UN
Day
International
Day of UN Peacekeepers
Events
of the day
363 β Roman Emperor Julian
defeats the Sassanid army in the Battle of
Ctesiphon, under the walls of the Sassanid
capital, but is unable to take the city.
1167 β Battle of Monte Porzio β A Roman army
supporting Pope Alexander III is defeated
by Christian of Buch and Rainald of Dassel
1176 β Battle of Legnano: The Lombard League
defeats Emperor Frederick I.
1328 β Philip VI is crowned King of France.
1414 β Council of Constance.
1453 β Fall of Constantinople: Ottoman armies
under Sultan Mehmed II Fatih captures Constantinople
after a 53-day siege, ending the Byzantine
Empire.
1660 β English Restoration: Charles II is
restored to the throne of Great Britain.
1677 β Treaty of Middle Plantation establishes
peace between the Virginia colonists and the
local Natives.
1727 β Peter II becomes Tsar of Russia.
1733 β The right of Canadians to keep Indian
slaves is upheld at Quebec City.
1780 β American Revolutionary War: At the
Battle of Waxhaws, the British continue fighting
after the Continentals lay down their arms,
killing 113 and critically wounding all but
53 that remained.
1790 β Rhode Island becomes the last of the
original United States' colonies to ratify
the Constitution and is admitted as the 13th
U.S. state.
1798 β United Irishmen Rebellion: Between
300 and 500 United Irishmen are massacred
by the British Army in County Kildare, Ireland.
1848 β Wisconsin is admitted as the 30th U.S.
state.
1852 β Jenny Lind left New York after her
wildly successful two-year American tour.
1861 β The Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce
was founded, in Hong Kong.
1864 β Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico arrives
in Mexico for the first time.
1867 β The Ausgleich ("the Compromise")
is born through Act 12, which establishes
the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
1868 β The assassination of Michael Obrenovich
III, Prince of Serbia, in Belgrade.
1886 β Chemist John Pemberton places his first
advertisement for Coca-Cola, the ad appearing
in the Atlanta Journal.
1900 β N'Djamena is founded as Fort-Lamy by
French commander Γmile Gentil
1903 β May coup d'etat[disambiguation needed
]: Alexander Obrenovich, King of Serbia, and
Queen Draga, are assassinated in Belgrade
by the Black Hand (Crna Ruka) organization.
1913 β Igor Stravinsky's ballet score The
Rite of Spring receives its premiere performance
in Paris, provoking a riot.
1914 β Ocean liner RMS Empress of Ireland
sinks in the Gulf of St. Lawrence with the
loss of 1,024 lives.
1918 β Armenia defeats the Ottoman Army in
the Battle of Sardarapat.
1919 β Albert Einstein's theory of general
relativity is tested (later confirmed) by
Arthur Eddington and Andrew Crommelin.
1919 β The Republic of Prekmurje founded
1924 β AEK Athens FC is established on the
anniversary of the siege of Constantinople
by the Turks.
1932 β World War I Veterans begin to assemble
in Washington, D.C. in the Bonus Army to request
cash bonuses promised to them to be paid in
1945.
1939 β Albanian fascist leader Tefik Mborja
is appointed as member of the Italian Chamber
of Fasces and Corporations.
1940 β The first flight of the F4U Corsair.
1942 β Bing Crosby, the Ken Darby Singers
and the John Scott Trotter Orchestra record
Irving Berlin's "White Christmas",
the best-selling Christmas single in history.
1945 β First combat mission of the Consolidated
B-32 Dominator heavy bomber.
1948 β Creation of the United Nations Peacekeeping
Force the United Nations Truce Supervision
Organization
1950 β The St. Roch, the first ship to circumnavigate
North America, arrives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
1953 β Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay
become the first people to reach the summit
of Mount Everest, on Tenzing Norgay's (adopted)
39th birthday.
1954 β First of the annual Bilderberg conferences.
1964 β The Arab League meets in East Jerusalem
to discuss the Palestinian question, leading
to the formation of the Palestinian Liberation
Organization.
1969 β General strike in CΓ³rdoba, Argentina,
leading to the Cordobazo civil unrest.
1973 β Tom Bradley is elected the first black
mayor of Los Angeles, California.
1982 β Pope John Paul II becomes the first
pontiff to visit Canterbury Cathedral.
1985 β Heysel Stadium disaster: 39 association
football fans die and hundreds are injured
when a dilapidated retaining wall collapses.
1985 β Amputee Steve Fonyo completes cross-Canada
marathon at Victoria, British Columbia, after
14 months.
1988 β U.S. President Ronald Reagan begins
his first visit to the Soviet Union when he
arrives in Moscow for a superpower summit
with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
1989 β Signing of an agreement Egypt - U.S.
manufacturing parts of the fighter F-16 in
Egypt.
1990 β The Russian parliament elects Boris
Yeltsin president of the Russian SFSR.
1999 β Olusegun Obasanjo takes office as President
of Nigeria, the first elected and civilian
head of state in Nigeria after 16 years of
military rule.
1999 β Space Shuttle Discovery completes the
first docking with the International Space
Station.
2001 β U.S. Supreme Court rules that disabled
golfer Casey Martin can use a cart to ride
in tournaments.
2004 β The World War II Memorial is dedicated
in Washington, D.C.
Holidays
and observances
Ascension
of BahΓ‘'u'llΓ‘h (BahΓ‘'Γ Faith)
Christian Feast Day:
Bona of Pisa
Maximin of Trier
Pope Alexander of Alexandria (Eastern Orthodox
Church)
Theodosia of Constantinople (Eastern Orthodox
Church)
May 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Democracy Day (Nigeria)
Earliest day on which Feast of the Sacred
Heart can fall, while July 2 is the latest;
celebrated 19 days after Pentecost. (Roman
Catholic Church)
International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers
(International)
Oak Apple Day (England)
Statehood Day (Rhode Island and Wisconsin)
Pashto Day
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