1813 – Robert Southey is appointed British Poet Laureate by King George III 1863 – First cargo of lumber leaves Burrard Inlet, Vancouver, BC 1959 – First ship firing of a Polaris missile from Observation Island 1977 – For the second consecutive day, Oakland’s Manny Sanguillen foils a no-hit bid 2007 – Bulk carrier M/V …
117 – Roman army proclaims Hadrian as Roman Emperor in Syria after news reaches them of Trajan’s death 1888 – California Theatre in San Francisco closes, built in 1869, it was replaced by a more modern facility in 1889 (later destroyed in the 1907 earthquake) 1937 – “The Life of Émile Zola,” directed by William …
1512 – Battle of Saint-Mathieu (also called the Battle of Brest): an English fleet of 25 ships commanded by Sir Edward Howard and a Franco-Breton fleet of 22 ships commanded by René de Clermont 1885 – Leo Daft opens America’s first commercially operated electric streetcar in Baltimore 1893 – Rudolf Diesel’s prototype internal combustion engine, …
1726 – Netherlands accedes to the Covenant of Hanover, creating an alliance of Great Britain, the Electorate of Hanover, France, and the Kingdom of Prussia united against the Austro-Spanish powers 1936 – Hungarian swimmer Ferenc Csik wins the 100 m freestyle gold medal in 57.6 seconds at the Berlin Olympics, beating Japanese pair Masanori Yusa …
1863 – American Civil War: Tennessee’s “military” Governor Andrew Johnson frees his personal slaves, celebrated as a holiday by Tennessee African Americans in the early 20th century 1870 – The Republic of Ploie?ti, a failed Radical-Liberal uprising against Domnitor Carol I of Romania 1943 – Common Chiefs of Staff meet in Quebec 1960 – Brian …
1760 – Fort Loudoun, Tennessee, surrenders to Cherokee Indians 1864 – Battle of Moorefield, West Virginia: Surprise Union raid kills 400 Confederates and captures 400 horses, badly damaging Confederate cavalry in the Shenandoah Valley 1942 – First American offensive in Pacific in WW2, Guadalcanal, Solomon Island 1954 – Jerome Moross and John Treville Latouche’s “Golden …
939 – Battle at Simancas: Spain defeats the Moors 1861 – US Congress passes First Confiscation Act 1908 – St. Louis Cardinals’ Johnny Lush pitches a second career no-hitter in a 2-0 win over the Brooklyn Superbas; a change in MLB rules makes this unofficial as the game was shortened by rain 1936 – Jack …
1763 – Pontiac’s War: Battle of Bushy Run – British forces led by Henry Bouquet defeat Native American forces at Bushy Run 1861 – President Lincoln signs the first US personal income tax into law, imposing a 3% tax on incomes over $800 1942 – German troops cross the Russian Kuban River in the Western …
1666 – Hurricane hits Guadeloupe, Martinique, and St. Christopher, killing thousands 1693 – Date traditionally ascribed to Dom Pérignon’s invention of Champagne 1917 – Pravda calls for the killing of all capitalists, priests, and officers 1948 – Hungary’s Olga Gyarmati wins the first ever Olympic women’s long jump competition at the London Games 1983 – …
1650 – Dutch Stadtholder William II and Amsterdam reach an accord about a standing army 1692 – Battle of Steenkerque: French defeat William III’s combined English/Dutch army 1948 – An American 1-2 in the men’s 200 m at the London Olympics with Mel Patton (21.1) defeating teammate Barney Ewell 1948 – Franklin D. Roosevelt advisor …
1819 – First parachute jump in US by Frenchman Louis-Charles Guille over Jersey City 1870 – Tower Subway, the world’s first underground tube railway, opens in London 1920 – Marcus Garvey presents his “Back to Africa” program in NYC 1941 – Thousands of Jews are expelled from Subcarpathian Ruthenia 1967 – US Lunar Orbiter 5 …
1883 – A papyrus is offered to the British Museum for £10,000, later revealed to be a forgery 1941 – Luftwaffe bombs German 23rd Infantry Division 1944 – Polish resistance fighters of the Home Army launch the Warsaw Uprising, the largest military effort undertaken by a resistance movement in occupied Europe 1957 – Gil Hodges …
1658 – Aurangzeb appoints himself the sixth Mughal emperor; the Mughal Empire reaches its greatest extent under him 1969 – KWIH TV channel 44 in Winona, Minnesota (IND) begins broadcasting 1983 – Dutch July average temperature is 20.1°C (68.18°F), making it the warmest July since 1854 1991 – US Senate votes to allow women to …
1678 – English troops land in Flanders 1939 – Tour de France: Sylvère Maes of Belgium wins his 3rd title from Frenchman René Vietto 1942 – German occupiers set a night curfew on Jews in the Netherlands 1968 – Washington shortstop Ron Hansen makes the eighth unassisted triple play in MLB history and the first …
238 – The Roman Senate and Praetorian Guard proclaim 13-year-old Gordian III as Emperor – the youngest-ever emperor of a united Rome 1566 – Great Britain executes Agnes Waterhouse, the first British woman convicted of witchcraft in Chelmsford, England 1773 – First schoolhouse west of the Allegheny Mountains is completed in Schoenbrunn, Ohio 1924 – …
1330 – Battle of Velbuzd: Serbian forces defeat Bulgarian army 1563 – French army recaptures Le Havre after the English garrison surrenders after a siege 1794 – French Revolutionary figure Maximilien Robespierre and 22 other leaders of “the Terror” are guillotined to thunderous cheers in Paris 1794 – Joséphine de Beauharnais, future Empress of the …
1377 – First example of quarantine in Ragusa (now Dubrovnik); city council passes a law stating newcomers from plague areas must isolate for 30 days (later 40 days, quaranta in Italian) 1816 – US troops destroy Fort Apalachicola, a Seminole fort, to punish Indians for harboring runaway slaves 1897 – Dutch government of Pierson and …
1760 – Austrian troops occupy Fort Glatz during Third Silesian War 1858 – Baron Lionel de Rothschild becomes the first Jewish person to be elected to the British Parliament 1882 – Richard Wagner’s opera “Parsifal” premieres in Bayreuth, Germany 1917 – J. Edgar Hoover gets job in US Department of Justice 1941 – US embargo …