135 Betar last outpost of Bar Kochba falls to Rome
642 Battle of Maserfield – Penda of Mercia defeats and kills Oswald of Bernicia
910 The last major Viking army to raid England is defeated at the Battle of Tettenhall by the allied forces of Mercia and Wessex, led by King Edward and Earl Aethelred
1100 Henry I is crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey
1264 Anti-Jewish riots break out in Arnstadt Germany
1305 William Wallace, who led Scottish resistance to England, is captured by the English near Glasgow and transported to London for trial and execution.
1388 Battle of Otterburn, a border skirmish between the Scottish and the English in Northern England
1391 Castilian sailors fire attack Jewish ghetto of Barcelona, 100’s killed
1399 Battle at Worskla: Tataren beat Russians and Litouwers
1420 Duke John VI of Bavaria visits Dutch mystic Lidwina (Christ’s bride)
1435 Battle at Ponza: king Alfonso V of Aragon captured by Genuezen
1543 French and Turkish troops occupy Nice
1552 Battle of Ponza: Ottoman naval fleet led by Dragut defeats Genoese fleet under Andrea Doria capturing seven galleys
1583 Humphrey Gilbert claims Newfoundland for the British crown – first English colony in North America and the beginning of the British Empire
1654 French troops occupy Stenay
1666 English fleet beats Dutch under Michiel de Ruyter
1667 State of Holland obtain Eternal Edict
1689 1,500 Iroquois attack the village of Lachine, in New France
1716 Battle of Petrovaradin/Peterwardein: Habsburgs under Eugene of Savoy defeat the Turks in a decisive victory
1745 Jacobite Rising 1745: Jacobite forces capture British company of troops under Captain Scott
1763 Pontiac’s War: Battle of Bushy Run – British forces led by Henry Bouquet defeat Chief Pontiac’s Indians at Bushy Run
1772 1st Partition of Poland between Austria, Prussia and Russia is made public
1775 1st Spanish ship, San Carlos, enters San Francisco Bay
1781 Battle of Dogger Bank (Fourth Anglo-Dutch War): a British strategic victory, although both sides claimed to have won
1812 War of 1812: Tecumseh’s Native American force ambushes Thomas Van Horne’s 200 Americans at Brownstone Creek, causing them to flee and retreat
1837 1st ascent of Mt Marcy (5,344′) highest in Adirondack, NY
1846 Oregon territory divided between US & Britain at 49th parallel
1858 First transatlantic telegraph cable lands at Trinity Bay, Newfoundland spearheaded by Cyrus West Field (will fail after 3 weeks)
1860 Carl IV of Sweden-Norway is crowned King of Norway in Trondheim
1861 Union enlistment increases from 3 months to 2 years
1861 Naval Engagement at Fernandina, Florida, the USS Vincennes ends rebel blockade
1861 US Army abolishes flogging
1861 President Lincoln signs the first US personal Income Tax into law (3% of incomes over $800)
1862 Battle of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Union forces prevent Confederate attempts to capture the city
1864 Battle of Mobile Bay, won by the Union Army led by Rear Admiral Farragut with the cry “Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!” (US Civil War)
1864 Spectrum of a comet observed for 1st time, by Giovanni Donati
1874 Japan launches its postal savings system, modeled after a similar system in England
1882 Martial law is imposed in Japan
1882 Standard Oil of New Jersey is established
1884 Cornerstone for Statue of Liberty laid on Bedloe’s Island (NYC)
1890 British and French accord to divide African colonization
1891 World’s 1st traveler’s cheques issued by American Express
1900 In Russia, anti-Jewish riots spread from Odessa into other parts of the country
1901 Peter O’Connor of Ireland, sets the first officially recognised world long jump record at 24′ 11 3/4″ in Dublin, Ireland
1905 First meeting of the Russian and Japanese peace commissioners takes place in US President Theodore Roosevelt’s home at Oyster Bay, New York
1912 Japan’s first taxicab service begins in Ginza, Tokyo
1914 1st electric traffic light installed in the USA on the corner of East 105th Street and Euclid Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio
1914 Cuba, Uruguay, Mexico and Argentina proclaim neutrality in WW I
1914 Dutch Cort Van de Linden government issues silver bonds as money
1914 Battle of Liège: first battle of WWI, massive German assault on forts around Belgium city of Liège led by Erich Ludendorff
1914 Montenegro declares war against Austria-Hungary in World War I
1914 US and Nicaragua sign treaty granting canal rights to US
1914 Westerschelde leaves due to German invasion in Belgium
1915 Warsaw, evacuated by the Russians, is occupied by Germans
1915 The Latin-American Conference Convenes in Washington, with representatives from leading South American nations joining the US to discuss conditions in Mexico
1917 British troops attack canal of Ypres in Boesinghe, Belgium
1917 The entire US National Guard is taken into national service, subject to presidential rather than state control
1918 World War I: the last German air raid on England occurs, with four Zeppelin airships dropping bombs in the Midlands and North East England
1921 KDKA Pittsburgh presents first radio broadcast of MLB; Pirates beat Phillies, 8-0; Harold Arlin first play-by-play broadcaster
1921 Treaty of Berlin: US and Germany sign separate peace treaty
1924 “Little Orphan Annie” comic strip by Harold Gray is 1st published in the New York Daily News
1925 Plaid Cymru is formed with the aim of disseminating knowledge of the Welsh language, which is in danger of dying out
1926 French & German trade agreement signed
1926 Harry Houdini stays in a coffin under water for 1½ hours before escaping
1927 Phillies outfielder Cy Williams hits for cycle in just 4 at bats in 9-
1932 Clyde Barrow and two associates kill Sheriff C.G. Maxwell and his deputy, Eugene C. Moore, the first time the Barrow gang kills a lawman
1936 American athlete Jesse Owens wins 200m in world record time (20.7), his 3rd gold medal of the Berlin Olympics
1936 Italian athlete Ondina Valla runs a world record 11.6 in the semi-finals of the 80m hurdles at the Berlin Olympics; wins final the next day but can’t match the time
1936 Ken Carpenter (50.48 Olympic record) and Gordon Dunn make it an American 1-2 in the men’s discus throw at the Berlin Olympics
1940 “Acquaintance” blows-up Zandvoortse synagogue
1940 St Louis Brown’s pitcher John Whitehead no-hits Detroit Tigers, 4-0 in 6 innings (rain shortened)
1942 British government cancels agreement of Munich
1942 German troops cross Kuban River
1943 Sicily: 3 US A-36’s bomb British headquarters
1943 Soviet forces reconquer Orel and Bjelgorod
1943 World War II: at around 11 A.M during the Battle of Troina, Mount Etna erupts sending ash and lava miles into the sky
1944 US 79th/90th division occupy Laval/Mayenne
1944 US troops occupy Vannes, Brittany
1944 German forces begin the mass killing of between 40,000 and 50,000 Polish civilians in the Wola district of Warsaw during the uprising
1947 Netherlands ceases political action in Indonesia, due to UN pressure
1948 Cleveland Indians set club record for most double plays in a game (6) in a 3-0 win v Washington
1948 Americans Sammy Lee and Bruce Harlan go 1-2 in the 10m platform diving at the London Olympics
1948 A Jamaican 1-2 in the men’s 400m at the London Olympics with Arthur Wint (46.2) beating teammate Herb McKenley for the gold medal
1948 A Swedish sweep of the medals in the 3000m steeplechase at the London Olympics with Tore Sjöstrand taking gold ahead of teammates Erik Elmsäter & Göte Hagström
1949 6.4 Earthquake strikes Tungurahua Province, Ecuador, killing 5,000 people
1951 Armed uprising in Ambonezen Camp Middelburg
1953 Operation “Big Switch”; Korean War prisoner exchanged at Panmunjom
1953 “From Here to Eternity” based on book by James Jones, directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift and Frank Sinatra is released (Academy Awards Best Picture 1954)
1956 KUAM TV channel 8 in Agana, GU (CBS/ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
1956 WCYB TV channel 5 in Bristol-Kingsport, Virginia (NBC) begins broadcasting
1957 “American Bandstand” premieres on network TV (ABC)
1957 Comic strip “Andy Capp” makes its debut
1957 WJZ-TV in Baltimore MD begins radio transmissions
1958 Philip Kapleau, Zen teacher, 1st awakening under Yasutani Roshi
1959 42.4 cm rainfall in Decatur Co, Iowa (state record)
1960 Burkina Faso (formerly Upper Volta) declares independence from France
1961 118°F (48°C), Ice Harbor Dam, Washington (state record)
1962 1st quasar located by radio
1962 Nelson Mandela arrested for incitement and for illegally leaving South Africa
1962 UN command forbids flights to Katangese airports
1963 Britain, USA and USSR sign nuclear test ban treaty
1963 Craig Breedlove sets world land speed record of 407.477 mph in Spirit of America at the Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah
1964 Beatles record a cover of Little Willie John’s “Leave My Kitten Alone”; not released until 1995’s “Anthology”
1964 Congo rebellion: Christopher Gbenye/Pierre Mulele conquer Stanleyville
1964 US begins bombing North Vietnam
