Year 1039 Calendar » Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor known as Henry III becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
Year 1411 Calendar » King Charles VI of France known as Charles VI granted a monopoly for the ripening of Roquefort or Roquefort cheese to the people of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon as they had been doing for centuries.
Year 1615 Calendar » Siege of Osaka: Forces under Tokugawa Ieyasu take Osaka Castle in Japan.
Year 1647 Calendar » Canonicus Grand Chief Sachem of the Narragansett Indian Tribe dies. He was Chief Sachem of the Narragansett Tribe (rivals to the Wampanoag) at the time of the Pilgrims landing in Plymouth.
Year 1760 Calendar » Great Upheaval: New England planters arrive to claim land in Nova Scotia, Canada, taken from the Acadians.
Year 1783 Calendar » The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their 'montgolfière' (hot air balloon).
Year 1792 Calendar » Captain (Royal Navy) named Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for the Kingdom of Great Britain.
Year 1802 Calendar » Grieving over the death of his wife, Clothilde of France or Marie Clotilde of France, King Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia abdicates his throne in favor of his brother, Victor Emmanuel I of Savoy or Victor Emmanuel.
Year 1825 Calendar » Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette General Lafayette, a French people French officer in the American Revolutionary War, speaks at what would become Lafayette Square, Buffalo, during his Visit of the Marquis de Lafayette to the United States visit to
Year 1855 Calendar » Major Henry C. Wayne departs New York City New York aboard the USS Supply 1846 6 to procure camels to establish the U.S. Camel Corps.
Year 1859 Calendar » Second Italian War of Independence named Italian Independence wars: In the Battle of Magenta, the France or French army, under Louis-Napoleon, defeat the Austrian army.
Year 1862 Calendar » American Civil War: Confederate States of America known as Confederate troops evacuate Fort Pillow on the Mississippi River, leaving the way clear for Union (American Civil War) e.g Union troops to take Memphis, Tennessee.
Year 1876 Calendar » An express train called the 'Transcontinental Express' arrives in San Francisco, California, via the First Transcontinental Railroad (North America) or First Transcontinental Railroad only 83 hours and 39 minutes after leaving New York City.
Year 1878 Calendar » Cyprus Convention: The Ottoman Empire cedes Cyprus to the United Kingdom but retains nominal title.
Year 1896 Calendar » Henry Ford completes the Ford Quadricycle, his first gasoline-powered automobile, and gives it a successful test run.
Year 1912 Calendar » Massachusetts becomes the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage.
Year 1916 Calendar » World War I: Russian Empire Russia opens the Brusilov Offensive with an artillery barrage of Austria-Hungary Austro-Hungarian lines in Galicia (Eastern Europe) Galicia.
Year 1917 Calendar » The first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded: Laura E. Richards, Maude H. Elliott, and Florence Hall receive the first Pulitzer for biography (for 'Julia Ward Howe'). Jean Jules Jusserand receives the first Pulitzer for history for his work 'With Americans of Pa
Year 1920 Calendar » Hungary loses 71% of its territory and 63% of its population when the Treaty of Trianon is signed in Paris.
Year 1928 Calendar » The President of the Republic of China, Zhang Zuolin, is assassinated by Japanese agents.
Year 1939 Calendar » Holocaust: The MS e.g St. Louis, a ship carrying 963 Jewish refugees, is denied permission to land in Florida, in the United States, after already being turned away from Cuba. Forced to return to Europe, more than 200 of its passengers later die in Nazism
Year 1940 Calendar » World War II: The Dunkirk evacuation ends Armed Forces of the United Kingdom called British forces complete evacuation of 338,000 troops from Dunkirk, France e.g Dunkirk in France. To rally the morale of the country, Winston Churchill delivers his famous
Year 1942 Calendar » World War II: The Battle of Midway begins. The Japanese Admiral Chuichi Nagumo orders a strike on Midway Island by much of the Imperial Japanese navy.
Year 1944 Calendar » World War II: A hunter-killer group of the United States Navy captures the German submarine German submarine U-505 called 'U-505' the first time a United States Navy known as U.S. Navy vessel had captured an enemy vessel at sea since the 19th century.
Year 1944 » World War II: Rome falls to the Allies of World War II Allies, the first Axis powers Axis capital (political) capital to fall.
Year 1961 Calendar » In the Vienna summit, the Soviet Union or Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev sparks the Berlin Crisis of 1961 e.g Berlin Crisis by threatening to sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany and ending American, British and French access to East Berlin.
Year 1974 Calendar » During Ten Cent Beer Night, inebriated Cleveland Indians fans start a riot, causing the game to be forfeited to the Texas Rangers (baseball) e.g Texas Rangers.
Year 1975 Calendar » The Governor of California Jerry Brown signs the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act into law, the first law in the U.S. giving farmworkers collective bargaining rights.
Year 1986 Calendar » Jonathan Pollard pleads guilty to espionage for selling top secret United States military intelligence to Israel.
Year 1988 Calendar » Three cars on a train carrying hexogen to Kazakhstan Arzamas train disaster named explode in Arzamas, Gorky Oblast, Soviet Union known as USSR, killing 91 and injuring about 1,500.
Year 1989 Calendar » Ali Khamenei is elected as the new Supreme Leader of Iran e.g Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran by the Assembly of Experts after the death and funeral of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
Year 1989 » Ufa train disaster: A natural gas explosion near Ufa, Russia, kills 575 as two trains passing each other throw sparks near a leaky pipeline.
Year 1996 Calendar » The first flight of Ariane 5 explodes after roughly 37 seconds. It was a Cluster mission.
Year 1998 Calendar » Terry Nichols is sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
Year 2001 Calendar » Gyanendra, the last King of Nepal, ascends to the throne after the massacre in the Royal Palace.
Year 2010 Calendar » Falcon 9 Flight 1 is the maiden flight of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which launches from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 40.
Year 2012 Calendar » The Diamond Jubilee Concert is held outside Buckingham Palace on The Mall, London.