Events
411
BC – Coup in Athens succeeds, forming a
short-lived oligarchy.
53 – Roman Emperor Nero marries Claudia
Octavia.
62 – Claudia Octavia is executed.
68 – Roman Emperor Nero commits suicide,
after quoting Homer's Iliad, thus ending
the Julio-Claudian Dynasty and starting
the civil year known as the Year of the
Four Emperors.
721 – Odo of Aquitaine defeats the Moors
in the Battle of Toulouse.
1310 – Duccio's Maestà Altarpiece, a seminal
artwork of the early Italian Renaissance,
is unveiled and installed in the Siena Cathedral
in Siena, Italy.
1534 – Jacques Cartier is the first European
to discover the Saint Lawrence River.
1650 – The Harvard Corporation, the more
powerful of the two administrative boards
of Harvard, is established. It is the first
legal corporation in the Americas.
1667 – The Raid on the Medway by the Dutch
fleet begins. It lasts for five days and
results in a decisive victory by the Dutch
over the English in the Second Anglo-Dutch
War.
1732 – James Oglethorpe is granted a royal
charter for the colony of the future U.S.
state of Georgia.
1762 – British forces begin the Siege of
Havana and capture the city during the Seven
Years' War.
1772 – The British schooner Gaspée is burned
off the coast of Rhode Island.
1798 – Irish Rebellion of 1798: Battle of
Arklow and Battle of Saintfield.
1815 – End of the Congress of Vienna: the
new European political situation is set.
1856 – Five hundred Mormons leave Iowa City,
Iowa and head west for Salt Lake City carrying
all their possessions in two-wheeled handcarts.
1862 – American Civil War: Stonewall Jackson
concludes his successful Shenandoah Valley
Campaign with a victory in the Battle of
Port Republic; his tactics during the campaign
are now studied by militaries around the
world.
1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Brandy
Station, Virginia.
1873 – Alexandra Palace in London burns
down after being open for only 16 days.
1885 – A peace treaty is signed to end the
Sino-French War, with China eventually giving
up Tonkin and Annam - most of present-day
Vietnam - to France.
1900 – Birsa Munda, an important figure
in the Indian independence movement, dies
in British prison under mysterious circumstances.
1915 – William Jennings Bryan resigns as
Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of State over
a disagreement regarding the United States'
handling of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania.
1923 – Bulgaria's military takes over the
government in a coup.
1924 – In the second attempt to climb Mount
Everest, George Mallory and Andrew "Sandy"
Irvine disappear, possibly having first
made it to the top.
1928 – Charles Kingsford Smith completes
the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker
Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross.
1930 – Chicago Tribune reporter Jake Lingle
is killed during rush hour at the Illinois
Central train station by Leo Vincent Brothers,
allegedly over a 100,000 USD gambling debt
owed to Al Capone.
1934 – Donald Duck makes his debut in The
Wise Little Hen.
1944 – World War II: 99 civilians are hung
from lampposts and balconies by German troops
in Tulle, France, in reprisal for maquisards
attacks.
1944 – World War II: the Soviet Union invades
East Karelia and the previously Finnish
part of Karelia, occupied by Finland since
1941.
1946 – King Bhumibol Adulyadej ascends to
the throne of Thailand. He is currently
the world's longest reigning monarch.
1948 – Foundation of the International Council
on Archives under the auspices of the UNESCO.
1953 – Flint-Worcester tornado outbreak
sequence: a tornado spawned from the same
storm system as the Flint tornado hits in
Worcester, Massachusetts killing 94.
1954 – McCarthyism: Joseph Welch, special
counsel for the United States Army, lashes
out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during hearings
on whether Communism has infiltrated the
Army giving McCarthy the famous rebuke,
"You've done enough. Have you no sense
of decency, sir, at long last? Have you
left no sense of decency?"
1958 – Queen Elizabeth II officially opens
London Gatwick Airport, (LGW) in Crawley,
West Sussex, United Kingdom.
1959 – The USS George Washington is launched.
It is the first submarine to carry ballistic
missiles.
1965 – Civilian Prime Minister of South
Vietnam Phan Huy Quat resigned after being
unable to work with a junta led by Nguyen
Cao Ky.
1967 – Six-Day War: Israel captures the
Golan Heights from Syria
1968 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson
declares a national day of mourning following
the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
1973 – Secretariat wins the Triple Crown.
1974 – Portugal and the Soviet Union establish
diplomatic relations.
1978 – The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints opens its priesthood to "all
worthy men", ending a 148-year-old
policy excluding black men.
1979 – The Ghost Train Fire at Luna Park
Sydney (New South Wales, Australia) kills
seven.
1985 – Thomas Sutherland is kidnapped in
Lebanon (he will not be released until 1991).
1986 – The Rogers Commission releases its
report on the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
1999 – Kosovo War: the Federal Republic
of Yugoslavia and NATO sign a peace treaty.
2008 – In the town of Lake Delton, Wisconsin,
Lake Delton drains as a result of heavy
flooding breaking the dam holding the lake
back.
Holidays
and observances
International
Archives Day
Anniversary of the Ascension of King Abdullah
II (Jordan)
Autonomy Day (Åland Islands)
Christian Feast Day:
Aidan of Lindisfarne (Lutheranism)
Columba, Abbot of Iona: Ireland and Scotland,
597 CE Anglicanism
Ephrem the Syrian (Roman Catholic Church
and Church of England)
Primus and Felician
June 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
La Rioja Day (La Rioja)
Murcia Day (Murcia)
National Heroes' Day (Uganda)
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