Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
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- 1002English king Æthelred II orders the killing of all Danes in England, known today as the St. Brice’s Day massacre.
- 1160Louis VII of France marries Adela of Champagne.
- 1553Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer and four others, including Lady Jane Grey, are accused of high treason and sentenced to death under Catholic Queen “Bloody” Mary I.
- First English Civil War: Battle of Turnham Green: The Royalist forces withdraw in the face of the Parliamentarian army and fail to take London.
- American Revolutionary War: Patriot revolutionary forces under Gen. Richard Montgomery occupy Montreal.
- James Braid first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism, which leads to his study of the subject he eventually calls hypnotism.
- The Denny Party lands at Alki Point, before moving to the other side of Elliott Bay to what would become Seattle.
- The new Constitution of Greece is adopted.
- Bloody Sunday clashes in central London.
- The 1901 Caister Lifeboat Disaster.
- Zaian War: Berber tribesmen inflict the heaviest defeat of French forces in Morocco at the Battle of El Herri.
- Prime Minister of Australia Billy Hughes is expelled from the Labor Party over his support for conscription.
- Allied troops occupy Constantinople, the capital of the Ottoman Empire.
- The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicle tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City.
- Walt Disney’s animated musical film Fantasia is first released, on the first night of a roadshow at New York’s Broadway Theatre.
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- World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal is torpedoed by GS U-81, sinking the following day.
- World War II: Naval Battle of Guadalcanal: U.S. and Japanese ships engage in an intense, close-quarters surface naval engagement during the Guadalcanal Campaign.
- The Soviet Union completes development of the AK-47, one of the first proper assault rifles.
- General Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, President of Venezuela, is assassinated in Caracas.
- Great Britain defeats France to capture the first ever Rugby League World Cup in Paris in front of around 30,000 spectators.
- The Supreme Court of the United States declares Alabama laws requiring segregated buses illegal, thus ending the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
- The SS Yarmouth Castle burns and sinks 60 miles off Nassau with the loss of 90 lives.
- In response to Fatah raids against Israelis near the West Bank border, Israel launches an attack on the village of As-Samu.
- Vietnam War: Anti-war protesters in Washington, D.C. stage a symbolic March Against Death.
- Bhola cyclone: A 150-mph tropical cyclone hits the densely populated Ganges Delta region of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), killing an estimated 500,000 people in one night. This is regarded as the 20th century’s worst natural disaster.
- Ronald DeFeo, Jr. murders his entire family in Amityville, Long Island in the house that would become known as The Amityville Horror.
- Ray Mancini defeats Duk Koo Kim in a boxing match held in Las Vegas. Kim’s subsequent death (on November 17) leads to significant changes in the sport.
- The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C. after a march to its site by thousands of Vietnam War veterans.
- The volcano Nevado del Ruiz erupts and melts a glacier, causing a lahar (volcanic mudslide) that buries Armero, Colombia, killing approximately 23,000 people.
- Xavier Suárez is sworn in as Miami’s first Cuban-born mayor.
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