2002 – U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda begins, (ending on March 19 after killing 500 Taliban and al Qaeda fighters, with 11 Western troop fatalities). 2004 – War in Iraq: Al-Qaeda carries out the Ashoura Massacre in Iraq, killing 170 and wounding over 500.
1657 – Freedom of religion is granted to the Jews of New Amsterdam (later New York City).
1792 – France declares war on Austria, the beginning of French Revolutionary Wars.
1871 – The Civil Rights Act of 1871 becomes law.
1945 – World War II: Fuehrerbunker: Adolf Hitler makes his last trip to the surface to award Iron Crosses to boy soldiers of the Hitler Youth.
1961 – Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US-backed troops against Cuba.
1972 – Apollo 16 landed on the moon commanded by John Young.
1984 – The Good Friday an extremely violent ice hockey playoff game, is played in Montreal, Canada.
1998 – German terrorist group Red Army Faction announces their dissolution after 28 years.
1999 – Columbine High School massacre: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill 13 people and injure 24 others before committing suicide at Columbine High School in Jefferson County, Colorado.
2007 – Johnson Space Center Shooting: A man with a handgun barricades himself in NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas before killing a male hostage and himself.
2008 – Danica Patrick wins the Indy Japan 300 becoming the first female driver in history to win an Indy car race.
South African Black Get to Vote, April Mandela got 60 percent of the vote, far more than FW de Klerk who began dismantling aparthaid 5 years earlier. The flag was also changed to help erase some of their past.
Civil war in Rwanda The spark that ignited a bloody civil war (500,000 people killed) was started by Hutu troops, which shot down a plan carrying the president of Rwanda and Burundi in revenge for allowing the Tutsi to share power.
North Korean nuclear violations suspected The North Koreans' barred a UN agency from investigating security breaches at one of their reactors. This started a tense year of negotiations, in which Jimmy Carter helped to begin a dialog by getting North Korea to suspend it's bomb program.
IRA peace talks result in a cease-fire
An Israeli fanatic kills 29 Palestinians As a result, it sparked further retalations on both sides. It didn't prevent the turning over of Jerihco and the Gaza strip. Arafat returned from his exile and began to run the new country.
Israel and the Vatican begin diplomatic relations
Existence of black holes proved. The Hubble telescope reveals conclusive evidence of the existence of black holes, which had been purely theoretical up until this point.
Major League baseball players strike As a result the World Series was canceled.
NHL locked out players over salaries
Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the back of the knee In January, one month before the 1994 Winter Olympics, her rival's boyfriend, attacked her after a skating meet. Tonya Harding would still go on to face Nancy at the Olympics, but failed to even place after a miserable performace. She was later banned from the professional skating world.
Whitewater scandal begins to be investigated
Chunnel opens, May 1994 Bridging England and France, it took 15,000 workers over seven years to create the tunnel which now allows passengers to travel between the two countries in 35 minutes.
Haiti's president returns from exile After three years of exile in the US, Aristide returned on October 15th.
Mass suicide by Order of the Solar Temple 53 members of the cult carried out the mass murder-suicide in Switzerland and Canada.
700 paintings looted from Germany revealed The stash was held in St Petersburg's Hermitage museum, after having been looted in 1945 by Russian soldiers.
Comet hits Jupiter In July 1994, the planet was pelted by the comet with 21 large fragments over the course of 6 days, creating 2000 mile high fireballs and leaving black bruises in the clouds of the planet.
Run OJ, RUN On June 13, 1994 Nicole Brown Simpsons and Ronald Goldman were murdered outside Nicole's house in Brentwood, CA. On June 17th, OJ and his friend Al Cowlings took flight from the police in his white Ford Bronco, in a low speed chase which ended up at his mansion where he surrendered.
Los Angeles suffers massive earthquake
Republican majority in both houses of Congress
Another Kennedy Funeral November 1994. Jackie Kennedy Onassis was laid to rest along side John F Kennedy. What was to be a private family affair turned into a large public spectacle.
Icestorm of '94 Thousands lost their electricity when record low temperatures hit the east coast. Some students missed more than two weeks of school! Ice froze up everything for what seemed like forever.
Susan Smith (the ultimate lie) She drowned her two sons, then LIED on national television that a black guy kidnapped her two sons. The police, FBI, etc went on a vast nationwide search looking for a black guy with a car with SC plates. Then later in the week, she confesses that she drowned her two sons.
Oldest Human Remains Found. The oldest known human ancestor (Ardipithecus ramidus) is found in Kenya, East Africa. The find was estimated at 4.4 million years old.
Bushfires threaten Sydney Australia Over 800 seperate forest and scrub fires burn more than 3,200,000 acres of land in the Australian state of New South Wales. On January 8, four people are killed when the fires reach the southern suburbs and destroy homes.
Kurt Cobain's Suicide Nirvana's singer, Kurt Cobain, dies at 27 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was found by wife, Courtney Love, and a whole generation of teens mourned.
Ayrton Senna Dies Ayrton Senna the greatest F1 driver of his generation is killed on May 1st 1994 at Imola.
Brazil won the USA Soccer World Cup Brazil soccer team won the great final against Italy, that happened at LA during the USA Soccer World Cup, by a score of 3 to 1 at penalty shooting, being congratulated as teh first soccer team to won four soccer world titles.
Nixon Died April 22, 1994...Died of a stroke at the age of 81
Michael Jackson weds Elvis' daughter, Lisa Marie
Rwanda Genocide Over 800,000 innocent Tutsis are hacked to death by Hutu extremists. The world does nothing
Tiger Woods Wins The Masters youngest (18) and first minority to win U.S. Amateur in 1994, won it again in '95 and '96
Hit Tv Show Friends Was Released It was a hit tv show and lasted 10 years.
Commodore Computers Go Bust The final battle for PC supremacy in the home was finally won by Microsoft with its last big competitor for the home market now in recievership. Due to decades of mismanagement and insight this home based computer company ceased to exist!
Brazil Wins 1994 World Cup Brazil Wins againt Italy 3-2 in penalty shootout. Brazil player (last name) Dunga scored winning goal. Host country: Pasadena, California. Manager of team was Carlos parreira. Twenty-four nations attended Cup. Fifty-two matches held. four hundred thirty-seven players attend
NAFTA In 1994 the North American Free Trade Agreement(NAFTA) was signed by Mexico, America, and Canada.(Ed Note: NAFTA was signed in 1992. It came into effect Jan 1, 1994)
46 BC – Julius Caesar defeats Titus Labienus in the Battle of Ruspina. 1762 – Great Britain declares war on Spain and Naples. 1896 – Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state. 1958 – Sputnik 1 falls to Earth from its orbit. 1959 – Luna 1 becomes the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon. 1965 – United States President Lyndon B. Johnson proclaims his "Great Society" during his State of the Union address. 2010 – The Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building is officially opened.
* 325 – The First Council of Nicea – the first Ecumenical Council of the Christian Church is held. * 526 – An earthquake kills about 300,000 people in Syria and Antiochia. * 685 – The Battle of Dunnichen or Nechtansmere is fought between a Pictish army under King Bridei III and the invading Northumbrians under King Ecgfrith, who are decisively defeated. * 1217 – The Second Battle of Lincoln is fought near Lincoln, England, resulting in the defeat of Prince Louis of France by William Marshal, 2nd Earl of Pembroke. * 1293 – King Sancho IV of Castile creates the Study of General Schools of Alcalá. * 1497 – John Cabot sets sail from Bristol, England, on his ship Matthew looking for a route to the west (other documents give a May 2 date). * 1498 – Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama arrives at Kozhikode (previously known as Calicut), India. * 1521 – Battle of Pampeluna: Ignatius Loyola is seriously wounded. * 1570 – Cartographer Abraham Ortelius issues the first modern atlas. * 1609 – Shakespeare's Sonnets are first published in London, perhaps illicitly, by the publisher Thomas Thorpe. * 1631 – The city of Magdeburg in Germany is seized by forces of the Holy Roman Empire and most of its inhabitants massacred, in one of the bloodiest incidents of the Thirty Years' War. * 1802 – By the Law of 20 May 1802, Napoleon Bonaparte reinstates slavery in the French colonies, revoking its abolition in the French Revolution * 1813 – Napoleon Bonaparte leads his French troops into the Battle of Bautzen in Saxony, Germany, against the combined armies of Russia and Prussia. The battle ends the next day with a French victory. * 1835 – Otto is named the first modern king of Greece. * 1840 – York Minster is badly damaged by fire * 1845 – HMS Erebus and HMS Terror with 134 men under John Franklin sail from the River Thames in Britain, beginning a disastrous expedition to find the Northwest Passage. All hands are lost. * 1861 – American Civil War: The state of Kentucky proclaims its neutrality, which will last until September 3 when Confederate forces enter the state. * 1862 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signs the Homestead Act into law. * 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Ware Bottom Church – in the Virginia Bermuda Hundred Campaign, 10,000 troops fight in this Confederate victory. * 1873 – Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a U.S. patent for blue jeans with copper rivets. * 1882 – The Triple Alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy is formed. * 1883 – Krakatoa begins to erupt. The volcano's final and most notable explosion occurs on August 26. * 1891 – History of cinema: The first public display of Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope. * 1896 – The six ton chandelier of the Palais Garnier falls on the crowd resulting in the death of one and the injury of many others. * 1902 – Cuba gains independence from the United States. Tomás Estrada Palma becomes the first President of Cuba. * 1916 – The Saturday Evening Post publishes its first cover with a Norman Rockwell painting ("Boy with Baby Carriage"). * 1920 – Montreal, Quebec radio station XWA broadcasts the first regularly scheduled radio programming in North America. * 1927 – By the Treaty of Jedda, the United Kingdom recognizes the sovereignty of King Ibn Saud in the Kingdoms of Hejaz and Nejd, which later merge to become the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. * 1927 – At 07:52 Charles Lindbergh takes off from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, New York, on the world's first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean, touching down at Le Bourget Field in Paris at 22:22 the next day. * 1932 – Amelia Earhart takes off from Newfoundland to begin the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean by a female pilot, landing in Ireland the next day. * 1940 – Holocaust: The first prisoners arrive at a new concentration camp at Auschwitz. * 1941 – World War II: Battle of Crete – German paratroops invade Crete. * 1949 – In the United States, the Armed Forces Security Agency, the predecessor to the National Security Agency, is established. * 1949 – The Kuomintang regime declares martial law in Taiwan. * 1956 – In Operation Redwing, (shot Cherokee), the first United States airborne hydrogen bomb is dropped over Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean; * 1965 – PIA Flight 705, a Pakistan International Airlines Boeing 720 – 040 B, crashes while descending to land at Cairo International Airport, killing 119 of the 125 passengers and crew. * 1969 – The Battle of Hamburger Hill in Vietnam ends. * 1980 – In a referendum in Quebec, the population rejects by a 60% vote the proposal from its government to move towards independence from Canada. * 1983 – First publications of the discovery of the HIV virus that causes AIDS in the journal Science by Luc Montagnier and Robert Gallo individually. * 1983 – A car-bomb explosion kills 17 and injures 197 in the centre of Pretoria, South Africa. * 1985 – Radio Martí, part of the Voice of America service, begins broadcasting to Cuba. * 1989 – The Chinese authorities declare martial law in the face of pro-democracy demonstrations, setting the scene for the Tiananmen Square massacre. * 1990 – The first post-Communist presidential and parliamentary elections are held in Romania. * 1995 – In a second referendum in Quebec, the population rejects by a slight majority the proposal from its government to move towards independence from Canada. * 1996 – Gay rights: The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Romer v. Evans against a law that would have prevented any city, town or county in the state of Colorado from taking any legislative, executive, or judicial action to protect the rights of gays and lesbians. * 2002 – The independence of East Timor is recognized by Portugal, formally ending 23 years of Indonesian rule and 3 years of provisional UN administration (Portugal itself is the former colonizer of East Timor until 1976).
TUPAC IS DEAD/THE LEGEND IS GONE/THEY SAYIN TUPAC'S BACK?/DEM NIGGAS WRONG
"2002 – The independence of East Timor is recognized by Portugal, formally ending 23 years of Indonesian rule and 3 years of provisional UN administration (Portugal itself is the former colonizer of East Timor until 1976)"
I just sorta watched something on that in an HBO documentary lol
1775 British begin siege of Boston 1809 Napolean I defeats Austria at Battle of Abensberg, Bavaria 1889 Adolf Hitler's birthday 1945 Hitler commits suicide after U.S. troops occupy Munich. 1945 Soviet troops enter Berlin 1945 US 7th army captured German city of Nuremberg 1945 World War II: US troops capture Leipzig, Germany, only to later cede the city to the Soviet Union. 1946 The first baseball broadcast in Chicago, Cards vs Cubs 1961 Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US troops against Cuba. 1961 The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) gave approval for FM stereo broadcasting 1967 US planes bomb Haiphong for first time during the Vietnam War 1985 ATF raid on The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord compound in northern Arkansas. 1986 Professional basketball player Michael Jordan sets all-time record for points in a NBA playoff game with 63 against the Boston Celtics. 1990 Pete Rose pleads guilty to hiding $300,000 in income 1998 German terrorist group Red Army Faction announces their dissolution after 28 years. 1999 The Columbine High School massacre leaves 15 people (including the two gunmen) dead and 24 wounded in Jefferson County, Colorado. 2004 In Iraq, 12 mortars are fired on Abu Ghraib Prison by insurgents, killing 22 detainees and wounding 92. 2007 Johnson Space Center Shooting: A man with a hand gun barricades himself in NASA's Johnson Space Center before killing a male hostage and himself. 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico claimed 11 lives. The oil rig sank 2 days later and has caused a massive continuing oil spill into the Gulf.
There were tons of dates, I only went through the ones that seemed interesting to me. I added the last one on the oil rig explosion since it wasn't included.
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"1831 – Nat Turner sees a solar eclipse, which he believes is a sign from God. Eight days later he and 70 other slaves kill approximately 55 whites in Southampton County, Virginia.
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2004 – War in Iraq: Al-Qaeda carries out the Ashoura Massacre in Iraq, killing 170 and wounding over 500.
1792 – France declares war on Austria, the beginning of French Revolutionary Wars.
1871 – The Civil Rights Act of 1871 becomes law.
1945 – World War II: Fuehrerbunker: Adolf Hitler makes his last trip to the surface to award Iron Crosses to boy soldiers of the Hitler Youth.
1961 – Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US-backed troops against Cuba.
1972 – Apollo 16 landed on the moon commanded by John Young.
1984 – The Good Friday an extremely violent ice hockey playoff game, is played in Montreal, Canada.
1998 – German terrorist group Red Army Faction announces their dissolution after 28 years.
1999 – Columbine High School massacre: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill 13 people and injure 24 others before committing suicide at Columbine High School in Jefferson County, Colorado.
2007 – Johnson Space Center Shooting: A man with a handgun barricades himself in NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas before killing a male hostage and himself.
2008 – Danica Patrick wins the Indy Japan 300 becoming the first female driver in history to win an Indy car race.
Fuck my birthday.
***********1994****************
South African Black Get to Vote, April
Mandela got 60 percent of the vote, far more than FW de Klerk who began dismantling aparthaid 5 years earlier. The flag was also changed to help erase some of their past.
Civil war in Rwanda
The spark that ignited a bloody civil war (500,000 people killed) was started by Hutu troops, which shot down a plan carrying the president of Rwanda and Burundi in revenge for allowing the Tutsi to share power.
North Korean nuclear violations suspected
The North Koreans' barred a UN agency from investigating security breaches at one of their reactors. This started a tense year of negotiations, in which Jimmy Carter helped to begin a dialog by getting North Korea to suspend it's bomb program.
IRA peace talks result in a cease-fire
An Israeli fanatic kills 29 Palestinians
As a result, it sparked further retalations on both sides. It didn't prevent the turning over of Jerihco and the Gaza strip. Arafat returned from his exile and began to run the new country.
Israel and the Vatican begin diplomatic relations
Existence of black holes proved.
The Hubble telescope reveals conclusive evidence of the existence of black holes, which had been purely theoretical up until this point.
Major League baseball players strike
As a result the World Series was canceled.
NHL locked out players over salaries
Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the back of the knee
In January, one month before the 1994 Winter Olympics, her rival's boyfriend, attacked her after a skating meet. Tonya Harding would still go on to face Nancy at the Olympics, but failed to even place after a miserable performace. She was later banned from the professional skating world.
Whitewater scandal begins to be investigated
Chunnel opens, May 1994
Bridging England and France, it took 15,000 workers over seven years to create the tunnel which now allows passengers to travel between the two countries in 35 minutes.
Haiti's president returns from exile
After three years of exile in the US, Aristide returned on October 15th.
Mass suicide by Order of the Solar Temple
53 members of the cult carried out the mass murder-suicide in Switzerland and Canada.
700 paintings looted from Germany revealed
The stash was held in St Petersburg's Hermitage museum, after having been looted in 1945 by Russian soldiers.
Comet hits Jupiter
In July 1994, the planet was pelted by the comet with 21 large fragments over the course of 6 days, creating 2000 mile high fireballs and leaving black bruises in the clouds of the planet.
Run OJ, RUN
On June 13, 1994 Nicole Brown Simpsons and Ronald Goldman were murdered outside Nicole's house in Brentwood, CA. On June 17th, OJ and his friend Al Cowlings took flight from the police in his white Ford Bronco, in a low speed chase which ended up at his mansion where he surrendered.
Los Angeles suffers massive earthquake
Republican majority in both houses of Congress
Another Kennedy Funeral
November 1994. Jackie Kennedy Onassis was laid to rest along side John F Kennedy. What was to be a private family affair turned into a large public spectacle.
Icestorm of '94
Thousands lost their electricity when record low temperatures hit the east coast. Some students missed more than two weeks of school! Ice froze up everything for what seemed like forever.
Susan Smith (the ultimate lie)
She drowned her two sons, then LIED on national television that a black guy kidnapped her two sons. The police, FBI, etc went on a vast nationwide search looking for a black guy with a car with SC plates. Then later in the week, she confesses that she drowned her two sons.
Oldest Human Remains Found.
The oldest known human ancestor (Ardipithecus ramidus) is found in Kenya, East Africa. The find was estimated at 4.4 million years old.
Bushfires threaten Sydney Australia
Over 800 seperate forest and scrub fires burn more than 3,200,000 acres of land in the Australian state of New South Wales. On January 8, four people are killed when the fires reach the southern suburbs and destroy homes.
Kurt Cobain's Suicide
Nirvana's singer, Kurt Cobain, dies at 27 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was found by wife, Courtney Love, and a whole generation of teens mourned.
Ayrton Senna Dies
Ayrton Senna the greatest F1 driver of his generation is killed on May 1st 1994 at Imola.
Brazil won the USA Soccer World Cup
Brazil soccer team won the great final against Italy, that happened at LA during the USA Soccer World Cup, by a score of 3 to 1 at penalty shooting, being congratulated as teh first soccer team to won four soccer world titles.
Nixon Died
April 22, 1994...Died of a stroke at the age of 81
Michael Jackson weds Elvis' daughter, Lisa Marie
Rwanda Genocide
Over 800,000 innocent Tutsis are hacked to death by Hutu extremists. The world does nothing
Tiger Woods Wins The Masters
youngest (18) and first minority to win U.S. Amateur in 1994, won it again in '95 and '96
Hit Tv Show Friends Was Released
It was a hit tv show and lasted 10 years.
Commodore Computers Go Bust
The final battle for PC supremacy in the home was finally won by Microsoft with its last big competitor for the home market now in recievership. Due to decades of mismanagement and insight this home based computer company ceased to exist!
Brazil Wins 1994 World Cup
Brazil Wins againt Italy 3-2 in penalty shootout. Brazil player (last name) Dunga scored winning goal. Host country: Pasadena, California. Manager of team was Carlos parreira. Twenty-four nations attended Cup. Fifty-two matches held. four hundred thirty-seven players attend
NAFTA
In 1994 the North American Free Trade Agreement(NAFTA) was signed by Mexico, America, and Canada.(Ed Note: NAFTA was signed in 1992. It came into effect Jan 1, 1994)
.... motherfucker!
1762 – Great Britain declares war on Spain and Naples.
1896 – Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state.
1958 – Sputnik 1 falls to Earth from its orbit.
1959 – Luna 1 becomes the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon.
1965 – United States President Lyndon B. Johnson proclaims his "Great Society" during his State of the Union address.
2010 – The Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building is officially opened.
* 526 – An earthquake kills about 300,000 people in Syria and Antiochia.
* 685 – The Battle of Dunnichen or Nechtansmere is fought between a Pictish army under King Bridei III and the invading Northumbrians under King Ecgfrith, who are decisively defeated.
* 1217 – The Second Battle of Lincoln is fought near Lincoln, England, resulting in the defeat of Prince Louis of France by William Marshal, 2nd Earl of Pembroke.
* 1293 – King Sancho IV of Castile creates the Study of General Schools of Alcalá.
* 1497 – John Cabot sets sail from Bristol, England, on his ship Matthew looking for a route to the west (other documents give a May 2 date).
* 1498 – Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama arrives at Kozhikode (previously known as Calicut), India.
* 1521 – Battle of Pampeluna: Ignatius Loyola is seriously wounded.
* 1570 – Cartographer Abraham Ortelius issues the first modern atlas.
* 1609 – Shakespeare's Sonnets are first published in London, perhaps illicitly, by the publisher Thomas Thorpe.
* 1631 – The city of Magdeburg in Germany is seized by forces of the Holy Roman Empire and most of its inhabitants massacred, in one of the bloodiest incidents of the Thirty Years' War.
* 1802 – By the Law of 20 May 1802, Napoleon Bonaparte reinstates slavery in the French colonies, revoking its abolition in the French Revolution
* 1813 – Napoleon Bonaparte leads his French troops into the Battle of Bautzen in Saxony, Germany, against the combined armies of Russia and Prussia. The battle ends the next day with a French victory.
* 1835 – Otto is named the first modern king of Greece.
* 1840 – York Minster is badly damaged by fire
* 1845 – HMS Erebus and HMS Terror with 134 men under John Franklin sail from the River Thames in Britain, beginning a disastrous expedition to find the Northwest Passage. All hands are lost.
* 1861 – American Civil War: The state of Kentucky proclaims its neutrality, which will last until September 3 when Confederate forces enter the state.
* 1862 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signs the Homestead Act into law.
* 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Ware Bottom Church – in the Virginia Bermuda Hundred Campaign, 10,000 troops fight in this Confederate victory.
* 1873 – Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a U.S. patent for blue jeans with copper rivets.
* 1882 – The Triple Alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy is formed.
* 1883 – Krakatoa begins to erupt. The volcano's final and most notable explosion occurs on August 26.
* 1891 – History of cinema: The first public display of Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope.
* 1896 – The six ton chandelier of the Palais Garnier falls on the crowd resulting in the death of one and the injury of many others.
* 1902 – Cuba gains independence from the United States. Tomás Estrada Palma becomes the first President of Cuba.
* 1916 – The Saturday Evening Post publishes its first cover with a Norman Rockwell painting ("Boy with Baby Carriage").
* 1920 – Montreal, Quebec radio station XWA broadcasts the first regularly scheduled radio programming in North America.
* 1927 – By the Treaty of Jedda, the United Kingdom recognizes the sovereignty of King Ibn Saud in the Kingdoms of Hejaz and Nejd, which later merge to become the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
* 1927 – At 07:52 Charles Lindbergh takes off from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, New York, on the world's first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean, touching down at Le Bourget Field in Paris at 22:22 the next day.
* 1932 – Amelia Earhart takes off from Newfoundland to begin the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean by a female pilot, landing in Ireland the next day.
* 1940 – Holocaust: The first prisoners arrive at a new concentration camp at Auschwitz.
* 1941 – World War II: Battle of Crete – German paratroops invade Crete.
* 1949 – In the United States, the Armed Forces Security Agency, the predecessor to the National Security Agency, is established.
* 1949 – The Kuomintang regime declares martial law in Taiwan.
* 1956 – In Operation Redwing, (shot Cherokee), the first United States airborne hydrogen bomb is dropped over Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean;
* 1965 – PIA Flight 705, a Pakistan International Airlines Boeing 720 – 040 B, crashes while descending to land at Cairo International Airport, killing 119 of the 125 passengers and crew.
* 1969 – The Battle of Hamburger Hill in Vietnam ends.
* 1980 – In a referendum in Quebec, the population rejects by a 60% vote the proposal from its government to move towards independence from Canada.
* 1983 – First publications of the discovery of the HIV virus that causes AIDS in the journal Science by Luc Montagnier and Robert Gallo individually.
* 1983 – A car-bomb explosion kills 17 and injures 197 in the centre of Pretoria, South Africa.
* 1985 – Radio Martí, part of the Voice of America service, begins broadcasting to Cuba.
* 1989 – The Chinese authorities declare martial law in the face of pro-democracy demonstrations, setting the scene for the Tiananmen Square massacre.
* 1990 – The first post-Communist presidential and parliamentary elections are held in Romania.
* 1995 – In a second referendum in Quebec, the population rejects by a slight majority the proposal from its government to move towards independence from Canada.
* 1996 – Gay rights: The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Romer v. Evans against a law that would have prevented any city, town or county in the state of Colorado from taking any legislative, executive, or judicial action to protect the rights of gays and lesbians.
* 2002 – The independence of East Timor is recognized by Portugal, formally ending 23 years of Indonesian rule and 3 years of provisional UN administration (Portugal itself is the former colonizer of East Timor until 1976).
That's pretty cool.
I just sorta watched something on that in an HBO documentary lol
1775 British begin siege of Boston
1809 Napolean I defeats Austria at Battle of Abensberg, Bavaria
1889 Adolf Hitler's birthday
1945 Hitler commits suicide after U.S. troops occupy Munich.
1945 Soviet troops enter Berlin
1945 US 7th army captured German city of Nuremberg
1945 World War II: US troops capture Leipzig, Germany, only to later cede the city to the Soviet Union.
1946 The first baseball broadcast in Chicago, Cards vs Cubs
1961 Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US troops against Cuba.
1961 The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) gave approval for FM stereo broadcasting
1967 US planes bomb Haiphong for first time during the Vietnam War
1985 ATF raid on The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord compound in northern Arkansas.
1986 Professional basketball player Michael Jordan sets all-time record for points in a NBA playoff game with 63 against the Boston Celtics.
1990 Pete Rose pleads guilty to hiding $300,000 in income
1998 German terrorist group Red Army Faction announces their dissolution after 28 years.
1999 The Columbine High School massacre leaves 15 people (including the two gunmen) dead and 24 wounded in Jefferson County, Colorado.
2004 In Iraq, 12 mortars are fired on Abu Ghraib Prison by insurgents, killing 22 detainees and wounding 92.
2007 Johnson Space Center Shooting: A man with a hand gun barricades himself in NASA's Johnson Space Center before killing a male hostage and himself.
2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico claimed 11 lives. The oil rig sank 2 days later and has caused a massive continuing oil spill into the Gulf.
There were tons of dates, I only went through the ones that seemed interesting to me. I added the last one on the oil rig explosion since it wasn't included.
^ fucking br00tal"