical or conservation value.
1912 Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.
1928 Second Northern Expedition: The National Revolutionary Army captures Peking, whose name is changed to Beiping ("Northern peace").
1941 World War II: Allies invade Syria and Lebanon.
1942 World War II: Japanese imperial submarines I-21 and I-24 shell the Australian cities of Sydney and Newcastle.
1948 Milton Berle hosts the debut of Texaco Star Theater.
1949 Celebrities Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson are named in an FBI report as Communist Party members.
1949 George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is published.
1950 Sir Thomas Blamey becomes the only Australian-born Field Marshal in Australian history.
1953 Flint-Worcester tornado outbreak sequence: A tornado hits Flint, Michigan, and kills 115.
1953 The United States Supreme Court rules that Washington, D.C. restaurants could not refuse to serve black patrons.
1959 The USS Barbero and United States Postal Service attempt the delivery of mail via Missile Mail.
1966 An F-104 Starfighter collides with XB-70 Valkyrie prototype no. 2 destroying both planes during a photo shoot near Edwards Air Force Base. NASA pilot Joseph A. Walker and United States Air Force test pilot Carl Cross are both killed.
1966 Topeka, Kansas is devastated by a tornado that registers as an "F5" on the Fujita Scale: the first to exceed US$100 million in damages. Sixteen people are killed, hundreds more injured, and thousands of homes damaged or destroyed.
1967 Six-Day War: The USS Liberty incident occurs, killing 34 and wounding 171.
1967 Six-Day War: The Israeli army enters Hebron and the Cave of the Patriarchs.
1968 Robert F. Kennedy's funeral takes place at the Basilica of St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York City.
1972 Vietnam War: Associated Press photographer Nick Ut takes his Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of a naked 9-year-old Phan Thị Kim Phϊc running down a road after being burned by napalm.
1982 Bluff Cove Air Attacks during the Falklands War: 56 British servicemen are killed by Argentine air attack on two landing ships : RFA Sir Galahad and RFA Sir Tristram.
1984 Homosexuality is declared legal in the Australian state of New South Wales.
1987 New Zealand's Labour government establishes a national nuclear-free zone under the New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament, and Arms Control Act 1987
1992 The first World Ocean Day is celebrated, coinciding with the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
1995 Downed U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia.
2004 The first Venus Transit in modern history takes place, the previous one being in 1882.
2007 Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, is hit by the State's worst storms and flooding in 30 years resulting in the death of nine people and the grounding of trade ship, the MV Pasha Bulker.
2008 The Akihabara massacre takes place in the Akihabara shopping quarter in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. Tomohiro Katō drives a two-ton truck into a crowd before leaving the truck and attacking people with a knife.
End of C/P.
Events:C/P.
68 The Roman Senate proclaims Galba as emperor.
218 Battle of Antioch: Elagabalus defeats with support of the Syrian legions the forces of emperor Macrinus. He flees, but is captured near Chalcedon and later executed in Cappadocia.
793 Vikings raid the abbey at Lindisfarne in Northumbria, commonly accepted as the beginning of the Scandinavian invasion of England.
1191 Richard I arrives in Acre (Palestine) thus beginning his crusade.
1405 Richard le Scrope, Archbishop of York and Thomas Mowbray, Earl of Norfolk, are executed in York on Henry IV's orders.
1690 Siddi general Yadi Sakat, razes the Mazagon Fort in Mumbai.
1776 American Revolutionary War: Battle of Trois-Riviθres American attackers are driven back at Trois-Riviθres, Quebec.
1783 The volcano Laki, in Iceland, begins an eight-month eruption which kills over 9,000 people and starts a seven-year famine.
1789 James Madison introduces twelve proposed amendments to the United States Constitution in the House of Representatives; by 1791, ten of them are ratified by the state legislatures and become the Bill of Rights; another is eventually ratified in 1992 to become the 27th Amendment.
1794 Robespierre inaugurates the French Revolution's new state religion, the Cult of the Supreme Being, with large organized festivals all across France.
1856 A group of 194 Pitcairn Islanders, descendants of the mutineers of HMS Bounty, arrives at Norfolk Island commencing the Third Settlement of the Island.
1861 American Civil War: Tennessee secedes from the Union.
1862 American Civil War: Battle of Cross Keys Confederate forces under General Stonewall Jackson save the Army of Northern Virginia from a Union assault on the James Peninsula led by General George B. McClellan.
1887 Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,791 for the 'Art of Applying Statistics' his punched card calculator.
1906 Theodore Roosevelt signs the Antiquities Act into law, authorizing the President to restrict the use of certain parcels of public land with historical or conservation value.
1912 Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.
1928 Second Northern Expedition: The National Revolutionary Army captures Peking, whose name is changed to Beiping ("Northern peace").
1941 World War II: Allies invade Syria and Lebanon.
1942 World War II: Japanese imperial submarines I-21 and I-24 shell the Australian cities of Sydney and Newcastle.
1948 Milton Berle hosts the debut of Texaco Star Theater.
1949 Celebrities Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson are named in an FBI report as Communist Party members.
1949 George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is published.
1950 Sir Thomas Blamey becomes the only Australian-born Field Marshal in Australian history.
1953 Flint-Worcester tornado outbreak sequence: A tornado hits Flint, Michigan, and kills 115.
1953 The United States Supreme Court rules that Washington, D.C. restaurants could not refuse to serve black patrons.
1959 The USS Barbero and United States Postal Service attempt the delivery of mail via Missile Mail.
1966 An F-104 Starfighter collides with XB-70 Valkyrie prototype no. 2 destroying both planes during a photo shoot near Edwards Air Force Base. NASA pilot Joseph A. Walker and United States Air Force test pilot Carl Cross are both killed.
1966 Topeka, Kansas is devastated by a tornado that registers as an "F5" on the Fujita Scale: the first to exceed US$100 million in damages. Sixteen people are killed, hundreds more injured, and thousands of homes damaged or destroyed.
1967 Six-Day War: The USS Liberty incident occurs, killing 34 and wounding 171.
1967 Six-Day War: The Israeli army enters Hebron and the Cave of the Patriarchs.
1968 Robert F. Kennedy's funeral takes place at the Basilica of St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York City.
1972 Vietnam War: Associated Press photographer Nick Ut takes his Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of a naked 9-year-old Phan Thị Kim Phϊc running down a road after being burned by napalm.
1982 Bluff Cove Air Attacks during the Falklands War: 56 British servicemen are killed by Argentine air attack on two landing ships : RFA Sir Galahad and RFA Sir Tristram.
1984 Homosexuality is declared legal in the Australian state of New South Wales.
1987 New Zealand's Labour government establishes a national nuclear-free zone under the New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament, and Arms Control Act 1987
1992 The first World Ocean Day is celebrated, coinciding with the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
1995 Downed U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia.
2004 The first Venus Transit in modern history takes place, the previous one being in 1882.
2007 Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, is hit by the State's worst storms and flooding in 30 years resulting in the death of nine people and the grounding of trade ship, the MV Pasha Bulker.
2008 The Akihabara massacre takes place in the Akihabara shopping quarter in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. Tomohiro Katō drives a two-ton truck into a crowd before leaving the truck and attacking people with a knife.
End of C/P.