2023 Polish protests
2023
Protests begin in Poland against the Duda government..
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Cessna Citation V
Four people are killed when a Cessna Citation V crashes into Mine Bank Mountain in Augusta County, Virginia.
2023
Dragon Spacecraft Qualification Unit
Falcon 9 Flight 1 is the maiden flight of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which launches from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 40.
2010
Civic Forum of the Romanians of Covasna, Harghita and Mureș
The Civic Forum of the Romanians of Covasna, Harghita and Mureș is founded.
2005
Terry Nichols
Terry Nichols is sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
1998
Ariane 5
1996
The first flight of Ariane 5 explodes after roughly 37 seconds. It was a Cluster mission..
1989 Iranian Supreme Leader election
In the 1989 Iranian Supreme Leader election, Ali Khamenei is elected as the new Supreme Leader of Iran after the death and funeral of Ruhollah Khomeini.
1989
1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
The 1989 Tiananmen Square protests are suppressed in Beijing by the People's Liberation Army, with between 241 and 10,000 dead (an unofficial estimate).
1989
Solidarity (Polish trade union)
Solidarity's victory in the 1989 Polish legislative election occurs, the first election since the Communist Polish United Workers' Party abandoned its monopoly of power. It sparks off the Revolutions of 1989 in Eastern Europe.
1989
Ufa train disaster
Ufa train disaster: A natural gas explosion near Ufa, Russia, kills 575 as two trains passing each other throw sparks near a leaky pipeline.
1989
RDX
1988
Three cars on a train carrying hexogen to Kazakhstan explode in Arzamas, Gorky Oblast, USSR, killing 91 and injuring about 1,500..
Jonathan Pollard
Jonathan Pollard pleads guilty to espionage for selling top secret United States military intelligence to Israel.
1986
Gordon Kahl
Gordon Kahl, who killed two US Marshals in Medina, North Dakota on February 13, is killed in a shootout in Smithville, Arkansas, along with a local sheriff, after a four-month manhunt.
1983
Flight lieutenant
Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings takes power in Ghana after a military coup in which General Fred Akuffo is overthrown.
1979
JVC
JVC introduces its VHS videotape at the Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago. It will eventually prevail against Sony's rival Betamax system in a format war to become the predominant home video medium.
1977
Governor of California
1975
Governor of California Jerry Brown signs the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act into law, the first law in the United States giving farmworkers collective bargaining rights..
Tonga
Tonga gains independence from the British Empire.
1970
Canadair North Star
Seventy-two people are killed when a Canadair C-4 Argonaut crashes at Stockport in England.
1967
Cold War
Cold War: In the Vienna summit, the Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev sparks the Berlin Crisis by threatening to sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany and ending American, British and French access to East Berlin.
1961
United States Navy
World War II: A hunter-killer group of the United States Navy captures the German Kriegsmarine submarine U-505: The first time a U.S. Navy vessel had captured an enemy vessel at sea since the 19th century.
1944
United States Army North
1944
World War II: The United States Fifth Army captures Rome, although much of the German Fourteenth Army is able to withdraw to the north..
1943 Argentine Revolution
A military coup in Argentina ousts Ramón Castillo.
1943
Battle of Midway
World War II: The Battle of Midway begins. Japanese Admiral Chūichi Nagumo orders a strike on Midway Island by much of the Imperial Japanese Navy.
1942
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
World War II: Gustaf Mannerheim, the Commander-in-Chief of the Finnish Army, is granted the title of Marshal of Finland by the government on his 75th birthday. On the same day, Adolf Hitler arrives in Finland for a surprise visit to meet Mannerheim.
1942
World War II
World War II: The Dunkirk evacuation ends: the British Armed Forces completes evacuation of 338,000 troops from Dunkirk in France. To rally the morale of the country, Winston Churchill delivers, only to the House of Commons, his famous "We shall fight on the beaches" speech.
1940
The Holocaust
1939
The Holocaust: The MS St. Louis, a ship carrying 973 German Jewish refugees, is denied permission to land in Florida, in the United States, after already being turned away from Cuba. Forced to return to Europe, more than 200 of its passengers later die in Nazi concentration camps..
Marmaduke Grove
Marmaduke Grove and other Chilean military officers lead a coup d'état establishing the short-lived Socialist Republic of Chile.
1932
President of the Republic of China
The President of the Republic of China, Zhang Zuolin, is assassinated by Japanese agents.
1928
Hungary
Hungary loses 71% of its territory and 63% of its population when the Treaty of Trianon is signed in Paris.
1920
Women's rights
Women's rights: The U.S. Congress approves the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which guarantees suffrage to women, and sends it to the U.S. states for ratification.
1919
Leon Trotsky
1919
Leon Trotsky bans the Planned Fourth Regional Congress of Peasants, Workers and Insurgents..
Pulitzer Prize
The first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded: Laura E. Richards, Maude H. Elliott, and Florence Hall receive the first Pulitzer for biography (for Julia Ward Howe). Jean Jules Jusserand receives the first Pulitzer for history for his work With Americans of Past and Present Days. Herbert B. Swope receives the first Pulitzer for journalism for his work for the New York World.
1917
World War I
World War I: Russia opens the Brusilov Offensive with an artillery barrage of Austro-Hungarian lines in Galicia.
1916
Emily Davison
Emily Davison, a suffragette, runs out in front of King George V's horse at The Derby. She is trampled, never regains consciousness, and dies four days later.
1913
Massachusetts
Massachusetts becomes the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage.
1912
Henry Ford
1896
Henry Ford completes the Ford Quadricycle, his first gasoline-powered automobile and also gives it a successful test run..
Cyprus Convention
Cyprus Convention: The Ottoman Empire cedes Cyprus to the United Kingdom but retains nominal title.
1878
Express train
An express train called the Transcontinental Express arrives in San Francisco via the first transcontinental railroad only 83 hours and 39 minutes after leaving New York City.
1876
American Civil War
American Civil War: Confederate troops evacuate Fort Pillow on the Mississippi River, leaving the way clear for Union troops to take Memphis, Tennessee.
1862
Second Italian War of Independence
Italian Independence wars: In the Battle of Magenta, the French army, under Louis-Napoleon, defeat the Austrian army.
1859
Henry C. Wayne
1855
Major Henry C. Wayne departs New York aboard the USS Supply to procure camels to establish the U.S. Camel Corps..
Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette
General Lafayette, a French officer in the American Revolutionary War, speaks at what would become Lafayette Square in Buffalo, New York, during his visit to the United States.
1825
Louisiana
Following Louisiana's admittance as a U.S. state, the Louisiana Territory is renamed the Missouri Territory.
1812
Charles Emmanuel IV
King Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia abdicates his throne in favor of his brother, Victor Emmanuel.
1802
Captain (Royal Navy)
Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1792
Élisabeth Thible
1784
Élisabeth Thible becomes the first woman to fly in an untethered hot air balloon. Her flight covers four kilometres (2.5 mi) in 45 minutes, and reached 1,500 metres (4,900 ft) altitude (estimated)..
Montgolfier brothers
The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their montgolfière (hot air balloon).
1783
Expulsion of the Acadians
Great Upheaval: New England planters arrive to claim land in Nova Scotia, Canada, taken from the Acadians.
1760
Battle of Hohenfriedberg
Battle of Hohenfriedberg: Frederick the Great's Prussian army decisively defeated an Austrian army under Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine during the War of the Austrian Succession.
1745
Siege of Osaka
Siege of Osaka: Forces under Tokugawa Ieyasu take Osaka Castle in Japan.
1615
Steeple
1561
The steeple of St Paul's, the medieval cathedral of London, is destroyed in a fire caused by lightning and is never rebuilt..
1525 Bayham Abbey riot
1525 Bayham Abbey riot; Villagers from Kent and Sussex, England riot and occupy Bayham Old Abbey for a week in protest against Cardinal Thomas Wolsey's order to suppress the monastery in order to fund two colleges founded by him.
1525
Charles VI of France
King Charles VI grants a monopoly for the ripening of Roquefort cheese to the people of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon as they had been doing for centuries.
1411