769 – The Lateran Council condemned the Council of Hieria and anathematized its iconoclastic rulings.
1071 – Bari, the last Byzantine possession in southern Italy, is surrendered to Robert Guiscard.
1395 – Tokhtamysh–Timur war: Battle of the Terek River: Timur defeats Tokhtamysh of the Golden Horde at the Volga. The Golden Horde capital city, Sarai, is razed to the ground and Timur installs a puppet ruler on the Golden Horde throne. Tokhtamysh escapes to Lithuania.
1450 – Battle of Formigny: Toward the end of the Hundred Years' War, the French attack and nearly annihilate English forces, ending English domination in Northern France.
1632 – Battle of Rain: Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeat the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War.
1642 – Irish Confederate Wars: A Confederate Irish militia is routed in the Battle of Kilrush when it attempts to halt the progress of a Parliamentarian army.
1715 – The Pocotaligo Massacre triggers the start of the Yamasee War in colonial South Carolina. A group of South Carolina peace commissioners sent to meet with the Yamasee Indians were ambushed in their sleep by the Native Americans.
1738 – Serse, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel receives its premiere performance in London, England.
1755 – Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language is published in London.
1783 – Preliminary articles of peace ending the American Revolutionary War (or American War of Independence) are ratified.
1802 – William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy see a "long belt" of daffodils, inspiring the former to pen I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.
1817 – Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc founded the American School for the Deaf, the first American school for deaf students, in Hartford, Connecticut. Still open today, it was the first school in the Western Hemisphere for children with disabilities.
1861 – President Abraham Lincoln calls for 75,000 Volunteers to quell the insurrection that soon became the American Civil War
1865 – President Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth. Vice President Andrew Johnson, becomes President upon Lincoln's death.
1892 – The General Electric Company is formed.
1900 – Philippine–American War: Filipino guerrillas launch a surprise attack on U.S. infantry and begin a four-day siege of Catubig, Philippines.
1907 – Triangle Fraternity was founded at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
1910 – William Howard Taft is the first President to throw the first pitch at a baseball game.
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1920 – Two security guards are murdered during a robbery in South Braintree, Massachusetts. Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti would be convicted of and executed for the crime, amid much controversy.
1921 – Black Friday: Mine owners announce more wage and price cuts, leading to the threat of a strike all across England.
1922 – U.S. Senator John B. Kendrick of Wyoming introduces a resolution calling for an investigation of secret land deal, which leads to the discovery of the Teapot Dome scandal.
1923 – Insulin becomes generally available for use by people with diabetes.
1924 – Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas.
1927 – The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, the most destructive river flood in U.S. history, begins.
1935 – Roerich Pact signed in Washington, D.C.
1936 – First day of the Arab revolt in Mandatory Palestine.
1936 – Aer Lingus (Aer Loingeas) is founded by the Irish government as the national airline of the Republic of Ireland.
1940 – The Allies begin their attack on the Norwegian town of Narvik which is occupied by Nazi Germany.
1941 – In the Belfast Blitz, two-hundred bombers of the German Luftwaffe attack Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom killing one thousand people.
1942 – The George Cross is awarded "to the island fortress of Malta: Its people and defenders" by King George VI.
1945 – The Bergen-Belsen concentration camp is liberated.
1947 – Jackie Robinson made history when he stepped onto the Brooklyn Dodgers' Ebbets Field as the first African American to play in a Major League Baseball game.
1952 – The maiden flight of the B-52 Stratofortress.
1955 – McDonald's restaurant dates its founding to the opening of a franchised restaurant by Ray Kroc, in Des Plaines, Illinois.
1957 – White Rock, British Columbia officially separates from Surrey, British Columbia and is incorporated as a new city.
1960 – At Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, Ella Baker leads a conference that results in the creation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, one of the principal organizations of the African-American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
1964 – The first Ford Mustang rolls off the show room floor, two days before it is set to go on sale nationwide.
1969 – The EC-121 shootdown incident: North Korea shoots down a United States Navy aircraft over the Sea of Japan, killing all 31 on board.
1970 – During the Cambodian Civil War, massacres of the Vietnamese minority results in 800 bodies flowing down the Mekong River into South Vietnam.
1983 – Tokyo Disneyland opens to the public.
1984 – The inaugural World Youth Day is held in St. Peter's Square, Vatican City.
1986 – The United States launches Operation El Dorado Canyon, its bombing raids against Libyan targets in response to a bombing in West Germany that killed two U.S. servicemen.
1989 – Hillsborough disaster: A human crush occurs at Hillsborough Stadium, home of Sheffield Wednesday, in the FA Cup Semi-final, resulting in the deaths of 96 Liverpool fans.
1989 – Upon Hu Yaobang's death, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 begin in China.
1994 – Conclusion of the Uruguay Round(eight round) of GATT, officially establishing WTO.
2013 – Two bombs explode near the finish line at the Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts, killing three people and injuring 264 others.
2014 – More than 200 female students are declared missing after a mass kidnapping in Borno State, Nigeria.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Contemporary Western
Abbo II of Metz
Father Damien Day (Hawaii)
Hunna
Paternus of Avranches
Father Damien Day (Hawaii)
Hunna
Paternus of Avranches
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Eastern Orthodox
Saints
Apostles Aristarchus of Apamea, Pudens, and Trophimus, of the Seventy Apostles (ca. 67)
Martyrs Basilissa and Anastasia of Rome (ca. 68), disciples of Apostles Peter and Paul
Martyr Sukia (Suchias) and nineteen companions with him, including (123):
Andrew, Anastasius, Thalaleus, Theodoretus, Ivchirion, Jordan, Quadratus,
Lucian, Mimnenus, Nerangius, Polyeuctus, Jacob, Phocas, Domentianus, Victor,
and Zosima (Chorimos), of Georgia, in Armenia.
Hieromartyr Theodore and martyr Pausilippus of Thrace, by the sword (ca. 117-138)
Martyrs Maximus and Olympiada, in Persia (ca. 249-251)
Saint Leonidas, Bishop of Athens (250)
Martyr Crescens of Myra in Lycia, by fire (3rd c.)
Martyr Sabbas the Goth, at Buzau in Wallachia (372)
Saint Ephraim the Great of Atsquri (9th c.)
Martyrs Basilissa and Anastasia of Rome (ca. 68), disciples of Apostles Peter and Paul
Martyr Sukia (Suchias) and nineteen companions with him, including (123):
Andrew, Anastasius, Thalaleus, Theodoretus, Ivchirion, Jordan, Quadratus,
Lucian, Mimnenus, Nerangius, Polyeuctus, Jacob, Phocas, Domentianus, Victor,
and Zosima (Chorimos), of Georgia, in Armenia.
Hieromartyr Theodore and martyr Pausilippus of Thrace, by the sword (ca. 117-138)
Martyrs Maximus and Olympiada, in Persia (ca. 249-251)
Saint Leonidas, Bishop of Athens (250)
Martyr Crescens of Myra in Lycia, by fire (3rd c.)
Martyr Sabbas the Goth, at Buzau in Wallachia (372)
Saint Ephraim the Great of Atsquri (9th c.)
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Martyrs Maro, Eutyches and Victorinus, at Rome, under Trajan (ca. 99)
Martyr Eutychius, in Ferentino in Italy
Child-martyr Laurentinus Sossius, a boy aged five, martyred on Good Friday
in Valrovina near Vicenza in Italy (485)
Saint Paternus (Paternus of Vannes, Padarn), Bishop and founder
of the monastery of Llanbadarn Fawr (the great monastery of Padarn)
near Aberystwyth in Wales (565)
Saint Ruadhan (Ruadan, Rodan), one of the leading disciples of St Finian
of Clonard, founder and abbot of Lothra (Ireland) (ca. 584)
Saint Silvester, second Abbot of Moutier-Saint-Jean (Réome)
near Dijon in France (ca. 625)
Saint Hunna, the self-sacrificing wife of a nobleman in Alsace,
now in France (679)
Saint Nidger (Nidgar, Nitgar), Abbot of Ottobeuren Abbey in Bavaria,
became Bishop of Augsburg in Germany (ca. 829)
Saint Mundus (Munde, Mund, Mond), an abbot who founded several monasteries
in Argyll in Scotland (ca. 962)
Martyr Eutychius, in Ferentino in Italy
Child-martyr Laurentinus Sossius, a boy aged five, martyred on Good Friday
in Valrovina near Vicenza in Italy (485)
Saint Paternus (Paternus of Vannes, Padarn), Bishop and founder
of the monastery of Llanbadarn Fawr (the great monastery of Padarn)
near Aberystwyth in Wales (565)
Saint Ruadhan (Ruadan, Rodan), one of the leading disciples of St Finian
of Clonard, founder and abbot of Lothra (Ireland) (ca. 584)
Saint Silvester, second Abbot of Moutier-Saint-Jean (Réome)
near Dijon in France (ca. 625)
Saint Hunna, the self-sacrificing wife of a nobleman in Alsace,
now in France (679)
Saint Nidger (Nidgar, Nitgar), Abbot of Ottobeuren Abbey in Bavaria,
became Bishop of Augsburg in Germany (ca. 829)
Saint Mundus (Munde, Mund, Mond), an abbot who founded several monasteries
in Argyll in Scotland (ca. 962)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Saint Mstislav-Theodore, Prince of Kiev (1132)
Venerable Basil of Moldovita, Igumen of Moldovița Monastery
and Wonderworker (ca. 1455)
Venerable Dionysius of Pereyaslavl-Zalessky, monk of the Nikitsky Monastery (1645)
Hieromartyr Ananias (Lambardis) of Lacedaemonia, Metropolitan Bishop
of Lacedaemonia (1764
Basil of Poiana Mărului (1767)
Righteous Daniel of Achinsk, Siberia (1843)
Venerable Basil of Moldovita, Igumen of Moldovița Monastery
and Wonderworker (ca. 1455)
Venerable Dionysius of Pereyaslavl-Zalessky, monk of the Nikitsky Monastery (1645)
Hieromartyr Ananias (Lambardis) of Lacedaemonia, Metropolitan Bishop
of Lacedaemonia (1764
Basil of Poiana Mărului (1767)
Righteous Daniel of Achinsk, Siberia (1843)
New Martyrs and Confessors
New Hieromartyr Alexander Gnevushev, Priest (1930)
Other commemorations
Repose of Metropolitan Sergius (Voskresensky) of Vilnius and Lithuania (1944)
Repose of Hieroschemamonk Michael (Pitkevich) of Valaam and Pskov Caves,
the last Elder of Valaam (1962)
Repose of Bishop Stephen (Nikitin) of Kaluga (1963)
Repose of Hieroschemamonk Michael (Pitkevich) of Valaam and Pskov Caves,
the last Elder of Valaam (1962)
Repose of Bishop Stephen (Nikitin) of Kaluga (1963)
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