City of Rome founded (traditional date – according to Varro writing in the 1st century BC) |
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753 BC |
The three–day Lisbon Massacre ends, with over 1,900 suspected Jews slaughtered by Catholics |
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1506 |
Henry VII dies, and is succeeded by his son Henry VIII |
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1509 |
Mogul leader Babur (Babar) routs the army of the Afghan Sultan of Delhi and establishes the Mogul dynasty, which would
rule India until 1858 |
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1526 |
Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language published |
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1828 |
Battle of San Jacinto: Texans under General Sam Houston defeat the Mexicans under Antonio López de Santa Anna,
establishing the independent Republic of Texas |
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1836 |
Sir James Thomas Knowles founds the Metaphysical Society |
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1869 |
The Northwest Mounted Police is established in Canada |
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1873 |
The USA begins a blockade of Cuban ports; four days later, Congress declares that a state of war had existed from this
date |
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1898 |
Rodin's semi–nude statue of Victor Hugo, displayed at the Grand Palais, shocks Paris |
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1901 |
Nottingham Forest beat Leicester Fosse 12–0 – the biggest ever win in the First Division |
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1909 |
US troops occupy Veracruz to prevent German arms reaching Mexican forces |
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1914 |
Former British consular official Roger Casement is arrested by the British authorities, on arriving in Ireland on a
German submarine to lead a Sinn Fein rebellion |
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1916 |
Canadians take Vimy Ridge |
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1917 |
Baron Manfred von Richthofen is shot down in action over Vaux–sur–Somme, in France, and killed |
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1918 |
Princess Elizabeth born |
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1926 |
The Daily Mail publishes the 'Surgeon's photograph' – the most famous photo claiming to show
the Loch Ness monster; it was revealed in 1999 to be a hoax |
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1934 |
BOAC Comets begin the first jet airliner service (London to Rome) |
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1952 |
The US Air Force flies a French batallion to Vietnam to defend Dien Bien Phu |
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1954 |
Brasilia replaces Rio de Janeiro as the capital of Brazil |
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1960 |
A military junta led by Colonel George Papadopoulos takes power in Greece, a few days before a general election; the
regime would last for seven years |
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1967 |
Enoch Powell calls for an end to non–white immigration from the Commonwealth |
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1968 |
Student leader Daniel Cohn–Bendit ('Danny the Red') is denied entry to France |
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1969 |
President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu of South Vietnam flees Saigon, as Xuân Lộc, the last South
Vietnamese outpost blocking a direct North Vietnamese assault on Saigon, falls |
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1975 |
Annie opens on Broadway |
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1977 |
The Tamil Tigers are blamed for a car bomb that detonates in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo, killing 106 people. |
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1987 |
Around 100,000 Chinese students pour into Beijing's Tiananmen Square to commemorate reform leader Hu Yaobang,
ignoring government warnings of dire consequences |
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1989 |
Former Bolivian dictator Luis García Meza is sentenced to 30 years in jail without parole, for murder, theft,
fraud and violating the constitution |
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1993 |
The Washington Post reveals that Britain has agreed to stockpile nuclear waste from Georgia under an
agreement brokered by the USA |
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1998 |
A CIA report reveals that the designs of the USA's most sophisticated nuclear weapons were stolen by Chinese
spies in the 1980s |
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1999 |
Jean–Marie le Pen, founder of France's National Front, comes second in the first poll in the presidential
election – eliminating the Socialist prime minister Lionel Jospin |
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2002 |
Labour MP George Galloway denies having been on Saddam Hussein's payroll, after Iraqi intelligence documents
appear to show that he was |
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2003 |
Four co–ordinated suicide bombings kill at least 68 people in Basra – the deadliest attacks on the
British–controlled city since the end of the 2004 war |
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2004 |
Ron Atkinson resigns his role as a TV pundit after a racist remark he made about Marcel Desailly after Chelsea's
Champions' League semi–final was (unbeknownst to him) broadcast in parts of the Middle East |
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2004 |
116 people lose their lives when two trains collide head–on near Amsterdam |
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2012 |