Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
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- The United Kingdom captures Hong Kong as a base as it prepares for war with Qing China. The ensuing 3-year conflict will later be known as the First Opium War.
- The Round Oak rail accident occurs in Brierley Hill in the Black Country, England. It is 'Arguably the worst disaster ever to occur on British railways'.
- The Union Navy captures Fort Morgan, Alabama, thus breaking Confederate dominance of all ports on the Gulf of Mexico except Galveston, Texas.
- Austro-Prussian War ends with the Treaty of Prague.
- Albert Bridge in Chelsea, London opens.
- Officially recognised date of the Cry of Pugad Lawin, the start of the Philippine Revolution is made in Pugad Lawin (Quezon City), in the province of Manila (actual date and location is disputed).
- The Southern Cross Expedition, the first British venture of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, departs from London.
- 600 American school teachers, Thomasites, arrived in Manila on the USAT Thomas.
- The automobile tire chain is patented.
- World War I: Japan declares war on Germany and bombs Qingdao, China.
- World War I: Battle of Mons: The British Army begins withdrawal.
- British airship R-38 experiences structural failure over Hull in England and crashes in the Humber estuary. Of her 49 British and American training crew, only four survive.
- Captain Lowell Smith and Lieutenant John P. Richter performed the first mid-air refueling on De Havilland DH-4B, setting an endurance flight record of 37 hours.
- Italian anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti are executed after a lengthy, controversial trial.
- Hebron Massacre during the 1929 Palestine riots: Arab attack on the Jewish community in Hebron in the British Mandate of Palestine, continuing until the next day, resulted in the death of 65–68 Jews and the remaining Jews being forced to leave the city.
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- English cricketer Len Hutton sets a world record for the highest individual Test innings of 364, during a Test match against Australia.
- World War II: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression treaty, the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. In a secret addition to the pact, the Baltic states, Finland, Romania, and Poland are divided between the two nations.
- World War II: Beginning of the Battle of Stalingrad.
- World War II: Kharkov is liberated as a result of the Battle of Kursk.
- World War II: Marseille is liberated by the Allies.
- World War II: King Michael of Romania dismisses the pro-Nazi government of Marshal Antonescu, who is arrested. Romania switches sides from the Axis to the Allies.
- Freckleton Air Disaster: A United States Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into a school in Freckleton, England killing 61 people.
- Soviet–Japanese War: The USSR State Defense Committee issues Decree no. 9898cc “About Receiving, Accommodation, and Labor Utilization of the Japanese Army Prisoners of War”.
- Ordinance No. 46 of the British Military Government constitutes the German Länder (states) of Hanover and Schleswig-Holstein.
- World Council of Churches is formed.
- First flight of the C-130 Hercules transport aircraft.
- Chinese Civil War: The Second Taiwan Strait Crisis begins with the People’s Liberation Army’s bombardment of Quemoy.
- Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.
- Organized by Mexican American labor union leader César Chávez, the Salad Bowl strike, the largest farm worker strike in U.S. history, begins.
- A bank robbery gone wrong in Stockholm, Sweden, turns into a hostage crisis; over the next five days the hostages begin to sympathise with their captors, leading to the term “Stockholm syndrome”.
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