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Events:C/P.
462 Possible start of first Byzantine indiction cycle.
1270 King Stephen V of Hungary writes his walk to the antiquum castellum near Miholjanec, where the Sword of Attila was recently discovered.
1355 King Tvrtko I of Bosnia writes In castro nostro Vizoka vocatum from the old town of Visoki.
1449 Tumu Crisis Mongolians capture the Emperor of China.
1529 The Spanish fort Sancti Spiritu, the first one built in modern Argentina, is destroyed by natives.
1532 Lady Anne Boleyn is made Marquess of Pembroke by her fiancι, King Henry VIII of England.
1604 Adi Granth, now known as Guru Granth Sahib, the holy scripture of Sikhs, was first installed at Harmandir Sahib.
1644 Battle of Tippermuir: James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose defeats the Earl of Wemyss's Covenanters, reviving the Royalist cause.
1715 King Louis XIV of France dies after a reign of 72 years the longest of any major European monarch.
1763 Catherine II of Russia endorses Ivan Betskoy's plans for a Foundling Home in Moscow
1772 The Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa is founded in San Luis Obispo, California.
1774 Massachusetts Bay colonists rise up in the bloodless Powder Alarm.
1804 Juno, one of the four largest asteroids in the Main Belt, is discovered by the German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding.
1831 The high honor of Order of St. Gregory the Great is established by Pope Gregory XVI of the Vatican State to recognize high support for the Vatican or for the Pope, by a man or a woman, and not necessarily a Roman Catholic.
1836 Narcissa Whitman, one of the first English-speaking white women to settle west of the Rocky Mountains, arrives at Walla Walla, Washington.
1862 American Civil War: Battle of Chantilly Confederate Army troops defeat a group of retreating Union Army troops in Chantilly, Virginia.
1864 American Civil War: the Confederate Army General John Bell Hood orders the evacuation of Atlanta, Georgia, ending a four-month siege by General William Tecumseh Sherman.
1870 Franco-Prussian War: the Battle of Sedan is fought, resulting in a decisive Prussian victory.
1873 Cetshwayo ascends to the throne as king of the Zulu nation following the death of his father Mpande.
1878 Emma Nutt becomes the world's first female telephone operator when she is recruited by Alexander Graham Bell to the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company.
1880 The army of Mohammad Ayub Khan is routed by the British at the Battle of Kandahar, ending the Second Anglo-Afghan War
1894 More than 400 people die in the Great Hinckley Fire, a forest fire in Hinckley, Minnesota.
1897 The Boston subway opens, becoming the first underground rapid transit system in North America.
1902 A Trip to the Moon, considered one of the first science fiction films, is released in France.
1905 Alberta and Saskatchewan join the Canadian confederation.
1906 The International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys is established.
1911 The armored cruiser Georgios Averof is commissioned into the Greek Navy. It now serves as a museum ship.
1914 St. Petersburg, Russia, changes its name to Petrograd.
1914 The last Passenger Pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo.
1920 The Fountain of Time opens as a tribute to the 100 years of peace between the United States and Great Britain following the Treaty of Ghent.
1923 The Great Kantō earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama, killing about 105,000 people.
1928 Ahmet Zogu declares Albania to be a monarchy and proclaims himself king.
1934 SMJK Sam Tet is founded by Father Fourgs from the St. Michael Church, Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia.
1939 World War II: Nazi Germany, Slovakia and the Soviet Union invade Poland, beginning the European phase of World War II.
1939 George C. Marshall becomes Chief of Staff of the United States Army.
1939 The Wound Badge for Wehrmacht, SS, Kriegsmarine, and Luftwaffe soldiers is instituted. The final version of the Iron Cross is also instituted on this date.
1939 Switzerland mobilizes its forces and the Swiss Parliament elects Henri Guisan to head the Swiss Army (an event that can happen only during war or mobilization).
1939 Adolf Hitler signs an order to begin the systematic euthanasia of mentally ill and disabled people.
1951 The United States, Australia and New Zealand sign a mutual defense pact, called the ANZUS Treaty.
1952 The Old Man and the Sea, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Ernest Hemingway, is first published.
1958 Iceland expands its fishing zone, putting it into conflict with the United Kingdom, beginning the Cod Wars.
1961 The Eritrean War of Independence officially begins with the shooting of the Ethiopian police by Hamid Idris Awate.
1967 The KhmerChinese Friendship Association is banned in Cambodia
1969 A coup in Libya brings Muammar Gaddafi to power.
1969 Tran Thien Khiem became Prime Minister of South Vietnam under President Nguyen Van Thieu.
1970 Attempted assassination of King Hussein of Jordan by Palestinian guerrillas, who attacked his motorcade.
1972 In Reykjavνk, Iceland, American Bobby Fischer beats Russian Boris Spassky to become the world chess champion.
1974 The SR-71 Blackbird sets (and holds) the record for flying from New York to London in the time of 1 hour, 54 minutes and 56.4 seconds at a speed of 1,435.587 miles per hour (2,310.353 km/h).
1979 The American space probe Pioneer 11 becomes the first spacecraft to visit Saturn when it passes the planet at a distance of 21,000 kilometres (13,000 mi).
1980 Terry Fox's Marathon of Hope ends near Thunder Bay, Ontario.
1980 Major General Chun Doo-hwan becomes president of South Korea, following the resignation of Choi Kyu-hah.
1981 A coup d'ιtat in the Central African Republic overthrows President David Dacko.
1982 The United States Air Force Space Command is founded.
1983 Cold War: Korean Air Flight 007 is shot down by a Soviet Union jet fighter when the commercial aircraft enters Soviet airspace. All 269 on board die, including Congressman Lawrence McDonald.
1985 A joint AmericanFrench expedition locates the wreckage of the RMS Titanic.
1991 Uzbekistan declares independence from the Soviet Union
2004 The Beslan school hostage crisis commences when armed terrorists take children and adults hostage in Beslan in North Ossetia, Russia.
Events:C/P.
462 Possible start of first Byzantine indiction cycle.
1270 King Stephen V of Hungary writes his walk to the antiquum castellum near Miholjanec, where the Sword of Attila was recently discovered.
1355 King Tvrtko I of Bosnia writes In castro nostro Vizoka vocatum from the old town of Visoki.
1449 Tumu Crisis Mongolians capture the Emperor of China.
1529 The Spanish fort Sancti Spiritu, the first one built in modern Argentina, is destroyed by natives.
1532 Lady Anne Boleyn is made Marquess of Pembroke by her fiancι, King Henry VIII of England.
1604 Adi Granth, now known as Guru Granth Sahib, the holy scripture of Sikhs, was first installed at Harmandir Sahib.
1644 Battle of Tippermuir: James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose defeats the Earl of Wemyss's Covenanters, reviving the Royalist cause.
1715 King Louis XIV of France dies after a reign of 72 years the longest of any major European monarch.
1763 Catherine II of Russia endorses Ivan Betskoy's plans for a Foundling Home in Moscow
1772 The Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa is founded in San Luis Obispo, California.
1774 Massachusetts Bay colonists rise up in the bloodless Powder Alarm.
1804 Juno, one of the four largest asteroids in the Main Belt, is discovered by the German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding.
1831 The high honor of Order of St. Gregory the Great is established by Pope Gregory XVI of the Vatican State to recognize high support for the Vatican or for the Pope, by a man or a woman, and not necessarily a Roman Catholic.
1836 Narcissa Whitman, one of the first English-speaking white women to settle west of the Rocky Mountains, arrives at Walla Walla, Washington.
1862 American Civil War: Battle of Chantilly Confederate Army troops defeat a group of retreating Union Army troops in Chantilly, Virginia.
1864 American Civil War: the Confederate Army General John Bell Hood orders the evacuation of Atlanta, Georgia, ending a four-month siege by General William Tecumseh Sherman.
1870 Franco-Prussian War: the Battle of Sedan is fought, resulting in a decisive Prussian victory.
1873 Cetshwayo ascends to the throne as king of the Zulu nation following the death of his father Mpande.
1878 Emma Nutt becomes the world's first female telephone operator when she is recruited by Alexander Graham Bell to the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company.
1880 The army of Mohammad Ayub Khan is routed by the British at the Battle of Kandahar, ending the Second Anglo-Afghan War
1894 More than 400 people die in the Great Hinckley Fire, a forest fire in Hinckley, Minnesota.
1897 The Boston subway opens, becoming the first underground rapid transit system in North America.
1902 A Trip to the Moon, considered one of the first science fiction films, is released in France.
1905 Alberta and Saskatchewan join the Canadian confederation.
1906 The International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys is established.
1911 The armored cruiser Georgios Averof is commissioned into the Greek Navy. It now serves as a museum ship.
1914 St. Petersburg, Russia, changes its name to Petrograd.
1914 The last Passenger Pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo.
1920 The Fountain of Time opens as a tribute to the 100 years of peace between the United States and Great Britain following the Treaty of Ghent.
1923 The Great Kantō earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama, killing about 105,000 people.
1928 Ahmet Zogu declares Albania to be a monarchy and proclaims himself king.
1934 SMJK Sam Tet is founded by Father Fourgs from the St. Michael Church, Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia.
1939 World War II: Nazi Germany, Slovakia and the Soviet Union invade Poland, beginning the European phase of World War II.
1939 George C. Marshall becomes Chief of Staff of the United States Army.
1939 The Wound Badge for Wehrmacht, SS, Kriegsmarine, and Luftwaffe soldiers is instituted. The final version of the Iron Cross is also instituted on this date.
1939 Switzerland mobilizes its forces and the Swiss Parliament elects Henri Guisan to head the Swiss Army (an event that can happen only during war or mobilization).
1939 Adolf Hitler signs an order to begin the systematic euthanasia of mentally ill and disabled people.
1951 The United States, Australia and New Zealand sign a mutual defense pact, called the ANZUS Treaty.
1952 The Old Man and the Sea, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Ernest Hemingway, is first published.
1958 Iceland expands its fishing zone, putting it into conflict with the United Kingdom, beginning the Cod Wars.
1961 The Eritrean War of Independence officially begins with the shooting of the Ethiopian police by Hamid Idris Awate.
1967 The KhmerChinese Friendship Association is banned in Cambodia
1969 A coup in Libya brings Muammar Gaddafi to power.
1969 Tran Thien Khiem became Prime Minister of South Vietnam under President Nguyen Van Thieu.
1970 Attempted assassination of King Hussein of Jordan by Palestinian guerrillas, who attacked his motorcade.
1972 In Reykjavνk, Iceland, American Bobby Fischer beats Russian Boris Spassky to become the world chess champion.
1974 The SR-71 Blackbird sets (and holds) the record for flying from New York to London in the time of 1 hour, 54 minutes and 56.4 seconds at a speed of 1,435.587 miles per hour (2,310.353 km/h).
1979 The American space probe Pioneer 11 becomes the first spacecraft to visit Saturn when it passes the planet at a distance of 21,000 kilometres (13,000 mi).
1980 Terry Fox's Marathon of Hope ends near Thunder Bay, Ontario.
1980 Major General Chun Doo-hwan becomes president of South Korea, following the resignation of Choi Kyu-hah.
1981 A coup d'ιtat in the Central African Republic overthrows President David Dacko.
1982 The United States Air Force Space Command is founded.
1983 Cold War: Korean Air Flight 007 is shot down by a Soviet Union jet fighter when the commercial aircraft enters Soviet airspace. All 269 on board die, including Congressman Lawrence McDonald.
1985 A joint AmericanFrench expedition locates the wreckage of the RMS Titanic.
1991 Uzbekistan declares independence from the Soviet Union
2004 The Beslan school hostage crisis commences when armed terrorists take children and adults hostage in Beslan in North Ossetia, Russia.