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Events:C/P.
46 BC Julius Caesar defeats Caecilius Metellus Scipio and Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the Younger) in the battle of Thapsus.
402 Stilicho stymies the Visigoths under Alaric in the Battle of Pollentia.
1199 King Richard I of England dies from an infection following the removal of an arrow from his shoulder.
1250 Seventh Crusade: Ayyubids of Egypt capture King Louis IX of France in the Battle of Fariskur.
1320 The Scots reaffirm their independence by signing the Declaration of Arbroath.
1327 The poet Petrarch first sees his idealized love, Laura, in the church of Saint Clare in Avignon.
1385 John, Master of the Order of Aviz, is made king John I of Portugal.
1453 Mehmed II begins his siege of Constantinople (Istanbul), which falls on May 29.
1580 One of the largest earthquakes recorded in the history of England, Flanders, or Northern France, takes place.
1652 At the Cape of Good Hope, Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp that eventually becomes Cape Town.
1667 An earthquake devastates Dubrovnik, then an independent city-state.
1712 The New York Slave Revolt of 1712 begins near Broadway.
1776 American Revolutionary War: Ships of the Continental Navy fail in their attempt to capture a Royal Navy dispatch boat.
1782 King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke (Rama I) of Siam (modern day Thailand) founded the Chakri dynasty.
1793 During the French Revolution, the Committee of Public Safety becomes the executive organ of the republic.
1808 John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company, that would eventually make him America's first millionaire.
1812 British forces under the command of the Duke of Wellington assault the fortress of Badajoz. This would be the turning point in the Peninsular War against Napoleon-led France.
1814 Nominal beginning of the Bourbon Restoration; anniversary date that Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba.
1830 The Church of Christ, the original church of the Latter Day Saint movement, is organized by Joseph Smith, Jr. and others at Fayette or Manchester, New York.
1860 The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saintslater renamed Community of Christis organized by Joseph Smith III and others at Amboy, Illinois
1861 First performance of Arthur Sullivan's debut success, his suite of incidental music for The Tempest, leading to a career that included the famous Gilbert and Sullivan operas.
1862 American Civil War: The Battle of Shiloh begins in Tennessee, forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant meet Confederate troops led by General Albert Sidney Johnston.
1865 American Civil War: The Battle of Sayler's Creek Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia fights its last major battle while in retreat from Richmond, Virginia.
1866 The Grand Army of the Republic, an American patriotic organization composed of Union veterans of the American Civil War, is founded. It lasts until 1956.
1869 Celluloid is patented.
1888 Thomas Green Clemson dies, bequeathing his estate to the State of South Carolina to establish Clemson Agricultural College.
1893 Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is dedicated by Wilford Woodruff.
1895 Oscar Wilde is arrested in the Cadogan Hotel, London after losing a libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry.
1896 In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games is celebrated, 1,500 years after the original games are banned by Roman Emperor Theodosius I.
1909 Robert Peary and Matthew Henson reach the North Pole.
1911 During the Battle of Deηiq, Dedλ Gjon Luli Dedvukaj, leader of the Malλsori Albanians, raises the Albanian flag in the town of Tuzi, Montenegro, for the first time after George Kastrioti (Skenderbeg).
1917 World War I: The United States declares war on Germany (see President Woodrow Wilson's address to Congress).
1919 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi orders a general strike.
1923 The first Prefects Board in Southeast Asia is formed in Victoria Institution, Malaysia.
1924 First round-the-world flight commences.
1926 Varney Airlines makes its first commercial flight (Varney is the root company of United Airlines).
1929 Huey P. Long Governor of Louisiana is impeached by the Louisiana House of Representatives.
1930 Gandhi raises a lump of mud and salt and declares, "With this, I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire." beginning the Salt Satyagraha.
1936 Tupelo-Gainesville tornado outbreak: Another tornado from the same storm system as the Tupelo tornado hits Gainesville, Georgia, killing 203.
1941 World War II: Nazi Germany launches Operation 25 (the invasion of Kingdom of Yugoslavia) and Operation Marita (the invasion of Greece).
1945 World War II: Sarajevo is liberated from German and Croatian forces by the Yugoslav Partisans.
1945 World War II: the Battle of Slater's Knoll on Bougainville comes to an end.
1947 The first Tony Awards are presented for theatrical achievement.
1957 Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis buys the Hellenic National Airlines (TAE) and founds Olympic Airlines.
1962 Leonard Bernstein causes controversy with his remarks from the podium during a New York Philharmonic concert featuring Glenn Gould performing Brahms' First Piano Concerto.
1965 Launch of Early Bird, the first communications satellite to be placed in geosynchronous orbit.
1965 The British Government announces the cancellation of the TSR-2 aircraft project.
1968 In Richmond, Indiana's downtown district, a double explosion kills 41 and injures 150.
1968 Pierre Elliot Trudeau wins the Liberal Leadership Election, and becomes Prime Minister of Canada soon after.
1970 Newhall Incident: Four California Highway Patrol officers are killed in a shootout.
1972 Vietnam War: Easter Offensive American forces begin sustained air strikes and naval bombardments.
1973 Launch of Pioneer 11 spacecraft.
1973 The American League of Major League Baseball begins using the designated hitter.
1982 Estonian Communist Party bureau declares "fight against bourgeois TV"meaning Finnish TVa top priority of the propagandists of Estonian SSR
1984 Members of Cameroon's Republican Guard unsuccessfully attempt to overthrow the government headed by Paul Biya.
1994 The Rwandan Genocide begins when the aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvιnal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira is shot down.
1998 Pakistan tests medium-range missiles capable of reaching India.
1998 Travelers Group announces an agreement to undertake the $76 billion merger between Travelers and Citicorp, and the merger is completed on October 8, of that year, forming Citibank.
2004 Rolandas Paksas becomes the first president of Lithuania to be peacefully removed from office by impeachment.
2005 Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani becomes Iraqi president; Shiite Arab Ibrahim al-Jaafari is named premier the next day.
2008 2008 Egyptian general strike starts led by Egyptian workers later to be adopted by April 6 Youth Movement and Egyptian activities .
2009 A 6.3 magnitude earthquake strikes near L'Aquila, Italy, killing 307.
2010 Maoist rebels kill 76 CRPF officers in Dantewada district, India.
2011 In San Fernando, Tamaulipas, Mexico, over 193 bodies were exhumed from several mass graves made by Los Zetas.
Events:C/P.
46 BC Julius Caesar defeats Caecilius Metellus Scipio and Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the Younger) in the battle of Thapsus.
402 Stilicho stymies the Visigoths under Alaric in the Battle of Pollentia.
1199 King Richard I of England dies from an infection following the removal of an arrow from his shoulder.
1250 Seventh Crusade: Ayyubids of Egypt capture King Louis IX of France in the Battle of Fariskur.
1320 The Scots reaffirm their independence by signing the Declaration of Arbroath.
1327 The poet Petrarch first sees his idealized love, Laura, in the church of Saint Clare in Avignon.
1385 John, Master of the Order of Aviz, is made king John I of Portugal.
1453 Mehmed II begins his siege of Constantinople (Istanbul), which falls on May 29.
1580 One of the largest earthquakes recorded in the history of England, Flanders, or Northern France, takes place.
1652 At the Cape of Good Hope, Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp that eventually becomes Cape Town.
1667 An earthquake devastates Dubrovnik, then an independent city-state.
1712 The New York Slave Revolt of 1712 begins near Broadway.
1776 American Revolutionary War: Ships of the Continental Navy fail in their attempt to capture a Royal Navy dispatch boat.
1782 King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke (Rama I) of Siam (modern day Thailand) founded the Chakri dynasty.
1793 During the French Revolution, the Committee of Public Safety becomes the executive organ of the republic.
1808 John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company, that would eventually make him America's first millionaire.
1812 British forces under the command of the Duke of Wellington assault the fortress of Badajoz. This would be the turning point in the Peninsular War against Napoleon-led France.
1814 Nominal beginning of the Bourbon Restoration; anniversary date that Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba.
1830 The Church of Christ, the original church of the Latter Day Saint movement, is organized by Joseph Smith, Jr. and others at Fayette or Manchester, New York.
1860 The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saintslater renamed Community of Christis organized by Joseph Smith III and others at Amboy, Illinois
1861 First performance of Arthur Sullivan's debut success, his suite of incidental music for The Tempest, leading to a career that included the famous Gilbert and Sullivan operas.
1862 American Civil War: The Battle of Shiloh begins in Tennessee, forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant meet Confederate troops led by General Albert Sidney Johnston.
1865 American Civil War: The Battle of Sayler's Creek Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia fights its last major battle while in retreat from Richmond, Virginia.
1866 The Grand Army of the Republic, an American patriotic organization composed of Union veterans of the American Civil War, is founded. It lasts until 1956.
1869 Celluloid is patented.
1888 Thomas Green Clemson dies, bequeathing his estate to the State of South Carolina to establish Clemson Agricultural College.
1893 Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is dedicated by Wilford Woodruff.
1895 Oscar Wilde is arrested in the Cadogan Hotel, London after losing a libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry.
1896 In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games is celebrated, 1,500 years after the original games are banned by Roman Emperor Theodosius I.
1909 Robert Peary and Matthew Henson reach the North Pole.
1911 During the Battle of Deηiq, Dedλ Gjon Luli Dedvukaj, leader of the Malλsori Albanians, raises the Albanian flag in the town of Tuzi, Montenegro, for the first time after George Kastrioti (Skenderbeg).
1917 World War I: The United States declares war on Germany (see President Woodrow Wilson's address to Congress).
1919 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi orders a general strike.
1923 The first Prefects Board in Southeast Asia is formed in Victoria Institution, Malaysia.
1924 First round-the-world flight commences.
1926 Varney Airlines makes its first commercial flight (Varney is the root company of United Airlines).
1929 Huey P. Long Governor of Louisiana is impeached by the Louisiana House of Representatives.
1930 Gandhi raises a lump of mud and salt and declares, "With this, I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire." beginning the Salt Satyagraha.
1936 Tupelo-Gainesville tornado outbreak: Another tornado from the same storm system as the Tupelo tornado hits Gainesville, Georgia, killing 203.
1941 World War II: Nazi Germany launches Operation 25 (the invasion of Kingdom of Yugoslavia) and Operation Marita (the invasion of Greece).
1945 World War II: Sarajevo is liberated from German and Croatian forces by the Yugoslav Partisans.
1945 World War II: the Battle of Slater's Knoll on Bougainville comes to an end.
1947 The first Tony Awards are presented for theatrical achievement.
1957 Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis buys the Hellenic National Airlines (TAE) and founds Olympic Airlines.
1962 Leonard Bernstein causes controversy with his remarks from the podium during a New York Philharmonic concert featuring Glenn Gould performing Brahms' First Piano Concerto.
1965 Launch of Early Bird, the first communications satellite to be placed in geosynchronous orbit.
1965 The British Government announces the cancellation of the TSR-2 aircraft project.
1968 In Richmond, Indiana's downtown district, a double explosion kills 41 and injures 150.
1968 Pierre Elliot Trudeau wins the Liberal Leadership Election, and becomes Prime Minister of Canada soon after.
1970 Newhall Incident: Four California Highway Patrol officers are killed in a shootout.
1972 Vietnam War: Easter Offensive American forces begin sustained air strikes and naval bombardments.
1973 Launch of Pioneer 11 spacecraft.
1973 The American League of Major League Baseball begins using the designated hitter.
1982 Estonian Communist Party bureau declares "fight against bourgeois TV"meaning Finnish TVa top priority of the propagandists of Estonian SSR
1984 Members of Cameroon's Republican Guard unsuccessfully attempt to overthrow the government headed by Paul Biya.
1994 The Rwandan Genocide begins when the aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvιnal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira is shot down.
1998 Pakistan tests medium-range missiles capable of reaching India.
1998 Travelers Group announces an agreement to undertake the $76 billion merger between Travelers and Citicorp, and the merger is completed on October 8, of that year, forming Citibank.
2004 Rolandas Paksas becomes the first president of Lithuania to be peacefully removed from office by impeachment.
2005 Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani becomes Iraqi president; Shiite Arab Ibrahim al-Jaafari is named premier the next day.
2008 2008 Egyptian general strike starts led by Egyptian workers later to be adopted by April 6 Youth Movement and Egyptian activities .
2009 A 6.3 magnitude earthquake strikes near L'Aquila, Italy, killing 307.
2010 Maoist rebels kill 76 CRPF officers in Dantewada district, India.
2011 In San Fernando, Tamaulipas, Mexico, over 193 bodies were exhumed from several mass graves made by Los Zetas.