UN
Day
Nelson
Mandela International Day
Events
of the day
390 BCE – Roman-Gaulish
Wars: Battle of the Allia – a Roman army
is defeated by raiding Gauls, leading
to the subsequent sacking of Rome.
362 – Roman-Persian Wars: Emperor Julian
arrives at Antioch with a Roman expeditionary
force (60,000 men) and stays there for
nine months to launch a campaign against
the Persian Empire.
1290 – King Edward I of England issues
the Edict of Expulsion, banishing all
Jews (numbering about 16,000) from England;
this was Tisha B'Av on the Hebrew calendar,
a day that commemorates many Jewish calamities.
1334 – The bishop of Florence blesses
the first foundation stone for the new
campanile (bell tower) of the Florence
Cathedral, designed by the artist Giotto
di Bondone.
1389 – Kingdom of France and Kingdom of
England agree to the Truce of Leulinghem,
in inaugurating a 13-year peace; the longest
period of sustained peace during the Hundred
Years War.
1391 – Tokhtamysh-Timur War: Battle of
the Kondurcha River – Timur defeats Tokhtamysh
of the Golden Horde in present day southeast
Russia.
1555 – The College of Arms was reincorporated
by Royal Charter signed by Queen Mary
I of England and King Philip II of Spain.
1656 – Polish-Lithuanian forces clash
with Sweden and its Brandenburg allies
in the start of what is to be known as
The Battle of Warsaw which ends in a decisive
Swedish victory.
1812 – The Treaties of Orebro end both
the Anglo-Russian and Anglo-Swedish Wars.
1857 – Louis Faidherbe, French governor
of Senegal, arrives to relieve French
forces at Kayes, effectively ending El
Hajj Umar Tall's war against the French.
1862 – First ascent of Dent Blanche, one
of the highest summits in the Alps.
1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Fort
Wagner/Morris Island – the first formal
African American military unit, the 54th
Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, fails
in their assault on Confederate-held Battery
Wagner.
1870 – The First Vatican Council decrees
the dogma of papal infallibility.
1914 – The U.S. Congress forms the Aviation
Section, U.S. Signal Corps, giving definite
status to aircraft within the U.S. Army
for the first time.
1925 – Adolf Hitler publishes his personal
manifesto Mein Kampf.
1942 – World War II: the Germans test
fly the Messerschmitt Me-262 using only
its jet engines for the first time.
1944 – World War II: Hideki Tojo resigns
as Prime Minister of Japan due to numerous
setbacks in the war effort.
1955 – The first Disneyland theme park,
in Anaheim, California, officially opens
to the public.
1966 – Human spaceflight: Gemini 10 is
launched from Cape Kennedy on a 70-hour
mission that includes docking with an
orbiting Agena target vehicle.
1968 – The Intel Corporation is founded
in Santa Clara, California.
1969 – After a party on Chappaquiddick
Island, Senator Ted Kennedy from Massachusetts
drives an Oldsmobile off a bridge and
his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, dies.
1976 – Nadia Comăneci became the first
person in Olympic Games history to score
a perfect 10 in gymnastics at the 1976
Summer Olympics.
1982 – 268 campesinos ("peasants"
or "country people") are slain
in the Plan de Sánchez massacre in RÃos
Montt's Guatemala.
1984 – McDonald's massacre in San Ysidro,
California: in a fast-food restaurant,
James Oliver Huberty opens fire, killing
21 people and injuring 19 others before
being shot dead by police.
1986 – A tornado is broadcast live on
KARE television in Minnesota when the
station's helicopter pilot makes a chance
encounter.
1992 – The ten victims of the La Cantuta
massacre disappear from their university
in Lima.
1994 – The bombing of the Asociación Mutual
Israelita Argentina (Argentinian Jewish
Communal Center) in Buenos Aires kills
85 people (mostly Jewish) and injures
300.
1995 – On the Caribbean island of Montserrat,
the Soufriere Hills volcano erupts. Over
the course of several years, it devastates
the island, destroying the capital and
forcing most of the population to flee.
1996 – Storms provoke severe flooding
on the Saguenay River, beginning one of
Quebec's costliest natural disasters ever:
the Saguenay Flood.
1996 – Battle of Mullaitivu. The Liberation
Tigers of Tamil Eelam capture the Sri
Lanka Army's base, killing over 1200 Army
soldiers.
Holidays
and observances
Christian
Feast Day:
Arnulf of Metz
Camillus de Lellis (optional memorial,
United States only)
Frederick of Utrecht
Marina of Aguas Santas
Symphorosa
Teneu
July 18 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Constitution Day (Uruguay)
Nelson Mandela International Day
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