Year 1386 Calendar » England and Portugal formally ratify Anglo-Portuguese Alliance named their alliance with the signing of the Treaty of Windsor (1386) called Treaty of Windsor, making it the oldest the oldest diplomatic alliance in the world which is still in force.
Year 1662 Calendar » The figure who later became Punch and Judy known as Mr. Punch made his first recorded appearance in England.
Year 1864 Calendar » Second War of Schleswig: The Denmark Danish navy defeats the Austrian Empire Austrian and Kingdom of Prussia Prussian fleets in the Battle of Heligoland (1864) Battle of Heligoland.
Year 1873 Calendar » 'Panic of 1873 e.g Der Krach': Vienna stock market crash heralds the Long Depression.
Year 1874 Calendar » The first horse-drawn bus makes its début in the city of Mumbai, traveling two routes.
Year 1877 Calendar » Mihail Kogălniceanu reads, in the Romanian Chamber of Deputies named Chamber of Deputies, the Declaration of Independence of Romania. This day became the Independence Day of Romania.
Year 1877 » A 1877 Iquique earthquake named magnitude 8.8 earthquake off the coast of Peru kills 2,541, including some as far away as Hawaii and Japan.
Year 1901 Calendar » Australia opens its first Australian Parliament e.g parliament in Melbourne.
Year 1904 Calendar » The steam locomotive 'GWR 3440 City of Truro City of Truro' becomes the first steam engine in Europe to exceed convert 100 mph km/h abbr=on.
Year 1915 Calendar » World War I: Second Battle of Artois between German and French forces.
Year 1920 Calendar » Polish-Soviet War: The Polish army under General Edward Rydz-Śmigły celebrates its 1920 Kiev Offensive known as capture of Kiev with a victory parade on Khreschatyk.
Year 1927 Calendar » The Parliament of Australia known as Australian Parliament first convenes in Canberra.
Year 1936 Calendar » Italy formally annexes Ethiopia after taking the capital Addis Ababa on May 5.
Year 1940 Calendar » World War II: The Nazi Germany German submarine German submarine U-9 (1935) 'U-9' sinks the French coastal submarine Doris (submarine) Doris near Den Helder.
Year 1941 Calendar » World War II: The German submarine German submarine U-110 (1940) named 'U-110' is captured by the Royal Navy. On board is the latest Enigma cryptography machine which Allies of World War II or Allied cryptographers later use to break coded German messages
Year 1942 Calendar » The Holocaust called Holocaust: The SS murders 588 Jewish residents of the Podolian town of Zinkiv (Khmelnytska oblast, Ukraine). The Ghettos in Nazi-occupied Europe called Zoludek Ghetto (in Belarus) is destroyed and all its inhabitants murdered or depor
Year 1945 Calendar » World War II: The Channel Islands are liberated by the British after five years of German occupation.
Year 1946 Calendar » King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy abdicates and is succeeded by Umberto II of Italy e.g Umberto II.
Year 1949 Calendar » Rainier III, Prince of Monaco called Rainier III of Monaco becomes Prince of Monaco.
Year 1950 Calendar » Robert Schuman presents his proposal on the creation of an organized Europe, which according to him was indispensable to the maintenance of peaceful relations. This proposal, known as the "Schuman declaration", is considered by some people to be the begin
Year 1958 Calendar » Film: Vertigo (film) named Vertigo has world premiere in San Francisco.
Year 1961 Calendar » FCC Chairman Newton N. Minow gives his Wasteland Speech.
Year 1969 Calendar » Carlos Lamarca leads the first urban guerrilla action against the Brazilian military government or military dictatorship of Brazil in São Paulo, by robbing two banks.
Year 1970 Calendar » Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 75,000 to 100,000 war protesters demonstrate in front of the White House.
Year 1974 Calendar » Watergate Scandal: The United States House of Representatives United States House Committee on the Judiciary Judiciary Committee opens formal and public Impeachment in the United States impeachment hearings against President of the United States President
Year 1977 Calendar » Hotel Polen fire: A disastrous fire burns down the Hotel Polen in Amsterdam causing 33 deaths and 21 severe injuries.
Year 1979 Calendar » Persian Jews or Iranian Jewish businessman Habib Elghanian is executed by firing squad in Tehran, prompting the mass exodus of the once 100,000 member strong Jewish community of Iran.
Year 1980 Calendar » In Florida, Liberian freighter 'MV Summit Venture' collides with the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay, making a 1,400-ft. section of the southbound span collapse. Thirty-five people in six cars and a Greyhound bus fall 150 ft. into the water an
Year 1980 » In Norco, California, five masked gunmen hold up a Security Pacific bank, leading to Norco shootout named a violent shoot-out and one of the largest pursuits in History of California known as California history. Two of the gunmen and one police officer ar
Year 1987 Calendar » An LOT Polish Airlines Ilyushin Il-62 named Ilyushin IL-62M, 'Tadeusz Kościuszko' (SP-LBG), LOT Flight 5055 or crashes after takeoff in Warsaw, Poland, killing all 183 people on board.
Year 1992 Calendar » Armenian forces capture Shusha, marking a major turning point in the Karabakh War.
Year 2001 Calendar » In Ghana 129 football fans die in what became known as the Accra Sports Stadium disaster. The deaths are caused by a stampede (caused by the firing of teargas by police personnel at the stadium) that followed a controversial decision by the referee.
Year 2002 Calendar » The Siege of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem called 38-day stand-off in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem comes to an end when the Palestinians inside agree to have 13 suspected terrorists among them deported to several different countries.
Year 2012 Calendar » A Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft Mount Salak Sukhoi Superjet 100 crash called crashes into Mount Salak in West Java, Indonesia, killing 45 people.