351 – The Jewish revolt against Constantius Gallus breaks out. After his arrival at Antioch, the Jews begin a rebellion in Palestine.
558 – In Constantinople, the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses. Justinian I immediately orders that the dome be rebuilt.
1274 – In France, the Second Council of Lyon opens to regulate the election of the Pope.
1429 – Joan of Arc ends the Siege of Orléans, pulling an arrow from her own shoulder and returning, wounded, to lead the final charge. The victory marks a turning point in the Hundred Years' War.
1487 – The Siege of Málaga commences during the Spanish Reconquista.
1664 – Louis XIV of France begins construction of the Palace of Versailles.
1697 – Stockholm's royal castle (dating back to medieval times) is destroyed by fire. It is replaced by the current Royal Palace in the eighteenth century.
1700: William Penn, philosopher, and founder of Pennsylvania, began monthly meetings advocating for emancipation.
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1763 – Pontiac's War begins with Pontiac's attempt to seize Fort Detroit from the British.
1789: The first Presidential inaugural ball was held in New York City for George Washington.
1794 – French Revolution: Robespierre introduces the Cult of the Supreme Being in the National Convention as the new state religion of the French First Republic.
1824 – World premiere of Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in Vienna, Austria. The performance is conducted by Michael Umlauf under the composer's supervision.
1832 – The independence of Greece is recognized by the Treaty of London. Otto of Wittelsbach, Prince of Bavaria is chosen King.
1840 – The Great Natchez Tornado strikes Natchez, Mississippi killing 317 people. It is the second deadliest tornado in United States history.
1846 – The Cambridge Chronicle, America's oldest surviving weekly newspaper, is published for the first time in Cambridge, Massachusetts
1847 – The American Medical Association is founded in Philadelphia.
1864 – American Civil War: The Army of the Potomac, under General Ulysses S. Grant, breaks off from the Battle of the Wilderness and moves southwards.
1864 – The world's oldest surviving clipper ship, the City of Adelaide, is launched by William Pile, Hay and Co. in Sunderland, England, for transporting passengers and goods between Britain and Australia.
1895 – In Saint Petersburg, Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention, the Popov lightning detector — a primitive radio receiver. In some parts of the former Soviet Union the anniversary of this day is celebrated as Radio Day.
1912: Newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer’s “Pulitzer Prize”, awarded in several categories, is approved by Columbia University.
1915 – World War I: German submarine U-20 sinks RMS Lusitania, killing 1,198 people including 128 Americans. Public reaction to the sinking turns many formerly pro-Germans in the United States against the German Empire
1915 – Japanese 21 Demands Ultimatum to China (Commemorated as National Day of Humiliation).
1920 – Kiev Offensive: Polish troops led by Józef Piłsudski and Edward Rydz-Śmigły and assisted by a symbolic Ukrainian force capture Kiev only to be driven out by the Red Army counter-offensive a month later.
1920 – Treaty of Moscow: Soviet Russia recognizes the independence of the Democratic Republic of Georgia only to invade the country six months later.
1920 – The Art Gallery of Ontario, in Toronto, opens the first exhibition by the Group of Seven.
1928 – The Jinan incident begins with Japanese forces killing the Chinese negotiating team in Jinan, China, and going on to kill over 2,000 Chinese civilians in the following days.
1937 – Spanish Civil War: The German Condor Legion, equipped with Heinkel He 51 biplanes, arrives in Spain to assist Francisco Franco's forces.
1940 – The Norway Debate in the British House of Commons begins, and leads to the replacement of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain with Winston Churchill three days later.
1942 – During the Battle of the Coral Sea, United States Navy aircraft carrier aircraft attack and sink the Japanese Imperial Navy light aircraft carrier Shōhō. The battle marks the first time in the naval history that two enemy fleets fight without visual contact between warring ships.
1945 – World War II: General Alfred Jodl signs unconditional surrender terms at Reims, France, ending Germany's participation in the war. The document takes effect the next day.
1946 – Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita founded the telecommunications corporation Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, later renamed Sony, with around 20 employees.
1948 – The Council of Europe is founded during the Hague Congress.
1952 – The concept of the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey W.A. Dummer.
1954 – Indochina War: The Battle of Dien Bien Phu ends in a French defeat and a Vietnamese victory (the battle began on March 13).
1960 – Cold War: U-2 Crisis of 1960 – Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that his nation is holding American U-2 pilot Gary Powers.
1964 – Pacific Air Lines Flight 773, a Fairchild F-27 airliner, crashes near San Ramon, California, killing all 44 aboard; the FBI later reports that a cockpit recorder tape indicates that the pilot and co-pilot had been shot by a suicidal passenger.
1974 – West German Chancellor Willy Brandt resigns.
1976 – Honda Accord officially launched
1986 – Canadian Patrick Morrow becomes the first person to climb each of the Seven Summits.
1992 – Michigan ratifies a 203-year-old proposed amendment to the United States Constitution making the 27th Amendment law. This amendment bars the U.S. Congress from giving itself a mid-term pay raise.
1992 – The Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on its first mission, STS-49.
1992 – Three employees at a McDonald's Restaurant in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada, are brutally murdered and a fourth permanently disabled after a botched robbery. It is the first "fast-food murder" in Canada.
1994 – Edvard Munch's iconic painting The Scream is recovered undamaged after being stolen from the National Gallery of Norway in February.
1998 – Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for $40 billion USD and forms DaimlerChrysler in the largest industrial merger in history.
1999 – Pope John Paul II travels to Romania becoming the first pope to visit a predominantly Eastern Orthodox country since the Great Schism in 1054.
1999 – Kosovo War: In Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, three Chinese citizens are killed and 20 wounded when a NATO aircraft bombs the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.
1999 – In Guinea-Bissau, President João Bernardo Vieira is ousted in a military coup.
2000 – Vladimir Putin is inaugurated as president of Russia.
2002 – A China Northern Airlines MD-82 plunges into the Yellow Sea, killing 112 people.
2004 – American businessman Nick Berg is beheaded by Islamic militants. The act is recorded on videotape and released on the Internet.
2007 – Israeli archaeologists discover the tomb of Herod the Great south of Jerusalem.
2009 – Over 100 New Zealand Police officers begin a 40-hour siege of a lone gunman in Napier, New Zealand.
2013 – 27 people are killed and more than 30 injured, when a tanker truck crashes and explodes outside Mexico City.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Stanislaw, Bishop of Crakow, Martyr. Double.
Contemporary Western
Acacius of Byzantium
Agostino Roscelli
Flavia Domitilla
Gisela of Hungary
John of Beverley
Rose Venerini
Stanislaus (Roman martyrology)
Agostino Roscelli
Flavia Domitilla
Gisela of Hungary
John of Beverley
Rose Venerini
Stanislaus (Roman martyrology)
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Harriet Starr Cannon (Episcopal Church (USA))
Eastern Orthodox
Saints
Martyrs Quadratus (Codratos) of Nicomedia and his companions (251–259)
Martyrs Rufinus and Saturninus
Martyr Maximus
Hieromartyr Flavius, and Martyrs Augustus and Augustinus
(from Asia Minor) (c. 284 - 305)
Martyr Acacius the centurion at Byzantium (303)
The Venerable Fathers of Georgia: Saint John of Zedazeni (Zedazeni
Monastery) in Georgia, and his 12 disciples (6th c.):
Shio of Mgvime; David of Gareji, (see also: David Gareja monastery
complex); Anthony of Martqopi; Thaddeus of Urbnisi or Stepantsminda;
Stephen of Khirsa; Isidore of Samtavisi; Michael of Ulumbo; Pyrrhus
of Breta; Zeno of Iqalto; Jesse (Ise) of Tsilkani; Joseph of Alaverdi;
Abibus of Nekressi
Saint Tarasius the Wonderworker of Lycaonia
Saint John the Confessor, of Psychaita, on the Bosphorus (c. 825)
Martyrs Rufinus and Saturninus
Martyr Maximus
Hieromartyr Flavius, and Martyrs Augustus and Augustinus
(from Asia Minor) (c. 284 - 305)
Martyr Acacius the centurion at Byzantium (303)
The Venerable Fathers of Georgia: Saint John of Zedazeni (Zedazeni
Monastery) in Georgia, and his 12 disciples (6th c.):
Shio of Mgvime; David of Gareji, (see also: David Gareja monastery
complex); Anthony of Martqopi; Thaddeus of Urbnisi or Stepantsminda;
Stephen of Khirsa; Isidore of Samtavisi; Michael of Ulumbo; Pyrrhus
of Breta; Zeno of Iqalto; Jesse (Ise) of Tsilkani; Joseph of Alaverdi;
Abibus of Nekressi
Saint Tarasius the Wonderworker of Lycaonia
Saint John the Confessor, of Psychaita, on the Bosphorus (c. 825)
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Martyr Juvenal of Benevento (132 AD)
Saint Domitianus of Maastricht, bishop (560)
Saints Serenicus and Serenus, two brothers who became monks and later
settled as hermits near the River Sarthe in France (c. 669)
Saint Placid (Placidus, Plait), Benedictine Abbot of the basilica monastery
of St Symphorian in Autun, France (675)
Saint John of Beverley, Bishop of York (721)
Saint Peter of Pavia (735)
Saint Domitianus of Maastricht, bishop (560)
Saints Serenicus and Serenus, two brothers who became monks and later
settled as hermits near the River Sarthe in France (c. 669)
Saint Placid (Placidus, Plait), Benedictine Abbot of the basilica monastery
of St Symphorian in Autun, France (675)
Saint John of Beverley, Bishop of York (721)
Saint Peter of Pavia (735)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Venerable Nilus of Sora, abbot and wonderworker (1508)
New Monkmartyr Pachomius of Mount Athos, of Usaki near Philadelphia (1730)
Saint Alexis Toth, Confessor and Defender of Orthodoxy in America (1909)
New Monkmartyr Pachomius of Mount Athos, of Usaki near Philadelphia (1730)
Saint Alexis Toth, Confessor and Defender of Orthodoxy in America (1909)
Other commemorations
Commemoration of the Apparition of the Sign of the Precious Cross
over Jerusalem in 351 A.D.
Uncovering of the relics of St. Euthymius the Great (473)
Uncovering of the relics (1815) of Saint Nilus the Myrrh-gusher
of Mount Athos (1651)
Repose of Schema-Elder Boris of Valaam and Pskov (1967)
Repose of Hieromonk Eulogius of Valaam (1969)
over Jerusalem in 351 A.D.
Uncovering of the relics of St. Euthymius the Great (473)
Uncovering of the relics (1815) of Saint Nilus the Myrrh-gusher
of Mount Athos (1651)
Repose of Schema-Elder Boris of Valaam and Pskov (1967)
Repose of Hieromonk Eulogius of Valaam (1969)
Icons
Icon of the Mother of God of Liubech (11th c.)
"Zhirovits" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (found on a pear tree) (1470)
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