752 BC Romulus, legendary first king of Rome, celebrates the first Roman triumph after his victory over the Caeninenses, following The Rape of the Sabine Women.
317 Crispus and Constantine II, sons of Roman Emperor Constantine I, and Licinius Iunior, son of Emperor Licinius, are made Caesares
350 Vetranio is asked by Constantina, sister of Constantius II, to proclaim himself Caesar.1383 Amadeus VI (died), Count of Savoy (born 1334)
1457 The Unitas Fratrum is established in the village of Kunvald, on the Bohemian-Moravian borderland. It is to date the second oldest Protestant denomination.
1510 Francisco de Almeida (died), Portuguese soldier and explorer (born 1450)
1547 Rudolph Goclenius (born), German philosopher (died 1628)
1565 The city of Rio de Janeiro is founded.
1597 Jean-Charles de la Faille (born), Flemish mathematician (died 1652)
1611 John Pell (born), English mathematician (died 1685)
1620 Thomas Campion (died), English poet and composer (born 1567)
1628 Writs issued in February by Charles I of England mandate that every county in England (not just seaport towns) pay ship tax by this date.
1633 George Herbert (died), Welsh-English poet and priest (born 1593)
1633 Samuel de Champlain reclaims his role as commander of New France on behalf of Cardinal Richelieu.
1642 Georgeana, Massachusetts (now known as York, Maine), becomes the first incorporated city in the United States.
1643 Girolamo Frescobaldi (died), Italian pianist and composer (born 1583)
1657 Samuel Werenfels (born), Swiss theologian (died 1740)
1692 Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne and Tituba are brought before local magistrates in Salem Village, Massachusetts, beginning what would become known as the Salem witch trials.
1732 William Cushing (born), American jurist (died 1810)
1734 Roger North (died), English lawyer and author (born 1653)
1757 Edward Moore (died), English playwright (born 1712)
1777 Georg Christoph Wagenseil (died), Austrian composer (born 1715)
1781 The Continental Congress adopts the Articles of Confederation.
1790 The first United States census is authorized.
1792 Leopold II (died), Holy Roman Emperor (born 1747)
1803 Ohio is admitted as the 17th U.S. state.
1805 Justice Samuel Chase is acquitted at the end of his impeachment trial by the U.S. Senate.
1807 Wilford Woodruff (born), American religious leader, 4th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (died 1898)
1810 Frédéric Chopin (born), Polish pianist and composer (died 1849)
1811 Leaders of the Mameluke dynasty are killed by Egyptian ruler Muhammad Ali.
1812 Augustus Pugin (born), English architect, co-designed the Palace of Westminster (died 1852)
1815 Napoleon returns to France from his banishment on Elba.
1817 Giovanni Duprè (born), Italian sculptor (died 1882)
1836 A convention of delegates from 57 Texas communities convenes in Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas, to deliberate independence from Mexico.
1837 William Dean Howells (born), American author and critic (died 1920)
1845 President John Tyler signs a bill authorizing the United States to annex the Republic of Texas.
1847 The state of Michigan formally abolishes capital punishment.
1848 Augustus Saint-Gaudens (born), Irish-American sculptor (died 1907)
1854 German psychologist Friedrich Eduard Beneke disappears; two years later his remains are found in a canal near Charlottenburg.
1858 Georg Simmel (born), German sociologist and philosopher (died 1918)
1862 Peter Barlow (died), English mathematician and physicist (born 1776)
1867 Nebraska becomes the 37th U.S. state; Lancaster, Nebraska is renamed Lincoln and becomes the state capital.
1872 Yellowstone National Park is established as the world’s first national park.
1873 E. Remington and Sons in Ilion, New York begins production of the first practical typewriter.
1893 Electrical engineer Nikola Tesla gives the first public demonstration of radio in St. Louis, Missouri.
1896 Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity.
1904 Glenn Miller (born), American trombonist, composer, and bandleader (Glenn Miller Orchestra) (died 1944)
1904 Paul Hartman (born), American actor (died 1973)
1910 David Niven (born), English actor (died 1983)
1910 The worst avalanche in United States history buries a Great Northern Railway train in northeastern King County, Washington, killing 96 people.
1912 Albert Berry makes the first parachute jump from a moving airplane.
1912 Boris Chertok (born), Polish-Russian engineer (died 2011)
1914 Harry Caray (born), American sportscaster (died 1998)
1922 William Gaines (born), American publisher (died 1992)
1922 Yitzhak Rabin (born), Israeli politician, 5th Prime Minister of Israel, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1995)
1924 Deke Slayton (born), American pilot and astronaut (died 1993)
1927 Harry Belafonte (born), American singer-songwriter and actor
1927 Robert Bork (born), American lawyer and scholar, United States Attorney General (died 2012)
1932 The son of Charles Lindbergh, Charles Augustus Lindbergh III, is kidnapped.
1935 Robert Conrad (born), American actor
1936 The Hoover Dam is completed.
1941 W47NV (now known as WSM-FM) begins operations in Nashville, Tennessee becoming the first FM radio station in the US.
1944 Roger Daltrey (born), English singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (The Who, No Plan B, and The RD Crusaders)
1945 Dirk Benedict (born) American actor
1946 The Bank of England is nationalized.
1947 Alan Thicke (born), Canadian actor and composer
1947 The International Monetary Fund begins financial operations.
1950 Cold War: Klaus Fuchs is convicted of spying for the Soviet Union by disclosing top secret atomic bomb data.
1953 Dan T. Cathy (born), American businessman
1953 Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses. He dies four days later.
1954 –Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb, is detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in the worst radioactive contamination ever caused by the United States.
1954 Catherine Bach (born), American actress
1954 Puerto Rican nationalists attack the United States Capitol building, injuring five Representatives.
1954 Ron Howard (born), American actor, director, and producer
1958 Chosei Komatsu (born), Japanese conductor
1958 Nik Kershaw (born), English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1961 President of the United States John F. Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps.
1961 Uganda becomes self-governing and holds its first elections.
1966 The Ba’ath Party takes power in Syria.
1971 A bomb explodes in a men’s room in the United States Capitol: the Weather Underground claims responsibility.
1973 Black September storms the Saudi embassy in Khartoum, Sudan, resulting in the assassination of three Western hostages.
1974 Watergate scandal: Seven are indicted for their role in the Watergate break-in and charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice.
1980 Wilhelmina Cooper (died), Dutch-American model, founded Wilhelmina Models (born 1940)
1981 Provisional Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands begins his hunger strike in HM Prison Maze.
1981 Will Power (born), Australian race car driver
1984 Jackie Coogan (died), American actor (born 1914)
1989 The United States becomes a member of the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works.
1991 Edwin H. Land (died), American scientist and businessman, co-founded the Polaroid Corporation (born 1909)
1992 Bosnia and Herzegovina declare independence from Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
1995 Georges J. F. Köhler (died), German biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1946)
1995 Yahoo! is incorporated.
1998 Titanic became the first film to gross over $1 billion worldwide.
2002 The Envisat environmental satellite successfully reaches an orbit 800 kilometers (500 mi) above the Earth on its 11th launch, carrying the heaviest payload to date at 8500 kilograms (8.5 tons).
2002 U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda begins in eastern Afghanistan.
2003 Management of the United States Customs Service and the United States Secret Service move to the United States Department of Homeland Security.
2003 The International Criminal Court holds its inaugural session in The Hague.
2005 U.S. Supreme Court rules that the execution of juveniles found guilty of murder is unconstitutional marking a change in “national standards”.
2006 English-language Wikipedia reaches its one millionth article, Jordanhill railway station.
2006 Johnny Jackson (died), American drummer (The Jackson 5) (born 1951)
2007 Tornadoes break out across the southern United States, killing at least 20; eight of the deaths are at a high school in Enterprise, Alabama.
2012 Andrew Breitbart (died), American journalist and publisher (born 1969)
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