I kind of wanted to add to the 1986 Challenger disaster, that I remember that I was in the school library at EP Scarlett during a spare studying desperately for my math mid term. To be honest, I truly sucked at Math and Chemistry, but other courses like Social Studies, and English and Biology I could walk into the exam room and ace them without breaking a sweat. But I was sweating that day because I was probably facing a summer at school making up the grade.
I remember that I was in one of the little booths studying and still not getting it, the Librarian turned on the TV so that we could have the launch in the background. You see, back in 1986 Space Travel was still a thing, and this one was huge Christie McAulffie was going into space. She wasn't a pilot of some kind of space ace specialists. She was a teacher who had been selected from 10's of thousands of applicants to basically be the first everyman in space.
Sadly she never got there.
I remember hearing the countdown and looking up, because I always liked the launch sequence, and then looked back at my book, you could here it in the background as I worked on some word problem, that in a few seconds would be really unimportant.
I remember hearing the throttle up command, but I didn't look up, until I heard a girl in the booth next to mine yell loudly holy sh$t. Now frankly in those days that would have gotten you a weeks detention after writing up a case statement for the Principle, but I don't think that anyone cared. I looked up at the image on TV of the fireball and the solid boosters spiraling away and I remember my mind saying "That's not right", I remember that every single student in the library stood up and walked over to the TV to watch, and we watched through that period and just listened.
To me the Shuttle disaster was almost like the end of optimism in a decade full of it.
I also had to write a exam that I was now unprepared for it.
Summer school sucked.
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661 The Rashidun Caliphate ends with the death of Ali, and the Imamah of the Shia going to the second Imam, Hassan ibn Ali
757 An Lushan, leader of a revolt against the Tang dynasty and emperor of Yan, is murdered by his own son, An Qingxu.
904 Sergius III comes out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher.
1258 First Mongol invasion of Đại Việt: Đại Việt defeats the Mongols at the battle of Đτng Bộ Đầu, forcing the Mongols to withdraw from the country.
1790 The first boat specializing as a lifeboat is tested on the River Tyne.
1814 War of the Sixth Coalition: France defeats Russia and Prussia in the Battle of Brienne.
1819 Stamford Raffles lands on the island of Singapore.
1834 US President Andrew Jackson orders first use of federal soldiers to suppress a labor dispute.
1845 "The Raven" is published in The Evening Mirror in New York, the first publication with the name of the author, Edgar Allan Poe
1850 Henry Clay introduces the Compromise of 1850 to the U.S. Congress.
1856 Queen Victoria issues a Warrant under the Royal sign-manual that establishes the Victoria Cross to recognise acts of valour by British military personnel during the Crimean War.
1861 Kansas is admitted as the 34th U.S. state.
1863 The Bear River Massacre: A detachment of California Volunteers led by Colonel Patrick Edward Connor engage the Shoshone at Bear River, Washington Territory, killing hundreds of men women and children.
1886 Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.
1891 Liliuokalani is proclaimed the last monarch and only queen regnant of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
1907 Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes the first Native American U.S. Senator.
1916 World War I: Paris is first bombed by German zeppelins.
1918 UkrainianSoviet War: The Bolshevik Red Army, on its way to besiege Kiev, is met by a small group of military students at the Battle of Kruty.
1918 UkrainianSoviet War: An armed uprising organized by the Bolsheviks in anticipation of the encroaching Red Army begins at the Kiev Arsenal, which will be put down six days later.
1936 The first inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame are announced.
1941 Alexandros Koryzis becomes Prime Minister of Greece upon the sudden death of his predecessor, dictator Ioannis Metaxas.
1943 The first day of the Battle of Rennell Island, U.S. cruiser Chicago is torpedoed and heavily damaged by Japanese bombers.
1944 World War II: Approximately 38 people are killed and about a dozen injured when the Polish village of Koniuchy (present-day Kaniūkai, Lithuania) is attacked by Soviet partisan units.
1959 The first Melodifestivalen is held in Stockholm, Sweden.
1963 The first inductees into the Pro Football Hall of Fame are announced.
1967 The "ultimate high" of the hippie era, the Mantra-Rock Dance, takes place in San Francisco and features Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead, and Allen Ginsberg.
1989 Hungary establishes diplomatic relations with South Korea, making it the first Eastern Bloc nation to do so.
1991 Gulf War: The Battle of Khafji, the first major ground engagement of the war, as well as its deadliest, begins.
1996 President Jacques Chirac announces a "definitive end" to French nuclear weapons testing.
2001 Thousands of student protesters in Indonesia storm parliament and demand that President Abdurrahman Wahid resign due to alleged involvement in corruption scandals.
2002 In his State of the Union address, President George W. Bush describes "regimes that sponsor terror" as an Axis of evil, in which he includes Iraq, Iran and North Korea.
2005 The first direct commercial flights from mainland China (from Guangzhou) to Taiwan since 1949 arrived in Taipei. Shortly afterwards, a China Airlines flight lands in Beijing.
2009 The Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt rules that people who do not adhere to one of the three government-recognised religions, while not allowed to list any belief outside of those three, are still eligible to receive government identity documents.
2009 Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich is removed from office following his conviction of several corruption charges, including the alleged solicitation of personal benefit in exchange for an appointment to the United States Senate as a replacement for then-U.S. president-elect Barack Obama.
2013 SCAT Airlines Flight 760 crashes near the Kazakh city of Almaty, killing 21 people.
2017 Quebec City mosque shooting Alexandre Bissonnette opens fire at mosque in Sainte-Foy, Quebec, killing six and wounding 19 others in a spree shooting.
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516 BCE The Second Temple of Jerusalem finishes construction.
1018 Poland and the Holy Roman Empire conclude the Peace of Bautzen.
1607 An estimated 200 square miles (51,800 ha) along the coasts of the Bristol Channel and Severn Estuary in England are destroyed by massive flooding, resulting in an estimated 2,000 deaths.
1648 Eighty Years' War: The Treaty of Mόnster and Osnabrόck is signed, ending the conflict between the Netherlands and Spain.
1649 King Charles I of England is beheaded.
1661 Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, is ritually executed more than two years after his death, on the 12th anniversary of the execution of the monarch he himself deposed.
1703 The Forty-seven Ronin, under the command of Ōishi Kuranosuke, avenge the death of their master.
1789 Tβy Sơn forces emerge victorious against Qing armies and liberate the capital Thăng Long.
1806 The original Lower Trenton Bridge (also called the Trenton Makes the World Takes Bridge), which spans the Delaware River between Morrisville, Pennsylvania and Trenton, New Jersey, is opened.
1820 Edward Bransfield sights the Trinity Peninsula and claims the discovery of Antarctica.
1826 The Menai Suspension Bridge, considered the world's first modern suspension bridge, connecting the Isle of Anglesey to the north West coast of Wales, is opened.
1835 In the first assassination attempt against a President of the United States, Richard Lawrence attempts to shoot president Andrew Jackson, but fails and is subdued by a crowd, including several congressmen as well as Jackson himself.
This assassination attempt resulted in two failed pistol attempts by Lawrence, followed by a massive beatdown of Lawrence by Jackson.
1847 Yerba Buena, California is renamed San Francisco, California.
1858 The first Hallι concert is given in Manchester, England, marking the official founding of The Hallι orchestra as a full-time, professional orchestra.
1862 The first American ironclad warship, the USS Monitor is launched.
1889 Archduke Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian crown, is found dead with his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera in the Mayerling.
1902 The first Anglo-Japanese Alliance is signed in London.
1908 Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is released from prison by Jan C. Smuts after being tried and sentenced to two months in jail earlier in the month.
1911 The destroyer USS Terry makes the first airplane rescue at sea saving the life of Douglas McCurdy ten miles from Havana, Cuba.
1925 The Government of Turkey expels Patriarch Constantine VI from Istanbul.
1930 The Politburo of the Soviet Union orders the extermination of the Kulaks.
1933 Adolf Hitler is sworn in as Chancellor of Germany.
1942 World War II: Battle of Ambon. Japanese forces invade the island of Ambon in the Dutch East Indies. Some 300 captured Allied troops are massacred at Laha airfield. Three-fourths of remaining POWs did not survive at the end of the war, including 250 men who were shipped to Hainan Island in South China Sea and never returned.
1944 World War II: The Battle of Cisterna, part of Operation Shingle, begins in central Italy.
1945 World War II: The Wilhelm Gustloff, overfilled with German refugees, sinks in the Baltic Sea after being torpedoed by a Soviet submarine, killing approximately 9,500 people.
1945 World War II: Raid at Cabanatuan: One hundred twenty-six American Rangers and Filipino resistance fighters liberate over 500 Allied prisoners from the Japanese-controlled Cabanatuan POW camp.
1948 Mahatma Gandhi is assassinated by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist.
1956 African-American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.'s home is bombed in retaliation for the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
1959 MS Hans Hedtoft, said to be the safest ship afloat and "unsinkable" like the RMS Titanic, strikes an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sinks, killing all 95 aboard.
1960 The African National Party is founded in Chad, through the merger of traditionalist parties.
1964 In a bloodless coup, General Nguyễn Khαnh overthrows General Dương Văn Minh's military junta in South Vietnam.
1968 Vietnam War: Tet Offensive launch by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army against South Vietnam, the United States, and their allies.
1969 The Beatles' last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records in London. The impromptu concert is broken up by the police.
1972 The Troubles: Bloody Sunday: British paratroopers open fire on anti-internment marchers in Derry, Northern Ireland, killing 13 people; another person later dies of injuries sustained.
1975 The Monitor National Marine Sanctuary is established as the first United States National Marine Sanctuary.
1979 A Varig Boeing 707-323C freighter, flown by the same commander as Flight 820, disappears over the Pacific Ocean 30 minutes after taking off from Tokyo.
1982 Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program called "Elk Cloner".
1989 Closure of the American embassy in Kabul, Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
1995 Workers from the National Institutes of Health announce the success of clinical trials testing the first preventive treatment for sickle-cell disease.
2000 Off the coast of Ivory Coast, Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 169.
2013 Naro-1 becomes the first carrier rocket launched by South Korea.
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1504 The Treaty of Lyon ends the Italian War, confirming French domination of northern Italy, while Spain receives the Kingdom of Naples.
1578 The Battle of Gembloux takes place.
1606 Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes is executed for plotting against Parliament and King James.
1747 The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Lock Hospital.
1801 John Marshall is appointed the Chief Justice of the United States.
1814 Gervasio Antonio de Posadas becomes Supreme Director of the United Provinces of the Rνo de la Plata (present-day Argentina).
1846 After the Milwaukee Bridge War, Juneautown and Kilbourntown unify as the City of Milwaukee.
1848 John C. Frιmont is court-martialed for mutiny and disobeying orders.
1862 Alvan Graham Clark discovers the white dwarf star Sirius B, a companion of Sirius, through an 18.5-inch (47 cm) telescope now located at Northwestern University.
1865 American Civil War: The United States Congress passes the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, abolishing slavery and submits it to the states for ratification.
1865 American Civil War: Confederate General Robert E. Lee becomes general-in-chief.
1891 History of Portugal: The first attempt at a Portuguese republican revolution breaks out in the northern city of Porto.
1897 Czechoslav Trade Union Association is founded in Prague.
1900 Datu Muhammad Salleh is killed in Kampung Teboh, Tambunan, ending the Mat Salleh Rebellion.
1915 World War I: Germany is the first to make large-scale use of poison gas in warfare in the Battle of Bolimσw against Russia.
1917 World War I: Germany announces that its U-boats will resume unrestricted submarine warfare after a two-year hiatus.
1918 A series of accidental collisions on a misty Scottish night leads to the loss of two Royal Navy submarines with over a hundred lives, and damage to another five British warships.
1919 The Battle of George Square takes place in Glasgow, Scotland.
1929 The Soviet Union exiles Leon Trotsky.
1930 3M begins marketing Scotch Tape.
1942 World War II: Allied forces are defeated by the Japanese at the Battle of Malaya and retreat to Singapore.
1943 World War II: German Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus surrenders to the Soviets at Stalingrad, followed 2 days later by the remainder of his Sixth Army, ending one of the war's fiercest battles.
1944 World War II: American forces land on Kwajalein Atoll and other islands in the Japanese-held Marshall Islands.
1944 World War II: During the Anzio campaign the 1st Ranger Battalion (Darby's Rangers) is destroyed behind enemy lines in a heavily outnumbered encounter at Battle of Cisterna, Italy.
1945 US Army private Eddie Slovik is executed for desertion, the first such execution of an American soldier since the Civil War.
1945 World War II: About 3,000 inmates from the Stutthof concentration camp are forcibly marched into the Baltic Sea at Palmnicken (now Yantarny, Russia) and executed.
1945 World War II: The end of fighting in the Battle of Hill 170 during the Burma Campaign, in which the British 3 Commando Brigade repulsed a Japanese counterattack on their positions and precipitated a general retirement from the Arakan Peninsula.
1946 Yugoslavia's new constitution, modeling that of the Soviet Union, establishes six constituent republics (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia).
1946 The Democratic Republic of Vietnam introduces the đồng to replace the French Indochinese piastre at par.
1949 These Are My Children, the first television daytime soap opera is broadcast by the NBC station in Chicago.
1950 United States President Harry S. Truman announces a program to develop the hydrogen bomb.
1953 A North Sea flood causes over 1,800 deaths in the Netherlands and over 300 in the United Kingdom
1957 Eight people on the ground in Pacoima, California are killed following the mid-air collision between a Douglas DC-7 airliner and a Northrop F-89 Scorpion fighter jet.
1958 The first successful American satellite detects the Van Allen radiation belt.
1961 Project Mercury: Mercury-Redstone 2: Ham the Chimp travels into outer space.
1966 The Soviet Union launches the unmanned Luna 9 spacecraft as part of the Luna program.
1968 Vietnam War: Viet Cong guerrillas attack the United States embassy in Saigon, and other attacks, in the early morning hours, later grouped together as the Tet Offensive.
1968 Nauru gains independence from Australia.
1971 Apollo program: Apollo 14: Astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell, aboard a Saturn V, lift off for a mission to the Fra Mauro Highlands on the Moon.
1971 The Winter Soldier Investigation, organized by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War to publicize war crimes and atrocities by Americans and allies in Vietnam, begins in Detroit.
1996 An explosives-filled truck rams into the gates of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka in Colombo, killing at least 86 people and injuring 1,400.
2000 Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crash: An MD-83, experiencing horizontal stabilizer problems, crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Point Mugu, California, killing all 88 aboard.
2001 In the Netherlands, a Scottish court convicts Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi and acquits another Libyan citizen for their part in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988.
2009 In Kenya, at least 113 people are killed and over 200 injured following an oil spillage ignition in Molo, days after a massive fire at a Nakumatt supermarket in Nairobi killed at least 25 people.
2012 The Toyota Corolla is known as the best-selling car of all time. Selling over 37.5 million units.
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481 Vandal king Huneric organises a conference between Catholic and Arian bishops at Carthage.
1327 The teenaged Edward III is crowned King of England, but the country is ruled by his mother Queen Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer.
1329 King John of Bohemia captures Medvėgalis, an important fortress of the pagan Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and baptizes 6,000 of its defenders
1411 The First Peace of Thorn is signed in Thorn (Toruń), Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights (Prussia).
1662 The Chinese general Koxinga seizes the island of Taiwan after a nine-month siege.
1713 The Kalabalik or Tumult in Bendery results from the Ottoman sultan's order that his unwelcome guest, King Charles XII of Sweden, be seized.
1793 French Revolutionary Wars: France declares war on the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
1796 The capital of Upper Canada is moved from Newark to York.
1814 Mayon in the Philippines erupts, killing around 1,200 people, the most devastating eruption of the volcano.
1835 Slavery is abolished in Mauritius.
1861 American Civil War: Texas secedes from the United States.
1864 Second Schleswig War: Prussian forces crossed the border into Schleswig, starting the war.
1865 President Abraham Lincoln signs the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
1884 The first volume (A to Ant) of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
1893 Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio, the Black Maria in West Orange, New Jersey.
1895 Fountains Valley, Pretoria, the oldest nature reserve in Africa, is proclaimed by President Paul Kruger.
1896 La bohθme premieres in Turin at the Teatro Regio (Turin), conducted by the young Arturo Toscanini.
1897 Shinhan Bank, the oldest bank in South Korea, opens in Seoul.
1908 Lisbon Regicide: King Carlos I of Portugal and Infante Luis Filipe are shot dead in Lisbon.
1918 Russia adopts the Gregorian calendar.
1924 The United Kingdom recognizes the USSR.
1942 World War II: Josef Terboven, Reichskommissar of German-occupied Norway, appoints Vidkun Quisling the Minister President of the National Government.
1942 World War II: U.S. Navy conducts MarshallsGilberts raids, the first offensive action by the United States against Japanese forces in the Pacific Theater.
1942 Voice of America, the official external radio and television service of the United States government, begins broadcasting with programs aimed at areas controlled by the Axis powers.
1942 Mao Zedong makes a speech on "Reform in Learning, the Party and Literature", which puts into motion the Yan'an Rectification Movement.
1946 Trygve Lie of Norway is picked to be the first United Nations Secretary-General.
1946 The Parliament of Hungary abolishes the monarchy after nine centuries, and proclaims the Hungarian Republic.
1953 North Sea flood of 1953 is caused by a heavy storm which occurred overnight, 31 January-1 February 1953; floods strike the Netherlands, Belgium and the U.K.
1960 Four black students stage the first of the Greensboro sit-ins at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.
1964 The Beatles have their first number one hit in the United States with "I Want to Hold Your Hand".
1965 The Hamilton River in Labrador, Canada is renamed the Churchill River in honour of Winston Churchill.
1968 Vietnam War: The execution of Viet Cong officer Nguyễn Văn Lιm by South Vietnamese National Police Chief Nguyễn Ngọc Loan is recorded on motion picture film, as well as in an iconic still photograph taken by Eddie Adams.
1968 Canada's three military services, the Royal Canadian Navy, the Canadian Army and the Royal Canadian Air Force, are unified into the Canadian Forces.
1968 The New York Central Railroad and the Pennsylvania Railroad are merged to form Penn Central Transportation.
1972 Kuala Lumpur becomes a city by a royal charter granted by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
1974 A fire in the 25-story Joelma Building in Sγo Paulo, Brazil kills 189 and injures 293.
1979 Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Tehran after nearly 15 years of exile.
1989 The Western Australian towns of Kalgoorlie and Boulder amalgamate to form the City of KalgoorlieBoulder.
1991 A runway collision between USAir Flight 1493 and SkyWest Flight 5569 at Los Angeles International Airport results in the deaths of 34 people, and injuries to 30 others.
1992 The Chief Judicial Magistrate of Bhopal court declares Warren Anderson, ex-CEO of Union Carbide, a fugitive under Indian law for failing to appear in the Bhopal disaster case.
1996 The Communications Decency Act is passed by the U.S. Congress.
1998 Rear Admiral Lillian E. Fishburne becomes the first female African American to be promoted to rear admiral.
2002 Daniel Pearl, American journalist and South Asia Bureau Chief of the Wall Street Journal, kidnapped January 23, 2002, is beheaded and mutilated by his captors.
2003 Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during the reentry of mission STS-107 into the Earth's atmosphere, killing all seven astronauts aboard.
2004 Hajj pilgrimage stampede: In a stampede at the Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, 251 people are trampled to death and 244 injured.
2005 King Gyanendra of Nepal carries out a coup d'ιtat to capture the democracy, becoming Chairman of the Councils of ministers.
2009 The first cabinet of Jσhanna Sigurπardσttir was formed in Iceland, making her the country's first female prime minister and the world's first openly gay head of government.
2012 At least 72 people are killed and over 500 injured as a result of clashes between fans of Egyptian football teams Al-Masry and Al-Ahly in the city of Port Said.
2013 The Shard, the tallest building in the European Union, is opened to the public.
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506 Alaric II, eighth king of the Visigoths promulgates the Breviary of Alaric (Breviarium Alaricianum or Lex Romana Visigothorum), a collection of "Roman law".
880 Battle of Lόneburg Heath: King Louis III is defeated by the Norse Great Heathen Army at Lόneburg Heath in Saxony.
962 Translatio imperii: Pope John XII crowns Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, the first Holy Roman Emperor in nearly 40 years.
1032 Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor becomes king of Burgundy.
1141 The Battle of Lincoln, at which Stephen, King of England is defeated and captured by the allies of Empress Matilda.
1207 Terra Mariana, eventually comprising present-day Latvia and Estonia, is established.
1438 Nine leaders of the Transylvanian peasant revolt are executed at Torda.
1461 Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Mortimer's Cross is fought in Herefordshire, England.
1536 Spaniard Pedro de Mendoza founds Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1653 New Amsterdam (later renamed The City of New York) is incorporated.
1709 Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being shipwrecked on a desert island, inspiring Daniel Defoe's adventure book Robinson Crusoe.
1848 MexicanAmerican War: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed.
1850 Brigham Young declares war on Timpanogos in the Battle at Fort Utah.
1868 Pro-Imperial forces captured Osaka Castle from the Tokugawa shogunate and burned it to the ground.
1876 The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs of Major League Baseball is formed.
1887 In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania the first Groundhog Day is observed.
1899 The Australian Premiers' Conference held in Melbourne decides to locate Australia's capital city, Canberra, between Sydney and Melbourne.
1901 Funeral of Queen Victoria.
1913 Grand Central Terminal is opened in New York City.
1920 The Tartu Peace Treaty is signed between Estonia and Russia.
1920 France occupies Memel.
1922 Ulysses by James Joyce is published.
1925 Serum run to Nome: Dog sleds reach Nome, Alaska with diphtheria serum, inspiring the Iditarod race.
1934 The Export-Import Bank of the United States is incorporated.
1935 Leonarde Keeler administers polygraph tests to two murder suspects, the first time polygraph evidence was admitted in U.S. courts.
1942 The Osvald Group is responsible for the first, active event of anti-Nazi resistance in Norway, to protest the inauguration of Vidkun Quisling.
1943 World War II: The Battle of Stalingrad comes to an end when Soviet troops accept the surrender of the last German troops in the city.
1959 Nine experienced ski hikers in the northern Ural Mountains in the Soviet Union die under mysterious circumstances.
1966 Pakistan suggests a six-point agenda with Kashmir after the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.
1971 Idi Amin replaces President Milton Obote as leader of Uganda.
1971 The international Ramsar Convention for the conservation and sustainable utilization of wetlands is signed in Ramsar, Mazandaran, Iran.
1980 Reports surface that the FBI is targeting allegedly corrupt Congressmen in the Abscam operation.
1982 Hama massacre: The government of Syria attacks the town of Hama.
1987 After the 1986 People Power Revolution, the Philippines enacts a new constitution.
1989 Soviet war in Afghanistan: The last Soviet armoured column leaves Kabul.
1990 Apartheid: F. W. de Klerk announces the unbanning of the African National Congress and promises to release Nelson Mandela.
2000 First digital cinema projection in Europe (Paris) realized by Philippe Binant with the DLP CINEMA technology developed by Texas Instruments.
2004 Swiss tennis player Roger Federer becomes the No. 1 ranked men's singles player, a position he will hold for a record 237 weeks.
2005 The Government of Canada introduces the Civil Marriage Act. This legislation would become law on July 20, 2005, legalizing same-sex marriage.
2012 The ferry MV Rabaul Queen sinks off the coast of Papua New Guinea near the Finschhafen District, with an estimated 146-165 dead.
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1112 Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona and Douce I, Countess of Provence marry, uniting the fortunes of those two states.
1377 More than 2,000 people of the Italian city of Cesena are killed by the Condottieri (papal armed forces) in the "Cesena Bloodbath".
1451 Sultan Mehmed II inherits the throne of the Ottoman Empire.
1488 Bartolomeu Dias of Portugal lands in Mossel Bay after rounding the Cape of Good Hope, becoming the first known European to travel so far south.
1509 The Portuguese navy defeats a joint fleet of the Ottoman Empire, the Republic of Venice, the Sultan of Gujarat, the Mamlϋk Burji Sultanate of Egypt, the Zamorin of Calicut, and the Republic of Ragusa at the Battle of Diu in Diu, India.
1690 The colony of Massachusetts issues the first paper money in the Americas.
1706 During the Battle of Fraustadt Swedish forces defeat a superior Saxon-Polish-Russian force by deploying a double envelopment.
1781 American Revolutionary War: British forces seize the Dutch-owned Caribbean island Sint Eustatius.
1783 American Revolutionary War: Spain recognizes United States independence.
1787 Militia led by General Benjamin Lincoln crush the remnants of Shays' Rebellion in Petersham, Massachusetts.
1807 A British military force, under Brigadier-General Sir Samuel Auchmuty captures the Spanish Empire city of Montevideo, now the capital of Uruguay.
1809 The Territory of Illinois is created by the 10th United States Congress.
1813 Josι de San Martνn defeats a Spanish royalist army at the Battle of San Lorenzo, part of the Argentine War of Independence.
1830 The London Protocol of 1830 establishes the full independence and sovereignty of Greece from the Ottoman Empire as the final result of the Greek War of Independence.
1834 Wake Forest University is established.
1870 The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing voting rights to male citizens regardless of race.
1913 The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, authorizing the Federal government to impose and collect an income tax.
1916 The Centre Block of the Parliament buildings in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada burns down with the loss of 7 lives.
1917 World War I: The United States breaks off diplomatic relations with Germany two days after the latter announced a new policy of unrestricted submarine warfare.
1918 The Twin Peaks Tunnel in San Francisco, California begins service as the longest streetcar tunnel in the world at 11,920 feet (3,633 meters) long.
1930 Communist Party of Vietnam is founded at a "Unification Conference" held in Kowloon, British Hong Kong.
1931 The Hawke's Bay earthquake, New Zealand's worst natural disaster, kills 258.
1933 Adolf Hitler announces that the expansion of Lebensraum into Eastern Europe, and its ruthless Germanisation, are the ultimate geopolitical objectives of Third Reich foreign policy.
1943 The SS Dorchester is sunk by a German U-boat. Only 230 of 902 men aboard survive.
1944 World War II: During the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign, U.S. Army and Marine forces seize Kwajalein Atoll from the defending Japanese garrison.
1945 World War II: As part of Operation Thunderclap, 1,000 B-17s of the Eighth Air Force bomb Berlin, a raid which kills between 2,500 and 3,000 and dehouses another 120,000.
1945 World War II: The United States and the Philippine Commonwealth begin a month-long battle to retake Manila from Japan.
1953 The Batepα massacre occurred in Sγo Tomι when the colonial administration and Portuguese landowners unleashed a wave of violence against the native creoles known as forros.
1958 Founding of the Benelux Economic Union, creating a testing ground for a later European Economic Community.
1959 Rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson are killed in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa.
1960 British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan speaks of "a wind of change", signalling that his Government was likely to support decolonisation.
1961 The United States Air Forces begins Operation Looking Glass, and over the next 30 years, a "Doomsday Plane" is always in the air, with the capability of taking direct control of the United States' bombers and missiles in the event of the destruction of the SAC's command post.
1966 The Soviet Union's Luna 9 becomes the first spacecraft to make a soft landing on the Moon, and the first spacecraft to take pictures from the surface of the Moon.[1]
1969 In Cairo, Yasser Arafat is appointed Palestine Liberation Organization leader at the Palestinian National Congress.
1971 New York Police Officer Frank Serpico is shot during a drug bust in Brooklyn and survives to later testify against police corruption.
1972 The first day of the seven-day 1972 Iran blizzard, which would kill at least 4,000 people, making it the deadliest snowstorm in history.
1984 John Buster and the research team at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center announce history's first embryo transfer, from one woman to another resulting in a live birth.
1984 Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B is launched using Space Shuttle Challenger.
1989 After a stroke two weeks previously, South African President P. W. Botha resigns as leader of the National Party, but stays on as president for six more months.
1989 A military coup overthrows Alfredo Stroessner, dictator of Paraguay since 1954.
1994 Space Shuttle program: STS-60 is launched, carrying Sergei Krikalev, the first Russian cosmonaut to fly aboard the Shuttle[2]
1995 Astronaut Eileen Collins becomes the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle as mission STS-63 gets underway from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
1998 Cavalese cable car disaster: a United States military pilot causes the death of 20 people when his low-flying plane cuts the cable of a cable-car near Trento, Italy.
2007 A Baghdad market bombing kills at least 135 people and injures a further 339.
2014 Two people are shot and killed and 29 students are taken hostage at a high school in Moscow, Russia.
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Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
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211 Roman Emperor Septimius Severus dies at Eboracum (modern York, England) while preparing to lead a campaign against the Caledonians. He leaves the empire in the control of his two quarrelling sons.
634 Battle of Dathin: Rashidun forces under Yazid ibn Abi Sufyan defeat an outnumbered Byzantine force near Gaza in Palestine.
960 The coronation of Zhao Kuangyin as Emperor Taizu of Song, initiating the Song dynasty period of China that would last more than three centuries.
1169 A strong earthquake struck the Ionian coast of Sicily, causing tens of thousands of injuries and deaths, especially in Catania.
1454 In the Thirteen Years' War, the Secret Council of the Prussian Confederation sends a formal act of disobedience to the Grand Master.
1555 John Rogers is burned at the stake, becoming the first English Protestant martyr under Mary I of England.
1703 In Edo (now Tokyo), 46 of the Forty-seven Ronin commit seppuku (ritual suicide) as recompense for avenging their master's death.
1758 Macapα, Brazil is founded.
1789 George Washington is unanimously elected as the first President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College.
1794 The French legislature abolishes slavery throughout all territories of the French First Republic. It will be reestablished in the French West Indies in 1802.
1797 The Riobamba earthquake strikes Ecuador, causing up to 40,000 casualties.
1801 John Marshall is sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States.
1810 The Royal Navy seizes Guadeloupe.
1820 The Chilean Navy under the command of Lord Cochrane completes the 2-day long Capture of Valdivia with just 300 men and 2 ships.
1825 The Ohio Legislature authorizes the construction of the Ohio and Erie Canal and the Miami and Erie Canal.
1846 The first Mormon pioneers make their exodus from Nauvoo, Illinois, westward towards Salt Lake Valley.
1859 The Codex Sinaiticus is discovered in Egypt.
1861 American Civil War: In Montgomery, Alabama, delegates from six break-away U.S. states meet and form the Confederate States of America.
1899 The PhilippineAmerican War begins with the Battle of Manila.
1932 Second Sino-Japanese War: Harbin, Manchuria, falls to Japan.
1941 The United Service Organization (USO) is created to entertain American troops.
1945 World War II: Santo Tomas Internment Camp is liberated from Japanese authority.
1945 World War II: The Yalta Conference between the "Big Three" (Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin) opens at the Livadia Palace in the Crimea.
1945 World War II: The British Indian Army and Imperial Japanese Army begin a series of battles known as the Battle of Pokoku and Irrawaddy River operations.
1948 Ceylon (later renamed Sri Lanka) becomes independent within the British Commonwealth.
1961 The Angolan War of Independence and the greater Portuguese Colonial War begin.
1966 All Nippon Airways Flight 60 plunges into Tokyo Bay, killing 133.
1967 Lunar Orbiter program: Lunar Orbiter 3 lifts off from Cape Canaveral's Launch Complex 13 on its mission to identify possible landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo spacecraft.
1969 Yasser Arafat takes over as chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
1974 The Symbionese Liberation Army kidnaps Patty Hearst in Berkeley, California.
1974 M62 coach bombing: The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) explodes a bomb on a bus carrying off-duty British Armed Forces personnel in Yorkshire, England. Nine soldiers and three civilians are killed.
1975 Haicheng earthquake (magnitude 7.3 on the Richter scale) occurs in Haicheng, Liaoning, China.
1976 In Guatemala and Honduras an earthquake kills more than 22,000.
1977 A Chicago Transit Authority elevated train rear-ends another and derails, killing 11 and injuring 180, the worst accident in the agency's history.
1992 A coup d'ιtat is led by Hugo Chαvez against Venezuelan President Carlos Andrιs Pιrez.
1997 En route to Lebanon, two Israeli Sikorsky CH-53 troop-transport helicopters collide in mid-air over northern Galilee, Israel killing 73.
1998 The 5.9 Mw Afghanistan earthquake shakes the Takhar Province with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong). With 2,323 killed, and 818 injured, damage is considered extreme.
1999 Unarmed West African immigrant Amadou Diallo is shot 41 times by four plainclothes New York City police officers on an unrelated stake-out, inflaming race relations in the city.
2003 The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is officially renamed Serbia and Montenegro and adopts a new constitution.
2004 Facebook, a mainstream online social networking site, is founded by Mark Zuckerberg.
2015 A TransAsia Airways aircraft with 58 people on board, en route from the Taiwanese capital Taipei to Kinmen, crashes into the Keelung River just after take-off, killing at least 31 people.
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756 An Lushan, leader of a revolt against the Tang Dynasty, declares himself emperor and establishes the state of Yan.
1576 Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours and rejoins the Protestant forces in the French Wars of Religion.
1597 A group of early Japanese Christians are killed by the new government of Japan for being seen as a threat to Japanese society.
1778 South Carolina becomes the second state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.
1782 Spanish defeat British forces and capture Menorca.
1783 In Calabria, a sequence of strong earthquakes begins.
1807 HMS Blenheim (1761) and HMS Java disappear off the coast of Rodrigues.
1810 Peninsular War: Siege of Cαdiz begins.
1818 Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.
1849 University of WisconsinMadison's first class meets at Madison Female Academy.
1852 The New Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia, one of the largest and oldest museums in the world, opens to the public.
1859 Wallachia and Moldavia are united under Alexandru Ioan Cuza as the United Principalities, an autonomous region within the Ottoman Empire, which ushered the birth of the modern Romanian state.
1869 The largest alluvial gold nugget in history, called the "Welcome Stranger", is found in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia.
1885 King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo as a personal possession.
1905 In Mexico, the General Hospital of Mexico is inaugurated, started with four basic specialties.
1909 Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announces the creation of Bakelite, the world's first synthetic plastic.
1913 Greek military aviators, Michael Moutoussis and Aristeidis Moraitinis perform the first naval air mission in history, with a Farman MF.7 hydroplane.
1917 The current constitution of Mexico is adopted, establishing a federal republic with powers separated into independent executive, legislative, and judicial branches.
1917 The Congress of the United States passes the Immigration Act of 1917 over President Woodrow Wilson's veto.
1918 Stephen W. Thompson shoots down a German airplane; this is the first aerial victory by the U.S. military.
1918 SS Tuscania is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland; it is the first ship carrying American troops to Europe to be torpedoed and sunk.
1919 Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D. W. Griffith launch United Artists.
1924 The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal.
1933 Mutiny on Royal Netherlands Navy warship HNLMS De Zeven Provinciλn off the coast of Sumatra, Dutch East Indies.
1939 Generalνsimo Francisco Franco becomes the 68th "Caudillo de Espaρa", or Leader of Spain.
1941 World War II: Allied forces begin the Battle of Keren to capture Keren, Eritrea.
1945 World War II: General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila.
1958 Gamal Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of the United Arab Republic.
1958 A hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered.
1962 French President Charles de Gaulle calls for Algeria to be granted independence.
1963 The European Court of Justice's ruling in Van Gend en Loos v Nederlandse Administratie der Belastingen establishes the principle of direct effect, one of the most important, if not the most important, decisions in the development of European Union law.
1971 Astronauts land on the moon in the Apollo 14 mission.
1975 Riots break in Lima, Peru after the police forces go on strike the day before. The uprising (locally known as the Limazo) is bloodily suppressed by the military dictatorship.
1985 Ugo Vetere, then the mayor of Rome, and Chedli Klibi, then the mayor of Carthage meet in Tunis to sign a treaty of friendship officially ending the Third Punic War which lasted 2,131 years.
1988 Manuel Noriega is indicted on drug smuggling and money laundering charges.
1994 Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
1994 Markale massacres, more than 60 people are killed and some 200 wounded as a mortar shell explodes in a downtown marketplace in Sarajevo.
1997 The so-called Big Three banks in Switzerland announce the creation of a $71 million fund to aid Holocaust survivors and their families.
2000 Russian forces massacre at least 60 civilians in the Novye Aldi suburb of Grozny, Chechnya.
2004 Rebels from the Revolutionary Artibonite Resistance Front capture the city of Gonaοves, starting the 2004 Haiti rebellion.
2008 A major tornado outbreak across the Southern United States kills 57.
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AD 60 The earliest date for which the day of the week is known. A graffito in Pompeii identifies this day as a dies Solis (Sunday). In modern reckoning, this date would have been a Wednesday.
1579 The Archdiocese of Manila was made a diocese by a papal bull with Domingo de Salazar being its first bishop.
1649 The claimant King Charles II of England and Scotland is declared King of Great Britain, by the Parliament of Scotland. This move was not followed by the Parliament of England nor the Parliament of Ireland.
1685 James II of England and VII of Scotland becomes King upon the death of his brother Charles II.
1778 American Revolutionary War: In Paris the Treaty of Alliance and the Treaty of Amity and Commerce are signed by the United States and France signaling official recognition of the new republic.
1788 Massachusetts becomes the sixth state to ratify the United States Constitution.
1806 Battle of San Domingo: British naval victory against the French in the Caribbean.
1815 New Jersey grants the first American railroad charter to John Stevens.
1819 Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founds Singapore.
1820 The first 86 African American immigrants sponsored by the American Colonization Society depart New York to start a settlement in present-day Liberia.
1833 Otto becomes the first modern King of Greece.
1840 Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, establishing New Zealand as a British colony.
1843 The first minstrel show in the United States, The Virginia Minstrels, opens (Bowery Amphitheatre in New York City).
1851 The largest Australian bushfires in a populous region in recorded history take place in the state of Victoria.
1862 American Civil War: Forces under the command of Ulysses S. Grant and Andrew H. Foote give the Union its first victory of the war, capturing Fort Henry, Tennessee in the Battle of Fort Henry.
1899 SpanishAmerican War: The Treaty of Paris, a peace treaty between the United States and Spain, is ratified by the United States Senate.
1900 The Permanent Court of Arbitration, an international arbitration court at The Hague, is created when the Senate of the Netherlands ratifies an 1899 peace conference decree.
1918 British women over the age of 30 who meet minumum property qualifications, get the right to vote when Representation of the People Act 1918 is passed by Parliament.
1919 The American Legion is founded.
1922 The Washington Naval Treaty is signed in Washington, D.C., limiting the naval armaments of United States, Britain, Japan, France, and Italy.
1934 Far-right leagues rally in front of the Palais Bourbon in an attempted coup against the French Third Republic, creating a political crisis in France.
1951 The Canadian Army enters combat in the Korean War.
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1951 The Broker, a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train derails near Woodbridge Township, New Jersey. The accident kills 85 people and injures over 500 more. The wreck is one of the worst rail disasters in American history.
1952 Elizabeth II becomes queen regnant of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms upon the death of her father, George VI. At the exact moment of succession, she was in a tree house at the Treetops Hotel in Kenya.
1958 Eight Manchester United F.C. players and 15 other passengers are killed in the Munich air disaster.
1959 Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments files the first patent for an integrated circuit.
1959 At Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished.
1976 In testimony before a United States Senate subcommittee, Lockheed Corporation president Carl Kotchian admits that the company had paid out approximately $3 million in bribes to the office of Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka.
1978 The Blizzard of 1978, one of the worst Nor'easters in New England history, hit the region, with sustained winds of 65 mph and snowfall of four inches an hour.
1981 The National Resistance Army of Uganda launches an attack on a Ugandan Army installation in the central Mubende District to begin the Ugandan Bush War.
1987 Justice Mary Gaudron becomes the first woman to be appointed to the High Court of Australia.
1988 Michael Jordan makes his signature slam dunk from the free throw line inspiring Air Jordan and the Jumpman logo.
1989 The Round Table Talks start in Poland, thus marking the beginning of the overthrow of communism in Eastern Europe.
1996 Willamette Valley Flood: Floods in the Willamette Valley of Oregon, United States, causes over US$500 million in property damage throughout the Pacific Northwest.
1996 Birgenair Flight 301 crashed off the coast of the Dominican Republic, and all 189 people inside the airplane are killed. This is the worst accident/incident involving a Boeing 757.
1998 Washington National Airport is renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport.
2000 Second Chechen War: Russia captures Grozny, Chechnya, forcing the separatist Chechen Republic of Ichkeria government into exile.
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I guess this isn't really a "Today in History" thing, but perhaps a "Today is History". As of Today, the Berlin Wall has been down longer than it was up.
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457 Leo I the Thracian becomes emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
987 Bardas Phokas the Younger and Bardas Skleros, Byzantine generals of the military elite, begin a wide-scale rebellion against Emperor Basil II.
1074 Pandulf IV of Benevento is killed battling the invading Normans at the Battle of Montesarchio.
1301 Edward of Caernarvon (later king Edward II of England) becomes the first English Prince of Wales.
1497 The Bonfire of the Vanities occurs, during which supporters of Girolamo Savonarola burn cosmetics, art, and books in Florence, Italy.
1783 American Revolutionary War: French and Spanish forces lift the Great Siege of Gibraltar.
1795 The 11th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.
1807 Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon finds Bennigsen's Russian forces taking a stand at Eylau. After bitter fighting, the French take the town, but the Russians resume the battle the next day.
1812 The strongest in a series of earthquakes strikes New Madrid, Missouri.
1813 In the action of 7 February 1813 near the Ξles de Los, the frigates Arιthuse and Amelia batter each other, but neither can gain the upper hand.
1819 Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles leaves Singapore after just taking it over, leaving it in the hands of William Farquhar.
1842 Battle of Debre Tabor: Ras Ali Alula, Regent of the Emperor of Ethiopia defeats warlord Wube Haile Maryam of Semien.
1854 A law is approved to found the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Lectures started October 16, 1855.
1863 HMS Orpheus sinks off the coast of Auckland, New Zealand, killing 189.
1894 The Cripple Creek miner's strike, led by the Western Federation of Miners, begins in Cripple Creek, Colorado.
1898 Dreyfus affair: Ιmile Zola is brought to trial for libel for publishing J'accuse.
1900 Second Boer War: British troops fail in their third attempt to lift the Siege of Ladysmith.
1904 A fire in Baltimore, Maryland destroys over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours.
1907 The Mud March is the first large procession organized by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS).
1940 The second full-length animated Walt Disney film, Pinocchio, premieres.
1943 World War II: Imperial Japanese Navy forces complete the evacuation of Imperial Japanese Army troops from Guadalcanal during Operation Ke, ending Japanese attempts to retake the island from Allied forces in the Guadalcanal Campaign.
1944 World War II: In Anzio, Italy, German forces launch a counteroffensive during the Allied Operation Shingle.
1951 Korean War: More than 700 suspected communist sympathizers are butchered by South Korean forces.
1962 The United States bans all Cuban imports and exports.
1974 Grenada gains independence from the United Kingdom.
1979 Pluto moves inside Neptune's orbit for the first time since either was discovered.
1984 Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B Mission: Astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make the first untethered space walk using the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU).
1986 Twenty-eight years of one-family rule end in Haiti, when President Jean-Claude Duvalier flees the Caribbean nation.
1990 Dissolution of the Soviet Union: The Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party agrees to give up its monopoly on power.
1991 Haiti's first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, is sworn in.
1991 The Troubles: The Provisional IRA launched a mortar attack on 10 Downing Street in London, the headquarters of the British government.
1992 The Maastricht Treaty is signed, leading to the creation of the European Union.
1995 Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, is arrested in Islamabad, Pakistan.
1997 NeXT merges with Apple Computer, starting the path to Mac OS X.
1999 Crown Prince Abdullah becomes the King of Jordan on the death of his father, King Hussein.
2009 Bushfires in Victoria leave 173 dead in the worst natural disaster in Australia's history.
2012 President Mohamed Nasheed of the Republic of Maldives resigns, after 23 days of anti-governmental protests calling for the release of Chief Judge unlawfully arrested by the military.
2013 The U.S. state of Mississippi officially certifies the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was formally ratified by Mississippi in 1995.
2016 North Korea launches Kwangmyŏngsŏng-4 into outer space violating multiple UN treaties and prompting condemnation from around the world.
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421 Constantius III becomes co-Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
1238 The Mongols burn the Russian city of Vladimir.
1250 Seventh Crusade: Crusaders engage Ayyubid forces in the Battle of Al Mansurah.
1347 The Byzantine civil war of 134147 ends with a power-sharing agreement between John VI Kantakouzenos and John V Palaiologos.
1575 Leiden University is founded, and given the motto Praesidium Libertatis.
1587 Mary, Queen of Scots, is executed on suspicion of having been involved in the Babington Plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I.
1590 Luis de Carabajal the younger is tortured by the Inquisition in Mexico City.
1601 Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, rebels against Queen Elizabeth I and the revolt is quickly crushed.
1693 The College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, is granted a charter by King William III and Queen Mary II.
1807 After two days of bitter fighting, the Russians under Bennigsen and the Prussians under L'Estocq concede the Battle of Eylau to Napoleon.
1817 Las Heras crosses the Andes with an army to join San Martνn and liberate Chile from Spain.
1837 Richard Johnson becomes the first Vice President of the United States chosen by the United States Senate.
1865 Delaware refuses to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Slavery was outlawed in the United States, including Delaware, when the Amendment was ratified by the requisite number of states on December 6, 1865. Delaware ratified the Thirteenth Amendment on February 12, 1901, which was the ninety-second anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln.
1879 Sandford Fleming first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute.
1879 The England cricket team led by Lord Harris is attacked during a riot during a match in Sydney.
1885 The first government-approved Japanese immigrants arrived in Hawaii.
1887 The Dawes Act authorizes the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal land and divide it into individual allotments.
1904 Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise torpedo attack by the Japanese at Port Arthur, China starts the Russo-Japanese War.
1904 Aceh War: Dutch Colonial Army's Marechaussee regiment led by General G.C.E. van Daalen launch military campaign to capture Gayo Highland, Alas Highland, and Batak Highland in Dutch East Indies' Northern Sumatra region, which ends with genocide to Acehnese and Bataks people.
1910 The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce.
1915 D. W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles.
1922 United States President Warren G. Harding introduces the first radio set in the White House.
1924 Capital punishment: The first state execution in the United States by gas chamber takes place in Nevada.
1942 World War II: Japan invades Singapore.
1942 World War II: Dutch Colonial Army General Destruction Unit (AVC, Algemene Vernielings Corps) burns Banjarmasin, South Borneo to avoid Japanese capture.
1945 World War II: The United Kingdom and Canada commence Operation Veritable to occupy the west bank of the Rhine.
1945 World War II: Mikhail Devyataev escapes with nine other Soviet inmates from a Nazi concentration camp in Peenemόnde on the island of Usedom by hijacking the camp commandant's Heinkel He 111.
1946 The first portion of the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, the first serious challenge to the popularity of the Authorized King James Version, is published.
1950 The Stasi, the secret police of East Germany, is established.
1952 Elizabeth II is proclaimed Queen of the United Kingdom.
1955 The Government of Sindh, Pakistan, abolishes the Jagirdari system in the province. One million acres (4000 km2) of land thus acquired is to be distributed among the landless peasants.
1960 Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom issues an Order-in-Council, stating that she and her family would be known as the House of Windsor, and that her descendants will take the name Mountbatten-Windsor.
1962 Charonne massacre. Nine trade unionists are killed by French police at the instigation of Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon, then chief of the Paris Prefecture of Police.
1963 Travel, financial and commercial transactions by United States citizens to Cuba are made illegal by the John F. Kennedy administration.
1963 The regime of Prime Minister of Iraq, Brigadier General Abd al-Karim Qasim is overthrown by the Ba'ath Party.
1965 Eastern Air Lines Flight 663 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean and explodes, killing everyone aboard.
1968 American civil rights movement: The Orangeburg massacre: An attack on black students from South Carolina State University who are protesting racial segregation at the town's only bowling alley, leaves three or four dead in Orangeburg, South Carolina.
1971 The NASDAQ stock market index opens for the first time.
1971 South Vietnamese ground troops launch an incursion into Laos to try to cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail and stop communist infiltration.
1974 After 84 days in space, the crew of Skylab 4, the last crew to visit American space station Skylab, returns to Earth.
1978 Proceedings of the United States Senate are broadcast on radio for the first time.
1981 Twenty-one association football spectators are trampled to death at Karaiskakis Stadium in Neo Faliro, Greece, after a football match between Olympiacos F.C. and AEK Athens F.C.
1983 The Melbourne dust storm hits Australia's second largest city. The result of the worst drought on record and a day of severe weather conditions, a 320 metres (1,050 ft) deep dust cloud envelops the city, turning day to night.
1986 Hinton train collision: Twenty-three people are killed when a VIA Rail passenger train collides with a 118-car Canadian National freight train near the town of Hinton, Alberta, west of Edmonton. It is the worst rail accident in Canada until the Lac-Mιgantic, Quebec derailment in 2013 which killed forty-seven people.
1989 Independent Air Flight 1851 strikes Pico Alto mountain while on approach to Santa Maria Airport (Azores) killing all 144 passengers on board.
1993 General Motors sues NBC after Dateline NBC allegedly rigs two crashes intended to demonstrate that some GM pickups can easily catch fire if hit in certain places. NBC settles the lawsuit the next day.
1996 The U.S. Congress passes the Communications Decency Act.
2005 Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil politician and former MP A. Chandranehru dies of injuries sustained in an ambush the previous day.
2010 A freak storm in the Hindu Kush mountains of Afghanistan triggers a series of at least 36 avalanches, burying over two miles of road, killing at least 172 people and trapping over 2,000 travelers.
2013 A blizzard disrupts transportation and leaves hundreds of thousands of people without electricity in the Northeastern United States and parts of Canada.
2014 A hotel fire in Medina, Saudi Arabia kills 15 Egyptian pilgrims with 130 others injured.
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Oldale said he heard the enemy before he saw them.
“We were hunkered down, waiting in the darkness. They screamed and hollered to signal their approach … it was completely unnerving.”
Waves of enemy soldiers, many armed with Russian sub-machine guns, began attacking the summit. Most of the Canadians were armed with 9-pound single bolt Lee Enfield rifles with an attached bayonet, 200 rounds of ammunition, and a handful of grenades.
They would need them all. The gunfire eventually gave way to hand-to-hand combat, and the fighting was intense and brutal. It was a kill or be killed battlefield.
Running low on ammunition, the Canadians used their bayonets. After that, some used their rifles as baseball bats.
With no ammunition left the Australians retreated on the April 24, but the Canadians held firm.
Just after midnight on the 25th, with hundreds of enemy soldiers just metres from his men, a Canadian officer radioed his position to a New Zealand artillery in the back lines. He ordered his men to find cover and within seconds a barrage of bombs exploded around them. The Canadians reasoned correctly that more soldiers of the larger enemy army would be killed.
It was a decisive strike.
The Chinese army withdrew in the morning and the Canadians, still alert, tended to the wounded and waited for a counter-attack that never came.
Hope you don't mind Capt, but this war and this battle get forgotten. It shouldn't be. It results in the 2nd Battalion being awarded the Presidential Citation.
Korea was a short ####ing violent War.
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Hope you don't mind Capt, but this war and this battle get forgotten. It shouldn't be. It results in the 2nd Battalion being awarded the Presidential Citation.
Korea was a short ####ing violent War.
Of course I don't mind, I encourage everyone to put stuff in this thread.
I had an Uncle who went to Korea, he never talked about it, but he was a big of a jerk, I only met him once, but he really hated Chinese people, and I asked my dad about that, and he said "He came by it honestly"
My dad enlisted, but they found out he was under age when he reported to basic and sent him home.
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474 Zeno is crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire.[1]
951 The Northern Han Kingdom is founded by Liu Chong in modern-day Shanxi.[citation needed]
1555 Bishop of Gloucester John Hooper is burned at the stake.[2]
1621 Gregory XV becomes Pope, the last Pope elected by acclamation.[3]
1654 The Capture of Fort Rocher takes place during the Anglo-Spanish War.[4]
1775 American Revolutionary War: The British Parliament declares Massachusetts in rebellion.[5]
1788 The Habsburg Empire joins the Russo-Turkish War in the Russian camp.
1825 After no candidate receives a majority of electoral votes in the US presidential election of 1824, the United States House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams as President of the United States.
1849 The new Roman Republic is declared.
1861 American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected the Provisional President of the Confederate States of America by the Confederate convention at Montgomery, Alabama.
1870 US president Ulysses S. Grant signs a joint resolution of Congress establishing the U.S. Weather Bureau.
1889 US president Grover Cleveland signs a bill elevating the United States Department of Agriculture to a Cabinet-level agency.
1895 William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball.
1900 The Davis Cup competition is established.
1904 Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Port Arthur concludes.
1913 A group of meteors is visible across much of the eastern seaboard of North and South America, leading astronomers to conclude the source had been a small, short-lived natural satellite of the Earth.
1920 Under the terms of the Svalbard Treaty, international diplomacy recognizes Norwegian sovereignty over Arctic archipelago Svalbard, and designates it as demilitarized.
1922 Brazil becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1934 The Balkan Entente is formed.
1941 World War II: The Cathedral of San Lorenzo in Genoa, Italy is struck by a bomb which fails to detonate.
1942 World War II: Top United States military leaders hold their first formal meeting to discuss American military strategy in the war.
1942 Year-round Daylight saving time is re-instated in the United States as a wartime measure to help conserve energy resources.
1943 World War II: Allied authorities declare Guadalcanal secure after Imperial Japan evacuates its remaining forces from the island, ending the Battle of Guadalcanal.
1945 World War II: Battle of the Atlantic: HMS Venturer sinks U-864 off the coast of Fedje, Norway, in a rare instance of submarine-to-submarine combat.
1945 World War II: A force of Allied aircraft unsuccessfully attacked a German destroyer in Fψrdefjorden, Norway.
1950 Second Red Scare: US Senator Joseph McCarthy accuses the United States Department of State of being filled with Communists.
1951 Korean War: Geochang massacre
1959 The R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile, becomes operational at Plesetsk, USSR.
1964 The Beatles make their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing before a "record-busting" audience of 73 million viewers across the USA.
1965 The United States Marine Corps sends a MIM-23 Hawk missile battalion to South Vietnam, the first American troops in-country without an official advisory or training mission.
1971 The 6.56.7 Mw Sylmar earthquake hits the Greater Los Angeles Area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing 64 and injuring 2,000.
1971 Satchel Paige becomes the first Negro League player to be voted into the USA's Baseball Hall of Fame.
1971 Apollo program: Apollo 14 returns to Earth after the third manned Moon landing.
1975 The Soyuz 17 Soviet spacecraft returns to Earth.
1978 The Budd Company unveils its first SPV-2000 self-propelled railcar in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1986 Halley's Comet last appeared in the inner Solar System.
1991 Voters in Lithuania vote for independence.
1996 The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares the end to its 18-month ceasefire and explodes a large bomb in London's Canary Wharf, killing two people.
1996 Copernicium is first discovered.
2016 Two passenger trains collided in the German town of Bad Aibling in the state of Bavaria. Twelve people died, and 85 others were injured.
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1258 Baghdad falls to the Mongols, and the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed.
1306 In front of the high altar of Greyfriar's Church in Dumfries, Robert the Bruce murders John Comyn sparking revolution in the Wars of Scottish Independence
1355 The St Scholastica Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days.
1567 Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, is found strangled following an explosion at the Kirk o' Field house in Edinburgh, Scotland, a suspected assassination.
1763 French and Indian War: The Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Quebec to Great Britain.
1814 Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Champaubert ends in French victory over the Russians and the Prussians.
1840 Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
1846 First Anglo-Sikh War: Battle of Sobraon: British defeat Sikhs in final battle of the war
1861 Jefferson Davis is notified by telegraph that he has been chosen as provisional President of the Confederate States of America.
1862 American Civil War: A Union naval flotilla destroys the bulk of the Confederate Mosquito Fleet in the Battle of Elizabeth City on the Pasquotank River in North Carolina.
1870 The YWCA is founded in New York City.
1906 HMS Dreadnought, the first of a revolutionary new breed of battleships is christened and launched by King Edward VII.
1920 Jσzef Haller de Hallenburg performs symbolic wedding of Poland to the sea, celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea.
1923 Texas Tech University is founded as Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Texas
1930 Yκn Bαi mutiny in French Indochina
1933 In round 13 of a boxing match at New York City's Madison Square Garden, Primo Carnera knocks out Ernie Schaaf. Schaaf dies four days later.
1936 Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italian troops launched the Battle of Amba Aradam against Ethiopian defenders.
1939 Spanish Civil War: The Nationalists conclude their conquest of Catalonia and seal the border with France.
1940 The Soviet Union begins mass deportations of Polish citizens from occupied eastern Poland to Siberia.
1942 World War II: Imperial Japanese Army capture Banjarmasin, capital of Borneo in Dutch East Indies.
1943 World War II: Attempting to completely lift the Siege of Leningrad, the Soviet Red Army engages German troops and Spanish volunteers in the Battle of Krasny Bor.
1947 Italy cedes most of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia.
1947 Crowds gathered at shop windows in Paris to see Christian Dior's New Look fashion - longer skirts, nipped-in waists and padded shoulders.
1954 United States President Dwight Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam.
1962 Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.
1962 Roy Lichtenstein's first solo exhibition opened, and it included Look Mickey, which featured his first employment of Ben-Day dots, speech balloons and comic imagery sourcing, all of which he is now known for.
1964 MelbourneVoyager collision: The aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne collides with and sinks the destroyer HMAS Voyager off the south coast of New South Wales, Australia, killing 82.
1967 The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.
1972 Ras Al Khaimah joins the United Arab Emirates, now making up seven emirates.
1984 Kenyan soldiers commit the worst ever human rights violation in the country by slaughtering an estimated 5000 ethnic Somali Kenyans in Wagalla in N.E.-Kenya.
1989 Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee becoming the first African American to lead a major American political party.
1996 IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in chess for the first time.
2003 France and Belgium break the NATO procedure of silent approval concerning the timing of protective measures for Turkey in case of a possible war with Iraq.
2007 Then Illinois senator Barack Obama announces his candidacy for president in the 2008 elections, which he later goes on to win.
2009 The communications satellites Iridium 33 and Kosmos 2251 collide in orbit, destroying both.
2013 Thirty-six people are killed and 39 others are injured in a stampede in Allahabad, India, during the Kumbh Mela festival.
2016 South Korea decides to stop the operation of the Kaesong joint industrial complex with North Korea in response to the launch of Kwangmyŏngsŏng-4.
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660 BC Traditional date for the foundation of Japan by Emperor Jimmu.
AD 55 Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus, heir to the Roman emperorship, dies under mysterious circumstances in Rome. This clears the way for Nero to become Emperor.
244 Emperor Gordian III is murdered by mutinous soldiers in Zaitha (Mesopotamia). A mound is raised at Carchemish in his memory.
1177 John de Courcy's army defeats the native Dunleavey Clan in Ulster. The English establish themselves in Ulster.
1534 Henry VIII of England is recognized as supreme head of the Church of England.
1626 Emperor Susenyos I of Ethiopia and Patriarch Afonso Mendes declare the primacy of the Roman See over the Ethiopian Church, and Catholicism to be the state religion of Ethiopia.
1659 The assault on Copenhagen by Swedish forces is beaten back with heavy losses.
1790 The Religious Society of Friends, also known as Quakers, petitions U.S. Congress for the abolition of slavery.
1794 First session of United States Senate opens to the public.
1808 Jesse Fell burns anthracite on an open grate as an experiment in heating homes with coal.
1812 Massachusetts governor Elbridge Gerry is accused of "gerrymandering" for the first time.
1823 Carnival tragedy of 1823: About 110 boys are killed during a stampede at the Convent of the Minori Osservanti in Valletta, Malta.
1826 University College London is founded as University of London.
1840 Gaetano Donizetti's opera La fille du rιgiment receives its first performance in Paris, France.
1843 Giuseppe Verdi's opera I Lombardi alla prima crociata receives its first performance in Milan, Italy.
1855 Kassa Hailu is crowned Tewodros II, Emperor of Ethiopia, by Abuna Salama III in a ceremony at the church of Derasge Maryam
1856 The Kingdom of Awadh is annexed by the British East India Company and Wajid Ali Shah, the king of Awadh, is imprisoned and later exiled to Calcutta.
1858 Bernadette Soubirous's first vision of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Lourdes, France.
1861 American Civil War: The United States House of Representatives unanimously passes a resolution guaranteeing noninterference with slavery in any state.
1873 King Amadeo I of Spain abdicates.
1889 Meiji Constitution of Japan is adopted; the first National Diet convenes in 1890.
1903 Anton Bruckner's 9th Symphony receives its first performance in Vienna, Austria.
1906 Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Vehementer Nos.
1919 Friedrich Ebert (SPD), is elected President of Germany.
1929 Kingdom of Italy and the Vatican sign the Lateran Treaty.
1937 A sit-down strike ends when General Motors recognizes the United Auto Workers.
1938 BBC Television produces the world's first ever science fiction television program, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Čapek play R.U.R., that coined the term "robot".
1939 A Lockheed P-38 Lightning flies from California to New York in 7 hours 2 minutes.
1942 World War II: The Battle of Bukit Timah is fought in Singapore.
1943 World War II: General Dwight D. Eisenhower is selected to command the allied armies in Europe.
1953 Cold War: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower denies all appeals for clemency for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
1953 The Soviet Union breaks off diplomatic relations with Israel.
1959 The Federation of Arab Emirates of the South, which will later become South Yemen, is created as a protectorate of the United Kingdom.
1964 Greeks and Turks begin fighting in Limassol, Cyprus.
1971 Cold War: Eighty-seven countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union, sign the Seabed Arms Control Treaty outlawing nuclear weapons on the ocean floor in international waters.
1973 Vietnam War: First release of American prisoners of war from Vietnam takes place.
1978 Censorship: China lifts a ban on works by Aristotle, William Shakespeare and Charles Dickens.
1979 The Iranian Revolution establishes an Islamic theocracy under the leadership of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
1981 Around 100,000 US gallons (380 m3) of radioactive coolant leak into the containment building of TVA Sequoyah 1 nuclear plant in Tennessee, contaminating eight workers.
1990 Nelson Mandela is released from Victor Verster Prison outside Cape Town, South Africa after 27 years as a political prisoner.
1990 Buster Douglas, a 42:1 underdog, knocks out Mike Tyson in ten rounds at Tokyo to win boxing's world Heavyweight title.
I remember watching this fight in my apartment in Dallas with a bunch of my class mates. The plan was to watch the fight which was going to last about a round and go to the bar. As round after round passed, we were shocked, we thought that Tyson would bet in a killer punch, but we all realized that Tyson just didn't have it. But we stuck around until the end, and by then we were all too drunk to get to the bar.
1997 Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on a mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope.
1999 Pluto crosses Neptune's orbit, ending a nearly 20-year period (since 1979) when it was closer to the Sun than the gas giant; Pluto is not expected to interact with Neptune's orbit for another 228 years.
2001 A Dutch programmer launched the Anna Kournikova virus infecting millions of emails via a trick photo of the tennis star.
2006 Then U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney shot Harry Whittington, a 78-year-old Texas attorney, while participating in a quail hunt on a ranch in Riviera, Texas.
2008 Rebel East Timorese soldiers seriously wound President Josι Ramos-Horta. Rebel leader Alfredo Reinado is killed in the attack.
2011 Arab Spring: The first wave of the Egyptian revolution culminates in the resignation of Hosni Mubarak and the transfer of power to the Supreme Military Council after 18 days of protests.
2013 The Vatican confirmed that Pope Benedict XVI would resign the papacy on 28 February 2013, as a result of his advanced age.
2014 A military transport plane crashes in a mountainous area of Oum El Bouaghi Province in eastern Algeria, killing 77 people.
2015 A university student was murdered as she resisted an attempted rape in Turkey, sparking nationwide protests and public outcry against harassment and violence against women.
2016 A man shoots six people dead at an education center in Jizan Province, Saudi Arabia.
2017 North Korea prompts international condemnation by test firing a ballistic missile across the Sea of Japan.
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