- 0177: Death of the
Martyrs of Lyons
- 0177: Death of St.
Blandina
- 0455: Vandals sack Rome
- 0657: Death of Pope
Eugenius
- 0828: Death of St.
Nicephorus of Constantinople
- 1070: Sacking of
Peterborough Abbey by the Danes and Hereward the Wake
- 1129: Marriage of
Geoffrey Plantagenet to Queen Matilda of England
- 1320: War between France
and Flanders ends
- 1420: Marriage of Henry
V, King of England, to Catherine of France
- 1537: Pope Paul III
declares that the Indians of North America have souls, and bans their enslavement
- 1562: Death of Thomas
Nadasdy, father of Ferenc Nadasdy
- 1567: Shane O'Neill,
Earl of Tyrone, Irish rebel, assassinated
- 1581: Execution of James
Douglas, the Earl of Morton
- 1609: The Province of
Virginia is granted a new Charter
- 1635: Poet John Milton
joins The Honourable Artillery Company of England
- 1635: The first Italian
immigrant arrives New York
- 1851, Maine became the
first state to enact a law prohibiting alcohol.
- 1886: President
Cleveland married Frances Folsom a White House ceremony.
- 1897: Responding to
rumors that he was dead or dying, Mark Twain, 61, was quoted by the "New York
Journal" as saying from London that "the report of my death was an
exaggeration."
- 1924: Congress granted
US citizenship to all American Indians.
- 1941: Baseball's
"Iron Horse," Lou Gehrig, died New York of a degenerative disease, amyotrophic
lateral sclerosis.
- 1946: The Italian
monarchy was abolished favor of a republic.
- 1953: Queen Elizabeth
the Second of Britawas crowned Westminster Abbey, 16 months after the death of her father,
King George the Sixth.
- 1966: The US space probe
"Surveyor One" landed on the moon and began transmitting detailed photographs of
the lunar surface.
- 1975: Vice President
Nelson Rockefeller said his commission had found no widespread pattern of illegal
activities at the Central Intelligence Agency.
- 1979: Pope John Paul the
Second arrived his native Poland on the first visit by a pope to a Communist country.
- 1987: President Reagan
announced he was nominating economist Alan Greenspan to succeed Paul Volcker as chairman
of the Federal Reserve Board.
- 1988: The publishers of
"Consumer Reports" magazine called for a ban on the Suzuki "Samurai,"
a popular sport utility vehicle that the magazine said tended to roll over sudden turns;
American Suzuki Motor Corporation defended the vehicle as safe.
- 1989: President
Bush returned from a European trip, calling it "a triumph of hope" for a world
moving beyond the Cold War.
- 1990: On the third day of their Washington summit, President Bush and Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev held informal talks at the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland.
- 1990: Actor Sir Rex Harrison died in New York at age 82.
- 1991: Pope John Paul the Second, on a pilgrimage to his native Poland, visited the town of Przemysl, less than ten miles from the Soviet border; an estimated 10,000 Ukrainians crossed into Poland to see the pontiff.
- 1991: "The Will Rogers Follies" won best musical at Broadway's Tony Awards; "Lost in Yonkers" was named best play.
- 1993: South Africa's
Supreme Court upheld Winnie Mandela's conviction for kidnapping four young blacks, but
said she would not have to serve any of her five-year prison term.
- 1994: The International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN atomic
watchdog, reported it could no longer verify the status of North Korea's nuclear program,
prompting the United States to seek economic sanctions.
- 1995: A U.S. Air Force F-16C was shot down by a Bosnian Serb surface-to-air missile while on a NATO air patrol in northern Bosnia; the pilot, Captain Scott F. O'Grady, was rescued six days later.
- 1996: "Rent," "Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk" and "The King and I" dominated the 1996 Tony Awards, each winning four prizes.
- 1997: Timothy McVeigh
was convicted of murder and conspiracy the Oklahoma City bombing.
- 1997: Conservative
President Jacques Chirac of France, forced to share power with Socialists who had routed
his party national elections, handed the premiership to former opposition leader Lionel
Jospin.
- 1998: Voters in
California passed Proposition 227, which effectively abolished the state's 30-year-old
bilingual education program by requiring that all children be taught in English.
- 1998: Monica Lewinsky
hired a new defense team, Jacob Stein and Plato Cacheris, replacing William H. Ginsburg as
her lead attorney.
- 1999: South Africans went to the polls in their second post-apartheid
election, giving the African National Congress a decisive victory; retiring President
Nelson Mandela was succeeded by Thabo Mbeki.
- 2000: President Clinton, visiting Germany, was honored with the prestigious International Charlemagne Prize at Aachen Cathedral.
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