Independence
day
Montenegro
UN
Day
International
Tea Day
World
Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and
Development
Events
of the day
293 – Roman Emperors Diocletian
and Maximian appoint Galerius as Caesar to Diocletian,
beginning the period of four rulers known as
the Tetrarchy.
878 – Syracuse, Italy, is captured by the Muslim
sultan of Sicily.
879 – Pope John VIII gives blessings to Branimir
of Croatia and to the Croatian people, considered
to be international recognition of the Croatian
state.
996 – Sixteen-year-old Otto III is crowned Holy
Roman Emperor.
1349 – Dušan's Code, the constitution of the
Serbian Empire, is enacted by Dušan the Mighty.
1502 – The island of Saint Helena is discovered
by the Portuguese explorer João da Nova.
1554 – Queen Mary I grants a royal Charter to
Derby School, as a grammar school for boys in
Derby, England.
1674 – The nobility elect John Sobieski King
of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania.
1725 – The Order of St. Alexander Nevsky is
instituted in Russia by Empress Catherine I.
It would later be discontinued and then reinstated
by the Soviet government in 1942 as the Order
of Alexander Nevsky.
1758 – Ten-year-old Mary Campbell is abducted
in Pennsylvania by Lenape during the French
and Indian War. She is returned some six and
a half years later.
1809 – The first day of the Battle of Aspern-Essling
between the Austrian army led by Archduke Charles
and the French army led by Napoleon I of France
sees the French attack across the Danube held.
1851 – Slavery is abolished in Colombia, South
America.
1856 – Lawrence, Kansas is captured and burned
by pro-slavery forces.
1863 – American Civil War: The Union Army succeeds
in closing off the last escape route from Port
Hudson, Louisiana, in preparation for the coming
siege.
1863 – Organization of the Seventh-day Adventist
Church in Battle Creek, Michigan.
1864 – Russia declares an end to the Russian-Circassian
War and many Circassians are forced into exile.
The day is designated the Circassian Day of
Mourning.
1871 – French troops invade the Paris Commune
and engage its residents in street fighting.
By the close of "Bloody Week", some
20,000 communards have been killed and 38,000
arrested.
1871 – Opening of the first rack railway in
Europe, the Rigi-Bahnen on Mount Rigi.
1879 – War of the Pacific: Two Chilean ships
blocking the harbor of Iquique (then belonging
to Peru) battle two Peruvian vessels in the
Battle of Iquique.
1881 – The American Red Cross is established
by Clara Barton in Washington, D.C..
1894 – The Manchester Ship Canal in England
is officially opened by Queen Victoria, who
later knights its designer Sir Edward Leader
Williams.
1904 – The Fédération Internationale de Football
Association (FIFA) is founded in Paris.
1911 – Mexican President Porfirio DÃaz and the
revolutionary Francisco Madero sign the Treaty
of Ciudad Juárez to put an end to the fighting
between the forces of both men, and thus concluding
the initial phase of the Mexican Revolution.
1917 – The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
is established through Royal Charter to mark,
record and maintain the graves and places of
commemoration of Commonwealth of Nations military
forces.
1917 – The Great Atlanta fire of 1917 causes
$5.5 million in damages, destroying some 300
acres including 2,000 homes, businesses and
churches, displacing about 10,000 people and
leading to only fatality (due to heart attack).
1924 – University of Chicago students Richard
Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr. murder 14-year-old
Bobby Franks in a "thrill killing".
1927 – Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le
Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's
first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic
Ocean.
1932 – Bad weather forces Amelia Earhart to
land in a pasture in Derry, Northern Ireland,
and she thereby becomes the first woman to fly
solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
1934 – Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes the first municipality
in the United States to fingerprint all of its
citizens.
1936 – Sada Abe is arrested after wandering
the streets of Tokyo for days with her dead
lover's severed genitals in her hand. Her story
soon becomes one of Japan's most notorious scandals.
1937 – A Soviet station, North Pole-1, becomes
the first scientific research settlement to
operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean.
1939 – The Canadian National War Memorial is
unveiled by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth
in Ottawa.
1946 – Physicist Louis Slotin is fatally irradiated
in a criticality incident during an experiment
with the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
1951 – The opening of the Ninth Street Show,
otherwise known as the 9th Street Art Exhibition
– a gathering of a number of notable artists,
and the stepping-out of the post war New York
avant-garde, collectively known as the New York
School.
1961 – American civil rights movement: Alabama
Governor John Malcolm Patterson declares martial
law in an attempt to restore order after race
riots break out.
1966 – The Ulster Volunteer Force declares war
on the Irish Republican Army in Northern Ireland.
1969 – Civil unrest in Rosario, Argentina, known
as Rosariazo, following the death of a 15-year-old
student.
1972 – Michelangelo's Pietà in St. Peter's Basilica
in Rome is damaged by a vandal, the mentally
disturbed Hungarian geologist Laszlo Toth.
1976 – The Yuba City bus disaster occurs in
Martinez, California. 29 are killed making it
the deadliest road accident in U.S. history.
1979 – White Night riots in San Francisco following
the manslaughter conviction of Dan White for
the assassinations of George Moscone and Harvey
Milk.
1981 – Irish Republican hunger strikers Raymond
McCreesh and Patsy O'Hara die on hunger strike
in Maze prison.
1981 – The Italian government releases the membership
list of Propaganda Due, an illegal pseudo-Masonic
lodge that was implicated in numerous Italian
crimes and mysteries.
1982 – Falklands War: A British amphibious assault
during Operation Sutton leads to the Battle
of San Carlos.
1990 – The Democratic Republic of Yemen and
North Yemen agree to merge into the Republic
of Yemen.
1991 – Former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi
is assassinated by a female suicide bomber near
Madras.
1991 – Mengistu Haile Mariam, president of the
People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, flees
Ethiopia, effectively bringing the Ethiopian
Civil War to an end.
1994 – The Democratic Republic of Yemen unsuccessful
attempts to secede from the Republic of Yemen;
a war breaks out.
1996 – The ferry MV Bukoba sinks in Tanzanian
waters on Lake Victoria, killing nearly 1,000.
1996 – The Trappist Martyrs of Atlas, kidnapped
during the Algerian Civil War and held for two
months, are found dead.
1998 – In Miami, Florida, five abortion clinics
are hit by a butyric acid attacker.
2001 – French Taubira law is enacted, officially
recognizing the Atlantic slave trade and slavery
as crimes against humanity.
2003 – An earthquake hits northern Algeria killing
more than 2,000 people.
2005 – The tallest roller coaster in the world,
Kingda Ka opens at Six Flags Great Adventure
in Jackson Township, New Jersey.
2006 – The Republic of Montenegro holds a referendum
proposing independence from the State Union
of Serbia and Montenegro. The Montenegrin people
choose independence with a majority of 55%.
2010 – JAXA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration
Agency, launches the solar-sail spacecraft IKAROS
aboard an H-IIA rocket. The vessel would make
a Venus flyby late in the year.
2012 – In Qafa e Vishës bus tragedy near Himara,
Albania 13 students of Aleksandër Xhuvani University
killed in bus crash.
Holidays
and observances
Afro-Colombian
Day (Colombia)
Christian Feast Day:
Charles-Joseph-Eugene de Mazenod
Emperor Constantine I
Earliest day on which Corpus Christi can fall,
while June 24 is the latest; held on Thursday
after Trinity Sunday. (Roman Catholic Church)
Helena of Constantinople, also known as "Feast
of the Holy Great Sovereigns Constantine and
Helen, Equal-to-the-Apostles." (Eastern
Orthodox Church)
May 21 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Circassian Day of Mourning (Circassians)
Day of Patriots and Military (Hungary)
Independence Day, honors the 2006 plebiscite
that indicated that 55.5% of Montenegrins were
in favor of becoming a sovereign nation. (Montenegro)
Navy Day (Chile)
Saint Helena Day, celebrates the discovery of
Saint Helena in 1502.
World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue
and Development (International)
One of the festivals of Vejovis (Roman Empire)
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