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338 BC A Macedonian army led by Philip II defeated the combined forces of Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea, securing Macedonian hegemony in Greece and the Aegean.
216 BC Second Punic War: Battle of Cannae The Carthaginian army led by Hannibal defeats a numerically superior Roman army under command of consuls Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro.
461 Majorian is arrested near Tortona (Northern Italy) and deposed by the Suebian general Ricimer as puppet emperor.
1343 Olivier de Clisson is found guilty of treason and beheaded at Les Halles in Paris. As a result, his wife, Jeanne de Clisson, sold their holding, bought a fleet of ships, and took to the sea as a pirate to seek revenge against the French King and nobility.
1377 Russian troops are defeated in the Battle on Pyana River.
1610 Henry Hudson sails into what is now known as Hudson Bay thinking he had made it through the Northwest Passage and reached the Pacific Ocean.
1776 The signing of the United States Declaration of Independence took place.
1790 The first United States Census is conducted.
1798 French Revolutionary Wars: the Battle of the Nile concludes in a British victory.
1830 Charles X of France abdicates the throne in favor of his grandson Henri.
1869 Japan's samurai, farmer, artisan, merchant class system (Shinōkōshō) is abolished as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese date: June 25, 1869).
1870 Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London, England, United Kingdom.
1873 The Clay Street Hill Railroad begins operating the first cable car in San Francisco's famous cable car system.
1897 Anglo-Afghan War: The Siege of Malakand ends when a relief column is able to reach the British garrison in the Malakand states adjacent to India's North West Frontier Province.
1903 Fall of the Ottoman Empire: an unsuccessful uprising led by the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization against Ottoman Turkey, also known as the IlindenPreobrazhenie Uprising, takes place.
1916 World War I: Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of the Italian battleship ******** da Vinci in Taranto.
1918 Japan announces that it is deploying troops to Siberia in the aftermath of World War I.
1918 The first general strike in Canadian history takes place in Vancouver.
1922 A typhoon hits Shantou, Republic of China killing more than 50,000 people.
1923 As vice president, Calvin Coolidge becomes the 30th President of the United States after the death of Warren G. Harding
1932 The positron (antiparticle of the electron) is discovered by Carl D. Anderson.
1934 Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler becomes Fόhrer of Germany following the death of President Paul von Hindenburg.
1937 The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 is passed in America, the effect of which is to render marijuana and all its by-products illegal.
1939 Albert Einstein and Leσ Szilαrd write a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, urging him to begin the Manhattan Project to develop a nuclear weapon.
1943 Rebellion in the Nazi death camp of Treblinka.
1943 World War II: the Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 is rammed by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri and sinks. Lt. John F. Kennedy, future U.S. President, saves all but two of his crew.
1944 ASNOM: birth of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia, celebrated as Day of the Republic in the Republic of Macedonia.
1944 World War II: The largest trade convoy of the world wars arrives safely in the Western Approaches.
1947 A British South American Airways Avro Lancastrian airliner crashes into a mountain during a flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Santiago, Chile. The wreckage would not be found for over 50 years.
1964 Vietnam War: Gulf of Tonkin incident North Vietnamese gunboats allegedly fire on the U.S. destroyer USS Maddox.
1968 An earthquake hits Casiguran, Aurora, Philippines killing more than 270 people and wounding 261.
1973 A flash fire kills 51 at the Summerland amusement centre at Douglas, Isle of Man.
1980 A bomb explodes at the railway station in Bologna, Italy, killing 85 people and wounding more than 200.
1985 Delta Air Lines Flight 191, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar crashes at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport killing 137.
1989 Pakistan is re-admitted to the Commonwealth of Nations after having restoring democracy for the first time since 1972.
1989 A massacre is carried out by an Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka killing 64 ethnic Tamil civilians.
1990 Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to the Gulf War.
1998 The Second Congo War begins.
2005 Air France Flight 358, lands at Toronto Pearson International Airport, and runs off the runway causing the plane to burst into flames leaving 12 injuries and no fatalities.
Events:C/P.
338 BC A Macedonian army led by Philip II defeated the combined forces of Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea, securing Macedonian hegemony in Greece and the Aegean.
216 BC Second Punic War: Battle of Cannae The Carthaginian army led by Hannibal defeats a numerically superior Roman army under command of consuls Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro.
461 Majorian is arrested near Tortona (Northern Italy) and deposed by the Suebian general Ricimer as puppet emperor.
1343 Olivier de Clisson is found guilty of treason and beheaded at Les Halles in Paris. As a result, his wife, Jeanne de Clisson, sold their holding, bought a fleet of ships, and took to the sea as a pirate to seek revenge against the French King and nobility.
1377 Russian troops are defeated in the Battle on Pyana River.
1610 Henry Hudson sails into what is now known as Hudson Bay thinking he had made it through the Northwest Passage and reached the Pacific Ocean.
1776 The signing of the United States Declaration of Independence took place.
1790 The first United States Census is conducted.
1798 French Revolutionary Wars: the Battle of the Nile concludes in a British victory.
1830 Charles X of France abdicates the throne in favor of his grandson Henri.
1869 Japan's samurai, farmer, artisan, merchant class system (Shinōkōshō) is abolished as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese date: June 25, 1869).
1870 Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London, England, United Kingdom.
1873 The Clay Street Hill Railroad begins operating the first cable car in San Francisco's famous cable car system.
1897 Anglo-Afghan War: The Siege of Malakand ends when a relief column is able to reach the British garrison in the Malakand states adjacent to India's North West Frontier Province.
1903 Fall of the Ottoman Empire: an unsuccessful uprising led by the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization against Ottoman Turkey, also known as the IlindenPreobrazhenie Uprising, takes place.
1916 World War I: Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of the Italian battleship ******** da Vinci in Taranto.
1918 Japan announces that it is deploying troops to Siberia in the aftermath of World War I.
1918 The first general strike in Canadian history takes place in Vancouver.
1922 A typhoon hits Shantou, Republic of China killing more than 50,000 people.
1923 As vice president, Calvin Coolidge becomes the 30th President of the United States after the death of Warren G. Harding
1932 The positron (antiparticle of the electron) is discovered by Carl D. Anderson.
1934 Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler becomes Fόhrer of Germany following the death of President Paul von Hindenburg.
1937 The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 is passed in America, the effect of which is to render marijuana and all its by-products illegal.
1939 Albert Einstein and Leσ Szilαrd write a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, urging him to begin the Manhattan Project to develop a nuclear weapon.
1943 Rebellion in the Nazi death camp of Treblinka.
1943 World War II: the Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 is rammed by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri and sinks. Lt. John F. Kennedy, future U.S. President, saves all but two of his crew.
1944 ASNOM: birth of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia, celebrated as Day of the Republic in the Republic of Macedonia.
1944 World War II: The largest trade convoy of the world wars arrives safely in the Western Approaches.
1947 A British South American Airways Avro Lancastrian airliner crashes into a mountain during a flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Santiago, Chile. The wreckage would not be found for over 50 years.
1964 Vietnam War: Gulf of Tonkin incident North Vietnamese gunboats allegedly fire on the U.S. destroyer USS Maddox.
1968 An earthquake hits Casiguran, Aurora, Philippines killing more than 270 people and wounding 261.
1973 A flash fire kills 51 at the Summerland amusement centre at Douglas, Isle of Man.
1980 A bomb explodes at the railway station in Bologna, Italy, killing 85 people and wounding more than 200.
1985 Delta Air Lines Flight 191, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar crashes at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport killing 137.
1989 Pakistan is re-admitted to the Commonwealth of Nations after having restoring democracy for the first time since 1972.
1989 A massacre is carried out by an Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka killing 64 ethnic Tamil civilians.
1990 Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to the Gulf War.
1998 The Second Congo War begins.
2005 Air France Flight 358, lands at Toronto Pearson International Airport, and runs off the runway causing the plane to burst into flames leaving 12 injuries and no fatalities.