Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 62 events. Showing 31 - 60.
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- Eadweard Muybridge takes a series of photographs to prove that all four feet of a horse leave the ground when it runs; the study becomes the basis of motion pictures.
- Crown Prince Wilhelm becomes Kaiser Wilhelm II; he will be the last Emperor of the German Empire. Due to the death of his predecessors Wilhelm I and Frederick III, 1888 is the Year of the Three Emperors.
- The deadliest tsunami in Japan’s history kills more than 22,000 people.
- A fire aboard the steamboat SS General Slocum in New York City’s East River kills 1,000.
- Princess Margaret of Connaught marries Gustaf, Crown Prince of Sweden.
- Representatives from England, Australia and South Africa meet at Lord’s and form the Imperial Cricket Conference.
- The Battle of Bud Bagsak in the Philippines ends.
- U.S. President Woodrow Wilson signs a bill incorporating the Boy Scouts of America, making them the only American youth organization with a federal charter.
- John Alcock and Arthur Brown complete the first nonstop transatlantic flight when they reach Clifden, County Galway, Ireland.
- Duluth lynchings in Minnesota.
- A new border treaty between Germany and Denmark gives northern Schleswig to Denmark.
- The U.S. Great Smoky Mountains National Park is founded.
- First flight of the Vickers Wellington bomber.
- A German expedition led by Karl Wien loses sixteen members in an avalanche on Nanga Parbat. It is the worst single disaster to occur on an 8000m peak.
- World War II: Operation Ariel begins: Allied troops start to evacuate France, following Germany’s takeover of Paris and most of the nation.
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- World War II: Battle of Saipan: The United States invade Japanese-occupied Saipan.
- In the Saskatchewan general election, the CCF, led by Tommy Douglas, is elected and forms the first socialist government in North America.
- The General Dutch Youth League (ANJV) is founded in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
- UEFA (Union of European Football Associations) is formed in Basel, Switzerland.
- Charles Manson goes on trial for the Sharon Tate murders.
- Red Army Faction co-founder Ulrike Meinhof is captured by police in Langenhagen.
- King Hussein of Jordan marries American Lisa Halaby, who takes the name Queen Noor.
- Rembrandt’s painting Danaë is attacked by a man (later judged insane) who throws sulfuric acid on the canvas and cuts it twice with a knife.
- In the Philippines, Mount Pinatubo erupts in the second largest volcanic eruption of the 20th Century. In the end, over 800 people die.
- The United States Supreme Court rules in United States v. Álvarez-Machaín that it is permissible for the United States to forcibly extradite suspects in foreign countries and bring them to the USA for trial, without approval from those other countries.
- Israel and Vatican City establish full diplomatic relations.
- The Provisional Irish Republican Army explodes a large bomb in the middle of Manchester, England, United Kingdom.
- Leaders of the People’s Republic of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan formed the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.
- Nik Wallenda becomes the first person to successfully tightrope walk over Niagara Falls.
- Hurricane Carlotta makes landfall on the coast of Mexico, causing over $12.4 million in damages.
