453 BC – Spring and Autumn period: The house of Zhao defeats the house of Zhi, ending the Battle of Jinyang, a military conflict between the elite families of the State of Jin.
413 – Emperor Honorius signs an edict providing tax relief for the Italian provinces Tuscia, Campania, Picenum, Samnium, Apulia, Lucania and Calabria, which were plundered by the Visigoths.
589 – Reccared I summons the Third Council of Toledo.
1429 – Joan of Arc lifts the Siege of Orleans turning the tides of the Hundred Years' War.
1450 – Jack Cade's Rebellion: Kentishmen revolt against King Henry VI.
1516 – Trần Cảo Rebellion: A group of imperial guards, led by Trịnh Duy Sản, murdered Emperor Lê Tương Dực and fled, leaving the capital Thăng Long undefended.
1541 – Hernando de Soto reaches the Mississippi River and names it Río de Espíritu Santo.
1788 – The French Parlement is suspended to be replaced by the creation of forty-seven new courts.
1792: The military draft is established in the United States.
1794 – Branded a traitor during the Reign of Terror by revolutionists, French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, who was also a tax collector with the Ferme Générale, is tried, convicted, and guillotined all on the same day in Paris.
1821 – Greek War of Independence: The Greeks defeat the Turks at the Battle of Gravia Inn.
1842 – A train derails and catches fire in Paris, killing between 52 and 200 people.
1846 – Mexican–American War: The Battle of Palo Alto – Zachary Taylor defeats a Mexican force north of the Rio Grande in the first major battle of the war.
1861 – American Civil War: Richmond, Virginia is named the capital of the Confederate States of America.
1877 – At Gilmore's Gardens in New York City, the first Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show opens.
1886 – Pharmacist John Pemberton first sells a carbonated beverage named "Coca-Cola" as a patent medicine.
1898 – The first games of the Italian football league system are played.
1899 – The Irish Literary Theatre in Dublin produced its first play.
1901 – The Australian Labour Party is established.
1902 – In Martinique, Mount Pelée erupts, destroying the town of Saint-Pierre and killing over 30,000 people. Only a handful of residents survive the blast.
1912 – Paramount Pictures is founded.
1919 – Edward George Honey proposes the idea of a moment of silence to commemorate the Armistice of World War I.
1924 – The Klaipėda Convention is signed formally incorporating Klaipėda Region (Memel Territory) into Lithuania.
1927 – Attempting to make the first non-stop transatlantic flight from Paris to New York, French war heroes Charles Nungesser and François Coli disappear after taking off aboard The White Bird biplane.
1933 – Mohandas Gandhi begins a 21-day fast of self-purification and launched a one-year campaign to help the Harijan movement.
1941 – The German Luftwaffe launches a bombing raid on Nottingham and Derby.
1942 – World War II: The Battle of the Kerch Peninsula: The German 11th Army begins Operation Trappenjagd (Bustard Hunt) and destroys the bridgehead of the three Soviet Armies (44th, 47th, and 51st) defending the Kerch Peninsula, in the eastern part of the Crimea.
1942 – World War II: The Battle of the Coral Sea comes to an end with Japanese Imperial Navy aircraft carrier aircraft attacking and sinking the United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Lexington. The battle marks the first time in the naval history that two enemy fleets fight without visual contact between warring ships.
1942 – World War II: Gunners of the Ceylon Garrison Artillery on Horsburgh Island in the Cocos Islands rebel in the Cocos Islands Mutiny. Their mutiny is crushed and three of them are executed, the only British Commonwealth soldiers to be executed for mutiny during the Second World War.
1945 – Hundreds of Algerian civilians are killed by French Army soldiers in the Sétif massacre.
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1945 – U.S. President Harry S. Truman announces on radio that Nazi Germany’s forces had surrendered, ending World War II in Europe (known as V-E Day).
1945 – End of the Prague uprising, celebrated now as a national holiday in the Czech Republic.
1945 – The Halifax Riot starts when thousands of civilians and servicemen rampage through Halifax.
1946 – Estonian school girls Aili Jõgi and Ageeda Paavel blow up the Soviet memorial which stood in front of the Bronze Soldier in Tallinn.
1958: President Eisenhower orders the National Guard out of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.
1962 – The Rabindra Bharati University, a prominent University in India, was founded.
1963 – South Vietnamese soldiers of Catholic President Ngo Dinh Diem open fire on Buddhists defying a ban on the flying of the Buddhist flag on Vesak, killing nine and sparking the Buddhist crisis.
1966 – A plane crash at Connellsville, Pennsylvania kills Pennsylvania Attorney General, Walter E. Alessandroni, his wife, and other state officials.
1967 – The Philippine province of Davao is split into three: Davao del Norte, Davao del Sur, and Davao Oriental.
1970 – The Hard Hat Riot occurs in the Wall Street area of New York City as blue-collar construction workers clash with demonstrators protesting the Vietnam War.
1970 – The British band The Beatles releases their last album Let It Be, one month after they officially broke up the band.
1972 – Vietnam War – U.S. President Richard Nixon announces his order to place mines in major North Vietnamese ports in order to stem the flow of weapons and other goods to that nation.
1972 – Four Black September terrorists hijack Sabena Flight 571. Israeli Sayeret Matkal commandos recapture the plane the following day.
1973 – A 71-day standoff between federal authorities and the American Indian Movement members occupying the Pine Ridge Reservation at Wounded Knee, South Dakota ends with the surrender of the militants.
1976 – The rollercoaster Revolution, the first steel coaster with a vertical loop, opens at Six Flags Magic Mountain.
1978 – The first ascent of Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen, by Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler.
1980 – The World Health Organization confirms the eradication of smallpox.
1984 – The Soviet Union announces that it will boycott the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
1984 – Corporal Denis Lortie enters the Quebec National Assembly and opens fire, killing three and wounding 13. René Jalbert, sergeant-at-arms of the assembly, succeeds in calming him, for which he will later receive the Cross of Valour.
1984 – The Thames Barrier is officially opened.
1987 – The Loughgall Ambush: The SAS kills eight Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers and a civilian during an ambush in Loughgall, Northern Ireland.
1988 – A fire at Illinois Bell's Hinsdale Central Office triggers an extended 1AESS network outage once considered the "worst telecommunications disaster in US telephone industry history".
1997 – A China Southern Airlines Flight 3456 crashes on approach into Bao'an International Airport, killing 35 people.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Manifestation of St. Michael the Archangel. Greater Double.
Contemporary Western
Agathius
Amato Ronconi
Apparition of Saint Michael
Arsenius the Great
Desideratus
Catherine of St. Augustine
Magdalene of Canossa
Peter of Tarentaise
Teresa Demjanovich
Amato Ronconi
Apparition of Saint Michael
Arsenius the Great
Desideratus
Catherine of St. Augustine
Magdalene of Canossa
Peter of Tarentaise
Teresa Demjanovich
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Julian of Norwich (Anglican, Lutheran)
Eastern Orthodox
Saints
Holy Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian,
the "beloved disciple" of the Lord (c. 101)
The holy group of Soldier Martyrs
Saint Augustina the Martyr, in Byzantium[5]
Saint Agathius (Acacius of Byzantium) (303)[6]
Saint Emilia, mother of saints Macrina, Basil the Great, Naucratius,
Peter of Sebaste, and Gregory of Nyssa (375)
Saint Arsenius the Great, of Scetis (448)
Saint Hierax (Ierakos) of Egypt (5th c.)
Saint Milles the Melodist (hymnographer), monk
the "beloved disciple" of the Lord (c. 101)
The holy group of Soldier Martyrs
Saint Augustina the Martyr, in Byzantium[5]
Saint Agathius (Acacius of Byzantium) (303)[6]
Saint Emilia, mother of saints Macrina, Basil the Great, Naucratius,
Peter of Sebaste, and Gregory of Nyssa (375)
Saint Arsenius the Great, of Scetis (448)
Saint Hierax (Ierakos) of Egypt (5th c.)
Saint Milles the Melodist (hymnographer), monk
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Hieromartyr Dionysius of Vienne (193)
Martyr Victor of Milan (Victor the Moor, Victor Maurus) (c. 303)
Saint Helladius of Auxerre (387)
Saint Gybrian (Gobrian) of Ireland, Priest (509)
Saint Desideratus, successor of St Arcadius as Bishop of Bourges,
in France (550)
Saint Iduberga, foundress of Nivelles (Nijvel), (Neth.) (652)
Saint Benedict II, Pope of Rome (685)
Hieromartyr Indract of Glastonbury, and his companions at Shapwick
(c. 7th or 8th c.)
Saints Wiro (Bishop of Utrecht) (710), Plechelm (730), and Hierodeacon Otger
(Odger) (8th c.), Missionary bishops in the Maas Valley at Limburg
Saint Macarius of Ghent, archbishop (1012)
Martyr Victor of Milan (Victor the Moor, Victor Maurus) (c. 303)
Saint Helladius of Auxerre (387)
Saint Gybrian (Gobrian) of Ireland, Priest (509)
Saint Desideratus, successor of St Arcadius as Bishop of Bourges,
in France (550)
Saint Iduberga, foundress of Nivelles (Nijvel), (Neth.) (652)
Saint Benedict II, Pope of Rome (685)
Hieromartyr Indract of Glastonbury, and his companions at Shapwick
(c. 7th or 8th c.)
Saints Wiro (Bishop of Utrecht) (710), Plechelm (730), and Hierodeacon Otger
(Odger) (8th c.), Missionary bishops in the Maas Valley at Limburg
Saint Macarius of Ghent, archbishop (1012)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Saint Pimen the Faster, of the Far Caves in Kiev (c. 1141)
Venarable Cassian, recluse and faster of the Kiev Caves (13th-14th c.)
Saint Arsenius the Lover of Labor, of the Kiev Caves (14th c.)
The Monks Zosima and Adrian of Volokolamsk, founders of the Sestrinsk
monastery on the banks of the River Sestra (15th-16th c.)
Blessed Basiliscus of Uglich (1863)
Venarable Cassian, recluse and faster of the Kiev Caves (13th-14th c.)
Saint Arsenius the Lover of Labor, of the Kiev Caves (14th c.)
The Monks Zosima and Adrian of Volokolamsk, founders of the Sestrinsk
monastery on the banks of the River Sestra (15th-16th c.)
Blessed Basiliscus of Uglich (1863)
New Martyrs and Confessors
Martyr Nicephorus Zaitsev (1942)
Other commemorations
Apparition of the Archangel Michael on Mount Gargano near Manfredonia
in southern Italy, to Bishop Laurence of Siponto, in memory of which
the famous Monastery of the Archangel was founded (c. 490)
Commemoration of the miraculous healing of blinded Stephen by the Most Holy
Theotokos of Kassiopi, Corfu (1530)
Translation of the relics (1785) of St. Arsenius of Novgorod, Fool-for-Christ (1570)
Schema-hieromonk Michael of Valaam, Confessor for the Orthodox Calendar (1934)
in southern Italy, to Bishop Laurence of Siponto, in memory of which
the famous Monastery of the Archangel was founded (c. 490)
Commemoration of the miraculous healing of blinded Stephen by the Most Holy
Theotokos of Kassiopi, Corfu (1530)
Translation of the relics (1785) of St. Arsenius of Novgorod, Fool-for-Christ (1570)
Schema-hieromonk Michael of Valaam, Confessor for the Orthodox Calendar (1934)
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