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461 – Libius Severus is declared emperor of the Western Roman Empire. The real power is in the hands of the magister militum Ricimer.
636 – The Rashidun Caliphate defeated the Sasanian Empire at the Battle of al-Qādisiyyah in Iraq.
1095 – The Council of Clermont, called by Pope Urban II to discuss sending the First Crusade to the Holy Land, begins.
1493 – Christopher Columbus goes ashore on an island he first saw the day before. He names it San Juan Bautista (later renamed Puerto Rico).
1794 – The United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign Jay's Treaty, which attempts to resolve some of the lingering problems left over from the American Revolutionary War.
1802 – The Garinagu arrive at British Honduras (Present day Belize)
1816 – Warsaw University is established.
1824: A flood on the Neva River in Russia claims an estimated 10,000 lives.
1847 – The second Canadian railway line, the Montreal and Lachine Railway, is opened.
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1881 – A meteorite lands near the village of Grossliebenthal, southwest of Odessa, Ukraine.
1885 – Serbo-Bulgarian War: Bulgarian victory in the Battle of Slivnitsa solidifies the unification between the Principality of Bulgaria and Eastern Rumelia.
1895 – American inventor Frederick E. Blaisdell patents the pencil.
1911 – The Doom Bar in Cornwall claimed two ships, Island Maid and Angele, the latter killing the entire crew except the captain.
1912 – First Balkan War: The Serbian Army captures Bitola, ending the five-century-long Ottoman rule of Macedonia.
1916 – Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Pictures.
1941 – World War II: Battle between HMAS Sydney and HSK Kormoran. The two ships sink each other off the coast of Western Australia, with the loss of 645 Australians and about 77 German seamen.
1942 – World War II: The Soviet Red Army under General Georgy Zhukov launch the Operation Uranus counterattacks at Stalingrad, the great Soviet counteroffensive that turned the tide of the Battle of Stalingrad in the USSR's favor. Russian forces launch their winter offensive against the Germans along the Don front.
1942 – Mutesa II is crowned the 35th and last Kabaka (king) of Buganda, prior to the restoration of the kingdom in 1993.
1943 – Holocaust: Nazis liquidate Janowska concentration camp in Lemberg (Lviv), western Ukraine, murdering at least 6,000 Jews after a failed uprising and mass escape attempt.
1944 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces the 6th War Loan Drive, aimed at selling US$14 billion in war bonds to help pay for the war effort.
1944 – World War II: Thirty members of the Luxembourgish resistance defend the town of Vianden against a larger Waffen-SS attack in the Battle of Vianden.
1946 – Afghanistan, Iceland and Sweden join the United Nations.
1950 – US General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes Supreme Commander of NATO-Europe.
1952 – Greek Field Marshal Alexander Papagos becomes the 152nd Prime Minister of Greece.
1954 – Télé Monte Carlo, Europe's oldest private television channel, is launched by Prince Rainier III.
1955 – National Review publishes its first issue.
1959 – The Ford Motor Company announces the discontinuation of the Edsel brand due to poor sales.
1967 – The establishment of TVB, the first wireless commercial television station in Hong Kong.
1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean make the second manned landing on the moon at Oceanus Procellarum (the "Ocean of Storms") and become the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon.
1969 – Association football player Pelé scores his 1,000th goal.
1977 – TAP Portugal Flight 425 crashes in the Madeira Islands, killing 131.
1977 – TAP Portugal Flight 425 crashes in the Madeira Islands, killing 131.
1977: In an unprecedented move for an Arab leader, Egyptian president Anwar el-Sadat travels to Jerusalem to seek a permanent peace settlement with Israel after decades of conflict. Sadat's visit, in which he met with Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and spoke before the Knesset (Parliament), was met with outrage in most of the Arab world.
1979 – Iran hostage crisis: Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 female and black American hostages being held at the US Embassy in Tehran.
1984 – San Juanico disaster: A series of explosions at the Pemex petroleum storage facility at San Juan Ixhuatepec in Mexico City starts a major fire and kills about 500 people.
1985 – Cold War: In Geneva, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time.
1985 – Pennzoil wins a US$10.53 billion judgment against Texaco, in the largest civil verdict in the history of the United States, stemming from Texaco executing a contract to buy Getty Oil after Pennzoil had entered into an unsigned, yet still binding, buyout contract with Getty.
1985 – Police in Baling, Malaysia, lay siege to houses occupied by an Islamic sect of about 400 people led by Ibrahim Mahmud.
1988 – Serbian communist representative and future Serbian and Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević publicly declares that Serbia is under attack from Albanian separatists in Kosovo as well as internal treachery within Yugoslavia and a foreign conspiracy to destroy Serbia and Yugoslavia.
1990 – Pop group Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy Award because the duo did not sing at all on the Girl You Know It's True album. Session musicians had provided all the vocals.
1994 – In the United Kingdom, the first National Lottery draw is held. A £1 ticket gave a one-in-14-million chance of correctly guessing the winning six out of 49 numbers.
1996 – Lt. Gen. Maurice Baril of Canada arrives in Africa to lead a multi-national policing force in Zaire.
1998 – Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings against U.S. President Bill Clinton.
1998 – Vincent van Gogh's Portrait of the Artist Without Beard sells at auction for US$71.5 million.
1999 – Shenzhou 1: The People's Republic of China launches its first Shenzhou spacecraft.
2002 – The Greek oil tanker Prestige splits in half and sinks off the coast of Galicia, releasing over 20 million US gallons (76,000 m³) of oil in the largest environmental disaster in Spanish and Portuguese history.
2002: The Senate votes 90-9 to approve creation of the Department of Homeland Security.
2004 – The Malice at the Palace: The worst brawl in NBA history, Ron Artest suspended 86 games (rest of season), Stephen Jackson suspended 30 games
2010 – The first of four explosions takes place at the Pike River Mine in New Zealand; 29 people are killed in the nation's worst mining disaster since 1914.
2013 – A double suicide bombing at the Iranian embassy in Beirut kills 23 people and injures 160 others.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Elizabeth, Widow. Double.
Commemoration of St. Pontian, Pope of Rome, Martyr.
Contemporary Western
Raphael Kalinowski
Severinus, Exuperius, and Felician
Severinus, Exuperius, and Felician
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Eastern Orthodox
Prophet Obadiah (Abdias) (9th century B.C.)
Martyr Heliodorus in Pamphylia (273)
Martyr Azes of Isauria, and with him 150 soldiers (284)
Holy 12 soldier-martyrs.
Martyr Barlaam of Caesarea in Cappadocia (304)
Martyr Agapius of Caesarea in Palaestina (306)
Martyrs Anthimus, Thalalaeus, Christopher, Euphemia and her children.
Martyr Pancharius.
Venerables Barlaam and loasaph, prince of India,
and St. Abenner the King, father of St. loasaph (4th century)
Venerable Hilarion of Georgia, monk, Wonderworker of Thessalonica (875)
Venerable Simon, Wonderworker of Calabria (10th century)
Martyrs Severinus, Exuperius, and Felician, martyred in Vienne in France
under Marcus Aurelius (170)
Martyr Maximus, in Rome under Valerian (c. 255)
Saint Crispin, Bishop of Écija in Andalusia in Spain,
beheaded under Maximian Herculeus (4th century)
Saint Anastasius II, Pope of Rome (498)
Saint Patroclus of Bourges (577)
Saint Ermenburgh (Domne Eafe),
founder of the convent of Minster-in-Thanet (c. 700)
Saint Egbert, Archbishop of York (766)
Saint Medana, a holy virgin from Ireland who went to Scotland
and lived in Galloway (8th century)
Saint Tuto (Totto), founder in 764 of the monastery of Ottobeuren
in Bavaria in Germany (815)
Saint James of Sasseau, born in Constantinople, he came to France
and was ordained in Clermont, later living as a hermit in Sasseau (c. 865)
Saint Atto, first Abbot of Tordino near Teramo in Italy (c. 1010)
under Marcus Aurelius (170)
Martyr Maximus, in Rome under Valerian (c. 255)
Saint Crispin, Bishop of Écija in Andalusia in Spain,
beheaded under Maximian Herculeus (4th century)
Saint Anastasius II, Pope of Rome (498)
Saint Patroclus of Bourges (577)
Saint Ermenburgh (Domne Eafe),
founder of the convent of Minster-in-Thanet (c. 700)
Saint Egbert, Archbishop of York (766)
Saint Medana, a holy virgin from Ireland who went to Scotland
and lived in Galloway (8th century)
Saint Tuto (Totto), founder in 764 of the monastery of Ottobeuren
in Bavaria in Germany (815)
Saint James of Sasseau, born in Constantinople, he came to France
and was ordained in Clermont, later living as a hermit in Sasseau (c. 865)
Saint Atto, first Abbot of Tordino near Teramo in Italy (c. 1010)
Saint Philaret, Metropolitan of Moscow (1867)
Porphirius (Gulevich), Bishop of Simferopol and Crimea (1937);
Ioasaph (Udalov), Bishop of Chistopol (1937);
Deacon-monk Antonius (Korzh) (1938);
Hieromonk Bartholomeus (Ratnykh) (1938);
Priest Vladimir Pischulin (1938);
Archpriest Demetrius Kiranov;
Priest John Bliumovich;
Archpriest Nicholas Mezentsev;
Priest Timothy Izotov
New Hieromartyrs Sergius, Michael, Alexander, John, Constantine, Alexander,
Ignatius, Simeon, John, John, Demetrius, Jacob, Jacob, Priests (1937)
New Hieromartyrs Ioasaph, Peter, Gregory, Benjamin, Gerasim, Michael,
Martyr Valentine, Peter, Leonid, Timothy (1937)
Uncovering of the relics (1625) of Monk-martyr Adrian of Poshekhon,
Abbot of Poshekhonye (1550)
"The Joy of All who Sorrow" (1863) Icon of the Mother of God
Repose of Elder Cleopa (Ilie) of Sihastria, Romania (1998)
Abbot of Poshekhonye (1550)
"The Joy of All who Sorrow" (1863) Icon of the Mother of God
Repose of Elder Cleopa (Ilie) of Sihastria, Romania (1998)
Coptic Orthodox
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