TODAY IN HISTORY
- 1707 Acts of Union comes into force, uniting England and Scotland to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain
- 1753 Publication of Species Plantarum by Linnaeus, and the formal start date of plant taxonomy adopted by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature.
- 1841 First emigrant wagon train leaves Independence, Missouri, for California
- 1886 US general strike for 8-hour working day begins
- 1898 US Admiral George Dewey commands "You may fire when you are ready, Gridley" as US route Spanish fleet at Manila
- 1931 Empire State Building opens in New York City
- 1006 Supernova observed by Chinese & Egyptians in constellation Lupus
- 1048 Bishop Bernold flees St Pieterskerk for Utrecht Neth
- 1328 Wars of Scottish Independence end: Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton - the Kingdom of England recognises the Kingdom of Scotland as an independent state.
- 1394 Ekiho exorcised the Zen temple & its surroundings of an old badger
- 1523 Danish king Christian III arrives in Veere
- 1544 Turkish troops occupy Hungary
- 1551 Council of Trente resumes
- 1598 Jacob van Neck's merchant fleet departs for Java
- 1625 Portuguese & Spanish expedition recaptures Salvador
- 1682 Louis XIV & his court inaugurate Paris Observatory
- 1703 Battle at Rultusk: Swedish army beats Russians
- 1704 Boston Newsletter publishes 1st newspaper advertisement
- 1707 Acts of Union comes into England and Scotland to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain
- 1711 Archduke Karel of Austria/Hungarian rebellion sign Peace of Szatmar
- 1715 Prussia declares war on Sweden
- 1725 Spain & Austria sign trade treaty
- 1751 1st American cricket match is pphysician, and zoologist
- 1756 France & Austria sign alliance
- 1757 Austria & France divide Prussia
- 1759 British fleet occupies Guadeloupe, West Indies, capturing it from France
- 1776 Adam Weishaupt founds secret society of Illuminati
- 1777 RB Sheridan's "School for Scandal" premieres in London
- 1778 American Revolution: The Battle of Crooked Billet begins in Hatboro, Pennsylvania.
- 1781 Emperor Jozef II decrees protection of population
- 1848 The Fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta is founded at Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania.
- 1850 John Geary becomes 1st mayor of San Francisco
- 1851 Great Exhibition opens in the Crystal Palace, London
- 1852 The Philippine peso is introduced into circulation.
- 1853 Argentina adopts its constitution
- 1854 Amsterdam begins transferring drinking water out of the dunes
- 1857 William Walker, conqueror of Nicaragua, surrenders to US Navy
- 1861 Lee orders Confederate troops under T J Jackson to Harper's Ferry
- 1862 Major General Benjamin Butler's Union forces occupy New Orleans in US Civil War
- 1863 Battle of Chancellorsville, VA (29,000 injured or died)
- 1863 Battle of Port Gibson, Mississippi
- 1863 Confederate "National Flag" replaces "Stars & Bars"
- 1863 Confederate congress passed resolution to kill black soldiers
- 1864 -8] Battle at Alexandria, Louisiana (Red River Campaign)
- 1864 Atlanta campaign, GA begins
- 1866 American Equal Rights Association forms
- 1867 Howard University chartered
- 1867 Reconstruction of South begins, black voter registration
- 1924 Admiral Paul Koundouriotis becomes president of Greece
- 1925 A's Jimmie Foxx, 17, 1st game; he pinch-hits a single
- 1925 Cyprus becomes a British Crown Colony
- 1926 British coal miners go on strike
- 1926 Satchel Paige makes pitching debut in Negro Southern League
- 1927 1st British airliner to serve cooked meals (Imperial Airways)
- 1927 Netherlands beats Belgium 3-2 in soccer match in Amsterdam
- 1927 Panningen soccer team forms
- 1928 6 children die & 10 injured by hailstones in Klausenburg, Romania
- 1928 Drunken fascist Erich Wichman attacks VARA-radio transmitter
- 1928 Lei Day begun (a Hawaiian celebration)
- 1928 Pitcairn Airlines (later Eastern) begins service
- 1928 Rotterdam soccer team Black White '28 forms
- 1929 Brooklyn's Johnny Finn sets 100 yard sack race in 14.4 seconds
- 1929 Farm workers strike begins in East-Groningen
- 1929 Police kill 19 Mayday demonstrators in Berlin
- 1930 Planet Pluto offically named by 11 year-old Venetia Burney
- 1991 Angolan civil war ends
- 1991 Last day of Test cricket for Gordon Greenidge
- 1991 Milwaukee Brewers beat Chicago Cubs, 10-9, in 19 innings
- 1991 Rickey Henderson breaks Lou Brocks record with his 939th steal
- 2004 Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia join the European Union, celebrated at the residence of the Irish President in Dublin.
- 2004 130th Kentucky Derby: Stewart Elliott aboard Smarty Jones wins in 2:04.06
- 2006 The Puerto Rican government closes the Department of Education and 42 other government agencies due to significant shortages in cash flow.
- 2007 The Los Angeles May Day mêlée occurs, in which the Los Angeles Police Department's response to a May Day pro-immigration rally become a matter of controversy.
- 2008 The London Agreement on translation of European patents, concluded in 2000, enters into force in 14 of the 34 Contracting States to the European Patent Convention.
- 2009 Same-sex marriage is legalized in Sweden.
- 2009 Carol Ann Duffy is appointed British Poet Laureate - first Scot and woman Laureate
- 2010 Car bomb fails to go off in Times Square, New York City
- 2010 136th Kentucky Derby: Calvin Borel aboard Super Saver wins in 2:04.45
- 2011 Pope John Paul II is beatified by his successor, Pope Benedict XVI.
- 2012 China and Russia sign $15 billion dollar trade deal
- 2012 Guggenheim Partners make the largest ever purchase of a sports franchise after buying the Los Angeles Dodgers for $2.1 billion
- 2013 Insurgents kill 6 people in Pattani, Thailand
- 2013 15 people are killed by multiple bomb attacks across Iraq
- 2013 16 people are killed in a flash flood in Saudi Arabia
- 2013 A digital camera is created that can mimic insect compound eyes
- 2014 Hundreds march through Nigerian capital calling for the release of schoolgirls abducted by Islamic militants, Boko Haram, who oppose Western education
- 2015 Expo 2015 opens in Milan (thru till 31st October
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