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The final Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the line in Puebla, Mexico; the last of 5,961 "Special Edition" cars will be exhibited in a museum.

2019

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Tham Luang cave rescue: A group of Thai school children and their football coach are all rescued from a cave after being stuck there for 18 days; one Thai Navy SEAL diver dies during the rescue mission.

2018

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Iraqi Civil War: Mosul is declared fully liberated from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant by the government of Iraq.

2017

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Portugal defeats France in the UEFA Euro 2016 Final to win their first European title.

2016

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The Episcopal Church USA allows same-sex marriage.

2012

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Russian cruise ship Bulgaria sinks in the Volga River near Syukeyevo, Tatarstan, causing 122 deaths.

2011

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Amid widespread backlash to revelations of phone hacking, the British weekly tabloid newspaper News of the World publishes its final issue and shuts down after nearly 168 years in print.

2011

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Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boškoski is acquitted of all war-crimes charges by a United Nations tribunal.

2008

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Erden Eruç begins the first solo human-powered circumnavigation of the world.

2007

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The Pakistani military storms the Lal Masjid mosque in Islamabad, which had been seized by Islamist militants.

2007

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A Pakistan International Airlines Fokker F27 Friendship crashes near Multan International Airport, killing all 45 people on board.

2006

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The Massacre of the Innocents, a painting by Peter Paul Rubens, is sold at a Sotheby's auction for £49.5 million (US$76.2 million) to Lord Thomson.

2002

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EADS, the world's second-largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of Aérospatiale-Matra, DASA, and CASA.

2000

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Bashar al-Assad succeeds his father Hafez al-Assad as President of Syria.

2000

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In women's association football, the United States defeats China in a penalty shoot-out at the Rose Bowl near Los Angeles to win the final match of the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup. Watched by 90,185 spectators, the final sets a new world record for attendance at a women's sporting event.

1999

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Catholic Church sexual abuse cases: The Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23.4 million to nine former altar boys who claim they were sexually abused by Rudolph Kos, a former priest.

1998

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In London, scientists report the findings of the DNA analysis of a Neanderthal skeleton which supports the "out of Africa theory" of human evolution, placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.

1997

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Miguel Ángel Blanco, a member of Partido Popular (Spain), is kidnapped (and later murdered) in the Basque city of Ermua by ETA members, sparking widespread protests.

1997

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Burmese politician Aung San Suu Kyi is released from house arrest.

1995

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The NIOSH air filtration ratings update with the enactment of 42 CFR 84, previously published in the Federal Register. The new regulation includes rules governing the new N95 respirator standard.

1995

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In Miami, former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering violations.

1992

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The South African cricket team is readmitted into the International Cricket Council following the end of Apartheid.

1991

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Boris Yeltsin takes office as the first elected President of Russia.

1991

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A Beechcraft Model 99 crashes near Birmingham Municipal Airport (now Birmingham–Shuttlesworth International Airport) in Birmingham, Alabama, killing 13 of the 15 people on board.

1991

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The Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland harbour by French DGSE agents, killing Fernando Pereira.

1985

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An Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-154 stalls and crashes near Uchkuduk, Uzbekistan (then part of the Soviet Union), killing all 200 people on board in the USSR's worst-ever airline disaster.

1985

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President Moktar Ould Daddah of Mauritania is ousted in a bloodless coup d'état.

1978

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Four mercenaries (one American and three British) are executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial.

1976

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An EgyptAir Tupolev Tu-154 stalls and crashes at Cairo International Airport, killing all six people on board.

1974

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The Bahamas gains full independence within the Commonwealth of Nations.

1973

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New Zealand decimalises its former currency to the modern-day New Zealand dollar.

1967

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The Chicago Freedom Movement, co-founded by Martin Luther King Jr., holds a rally at Soldier Field in Chicago; as many as 60,000 people attend.

1966

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Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit.

1962

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Korean War: Armistice negotiations begin at Kaesong.

1951

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The official establishment of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea).: 121

1948

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Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor-General of Pakistan by the British Prime Minister, Clement Attlee.

1947

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World War II: Operation Husky, the Allied invasion of Sicily, begins.

1943

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World War II: An American pilot spots a downed, intact Mitsubishi A6M Zero on Akutan Island (the "Akutan Zero"), which the US Navy then uses to learn the aircraft's flight characteristics.

1942

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Jedwabne pogrom: Massacre of Polish Jews living in and near the village of Jedwabne.

1941

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World War II: The Vichy government is established in France.

1940

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World War II: Six days before Adolf Hitler issues his Directive 16 to the combined Wehrmacht armed forces for Operation Sea Lion, the Kanalkampf shipping attacks begin against British maritime convoys in the leadup to initiating the Battle of Britain.

1940

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Howard Hughes begins a 91-hour airplane flight around the world that will set a new record.

1938

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Kevin O'Higgins TD, Vice-President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State, is assassinated by the IRA.

1927

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Scopes trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins of John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher accused of teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.

1925

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Paavo Nurmi wins the 1,500 m and 5,000 m events at the Paris Olympics, with just an hour between the two races.

1924

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Belfast's Bloody Sunday occurs with 20 killings, at least 100 wounded and 200 homes destroyed during rioting and gun battles in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

1921

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Arthur Meighen becomes Prime Minister of Canada.

1920

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Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state.

1890

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War of the Pacific: Chileans led by Alejandro Gorostiaga defeat Andrés Avelino Cáceres's Peruvian army at the Battle of Huamachuco, hastening the end of the war.

1883

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War of the Pacific: Chile suffers its last military defeat in the Battle of La Concepción when a garrison of 77 men is annihilated by a 1,300-strong Peruvian force, many of them armed with spears.

1882

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The then-villa of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, formally receives its city charter from the Royal Crown of Spain.

1877

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U.S. President Millard Fillmore is sworn in, a day after becoming president upon Zachary Taylor's death.

1850

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U.S. President Andrew Jackson vetoes a bill that would re-charter the Second Bank of the United States.

1832

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The Vellore Mutiny is the first instance of a mutiny by Indian sepoys against the British East India Company.

1806

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Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Mackenzie River delta.

1789

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American Revolution: Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain.

1778

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Anglo-Spanish War (1654–1671): Notable Buccaneer Henry Morgan with an English Privateer force lands at Porto Bello in an attempt to capture the fortified and lucrative Spanish city.

1668

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English Civil War: The Battle of Langport takes place.

1645

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William I of Orange is assassinated in his home in Delft, Holland, by Balthasar Gérard.

1584

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Lady Jane Grey takes the throne of England.

1553

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Zhu Chenhao declares the Ming dynasty's Zhengde Emperor a usurper, beginning the Prince of Ning rebellion, and leads his army north in an attempt to capture Nanjing.

1519

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The Spanish conquest of Iberian Navarre commences with the capture of Goizueta.

1512

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The Portuguese explorer Nicolau Coelho returns to Lisbon after discovering the sea route to India as a companion of Vasco da Gama.

1499

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Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, defeats the king's Lancastrian forces and takes King Henry VI prisoner in the Battle of Northampton.

1460

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Ladislaus IV, King of Hungary, is assassinated at the castle of Körösszeg (modern-day Cheresig in Romania).

1290

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The most severe of several early fires of London burns most of the city to the ground.

1212

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The Norse King Glúniairn recognises Máel Sechnaill mac Domnaill, High King of Ireland, and agrees to pay taxes and accept Brehon Law; the event is considered to be the founding of the city of Dublin.

988

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Isshi Incident: Prince Naka-no-Ōe and Fujiwara no Kamatari assassinate Soga no Iruka during a coup d'état at the imperial palace.

645

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Justin I is crowned Byzantine Emperor by the patriarch of Constantinople the day after the death of emperor Anastasius.

518

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Having usurped the throne of Emperor Gong of Jin, Liu Yu proclaims himself Emperor of the Liu Song dynasty.

420

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Emperor Hadrian of Rome dies of heart failure at his residence on the bay of Naples, Baiae; he is buried at Rome in the Tomb of Hadrian beside his late wife, Vibia Sabina.

138

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On this day

The final Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the line in Puebla, Mexico; the last of 5,961 "Special Edition" cars will be exhibited in a museum.

2019

view article

Tham Luang cave rescue: A group of Thai school children and their football coach are all rescued from a cave after being stuck there for 18 days; one Thai Navy SEAL diver dies during the rescue mission.

2018

view article

Iraqi Civil War: Mosul is declared fully liberated from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant by the government of Iraq.

2017

view article

Portugal defeats France in the UEFA Euro 2016 Final to win their first European title.

2016

view article

The Episcopal Church USA allows same-sex marriage.

2012

view article

Russian cruise ship Bulgaria sinks in the Volga River near Syukeyevo, Tatarstan, causing 122 deaths.

2011

view article

Amid widespread backlash to revelations of phone hacking, the British weekly tabloid newspaper News of the World publishes its final issue and shuts down after nearly 168 years in print.

2011

view article

Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boškoski is acquitted of all war-crimes charges by a United Nations tribunal.

2008

view article

Erden Eruç begins the first solo human-powered circumnavigation of the world.

2007

view article

The Pakistani military storms the Lal Masjid mosque in Islamabad, which had been seized by Islamist militants.

2007

view article

A Pakistan International Airlines Fokker F27 Friendship crashes near Multan International Airport, killing all 45 people on board.

2006

view article

The Massacre of the Innocents, a painting by Peter Paul Rubens, is sold at a Sotheby's auction for £49.5 million (US$76.2 million) to Lord Thomson.

2002

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EADS, the world's second-largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of Aérospatiale-Matra, DASA, and CASA.

2000

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Bashar al-Assad succeeds his father Hafez al-Assad as President of Syria.

2000

view article

In women's association football, the United States defeats China in a penalty shoot-out at the Rose Bowl near Los Angeles to win the final match of the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup. Watched by 90,185 spectators, the final sets a new world record for attendance at a women's sporting event.

1999

view article

Catholic Church sexual abuse cases: The Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23.4 million to nine former altar boys who claim they were sexually abused by Rudolph Kos, a former priest.

1998

view article

In London, scientists report the findings of the DNA analysis of a Neanderthal skeleton which supports the "out of Africa theory" of human evolution, placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.

1997

view article

Miguel Ángel Blanco, a member of Partido Popular (Spain), is kidnapped (and later murdered) in the Basque city of Ermua by ETA members, sparking widespread protests.

1997

view article

Burmese politician Aung San Suu Kyi is released from house arrest.

1995

view article

The NIOSH air filtration ratings update with the enactment of 42 CFR 84, previously published in the Federal Register. The new regulation includes rules governing the new N95 respirator standard.

1995

view article

In Miami, former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering violations.

1992

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The South African cricket team is readmitted into the International Cricket Council following the end of Apartheid.

1991

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Boris Yeltsin takes office as the first elected President of Russia.

1991

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A Beechcraft Model 99 crashes near Birmingham Municipal Airport (now Birmingham–Shuttlesworth International Airport) in Birmingham, Alabama, killing 13 of the 15 people on board.

1991

view article

The Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland harbour by French DGSE agents, killing Fernando Pereira.

1985

view article

An Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-154 stalls and crashes near Uchkuduk, Uzbekistan (then part of the Soviet Union), killing all 200 people on board in the USSR's worst-ever airline disaster.

1985

view article

President Moktar Ould Daddah of Mauritania is ousted in a bloodless coup d'état.

1978

view article

Four mercenaries (one American and three British) are executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial.

1976

view article

An EgyptAir Tupolev Tu-154 stalls and crashes at Cairo International Airport, killing all six people on board.

1974

view article

The Bahamas gains full independence within the Commonwealth of Nations.

1973

view article

New Zealand decimalises its former currency to the modern-day New Zealand dollar.

1967

view article

The Chicago Freedom Movement, co-founded by Martin Luther King Jr., holds a rally at Soldier Field in Chicago; as many as 60,000 people attend.

1966

view article

Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit.

1962

view article

Korean War: Armistice negotiations begin at Kaesong.

1951

view article

The official establishment of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea).: 121

1948

view article

Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor-General of Pakistan by the British Prime Minister, Clement Attlee.

1947

view article

World War II: Operation Husky, the Allied invasion of Sicily, begins.

1943

view article

World War II: An American pilot spots a downed, intact Mitsubishi A6M Zero on Akutan Island (the "Akutan Zero"), which the US Navy then uses to learn the aircraft's flight characteristics.

1942

view article

Jedwabne pogrom: Massacre of Polish Jews living in and near the village of Jedwabne.

1941

view article

World War II: The Vichy government is established in France.

1940

view article

World War II: Six days before Adolf Hitler issues his Directive 16 to the combined Wehrmacht armed forces for Operation Sea Lion, the Kanalkampf shipping attacks begin against British maritime convoys in the leadup to initiating the Battle of Britain.

1940

view article

Howard Hughes begins a 91-hour airplane flight around the world that will set a new record.

1938

view article

Kevin O'Higgins TD, Vice-President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State, is assassinated by the IRA.

1927

view article

Scopes trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins of John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher accused of teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.

1925

view article

Paavo Nurmi wins the 1,500 m and 5,000 m events at the Paris Olympics, with just an hour between the two races.

1924

view article

Belfast's Bloody Sunday occurs with 20 killings, at least 100 wounded and 200 homes destroyed during rioting and gun battles in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

1921

view article

Arthur Meighen becomes Prime Minister of Canada.

1920

view article

Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state.

1890

view article

War of the Pacific: Chileans led by Alejandro Gorostiaga defeat Andrés Avelino Cáceres's Peruvian army at the Battle of Huamachuco, hastening the end of the war.

1883

view article

War of the Pacific: Chile suffers its last military defeat in the Battle of La Concepción when a garrison of 77 men is annihilated by a 1,300-strong Peruvian force, many of them armed with spears.

1882

view article

The then-villa of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, formally receives its city charter from the Royal Crown of Spain.

1877

view article

U.S. President Millard Fillmore is sworn in, a day after becoming president upon Zachary Taylor's death.

1850

view article

U.S. President Andrew Jackson vetoes a bill that would re-charter the Second Bank of the United States.

1832

view article

The Vellore Mutiny is the first instance of a mutiny by Indian sepoys against the British East India Company.

1806

view article

Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Mackenzie River delta.

1789

view article

American Revolution: Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain.

1778

view article

Anglo-Spanish War (1654–1671): Notable Buccaneer Henry Morgan with an English Privateer force lands at Porto Bello in an attempt to capture the fortified and lucrative Spanish city.

1668

view article

English Civil War: The Battle of Langport takes place.

1645

view article

William I of Orange is assassinated in his home in Delft, Holland, by Balthasar Gérard.

1584

view article

Lady Jane Grey takes the throne of England.

1553

view article

Zhu Chenhao declares the Ming dynasty's Zhengde Emperor a usurper, beginning the Prince of Ning rebellion, and leads his army north in an attempt to capture Nanjing.

1519

view article

The Spanish conquest of Iberian Navarre commences with the capture of Goizueta.

1512

view article

The Portuguese explorer Nicolau Coelho returns to Lisbon after discovering the sea route to India as a companion of Vasco da Gama.

1499

view article

Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, defeats the king's Lancastrian forces and takes King Henry VI prisoner in the Battle of Northampton.

1460

view article

Ladislaus IV, King of Hungary, is assassinated at the castle of Körösszeg (modern-day Cheresig in Romania).

1290

view article

The most severe of several early fires of London burns most of the city to the ground.

1212

view article

The Norse King Glúniairn recognises Máel Sechnaill mac Domnaill, High King of Ireland, and agrees to pay taxes and accept Brehon Law; the event is considered to be the founding of the city of Dublin.

988

view article

Isshi Incident: Prince Naka-no-Ōe and Fujiwara no Kamatari assassinate Soga no Iruka during a coup d'état at the imperial palace.

645

view article

Justin I is crowned Byzantine Emperor by the patriarch of Constantinople the day after the death of emperor Anastasius.

518

view article

Having usurped the throne of Emperor Gong of Jin, Liu Yu proclaims himself Emperor of the Liu Song dynasty.

420

view article

Emperor Hadrian of Rome dies of heart failure at his residence on the bay of Naples, Baiae; he is buried at Rome in the Tomb of Hadrian beside his late wife, Vibia Sabina.

138

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SimPolitics: America’s quest to solve politics with computers

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On this day

The final Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the line in Puebla, Mexico; the last of 5,961 "Special Edition" cars will be exhibited in a museum.

Tham Luang cave rescue: A group of Thai school children and their football coach are all rescued from a cave after being stuck there for 18 days; one Thai Navy SEAL diver dies during the rescue mission.

Iraqi Civil War: Mosul is declared fully liberated from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant by the government of Iraq.

Portugal defeats France in the UEFA Euro 2016 Final to win their first European title.

The Episcopal Church USA allows same-sex marriage.

Russian cruise ship Bulgaria sinks in the Volga River near Syukeyevo, Tatarstan, causing 122 deaths.

Amid widespread backlash to revelations of phone hacking, the British weekly tabloid newspaper News of the World publishes its final issue and shuts down after nearly 168 years in print.

Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boškoski is acquitted of all war-crimes charges by a United Nations tribunal.

Erden Eruç begins the first solo human-powered circumnavigation of the world.

The Pakistani military storms the Lal Masjid mosque in Islamabad, which had been seized by Islamist militants.

A Pakistan International Airlines Fokker F27 Friendship crashes near Multan International Airport, killing all 45 people on board.

The Massacre of the Innocents, a painting by Peter Paul Rubens, is sold at a Sotheby's auction for £49.5 million (US$76.2 million) to Lord Thomson.

EADS, the world's second-largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of Aérospatiale-Matra, DASA, and CASA.

Bashar al-Assad succeeds his father Hafez al-Assad as President of Syria.

In women's association football, the United States defeats China in a penalty shoot-out at the Rose Bowl near Los Angeles to win the final match of the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup. Watched by 90,185 spectators, the final sets a new world record for attendance at a women's sporting event.

Catholic Church sexual abuse cases: The Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23.4 million to nine former altar boys who claim they were sexually abused by Rudolph Kos, a former priest.

In London, scientists report the findings of the DNA analysis of a Neanderthal skeleton which supports the "out of Africa theory" of human evolution, placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.

Miguel Ángel Blanco, a member of Partido Popular (Spain), is kidnapped (and later murdered) in the Basque city of Ermua by ETA members, sparking widespread protests.

Burmese politician Aung San Suu Kyi is released from house arrest.

The NIOSH air filtration ratings update with the enactment of 42 CFR 84, previously published in the Federal Register. The new regulation includes rules governing the new N95 respirator standard.

In Miami, former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering violations.

The South African cricket team is readmitted into the International Cricket Council following the end of Apartheid.

Boris Yeltsin takes office as the first elected President of Russia.

A Beechcraft Model 99 crashes near Birmingham Municipal Airport (now Birmingham–Shuttlesworth International Airport) in Birmingham, Alabama, killing 13 of the 15 people on board.

The Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland harbour by French DGSE agents, killing Fernando Pereira.

An Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-154 stalls and crashes near Uchkuduk, Uzbekistan (then part of the Soviet Union), killing all 200 people on board in the USSR's worst-ever airline disaster.

President Moktar Ould Daddah of Mauritania is ousted in a bloodless coup d'état.

Four mercenaries (one American and three British) are executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial.

An EgyptAir Tupolev Tu-154 stalls and crashes at Cairo International Airport, killing all six people on board.

The Bahamas gains full independence within the Commonwealth of Nations.

New Zealand decimalises its former currency to the modern-day New Zealand dollar.

The Chicago Freedom Movement, co-founded by Martin Luther King Jr., holds a rally at Soldier Field in Chicago; as many as 60,000 people attend.

Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit.

Korean War: Armistice negotiations begin at Kaesong.

The official establishment of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea).: 121

Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor-General of Pakistan by the British Prime Minister, Clement Attlee.

World War II: Operation Husky, the Allied invasion of Sicily, begins.

World War II: An American pilot spots a downed, intact Mitsubishi A6M Zero on Akutan Island (the "Akutan Zero"), which the US Navy then uses to learn the aircraft's flight characteristics.

Jedwabne pogrom: Massacre of Polish Jews living in and near the village of Jedwabne.

World War II: The Vichy government is established in France.

World War II: Six days before Adolf Hitler issues his Directive 16 to the combined Wehrmacht armed forces for Operation Sea Lion, the Kanalkampf shipping attacks begin against British maritime convoys in the leadup to initiating the Battle of Britain.

Howard Hughes begins a 91-hour airplane flight around the world that will set a new record.

Kevin O'Higgins TD, Vice-President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State, is assassinated by the IRA.

Scopes trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins of John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher accused of teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.

Paavo Nurmi wins the 1,500 m and 5,000 m events at the Paris Olympics, with just an hour between the two races.

Belfast's Bloody Sunday occurs with 20 killings, at least 100 wounded and 200 homes destroyed during rioting and gun battles in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Arthur Meighen becomes Prime Minister of Canada.

Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state.

War of the Pacific: Chileans led by Alejandro Gorostiaga defeat Andrés Avelino Cáceres's Peruvian army at the Battle of Huamachuco, hastening the end of the war.

War of the Pacific: Chile suffers its last military defeat in the Battle of La Concepción when a garrison of 77 men is annihilated by a 1,300-strong Peruvian force, many of them armed with spears.

The then-villa of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, formally receives its city charter from the Royal Crown of Spain.

U.S. President Millard Fillmore is sworn in, a day after becoming president upon Zachary Taylor's death.

U.S. President Andrew Jackson vetoes a bill that would re-charter the Second Bank of the United States.

The Vellore Mutiny is the first instance of a mutiny by Indian sepoys against the British East India Company.

Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Mackenzie River delta.

American Revolution: Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain.

Anglo-Spanish War (1654–1671): Notable Buccaneer Henry Morgan with an English Privateer force lands at Porto Bello in an attempt to capture the fortified and lucrative Spanish city.

English Civil War: The Battle of Langport takes place.