215 BC – A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene.
599 – Maya king Uneh Chan of Calakmul attacks rival city-state Palenque in southern Mexico, defeating queen Yohl Ik'nal and sacking the city.
711 – Dagobert III is crowned King of the Franks.
1014 – Battle of Clontarf: Brian Boru defeats Viking invaders, but is killed in battle.
1016 – Edmund Ironside succeeds his father Æthelred the Unready as king of England.
1343 – St. George's Night Uprising commences in the Duchy of Estonia.
1348 – The founding of the Order of the Garter by King Edward III is announced on St. George's Day.
1500 – Portuguese explorer Pedro Alvarez Cabral, regarded as the first European to discover Brazil, reaches the Brazilian coastline
1516 – The Bayerische Reinheitsgebot (regarding the ingredients of beer) is signed in Ingolstadt.
1521 – Battle of Villalar: King Charles I of Spain defeats the Comuneros.
1616 – English poet William Shakespeare, 52, died on what has been regarded as the anniversary of his birth in 1564. History
1635 – The first public school in the United States, Boston Latin School, is founded in Boston. It's still open today, making it the oldest school in the US.
1655 – The Siege of Santo Domingo begins during the Anglo-Spanish War, and fails seven days later.
1660 – Treaty of Oliwa is established between Sweden and Poland.
1661 – King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland is crowned in Westminster Abbey.
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1815 – The Second Serbian Uprising: A second phase of the national revolution of the Serbs against the Ottoman Empire, erupts shortly after the annexation of the country to the Ottoman Empire.
1861 – Robert E. Lee is named commander of the Virginia Confederate forces.
1910 – American President Theodore Roosevelt makes his "The Man in the Arena" speech.
1914 – First baseball game at Wrigley Field, then known as Weeghman Park in Chicago.
1918 – World War I: The British Royal Navy makes a raid in an attempt to neutralise the Belgian port of Bruges-Zeebrugge.
1920 – The Grand National Assembly of Turkey (TBMM) is founded in Ankara, Turkey. It denounces the government of Sultan Mehmed VI and announces the preparation of a temporary constitution.
1927 – Cardiff City defeat Arsenal in the FA Cup Final, the only time it has been won by a team not based in England.
1932 – The 153-year-old De Adriaan Windmill in Haarlem, Netherlands burns down. It is rebuilt and reopens exactly 70 years later.
1934 – Members of the John Dillinger gang and F.B.I. Agents engaged in a shootout at the Little Bohemia Lodge in Manitowish Waters, Wisconsin. One F.B.I. Agent, Carter Baum, was killed in the shootout. The F.B.I. would catch up to Dillinger just a few months later outside the Biograph Theater in Chicago, killing him as he went for his gun while fleeing.
1935 – The Polish Constitution of 1935 is adopted.
1940 – The Rhythm Club fire at a dance hall in Natchez, Mississippi, kills 198 people.
1941 – World War II: The Greek government and King George II evacuate Athens before the invading Wehrmacht.
1942 – World War II: Baedeker Blitz – German bombers hit Exeter, Bath and York in retaliation for the British raid on Lübeck.
1945 – World War II: Adolf Hitler's designated successor Hermann Göring sends him a telegram asking permission to take leadership of the Third Reich, which causes Hitler to replace him with Joseph Goebbels and Karl Dönitz.
1946 – Manuel Roxas is elected the last President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines.
1949 – Chinese Civil War: Establishment of the People's Liberation Army Navy.
1951 – American journalist William N. Oatis is arrested for espionage by the Communist government of Czechoslovakia.
1955 – The Canadian Labour Congress is formed by the merger of the Trades and Labour Congress of Canada and the Canadian Congress of Labour.
1961 – Algiers putsch by French generals.
1967 – Soviet space program: Soyuz 1 (Russian: Союз 1, Union 1) a manned spaceflight carrying cosmonaut Colonel Vladimir Komarov is launched into orbit.
1968 – Vietnam War: Student protesters at Columbia University in New York City take over administration buildings and shut down the university.
1971 – Bangladesh Liberation War: The Pakistan Army and Razakars massacre approximately 3,000 Hindu emigrants in the Jathibhanga area of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).
1985 – Coca-Cola changes its formula and releases New Coke. The response is overwhelmingly negative, and the original formula is back on the market in less than three months.
1990 – Namibia becomes the 160th member of the United Nations and the 50th member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
1993 – Eritreans vote overwhelmingly for independence from Ethiopia in a United Nations-monitored referendum.
1993 – Sri Lankan politician Lalith Athulathmudali is assassinated while addressing a gathering, approximately four weeks ahead of the Provincial Council elections for the Western Province.
1997 – Omaria massacre in Algeria: Forty-two villagers are killed.
2005 – First YouTube video uploaded, titled "Me at the zoo".
2013 – At least 28 are dead and more than 70 are injured as violence breaks out in Hawija, Iraq.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
George, Martyr, Patron of England. Double of the First Class.
(also observed by Malankara Orthodox)
Contemporary Western
Adalbert of Prague
George
Gerard of Toul
George
Gerard of Toul
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Toyohiko Kagawa (Episcopal and Lutheran Church)
Eastern Orthodox
Saints
Martyrs Donatus and Therinus of Bothrotus, in Epirus (c. 250)
Holy Glorious Great-martyr and Victory-bearer and Wonderworker George (303)
Martyr Polychronia, mother of Great-martyr Saint George, a Greek native of Lydda
(Diospolis) (303)
Martyrs Anatolius and Protoleon, soldiers converted by witnessing the martyrdom of
St. George, and Martyrs Glycerius and Athanasius the Magician, at Nicomedia (303)
Martyr Valerius, by the sword
Martyr Alexandra the Empress, wife of Diocletian (303)
Holy Glorious Great-martyr and Victory-bearer and Wonderworker George (303)
Martyr Polychronia, mother of Great-martyr Saint George, a Greek native of Lydda
(Diospolis) (303)
Martyrs Anatolius and Protoleon, soldiers converted by witnessing the martyrdom of
St. George, and Martyrs Glycerius and Athanasius the Magician, at Nicomedia (303)
Martyr Valerius, by the sword
Martyr Alexandra the Empress, wife of Diocletian (303)
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Martyrs Felix, Fortunatus, and Achilleus, at Valence in France (212)
Saint Marolus, a Syrian by origin, he became Bishop of Milan in Italy in 408 (423)
Saint Ibar of Beggerin (Iberius, Ivor), an enlightener in Ireland,
who mainly preached in Leinster and Meath (5th c.)
Saint Pusinna, a holy virgin in Champagne in France who had six sisters,
all widely honoured as saints (5th-6th c.)
Saint Gerard of Toul, Bishop of Toul in France (994)
Saint Adalbert of Prague (Voitech), Bishop of Prague (997)
Saint Marolus, a Syrian by origin, he became Bishop of Milan in Italy in 408 (423)
Saint Ibar of Beggerin (Iberius, Ivor), an enlightener in Ireland,
who mainly preached in Leinster and Meath (5th c.)
Saint Pusinna, a holy virgin in Champagne in France who had six sisters,
all widely honoured as saints (5th-6th c.)
Saint Gerard of Toul, Bishop of Toul in France (994)
Saint Adalbert of Prague (Voitech), Bishop of Prague (997)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Blessed George of Shenkursk, Fool-for-Christ (1462)
New Martyr George of Cyprus, at Ptolemais (1752)
New Martyr Lazarus of Bulgaria, who suffered at Pergamus (1802)
New Martyr George of Cyprus, at Ptolemais (1752)
New Martyr Lazarus of Bulgaria, who suffered at Pergamus (1802)
New Martyrs and Confessors
New Hieromartyr Priest Igor (George) of Spas Chekriak village, Russia (1918)
New Hiero-confessor George Kosov, priest of Spas Chekriak village, Orel (1928)
New Hieromartyr John Anserov, Priest of Alma-Ata (1940)
New Hieromartyr Sergius Zacharczuk, priest, of Nabroz
(Chełm and Podlasie, Poland) (1943)
New Hiero-confessor George Kosov, priest of Spas Chekriak village, Orel (1928)
New Hieromartyr John Anserov, Priest of Alma-Ata (1940)
New Hieromartyr Sergius Zacharczuk, priest, of Nabroz
(Chełm and Podlasie, Poland) (1943)
Other commemorations
Commemoration of Protopresbyter John Labunsky of Prilutsk (1945)
Repose of Bishop Barnabas (Belyaev) of Nizhni-Novgorod (1963)
Repose of Bishop Barnabas (Belyaev) of Nizhni-Novgorod (1963)
Malankara Orthodox
George, Martyr
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