529 – First draft of the Corpus Juris Civilis (a fundamental work in jurisprudence) is issued by Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I.
611 – Maya king Uneh Chan of Calakmul sacks rival city-state Palenque in southern Mexico.
1141 – Empress Matilda, became the first female ruler of England, adopting the title 'Lady of the English'.
1348 – Charles University is founded in Prague.
1521 – Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Cebu.
1541 – Francis Xavier leaves Lisbon on a mission to the Portuguese East Indies.
1724 – Premiere performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's St John Passion BWV 245 at St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig.
1767 – End of Burmese–Siamese War (1765–1767).
1776 – Navy Captain John Barry, commander of the American warship USS Lexington, made the first American naval capture of a British vessel when he took command of the British warship HMS Edward off the coast of Virginia. The capture of the Edward and its cargo turned Captain Barry into a national hero and boosted the morale of the Continental forces.
1788 – American Pioneers to the Northwest Territory arrive at the confluence of the Ohio and Muskingum rivers, establishing Marietta, Ohio, as the first permanent American settlement of the new United States in the Northwest Territory, and opening the westward expansion of the new country.
1789 – Selim III became Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam.
1798 – The Mississippi Territory is organized from disputed territory claimed by both the United States and Spain. It is expanded in 1804 and again in 1812.
1805 – Lewis and Clark Expedition: After a long winter at what is now Fort Mandan in North Dakota, the Corps of Discovery breaks camp among the Mandan Indians and resumes its journey west along the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean.
1827 – John Walker, an English chemist, sells the first friction match that he had invented the previous year.
1829 – Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, commences translation of the Book of Mormon, with Oliver Cowdery as his scribe.
1831 – D. Pedro I, Emperor of Brazil, resigns. He goes to his native Portugal to become King D. Pedro IV.
1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Shiloh: Two days of heavy fighting concluded near Pittsburgh Landing in western Tennessee. The Union Army under General Ulysses S. Grant defeats the Confederates near Shiloh, Tennessee, after the Confederate attack stalls on April 6, and fresh Yankee troops drive the Confederates from the field on April 7.
1868 – Thomas D'Arcy McGee, one of the Canadian Fathers of Confederation, is assassinated by Irish Republicans, in one of the few Canadian political assassinations, and the only one of a federal politician.
1890 – Completion of the first Lake Biwa Canal.
1906 – Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.
1906 – The Algeciras Conference gives France and Spain control over Morocco.
1908 – H. H. Asquith of the Liberal Party takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, succeeding Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman.
1918: One month after Russia signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, formally ending its participation in World War I, Winston Churchill secretly proposes to the British War Cabinet a method by which Britain's former ally could be persuaded to reenter the war. History
1922 – Warren G. Harding's Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall leases Teapot Dome petroleum reserves in Wyoming to Harry Sinclair, the beginning of the Teapot Dome scandals.
1927 – First long-distance public television broadcast (from Washington, D.C., to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover).
1933 – Prohibition in the United States is repealed for beer of no more than 3.2% alcohol by weight, eight months before the ratification of the XXI amendment.
1939 – In an effort to mimic Hitler's conquest of Prague, Benito Mussolini's troops, though badly organized, invade and occupy Albania.
1940 – Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.
1943 – Holocaust: In Terebovlia, Ukraine, Germans order 1,100 Jews to undress to their underwear and march through the city of Terebovlia to the nearby village of Plebanivka where they are shot dead and buried in ditches.
1943 – Ioannis Rallis becomes collaborationist Prime Minister of Greece during the Axis Occupation.
1945 – World War II: The Japanese battleship Yamato, the largest battleship ever constructed, is sunk by American planes 200 miles north of Okinawa while en route to a suicide mission in Operation Ten-Go.
1945 – World War II: Visoko is liberated by the 7th, 9th, and 17th Krajina brigades from the Tenth division of Yugoslav Partisan forces.
1946 – Syria's independence from France is officially recognised.
1948 – The World Health Organization is established by the United Nations.
1948 – A Buddhist monastery burns in Shanghai, China, leaving twenty monks dead.
1953 – By a vote of 57 to 1, Dag Hammarskjold is elected secretary-general of the United Nations. History
1954 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower coins one of the most famous Cold War phrases when he suggests the fall of French Indochina to the communists could create a "domino" effect in Southeast Asia. The so-called "domino theory" dominated U.S. thinking about Vietnam for the next decade.
1955 – Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom amid indications of failing health.
1956 – Spain relinquishes its protectorate in Morocco.
1961 – President John F. Kennedy sends a letter to Congress in which he recommended the U.S. participate in an international campaign to preserve ancient temples and historic monuments in the Nile Valley of Egypt. The campaign, initiated by UNESCO, was designed to save sites threatened by the construction of the Aswan High Dam. History
1963 – A new Yugoslav constitution proclaims Tito the president for life of the newly named Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. History
1964 – IBM announces the System/360.
1967 – Film critic Roger Ebert published his very first film review in the Chicago Sun-Times.
1968 – Motor racing world champion Jim Clark was killed in an accident during a Formula Two race at Hockenheim.
1969 – The Internet's symbolic birth date: Publication of RFC 1.
1970 – Legendary actor John Wayne wins his first–and only–acting Academy Award, for his star turn in director Henry Hathaway’s Western True Grit. History
1971 – President Richard Nixon announces his decision to increase the rate of American troop withdrawals from Vietnam.
1975 – North Vietnamese forces prepare to launch the "Ho Chi Minh Campaign," designed to set the conditions for a final communist victory in South Vietnam. By this time, well over two-thirds of South Vietnam was under communist control as South Vietnamese forces had fallen back in panic when the North Vietnamese pressed the attack. History
1976 – Former British Cabinet Minister John Stonehouse resigns from the Labour Party.
1977 – German Federal prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by two Red Army Faction members while waiting at a red light.
1978 – Development of the neutron bomb is canceled by President Jimmy Carter.
1980 – The United States severs relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran.
1983 – During STS-6, astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson perform the first space shuttle spacewalk.
1985 – Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev declares a moratorium on the deployment of middle-range missiles in Europe.
1989 – Soviet submarine Komsomolets sinks in the Barents Sea off the coast of Norway killing 42 sailors.
1990 – Iran Contra Affair: John Poindexter is found guilty of five charges for his part in the scandal (the conviction is later reversed on appeal).
1990 – Two separate ferry accidents in different areas of the world take the lives of a reported 325 people. The first took place in Myanmar (formerly Burma) on the Gyaing River. Later in the day, Scandinavia is also rocked by tragedy when a fire breaks out on the passenger ferry M/S Scandinavian Star, killing 158 people. History
1992 – Republika Srpska announces its independence.
1994 – Rwandan armed forces kill 10 Belgian peacekeeping officers in a successful effort to discourage international intervention in the genocide that had begun only hours earlier. In approximately three months, the Hutu extremists who controlled Rwanda brutally murdered an estimated 500,000 to 1 million innocent civilian Tutsis and moderate Hutus in the one of the worst episodes of ethnic genocide since World War II. History
1994 – Auburn Calloway attempts to hijack FedEx Express Flight 705 and crash it to allow his family to benefit from his life insurance policy. The crew subdues him and lands the aircraft safely.
1995 – First Chechen War: Russian paramilitary troops begin a massacre of civilians in Samashki, Chechnya.
1999 – The World Trade Organization rules in favor of the United States in its long-running trade dispute with the European Union over bananas.
2001 – Mars Odyssey is launched.
2003 – U.S. troops capture Baghdad; Saddam Hussein's regime falls two days later.
2009 – Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is sentenced to 25 years in prison for ordering killings and kidnappings by security forces.
2009 – Mass protests begin across Moldova under the belief that results from the parliamentary election are fraudulent.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Malankara Orthodox
Commemoration of Marthoma VI, aka Valiya Mar Divanasios Metropolitan (Puthencavu Church)
1994 – Rwandan armed forces kill 10 Belgian peacekeeping officers in a successful effort to discourage international intervention in the genocide that had begun only hours earlier. In approximately three months, the Hutu extremists who controlled Rwanda brutally murdered an estimated 500,000 to 1 million innocent civilian Tutsis and moderate Hutus in the one of the worst episodes of ethnic genocide since World War II. History
1994 – Auburn Calloway attempts to hijack FedEx Express Flight 705 and crash it to allow his family to benefit from his life insurance policy. The crew subdues him and lands the aircraft safely.
1995 – First Chechen War: Russian paramilitary troops begin a massacre of civilians in Samashki, Chechnya.
1999 – The World Trade Organization rules in favor of the United States in its long-running trade dispute with the European Union over bananas.
2001 – Mars Odyssey is launched.
2003 – U.S. troops capture Baghdad; Saddam Hussein's regime falls two days later.
2009 – Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is sentenced to 25 years in prison for ordering killings and kidnappings by security forces.
2009 – Mass protests begin across Moldova under the belief that results from the parliamentary election are fraudulent.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Contemporary Western
Aibert of Crespin
Blessed Alexander Rawlins
Blessed Edward Oldcorne and Blessed Ralph Ashley
Blessed Notker the Stammerer
Brynach
Hegesippus
Henry Walpole
Hermann Joseph
Jean-Baptiste de La Salle
Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow
Blessed Alexander Rawlins
Blessed Edward Oldcorne and Blessed Ralph Ashley
Blessed Notker the Stammerer
Brynach
Hegesippus
Henry Walpole
Hermann Joseph
Jean-Baptiste de La Salle
Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Eastern Orthodox
Saints
Saint Hegesippus the Chronicler, of Palestine (ca. 180)
Hieromartyr Rufinus the Deacon, the Martyr Aquilina, and 200 soldiers with them,
at Sinope (249-251)
Martyr Calliopios, at Pompeiopolis in Cilicia (304)
Saint Serapion the Sindonite, monk, of Egypt (5th c.)
Saint George, Patriarch of Jerusalem (807)
Saint George the Confessor (George the Standard-Bearer), Bishop of Mytilene,
exiled to Kherson (820)
Hieromartyr Rufinus the Deacon, the Martyr Aquilina, and 200 soldiers with them,
at Sinope (249-251)
Martyr Calliopios, at Pompeiopolis in Cilicia (304)
Saint Serapion the Sindonite, monk, of Egypt (5th c.)
Saint George, Patriarch of Jerusalem (807)
Saint George the Confessor (George the Standard-Bearer), Bishop of Mytilene,
exiled to Kherson (820)
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Saint Saturninus, Bishop of Verona and Confessor (4th c.)
Hieromartyr Epiphanius, Bishop in North Africa, with Rufinus the Deacon,
Donatus, and Companions – thirteen martyrs
Saint Brynach (Brenach, Bemach, Bemacus) (5th c.)
Saint Finan (Finnian) (6th c.)
Saint Goran (Guron, Goronus, Woranus), who lived at Bodmin before St Petroc (6th c.)
Saints Llewellyn (LLywelyn) and Gwrnerth, monks from Wales who lived in Welshpool
and later on Bardsey (6th c.)
Saint Gibardus, Abbot of Luxeuil in France during the invasion of the Huns (ca. 888)
Hieromartyr Epiphanius, Bishop in North Africa, with Rufinus the Deacon,
Donatus, and Companions – thirteen martyrs
Saint Brynach (Brenach, Bemach, Bemacus) (5th c.)
Saint Finan (Finnian) (6th c.)
Saint Goran (Guron, Goronus, Woranus), who lived at Bodmin before St Petroc (6th c.)
Saints Llewellyn (LLywelyn) and Gwrnerth, monks from Wales who lived in Welshpool
and later on Bardsey (6th c.)
Saint Gibardus, Abbot of Luxeuil in France during the invasion of the Huns (ca. 888)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Venerable Leucius, Abbot of Volokolamsk (1492)
Venerable Nilus of Sora, founder of Sora Skete (Belozersk) (1508)
Venerable Daniel of Pereyaslavl, founder of St. Daniel Monastery (1540)
Venerable Gerasimus the Byzantine, Hieromonk, of Patmos (1770)
Saint Gabriel, Archbishop of Ryazan and Zaraisk (1862)
Venerable Schemamonk Agapitus the Blind, of Valaam Monastery (1905)
Venerable Savvas the New of Kalymnos (1947)
Venerable Nilus of Sora, founder of Sora Skete (Belozersk) (1508)
Venerable Daniel of Pereyaslavl, founder of St. Daniel Monastery (1540)
Venerable Gerasimus the Byzantine, Hieromonk, of Patmos (1770)
Saint Gabriel, Archbishop of Ryazan and Zaraisk (1862)
Venerable Schemamonk Agapitus the Blind, of Valaam Monastery (1905)
Venerable Savvas the New of Kalymnos (1947)
New Martyrs and Confessors
New Hieromartyr Arcadius Dobronravov, Priest (1933)
Martyr Eudocia Pavlovoy (1939)
Martyr Eudocia Pavlovoy (1939)
Other commemorations
Icon of the Mother of God "of Byzantium" (The Byzantine Icon) (732)
Uncovering of the relics (1517) of St. Serapion, Archbishop of Novgorod (1516)
Repose of Schemamonk Theodore of Svir (1822)
Uncovering of the relics (1517) of St. Serapion, Archbishop of Novgorod (1516)
Repose of Schemamonk Theodore of Svir (1822)
Malankara Orthodox
Commemoration of Marthoma VI, aka Valiya Mar Divanasios Metropolitan (Puthencavu Church)
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