§ 65 –
The freedman Milichus betrayed Piso’s
plot to kill the Emperor Nero and all
the conspirators were
arrested.
§ 1012 – Martyrdom of Ælfheah in Greenwich,
London.
§ 1529 – At the Second Diet of
Speyer, a group of rulers (German: Fürst) and
independent cities (German: Reichsstadt) protests the
reinstatement of the Edict of
Worms.
§ 1587 – Francis Drake's
expedition sinks the Spanish
fleet in Cádiz harbor.
§ 1713 – With no living
male heirs, Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, issues
the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 to ensure
that Habsburg lands and the Austrian
throne would be inherited by his daughter, Maria
Theresa of Austria (not actually born until
1717). 4
§ 1770 – Captain James
Cook sights the eastern coast of what is
now Australia. 2
§ 1770 – Marie
Antoinette marries Louis XVI in a proxy
wedding.
§ 1775 – American Revolutionary War: The
war begins with an American victory at the battles of
Lexington and Concord.
§ 1782 – John
Adams secures the Dutch Republic's recognition of
the United States as an independent government. The
house which he had purchased in The
Hague, Netherlands becomes the first American
embassy.
§ 1809 – An Austrian corps is
defeated by the forces of the Duchy of Warsaw in
the Battle of Raszyn, part of the struggles of
the Fifth Coalition. On the same day the Austrian main army
is defeated by a First French Empire Corps led
by Louis-Nicolas Davout at the Battle of
Teugen-Hausen in Bavaria, part of a four day campaign that
ended in a French victory.
§ 1810 – Venezuela achieves home
rule: Vicente Emparan, Governor of
the Captaincy General is removed by the people
of Caracas and a junta is
installed.
§ 1839 – The Treaty of
London establishes Belgium as a
kingdom. 5
§ 1855 – Visit of Napoleon
III to Guildhall, London
§ 1861 – American Civil
War: Baltimore riot of 1861: a pro-Secession mob
in Baltimore, Maryland, attacks United States
Army troops marching through the city.
§ 1892 – Charles
Duryea claims to have driven the
first automobile in the United States,
in Springfield, Massachusetts. 3
§ 1919 – Leslie Irvin of
the United States makes the first successful
voluntary free-fall parachute jump using a new
kind of self-contained parachute.
§ 1927 – Mae West is sentenced to
10 days in jail5for obscenity for her
play Sex.
§ 1928 – The 125th and final fascicle of
the Oxford English Dictionary is
published.
§ 1942 – World War II: In Poland,
the Majdan-Tatarski ghetto is established, situated
between the Lublin Ghetto and
a Majdanek subcamp.
§ 1943 – World War II: In
Poland, German troops enter the Warsaw
ghetto to round up the remaining Jews, beginning
the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
§ 1943 – Bicycle Day –
Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann deliberately
takes LSD for the first
time.9
§ 1945 – Diplomatic
relations between the Soviet
Union and Guatemala are
established.
§ 1948 – Burma (now Myanmar)
joins the United Nations.
§ 1950 – Argentina becomes a
signatory to the Buenos
Aires copyright treaty.
§ 1951 – General Douglas
MacArthur retires from the military.
§ 1954 – The Constituent Assembly of
Pakistan recognizes Urdu and Bengali as
the national
languages of Pakistan.
§ 1955 – The German
automaker Volkswagen, after six years of selling cars in the
United States, founds Volkswagen of
America in Englewood Cliffs, New
Jersey to standardize its dealer and service
network. 4
§ 1956 – Actress Grace
Kelly marries Prince Rainier of
Monaco.
§ 1960 – Students in South
Korea hold a nationwide pro-democracy
protest against president Syngman Rhee,
eventually forcing him to resign.
§ 1961 – The Bay of Pigs
invasion of Cuba ends in success for the
defenders.
§ 1971 – Sierra Leone becomes
a republic, and Siaka
Stevens the president.
§ 1971 – Vietnam War: Vietnam Veterans
Against the War begin a five-day demonstration
in Washington, D.C..
§ 1971 – Launch of Salyut 1, the
first space station. 7
§ 1971 – Charles Manson is sentenced to
death for conspiracy to commit
the Tate/LaBianca murders.
§ 1975 – India's
first satellite Aryabhata is
launched. 1
§ 1984 – Advance Australia
Fair is proclaimed as Australia's national
anthem, and green and gold as the national
colors.
§ 1985 – FBI siege on the compound
of The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the
Lord (CSAL) in Arkansas
§ 1985
– U.S.S.R performs nuclear test
at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalatinsk
§ 1989 – A gun
turret explodes on the USS Iowa,
killing 47 sailors.
§ 1993 – The 51-day siege of
the Branch Davidian building outside Waco,
Texas, USA, ends when a fire breaks out. Eighty-one
people die. 1
§ THATVIDEOKID WAS
BORN!!! … (Doesn’t
seem like it was a very happy day based on the above and
below) 9
§ 1993 – South Dakota Governor George
Mickelson and seven others are killed when a
state-owned aircraft crashes in Iowa. 5
§ 1995 – Oklahoma City bombing:
The Alfred P. Murrah Federal
Building in Oklahoma
City, Oklahoma, USA, is bombed, killing 168.
That same day convicted murderer Richard Wayne Snell, who
had ties to one of the bombers, Timothy McVeigh, is executed
in Arkansas.
§ 1997 – The Red River Flood of
1997 overwhelms the city of Grand Forks, North
Dakota. Fire breaks out and spreads in downtown Grand Forks, but
high water levels hamper efforts to reach the fire, leading to the
destruction of 11 buildings. 9
§ 1999 –
The German Bundestag returns to Berlin,
the first German parliamentary body to meet there since
the Reichstag was dissolved in
1945.
§ 2005 – His Eminence Joseph Cardinal
Ratzinger is elected the 265th Pope of
the Catholic Church following the death
of Pope John Paul II. The new Pope takes on
the regnal name Benedict
XVI.
§ 2011 – Fidel
Castro resigns from the Communist Party of
Cuba's central committee after 45 years of holding
the title. 5