Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
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- 811Byzantine emperor Nikephoros I plunders the Bulgarian capital of Pliska and captures khan Krum’s treasury.
- 1319A Knights Hospitaller fleet scores a crushing victory over an Aydinid fleet off Chios.
- Three hundred colonists bound for New France depart from Dieppe, France.
- Scanian War: Denmark–Norway captures the harbor town of Marstrand from Sweden.
- Kingdom of Prussia re-conquers Mainz from France.
- While the Mora Rebellion continues, Greeks capture Monemvasia Castle. Turkish troops and citizens are transferred to Minor Asia coasts.
- In the United States, William Austin Burt patents the typographer, a precursor to the typewriter.
- The Province of Canada is created by the Act of Union.
- American Civil War: Henry Halleck takes command of the Union Army.
- Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos is appointed the Archbishop of the Portuguese colonial enclave of Goa, India.
- The Boundary Treaty of 1881 between Chile and Argentina is signed in Buenos Aires.
- The Ford Motor Company sells its first car.
- The Second Constitution accepted by the Ottomans.
- Austria-Hungary issues a series of demands in an ultimatum to the Kingdom of Serbia demanding Serbia to allow the Austrians to determine who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Serbia accepts all but one of those demands and Austria declares war on July 28.
- The Communist Party of China (CPC) launched the first time of founding National Congress, Communist party in China are established.
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- Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.
- The first station of the Indian Broadcasting Company goes on the air in Bombay.
- The Fascist government in Italy bans the use of foreign words.
- In Catalonia, Spain, the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia is founded through the merger of Socialist and Communist parties.
- The United States’ Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles issues a declaration on the U.S. non-recognition policy of the Soviet annexation and incorporation of three Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
- The Holocaust: The Treblinka extermination camp is opened.
- World War II: The German offensives Operation Edelweiss and Operation Braunschweig begin.
- Bulgarian poet and Communist leader Nikola Vaptsarov is executed by firing squad.
- The Rayleigh bath chair murder occurred in Rayleigh, Essex, England.
- World War II: The British destroyers HMS Eclipse and HMS Laforey sink the Italian submarine Ascianghi in the Mediterranean after she torpedoes the cruiser HMS Newfoundland.
- The post-war legal processes against Philippe Pétain begin.
- The European Coal and Steel Community is established.
- General Muhammad Naguib leads the Free Officers Movement (formed by Gamal Abdel Nasser, the real power behind the coup) in overthrowing King Farouk of Egypt.
- The Sandinista National Liberation Front is founded in Nicaragua.
- Telstar relays the first publicly transmitted, live trans-Atlantic television program, featuring Walter Cronkite.
