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1462 Vlad III the Impaler attempts to assassinate Mehmed II (The Night Attack) forcing him to retreat from Wallachia.
1497 Battle of Deptford Bridge forces under King Henry VII defeat troops led by Michael An Gof.
1565 Matsunaga Hisahide assassinates the 13th Ashikaga shogun, Ashikaga Yo****eru.
1579 Sir Francis Drake claims a land he calls Nova Albion (modern California) for England.
1596 The Dutch explorer Willem Barentsz discovers the Arctic archipelago of Spitsbergen.
1631 Mumtaz Mahal dies during childbirth. Her husband, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I, will spend the next 17 years building her mausoleum, the Taj Mahal.
1673 French explorers Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet reach the Mississippi River and become the first Europeans to make a detailed account of its course.
1773 Cϊcuta, Colombia, is founded by Juana Rangel de Cuιllar.
1775 American Revolutionary War: Colonists inflict heavy casualties on British forces while losing the Battle of Bunker Hill.
1789 In France, the Third Estate declares itself the National Assembly.
1839 In the Kingdom of Hawaii, Kamehameha III issues the edict of toleration which gives Roman Catholics the freedom to worship in the Hawaiian Islands. The Hawaii Catholic Church and the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace are established as a result.
1843 The Wairau Affray, the first serious clash of arms between Māori and British settlers in the New Zealand Wars, takes place.
1861 Battle of Vienna, Virginia in the American Civil War.
1863 Battle of Aldie in the Gettysburg Campaign of the American Civil War.
1876 American Indian Wars: Battle of the Rosebud 1,500 Sioux and Cheyenne led by Crazy Horse beat back General George Crook's forces at Rosebud Creek in Montana Territory.
1877 American Indian Wars: Battle of White Bird Canyon the Nez Perce defeat the U.S. Cavalry at White Bird Canyon in the Idaho Territory.
1885 The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor.
1898 The United States Navy Hospital Corps is established.
1900 Boxer Rebellion: Allied Western and Japanese forces capture the Taku Forts in Tianjin, China.
1901 The College Board introduces its first standardized test, the forerunner to the SAT.
1910 Aurel Vlaicu pilots an A. Vlaicu nr. 1 on its first flight.
1930 U.S. President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act into law.
1932 Bonus Army: around a thousand World War I veterans amass at the United States Capitol as the U.S. Senate considers a bill that would give them certain benefits.
1933 Union Station Massacre: in Kansas City, Missouri, four FBI agents and captured fugitive Frank Nash are gunned down by gangsters attempting to free Nash.
1939 Last public guillotining in France: Eugen Weidmann, a convicted murderer, is guillotined in Versailles outside the Saint-Pierre prison
1940 World War II: sinking of the RMS Lancastria by the Luftwaffe near Saint-Nazaire, France.
1940 World War II: the British Army's 11th Hussars assault and take Fort Capuzzo in Libya, Africa from Italian forces.
1940 The three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania fall under the occupation of the Soviet Union.
1944 Iceland declares independence from Denmark and becomes a republic.
1948 A Douglas DC-6 carrying United Airlines Flight 624 crashes near Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, killing all 43 people on board.
1953 East Germany Workers Uprising: in East Germany, the Soviet Union orders a division of troops into East Berlin to quell a rebellion.
1958 The Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing, in the process of being built to connect Vancouver and North Vancouver (Canada), collapses into the Burrard Inlet killing many of the ironworkers and injuring others.
1958 The wooden roller coaster at Playland, which is in the Pacific National Exhibition, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada opens. It is still open today.
1960 The Nez Perce tribe is awarded $4 million for 7 million acres (28,000 km2) of land undervalued at 4 cents/acre in the 1863 treaty.
1963 The United States Supreme Court rules 8 to 1 in Abington School District v. Schempp against requiring the reciting of Bible verses and the Lord's Prayer in public schools.
1963 A day after South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem announced the Joint Communique to end the Buddhist crisis, a riot involving around 2,000 people breaks out. One person is killed.
1967 The People's Republic of China announces a successful test of its first thermonuclear weapon.
1971 President Richard Nixon declares the U.S. War on Drugs.
1972 Watergate scandal: five White House operatives are arrested for burgling the offices of the Democratic National Committee, in an attempt by some members of the Republican party to illegally wiretap the opposition.
1987 With the death of the last individual of the species, the Dusky Seaside Sparrow becomes extinct.
1991 Apartheid: the South African Parliament repeals the Population Registration Act which required racial classification of all South Africans at birth.
1992 A "joint understanding" agreement on arms reduction is signed by U.S. President George Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin (this would be later codified in START II).
1994 Following a televised low-speed highway chase, O.J. Simpson is arrested for the murders of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.
Events:C/P.
1462 Vlad III the Impaler attempts to assassinate Mehmed II (The Night Attack) forcing him to retreat from Wallachia.
1497 Battle of Deptford Bridge forces under King Henry VII defeat troops led by Michael An Gof.
1565 Matsunaga Hisahide assassinates the 13th Ashikaga shogun, Ashikaga Yo****eru.
1579 Sir Francis Drake claims a land he calls Nova Albion (modern California) for England.
1596 The Dutch explorer Willem Barentsz discovers the Arctic archipelago of Spitsbergen.
1631 Mumtaz Mahal dies during childbirth. Her husband, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I, will spend the next 17 years building her mausoleum, the Taj Mahal.
1673 French explorers Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet reach the Mississippi River and become the first Europeans to make a detailed account of its course.
1773 Cϊcuta, Colombia, is founded by Juana Rangel de Cuιllar.
1775 American Revolutionary War: Colonists inflict heavy casualties on British forces while losing the Battle of Bunker Hill.
1789 In France, the Third Estate declares itself the National Assembly.
1839 In the Kingdom of Hawaii, Kamehameha III issues the edict of toleration which gives Roman Catholics the freedom to worship in the Hawaiian Islands. The Hawaii Catholic Church and the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace are established as a result.
1843 The Wairau Affray, the first serious clash of arms between Māori and British settlers in the New Zealand Wars, takes place.
1861 Battle of Vienna, Virginia in the American Civil War.
1863 Battle of Aldie in the Gettysburg Campaign of the American Civil War.
1876 American Indian Wars: Battle of the Rosebud 1,500 Sioux and Cheyenne led by Crazy Horse beat back General George Crook's forces at Rosebud Creek in Montana Territory.
1877 American Indian Wars: Battle of White Bird Canyon the Nez Perce defeat the U.S. Cavalry at White Bird Canyon in the Idaho Territory.
1885 The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor.
1898 The United States Navy Hospital Corps is established.
1900 Boxer Rebellion: Allied Western and Japanese forces capture the Taku Forts in Tianjin, China.
1901 The College Board introduces its first standardized test, the forerunner to the SAT.
1910 Aurel Vlaicu pilots an A. Vlaicu nr. 1 on its first flight.
1930 U.S. President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act into law.
1932 Bonus Army: around a thousand World War I veterans amass at the United States Capitol as the U.S. Senate considers a bill that would give them certain benefits.
1933 Union Station Massacre: in Kansas City, Missouri, four FBI agents and captured fugitive Frank Nash are gunned down by gangsters attempting to free Nash.
1939 Last public guillotining in France: Eugen Weidmann, a convicted murderer, is guillotined in Versailles outside the Saint-Pierre prison
1940 World War II: sinking of the RMS Lancastria by the Luftwaffe near Saint-Nazaire, France.
1940 World War II: the British Army's 11th Hussars assault and take Fort Capuzzo in Libya, Africa from Italian forces.
1940 The three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania fall under the occupation of the Soviet Union.
1944 Iceland declares independence from Denmark and becomes a republic.
1948 A Douglas DC-6 carrying United Airlines Flight 624 crashes near Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, killing all 43 people on board.
1953 East Germany Workers Uprising: in East Germany, the Soviet Union orders a division of troops into East Berlin to quell a rebellion.
1958 The Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing, in the process of being built to connect Vancouver and North Vancouver (Canada), collapses into the Burrard Inlet killing many of the ironworkers and injuring others.
1958 The wooden roller coaster at Playland, which is in the Pacific National Exhibition, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada opens. It is still open today.
1960 The Nez Perce tribe is awarded $4 million for 7 million acres (28,000 km2) of land undervalued at 4 cents/acre in the 1863 treaty.
1963 The United States Supreme Court rules 8 to 1 in Abington School District v. Schempp against requiring the reciting of Bible verses and the Lord's Prayer in public schools.
1963 A day after South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem announced the Joint Communique to end the Buddhist crisis, a riot involving around 2,000 people breaks out. One person is killed.
1967 The People's Republic of China announces a successful test of its first thermonuclear weapon.
1971 President Richard Nixon declares the U.S. War on Drugs.
1972 Watergate scandal: five White House operatives are arrested for burgling the offices of the Democratic National Committee, in an attempt by some members of the Republican party to illegally wiretap the opposition.
1987 With the death of the last individual of the species, the Dusky Seaside Sparrow becomes extinct.
1991 Apartheid: the South African Parliament repeals the Population Registration Act which required racial classification of all South Africans at birth.
1992 A "joint understanding" agreement on arms reduction is signed by U.S. President George Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin (this would be later codified in START II).
1994 Following a televised low-speed highway chase, O.J. Simpson is arrested for the murders of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.