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Historical Events

The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 42 events. Showing 1 - 30.

  • 69
    Vespasian, formerly a general under Nero, enters Rome to claim the title of Emperor.
  • 217
    The papacy of Zephyrinus ends. Callixtus I is elected as the sixteenth pope, but is opposed by the theologian Hippolytus who accuses him of laxity and of being a Modalist, one who denies any distinction between the three persons of the Trinity.
  • 1192
    Richard I of England is captured and imprisoned by Leopold V of Austria on his way home to England after signing a treaty with Saladin ending the Third Crusade.
  • 1522
    Siege of Rhodes: Suleiman the Magnificent accepts the surrender of the surviving Knights of Rhodes, who are allowed to evacuate. They eventually settle on Malta and become known as the Knights of Malta.
  • The Virginia Company loads three ships with settlers and sets sail to establish Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in the Americas.
  • The Louisiana Purchase is completed at a ceremony in New Orleans.
  • Peninsular War: The Siege of Zaragoza begins.
  • HMS Clio under the command of Captain Onslow arrives at Port Egmont under orders to take possession of the Falkland Islands
  • South Carolina becomes the first state to attempt to secede from the United States.
  • World War I: The last Australian troops are evacuated from Gallipoli.
  • Cheka, the first Soviet secret police force, is founded.
  • Adolf Hitler is released from Landsberg Prison
  • World War II: First battle of the American Volunteer Group, better known as the “Flying Tigers” in Kunming, China.
  • World War II: Japanese air forcesDisambiguation needed date=April 2015 bomb Calcutta, India.
  • The popular Christmas film It’s a Wonderful Life is first released in New York City.

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  • The EBR-1 in Arco, Idaho becomes the first nuclear power plant to generate electricity. The electricity powered four light bulbs.
  • A United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns in Moses Lake, Washington killing 87.
  • Cardiff is proclaimed the capital city of Wales, United Kingdom.
  • The initial production version of the Boeing 707 makes its first flight.
  • Unknown attackers murder the Walker family in Osprey, Florida.
  • The National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam is formed.
  • A Pennsylvania Railroad Budd Metroliner exceeds 155 mph on their New York Division, also present day Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor.
  • The Zodiac Killer kills Betty Lou Jenson and David Faraday in Vallejo, California.
  • The international aid organization Doctors Without Borders is founded by Bernard Kouchner and a group of journalists in Paris, France.
  • The Prime Minister of Spain, Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco, is assassinated by a car bomb attack in Madrid.
  • Djibouti and Vietnam join the United Nations.
  • The Summit Tunnel fire is the largest underground fire in history, as a freight train carrying over 1 million liters of gasoline derails near the town of Todmorden, England, in the Pennines.
  • Pope John Paul II announces the institution of World Youth Day.
  • In the worst peacetime sea disaster, the passenger ferry Doña Paz sinks after colliding with the oil tanker Vector in the Tablas Strait in the Philippines, killing an estimated 4,000 people (1,749 official).
  • The United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances is signed in Vienna, Austria.