4977 | BC | The Creation, according to Kepler |
0 | | Veterans' Day in Finland |
0 | | Feast of Saint Rafael Arnáiz Barón, Patron of World Youth Day |
630 | | Shahrbaraz becomes Persian Emperor (killed, June 9. 630) |
1084 | | Robert the Weasel liberates Rome - and Pope Gregory VII - from Emperor Henry IV, amid great slaughter |
1507 | | Genovese uprising against French occupation |
1509 | | Pope Julius II excommunicates "The Most Serene Republic" of Venice |
1528 | | Battle of Cape d'Orso: Franco-Genovese fleet crushes the Spanish |
1773 | | British Parliament passes Tea Act, leading to the Boston Tea Party |
1778 | | John Paul Jones begins a two-day raid on Whitehaven, U.K. |
1799 | | Battle of Cassano: Russo-Austrians defeat the French |
1813 | | Americans troops under Brig. Gen. Zebulon Pike capture Toronto |
1849 | | Battle of Marghera: Austrians defeat Italian Nationalists in the Veneto |
1857 | | Jews are prohibited from establishing congregations in Lower Austria |
1861 | | The 7th NY Militia enters federal service at Washington. |
1861 | | Col. Thomas J Jackson, CSA, assumes command at Harper's Ferry |
1861 | | Col. Thomas J Jackson, CSA, assumed command at Harper's Ferry -- Learn More |
1863 | | Streight's Raid: Tuscumbia to Cedar Bluff, AL |
1865 | | Steamer 'Sultana' explodes in the Mississippi, c. 1,500 die, mostly Union soldiers recently released from Confederate P/W camps |
1874 | | Racist "White League" formed in Grant Parish, Louisiana |
1881 | | Pogroms against Russian Jews start in Elisabethgrad |
1890 | | Battle of Barca: Italians defeat the Sudanese Mahdists |
1897 | | Dedication of Grant's Tomb |
1898 | | Matanzas, Cuba: US ships & Spanish batteries exchange fire |
1909 | | Ouster of Ottoman Sultan & Caliph Abdul Hamid II of Turkey (1876-1909), in favor of Mehmed V (1909-1918) |
1915 | | Austro-Hungarian Korvettenkapitän Georg Ludwig Ritter von Trapp’s submarine 'U-5' sank French Armored Cruiser 'Leon Gambetta' in the Adriatic -- Learn More |
1930 | | The Italian Navy launches five new warships: heavy cruisers 'Fiume' & 'Zara,' light cruisers 'Albert di Giussano' & 'Giovanni delle Bande Nere,' and submarine, 'Delfino.' |
1940 | | Himmler orders establishment of the Auschwitz Concentration Camp |
1941 | | German troops occupy Athens |
1942 | | Nazis order Belgian Jews to wear yellow stars |
1942 | | Stilwell proposes the formation of a Chinese army in India. |
1943 | | Soviet Union breaks relations with Polish government-in-exile in London |
1945 | | Allied warships begin 4-day bombardment of Tarakan Island, Borneo |
1945 | | Italian partisans capture Mussolini and Clara Petacci, near Lake Como |
1945 | | US Fifth Army liberates Genoa |
1948 | | The Arab Legion attacks the Gesher Bridge on the Jordan River |