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1035 | King Canute of Norway dies. | |
1276 | Suspicious of the intentions of Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, the Prince of Wales, English King Edward I resolves to invade Wales. | |
1859 | The first flying-trapeze circus act is performed by Jules Leotard at the Circus Napoleon. | |
1863 | Confederate General James Longstreet arrives at Loudon, Tennessee, to assist the attack on Union General Ambrose Burnside‘s troops at Knoxville. | |
1867 | Mount Vesuvius erupts. | |
1903 | The Lebaudy brothers of France set an air-travel distance record of 34 miles in a dirigible. | |
1923 | Adolf Hitler is arrested for his attempted German coup. | |
1927 | Canada is admitted to the League of Nations. | |
1928 | The ocean liner Vestris sinks off the Virginia cape with 328 aboard, killing 111. | |
1938 | Mexico agrees to compensate the United States for land seizures. | |
1941 | Madame Lillian Evanti and Mary Cardwell Dawson establish the National Negro Opera Company. | |
1944 | U.S. fighters wipe out a Japanese convoy near Leyte, consisting of six destroyers, four transports and 8,000 troops. | |
1944 | The German battleship Tirpitz is sunk in a Norwegian fjord. | |
1948 | Hideki Tojo, the Japanese prime minister, and seven others are sentenced to hang by an international tribunal. | |
1951 | The U.S. Eighth Army in Korea is ordered to cease offensive operations and begin an active defense. | |
1960 | The satellite Discoverer XVII is launched into orbit from California’s Vandenberg AFB. | |
1968 | The U.S. Supreme Court voids an Arkansas law banning the teaching of evolution in public schools. | |
1971 | Nixon announces the withdrawal of about 45,000 U.S. troops from Vietnam by February. | |
1987 | Boris Yeltsin is fired as head of Moscow’s Communist Party for criticizing the slow pace of reform. | |
1990 | Crown Prince Akihito is formally installed as Emperor Akihito of Japan. | |
1990 | Sir Timothy John “Tim” Berners-Lee, a British computer scientist, publishes a formal proposal for the creation of the World Wide Web. | |
1996 | A Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 collides with a Kazakh Illyushin II-76 cargo plane near New Delhi, killing 349. It is the deadliest mid-air collision to date (2013) and third-deadliest aircraft accident. | |
1997 | Ramzi Yousef is convicted of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. | |
2003 | The first Italians to die in the Iraq War are among 23 fatalities from a suicide bomb attack on an Italian police base in Nasiriya, iraq. | |
2003 | Shanghai Transrapid sets a new world speed record (311 mph or 501 kph) for commercial railway systems. |