590 – Emperor Maurice proclaims his son Theodosius as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
1027 – Pope John XIX crowns Conrad II as Holy Roman Emperor.
1169 – Saladin becomes the emir of Egypt.
1344 – The Siege of Algeciras, one of the first European military engagements where gunpowder was used, comes to an end.
1351 – Combat of the Thirty : Thirty Breton Knights call out and defeat thirty English Knights.
1484 – William Caxton prints his translation of Aesop's Fables.
All Fables from Aesop
1552 – Guru Amar Das becomes the Third Sikh Guru.
1636 – Utrecht University is founded in the Netherlands.
1776 – The Provincial Congress of South Carolina approves a new constitution and government. The legislature renamed itself the General Assembly of South Carolina and elected John Rutledge as president, Henry Laurens as vice president and William Henry Drayton as chief justice. History
1790 – Congress passes the Naturalization Act, requiring a 2-year residency.
1812 – An earthquake destroys Caracas, Venezuela.
1812 – A political cartoon in the Boston Gazette coins the term "gerrymander" to describe oddly shaped electoral districts designed to help incumbents win reelection.
1830 – The Book of Mormon is published in Palmyra, New York.
1832: The American Fur Company adopts the latest in transportation technology to its business, dispatching the company's new steamboat Yellowstone to pick up furs in Montana. History
1839 – The first Henley Royal Regatta is held.
1864 – General James B. McPherson assumes command of the Union Army of the Tennessee after William T. Sherman was elevated to commander of the Division of the Mississippi, the overall leader in the West. History
1872 – A massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake rocked the American west coast from Oregon to the Mexican border.
1881 – Thessaly is freed and becomes part of Greece again.
1885 – The Métis people of the District of Saskatchewan under Louis Riel begin the North-West Rebellion against Canada.
1913 – Balkan Wars: Bulgarian forces capture Adrianople.
1915 – Ice Hockey: The Vancouver Millionaires sweep the Ottawa Senators three-games-to-none to win the 1915 Stanley Cup Finals, the first championship played between the Pacific Coast Hockey Association and the National Hockey Association.
1917 – World War I: First Battle of Gaza: The first of three battles is fought in the Allied attempt to defeat Turkish forces in and around the Palestinian city of Gaza. British troops are halted after 17,000 Turks block their advance. History
1922 – The German Social Democratic Party is founded in Poland.
1931 – SwissAir is founded as the national airline of Switzerland.
1931 – Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union is founded in Vietnam.
1934 – The driving test is introduced in the United Kingdom.
1939 – Spanish Civil War: Nationalists begin their final offensive of the war.
1941: World War II: Raid on Souda Bay: Italian Navy small craft attack the British fleet at Suda Bay, Crete, using detachable warheads to sink the Royal Navy heavy cruiser HMS York and the Norwegian tanker Pericles. This is the first time manned torpedoes are employed in naval warfare, adding a new weapon to the world's navies' arsenals. History
1942 – World War II: The first female prisoners arrive at Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland.
1945 – World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ends as the island is officially secured by Allied forces led by the U.S. Marine Corps.
1950 – During a radio broadcast dealing with a Senate investigation into communists in the U.S. Department of State, news is leaked that Senator Joseph McCarthy has charged Professor Owen Lattimore with being a top spy for the Soviet Union. Lattimore soon becomes a central figure in the Red Scare hysteria created by McCarthy's reckless charges and accusations. History
1953: Polio vaccine: American medical researcher Dr. Jonas Salk announced on a national radio show that he had successfully tested a vaccine against poliomyelitis, the virus that causes the crippling disease of polio. In 1952–an epidemic year for polio–there were 58,000 new cases reported in the United States, and more than 3,000 died from the disease. History
1958 – The United States Army launches Explorer 3.
1958 – The African Regroupment Party is launched at a meeting in Paris.
1967 – Ten thousand people gather for one of many Central Park be-ins in New York City.
1970 – South Vietnamese President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu implements a land reform program to solve the problem of land tenancy.
1971 – East Pakistan declares its independence from Pakistan to form the People's Republic of Bangladesh and the Bangladesh Liberation War begins.
1974 – Gaura Devi leads a group of 27 women of Reni village, Garhwal Himalayas, to form circles around trees to stop them being felled and giving rise to the Chipko movement in India.
1975 – The Biological Weapons Convention comes into force. It was the first multilateral disarmament treaty to ban the production of an entire category of weapons of mass destruction.
1975: Fall of Huế: The city of Huế, in northernmost South Vietnam, falls to the North Vietnamese. History
1978 – Four days before the scheduled opening of Japan's Narita International Airport, a group of protestors destroys much of the equipment in the control tower with Molotov cocktails.
1979: In a ceremony at the White House in Washington, D. C., Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, witnessed by U.S. president Jimmy Carter, sign the Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty, ending three decades of hostilities between Egypt and Israel and establishing diplomatic and commercial ties. History
1981 – Social Democratic Party (UK) founded as a party.
1982 – A groundbreaking ceremony for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is held in Washington, D.C.
1991 – Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay sign the Treaty of Asunción, establishing Mercosur, the South Common Market.
1991 – Five South Korean boys, nicknamed the Frog Boys, disappear while hunting for frogs and are murdered in a case that remains unsolved.
1991 – Local self-government is restored after three decades of centralized control in South Korea.
1995 – The Schengen Treaty comes into effect.
1997 – Thirty-nine bodies are found in the Heaven's Gate mass suicides.
1998 – Oued Bouaicha massacre in Algeria: Fifty-two people are killed with axes and knives, 32 of them babies under the age of two.
1999 – The "Melissa worm" infects Microsoft word processing and e-mail systems around the world.
1999 – A jury in Michigan finds Dr. Jack Kevorkian guilty of second-degree murder for administering a lethal injection to a terminally ill man.
2005 – The Taiwanese government calls on one million Taiwanese to demonstrate in Taipei, in opposition to the Anti-Secession Law of the People's Republic of China. Around 200,000 to 300,000 attend the demonstration.
2008: Jaguar Land Rover Limited is established when Tata Group, one of India's oldest and largest business conglomerates, acquires the Jaguar and Land Rover divisions from Ford Motor Company for some $2.3 billion – less than half of what Ford originally paid for the brands. History
2010 – The ROKS Cheonan sinks off the west coast of South Korea near Baengnyeong Island in the Yellow Sea, killing 46 seamen.
2014 – A massive fire breaks out in Back Bay, Boston killing 2 firefighters and injuring at least 18 people.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
The Penitent Thief. Double.
Contemporary Western
Castulus
Emmanuel and companions
Felicitas
Larissa
Ludger
Margaret Clitherow
Emmanuel and companions
Felicitas
Larissa
Ludger
Margaret Clitherow
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Harriet Monsell (Church of England)
Richard Allen (Episcopal Church (USA))
Eastern Orthodox
Feasts
Synaxis of the Archangel Gabriel
Apodosis (Leavetaking) of the Annunciation
Apodosis (Leavetaking) of the Annunciation
Saints
Martyr Codratus (Quadratus), Emmanuel and Theodosius, and with them
40 other martyrs, who suffered under Diocletian (284-305)
Hieromartyr Theodore, with Irenaeus the Deacon, and Serapion and Ammonius
the lectors, in Pentapolis in Libya (304)
Hieromartyr Irenaeus, Bishop of Sirmium in Hungary (304)
Hieromartyr Montanus, priest, and his wife Maxima, at Sirmium (ca. 304)
Martyrs Philemon and Domninus of Thessalonica, in Italy
Hieromartyr Eusebius, Bishop of Kival, and Martyr Pullius the Reader
Saint Eutychius, Subdeacon, of Alexandria (356)
Holy 26 Martyrs in Gothia by burning, under the Crimean Goths, under the Gothic
King Jungerich (Athanaric) (375-383), including:
Bathusius and Bercus, presbyters,
Monk-martyr Arpilus,
Laymen martyrs: Abibus, Agnus (Hagias), Reasus (Ruias), Igathrax (Egathrax),
Iscoeus (Iskous, Eskoes), Silas, Signicus (Sigetzas), Sonerilas (Swerilas),
Suimbalus (Swemblas), Thermus (Therthas), Phillus (Philgas),
Laywomen martyrs: Anna, Alla (Alas), Larissa (Baren, Beride), Monco (Manca,
Moiko), Mamica (Kamika), Uirko (Virko, Oneko), Animais (Animaida, Anemais),
Gaatha the queen of the Goths, and Duklida (Dulcilla)
Saint Malchus of Chalcis in Syria (4th c.)
Venerable Abraham of Mount Latros (Latrium), ascetic
Venerable Stephen the Confessor and Wonderworker, Abbot of Tryglia (815)
Venerable Basil the Younger, Anchorite near Constantinople (944 or 952)
40 other martyrs, who suffered under Diocletian (284-305)
Hieromartyr Theodore, with Irenaeus the Deacon, and Serapion and Ammonius
the lectors, in Pentapolis in Libya (304)
Hieromartyr Irenaeus, Bishop of Sirmium in Hungary (304)
Hieromartyr Montanus, priest, and his wife Maxima, at Sirmium (ca. 304)
Martyrs Philemon and Domninus of Thessalonica, in Italy
Hieromartyr Eusebius, Bishop of Kival, and Martyr Pullius the Reader
Saint Eutychius, Subdeacon, of Alexandria (356)
Holy 26 Martyrs in Gothia by burning, under the Crimean Goths, under the Gothic
King Jungerich (Athanaric) (375-383), including:
Bathusius and Bercus, presbyters,
Monk-martyr Arpilus,
Laymen martyrs: Abibus, Agnus (Hagias), Reasus (Ruias), Igathrax (Egathrax),
Iscoeus (Iskous, Eskoes), Silas, Signicus (Sigetzas), Sonerilas (Swerilas),
Suimbalus (Swemblas), Thermus (Therthas), Phillus (Philgas),
Laywomen martyrs: Anna, Alla (Alas), Larissa (Baren, Beride), Monco (Manca,
Moiko), Mamica (Kamika), Uirko (Virko, Oneko), Animais (Animaida, Anemais),
Gaatha the queen of the Goths, and Duklida (Dulcilla)
Saint Malchus of Chalcis in Syria (4th c.)
Venerable Abraham of Mount Latros (Latrium), ascetic
Venerable Stephen the Confessor and Wonderworker, Abbot of Tryglia (815)
Venerable Basil the Younger, Anchorite near Constantinople (944 or 952)
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Martyr Castulus, an officer of the palace in Rome, tortured and buried alive
for helping other Orthodox (288)
Martyrs Peter, Marcian, John, Thecla, Cassian and others, at Rome
Saint Felix of Trier, consecrated Bishop of Trier in Germany by St Martin
of Tours in 386 (ca. 400)[26]
Saint Sincheall, a disciple of St Patrick and founder of the monastery of Killeigh
in Offaly, where there were 150 monks (5th c.)
Saint Govan, hermit of Pembrokeshire (586)
Saint Mocheallóg (Cellog, Mottelog, Motalogus), patron saint of Kilmallock
in Limerick in Ireland (ca.639)
Saint Braulio of Saragossa in Iberia, Bishop and Confessor (646)
Saint Garbhan (Garbán), a saint who left his name to Dungarvan in Ireland (7th c.)
Saint Ludger, missionary bishop in the Netherlands and northwestern Germany (809)
Saint Bertilo, Abbot of St Benignus Abbey in Dijon in France, martyred with several
of his monks at the altar when the Vikings sacked the monastery (ca. 878-888)
Saint Felicitas of Padua, nun, probably at Sts Cosmas and Damian in Padua
in Italy (9th c.)
for helping other Orthodox (288)
Martyrs Peter, Marcian, John, Thecla, Cassian and others, at Rome
Saint Felix of Trier, consecrated Bishop of Trier in Germany by St Martin
of Tours in 386 (ca. 400)[26]
Saint Sincheall, a disciple of St Patrick and founder of the monastery of Killeigh
in Offaly, where there were 150 monks (5th c.)
Saint Govan, hermit of Pembrokeshire (586)
Saint Mocheallóg (Cellog, Mottelog, Motalogus), patron saint of Kilmallock
in Limerick in Ireland (ca.639)
Saint Braulio of Saragossa in Iberia, Bishop and Confessor (646)
Saint Garbhan (Garbán), a saint who left his name to Dungarvan in Ireland (7th c.)
Saint Ludger, missionary bishop in the Netherlands and northwestern Germany (809)
Saint Bertilo, Abbot of St Benignus Abbey in Dijon in France, martyred with several
of his monks at the altar when the Vikings sacked the monastery (ca. 878-888)
Saint Felicitas of Padua, nun, probably at Sts Cosmas and Damian in Padua
in Italy (9th c.)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
New Martyr George of Sofia, at Adrianople (1437)
New Martyrs and Confessors
Martyr Parasceva Kochneva (1939)
Other commemorations
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