Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
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- Thomas Edison films American sharpshooter Annie Oakley, which is instrumental in her hiring by Buffalo Bill for his Wild West Show.
- A picture showing the bare breasts of a woman appears in National Geographic magazine for the first time.
- The first Library of Congress building opens its doors to the public. The Library had been housed in the Congressional Reading Room in the U.S. Capitol.
- Sigma Phi Epsilon, the largest national male collegiate fraternity, is established at Richmond College, in Richmond, Virginia.
- The first dropping of a bomb from an aircraft in combat, during the Italo-Turkish War.
- World War I: The first British Royal Navy defeat of the war with Germany, the Battle of Coronel, is fought off of the western coast of Chile, in the Pacific, with the loss of HMS Good Hope and HMS Monmouth.
- World War I: The Australian Imperial Force (AIF) departed by ship in a single convoy from Albany, Western Australia bound for Egypt.
- Parris Island is officially designated a United States Marine Corps Recruit Depot.
- Pavel Milyukov delivers in the State Duma the famous “stupidity or treason” speech, precipitating the downfall of the Boris Stürmer government.
- Malbone Street Wreck: The worst rapid transit accident in US history occurs under the intersection of Malbone Street and Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, New York City, with at least 102 deaths.
- Western Ukraine gains its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
- The short-lived Banat Republic is founded.
- American fishing schooner Esperanto defeats the Canadian fishing schooner Delawana in the First International Fishing Schooner Championship Races in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
- Abolition of the Ottoman Sultanate: The last sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Mehmed VI, abdicates.
- The Law on the Adoption and Implementation of the Turkish Alphabet, replacing the version of the Arabic alphabet previously used with the Latin alphabet, comes into force in Turkey.
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- Stalinists execute Pastor Paul Hamberg and seven members of Azerbaijan’s Lutheran community.
- Seabiscuit defeats War Admiral in an upset victory during a match race deemed “the match of the century” in horse racing.
- The first rabbit born after artificial insemination is exhibited to the world.
- American photographer Ansel Adams takes a picture of a moonrise over the town of Hernandez, New Mexico that would become one of the most famous images in the history of photography.
- World War II: Matanikau Offensive begins during the Guadalcanal Campaign and ends three days later with an American victory.
- World War II: In the Battle of Empress Augusta Bay, United States Marines, the 3rd Marine Division, land on Bougainville in the Solomon Islands.
- World War II: In support of the landings on Bougainville, U.S. aircraft carrier forces attack the huge Japanese base at Rabaul.
- World War II: Units of the British Army land at Walcheren in the Netherlands.
- The official North Korean newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, is first published under the name Chongro.
- Australia joins the United Nations.
- Karol Wojtyla, the future Pope John Paul II, is ordained to the priesthood by Kraków’s archbishop, Adam Sapieha.
- Off southern Manchuria, 6,000 people die as a Chinese merchant ship explodes and sinks.
- Athenagoras I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople is enthroned.
- Puerto Rican nationalists Griselio Torresola and Oscar Collazo attempt to assassinate US President Harry S. Truman at Blair House.
- Pope Pius XII claims papal infallibility when he formally defines the dogma of the Assumption of Mary.
