Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 54 events. Showing 1 - 30.
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- 565Justin II succeeds his uncle Justinian I as emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
- 655Battle of the Winwaed: Penda of Mercia is defeated by Oswiu of Northumbria.
- 1315Battle of Morgarten: The Schweizer Eidgenossenschaft ambushes the army of Leopold I.
- 1532Commanded by Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conquistadors under Hernando de Soto meet Inca Empire leader Atahualpa for the first time outside Cajamarca, arranging a meeting on the city plaza the following day.
- 1533Francisco Pizarro arrives in Cuzco, the capital of the Inca Empire.
- Battle of Zsibó: Austrian-Danish victory over the Kurucs (Hungarians).
- American Revolutionary War: After 16 months of debate the Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation.
- The first U.S. Catholic college, Georgetown University, opens its doors.
- Pike expedition: Lieutenant Zebulon Pike sees a distant mountain peak while near the Colorado foothills of the Rocky Mountains. (It is later named Pikes Peak.)
- The first modern revival of the Olympic Games takes place in Athens, Greece.
- American Civil War: Union General William Tecumseh Sherman burns Atlanta, Georgia and starts Sherman’s March to the Sea.
- Brazil is declared a republic by Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca as Emperor Pedro II is deposed in a military coup.
- Harry Turner becomes the first player to die from game-related injuries in the “Ohio League”, the direct predecessor to the National Football League.
- First assembly of the League of Nations is held in Geneva, Switzerland.
- The Free City of Danzig is established.
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- Over 1,000 are massacred during a general strike in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
- The NBC radio network opens with 24 stations.
- The RNLI lifeboat Mary Stanford capsized in Rye Harbour with the loss of the entire 17 man crew.
- Manuel L. Quezon is inaugurated as the second President of the Philippines.
- In Washington, D.C., US President Franklin D. Roosevelt lays the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial.
- World War II: The Battle of Guadalcanal ends in a decisive Allied victory.
- The Holocaust: German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies are to be put “on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps”. (See Porajmos.)
- Venezuela joins the United Nations.
- Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte are executed for assassinating Mahatma Gandhi.
- Greek resistance leader Nikos Beloyannis, along with 11 resistance members, is sentenced to death by the court-martial.
- The first part of Saint Petersburg Metro is opened.
- The murders of the Clutter Family in Holcomb, Kansas, which inspired Truman Capote’s non-fiction book In Cold Blood.
- Project Gemini: Gemini 12 completes the program’s final mission, when it splashes down safely in the Atlantic Ocean.
- A Boeing 727 carrying Pan Am Flight 708 crashes near Berlin, Germany, killing all three people on board.
- The only fatality of the North American X-15 program occurs during the 191st flight when Air Force test pilot Michael J. Adams loses control of his aircraft which is destroyed mid-air over the Mojave Desert.
