Browse All Content
History: January 1 (#1)
January 1, 1985 The first British mobile phone call is made by Michael Harrison to his father Sir Ernest Harrison, chairman of Vodafone....
History: January 1 (#2)
January 1, 1902 The first American college football bowl game, the Rose Bowl between Michigan and Stanford, is held in Pasadena, California....
History: January 1 (#3)
January 1, 1773 The hymn that becomes known as "Amazing Grace", previously titled "1 Chronicles 17:16–17, Faith's Review and Expectation", is first used to accompany a sermon led by John Newton in th...
History: January 1 (#4)
January 1, 1772 The first traveler's cheques, which could be used in 90 European cities, are issued by the London Credit Exchange Company....
History: January 1 (#5)
January 1, 1726 J. S. Bach leads the first performance of Herr Gott, dich loben wir, BWV 16, his church cantata for New Year's Day to a libretto by Georg Christian Lehms....
History: January 3 (#1)
January 3, 1957 The Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch....
History: January 3 (#2)
January 3, 2009 The first block of the blockchain of the decentralized payment system Bitcoin, called the Genesis block, is established by the creator of the system, Satoshi Nakamoto....
History: January 4 (#1)
January 4, 1909 Explorer Aeneas Mackintosh of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition escaped death by fleeing across ice floes....
History: January 4 (#2)
January 4, 1903 Topsy, an elephant, is electrocuted by the owners of Luna Park, Coney Island. The Edison film company records the film Electrocuting an Elephant of Topsy's death....
History: January 4 (#3)
January 4, 1912 The Scout Association is incorporated throughout the British Empire by royal charter....
History: January 5 (#1)
January 5, 1914 The Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and minimum daily wage of $5 in salary plus bonuses....
History: January 5 (#2)
January 5, 1933 Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins in San Francisco Bay....
History: January 6 (#1)
January 6, 1838 Alfred Vail and colleagues demonstrate a telegraph system using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code)....
History: January 6 (#2)
January 6, 1947 Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to offer a round-the-world ticket....
History: January 6 (#3)
January 6, 1725 J. S. Bach leads the first performance of Liebster Immanuel, Herzog der Frommen, BWV 123, a chorale cantata for Epiphany....
History: January 7 (#1)
January 7, 1955 Contralto Marian Anderson becomes the first person of color to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in Giuseppe Verdi's Un ballo in maschera....
History: January 7 (#2)
January 7, 1954 Georgetown–IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system is held in New York at the head office of IBM....
History: January 7 (#3)
January 7, 1610 Galileo Galilei makes his first observation of the four Galilean moons: Ganymede, Callisto, Io and Europa, although he is not able to distinguish the last two until the following nigh...
History: January 8 (#1)
January 8, 1735 The premiere of George Frideric Handel's Ariodante takes place at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden....
History: January 8 (#2)
January 8, 1547 The first Lithuanian-language book, the Catechism of Martynas Mažvydas, is published in Königsberg....
History: January 8 (#3)
January 8, 2004 The RMS Queen Mary 2, then the largest ocean liner ever built, is christened by her namesake's granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II....
History: January 9 (#1)
January 9, 1787 The nationally known image of the Black Nazarene in the Philippines is transferred from what is now Rizal Park to its present shrine in the minor basilica of Quiapo Church. This is an...
History: January 9 (#2)
January 9, 1839 The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process....
History: January 9 (#3)
January 9, 2017 Mont-Libre Agile Learning Centre, the province of Quebec's first alternative schooling democratic learning centre to support homeschooled youth, opens in the city of Montreal....
History: January 10 (#1)
January 10, 1812 The first steamboat on the Ohio River or the Mississippi River arrives in New Orleans, 82 days after departing from Pittsburgh....
History: January 10 (#2)
January 10, 69 Lucius Calpurnius Piso Licinianus is appointed by Galba as deputy Roman Emperor....
History: January 11 (#1)
January 11, 1977 The first episode of Finnish children's TV show Pikku Kakkonen ("Little Number Two") is aired on Yle TV2....
History: January 11 (#2)
January 11, 1961 Throgs Neck Bridge over the East River, linking New York City's boroughs of The Bronx and Queens, opens to road traffic....
History: January 11 (#3)
January 11, 1759 The first American life insurance company, the Corporation for Relief of Poor and Distressed Presbyterian Ministers and of the Poor and Distressed Widows and Children of the Presbyte...
History: January 11 (#4)
January 11, 1986 The Gateway Bridge, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia is officially opened....
History: January 11 (#5)
January 11, 1943 Italian-American anarchist Carlo Tresca is assassinated in New York City....
History: January 12 (#1)
January 12, 1997 Space Shuttle program: Atlantis launches from the Kennedy Space Center on mission STS-81 to the Russian space station Mir, carrying astronaut Jerry M. Linenger for a four-month stay ...
History: January 12 (#2)
January 12, 1969 The New York Jets of the American Football League defeat the Baltimore Colts of the National Football League to win Super Bowl III in what is considered to be one of the greatest ups...
History: January 12 (#3)
January 12, 2004 The world's largest ocean liner, RMS Queen Mary 2, makes its maiden voyage....
History: January 13 (#1)
January 13, 1435 Sicut Dudum, forbidding the enslavement by the Spanish of the Guanche natives in Canary Islands who had converted, or were converting to, Christianity, is promulgated by Pope Eugene ...
History: January 14 (#1)
January 14, 1957 Kripalu Maharaj is named fifth Jagadguru (world teacher) after giving seven days of speeches before 500 Hindu scholars....
History: January 15 (#1)
January 15, 1962 The Derveni papyrus, Europe's oldest surviving manuscript dating to 340 BC, is found in northern Greece....
History: January 15 (#2)
January 15, 1936 The first building to be completely covered in glass, built for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company, is completed in Toledo, Ohio....
History: January 15 (#3)
January 15, 1910 Construction ends on the Buffalo Bill Dam in Wyoming, United States, which was the highest dam in the world at the time, at 99 m (325 ft)....
History: January 15 (#4)
January 15, 1818 A paper by David Brewster is read to the Royal Society, belatedly announcing his discovery of what we now call the biaxial class of doubly-refracting crystals. On the same day, Augus...
History: January 15 (#5)
January 15, 2015 The Swiss National Bank abandons the cap on the Swiss franc's value relative to the euro, causing turmoil in international financial markets....
History: January 16 (#1)
January 16, 1913 Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan writes his first letter to G. H. Hardy at Cambridge, stating without proof various formulae involving integrals, infinite series, and continu...
History: January 16 (#2)
January 16, 378 General Siyaj K'ak' conquers Tikal, enlarging the domain of King Spearthrower Owl of Teotihuacán....
History: January 17 (#1)
January 17, 1950 The Great Brink's Robbery: Eleven thieves steal more than $2 million from an armored car company's offices in Boston....
History: January 17 (#2)
January 17, 1904 Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard receives its premiere performance at the Moscow Art Theatre....
History: January 17 (#3)
January 17, 1920 Alcohol Prohibition begins in the United States as the Volstead Act goes into effect....
History: January 17 (#4)
January 17, 1608 Emperor Susenyos I of Ethiopia surprises an Oromo army at Ebenat; his army reportedly kills 12,000 Oromo at the cost of 400 of his men....
History: January 18 (#1)
January 18, 1778 James Cook is the first known European to discover the Hawaiian Islands, which he names the "Sandwich Islands"....
History: January 18 (#3)
January 18, 2018 A bus catches fire on the Samara–Shymkent road in Yrgyz District, Aktobe, Kazakhstan. The fire kills 52 passengers, with three passengers and two drivers escaping....
History: January 19 (#1)
January 19, 1953 Almost 72 percent of all television sets in the United States are tuned into I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth....
History: January 19 (#2)
January 19, 1639 Hämeenlinna (Swedish: Tavastehus) is granted privileges after it separated from the Vanaja parish as its own city in Tavastia....
History: January 19 (#3)
January 19, 1853 Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il trovatore receives its premiere performance in Rome....
History: January 20 (#1)
January 20, 1788 The third and main part of First Fleet arrives at Botany Bay, beginning the British colonization of Australia. Arthur Phillip decides that Port Jackson is a more suitable location fo...
History: January 20 (#2)
January 20, 1726 J. S. Bach leads the first performance of his cantata Meine Seufzer, meine Tränen (My sighs, my tears), BWV 13, for the second Sunday after Epiphany....
History: January 21 (#1)
January 21, 1963 The Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad ends operation....
History: January 22 (#2)
January 22, 1998 Space Shuttle program: space shuttle Endeavour launches on STS-89 to dock with the Russian space station Mir....
History: January 22 (#3)
January 22, 1970 The Boeing 747, the world's first "jumbo jet", enters commercial service for launch customer Pan American Airways with its maiden voyage from New York's John F. Kennedy International...
History: January 23 (#1)
January 23, 1957 American inventor Walter Frederick Morrison sells the rights to his flying disc to the Wham-O toy company, which later renames it the "Frisbee"....
History: January 25 (#1)
January 25, 1964 Blue Ribbon Sports, which would later become Nike, is founded by University of Oregon track and field athletes....
History: January 25 (#2)
January 25, 1961 Walt Disney Productions released the animated feature One Hundred and One Dalmatians, based on Dodie Smith's 1956 children's novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians....
History: January 25 (#3)
January 25, 1960 The National Association of Broadcasters in the United States reacts to the "payola" scandal by threatening fines for any disc jockeys who accept money for playing particular records...
History: January 25 (#4)
January 25, 1650 As part of the purges following the Great Potosí Mint Fraud of 1649 Francisco Gómez de la Rocha, a rich former corregidor of Potosí, is executed....
History: January 25 (#5)
January 25, 1515 Coronation of Francis I of France takes place at Reims Cathedral, where the new monarch is anointed with the oil of Clovis and girt with the sword of Charlemagne....
History: January 26 (#1)
January 26, 1949 The Hale Telescope at Palomar Observatory sees first light under the direction of Edwin Hubble, becoming the largest aperture optical telescope (until BTA-6 is built in 1976)....
History: January 27 (#1)
January 27, 1820 A Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev discovers the Antarctic continent, approaching the Antarctic coast....
History: January 27 (#2)
January 27, 1726 J. S. Bach leads the first performance of Alles nur nach Gottes Willen, BWV 72, concluding his third Christmas season in Leipzig on the Third Sunday after Epiphany....
History: January 27 (#3)
January 27, 1880 Thomas Edison receives a patent for his incandescent lamp....
History: January 28 (#1)
January 28, 1980 USCGC Blackthorn collides with the tanker Capricorn while leaving Tampa, Florida and capsizes, killing 23 Coast Guard crewmembers....
History: January 28 (#2)
January 28, 1960 The National Football League announces expansion teams for Dallas to start in the 1960 NFL season and Minneapolis-St. Paul for the 1961 NFL season....
History: January 28 (#3)
January 28, 1938 The World Land Speed Record on a public road is broken by Rudolf Caracciola in the Mercedes-Benz W125 Rekordwagen at a speed of 432.7 kilometres per hour (268.9 mph)....
History: January 28 (#4)
January 28, 1933 The name Pakistan is coined by Choudhry Rahmat Ali Khan and is accepted by Indian Muslims who then thereby adopted it further for the Pakistan Movement seeking independence....
History: January 28 (#5)
January 28, 1878 Yale Daily News becomes the first independent daily college newspaper in the United States....
History: January 29 (#1)
January 29, 1845 "The Raven" is published in The Evening Mirror in New York, the first publication with the name of the author, Edgar Allan Poe....
History: January 30 (#1)
January 30, 1826 The Menai Suspension Bridge, considered the world's first modern suspension bridge, connecting the Isle of Anglesey to the northwest coast of Wales, is opened....
History: January 31 (#1)
January 31, 1949 These Are My Children, the first television daytime soap opera, is broadcast by the NBC station in Chicago, United States....
History: January 31 (#2)
January 31, 1901 Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters premieres at Moscow Art Theatre in Russia....
History: February 1 (#1)
February 1, 1896 La bohème premieres in Turin at the Teatro Regio (Turin), conducted by the young Arturo Toscanini....
History: February 1 (#2)
February 1, 1884 The first volume (A to Ant) of the Oxford English Dictionary is published....
History: February 2 (#1)
February 2, 1909 The Paris Film Congress opens, an attempt by European producers to form an equivalent to the MPPC cartel in the United States....
History: February 2 (#2)
February 2, 1725 J. S. Bach leads the first performance of his chorale cantata Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin, BWV 125, based on Luther's paraphrase of the Nunc dimittis....
History: February 2 (#3)
February 2, 1207 Terra Mariana, eventually comprising present-day Latvia and Estonia, is established....
History: February 2 (#4)
February 2, 2000 First digital cinema projection in Europe (Paris) realized by Philippe Binant with the DLP CINEMA technology developed by Texas Instruments....
History: February 3 (#1)
February 3, 1995 Astronaut Eileen Collins becomes the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle as mission STS-63 gets underway from Kennedy Space Center in Florida....
History: February 3 (#2)
February 3, 1971 New York Police Officer Frank Serpico is shot during a drug bust in Brooklyn and survives to later testify against police corruption....
History: February 3 (#3)
February 3, 1918 The Twin Peaks Tunnel in San Francisco, California begins service as the longest streetcar tunnel in the world at 11,920 feet (3,630 meters) long....
History: February 4 (#1)
February 4, 1977 A Chicago Transit Authority elevated train rear-ends another and derails, killing 11 and injuring 180, the worst accident in the agency's history....
History: February 4 (#3)
February 4, 2004 Facebook, a mainstream online social networking site, is founded by Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin....
History: February 5 (#1)
February 5, 1924 The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal....
History: February 6 (#1)
February 6, 1820 The first 86 African American immigrants sponsored by the American Colonization Society depart New York to start a settlement in present-day Liberia....
History: February 6 (#2)
February 6, 1959 Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments files the first patent for an integrated circuit....
History: February 8 (#1)
February 8, 1910 The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce....
History: February 9 (#1)
February 9, 1932 Prohibition law is abolished in Finland after a national referendum, where 70% voted for a repeal of the law....
History: February 9 (#2)
February 9, 1978 The Budd Company unveils its first SPV-2000 self-propelled railcar in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania....
History: February 9 (#3)
February 9, 1922 Brazil becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty....
History: February 9 (#4)
February 9, 1893 Verdi's last opera, Falstaff, premieres at La Scala, Milan....
History: February 10 (#1)
February 10, 1933 In round 13 of a boxing match at New York City's Madison Square Garden, Primo Carnera knocks out Ernie Schaaf. Schaaf dies four days later....
History: February 10 (#2)
February 10, 1996 IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in chess for the first time....
History: February 10 (#3)
February 10, 1502 Vasco da Gama sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal, on his second voyage to India....
History: February 11 (#1)
February 11, 1946 The New Testament of the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, the first significant challenge to the Authorized King James Version, is published....
History: February 11 (#2)
February 11, 1856 The Kingdom of Awadh is annexed by the British East India Company and Wajid Ali Shah, the king of Awadh, is deposed....
History: February 11 (#3)
February 11, 1937 The Flint sit-down strike ends when General Motors recognizes the United Auto Workers trade union....
History: February 11 (#4)
February 11, 1840 Gaetano Donizetti's opera La fille du régiment receives its first performance in Paris, France....
History: February 11 (#5)
February 11, 1997 Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on a mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope....
History: February 13 (#1)
February 13, 1914 Copyright: In New York City the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers is established to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members....
History: February 13 (#2)
February 13, 1633 Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition....
History: February 13 (#3)
February 13, 1322 The central tower of Ely Cathedral falls on the night of 12th–13th....
History: February 14 (#1)
February 14, 1924 The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company changes its name to International Business Machines Corporation (IBM)....
History: February 14 (#2)
February 14, 2005 YouTube is launched by a group of college students, eventually becoming the largest video sharing website in the world and a main source for viral videos....
History: February 15 (#1)
February 15, 1852 The Helsinki Cathedral (known as St. Nicholas' Church at time) is officially inaugurated in Helsinki, Finland....
History: February 15 (#2)
February 15, 1972 Sound recordings are granted U.S. federal copyright protection for the first time....
History: February 15 (#3)
February 15, 1493 While on board the Niña, Christopher Columbus writes an open letter (widely distributed upon his return to Portugal) describing his discoveries and the unexpected items he came acro...
History: February 17 (#1)
February 17, 1996 In Philadelphia, world champion Garry Kasparov beats the Deep Blue supercomputer in a chess match....
History: February 17 (#2)
February 17, 1676 Sixteen men of Pascual de Iriate's expedition are lost at Evangelistas Islets at the western end of the Strait of Magellan....
History: February 17 (#3)
February 17, 1600 On his way to be burned at the stake for heresy, at Campo de' Fiori in Rome, the philosopher Giordano Bruno has a wooden vise put on his tongue to prevent him continuing to speak....
History: February 18 (#1)
February 18, 3102 BCE Kali Yuga, the fourth and final yuga of Hinduism, starts with the death of Krishna....
History: February 20 (#1)
February 20, 1952 Emmett Ashford becomes the first African-American umpire in organized baseball by being authorized to be a substitute umpire in the Southwestern International League....
History: February 20 (#2)
February 20, 1956 The United States Merchant Marine Academy becomes a permanent Service Academy....
History: February 20 (#3)
February 20, 1872 The Metropolitan Museum of Art opens in New York City....
History: February 21 (#1)
February 21, 1947 In New York City, Edwin Land demonstrates the first "instant camera", the Polaroid Land Camera, to a meeting of the Optical Society of America....
History: February 21 (#2)
February 21, 1828 Initial issue of the Cherokee Phoenix is the first periodical to use the Cherokee syllabary invented by Sequoyah....
History: February 21 (#3)
February 21, 1974 The last Israeli soldiers leave the west bank of the Suez Canal pursuant to a truce with Egypt....
History: February 23 (#1)
February 23, 1909 The AEA Silver Dart makes the first powered flight in Canada and the British Empire....
History: February 23 (#2)
February 23, 1725 J. S. Bach leads his Tafel-Music Shepherd Cantata for the birthday of Christian, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels....
History: February 24 (#1)
February 24, 1822 The first Swaminarayan temple in the world, Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Ahmedabad, is inaugurated....
History: February 26 (#1)
February 26, 1909 Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is first shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London....
History: February 26 (#2)
February 26, 1606 The Janszoon voyage of 1605–06 becomes the first European expedition to set foot on Australia, although it is mistaken as a part of New Guinea....
History: February 26 (#3)
February 26, 1794 The first Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen burns down....
History: February 27 (#1)
February 27, 907 Abaoji, chieftain of the Yila tribe, is named khagan of the Khitans....
History: February 28 (#1)
February 28, 1835 Elias Lönnrot signs and dates the foreword to the first version of the Kalevala, the so-called Old Kalevala....
History: February 28 (#2)
February 28, 202 BCE Liu Bang is enthroned as the Emperor of China, beginning four centuries of rule by the Han dynasty....
History: February 29 (#1)
February 29, 1504 Christopher Columbus uses his knowledge of a lunar eclipse that night to convince Jamaican natives to provide him with supplies....
History: March 1 (#1)
March 1, 1956 The International Air Transport Association finalizes a draft of the Radiotelephony spelling alphabet for the International Civil Aviation Organization....
History: March 2 (#1)
March 2, 1989 Twelve European Community nations agree to ban the production of all chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) by the end of the century....
History: March 2 (#2)
March 2, 1968 Baggeridge Colliery closes, marking the end of over 300 years of coal mining in the Black Country....
History: March 2 (#3)
March 2, 1969 In Toulouse, France, the first test flight of the Anglo-French Concorde is conducted....
History: March 3 (#1)
March 3, 1585 The Olympic Theatre, designed by Andrea Palladio, is inaugurated in Vicenza....
History: March 3 (#2)
March 3, 724 Empress Genshō abdicates the throne in favor of her nephew Shōmu who becomes emperor of Japan....
History: March 4 (#1)
March 4, 1493 Explorer Christopher Columbus arrives back in Lisbon, Portugal, aboard his ship Niña from his voyage to what are now The Bahamas and other islands in the Caribbean....
History: March 4 (#2)
March 4, 1957 The S&P 500 stock market index is introduced, replacing the S&P 90....
History: March 4 (#3)
March 4, 852 Croatian Knez Trpimir I issues a statute, a document with the first known written mention of the Croats name in Croatian sources....
History: March 5 (#1)
March 5, 1981 The ZX81, a pioneering British home computer, is launched by Sinclair Research and would go on to sell over 11⁄2 million units around the world....
History: March 5 (#2)
March 5, 1850 The Britannia Bridge across the Menai Strait between the island of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales is opened....
History: March 5 (#3)
March 5, 1860 Parma, Tuscany, Modena and Romagna vote in referendums to join the Kingdom of Sardinia....
History: March 8 (#1)
March 8, 1979 Philips demonstrates the compact disc publicly for the first time....
History: March 9 (#1)
March 9, 1842 Giuseppe Verdi's third opera, Nabucco, receives its première performance in Milan; its success establishes Verdi as one of Italy's foremost opera composers....
History: March 9 (#2)
March 9, 1959 The Barbie doll makes its debut at the American International Toy Fair in New York....
History: March 9 (#3)
March 9, 1009 First known mention of Lithuania, in the annals of the monastery of Quedlinburg....
History: March 10 (#1)
March 10, 1496 After establishing the city of Santo Domingo, Christopher Columbus departs for Spain, leaving his brother in command....
History: March 11 (#1)
March 11, 1851 The first performance of Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi takes place in Venice....
History: March 11 (#2)
March 11, 1702 The Daily Courant, England's first national daily newspaper, is published for the first time....
History: March 12 (#1)
March 12, 2009 Financier Bernie Madoff pleads guilty to one of the largest frauds in Wall Street's history....
History: March 14 (#1)
March 14, 1942 Anne Miller becomes the first American patient to be treated with penicillin, under the care of Orvan Hess and John Bumstead....
History: March 15 (#1)
March 15, 1927 The first Women's Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes place on The Isis in Oxford....
History: March 15 (#2)
March 15, 351 Constantius Gallus is elevated as Caesar and then sent to Antioch to govern the Roman East....
History: March 16 (#1)
March 16, 1621 Samoset, an Abenaki, visits the settlers of Plymouth Colony and greets them, "Welcome, Englishmen! My name is Samoset."...
History: March 17 (#1)
March 17, 1862 The first railway line of Finland between cities of Helsinki and Hämeenlinna, called Päärata, is officially opened....
History: March 17 (#2)
March 17, 1979 The Penmanshiel Tunnel collapses during engineering works, killing two workers....
History: March 21 (#1)
March 21, 1925 The Butler Act prohibits the teaching of human evolution in Tennessee....
History: March 22 (#1)
March 22, 1906 The first England vs France rugby union match is played at Parc des Princes in Paris....
History: March 22 (#2)
March 22, 1784 The Emerald Buddha is moved with great ceremony to its current location in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand....
History: March 22 (#3)
March 22, 1631 The Massachusetts Bay Colony outlaws the possession of cards, dice, and gaming tables....
History: March 23 (#1)
March 23, 1857 Elisha Otis's first elevator is installed at 488 Broadway New York City....
History: March 23 (#2)
March 23, 2001 The Russian Mir space station is disposed of, breaking up in the atmosphere before falling into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji....
History: March 23 (#3)
March 23, 2021 A container ship runs aground and obstructs the Suez Canal for six days....
History: March 25 (#1)
March 25, 1957 The European Economic Community is established with West Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg as the first members....
History: March 25 (#2)
March 25, 1725 Bach's chorale cantata "Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, BWV 1", is first performed on the Feast of the Annunciation, coinciding with Palm Sunday....
History: March 25 (#3)
March 25, 1770 Daskalogiannis leads the people of Sfakia in the first Greek uprising against the Ottoman rule...
History: March 25 (#4)
March 25, 1911 Andrey Yushchinsky is murdered in Kiev, leading to the Beilis affair....
History: March 25 (#5)
March 25, 1655 Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christiaan Huygens....
History: March 26 (#1)
March 26, 1958 The African Regroupment Party is launched at a meeting in Paris....
History: March 27 (#1)
March 27, 1309 Pope Clement V imposes excommunication and interdiction on Venice, and a general prohibition of all commercial intercourse with Venice, which had seized Ferrara, a papal fiefdom....
History: March 28 (#1)
March 28, 1910 Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane, the Fabre Hydravion, after taking off from water runway Étang le Barre, near Marseille....
History: March 29 (#1)
March 29, 1999 The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 10,000 mark (10,006.78) for the first time, during the height of the dot-com bubble....
History: March 29 (#2)
March 29, 1984 The Baltimore Colts load their possessions onto fifteen Mayflower moving trucks in the early morning hours and transfer their operations to Indianapolis....
History: March 31 (#1)
March 31, 1906 The Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (later the National Collegiate Athletic Association) is established to set rules for college sports in the United States....
History: March 31 (#2)
March 31, 1717 A sermon on "The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ" by Benjamin Hoadly, the Bishop of Bangor, preached in the presence of King George I of Great Britain, provokes the Bangorian Controver...
History: March 31 (#3)
March 31, 1492 Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile sign the Edict of Expulsion of the Jews from Spain, ordering all Jews in their kingdoms to either convert to Christianity or leave the ...
History: March 31 (#4)
March 31, 1901 Rusalka by Antonín Dvořák premieres at the National Opera House in Prague....
History: April 2 (#1)
April 2, 1725 J. S. Bach's cantata Bleib bei uns, denn es will Abend werden, BWV 6, is first performed in Leipzig on Easter Monday....
History: April 2 (#2)
April 2, 1107 Seljuq sultan Muhammad I Tapar begins the siege of Shahdiz, a fortress of the Nizari Ismailis....
History: April 3 (#1)
April 3, 1895 The trial in the libel case brought by Oscar Wilde begins, eventually resulting in his imprisonment on charges of homosexuality....
History: April 3 (#2)
April 3, 686 Maya king Yuknoom Yich'aak K'ahk' assumes the crown of Calakmul....
History: April 4 (#1)
April 4, 1996 Comet Hyakutake is imaged by the USA Asteroid Orbiter Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous....
History: April 4 (#2)
April 4, 1581 Francis Drake is knighted by Queen Elizabeth I for completing a circumnavigation of the world....
History: April 5 (#1)
April 5, 1998 In Japan, the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge opens to traffic, becoming the longest bridge span in the world....
History: April 6 (#1)
April 6, 1909 Robert Peary and Matthew Henson become the first people to reach the North Pole; Peary's claim has been disputed because of failings in his navigational ability....
History: April 6 (#2)
April 6, 1808 John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company, that would eventually make him America's first millionaire....
History: April 8 (#1)
April 8, 1730 Shearith Israel, the first synagogue in continental North America, is dedicated....
History: April 9 (#1)
April 9, 1990 An Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia collides in mid-air with a Cessna 172 over Gadsden, Alabama, killing both of the Cessna's occupants....
History: April 9 (#2)
April 9, 1860 On his phonautograph machine, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville makes the first known recording of an audible human voice....
History: April 10 (#1)
April 10, 1724 Bach leads the first performance of his cantata Erfreut euch, ihr Herzen, BWV 66, his first cantata composed for Easter in Leipzig....
History: April 11 (#1)
April 11, 1727 Premiere of Johann Sebastian Bach's St Matthew Passion BWV 244b at St. Thomas Church in Leipzig, Electorate of Saxony (now Germany)....
History: April 13 (#1)
April 13, 2025 Rory McIlroy wins the Masters Tournament, becoming just the sixth person to complete the Grand Slam in golf....
History: April 14 (#1)
April 14, 1935 The Black Sunday dust storm, considered one of the worst storms of the Dust Bowl, sweeps across the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles and neighboring areas....
History: April 14 (#2)
April 14, 1894 The first ever commercial motion picture house opens in New York City, United States. It uses ten Kinetoscopes, devices for peep-show viewing of films....
History: April 14 (#3)
April 14, 1858 The 1858 Christiania fire severely destroys several city blocks near Stortorvet in Christiania, Norway, and about 1,000 people lose their homes....
History: April 15 (#1)
April 15, 1817 Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc found the American School for the Deaf (then called the Connecticut Asylum for the Education and Instruction of Deaf and Dumb Persons), the f...
History: April 15 (#2)
April 15, 1738 Serse, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel, receives its premiere performance in London, England....
History: April 15 (#3)
April 15, 1755 Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language is published in London....
History: April 17 (#1)
April 17, 1492 Spain and Christopher Columbus sign the Capitulations of Santa Fe for his voyage to Asia to acquire spices....
History: April 19 (#1)
April 19, 1925 Colo-Colo, the most successful and popular soccer football team in the South American nation of Chile, was founded at the El Llano Stadium in San Miguel, Santiago, by footballer David ...
History: April 19 (#2)
April 19, 1770 Captain James Cook, still holding the rank of lieutenant, sights the eastern coast of what is now Australia....
History: April 21 (#1)
April 21, 1934 The "Surgeon's Photograph", the most famous photo allegedly showing the Loch Ness Monster, is published in the Daily Mail (in 1994, it is revealed to be a hoax)....
History: April 21 (#2)
April 21, 1952 Secretary's Day (now Administrative Professionals' Day) is first celebrated....
History: April 22 (#1)
April 22, 1970 Chicano residents in San Diego, California occupy a site under the Coronado Bridge, leading to the creation of Chicano Park....
History: April 22 (#2)
April 22, 1977 Optical fiber is first used to carry live telephone traffic....
History: April 23 (#1)
April 23, 1985 Coca-Cola changes its formula and releases New Coke. The response is overwhelmingly negative, and the original formula is back on the market in less than three months....
History: April 23 (#2)
April 23, 1724 Johann Sebastian Bach leads the first performance of his cantata Du Hirte Israel, höre, BWV 104, illustrating the topic of the Good Shepherd in pastoral music....
History: April 24 (#1)
April 24, 1916 Ernest Shackleton and five men of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition launch a lifeboat from uninhabited Elephant Island in the Southern Ocean to organise a rescue for the crew of ...
History: April 24 (#2)
April 24, 1990 STS-31: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched from the Space Shuttle Discovery....
History: April 25 (#1)
April 25, 1829 Charles Fremantle arrives in HMS Challenger off the coast of modern-day Western Australia prior to declaring the Swan River Colony for the British Empire....
History: April 25 (#2)
April 25, 1954 The first practical solar cell is publicly demonstrated by Bell Telephone Laboratories....
History: April 25 (#3)
April 25, 2005 The final piece of the Obelisk of Axum is returned to Ethiopia after being stolen by the invading Italian army in 1937....
History: April 27 (#1)
April 27, 1667 Blind and impoverished, John Milton sells Paradise Lost to a printer for £10, so that it could be entered into the Stationers' Register....
History: April 27 (#2)
April 27, 1565 Cebu is established becoming the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines....
History: April 28 (#1)
April 28, 1910 Frenchman Louis Paulhan wins the 1910 London to Manchester air race, the first long-distance aeroplane race in the United Kingdom....
History: April 28 (#2)
April 28, 1253 Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk, propounds Namu Myōhō Renge Kyō for the first time and declares it to be the essence of Buddhism, in effect founding Nichiren Buddhism....
History: April 28 (#3)
April 28, 1294 Temür, grandson of Kublai, is elected Khagan of the Mongols with the reigning title Oljeitu....
History: April 29 (#1)
April 29, 1492 The Crown's decision to expel the Jews is announced in Zaragoza, Aragon, to the kingdom's procurators....
History: April 29 (#2)
April 29, 1770 James Cook arrives in Australia at Botany Bay, which he names....
History: April 30 (#1)
April 30, 1492 Spain gives Christopher Columbus his commission of exploration. He is named admiral of the ocean sea, viceroy and governor of any territory he discovers....
History: April 30 (#2)
April 30, 2008 Two skeletal remains found near Yekaterinburg are confirmed by Russian scientists to be the remains of Alexei and Anastasia, two of the children of the last Tsar of Russia, whose entir...
History: May 1 (#1)
May 1, 1915 RMS Lusitania departs from New York City on her 202nd, and final, crossing of the North Atlantic. Six days later, the ship is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland with the loss of 1,198 liv...
History: May 1 (#2)
May 1, 1492 The Edict of Expulsion is officially proclaimed in Castile, requiring all Jewish residents to leave within three months....
History: May 1 (#3)
May 1, 1486 Christopher Columbus presents his plans for discovering a western route to the Indies to the Spanish Queen Isabella I of Castile....
History: May 2 (#1)
May 2, 1952 A De Havilland Comet makes the first jetliner flight with fare-paying passengers, from London to Johannesburg....
History: May 2 (#2)
May 2, 1867 Albert Günther publishes the first study to recognise that the New Zealand tuatara is not a lizard....
History: May 2 (#3)
May 2, 1670 King Charles II of England grants a permanent charter to the Hudson's Bay Company to open up the fur trade in North America....
History: May 2 (#4)
May 2, 1611 The King James Version of the Bible is published for the first time in London, England, by printer Robert Barker....
History: May 2 (#5)
May 2, 1920 The first game of the Negro National League baseball is played in Indianapolis....
History: May 3 (#1)
May 3, 1957 Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, agrees to move the team from Brooklyn to Los Angeles....
History: May 4 (#1)
May 4, 1859 The Cornwall Railway opens across the Royal Albert Bridge linking Devon and Cornwall in England....
History: May 4 (#2)
May 4, 1256 The Augustinian monastic order is constituted at the Lecceto Monastery when Pope Alexander IV issues a papal bull Licet ecclesiae catholicae....
History: May 5 (#1)
May 5, 1891 The Music Hall in New York City (later known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor....
History: May 5 (#2)
May 5, 1920 Authorities arrest Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti for alleged robbery and murder....
History: May 5 (#3)
May 5, 1494 On his second voyage to the New World, Christopher Columbus sights Jamaica, landing at Discovery Bay and declares Jamaica the property of the Spanish crown....
History: May 6 (#1)
May 6, 1949 EDSAC, the first practical electronic digital stored-program computer, runs its first operation....
History: May 7 (#1)
May 7, 1952 The concept of the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey Dummer....
History: May 7 (#2)
May 7, 1931 The stand-off between criminal Francis Crowley and 300 members of the New York Police Department takes place in his fifth-floor apartment on West 91st Street, New York City....
History: May 7 (#3)
May 7, 1846 The Cambridge Chronicle, America's oldest surviving weekly newspaper, is published for the first time in Cambridge, Massachusetts....
History: May 7 (#4)
May 7, 1697 Stockholm's royal castle (dating back to medieval times) is destroyed by fire. It is replaced in the 18th century by the current Royal Palace....
History: May 8 (#1)
May 8, 1886 Pharmacist John Pemberton first sells a carbonated beverage named "Coca-Cola" as a patent medicine....
History: May 8 (#2)
May 8, 1541 Hernando de Soto stops near present-day Walls, Mississippi, and sees the Mississippi River (then known by the Spanish as Río de Espíritu Santo, the name given to it by Alonso Álvarez de P...
History: May 9 (#1)
May 9, 1960 The Food and Drug Administration announces it will approve birth control as an additional indication for Searle's Enovid, making Enovid the world's first approved oral contraceptive pill....
History: May 10 (#1)
May 10, 1916 Sailing in the lifeboat James Caird, Ernest Shackleton arrives at South Georgia after a journey of 800 nautical miles from Elephant Island....
History: May 10 (#2)
May 10, 1503 Christopher Columbus visits the Cayman Islands and names them Las Tortugas after the numerous turtles there....
History: May 10 (#3)
May 10, 1294 Temür, Khagan of the Mongols, is enthroned as Emperor of the Yuan dynasty....
History: May 11 (#1)
May 11, 1919 Uruguay becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty....
History: May 11 (#2)
May 11, 2009 Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on the final mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope....
History: May 13 (#1)
May 13, 1373 Julian of Norwich has visions of Jesus while suffering from a life-threatening illness, visions which are later described and interpreted in her book Revelations of Divine Love....
History: May 14 (#1)
May 14, 1878 The last witchcraft trial held in the United States begins in Salem, Massachusetts, after Lucretia Brown, an adherent of Christian Science, accused Daniel Spofford of attempting to harm ...
History: May 14 (#2)
May 14, 1879 The first group of 463 Indian indentured laborers arrives in Fiji aboard the Leonidas....
History: May 14 (#3)
May 14, 1607 English colonists establish "James Fort", which would become Jamestown, Virginia, the earliest permanent English settlement in the Americas....
History: May 15 (#1)
May 15, 1997 The Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on STS-84 to dock with the Russian space station Mir....
History: May 15 (#2)
May 15, 1725 Bach leads the first performance of his cantata Ich bin ein guter Hirt, BWV 85, about Jesus as the Good Shepherd....
History: May 15 (#3)
May 15, 1618 Johannes Kepler confirms his previously rejected discovery of the third law of planetary motion (he first discovered it on March 8 but soon rejected the idea after some initial calculati...
History: May 15 (#4)
May 15, 1940 Richard and Maurice McDonald open the first McDonald's restaurant....
History: May 16 (#1)
May 16, 1975 Junko Tabei from Japan becomes the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest....
History: May 16 (#2)
May 16, 946 Emperor Suzaku abdicates the throne in favor of his brother Murakami who becomes the 62nd emperor of Japan....
History: May 17 (#1)
May 17, 1984 Prince Charles calls a proposed addition to the National Gallery, London, a "monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much-loved and elegant friend", sparking controversies on the proper rol...
History: May 17 (#2)
May 17, 1792 The New York Stock Exchange is formed under the Buttonwood Agreement....
History: May 18 (#1)
May 18, 1926 Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappears in Venice, California....
History: May 18 (#2)
May 18, 1499 Alonso de Ojeda sets sail from Cádiz on his voyage to what is now Venezuela....
History: May 19 (#1)
May 19, 1535 French explorer Jacques Cartier sets sail on his second voyage to North America with three ships, 110 men, and Chief Donnacona's two sons (whom Cartier had kidnapped during his first voy...
History: May 19 (#2)
May 19, 1743 Jean-Pierre Christin developed the centigrade temperature scale....
History: May 20 (#1)
May 20, 1891 History of cinema: The first public display of Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope....
History: May 20 (#2)
May 20, 1714 Johann Sebastian Bach leads the first performance of his cantata for Pentecost, Erschallet, ihr Lieder, BWV 172, at the chapel of Schloss Weimar....
History: May 20 (#3)
May 20, 1570 Cartographer Abraham Ortelius issues Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas....
History: May 21 (#1)
May 21, 1932 Bad weather forces Amelia Earhart to land in a pasture in Derry, Northern Ireland, and she thereby becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean....
History: May 21 (#2)
May 21, 1925 The opera Doktor Faust, unfinished when composer Ferruccio Busoni died, is premiered in Dresden....
History: May 22 (#1)
May 22, 1987 First ever Rugby World Cup kicks off with New Zealand playing Italy at Eden Park in Auckland, New Zealand....
History: May 22 (#2)
May 22, 1840 The penal transportation of British convicts to the New South Wales colony is abolished....
History: May 22 (#3)
May 22, 1377 Pope Gregory XI issues five papal bulls to denounce the doctrines of English theologian John Wycliffe....
History: May 22 (#4)
May 22, 2012 Tokyo Skytree opens to the public. It is the tallest tower in the world (634 m), and the second tallest man-made structure on Earth after Burj Khalifa (829.8 m)....
History: May 23 (#1)
May 23, 1829 Accordion patent granted to Cyrill Demian in Vienna, Austrian Empire....
History: May 23 (#2)
May 23, 1609 Official ratification of the Second Virginia Charter takes place....
History: May 23 (#3)
May 23, 2013 A freeway bridge carrying Interstate 5 over the Skagit River collapses in Mount Vernon, Washington....
History: May 24 (#1)
May 24, 1976 The Judgment of Paris takes place in France, launching California as a worldwide force in the production of quality wine....
History: May 24 (#2)
May 24, 1883 The Brooklyn Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic after 14 years of construction....
History: May 24 (#3)
May 24, 1595 Nomenclator of Leiden University Library appears, the first printed catalog of an institutional library....
History: May 24 (#4)
May 24, 1683 The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, opens as the world's first university museum....
History: May 24 (#5)
May 24, 1956 The first Eurovision Song Contest is held in Lugano, Switzerland....
History: May 25 (#1)
May 25, 1895 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....
History: May 27 (#1)
May 27, 1937 In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County, California....
History: May 27 (#2)
May 27, 1930 The 1,046 feet (319 m) Chrysler Building in New York City, the tallest man-made structure at the time, opens to the public....
History: May 27 (#3)
May 27, 1927 The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacture of the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make the Ford Model A....
History: May 29 (#1)
May 29, 1886 The pharmacist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, which appeared in The Atlanta Journal....
History: May 29 (#2)
May 29, 1825 The Coronation of Charles X of France takes place in Reims Cathedral, the last ever coronation of a French monarch....
History: June 1 (#1)
June 1, 1961 The Canadian Bank of Commerce and Imperial Bank of Canada merge to form the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, the largest bank merger in Canadian history....
History: June 1 (#2)
June 1, 1412 Treaty of Lubowla: The royal gathering continues in Buda. It is one of the largest and most magnificent royal meetings ever held in medieval Buda with Sigismund of Hungary as host and Wl...
History: June 1 (#3)
June 1, 1495 A monk, John Cor, records the first known batch of Scotch whisky....
History: June 6 (#1)
June 6, 1674 Shivaji is crowned as the first Chhatrapati of the Maratha Empire at Raigad Fort....
History: June 7 (#1)
June 7, 1892 Homer Plessy is arrested for refusing to leave his seat in the "whites-only" car of a train; he lost the resulting court case, Plessy v. Ferguson....
History: June 8 (#1)
June 8, 1856 A group of 194 Pitcairn Islanders, descendants of the mutineers of HMS Bounty, arrives at Norfolk Island, commencing the Third Settlement of the Island....
History: June 8 (#2)
June 8, 1772 Alexander Fordyce flees to France to avoid debt repayment, triggering the credit crisis of 1772 in the British Empire and the Dutch Republic....
History: June 10 (#1)
June 10, 1944 In baseball, 15-year-old Joe Nuxhall of the Cincinnati Reds becomes the youngest player ever in a major-league game....
History: June 10 (#2)
June 10, 1523 Copenhagen is surrounded by the army of Frederick I of Denmark, as the city will not recognise him as the successor of Christian II of Denmark....
History: June 10 (#3)
June 10, 1793 The Jardin des Plantes museum opens in Paris. A year later, it becomes the first public zoo....
History: June 11 (#1)
June 11, 1968 Lloyd J. Old identified the first cell surface antigens that could differentiate among different cell types....
History: June 11 (#2)
June 11, 1724 Johann Sebastian Bach leads his cantata O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort (O eternity, you word of thunder), BWV 20, on the first Sunday after Trinity, beginning his second cycle, the chorale c...
History: June 11 (#3)
June 11, 1770 British explorer Captain James Cook runs aground on the Great Barrier Reef....
History: June 11 (#4)
June 11, 980 Vladimir the Great consolidates the Kievan realm from Ukraine to the Baltic Sea. He is proclaimed ruler (knyaz) of all Kievan Rus'....
History: June 12 (#1)
June 12, 1982 A nuclear disarmament rally and concert is held in New York City....
History: June 12 (#2)
June 12, 1665 Thomas Willett is appointed the first mayor of New York City....
History: June 13 (#1)
June 13, 1855 Twentieth opera of Giuseppe Verdi, Les vêpres siciliennes ("The Sicilian Vespers"), is premiered in Paris....
History: June 14 (#1)
June 14, 1822 Charles Babbage proposes a difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society....
History: June 14 (#2)
June 14, 1618 Joris Veseler prints the first Dutch newspaper Courante uyt Italien, Duytslandt, &c. in Amsterdam (approximate date)....
History: June 14 (#3)
June 14, 1955 Chile becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty....
History: June 16 (#1)
June 16, 1911 IBM founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York....
History: June 17 (#1)
June 17, 1901 The College Board introduces its first standardized test, the forerunner to the SAT....
History: June 17 (#2)
June 17, 1673 French explorers Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet reach the Mississippi River and become the first Europeans to make a detailed account of its course....
History: June 17 (#3)
June 17, 1242 Following the Disputation of Paris, twenty-four carriage loads of Jewish religious manuscripts were burnt in Paris....
History: June 17 (#4)
June 17, 1300 Turku Cathedral is consecrated by Bishop Magnus I in the city of Turku (Swedish: Åbo)....
History: June 17 (#5)
June 17, 1579 Sir Francis Drake claims a land he calls Nova Albion (modern California) for England....
History: June 18 (#1)
June 18, 1948 Columbia Records introduces the long-playing record album in a public demonstration at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City....
History: June 19 (#1)
June 19, 1978 Garfield's first comic strip, originally published locally as Jon in 1976, goes into nationwide syndication....
History: June 19 (#3)
June 19, 2005 Following a series of Michelin tire failures during the United States Grand Prix weekend at Indianapolis, and without an agreement being reached, 14 cars from seven teams in Michelin ti...
History: June 21 (#1)
June 21, 1970 Penn Central declares Section 77 bankruptcy in what was the largest U.S. corporate bankruptcy to date....
History: June 24 (#1)
June 24, 1981 The Humber Bridge opens to traffic, connecting Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. It remained the world's longest bridge span for 17 years....
History: June 24 (#2)
June 24, 1724 On the Feast of St. John the Baptist, Bach leads the first performance of his Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam, BWV 7, the third cantata of his chorale cantata cycle....
History: June 24 (#3)
June 24, 1571 Miguel López de Legazpi conquers Manila for Spain, modern day capital of the Philippines....
History: June 25 (#1)
June 25, 1900 The Taoist monk Wang Yuanlu discovers the Dunhuang manuscripts, a cache of ancient texts that are of great historical and religious significance, in the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, China....
History: June 25 (#2)
June 25, 1996 American rapper Jay-Z releases his debut album, Reasonable Doubt....
History: June 26 (#1)
June 26, 1977 Elvis Presley holds what will prove to be his final concert at Market Square Arena in Indianapolis, Indiana....
History: June 26 (#2)
June 26, 1974 The Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley's chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio....
History: June 26 (#3)
June 26, 1889 Bangui is founded by Albert Dolisie and Alfred Uzac in what was then the upper reaches of the French Congo....
History: June 26 (#4)
June 26, 1948 Shirley Jackson's short story "The Lottery" is published in The New Yorker magazine....
History: June 26 (#5)
June 26, 1409 Western Schism: The Roman Catholic Church is led into a double schism as Petros Philargos is crowned Pope Alexander V after the Council of Pisa, joining Pope Gregory XII in Rome and Pop...
History: June 27 (#1)
June 27, 1995 Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on STS-71, the first space shuttle mission to dock with the Russian space station Mir....
History: June 29 (#1)
June 29, 1995 Space Shuttle program: STS-71 Mission (Atlantis) docks with the Russian space station Mir for the first time....
History: June 30 (#1)
June 30, 1859 French acrobat Charles Blondin crosses Niagara Falls on a tightrope....
History: July 1 (#1)
July 1, 1881 The world's first international telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States....
History: July 1 (#2)
July 1, 1958 The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation links television broadcasting across Canada via microwave....
History: July 1 (#3)
July 1, 1766 François-Jean de la Barre, a young French nobleman, is tortured and beheaded before his body is burnt on a pyre along with a copy of Voltaire's Dictionnaire philosophique nailed to his t...
History: July 2 (#1)
July 2, 1997 The Bank of Thailand floats the baht, triggering the Asian financial crisis....
History: July 3 (#1)
July 3, 1952 The SS United States sets sail on her maiden voyage to Southampton. During the voyage, the ship takes the Blue Riband away from the RMS Queen Mary....
History: July 3 (#2)
July 3, 1886 The New-York Tribune becomes the first newspaper to use a linotype machine, eliminating typesetting by hand....
History: July 3 (#3)
July 3, 1767 Pitcairn Island is discovered by Midshipman Robert Pitcairn on an expeditionary voyage commanded by Philip Carteret....
History: July 4 (#1)
July 4, 1939 Lou Gehrig, recently diagnosed with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, informs a crowd at Yankee Stadium that he considers himself "The luckiest man on the face of the earth", then announces...
History: July 4 (#2)
July 4, 1862 Lewis Carroll tells Alice Liddell a story that would grow into Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequels....
History: July 4 (#3)
July 4, 1855 The first edition of Walt Whitman's book of poems, Leaves of Grass, is published in Brooklyn....
History: July 5 (#1)
July 5, 1852 Frederick Douglass delivers his "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" speech in Rochester, New York....
History: July 5 (#2)
July 5, 1954 The BBC broadcasts its first daily television news bulletin....
History: July 6 (#1)
July 6, 1536 The explorer Jacques Cartier lands at St. Malo at the end of his second expedition to North America. He returns with none of the gold he expected to find....
History: July 6 (#2)
July 6, 1484 Portuguese sea captain Diogo Cão finds the mouth of the Congo River....
History: July 7 (#1)
July 7, 1959 Venus occults the star Regulus. This rare event is used to determine the diameter of Venus and the structure of the Venusian atmosphere....
History: July 10 (#1)
July 10, 1997 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...
History: July 10 (#2)
July 10, 1877 The then-villa of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, formally receives its city charter from the Royal Crown of Spain....
History: July 11 (#1)
July 11, 1950 Pakistan joins the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank....
History: July 12 (#1)
July 12, 1543 King Henry VIII of England marries his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr, at Hampton Court Palace....
History: July 12 (#2)
July 12, 1562 Fray Diego de Landa, acting Bishop of Yucatán, burns the sacred idols and books of the Maya....
History: July 12 (#3)
July 12, 1580 The Ostrog Bible, one of the early printed Bibles in a Slavic language, is published....
History: July 14 (#1)
July 14, 1790 Inaugural Fête de la Fédération is held to celebrate the unity of the French people and the national reconciliation....
History: July 14 (#2)
July 14, 1769 An expedition led by Gaspar de Portolá leaves its base in San Diego and sets out to find the Port of Monterey (now Monterey, California)....
History: July 15 (#1)
July 15, 1910 In his book Clinical Psychiatry, Emil Kraepelin gives a name to Alzheimer's disease, naming it after his colleague Alois Alzheimer....
History: July 15 (#2)
July 15, 1870 Canadian Confederation: Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory are transferred to Canada from the Hudson's Bay Company, and the province of Manitoba and the Northwest Territories...
History: July 15 (#3)
July 15, 1741 Aleksei Chirikov sights land in Southeast Alaska. He sends men ashore in a longboat, making them the first Europeans to visit Alaska....
History: July 16 (#1)
July 16, 1941 Joe DiMaggio hits safely for the 56th consecutive game, a streak that still stands as an MLB record....
History: July 16 (#2)
July 16, 1916 Max Reger's Hebbel Requiem is first performed in a memorial concert for the composer, conducted by Philipp Wolfrum....
History: July 16 (#3)
July 16, 1251 Celebrated by the Carmelite Order–but doubted by modern historians–as the day when Saint Simon Stock had a vision of the Virgin Mary....
History: July 16 (#4)
July 16, 1661 The first banknotes in Europe are issued by the Swedish bank Stockholms Banco....
History: July 17 (#1)
July 17, 180 Twelve inhabitants of Scillium (near Kasserine, modern-day Tunisia) in North Africa are executed for being Christians. This is the earliest record of Christianity in that part of the wor...
History: July 18 (#1)
July 18, 1723 Johann Sebastian Bach leads the first performance of his cantata Erforsche mich, Gott, und erfahre mein Herz, BWV 136, in Leipzig on the eighth Sunday after Trinity....
History: July 18 (#2)
July 18, 1334 The bishop of Florence blesses the first foundation stone for the new campanile (bell tower) of the Florence Cathedral, designed by the artist Giotto di Bondone....
History: July 19 (#1)
July 19, 1843 Brunel's steamship the SS Great Britain is launched, becoming the first ocean-going craft with an iron hull and screw propeller, becoming the largest vessel afloat in the world....
History: July 19 (#2)
July 19, 1983 The first three-dimensional reconstruction of a human head in a CT is published....
History: July 20 (#1)
July 20, 1831 Seneca and Shawnee people agree to relinquish their land in western Ohio for 60,000 acres west of the Mississippi River....
History: July 21 (#1)
July 21, 1925 Malcolm Campbell becomes the first man to exceed 150 mph (241 km/h) on land. At Pendine Sands in Wales, he drives Sunbeam 350HP built by Sunbeam at a two-way average speed of 150.33 mph...
History: July 21 (#2)
July 21, 2012 Erden Eruç completes the first solo human-powered circumnavigation of the world....
History: July 22 (#1)
July 22, 1793 Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean becoming the first recorded human to complete a transcontinental crossing of North America....
History: July 22 (#2)
July 22, 1598 William Shakespeare's play, The Merchant of Venice, is entered on the Stationers' Register. By decree of Queen Elizabeth, the Stationers' Register licensed printed works, giving the Cro...
History: July 23 (#1)
July 23, 1936 In Catalonia, Spain, the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia is founded through the merger of Socialist and Communist parties....
History: July 24 (#1)
July 24, 1935 The Dust Bowl heat wave reaches its peak, sending temperatures to 109 °F (43 °C) in Chicago and 104 °F (40 °C) in Milwaukee....
History: July 24 (#2)
July 24, 1534 French explorer Jacques Cartier plants a cross on the Gaspé Peninsula and takes possession of the territory in the name of Francis I of France....
History: July 25 (#1)
July 25, 1965 Bob Dylan goes electric at the Newport Folk Festival, signaling a major change in folk and rock music....
History: July 25 (#2)
July 25, 1908 Ajinomoto is founded. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers that a key ingredient in kombu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG), and patents a process for manufac...
History: July 25 (#3)
July 25, 1837 The first commercial use of an electrical telegraph is successfully demonstrated in London by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone....
History: July 25 (#4)
July 25, 1538 The city of Guayaquil is founded by the Spanish Conquistador Francisco de Orellana and given the name Muy Noble y Muy Leal Ciudad de Santiago de Guayaquil....
History: July 25 (#5)
July 25, 1137 Eleanor of Aquitaine marries Prince Louis, later King Louis VII of France, at the Cathedral of Saint-André in Bordeaux....
History: July 26 (#1)
July 26, 1989 A federal grand jury indicts Cornell University student Robert T. Morris, Jr. for releasing the Morris worm, thus becoming the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Frau...
History: July 27 (#1)
July 27, 1866 The first permanent transatlantic telegraph cable is successfully completed, stretching from Valentia Island, Ireland, to Heart's Content, Newfoundland....
History: July 29 (#1)
July 29, 1871 The Connecticut Valley Railroad opens between Old Saybrook, Connecticut and Hartford, Connecticut in the United States....
History: July 29 (#2)
July 29, 1565 The widowed Mary, Queen of Scots marries Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, Duke of Albany, at Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh, Scotland, in a Catholic ceremony....
History: July 30 (#1)
July 30, 1863 Valuev Circular banned the publication of religious, educational and training books in Ukrainian in the Russian Empire....
History: July 30 (#2)
July 30, 1619 In Jamestown, Virginia, the first Colonial European representative assembly in the Americas, the Virginia General Assembly, convenes for the first time....
History: July 30 (#3)
July 30, 1502 Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islands off the coast of Honduras during his fourth voyage....
History: July 31 (#1)
July 31, 1498 On his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to discover the island of Trinidad....
History: August 1 (#1)
August 1, 1714 George, Elector of Hanover, becomes King George I of Great Britain, marking the beginning of the Georgian era of British history....
History: August 1 (#2)
August 1, 1964 The former Belgian Congo is renamed the Democratic Republic of the Congo....
History: August 1 (#3)
August 1, 1498 Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to visit what is now Venezuela....
History: August 1 (#4)
August 1, 2007 The I-35W Mississippi River bridge spanning the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, collapses during the evening rush hour, killing 13 people and injuring 145....
History: August 2 (#1)
August 2, 1873 The Clay Street Hill Railroad begins operating the first cable car in San Francisco's famous cable car system....
History: August 2 (#2)
August 2, 1870 Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London, England, United Kingdom....
History: August 2 (#3)
August 2, 1982 The Helsinki Metro, the first rapid transit system of Finland, is opened to the general public....
History: August 3 (#1)
August 3, 1829 The Treaty of Lewistown is signed by the Shawnee and Seneca peoples, exchanging land in Ohio for land west of the Mississippi River....
History: August 3 (#2)
August 3, 1977 Tandy Corporation announces the TRS-80, one of the world's first mass-produced personal computers....
History: August 3 (#3)
August 3, 1527 The first known letter from North America is sent by John Rut while at St. John's, Newfoundland....
History: August 3 (#4)
August 3, 1492 Christopher Columbus sets sail from Palos de la Frontera, Spain....
History: August 5 (#1)
August 5, 1888 Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back in the first long distance automobile trip, commemorated as the Bertha Benz Memorial Route since 2008....
History: August 5 (#2)
August 5, 1882 Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, today known as ExxonMobil, is established officially. The company would later grow to become the holder of all Standard Oil companies and the entity...
History: August 5 (#3)
August 5, 1858 Cyrus West Field and others complete the first transatlantic telegraph cable after several unsuccessful attempts. It will operate for less than a month....
History: August 5 (#4)
August 5, 1874 Japan launches its postal savings system, modeled after a similar system in the United Kingdom....
History: August 5 (#5)
August 5, 1860 Charles XV of Sweden–Norway is crowned king of Norway in Trondheim....
History: August 6 (#1)
August 6, 1956 After going bankrupt in 1955, the American broadcaster DuMont Television Network makes its final broadcast, a boxing match from St. Nicholas Arena in New York in the Boxing from St. Ni...
History: August 7 (#1)
August 7, 1858 The first Australian rules football match is played between Melbourne Grammar and Scotch College....
History: August 8 (#1)
August 8, 1831 Four hundred Shawnee people agree to relinquish their lands in Ohio in exchange for land west of the Mississippi River in the Treaty of Wapakoneta....
History: August 8 (#2)
August 8, 1963 Great Train Robbery: In England, a gang of 15 train robbers steal £2.6 million in bank notes....
History: August 8 (#3)
August 8, 1576 The cornerstone for Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg observatory is laid on the island of Hven....
History: August 8 (#5)
August 8, 2008 A EuroCity express train en route from Kraków, Poland to Prague, Czech Republic strikes a part of a motorway bridge that had fallen onto the railroad track near Studénka railway statio...
History: August 9 (#1)
August 9, 1897 The first International Congress of Mathematicians is held in Zürich, Switzerland....
History: August 11 (#1)
August 11, 1973 At the 1520 Sedgwick Avenue apartment building in The Bronx, New York, DJ Kool Herc hosts a house party widely considered to mark the birthplace of hip hop culture and music. DJ Kool ...
History: August 11 (#2)
August 11, 1929 Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs in his career with a home run at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio....
History: August 11 (#3)
August 11, 1858 The Eiger in the Bernese Alps is ascended for the first time by Charles Barrington accompanied by Christian Almer and Peter Bohren....
History: August 11 (#4)
August 11, 3114 BCE The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, used by several pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations, notably the Maya, begins....
History: August 12 (#1)
August 12, 1492 Christopher Columbus arrives in the Canary Islands on his first voyage to the New World....
History: August 13 (#1)
August 13, 1724 Johann Sebastian Bach leads the first performance of Nimm von uns, Herr, du treuer Gott, BWV 101, a chorale cantata on a famous tune....
History: August 13 (#2)
August 13, 1536 Buddhist monks from Kyoto, Japan's Enryaku-ji temple set fire to 21 Nichiren temples throughout Kyoto in what will be known as the Tenbun Hokke Disturbance....
History: August 13 (#3)
August 13, 1960 The Central African Republic declares independence from France....
History: August 14 (#1)
August 14, 1948 An Idaho Department of Fish and Game program to relocate beavers known as Beaver drop occurred. This program relocated beavers from Northwestern Idaho to Central Idaho by airplane and...
History: August 14 (#2)
August 14, 1880 Construction of Cologne Cathedral, the most famous landmark in Cologne, Germany, is completed....
History: August 14 (#3)
August 14, 1901 The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21....
History: August 15 (#1)
August 15, 1969 The Woodstock Music & Art Fair opens in Bethel, New York, featuring some of the top rock musicians of the era....
History: August 15 (#2)
August 15, 1914 A servant of American architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, sets fire to the living quarters of Wright's Wisconsin home, Taliesin, and murders seven people there....
History: August 15 (#3)
August 15, 1843 The Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace in Honolulu, Hawaii is dedicated. Now the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu, it is the oldest Roman Catholic cathedral in continuo...
History: August 15 (#4)
August 15, 1843 Tivoli Gardens, one of the oldest still intact amusement parks in the world, opens in Copenhagen, Denmark....
History: August 15 (#5)
August 15, 1248 The foundation stone of Cologne Cathedral, built to house the relics of the Three Wise Men, is laid. (Construction is eventually completed in 1880.)...
History: August 16 (#1)
August 16, 1876 Richard Wagner's Siegfried, the penultimate opera in his Ring cycle, is premiered at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus....
History: August 16 (#2)
August 16, 1989 A solar particle event affects computers at the Toronto Stock Exchange, forcing a halt to trading....
History: August 16 (#3)
August 16, 1550 Rabbi Moses Isserles issues his ruling in the Bragadin-Giustiniani dispute, one of the earliest instances of a copyright suit over any book....
History: August 16 (#4)
August 16, 2008 The Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago is topped off at 1,389 feet (423 m), at the time becoming the world's highest residence above ground-level....
History: August 17 (#1)
August 17, 1907 Pike Place Market, one of the oldest continuously operated public farmers' markets in the U.S. and a popular tourist attraction, opens in Seattle, Washington....
History: August 17 (#2)
August 17, 1876 Richard Wagner's Götterdämmerung, the last opera in his Ring cycle, premieres at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus....
History: August 17 (#3)
August 17, 1807 Robert Fulton's North River Steamboat leaves New York City for Albany, New York, on the Hudson River, inaugurating the first commercial steamboat service in the world....
History: August 17 (#4)
August 17, 1784 Classical composer Luigi Boccherini receives a pay rise of 12,000 reals from his employer, the Infante Luis, Count of Chinchón....
History: August 17 (#5)
August 17, 1488 Konrad Bitz, the Bishop of Turku, marks the date of his preface to Missale Aboense, the oldest known book of Finland....
History: August 18 (#1)
August 18, 1958 Brojen Das from Bangladesh swims across the English Channel in a competition as the first Bengali and the first Asian to do so, placing first among the 39 competitors....
History: August 18 (#2)
August 18, 1492 The first grammar of the Spanish language (Gramática de la lengua castellana) is presented to Queen Isabella I....
History: August 19 (#1)
August 19, 1960 Sputnik program: Korabl-Sputnik 2: The Soviet Union launches the satellite with the dogs Belka and Strelka, 40 mice, two rats and a variety of plants....
History: August 19 (#2)
August 19, 1725 J. S. Bach leads the first performance of Lobe den Herren, den mächtigen König der Ehren, BWV 137, a cantata setting the unchanged text of Neander's hymn....
History: August 20 (#1)
August 20, 1920 The first commercial radio station, 8MK (now WWJ), begins operations in Detroit....
History: August 20 (#2)
August 20, 1926 Japan's public broadcasting company, Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai (NHK) is established....
History: August 21 (#1)
August 21, 1879 The locals of Knock, County Mayo, Ireland report their having seen an apparition of the Virgin Mary. The apparition is later named "Our Lady of Knock" and the spot transformed into a ...
History: August 21 (#2)
August 21, 1878 The American Bar Association is founded in Saratoga Springs, New York....
History: August 22 (#1)
August 22, 1770 James Cook names and lands on Possession Island, and claims the east coast of Australia for Britain as New South Wales....
History: August 23 (#1)
August 23, 1927 Italian anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti are executed after a lengthy, controversial trial....
History: August 23 (#3)
August 23, 2007 The skeletal remains of Russia's last royal family members Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, and his sister Grand Duchess Anastasia are discovered near Yekaterinburg, Russia....
History: August 24 (#1)
August 24, 394 The Graffito of Esmet-Akhom, the latest known inscription in Egyptian hieroglyphs, is written....
History: August 25 (#1)
August 25, 1980 The last performance of the Jahrhundertring at the Bayreuth Festival receives ovations of 45 minutes....
History: August 25 (#2)
August 25, 1609 Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers....
History: August 26 (#1)
August 26, 1778 The first recorded ascent of Triglav, the highest mountain in Slovenia....
History: August 26 (#2)
August 26, 1768 Captain James Cook sets sail from England on board HMS Endeavour....
History: August 27 (#1)
August 27, 1991 The European Community recognizes the independence of the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania....
History: August 28 (#1)
August 28, 1859 The Carrington event is the strongest geomagnetic storm on record to strike the Earth. Electrical telegraph service is widely disrupted....
History: August 28 (#2)
August 28, 1830 The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's new Tom Thumb steam locomotive races a horse-drawn car, presaging steam's role in U.S. railroads....
History: August 29 (#1)
August 29, 708 Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 708)....
History: August 30 (#1)
August 30, 1936 The RMS Queen Mary wins the Blue Riband by setting the fastest transatlantic crossing....
History: August 30 (#3)
August 30, 70 Titus ends the siege of Jerusalem after destroying Herod's Temple....
History: September 1 (#1)
September 1, 1610 Claudio Monteverdi's musical work Vespro della Beata Vergine (Vespers for the Blessed Virgin) is first published, printed in Venice and dedicated to Pope Paul V....
History: September 1 (#2)
September 1, 1355 King Tvrtko I of Bosnia writes In castro nostro Vizoka vocatum from the Old town of Visoki....
History: September 3 (#1)
September 3, 1935 Sir Malcolm Campbell reaches a speed of 304.331 miles per hour on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, becoming the first person to drive an automobile over 300 mph....
History: September 3 (#2)
September 3, 2016 The U.S. and China, together responsible for 40% of the world's carbon emissions, both formally ratify the Paris global climate agreement....
History: September 4 (#1)
September 4, 1972 The Price Is Right premieres on CBS. It currently is the longest running game show on American television....
History: September 4 (#2)
September 4, 1800 The French garrison in Valletta surrenders to British troops who had been called at the invitation of the Maltese. The islands of Malta and Gozo become the Malta Protectorate....
History: September 4 (#3)
September 4, 1774 New Caledonia is first sighted by Europeans, during the second voyage of Captain James Cook....
History: September 4 (#4)
September 4, 1964 Scotland's Forth Road Bridge near Edinburgh officially opens....
History: September 4 (#5)
September 4, 2002 The Oakland Athletics win their 20th consecutive game, an American League record, until the Cleveland Indians surpassed it in 2017....
History: September 6 (#1)
September 6, 1620 The Pilgrims sail from Plymouth, England on the Mayflower to settle in North America. (Old Style date; September 16 per New Style date.)...
History: September 6 (#2)
September 6, 1492 Christopher Columbus sails from La Gomera in the Canary Islands, his final port of call before crossing the Atlantic Ocean for the first time....
History: September 7 (#1)
September 7, 1906 Alberto Santos-Dumont flies his 14-bis aircraft at Bagatelle, France successfully for the first time....
History: September 8 (#1)
September 8, 1952 The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation makes its first televised broadcast on the second escape of the Boyd Gang....
History: September 8 (#2)
September 8, 1810 The Tonquin sets sail from New York Harbor with 33 employees of John Jacob Astor's newly created Pacific Fur Company on board....
History: September 8 (#3)
September 8, 1522 Magellan–Elcano circumnavigation: Victoria arrives at Seville, completing the first circumnavigation....
History: September 8 (#4)
September 8, 1264 The Statute of Kalisz, guaranteeing Jews safety and personal liberties and giving battei din jurisdiction over Jewish matters, is promulgated by Bolesław the Pious, Duke of Greater ...
History: September 8 (#5)
September 8, 2022 Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom dies at Balmoral Castle in Scotland after reigning for 70 years. Her son Charles, Prince of Wales, ascends the throne upon her death as Char...
History: September 9 (#1)
September 9, 1493 Christopher Columbus, with 17 ships and 1,200 men, sails on second voyage from Cadiz....
History: September 9 (#2)
September 9, 1839 John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph....
History: September 10 (#1)
September 10, 1724 Johann Sebastian Bach leads the first performance of Jesu, der du meine Seele, BWV 78, a chorale cantata based on a passion hymn by Johann Rist....
History: September 11 (#1)
September 11, 1968 John Eliot Gardiner conducts Monteverdi's Vespro della Beata Vergine with the Monteverdi Choir at the Proms....
History: September 11 (#2)
September 11, 2008 A major Channel Tunnel fire breaks out on a freight train, resulting in the closure of part of the tunnel for six months....
History: September 12 (#1)
September 12, 1984 Dwight Gooden sets the baseball record for strikeouts in a season by a rookie with 276, previously set by Herb Score with 246 in 1954. Gooden's 276 strikeouts that season, pitched ...
History: September 12 (#2)
September 12, 1983 A Wells Fargo depot in West Hartford, Connecticut, United States, is robbed of approximately US$7 million by Los Macheteros....
History: September 12 (#3)
September 12, 1910 Premiere performance of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8 in Munich (with a chorus of 852 singers and an orchestra of 171 players. Mahler's rehearsal assistant conductor was Bruno Wal...
History: September 12 (#4)
September 12, 1958 Jack Kilby demonstrates the first working integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments....
History: September 13 (#1)
September 13, 1807 Beethoven's Mass in C major, Op. 86, is premiered, commissioned by Nikolaus I, Prince Esterházy, and displeasing him....
History: September 13 (#2)
September 13, 1898 Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film....
History: September 14 (#1)
September 14, 1998 Telecommunications companies MCI Communications and WorldCom complete their $37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom....
History: September 14 (#2)
September 14, 1985 Penang Bridge, the longest bridge in Malaysia, connecting the island of Penang to the mainland, opens to traffic....
History: September 14 (#3)
September 14, 1723 Grand Master António Manoel de Vilhena lays down the first stone of Fort Manoel in Malta....
History: September 15 (#1)
September 15, 1556 Departing from Vlissingen, ex-Holy Roman Emperor Charles V returns to Spain....
History: September 16 (#1)
September 16, 1990 The railroad between the People's Republic of China and Kazakhstan is completed at Dostyk, adding a sizable link to the concept of the Eurasian Land Bridge....
History: September 16 (#2)
September 16, 1966 The Metropolitan Opera House opens at Lincoln Center in New York City with the world premiere of Samuel Barber's opera Antony and Cleopatra....
History: September 16 (#3)
September 16, 1822 French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel, in a "note" read to the Academy of Sciences, reports a direct refraction experiment verifying David Brewster's hypothesis that photoelastici...
History: September 16 (#4)
September 16, 1996 Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on STS-79 to dock with the Russian space station Mir....
History: September 17 (#1)
September 17, 1935 The Niagara Gorge Railroad ceases operations after a rockslide....
History: September 18 (#1)
September 18, 1958 The Bank of America introduces its first credit card, the BankAmericard (later renamed the VISA Card), in a test market in Fresno County, California....
History: September 18 (#2)
September 18, 1950 TV Tupi Difusora, the first television station to broadcast in Brazil, begins transmissions on Channel 3 in São Paulo....
History: September 18 (#3)
September 18, 1932 The body of actress Peg Entwistle is discovered by police, two days after her suicide by jumping off of the Hollywoodland sign....
History: September 18 (#4)
September 18, 1879 The Blackpool Illuminations are switched on for the first time....
History: September 18 (#5)
September 18, 96 Emperor Domitian is assassinated as a result of a plot by his wife Domitia and two Praetorian prefects. Nerva is then proclaimed as his successor....
History: September 19 (#1)
September 19, 1982 Scott Fahlman posts the first documented emoticons :-) and :-( on the Carnegie Mellon University bulletin board system....
History: September 19 (#2)
September 19, 96 Nerva, suspected of complicity of the death of Domitian, is declared emperor by Senate. The Senate then annuls laws passed by Domitian and orders his statues to be destroyed....
History: September 20 (#1)
September 20, 1967 The Cunard Liner Queen Elizabeth 2 is launched in Clydebank, Scotland....
History: September 21 (#1)
September 21, 1942 The Holocaust in Ukraine: In Dunaivtsi, Ukraine, Nazis murder 2,588 Jews....
History: September 22 (#1)
September 22, 1976 Red Dye No. 4 is banned by the US Food and Drug Administration after it is discovered that it causes tumors in the bladders of dogs....
History: September 22 (#2)
September 22, 1792 Primidi Vendémiaire of year one of the French Republican Calendar as the French First Republic comes into being....
History: September 24 (#1)
September 24, 1932 Mahatma Gandhi and B. R. Ambedkar agree to the Poona Pact, which reserved seats in the Indian provincial legislatures for the "Depressed Classes" (Untouchables)....
History: September 25 (#1)
September 25, 1906 Leonardo Torres Quevedo demonstrates the Telekino in the Bilbao Abra (Spain), guiding an electric boat from the shore with people on board, which was controlled at a distance over ...
History: September 25 (#2)
September 25, 1804 The Teton Sioux (a subdivision of the Lakota) demand one of the boats from the Lewis and Clark Expedition as a toll for allowing the expedition to move further upriver....
History: September 25 (#3)
September 25, 1997 NASA launches Space Shuttle Atlantis on STS-86 to the Mir space station....
History: September 25 (#4)
September 25, 1890 The United States Congress establishes Sequoia National Park....
History: September 26 (#1)
September 26, 1580 Francis Drake finishes his circumnavigation of the Earth in Plymouth, England....
History: September 27 (#1)
September 27, 1825 The world's first public railway to use steam locomotives, the Stockton and Darlington Railway, is ceremonially opened with the engine Locomotion pulling wagons with coal and passe...
History: September 27 (#2)
September 27, 1930 Bobby Jones wins the (pre-Masters) Grand Slam of golf....
History: September 28 (#1)
September 28, 1975 The Spaghetti House siege, in which nine people are taken hostage, takes place in London....
History: September 30 (#1)
September 30, 1936 American journalists Herbert R. Ekins, reporter for the New York World-Telegram, Dorothy Kilgallen of the New York Journal and Leo Kieran of The New York Times start the race to tr...
History: September 30 (#2)
September 30, 1882 Thomas Edison's first commercial hydroelectric power plant, the Vulcan Street Plant, begins operation....
History: September 30 (#3)
September 30, 1736 The Lebanese Council of 1736 begins, a major turning point in the reform of the Maronite Church. In the following three days, the assembled Maronite and Latin clergy presided by Yu...
History: September 30 (#4)
September 30, 1863 Georges Bizet's opera Les pêcheurs de perles, premieres in Paris....
History: October 1 (#1)
October 1, 1903 Baseball: The Boston Americans play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series....
History: October 1 (#2)
October 1, 1829 The South African College is founded in Cape Town, later separating into the University of Cape Town and the South African College Schools....
History: October 1 (#3)
October 1, 1890 Yosemite National Park is established by the U.S. Congress....
History: October 1 (#4)
October 1, 2003 The popular and controversial English-language imageboard 4chan is launched....
History: October 5 (#1)
October 5, 1970 The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is founded in the United States.[citation needed]...
History: October 5 (#2)
October 5, 1143 With the signing of the Treaty of Zamora, King Alfonso VII of León and Castile recognises Portugal as a Kingdom....
History: October 6 (#1)
October 6, 1898 Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, the largest American music fraternity, is founded at the New England Conservatory of Music....
History: October 7 (#1)
October 7, 1913 Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving vehicle assembly line....
History: October 7 (#3)
October 7, 3761 BCE The epoch reference date (start) of the modern Hebrew calendar....
History: October 9 (#1)
October 9, 1701 The Collegiate School of Connecticut (later renamed Yale University) is chartered in Old Saybrook, Connecticut....
History: October 10 (#1)
October 10, 1760 In a treaty with the Dutch colonial authorities, the Ndyuka people of Suriname – descended from escaped slaves – gain territorial autonomy....
History: October 10 (#2)
October 10, 1492 The crew of Christopher Columbus's ship, the Santa Maria, attempt a mutiny....
History: October 11 (#1)
October 11, 2001 The Polaroid Corporation files for federal bankruptcy protection....
History: October 12 (#1)
October 12, 1999 The former Autonomous Soviet Republic of Abkhazia declares its independence from Georgia....
History: October 12 (#2)
October 12, 2019 Eliud Kipchoge from Kenya becomes the first person to run a marathon in less than two hours with a time of 1:59:40 in Vienna....
History: October 13 (#1)
October 13, 2013 A stampede occurs in India during the Hindu festival Navratri, killing 115 and injuring more than 110....
History: October 14 (#1)
October 14, 1956 Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, leader of India's Untouchable caste, converts to Buddhism along with 385,000 of his followers (see Neo-Buddhism)....
History: October 14 (#2)
October 14, 1888 Louis Le Prince films the first motion picture, Roundhay Garden Scene....
History: October 15 (#1)
October 15, 1970 During the construction of Australia's West Gate Bridge, a span of the bridge falls and kills 35 workers. The incident is the country's worst industrial accident to this day....
History: October 17 (#1)
October 17, 1907 Marconi begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service....
History: October 18 (#1)
October 18, 320 Pappus of Alexandria, Greek philosopher, observes an eclipse of the Sun and writes a commentary on The Great Astronomer (Almagest)....
History: October 19 (#1)
October 19, 1955 The General Assembly of the European Broadcasting Union approves the staging of the first Eurovision Song Contest....
History: October 19 (#2)
October 19, 1936 New York World-Telegram reporter Herbert Ekins won a race against two other New York newspaper journalists to travel around the world on commercial airline flights. He accomplished t...
History: October 19 (#3)
October 19, 2025 Pieces of the French Crown Jewels are successfully stolen during a heist on the Louvre Museum in Paris.....
History: October 20 (#1)
October 20, 1973 The Sydney Opera House is opened by Elizabeth II after 14 years of construction....
History: October 20 (#2)
October 20, 2002 Top Gear, the revived popular British TV motoring magazine, premieres on BBC....
History: October 21 (#1)
October 21, 1879 Thomas Edison applies for a patent for his design for an incandescent light bulb....
History: October 22 (#1)
October 22, 1997 Danish fugitive Steen Christensen kills two police officers, Chief Constable Eero Holsti and Senior Constable Antero Palo, in Ullanlinna, Helsinki, Finland during his prison escape....
History: October 22 (#2)
October 22, 1907 A run on the stock of the Knickerbocker Trust Company sets events in motion that will spark the Panic of 1907....
History: October 22 (#3)
October 22, 1883 The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City opens with a performance of Charles Gounod's Faust....
History: October 22 (#4)
October 22, 1724 J. S. Bach leads the first performance of Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele (Adorn yourself, O dear soul) in Leipzig on the 20th Sunday after Trinity, based on the communion hymn of the s...
History: October 23 (#1)
October 23, 1989 Bankruptcy of Wärtsilä Marine, the biggest bankruptcy in the Nordic countries up until then....
History: October 24 (#1)
October 24, 1851 William Lassell discovers the moons Umbriel and Ariel orbiting Uranus....
History: October 24 (#2)
October 24, 2018 The world's longest sea crossing, the Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge, opens for public traffic....
History: October 25 (#1)
October 25, 1868 The Uspenski Cathedral, designed by Aleksey Gornostayev, is inaugurated in Helsinki, Finland....
History: October 26 (#1)
October 26, 1958 Pan American Airways makes the first commercial flight of the Boeing 707 from New York City to Paris....
History: October 27 (#1)
October 27, 1726 J. S. Bach leads the first performance of Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen, BWV 56, one of few works he called a cantata....
History: October 27 (#2)
October 27, 1553 Condemned as a heretic, Michael Servetus is burned at the stake just outside Geneva....
History: October 28 (#1)
October 28, 1492 Christopher Columbus lands in Cuba on his first voyage to the New World, surmising that it is Japan....
History: October 29 (#1)
October 29, 1964 Biggest jewel heist in American history when Murph the Surf and gang burgle the American Museum of Natural History stealing the Star of India and other gems....
History: October 29 (#2)
October 29, 1675 Leibniz makes the first use of the long s (∫) as a symbol of the integral in calculus....
History: October 29 (#3)
October 29, 2015 China announces the end of its one-child policy after 35 years....
History: November 1 (#1)
November 1, 1987 British Rail Class 43 (HST) hits the record speed of 238 km/h for rail vehicles with on-board fuel to generate electricity for traction motors....
History: November 1 (#2)
November 1, 1963 The Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, with the largest radio telescope ever constructed, officially opens....
History: November 1 (#3)
November 1, 1928 The Law on the Adoption and Implementation of the Turkish Alphabet, replaces the Arabic alphabet with the Latin alphabet....
History: November 1 (#4)
November 1, 996 Emperor Otto III issues a deed to Gottschalk, Bishop of Freising, which is the oldest known document using the name Ostarrîchi (Austria in Old High German)....
History: November 1 (#5)
November 1, 365 Roman Emperor Valentinian I learns the Alemanni have crossed the Rhine and invaded Gaul....
History: November 2 (#1)
November 2, 1936 The BBC Television Service, the world's first regular, "high-definition" (then defined as at least 200 lines) service begins. Renamed BBC1 in 1964, the channel still runs to this day...
History: November 3 (#1)
November 3, 1911 Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T....
History: November 3 (#2)
November 3, 1817 The Bank of Montreal, Canada's oldest chartered bank, opens in Montreal....
History: November 4 (#1)
November 4, 1890 City and South London Railway: London's first deep-level tube railway opens between King William Street and Stockwell....
History: November 5 (#1)
November 5, 1499 The Catholicon, written in 1464 by Jehan Lagadeuc in Tréguier, is published; this is the first Breton dictionary as well as the first French dictionary....
History: November 6 (#1)
November 6, 1995 Cleveland Browns relocation controversy: Art Modell announces that he signed a deal that would relocate the Cleveland Browns to Baltimore....
History: November 7 (#1)
November 7, 1940 In Tacoma, Washington, the original Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapses in a windstorm, a mere four months after the bridge's completion....
History: November 7 (#2)
November 7, 1723 O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort, BWV 60, a dialogue cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach for Leipzig, was first performed....
History: November 7 (#3)
November 7, 1987 The Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) system in Singapore opens for passenger service....
History: November 7 (#4)
November 7, 1504 Christopher Columbus returns from his fourth and last voyage....
History: November 8 (#1)
November 8, 1291 The Republic of Venice enacts a law confining most of Venice's glassmaking industry to the "island of Murano"....
History: November 9 (#1)
November 9, 1998 A U.S. federal judge, in the largest civil settlement in American history, orders 37 U.S. brokerage houses to pay US$1.03 billion to cheated NASDAQ investors to compensate for price ...
History: November 10 (#1)
November 10, 1997 WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a $37 billion merger (the largest merger in US history at the time)....
History: November 10 (#2)
November 10, 1969 National Educational Television (the predecessor to the Public Broadcasting Service) in the United States debuts Sesame Street....
History: November 11 (#1)
November 11, 1675 Gottfried Leibniz demonstrates integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = ƒ(x)....
History: November 12 (#1)
November 12, 1995 Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on STS-74 to deliver the Mir Docking Module to the Russian space station Mir....
History: November 12 (#2)
November 12, 1936 In California, the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge opens to traffic....
History: November 12 (#3)
November 12, 1990 Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web....
History: November 12 (#4)
November 12, 954 The 13-year-old Lothair III is crowned at the Abbey of Saint-Remi as king of the West Frankish Kingdom....
History: November 14 (#1)
November 14, 1938 The Lions Gate Bridge, connecting Vancouver to the North Shore region, opens to traffic....
History: November 14 (#2)
November 14, 1914 The Joensuu City Hall, designed by Eliel Saarinen, was inaugurated in Joensuu, Finland....
History: November 14 (#3)
November 14, 1922 The British Broadcasting Company begins radio service in the United Kingdom....
History: November 15 (#1)
November 15, 1971 Intel releases the world's first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004....
History: November 15 (#2)
November 15, 1988 The first Fairtrade label, Max Havelaar, is launched in the Netherlands....
History: November 16 (#1)
November 16, 1914 The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens....
History: November 18 (#1)
November 18, 1996 A fire occurs on a train traveling through the Channel Tunnel from France to England causing several injuries and damaging approximately 500 metres (1,600 ft) of tunnel....
History: November 18 (#2)
November 18, 1883 In the "day of two noons", American and Canadian railroad companies institute four standard continental time zones, ending the confusion of thousands of local times....
History: November 19 (#1)
November 19, 1985 Pennzoil wins a US$10.53 billion judgment against Texaco, in the largest civil verdict in the history of the United States, stemming from Texaco executing a contract to buy Getty Oi...
History: November 19 (#2)
November 19, 1967 The establishment of TVB, the first wireless commercial television station in Hong Kong....
History: November 20 (#1)
November 20, 1980 Lake Peigneur in Louisiana drains into an underlying salt deposit. A misplaced Texaco oil probe had been drilled into the Diamond Crystal Salt Mine, causing water to flow down into ...
History: November 20 (#2)
November 20, 1695 Zumbi, the last of the leaders of Quilombo dos Palmares in early Brazil, is executed by the forces of Portuguese bandeirante Domingos Jorge Velho....
History: November 21 (#1)
November 21, 1961 "La Ronde" opens in Honolulu, the first revolving restaurant in the United States....
History: November 21 (#2)
November 21, 1676 The Danish astronomer Ole Rømer presents the first quantitative measurements of the speed of light....
History: November 21 (#3)
November 21, 1969 The first permanent ARPANET link is established between UCLA and SRI....
History: November 21 (#4)
November 21, 2019 Tesla launches the SUV Cybertruck. A gaffe occurs during the launch event when its "unbreakable" windows shatter during demonstration....
History: November 22 (#1)
November 22, 1908 The Congress of Manastir establishes the Albanian alphabet....
History: November 22 (#2)
November 22, 1869 In Dumbarton, Scotland, the clipper Cutty Sark is launched....
History: November 22 (#3)
November 22, 2003 Baghdad DHL attempted shootdown incident: Shortly after takeoff, a DHL Express cargo plane is struck on the left wing by a surface-to-air missile and forced to land....
History: November 23 (#1)
November 23, 534 BCE Thespis of Icaria becomes the first recorded actor to portray a character on stage....
History: November 23 (#2)
November 23, 2004 The Holy Trinity Cathedral of Tbilisi, the largest religious building in Georgia, is consecrated....
History: November 23 (#3)
November 23, 2001 The Budapest Convention on Cybercrime is signed in Budapest, Hungary....
History: November 24 (#1)
November 24, 1974 Donald Johanson and Tom Gray discover the 40% complete Australopithecus afarensis skeleton, nicknamed "Lucy" (after The Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"), in the Awash V...
History: November 24 (#2)
November 24, 1906 A 13–6 victory by the Massillon Tigers over their rivals, the Canton Bulldogs, for the "Ohio League" Championship, leads to accusations that the championship series was fixed and re...
History: November 24 (#3)
November 24, 1642 Abel Tasman becomes the first European to discover the island Van Diemen's Land (later renamed Tasmania)....
History: November 25 (#1)
November 25, 1984 Thirty-six top musicians gather in a Notting Hill studio and record Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?" in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia....
History: November 26 (#1)
November 26, 1778 In the Hawaiian Islands, Captain James Cook becomes the first European to visit Maui....
History: November 27 (#1)
November 27, 2001 A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet....
History: November 28 (#1)
November 28, 1814 The Times of London becomes the first newspaper to be produced on a steam-powered printing press, built by the German team of Koenig & Bauer....
History: November 28 (#2)
November 28, 1798 Trade between the United States and modern-day Uruguay begins when John Leamy's frigate John arrives in Montevideo....
History: November 29 (#1)
November 29, 1972 Atari releases Pong, the first commercially successful video game....
History: November 30 (#1)
November 30, 1803 The Balmis Expedition starts in Spain with the aim of vaccinating millions against smallpox in Spanish America and Philippines....
History: November 30 (#2)
November 30, 1971 Iran seizes the Greater and Lesser Tunbs from the Emirates of Sharjah and Ras Al Khaimah....
History: November 30 (#3)
November 30, 1916 Costa Rica signs the Buenos Aires Convention, a copyright treaty....
History: December 1 (#1)
December 1, 1952 The New York Daily News reports the news of Christine Jorgensen, the first notable case of sex reassignment surgery....
History: December 1 (#2)
December 1, 1958 The Central African Republic attains self-rule within the French Union....
History: December 2 (#1)
December 2, 1927 Following 19 years of Ford Model T production, the Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Model A as its new automobile....
History: December 2 (#2)
December 2, 1971 Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Fujairah, Sharjah, Dubai, and Umm al-Quwain form the United Arab Emirates....
History: December 3 (#1)
December 3, 1992 A test engineer for Sema Group uses a personal computer to send the world's first text message via the Vodafone network to the phone of a colleague....
History: December 3 (#2)
December 3, 1904 The Jovian moon Himalia is discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine at California's Lick Observatory....
History: December 3 (#3)
December 3, 1910 Modern neon lighting is first demonstrated by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show....
History: December 4 (#1)
December 4, 1906 Alpha Phi Alpha, the first intercollegiate Greek lettered fraternity for African-Americans, was founded at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York....
History: December 4 (#2)
December 4, 1991 Pan American World Airways ceases its operations after 64 years....
History: December 5 (#1)
December 5, 1578 Sir Francis Drake, after sailing through Strait of Magellan, raids Valparaiso....
History: December 6 (#1)
December 6, 1933 In United States v. One Book Called Ulysses Judge John M. Woolsey rules that James Joyce's novel Ulysses is not obscene despite coarse language and sexual content, a leading decision...
History: December 6 (#2)
December 6, 1492 After exploring the island of Cuba (which he had mistaken for Japan) for gold, Christopher Columbus lands on an island he names Hispaniola....
History: December 8 (#1)
December 8, 1864 Pope Pius IX promulgates the encyclical Quanta cura and its appendix, the Syllabus of Errors, outlining the authority of the Catholic Church and condemning various liberal ideas....
History: December 8 (#2)
December 8, 1854 In his Apostolic constitution Ineffabilis Deus, Pope Pius IX proclaims the dogmatic definition of Immaculate Conception, which holds that the Blessed Virgin Mary was conceived free o...
History: December 8 (#3)
December 8, 1504 Ahmad ibn Abi Jum'ah writes his Oran fatwa, arguing for the relaxation of Islamic law requirements for the forcibly converted Muslims in Spain....
History: December 8 (#4)
December 8, 2013 Metallica performs a show in Antarctica, making them the first musical act to perform on all seven continents....
History: December 9 (#1)
December 9, 1968 Douglas Engelbart gave what became known as "The Mother of All Demos", publicly debuting the computer mouse, hypertext, and the bit-mapped graphical user interface using the oN-Line ...
History: December 9 (#2)
December 9, 1822 French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel, in a memoir read to the Academy of Sciences, coins the terms linear polarization, circular polarization, and elliptical polarization, and repo...
History: December 10 (#1)
December 10, 1684 Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmond Halley....
History: December 10 (#2)
December 10, 1968 Japan's biggest heist, the still-unsolved "300 million yen robbery", is carried out in Tokyo....
History: December 11 (#1)
December 11, 1815 The U.S. Senate creates a select committee on finance and a uniform national currency, predecessor of the United States Senate Committee on Finance....
History: December 13 (#1)
December 13, 1294 Saint Celestine V resigns the papacy after only five months to return to his previous life as an ascetic hermit....
History: December 13 (#2)
December 13, 1577 Sir Francis Drake sets sail from Plymouth, England, on his round-the-world voyage....
History: December 14 (#1)
December 14, 1900 Quantum mechanics: Max Planck presents a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law (quantum theory) at the Physic Society in Berlin....
History: December 14 (#2)
December 14, 1918 Giacomo Puccini's comic opera Gianni Schicchi premieres at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City....
History: December 14 (#3)
December 14, 2017 The Walt Disney Company announces that it would acquire 21st Century Fox, including the 20th Century Fox movie studio, for $52.4 billion....
History: December 15 (#1)
December 15, 1893 Symphony No. 9 ("From the New World" a.k.a. the "New World Symphony") by Antonín Dvořák premieres in a public afternoon rehearsal at Carnegie Hall in New York City, followed by a co...
History: December 16 (#1)
December 16, 1997 Dennō Senshi Porygon: Over 600 kids in Japan suffer photosensitive epileptic seizures after watching an episode of the Pokémon anime....
History: December 17 (#1)
December 17, 1790 The Aztec calendar stone is discovered at El Zócalo, Mexico City....
History: December 19 (#1)
December 19, 1999 Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-103, the third Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission....
History: December 20 (#1)
December 20, 1984 The Summit Tunnel fire, one of the largest transportation tunnel fires in history, burns after a freight train carrying over one million liters of gasoline derails near the town of ...
History: December 20 (#2)
December 20, 2004 A gang of thieves steal £26.5 million worth of currency from the Donegall Square West headquarters of Northern Bank in Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, one of the largest ...
History: December 21 (#1)
December 21, 2012 2012 phenomenon: Festivities are held in parts of Mesoamerica to commemorate the conclusion of b'ak'tun 13, a roughly 5,126-year-long cycle in the Mesoamerican Long Count Calendar w...
History: December 22 (#1)
December 22, 1968 Cultural Revolution: People's Daily posted the instructions of Mao Zedong that "The intellectual youth must go to the country, and will be educated from living in rural poverty."...
History: December 23 (#1)
December 23, 1936 Colombia becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty....
History: December 24 (#1)
December 24, 1777 Kiritimati, also called Christmas Island, is discovered by James Cook....
History: December 25 (#1)
December 25, 1725 J. S. Bach leads the first performance of the Christmas cantata Unser Mund sei voll Lachens, BWV 110, making laughter audible in singing....
History: December 25 (#2)
December 25, 1724 J. S. Bach leads the first performance of Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ, BWV 91, in Leipzig, based on Luther's 1524 Christmas hymn....
History: December 25 (#3)
December 25, 333 Roman Emperor Constantine the Great elevates his youngest son Constans to the rank of Caesar....
History: December 25 (#4)
December 25, 336 First documented sign of Christmas celebration in Rome....
History: December 25 (#5)
December 25, 2003 The ill-fated Beagle 2 probe, released from the Mars Express spacecraft on December 19, stops transmitting shortly before its scheduled landing....
History: December 26 (#1)
December 26, 1966 The first Kwanzaa is celebrated by Maulana Karenga, the chair of Black Studies at California State University, Long Beach....
History: December 26 (#2)
December 26, 1723 Bach led the first performance of Darzu ist erschienen der Sohn Gottes, BWV 40, his first Christmas Cantata composed for Leipzig....
History: December 26 (#3)
December 26, 2012 China opens the world's longest high-speed rail route, which links Beijing and Guangzhou....
History: December 27 (#1)
December 27, 1521 The Zwickau prophets arrive in Wittenberg, disturbing the peace and preaching the Apocalypse....
History: December 27 (#2)
December 27, 537 The second Hagia Sophia in Constantinople is consecrated....
History: December 28 (#1)
December 28, 1967 American businesswoman Muriel Siebert becomes the first woman to own a seat on the New York Stock Exchange....
History: December 28 (#2)
December 28, 1768 King Taksin's coronation achieved through conquest as a king of Thailand and established Thonburi as a capital....
History: December 28 (#3)
December 28, 1912 The first municipally owned streetcars take to the streets in San Francisco....
History: December 29 (#1)
December 29, 1607 According to John Smith, Pocahontas, daughter of Powhatan leader Wahunsenacawh, successfully pleads for his life after tribal leaders attempt to execute him....
History: December 30 (#1)
December 30, 1825 The Treaty of St. Louis between the United States and the Shawnee Nation is proclaimed....
History: December 31 (#1)
December 31, 1879 Thomas Edison demonstrates incandescent lighting to the public for the first time, in Menlo Park, New Jersey....
History: December 31 (#2)
December 31, 1759 Arthur Guinness signs a 9,000-year lease at £45 per annum and starts brewing Guinness....
