Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 39 events. Showing 1 - 30.
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- 1179The Norwegian Battle of Kalvskinnet outside Nidaros. Earl Erling Skakke is killed, and the battle changes the tide of the civil wars.
- 1269King Louis IX of France orders all Jews found in public without an identifying yellow badge to be fined ten livres of silver.
- 1306The Earl of Pembroke’s army defeats Bruce’s Scottish army at the Battle of Methven.
- English colonists leave Roanoke Island, after failing to establish England’s first permanent settlement in North America.
- Battle of Seven Oaks between North West Company and Hudson’s Bay Company, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
- Decisive defeat of the Filiki Eteria by the Ottomans at Drăgășani (in Wallachia).
- The first officially recorded, organized baseball game is played under Alexander Cartwright’s rules on Hoboken, New Jersey’s Elysian Fields with the New York Base Ball Club defeating the Knickerbockers 23–1. Cartwright umpired.
- Princess Louise of the Netherlands marries Crown Prince Karl of Sweden–Norway.
- The 19 June 1857 law (Loi relative à l'assainissement et de mise en culture des Landes de Gascogne): A turning point in the history of the Landes forest.
- The U.S. Congress prohibits slavery in United States territories, nullifying Dred Scott v. Sandford.
- Over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, Texas, United States, are finally informed of their freedom. The anniversary is still officially celebrated in Texas and 41 other contiguous states as Juneteenth.
- Maximilian I of the Second Mexican Empire is executed by a firing squad in Querétaro, Querétaro.
- The Herzegovinian rebellion against the Ottoman Empire begins.
- The first Father’s Day is celebrated in Spokane, Washington.
- the Norwegian football club Molde FK was founded.
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- Natives Land Act, 1913 in South Africa implemented.
- The solar eclipse of June 19, 1917.
- The Communications Act of 1934 establishes the United States’ Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
- The solar eclipse of June 19, 1936.
- World War II: First day of the Battle of the Philippine Sea.
- Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed at Sing Sing, in New York.
- Kuwait declares independence from the United Kingdom.
- The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is approved after surviving an 83-day filibuster in the United States Senate.
- Nguyễn Cao Kỳ becomes Prime Minister of South Vietnam at the head of a military junta; General Nguyễn Văn Thiệu becomes the figurehead chief of state.
- Shiv Sena a political party in India is founded in Mumbai.
- The Patent Cooperation Treaty is signed.
- Garfield, holder of the Guinness World Record for the world’s most widely syndicated comic strip, makes its debut.
- In one of the first militant attacks by Hezbollah, David S. Dodge, president of the American University of Beirut, is kidnapped.
- Members of the Revolutionary Party of Central American Workers, dressed as Salvadoran soldiers, attack the Zona Rosa area of San Salvador.
- Basque separatist group ETA commits one of its most violent attacks, in which a bomb is set off in a supermarket, Hipercor, killing 21 and injuring 45.
