1056 – After a sudden illness a few days previously, Byzantine Empress Theodora dies childless, thus ending the Macedonian dynasty.
1218 – Al-Kamil becomes Sultan of Egypt, Syria and northern Mesopotamia on the death of his father Al-Adil.
1230 Bishop Willebrand of Utrecht grants Swells state justice
1310 German king Heinrich VII makes his son Johan king of Bohemia
1314 – King Håkon V Magnusson moves the capital of Norway from Bergen to Oslo.
1422 – King Henry V of England dies of dysentery while in France. His son, Henry VI becomes King of England at the age of 9 months.
1745 Jacobite Rising 1745: Bonnie Prince Charlie reaches Blair Castle, Scotland
1751 British troops under Sir Robert Clive occupy Arcot, India
1772 Hurricane destroy ships off Dominica
1777: Samuel Mason, a Patriot captain in command of Fort Henry on the Ohio frontier, survives a devastating Indian attack
1778 British kill 17 Stockbridge indians in Bronx during Revolution
1795 – War of the First Coalition: The British capture Trincomalee (present-day Sri Lanka) from the Dutch in order to keep it out of French hands.
1798 – Irish Rebellion of 1798: Irish rebels, with French assistance, establish the short-lived Republic of Connacht.
1803 – Lewis and Clark start their expedition to the west by leaving Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at 11 in the morning.
1813 – At the final stage of the Peninsular War, British-Portuguese troops capture the town of Donostia (now San Sebastián), resulting in a rampage and eventual destruction of the town. Elsewhere, Spanish troops repel a French attack in the Battle of San Marcial.
1836 HMS Beagle anchors in Postage Praia, Cape Verde Islands
1837 – Ralph Waldo Emerson delivers his famous "The American Scholar" speech to Phi Beta Kappa Society at Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and declares American literary independence from Europe.
1842 Micah Rugg patents a nuts & bolts machine
1842 US Naval Observatory authorized by an act of Congress
1843 Liberty Party nominates James Birneyas presidential candidate
1850 California pioneers organized at Montgomery & Clay Streets
1864: At the Battle of Jonesboro, Georgia, General William T. Sherman launches the attack that finally secures Atlanta, Georgia, for the Union, and seals the fate of Confederate General John Bell Hood's army, which is forced to evacuate the area. 1900 casualties
1876 – Ottoman Sultan Murat V is deposed and succeeded by his brother Abd-ul-Hamid II.
1886: The first major earthquake recorded in eastern US near Charleston, South Carolina, leaves more than 110 people dead and hundreds of buildings destroyed. This was the largest recorded earthquake in the history of the southeastern United States.
1886 Crocker-Woolworth National Bank organized
1888 – The body of Mary Ann Nichols is found in Whitechapel in London's East End. She is the first of Jack the Ripper's confirmed victims.
1889 Second International Electrical Congress adopts the joule as unit of energy (after James Prescott Joule), the watt as unit of power (after James Watt), and the quadrant (later renamed henry) as unit of electrical inductance.
1894 The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act passed by Richard Seddon’s Liberal government, making New Zealand the first country in the world to outlaw strikes in favour of compulsory arbitration
1895 – German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his Navigable Balloon.
1895 – The first professional football game is played, quarterback John Brallier was paid $10 and led his team to a 12-0 victory.
1896 Louis Napoleon Parker's "Rosemary" premieres in NYC
1897 British General Kitchener's army occupies Berber, North of Khartoum
1897 – Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope [kinetographic camera], a device which produces moving pictures.
1900 British troops over run Johannesburg
1902 Split skirt 1st worn by Mrs Adolph Landeburg (horse rider)
1905 Mbunga rebellion takes German Fort Mahenge East Africa
1907 Britain & Russia sign treaty with Afghanistan, Persia & Tibet
1907 – Count Alexander Izvolsky and Sir Arthur Nicolson sign the St. Petersburg Convention, which results in the Triple Entente alliance of Britain, Russia & France.
1909 A. J. Reach Co. patents cork-centered baseball
1910 – Theodore Roosevelt makes a speech in Kansas offering Americans a 'square deal': property shall be 'the servant and not the master of the commonwealth'
1911 Anthony Fokker demonstrates the third version of his aircraft "de Spin" ("the Spider"),
1911 The "Sullivan Act" requiring New Yorkers to possess licences for firearms small enough to be concealed comes into effect
1913 – Dublin Metropolitan Police attack a massive union protest rally on Sackville Street during the Dublin Lock-out, killing two strikers and injuring hundreds.
1914 Ecuador becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty
1914 General von Kluck decides not to attack Paris
1914 German troops reconquer Soldau/Neidenburg East-Prussia
1915 Brazil becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty
1916: Harry Butters, an American soldier serving in the British army during World War I, is killed by a German shell during the Battle of the Somme, while fighting to secure the town of Guillemont, France.
1916 Oscar Asche's musical "Chu Chin Chow" premieres in London
1917 In China, Sun Yat-sen and his supporters' 'rump' parliament establishes a military government and elects Sun Yat-sen as commander-in-Chief
1918 – World War I: Start of the Battle of Mont Saint-Quentin, a successful assault by the Australian Corps during the Hundred Days Offensive.
1920 – Polish-Bolshevik War: A decisive Polish victory in the Battle of Komarów.
1920 – The first radio news program is broadcast by radio station 8MK (now WWJ, 950AM) in Detroit, Michigan.
1920 Belgium starts paying old age pensions
1923 Mussolini orders the Greek Government to apologize for the deaths of an Italian general and his staff on the Greco-Albanian border
1918 – World War I: Start of the Battle of Mont Saint-Quentin, a successful assault by the Australian Corps during the Hundred Days Offensive.
1919 John Reed forms American Communist Labor Party in Chicago
1919 Petlyura's Ukrainian Army kills 35 members of a Jewish defense group
1919 Ukrainian (Petlyura) Army recaptures Kiev
1920 – Polish-Bolshevik War: A decisive Polish victory in the Battle of Komarów.
1920 – The first radio news program is broadcast by radio station 8MK (now WWJ, 950AM) in Detroit, Michigan.
1920 Belgium starts paying old age pensions
1923 Italian troops occupy Corfu
1923 League of Nations gives Belgium mandate of Ruanda-Urundi (was German)
1923 Mussolini orders the Greek Government to apologize for the deaths of an Italian general and his staff on the Greco-Albanian border
1925 Anthropologist Margaret Mead first arrives in Samoa
1928 Bertolt Brecht & Kurt Weil's play with music "The Threepenny Opera" premieres at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm, Berlin
1929 Committee chaired by Owen D. Young finalizes the "Young Plan" to reduce German reparations from World War I to 112 billion Gold Marks ($US8 billion) paid over 59 years
1935 Russian miner Aleksey Stachanov digs 102 tons of coal in under 6 hours, using a jackhammer
1935: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Neutrality Act, or Senate Joint Resolution No. 173, prohibiting export of US arms to belligerents, which he calls an "expression of the desire...to avoid any action which might involve [the U.S.] in war." The signing came at a time when newly installed fascist governments in Europe were beginning to beat the drums of war.
1936 – Radio Prague, now the official international broadcasting station of the Czech Republic, goes on the air.
1936: Streetcar operation ended in Spokane, Washington, after 68 years.
1939 Japanese invasion army driven out of Mongolia.
1939 – Nazi Germany mounts a staged attack on the Gleiwitz radio station, creating an excuse to attack Poland the following day thus starting World War II in Europe.
1940 – Pennsylvania Central Airlines Trip 19 crashes near Lovettsville, Virginia. The CAB investigation of the accident is the first investigation to be conducted under the Bureau of Air Commerce act of 1938.
1941 Great Gildersleeve, a spin-off of Fibber McGee & Molly debuts on NBC
1941 – World War II: Serbian paramilitary forces defeat Germans in the Battle of Loznica.
1943 – USS Harmon, the first U.S. Navy ship to be named after a black person, is commissioned.
1944: The British 8th Army breaks through the Germans' "Gothen-linie" [Gothic Line], a defensive line drawn across northern Italy.
1935 Russian miner Aleksey Stachanov digs 102 tons of coal in under 6 hours, using a jackhammer
1935: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Neutrality Act, or Senate Joint Resolution No. 173, prohibiting export of US arms to belligerents, which he calls an "expression of the desire...to avoid any action which might involve [the U.S.] in war." The signing came at a time when newly installed fascist governments in Europe were beginning to beat the drums of war.
1936 – Radio Prague, now the official international broadcasting station of the Czech Republic, goes on the air.
1936: Streetcar operation ended in Spokane, Washington, after 68 years.
1939 Japanese invasion army driven out of Mongolia.
1939 – Nazi Germany mounts a staged attack on the Gleiwitz radio station, creating an excuse to attack Poland the following day thus starting World War II in Europe.
1940 1st edition of illegal opposition newspaper Free Netherlands
1940 German occupiers in Netherlands begin soap rationing
1940 RAF Fighter Command loses 39 aircraft against Luftwaffe's 41
1940 US National Guard assembles
1940 – Pennsylvania Central Airlines Trip 19 crashes near Lovettsville, Virginia. The CAB investigation of the accident is the first investigation to be conducted under the Bureau of Air Commerce act of 1938.
1941 Great Gildersleeve, a spin-off of Fibber McGee & Molly debuts on NBC
1941 – World War II: Serbian paramilitary forces defeat Germans in the Battle of Loznica.
1942 Battle at Alam el Halfa: German & Italians assault
1942 U-boats sink and damage 131 allied ships this month (639,946 tons)
1943 1st battle of Essex/new Yorktown: US assault on Marcus Island
1943 Japanese occupiers intern Jewish Congregation of Sorabajo
1943 – USS Harmon, the first U.S. Navy ship to be named after a black person, is commissioned.
1944: The British 8th Army breaks through the Germans' "Gothen-linie" [Gothic Line], a defensive line drawn across northern Italy.
1944 French provisional government moves from Algiers to Paris
1944 French troops liberate Bordeaux
1944 Soviet & Romanian troops march into Bucharest
1945 – The Liberal Party of Australia is founded by Robert Menzies.
1946 Foghorn Leghorn, Warner Bros. cartoon character created by Robert McKimson and Warren Foster, (Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series), first debuts in "Walky Talky Hawky"
1947 Hungarian communist party wins election
1948 Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands celebrates her golden jubilee
1949 – The retreat of the Democratic Army of Greece in Albania after its defeat on Gramos mountain marks the end of the Greek Civil War.
1951 1st 33 1/3 album introduced in Dusseldorf
1954 Hurricane Carol hits New England, 70 die. Costliest ever hurricane at the time and 1st storm name to be retired.
1955 1st sun-powered automobile demonstrated (Chicago, Illinois)
1957 – The Federation of Malaya (now Malaysia) gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
1958 – A parcel bomb sent by Ngo Dinh Nhu, younger brother and chief adviser of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem, fails to kill King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia.
1960 Agricultural Hall of Fame forms
1961 Amsterdam National Ballet forms
1962 – Trinidad and Tobago becomes independent from Britain (National Day) with Eric Williams as first Prime Minister.
1963 – Crown Colony of North Borneo (now Sabah) achieve a self governance.
1964 Ground is broken for Anaheim Stadium, future home of MLB California Angels
1965 – The Aero Spacelines Super Guppy aircraft makes its first flight.
1965 US Congress establishes Department of Housing & Urban Development
1966 "The Battle of Algiers", directed by Gillo Pontecorvo, starring Jean Martin, Saadi Yacef, premieres at the Vienna International Film Festival
1968 12,000 die in 7.8 quake which destroys 60,000 buildings in NE Iran
1968 Private Eye magazine reports a John Lennon and Yoko Ono album will have a picture of them nude on the cover
1970 Lonnie McLucas, a Black Panther activist, convicted of conspiracy to commit murder
1970 Molukkers occupy Indonesian ambassador's home in Wassenaar
1971 An inquiry into allegations of brutality by the security forces against those interned without trial in Northern Ireland is announced
1971 Beatle John Lennon leaves England for the final time, moving to New York City
1974 Pirate Radio Veronica moves into Scheveningen, Neteherlands harbor
1976 Mexican peso devalued
1976 Trinidad & Tobago adopts constitution
1977 Aleksandr Fedotov sets aircraft alt rec of 38.26 km (125,524')
1977 Ian Smith, espousing racial segregation, wins Rhodesian general election with 80% of overwhelmingly white electorate's vote
1977 Spyros Kyprianou appointed president of Cyprus
1978 Constitution adopted by Sri Lanka
1978 Emily & William Harris plead guilty to 1974 kidnapping of Patty Hearst
1978 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1979 Comet Howard-Koomur-Michels collides with Sun
1979 Donald McHenry named to succeed Andrew Young as US UN ambassador
1980 Poland's Solidarity trade union federations forms and is officially recognised by the Polish government
1980 – Flood in Ibadan after 12 hours of heavy downpour killed over 300 people and properties worth million destroyed.
1982 – Anti-government demonstrations are held in 66 Polish cities to commemorate the second anniversary of the Gdańsk Agreement.
1982 USSR performs underground nuclear test
1985 Night Stalker suspect that terrorized California captured in East Los Angeles
1986 – Aeroméxico Flight 498 (DC-9) collides with a Piper PA-28 over Cerritos, California, killing 67 in the air and 15 on the ground.
1986 – The Soviet passenger liner Admiral Nakhimov sinks in the Black Sea after colliding with the bulk carrier Pyotr Vasev, killing 423.
1987 – Thai Airways Flight 365 crashes into the ocean near Ko Phuket, Thailand, killing all 83 aboard.
1987 South Africa's longest mine strike in history ends
1988 5-day power blackout of downtown Seattle begins
1988 Bomb attack on office of South Africa Council of Churches
1990 Baseball outfielders Ken Griffey and Ken Griffey Jr. become the 1st father and son to play on same team (Seattle Mariners), the pair hit back-to-back singles in the first inning and both scored
1990 East & West Germany sign a treaty to join legal & political systems
1991 Richard J. Kerr, ends term as deputy director of CIA
1991 William H. Webster ends term as 14th director of CIA
1991 Uzbekistan declares independence from the Soviet Union following the failed coup in Moscow
1991 – Kyrgyzstan declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
1992 – Pascal Lissouba is inaugurated as the President of the Republic of the Congo.
1992 Dynamite explosion in a mine in the Philippines kills 500
1993 – Russia completes removing its troops from Lithuania.
1993 Venezuela president Carlos Perez flees
1993 HMS Mercury, the Royal Navy's communications training establishment, closes after 52 years in commission.
1994 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army (Sinn Féin) declares a ceasefire in Northern Ireland.
1994 Last Russian soldiers leave Estonia & Latvia
1996 – Saddam Hussein's troops seized Irbil after the Kurdish Masoud Barzani appealed for help to defeat his Kurdish rival PUK.
1997 – Diana, Princess of Wales, her companion Dodi Fayed and driver Henri Paul die in a car crash in Paris.
1997 "Gin Game" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 144 performances
1998 – North Korea reportedly launches Kwangmyŏngsŏng-1, its first satellite.
1999 – The first of a series of apartment bombings in Moscow kills one person and wounds 40 others.
1999 – A LAPA Boeing 737-200 crashes during takeoff from Jorge Newbury Airport in Buenos Aires, killing 65, including two on the ground.
2004 Barbara Pierce Bush gives a speech to the Republican Convention
2005 – A stampede on Al-Aaimmah bridge in Baghdad kills 1,199 people.
2006 – Edvard Munch's famous painting The Scream, stolen on August 22, 2004, is recovered in a raid by Norwegian police. The painting was said to be in a better-than-expected condition.
2009 The Walt Disney Company announces it will acquire Marvel Entertainment for $4.24 billion
1990 Baseball outfielders Ken Griffey and Ken Griffey Jr. become the 1st father and son to play on same team (Seattle Mariners), the pair hit back-to-back singles in the first inning and both scored
1990 East & West Germany sign a treaty to join legal & political systems
1991 Richard J. Kerr, ends term as deputy director of CIA
1991 William H. Webster ends term as 14th director of CIA
1991 Uzbekistan declares independence from the Soviet Union following the failed coup in Moscow
1991 – Kyrgyzstan declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
1992 – Pascal Lissouba is inaugurated as the President of the Republic of the Congo.
1992 Dynamite explosion in a mine in the Philippines kills 500
1993 – Russia completes removing its troops from Lithuania.
1993 Venezuela president Carlos Perez flees
1993 HMS Mercury, the Royal Navy's communications training establishment, closes after 52 years in commission.
1994 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army (Sinn Féin) declares a ceasefire in Northern Ireland.
1994 Last Russian soldiers leave Estonia & Latvia
1996 – Saddam Hussein's troops seized Irbil after the Kurdish Masoud Barzani appealed for help to defeat his Kurdish rival PUK.
1997 – Diana, Princess of Wales, her companion Dodi Fayed and driver Henri Paul die in a car crash in Paris.
1997 "Gin Game" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 144 performances
1998 – North Korea reportedly launches Kwangmyŏngsŏng-1, its first satellite.
1999 – The first of a series of apartment bombings in Moscow kills one person and wounds 40 others.
1999 – A LAPA Boeing 737-200 crashes during takeoff from Jorge Newbury Airport in Buenos Aires, killing 65, including two on the ground.
2004 Barbara Pierce Bush gives a speech to the Republican Convention
2005 – A stampede on Al-Aaimmah bridge in Baghdad kills 1,199 people.
2006 – Edvard Munch's famous painting The Scream, stolen on August 22, 2004, is recovered in a raid by Norwegian police. The painting was said to be in a better-than-expected condition.
2009 The Walt Disney Company announces it will acquire Marvel Entertainment for $4.24 billion
2015 President Obama officially re-designates Alaska’s Mt. McKinley as Denali, its native American name.
2015 US President Barack Obama arrives in Alaska on a 3 day tour highlighting climate change
2015 Violent protests in Kiev after Ukraine parliament vote leave 1 national guard dead, 100 injured.
2016 Brazilian Senate votes to impeach President Dilma Rousseff, removing her from office
2017 Indications that Neanderthals were the first to make glue out of tar strengthened by research published in "Scientific Reports"
2017 International Organization for Migration states 18,500 Rohingya Muslims have fled from violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state after 110 deaths, making for Bangladesh
2018 19-year old Indonesian boy rescued after 49 days afloat when his floating fish trap became adrift
2019 Gunman kills seven and injures 22 during high speed chase in Odessa, Texas
2019 India removes citizenship status from 1.9 million people in state of Assam, leaving them off its new National Register of Citizens
2019 US missile attack in al-Qaeda jihadist training camp in Idlib province, Syria, kills 40
2020 Singer Akon lays first stone for Akon city, futuristic solar-powered city to be built in Senegal, saying will be real-life version of Wakanda in "Black Panther"
2020 US cases of COVID-19 pass 6 million with 183,300 deaths with California (699.000), Florida (619,000) recording the most (Johns Hopkins)
2022 Mary Peltola is the first Alaskan Native to be elected to US Congress, defeating Sarah Palin in a special election
2022 UN releases report accusing China of serious human rights abuses against Uyghurs in its western Xinjiang region, “may constitute international crimes, in particular crimes against humanity”
2022 UN weather agency predicts a rare "triple dip" La Nina pattern to last till the end of 2022, the first this century, likely to extend droughts in Horn of Africa, South America
2022 US life expectancy falls to its lowest level since 1996 (76.1 yrs vs. 79 yrs in 2019), with Covid-19 the main contributing factor according to the CDC
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Confessor. Double.
Contemporary Western
Aidan of Lindisfarne
Raymond Nonnatus
Raymond Nonnatus
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Eastern Orthodox
Holy 7 Virgin-martyrs, at Gaza, by the sword
Holy 4 Martyrs, at Perge in Pamphylia, by fire
Holy 366 Martyrs, at Nicomedia, by the sword
Martyr Phileortus, by the sword
Martyrs Menas, Faustus, Andrew and Heraclius
Saint Diadochos
Saint Gennadius, Patriarch of Constantinople (471)
Hieromartyr Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage (258)
Martyrs Caesidius and Companions, on the shores of Lake Fucino in Italy (3rd century)
Martyrs Robustian and Mark, venerated in Milan in Italy from early times
Saint Paulinus, Bishop of Trier (358)
Saint Optatus, Bishop of Auxerre in France (c. 530)
Saint Barbolenus, fourth Abbot of Bobbio Abbey in Italy (c. 640)
Saint Eanswythe (Eanswith), Abbess of Folkestone (c. 640)
Saint Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Enlightener of Northumbria (651)
Saints Cuthburgh (Cuthburga) and Cwenburgh, sisters, Abbesses of Wimborne (c. 725)
Saint John Prodrom, Metropolitan of Kiev (1089)
Saint Gennadius Scholarius (Gennadius the Scholar), Patriarch of Constantinople (1372)
New Hieromartyr Alexander Lyubimov, Priest, and Vladimir Dvinsky, Deacon (1918)
New Hieromartyrs Michael Kosukhin[2] and Myron Rzhepik, Priests (1937)
New Hieromartyr Demetrius Smirnov (1938)
New Martyrs of Jasenovac, Serbia (1941-1945)
Placing of the Honourable Cincture (Sash) of the Most Holy Theotokos (395-408)
Restoration of the Church of the Theotokos at the Neorion
(port facilities) in Constantinople (c. 920-944)
Repose of Schema-nun Gabriela of the Holy Trinity Monastery in Kiev (1992)
Holy 4 Martyrs, at Perge in Pamphylia, by fire
Holy 366 Martyrs, at Nicomedia, by the sword
Martyr Phileortus, by the sword
Martyrs Menas, Faustus, Andrew and Heraclius
Saint Diadochos
Saint Gennadius, Patriarch of Constantinople (471)
Hieromartyr Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage (258)
Martyrs Caesidius and Companions, on the shores of Lake Fucino in Italy (3rd century)
Martyrs Robustian and Mark, venerated in Milan in Italy from early times
Saint Paulinus, Bishop of Trier (358)
Saint Optatus, Bishop of Auxerre in France (c. 530)
Saint Barbolenus, fourth Abbot of Bobbio Abbey in Italy (c. 640)
Saint Eanswythe (Eanswith), Abbess of Folkestone (c. 640)
Saint Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Enlightener of Northumbria (651)
Saints Cuthburgh (Cuthburga) and Cwenburgh, sisters, Abbesses of Wimborne (c. 725)
Saint John Prodrom, Metropolitan of Kiev (1089)
Saint Gennadius Scholarius (Gennadius the Scholar), Patriarch of Constantinople (1372)
New Hieromartyr Alexander Lyubimov, Priest, and Vladimir Dvinsky, Deacon (1918)
New Hieromartyrs Michael Kosukhin[2] and Myron Rzhepik, Priests (1937)
New Hieromartyr Demetrius Smirnov (1938)
New Martyrs of Jasenovac, Serbia (1941-1945)
Placing of the Honourable Cincture (Sash) of the Most Holy Theotokos (395-408)
Restoration of the Church of the Theotokos at the Neorion
(port facilities) in Constantinople (c. 920-944)
Repose of Schema-nun Gabriela of the Holy Trinity Monastery in Kiev (1992)
Coptic Orthodox
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