henric
05-24-2015, 11:02 PM
24379
Events:C/P.
567 BC Servius Tullius, the king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victory over the Etruscans.
240 BC First recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
1085 Alfonso VI of Castile takes Toledo, Spain, back from the Moors.
1420 Henry the Navigator is appointed governor of the Order of Christ.
1521 The Diet of Worms ends when Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Edict of Worms, declaring Martin Luther an outlaw.
1644 Ming general Wu Sangui forms an alliance with the invading Manchus and opens the gates of the Great Wall of China at Shanhaiguan pass, letting the Manchus through towards the capital Beijing.
1659 Richard Cromwell resigns as Lord Protector of England following the restoration of the Long Parliament, beginning a second brief period of the republican government called the Commonwealth of England.
1738 A treaty between Pennsylvania and Maryland ends the Conojocular War with settlement of a boundary dispute and exchange of prisoners.
1798 United Irishmen Rebellion: Battle of Carlow begins; executions of suspected rebels at Carnew and at Dunlavin Green take place.
1809 Chuquisaca Revolution: Patriot revolt in Chuquisaca (modern day Sucre) against the Spanish Empire, sparking the South American Wars of Independence.
1810 May Revolution: citizens of Buenos Aires expel Viceroy Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros during the May week, starting the Argentine War of Independence.
1819 The Argentine Constitution of 1819 is promulgated.
1833 The Chilean Constitution of 1833 is promulgated.
1837 The Rebels of Lower Canada (Quebec) rebel against the British for freedom.
1865 In Mobile, Alabama, 300 are killed when an ordnance depot explodes.
1878 Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore opens at the Opera Comique in London.
1895 The playwright, poet, and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of "committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons" and sentenced to serve two years in prison.
1895 The Republic of Formosa is formed, with Tang Ching-sung as its president.
1914 The United Kingdom's House of Commons passes the Home Rule Act for devolution in Ireland.
1925 Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution in Tennessee.
1926 Sholom Schwartzbard assassinates Symon Petliura, the head of the government of the Ukrainian People's Republic, which is in government-in-exile in Paris.
1935 Jesse Owens of Ohio State University breaks three world records and ties a fourth at the Big Ten Conference Track and Field Championships in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
1936 The Remington Rand strike, led by the American Federation of Labor, begins.
1938 Spanish Civil War: The bombing of Alicante takes place, with 313 deaths.
1940 World War II: The German 2nd Panzer Division captures the port of Boulogne-sur-Mer; the surrender of the last French and British troops marks the end of the Battle of Boulogne.
1946 The parliament of Transjordan makes Abdullah I of Jordan their Emir.
1950 Public Transport: Green Hornet disaster. A Chicago Surface Lines streetcar crashes into a fuel truck, killing 33.
1953 Nuclear testing: At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conduct their first and only nuclear artillery test.
1953 The first public television station in the United States officially begins broadcasting as KUHT from the campus of the University of Houston.
1955 In the United States, a night-time F5 tornado strikes the small city of Udall, Kansas, killing 80 and injuring 273. It is the deadliest tornado to ever occur in the state and the 23rd deadliest in the U.S.
1955 First ascent of Kangchenjunga (8,586 m.), the third-highest mountain in the world, by a British expedition led by Charles Evans. Joe Brown and George Band reached the summit on May 25, followed by Norman Hardie and Tony Streather the next day.
1961 Apollo program: The U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces before a special joint session of the Congress his goal to initiate a project to put a "man on the Moon" before the end of the decade.
1961 The Bukit Ho Swee Fire, the biggest fire in Singapore history.
1962 The Old Bay Line, the last overnight steamboat service in the United States, goes out of business.
1963 In Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the Organisation of African Unity is established.
1966 Explorer program: Explorer 32 launches.
1966 The first prominent dΰzμbΰo during the Cultural Revolution in China is posted at Peking University.
1967 Celtic F.C. from Glasgow, Scotland, becomes the first ever Northern European team to win the European Cup; with previous winners being from Spain, Italy and Portugal.
1968 Gateway Arch Saint Louis Gateway Arch is dedicated.
1973 HNS Velos (D-16), while participating in a NATO exercise and in order to protest against the dictatorship in Greece, anchored at Fiumicino, Italy, refusing to return to Greece.
1977 Star Wars is released in theaters, inspiring the Jediism religion and Geek Pride Day holiday.
1977 Chinese government removes a decade old ban on William Shakespeare's work, effectively ending the Cultural Revolution started in 1966.
1979 American Airlines Flight 191: In Chicago, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 crashes during takeoff at O'Hare International Airport killing all 271 on board and two people on the ground.
1979 Etan Patz, who is six years old, disappears from the street just two blocks away from his home in New York City, prompting an international search for the child, and causing the U.S. President Ronald Reagan to designate May 25 as National Missing Children's Day (in 1983).
1981 In Riyadh, the Gulf Cooperation Council is created between Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
1982 HMS Coventry is sunk during the Falklands War.
1985 Bangladesh is hit by a tropical cyclone and storm surge, which kills approximately 10,000 people.
1986 Hands Across America takes place.
1997 A military coup in Sierra Leone replaces President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah with Major Johnny Paul Koromah.
1999 The United States House of Representatives releases the Cox Report which details the People's Republic of China's nuclear espionage against the U.S. over the prior two decades.
2000 Liberation Day of Lebanon. Israel withdraws its army from most of the Lebanese territory after 22 years of its first invasion in 1978.
2001 Erik Weihenmayer, 32 years old, of Boulder, Colorado, becomes the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
2002 China Airlines Flight 611 disintegrates in mid-air and crashes into the Taiwan Strait. All 225 people on board are killed.
2008 NASA's Phoenix lander lands in Green Valley region of Mars to search for environments suitable for water and microbial life.
2009 North Korea allegedly tests its second nuclear device. Following the nuclear test, Pyongyang also conducted several missile tests building tensions in the international community.
2011 Oprah Winfrey airs her last show, ending her twenty-five-year run of The Oprah Winfrey Show.
2012 The Dragon spacecraft became the first commercial spacecraft to successfully rendezvous with the International Space Station.
2013 Suspected Maoist rebels kill at least 28 people and injure 32 others in an attack on a convoy of Indian National Congress politicians in Chhattisgarh, India.
Events:C/P.
567 BC Servius Tullius, the king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victory over the Etruscans.
240 BC First recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
1085 Alfonso VI of Castile takes Toledo, Spain, back from the Moors.
1420 Henry the Navigator is appointed governor of the Order of Christ.
1521 The Diet of Worms ends when Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Edict of Worms, declaring Martin Luther an outlaw.
1644 Ming general Wu Sangui forms an alliance with the invading Manchus and opens the gates of the Great Wall of China at Shanhaiguan pass, letting the Manchus through towards the capital Beijing.
1659 Richard Cromwell resigns as Lord Protector of England following the restoration of the Long Parliament, beginning a second brief period of the republican government called the Commonwealth of England.
1738 A treaty between Pennsylvania and Maryland ends the Conojocular War with settlement of a boundary dispute and exchange of prisoners.
1798 United Irishmen Rebellion: Battle of Carlow begins; executions of suspected rebels at Carnew and at Dunlavin Green take place.
1809 Chuquisaca Revolution: Patriot revolt in Chuquisaca (modern day Sucre) against the Spanish Empire, sparking the South American Wars of Independence.
1810 May Revolution: citizens of Buenos Aires expel Viceroy Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros during the May week, starting the Argentine War of Independence.
1819 The Argentine Constitution of 1819 is promulgated.
1833 The Chilean Constitution of 1833 is promulgated.
1837 The Rebels of Lower Canada (Quebec) rebel against the British for freedom.
1865 In Mobile, Alabama, 300 are killed when an ordnance depot explodes.
1878 Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore opens at the Opera Comique in London.
1895 The playwright, poet, and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of "committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons" and sentenced to serve two years in prison.
1895 The Republic of Formosa is formed, with Tang Ching-sung as its president.
1914 The United Kingdom's House of Commons passes the Home Rule Act for devolution in Ireland.
1925 Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution in Tennessee.
1926 Sholom Schwartzbard assassinates Symon Petliura, the head of the government of the Ukrainian People's Republic, which is in government-in-exile in Paris.
1935 Jesse Owens of Ohio State University breaks three world records and ties a fourth at the Big Ten Conference Track and Field Championships in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
1936 The Remington Rand strike, led by the American Federation of Labor, begins.
1938 Spanish Civil War: The bombing of Alicante takes place, with 313 deaths.
1940 World War II: The German 2nd Panzer Division captures the port of Boulogne-sur-Mer; the surrender of the last French and British troops marks the end of the Battle of Boulogne.
1946 The parliament of Transjordan makes Abdullah I of Jordan their Emir.
1950 Public Transport: Green Hornet disaster. A Chicago Surface Lines streetcar crashes into a fuel truck, killing 33.
1953 Nuclear testing: At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conduct their first and only nuclear artillery test.
1953 The first public television station in the United States officially begins broadcasting as KUHT from the campus of the University of Houston.
1955 In the United States, a night-time F5 tornado strikes the small city of Udall, Kansas, killing 80 and injuring 273. It is the deadliest tornado to ever occur in the state and the 23rd deadliest in the U.S.
1955 First ascent of Kangchenjunga (8,586 m.), the third-highest mountain in the world, by a British expedition led by Charles Evans. Joe Brown and George Band reached the summit on May 25, followed by Norman Hardie and Tony Streather the next day.
1961 Apollo program: The U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces before a special joint session of the Congress his goal to initiate a project to put a "man on the Moon" before the end of the decade.
1961 The Bukit Ho Swee Fire, the biggest fire in Singapore history.
1962 The Old Bay Line, the last overnight steamboat service in the United States, goes out of business.
1963 In Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the Organisation of African Unity is established.
1966 Explorer program: Explorer 32 launches.
1966 The first prominent dΰzμbΰo during the Cultural Revolution in China is posted at Peking University.
1967 Celtic F.C. from Glasgow, Scotland, becomes the first ever Northern European team to win the European Cup; with previous winners being from Spain, Italy and Portugal.
1968 Gateway Arch Saint Louis Gateway Arch is dedicated.
1973 HNS Velos (D-16), while participating in a NATO exercise and in order to protest against the dictatorship in Greece, anchored at Fiumicino, Italy, refusing to return to Greece.
1977 Star Wars is released in theaters, inspiring the Jediism religion and Geek Pride Day holiday.
1977 Chinese government removes a decade old ban on William Shakespeare's work, effectively ending the Cultural Revolution started in 1966.
1979 American Airlines Flight 191: In Chicago, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 crashes during takeoff at O'Hare International Airport killing all 271 on board and two people on the ground.
1979 Etan Patz, who is six years old, disappears from the street just two blocks away from his home in New York City, prompting an international search for the child, and causing the U.S. President Ronald Reagan to designate May 25 as National Missing Children's Day (in 1983).
1981 In Riyadh, the Gulf Cooperation Council is created between Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
1982 HMS Coventry is sunk during the Falklands War.
1985 Bangladesh is hit by a tropical cyclone and storm surge, which kills approximately 10,000 people.
1986 Hands Across America takes place.
1997 A military coup in Sierra Leone replaces President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah with Major Johnny Paul Koromah.
1999 The United States House of Representatives releases the Cox Report which details the People's Republic of China's nuclear espionage against the U.S. over the prior two decades.
2000 Liberation Day of Lebanon. Israel withdraws its army from most of the Lebanese territory after 22 years of its first invasion in 1978.
2001 Erik Weihenmayer, 32 years old, of Boulder, Colorado, becomes the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
2002 China Airlines Flight 611 disintegrates in mid-air and crashes into the Taiwan Strait. All 225 people on board are killed.
2008 NASA's Phoenix lander lands in Green Valley region of Mars to search for environments suitable for water and microbial life.
2009 North Korea allegedly tests its second nuclear device. Following the nuclear test, Pyongyang also conducted several missile tests building tensions in the international community.
2011 Oprah Winfrey airs her last show, ending her twenty-five-year run of The Oprah Winfrey Show.
2012 The Dragon spacecraft became the first commercial spacecraft to successfully rendezvous with the International Space Station.
2013 Suspected Maoist rebels kill at least 28 people and injure 32 others in an attack on a convoy of Indian National Congress politicians in Chhattisgarh, India.