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Events:C/P.
79 Mount Vesuvius begins stirring, on the feast day of Vulcan, the Roman god of fire.
406 Radagaisus is executed after he is defeated by the Roman army under Stilicho.
476 Odoacer, chieftain of the Germanic tribes (Herulic - Scirian foederati), is proclaimed rex Italiae ("king of Italy") by his troops.
1305 Sir William Wallace is executed for High Treason at Smithfield in London.
1328 Battle of Cassel: French troops stop an uprising of Flemish farmers.
1514 Battle of Chaldiran ended with a decisive victory for the Sultan Selim I, Ottoman Empire, over the Shah Ismail I, Safavids founder.
1541 French explorer Jacques Cartier lands near Quebec City in his third voyage to Canada.
1572 Mob violence against Huguenots in Paris St. Bartholomew's Day massacre.
1595 Michael the Brave confronts the Ottoman army in the Battle of Calugareni.
1650 Colonel George Monck of the English Army forms Monck's Regiment of Foot, which will later become the Coldstream Guards.
1765 Beginning of BurmeseSiamese War (17651767)
1775 American Revolutionary War: King George III delivers his Proclamation of Rebellion to the Court of St. James's stating that the American colonies have proceeded to a state of open and avowed rebellion.
1784 Western North Carolina (now eastern Tennessee) declares itself an independent state under the name of Franklin; it wasnt accepted into the United States, and only lasted for four years.
1799 Napoleon leaves Egypt for France en route to seize power.
1813 At the Battle of Grossbeeren, the Prussians under Von Bόlow repulse the French army.
1839 The United Kingdom captures Hong Kong as a base as it prepares for war with Qing China. The ensuing 3-year conflict will later be known as the First Opium War.
1858 The Round Oak rail accident occurs in Brierley Hill in the Black Country, England. It is 'Arguably the worst disaster ever to occur on British railways'.
1864 The Union Navy captures Fort Morgan, Alabama, thus breaking Confederate dominance of all ports on the Gulf of Mexico.
1866 Austro-Prussian War ends with the Treaty of Prague.
1873 Albert Bridge in Chelsea, London opened.
1896 Officially recognised date of the Cry of Pugad Lawin, the start of the Philippine Revolution is made in Pugad Lawin (Quezon City), in the province of Manila (actual date and location is disputed).
1904 The automobile tire chain is patented.
1914 World War I: Japan declares war on Germany and bombs Qingdao, China.
1914 World War I: the Battle of Mons; the British Army begins withdrawal.
1921 British airship R-38 experiences structural failure over Hull in England and crashes in the Humber estuary. Of her 49 British and American training crew, only 4 survive.
1923 Capt. Lowell Smith and Lt. John P. Richter performed the first mid-air refueling on De Havilland DH-4B, setting an endurance flight record of 37 hours.
1927 Sacco and Vanzetti are executed.
1929 Hebron Massacre during the 1929 Palestine riots: Arab attack on the Jewish community in Hebron in the British Mandate of Palestine, continuing until the next day, resulted in the death of 65-68 Jews and the remaining Jews being forced to leave the city.
1938 English cricketer Len Hutton sets a world record for the highest individual Test innings of 364, during a Test match against Australia.
1939 World War II: Germany and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression treaty, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. In a secret addition to the pact, the Baltic states, Finland, Romania, and Poland are divided between the two nations.
1942 World War II: Beginning of the Battle of Stalingrad.
1943 World War II: Kharkov liberated as a result of the Battle of Kursk.
1944 World War II: Marseille liberated.
1944 World War II: King Michael of Romania dismisses the pro-Nazi government of Marshal Antonescu, who is arrested. Romania switches sides from the Axis to the Allies. (see King Michael's Coup)
1944 Freckleton Air Disaster A United States Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into a school in Freckleton, England killing 61 people.
1946 Ordinance No. 46 of the British Military Government constitutes the German Land (state) of Schleswig-Holstein.
1948 World Council of Churches is formed.
1954 First flight of the C-130 Hercules transport aircraft.
1958 Chinese Civil War: The Second Taiwan Strait crisis begins with the People's Liberation Army's bombardment of Quemoy.
1966 Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.
1970 Organized by Mexican American union leader Cιsar Chαvez, the Salad Bowl strike, the largest farm worker strike in U.S. history, begins.
1973 A bank robbery gone wrong in Stockholm, Sweden, turns into a hostage crisis; over the next five days the hostages begin to sympathise with their captors, leading to the term "Stockholm syndrome".
1977 The Gossamer Condor wins the Kremer prize for human powered flight.
1982 Bachir Gemayel is elected Lebanese President amidst the raging civil war.
1985 Hans Tiedge, top counter-spy of West Germany, defects to East Germany.
1989 Singing Revolution: two million people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania stand on the Vilnius-Tallinn road, holding hands (Baltic Way).
1989 1,645 Australian domestic airline pilots resign after the airlines threaten to fire them and sue them over a dispute.
1990 Saddam Hussein appears on Iraqi state television with a number of Western "guests" (actually hostages) to try to prevent the Gulf War.
1990 Armenia declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
1990 West Germany and East Germany announce that they will unite on October 3.
1994 Eugene Bullard, The only black pilot in World War I, is posthumously commissioned as Second Lieutenant in the United States Air Force.
1996 Osama bin Laden issues message entitled 'A declaration of war against the Americans occupying the land of the two holy places.'
2000 Gulf Air Flight 072 crashes into the Persian Gulf near Manama, Bahrain, killing 143.
2006 Natascha Kampusch, who had been abducted at the age of 10, managed to escape from her captor Wolfgang Priklopil, after 8 years of captivity.
2007 The skeletal remains of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, and his sister Anastasia are found near Yekaterinburg, Russia.
2010 Manila hostage crisis, in which 8 hostages were killed
2011 A 5.8 earthquake occurred in Mineral, Virginia, the earthquake was felt as far north as Ontario and as far south as Atlanta, Georgia. Damaged occurred to monuments in Washington D.C. and the resulted damage was estimated at $100 Million.
2011 Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is overthrown after the National Transitional Council forces take control of Bab al-Azizia compound during the 2011 Libyan civil war.
2012 At least 30 people have been killed as a result of heavy monsoon rain in the northern Indian state of Rajasthan.
End of C/P.
Events:C/P.
79 Mount Vesuvius begins stirring, on the feast day of Vulcan, the Roman god of fire.
406 Radagaisus is executed after he is defeated by the Roman army under Stilicho.
476 Odoacer, chieftain of the Germanic tribes (Herulic - Scirian foederati), is proclaimed rex Italiae ("king of Italy") by his troops.
1305 Sir William Wallace is executed for High Treason at Smithfield in London.
1328 Battle of Cassel: French troops stop an uprising of Flemish farmers.
1514 Battle of Chaldiran ended with a decisive victory for the Sultan Selim I, Ottoman Empire, over the Shah Ismail I, Safavids founder.
1541 French explorer Jacques Cartier lands near Quebec City in his third voyage to Canada.
1572 Mob violence against Huguenots in Paris St. Bartholomew's Day massacre.
1595 Michael the Brave confronts the Ottoman army in the Battle of Calugareni.
1650 Colonel George Monck of the English Army forms Monck's Regiment of Foot, which will later become the Coldstream Guards.
1765 Beginning of BurmeseSiamese War (17651767)
1775 American Revolutionary War: King George III delivers his Proclamation of Rebellion to the Court of St. James's stating that the American colonies have proceeded to a state of open and avowed rebellion.
1784 Western North Carolina (now eastern Tennessee) declares itself an independent state under the name of Franklin; it wasnt accepted into the United States, and only lasted for four years.
1799 Napoleon leaves Egypt for France en route to seize power.
1813 At the Battle of Grossbeeren, the Prussians under Von Bόlow repulse the French army.
1839 The United Kingdom captures Hong Kong as a base as it prepares for war with Qing China. The ensuing 3-year conflict will later be known as the First Opium War.
1858 The Round Oak rail accident occurs in Brierley Hill in the Black Country, England. It is 'Arguably the worst disaster ever to occur on British railways'.
1864 The Union Navy captures Fort Morgan, Alabama, thus breaking Confederate dominance of all ports on the Gulf of Mexico.
1866 Austro-Prussian War ends with the Treaty of Prague.
1873 Albert Bridge in Chelsea, London opened.
1896 Officially recognised date of the Cry of Pugad Lawin, the start of the Philippine Revolution is made in Pugad Lawin (Quezon City), in the province of Manila (actual date and location is disputed).
1904 The automobile tire chain is patented.
1914 World War I: Japan declares war on Germany and bombs Qingdao, China.
1914 World War I: the Battle of Mons; the British Army begins withdrawal.
1921 British airship R-38 experiences structural failure over Hull in England and crashes in the Humber estuary. Of her 49 British and American training crew, only 4 survive.
1923 Capt. Lowell Smith and Lt. John P. Richter performed the first mid-air refueling on De Havilland DH-4B, setting an endurance flight record of 37 hours.
1927 Sacco and Vanzetti are executed.
1929 Hebron Massacre during the 1929 Palestine riots: Arab attack on the Jewish community in Hebron in the British Mandate of Palestine, continuing until the next day, resulted in the death of 65-68 Jews and the remaining Jews being forced to leave the city.
1938 English cricketer Len Hutton sets a world record for the highest individual Test innings of 364, during a Test match against Australia.
1939 World War II: Germany and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression treaty, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. In a secret addition to the pact, the Baltic states, Finland, Romania, and Poland are divided between the two nations.
1942 World War II: Beginning of the Battle of Stalingrad.
1943 World War II: Kharkov liberated as a result of the Battle of Kursk.
1944 World War II: Marseille liberated.
1944 World War II: King Michael of Romania dismisses the pro-Nazi government of Marshal Antonescu, who is arrested. Romania switches sides from the Axis to the Allies. (see King Michael's Coup)
1944 Freckleton Air Disaster A United States Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into a school in Freckleton, England killing 61 people.
1946 Ordinance No. 46 of the British Military Government constitutes the German Land (state) of Schleswig-Holstein.
1948 World Council of Churches is formed.
1954 First flight of the C-130 Hercules transport aircraft.
1958 Chinese Civil War: The Second Taiwan Strait crisis begins with the People's Liberation Army's bombardment of Quemoy.
1966 Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.
1970 Organized by Mexican American union leader Cιsar Chαvez, the Salad Bowl strike, the largest farm worker strike in U.S. history, begins.
1973 A bank robbery gone wrong in Stockholm, Sweden, turns into a hostage crisis; over the next five days the hostages begin to sympathise with their captors, leading to the term "Stockholm syndrome".
1977 The Gossamer Condor wins the Kremer prize for human powered flight.
1982 Bachir Gemayel is elected Lebanese President amidst the raging civil war.
1985 Hans Tiedge, top counter-spy of West Germany, defects to East Germany.
1989 Singing Revolution: two million people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania stand on the Vilnius-Tallinn road, holding hands (Baltic Way).
1989 1,645 Australian domestic airline pilots resign after the airlines threaten to fire them and sue them over a dispute.
1990 Saddam Hussein appears on Iraqi state television with a number of Western "guests" (actually hostages) to try to prevent the Gulf War.
1990 Armenia declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
1990 West Germany and East Germany announce that they will unite on October 3.
1994 Eugene Bullard, The only black pilot in World War I, is posthumously commissioned as Second Lieutenant in the United States Air Force.
1996 Osama bin Laden issues message entitled 'A declaration of war against the Americans occupying the land of the two holy places.'
2000 Gulf Air Flight 072 crashes into the Persian Gulf near Manama, Bahrain, killing 143.
2006 Natascha Kampusch, who had been abducted at the age of 10, managed to escape from her captor Wolfgang Priklopil, after 8 years of captivity.
2007 The skeletal remains of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, and his sister Anastasia are found near Yekaterinburg, Russia.
2010 Manila hostage crisis, in which 8 hostages were killed
2011 A 5.8 earthquake occurred in Mineral, Virginia, the earthquake was felt as far north as Ontario and as far south as Atlanta, Georgia. Damaged occurred to monuments in Washington D.C. and the resulted damage was estimated at $100 Million.
2011 Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is overthrown after the National Transitional Council forces take control of Bab al-Azizia compound during the 2011 Libyan civil war.
2012 At least 30 people have been killed as a result of heavy monsoon rain in the northern Indian state of Rajasthan.
End of C/P.