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1096 People's Crusade: The Turkish army successfully fight off the People's Army of the West.
1097 First Crusade: Crusaders led by Godfrey of Bouillon, Bohemund of Taranto, and Raymond IV of Toulouse, begin the Siege of Antioch.
1209 Otto IV is crowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by Pope Innocent III.
1392 Nanboku-chō: Emperor Go-Kameyama abdicates in favor of rival claimant Go-Komatsu.
1512 Martin Luther joins the theological faculty of the University of Wittenberg.
1520 Ferdinand Magellan discovers a strait now known as Strait of Magellan.
1520 Joγo Αlvares Fagundes discovers the islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, bestowing them their original name of "Islands of the 11,000 Virgins".
1600 Tokugawa Ieyasu defeats the leaders of rival Japanese clans in the Battle of Sekigahara, which marks the beginning of the Tokugawa shogunate that in effect rules Japan until the mid-nineteenth century.
1774 First display of the word "Liberty" on a flag, raised by colonists in Taunton, Massachusetts in defiance of British rule in Colonial America.
1797 In Boston Harbor, the 44-gun United States Navy frigate USS Constitution is launched.
1805 Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar: A British fleet led by Vice Admiral Lord Nelson defeats a combined French and Spanish fleet off the coast of Spain under Admiral Villeneuve, signaling almost the end of French maritime power and leaves Britain's navy unchallenged until the 20th century.
1816 The Penang Free School is founded in George Town, Penang, Malaysia, by the Rev Hutchings, the oldest English-language school in Southeast Asia.
1824 Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement.
1854 Florence Nightingale and a staff of 38 nurses are sent to the Crimean War.
1861 American Civil War: Battle of Ball's Bluff Union forces under Colonel Edward Baker are defeated by Confederate troops in the second major battle of the war. Baker, a close friend of Abraham Lincoln, is killed in the fighting.
1867 Manifest Destiny: Medicine Lodge Treaty Near Medicine Lodge, Kansas a landmark treaty is signed by southern Great Plains Indian leaders. The treaty requires Native American Plains tribes to relocate to a reservation in western Oklahoma.
1879 Thomas Edison invents a workable electric light bulb at his laboratory in Menlo Park, N.J. which was tested the next day and lasted 13.5 hours. This would be the invention of the first commercially practical incandescent light. Popular belief is that he invented the first light bulb, which he did not.
1888 Foundation of the Swiss Social Democratic Party.
1892 Opening ceremonies for the World's Columbian Exposition are held in Chicago, though because construction was behind schedule, the exposition did not open until May 1, 1893.
1895 The Republic of Formosa collapses as Japanese forces invade.
1902 In the United States, a five-month strike by United Mine Workers ends.
1910 HMS Niobe arrives in Halifax Harbour to become the first ship of the Royal Canadian Navy.
1912 First Balkan War: Kardzhali is liberated by Bulgarian forces.
1921 President Warren G. Harding delivers the first speech by a sitting U.S. President against lynching in the deep South.
1921 George Melford's silent film, The Sheik, starring Rudolph Valentino, premiers.
1931 The Sakurakai, a secret society in the Imperial Japanese Army, launches an abortive coup d'ιtat attempt.
1940 The first edition of the Ernest Hemingway novel For Whom the Bell Tolls is published.
1941 World War II: In Kragujevac, Serbia, German Wehrmacht soldiers butcher about 7,000 citizens, including schoolchildren and professors.
1943 The Provisional Government of Free India is formally declared by Subhas Chandra Bose.
1944 World War II: The first kamikaze attack A Japanese fighter plane carrying a 200-kilogram (440 lb) bomb attacks HMAS Australia off Leyte Island, as the Battle of Leyte Gulf began.
1944 World War II: Battle of Aachen The city of Aachen falls to American forces after three weeks of fighting, making it the first German city to fall to the Allies.
1945 Women's suffrage: Women are allowed to vote in France for the first time.
1950 Korean War: Heavy fighting begins between British and Australian forces from the 27th British Commonwealth Brigade and the North Korean 239th Regiment during the Battle of Yongju.
1956 Mau Mau Uprising: Kenyan rebel leader Dedan Kimathi is captured by the British Army, signalling the ultimate defeat of the rebellion, and essentially ending the British military campaign.
1959 In New York City, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, opens to the public.
1959 U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs an executive order transferring Wernher von Braun and other German scientists from the United States Army to NASA.
1965 Comet Ikeya-Seki approaches perihelion, passing 450,000 kilometers (279,617 miles) from the sun.
1966 Aberfan disaster: A slag heap collapses on the village of Aberfan in Wales, killing 144 people, mostly schoolchildren.
1967 Vietnam War: More than 100,000 war protesters gather in Washington, D.C.. A peaceful rally at the Lincoln Memorial is followed by a march to The Pentagon and clashes with soldiers and United States Marshals protecting the facility. Similar demonstrations occurred simultaneously in Japan and Western Europe.
1969 A coup d'ιtat in Somalia brings Siad Barre to power and establishes a socialist republic in Somalia.
1971 A gas explosion kills 22 people at a shopping center in Clarkston, East Renfrewshire, near Glasgow, Scotland.
1973 John Paul Getty III's ear is cut off by his kidnappers and sent to a newspaper in Rome; it doesn't arrive until November 8.
1973 Fred Dryer of the then Los Angeles Rams becomes the first player in NFL history to score two safeties in the same game.
1977 The European Patent Institute is founded.
1978 Australian civilian pilot Frederick Valentich vanishes in a Cessna 182 over the Bass Strait south of Melbourne, after reporting contact with an unidentified aircraft.
1979 Moshe Dayan resigns from the Israeli government because of strong disagreements with Prime Minister Menachem Begin over policy towards the Arabs.
1981 Andreas Papandreou becomes Prime Minister of Greece, ending an almost 50-year long system of power dominated by conservative forces.
1983 The metre is defined at the seventeenth General Conference on Weights and Measures as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second.
1986 In Lebanon, pro-Iran kidnappers claim to have abducted American writer Edward Tracy (he is released in August 1991).
1987 Jaffna hospital massacre is carried out by Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka killing 70 ethnic Tamil patients, doctors and nurses.
1994 North Korea nuclear weapons program: North Korea and the United States sign an agreement that requires North Korea to stop its nuclear weapons program and agree to inspections.
1994 In Seoul, 32 people are killed when the Seongsu Bridge collapses.
2005 Images of the dwarf planet Eris are taken and subsequently used in documenting its discovery by the team of Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz.
2012 A shooting at a spa in Brookfield, Wisconsin, leaves four people dead, including the shooter.
2013 Record smog closes schools, roadways, and the airport in Harbin, China.
Events:C/P.
1096 People's Crusade: The Turkish army successfully fight off the People's Army of the West.
1097 First Crusade: Crusaders led by Godfrey of Bouillon, Bohemund of Taranto, and Raymond IV of Toulouse, begin the Siege of Antioch.
1209 Otto IV is crowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by Pope Innocent III.
1392 Nanboku-chō: Emperor Go-Kameyama abdicates in favor of rival claimant Go-Komatsu.
1512 Martin Luther joins the theological faculty of the University of Wittenberg.
1520 Ferdinand Magellan discovers a strait now known as Strait of Magellan.
1520 Joγo Αlvares Fagundes discovers the islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, bestowing them their original name of "Islands of the 11,000 Virgins".
1600 Tokugawa Ieyasu defeats the leaders of rival Japanese clans in the Battle of Sekigahara, which marks the beginning of the Tokugawa shogunate that in effect rules Japan until the mid-nineteenth century.
1774 First display of the word "Liberty" on a flag, raised by colonists in Taunton, Massachusetts in defiance of British rule in Colonial America.
1797 In Boston Harbor, the 44-gun United States Navy frigate USS Constitution is launched.
1805 Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar: A British fleet led by Vice Admiral Lord Nelson defeats a combined French and Spanish fleet off the coast of Spain under Admiral Villeneuve, signaling almost the end of French maritime power and leaves Britain's navy unchallenged until the 20th century.
1816 The Penang Free School is founded in George Town, Penang, Malaysia, by the Rev Hutchings, the oldest English-language school in Southeast Asia.
1824 Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement.
1854 Florence Nightingale and a staff of 38 nurses are sent to the Crimean War.
1861 American Civil War: Battle of Ball's Bluff Union forces under Colonel Edward Baker are defeated by Confederate troops in the second major battle of the war. Baker, a close friend of Abraham Lincoln, is killed in the fighting.
1867 Manifest Destiny: Medicine Lodge Treaty Near Medicine Lodge, Kansas a landmark treaty is signed by southern Great Plains Indian leaders. The treaty requires Native American Plains tribes to relocate to a reservation in western Oklahoma.
1879 Thomas Edison invents a workable electric light bulb at his laboratory in Menlo Park, N.J. which was tested the next day and lasted 13.5 hours. This would be the invention of the first commercially practical incandescent light. Popular belief is that he invented the first light bulb, which he did not.
1888 Foundation of the Swiss Social Democratic Party.
1892 Opening ceremonies for the World's Columbian Exposition are held in Chicago, though because construction was behind schedule, the exposition did not open until May 1, 1893.
1895 The Republic of Formosa collapses as Japanese forces invade.
1902 In the United States, a five-month strike by United Mine Workers ends.
1910 HMS Niobe arrives in Halifax Harbour to become the first ship of the Royal Canadian Navy.
1912 First Balkan War: Kardzhali is liberated by Bulgarian forces.
1921 President Warren G. Harding delivers the first speech by a sitting U.S. President against lynching in the deep South.
1921 George Melford's silent film, The Sheik, starring Rudolph Valentino, premiers.
1931 The Sakurakai, a secret society in the Imperial Japanese Army, launches an abortive coup d'ιtat attempt.
1940 The first edition of the Ernest Hemingway novel For Whom the Bell Tolls is published.
1941 World War II: In Kragujevac, Serbia, German Wehrmacht soldiers butcher about 7,000 citizens, including schoolchildren and professors.
1943 The Provisional Government of Free India is formally declared by Subhas Chandra Bose.
1944 World War II: The first kamikaze attack A Japanese fighter plane carrying a 200-kilogram (440 lb) bomb attacks HMAS Australia off Leyte Island, as the Battle of Leyte Gulf began.
1944 World War II: Battle of Aachen The city of Aachen falls to American forces after three weeks of fighting, making it the first German city to fall to the Allies.
1945 Women's suffrage: Women are allowed to vote in France for the first time.
1950 Korean War: Heavy fighting begins between British and Australian forces from the 27th British Commonwealth Brigade and the North Korean 239th Regiment during the Battle of Yongju.
1956 Mau Mau Uprising: Kenyan rebel leader Dedan Kimathi is captured by the British Army, signalling the ultimate defeat of the rebellion, and essentially ending the British military campaign.
1959 In New York City, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, opens to the public.
1959 U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs an executive order transferring Wernher von Braun and other German scientists from the United States Army to NASA.
1965 Comet Ikeya-Seki approaches perihelion, passing 450,000 kilometers (279,617 miles) from the sun.
1966 Aberfan disaster: A slag heap collapses on the village of Aberfan in Wales, killing 144 people, mostly schoolchildren.
1967 Vietnam War: More than 100,000 war protesters gather in Washington, D.C.. A peaceful rally at the Lincoln Memorial is followed by a march to The Pentagon and clashes with soldiers and United States Marshals protecting the facility. Similar demonstrations occurred simultaneously in Japan and Western Europe.
1969 A coup d'ιtat in Somalia brings Siad Barre to power and establishes a socialist republic in Somalia.
1971 A gas explosion kills 22 people at a shopping center in Clarkston, East Renfrewshire, near Glasgow, Scotland.
1973 John Paul Getty III's ear is cut off by his kidnappers and sent to a newspaper in Rome; it doesn't arrive until November 8.
1973 Fred Dryer of the then Los Angeles Rams becomes the first player in NFL history to score two safeties in the same game.
1977 The European Patent Institute is founded.
1978 Australian civilian pilot Frederick Valentich vanishes in a Cessna 182 over the Bass Strait south of Melbourne, after reporting contact with an unidentified aircraft.
1979 Moshe Dayan resigns from the Israeli government because of strong disagreements with Prime Minister Menachem Begin over policy towards the Arabs.
1981 Andreas Papandreou becomes Prime Minister of Greece, ending an almost 50-year long system of power dominated by conservative forces.
1983 The metre is defined at the seventeenth General Conference on Weights and Measures as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second.
1986 In Lebanon, pro-Iran kidnappers claim to have abducted American writer Edward Tracy (he is released in August 1991).
1987 Jaffna hospital massacre is carried out by Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka killing 70 ethnic Tamil patients, doctors and nurses.
1994 North Korea nuclear weapons program: North Korea and the United States sign an agreement that requires North Korea to stop its nuclear weapons program and agree to inspections.
1994 In Seoul, 32 people are killed when the Seongsu Bridge collapses.
2005 Images of the dwarf planet Eris are taken and subsequently used in documenting its discovery by the team of Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz.
2012 A shooting at a spa in Brookfield, Wisconsin, leaves four people dead, including the shooter.
2013 Record smog closes schools, roadways, and the airport in Harbin, China.