Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 75 events. Showing 31 - 60.
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- In Spain, the first travel of Isaac Peral’s submarine, was the first practical submarine ever made.
- In London, the body of Jack the Ripper’s second murder victim, Annie Chapman, is found.
- In England the first six Football League matches are played.
- The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited.
- Galveston Hurricane of 1900: A powerful hurricane hits Galveston, Texas killing about 8,000 people.
- World War I: Private Thomas Highgate becomes the first British soldier to be executed for desertion during the war.
- Margaret Gorman, a 16-year-old, wins the Atlantic City Pageant’s Golden Mermaid trophy; pageant officials later dubbed her the first Miss America.
- Honda Point disaster: Nine US Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast. Seven are lost, and twenty-three sailors killed.
- Rif War: Spanish forces including troops from the Foreign Legion under Colonel Francisco Franco landing at Al Hoceima (Northern Morocco).
- Germany is admitted to the League of Nations.
- 3M begins marketing Scotch transparent tape.
- Ghazi bin Faisal became King of Iraq.
- Off the New Jersey coast, a fire aboard the passenger liner SS Morro Castle kills 135 people.
- US Senator from Louisiana Huey Long, nicknamed “Kingfish”, is fatally shot in the Louisiana State Capitol building.
- World War II: Siege of Leningrad begins. German forces begin a siege against the Soviet Union’s second-largest city, Leningrad.
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- World War II: The O.B.S. (German General Headquarters for the Mediterranean zone) in Frascati is bombed by USAAF.
- World War II: United States General Dwight D. Eisenhower publicly announces the Allied armistice with Italy.
- World War II: London is hit by a V-2 rocket for the first time.
- World War II: Menton is liberated from Germany.
- Cold War: United States troops arrive to partition the southern part of Korea in response to Soviet troops occupying the northern part of the peninsula a month earlier.
- A 95.6% vote in favor of abolishing the monarchy in Bulgaria.
- Treaty of San Francisco: In San Francisco, California, 48 nations sign a peace treaty with Japan in formal recognition of the end of the Pacific War.
- The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation makes its first televised broadcast on the second escape of the Boyd Gang.
- The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) is established.
- United Nations Security Council Resolution 108 is adopted.
- The Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) is established.
- In Huntsville, Alabama, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally dedicates the Marshall Space Flight Center (NASA had already activated the facility on July 1).
- Newly independent Algeria, by referendum, adopts a constitution.
- Last run of the famous Pines Express over the Somerset and Dorset Railway line (UK) fittingly using the last steam locomotive built by British Railways, 9F locomotive 92220 Evening Star.
- Pakistan Navy raids Indian coasts without any resistance in Operation Dwarka, Pakistan celebrates Victory Day annually.
