Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 88 events. Showing 31 - 60.
- The World’s Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago.
- Coxey’s Army, the first significant American protest march, arrives in Washington, D.C.
- Spanish–American War: Battle of Manila Bay: The United States Navy destroys the Spanish Pacific fleet in the first battle of the war.
- The Scofield Mine disaster kills over 200 men in Scofield, Utah in what is to date the fifth-worst mining accident in United States history.
- The Pan-American Exposition opens in Buffalo, New York.
- The RMS Lusitania departs from New York City on her two hundred and second, and final, crossing of the North Atlantic. Six days later, the ship is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland with the loss of 1,198 lives.
- The All-China Federation of Trade Unions is officially founded. Today it is the largest trade union in the world, with 134 million members.
- The first Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer is held at the University of Toronto, Canada.
- The first cooked meals on a scheduled flight are introduced on an Imperial Airways flight from London to Paris.
- The Union Labor Life Insurance Company is founded by the American Federation of Labor.
- The dwarf planet Pluto is officially named.
- The Empire State Building is dedicated in New York City.
- The Roca–Runciman Treaty between Argentina and Great Britain is signed by Julio Argentino Roca, Jr., and Sir Walter Runciman.
- The Humanist Manifesto I published.
- The 1940 Summer Olympics are cancelled due to war.
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- World War II: German forces launch a major attack on Tobruk.
- World War II: Two hundred Communist prisoners are shot by the Germans at Kaisariani in Athens, Greece in reprisal for the killing of General Franz Krech by partisans at Molaoi.
- World War II: A German newsreader officially announces that Adolf Hitler has “fallen at his command post in the Reich Chancellery fighting to the last breath against Bolshevism and for Germany”. The Soviet flag is raised over the Reich Chancellery, by order of Stalin.
- World War II: Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels and his wife Magda commit suicide in the Reich Garden outside the Führerbunker. Their children are also killed by having cyanide pills inserted into their mouths by their mother, Magda.
- World War II: Up to 2,500 people die in a mass suicide in Demmin following the advance of the Red Army.
- World War II: Yugoslav Partisans free Trieste.
- Start of three-year Pilbara strike of Indigenous Australians.
- The Paris Peace Conference concludes that the islands of the Dodecanese should be returned to Greece by Italy.
- Portella della Ginestra massacre against May Day celebrations in Sicily by the bandit and separatist leader Salvatore Giuliano where 11 persons are killed and 33 wounded.
- The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) is established, with Kim Il-sung as leader.
- Guam is organized as a United States commonwealth.
- The polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk is made available to the public.
- A doctor in Japan reports an “epidemic of an unknown disease of the central nervous system”, marking the official discovery of Minamata disease.
- Thirty-four people are killed when a Vickers Viking airliner crashes in Hampshire England.
- Formation of the western Indian states of Gujarat and Maharashtra. Also known as “Maharashtra Day”.
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