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1998 |
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U.S. President Clinton was subpoenaed to appear before a federal grand jury regarding the Monica Lewinsky case. The subpoena was withdrawn when Clinton agreed to give videotaped testimony with his lawyers present. |
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1866 |
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Ulysses S. Grant was named General of the Army. He was the first American officer to hold the rank. |
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1946 |
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The U.S. detonated an atomic bomb at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific. It was the first underwater test of the device. |
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1998 |
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The USS Harry S. Truman was commissioned and put into service by the U.S. Navy. |
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1956 |
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The Italian liner Andrea Doria sank after colliding with the Swedish ship Stockholm off the New England coast. 51 people were killed. |
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2000 |
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A supersonic Concorde crashed outside Paris, France, killing all 109 people aboard and 5 on the ground.
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1850 |
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Gold was discovered in the Rogue River in Oregon. |
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1850 |
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In Worcester, MA, Harvard and Yale University freshmen met in the first intercollegiate billiards match. |
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1939 |
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W2XBS TV in New York City presented the first musical comedy seen on TV. The show was "Topsy and Eva". |
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1394 |
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Charles VI of France issued a decree for the general expulsion of Jews from France. |
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1564 |
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Maximillian II became emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. |
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1934 |
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Austrian chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss was shot and killed by Nazis. |
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1997 |
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K.R. Narayanan became India's president. He was the first member of the Dalits caste to do so. |
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1978 |
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Louise Joy Brown, the first test-tube baby, was born in Oldham, England. She had been conceived through in-vitro fertilization. |
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1909 |
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French aviator Louis Bleriot flew across the English Channel in a monoplane. He traveled from Calais to Dover in 37 minutes. He was the first man to fly across the channel. |
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1805 |
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Aaron Burr visited New Orleans with plans to establish a new country, with New Orleans as the capital city. |
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1907 |
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Korea became a protectorate of Japan. |
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1914 |
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Russia declared that it would act to protect Serbian sovereignty. |
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1924 |
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Greece announced the deportation of 50,000 Armenians. |
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1941 |
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The U.S. government froze all Japanese and Chinese assets. |
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1952 |
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Puerto Rico became a self-governing commonwealth of the U.S. |
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0326 |
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Constantine refused to carry out the traditional pagan sacrifices. |
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1587 |
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Japanese strong-man Hideyoshi banned Christianity in Japan and ordered all Christians to leave. |
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1593 |
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France's King Henry IV converted from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism. |
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1984 |
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Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to walk in space. She was aboard the orbiting space station Salyut 7. |
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1850 |
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In Worcester, MA, Harvard and Yale University freshmen met in the first intercollegiate billiards match. |
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1947 |
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Fortune Gordien of Oslo, Norway set a world record discus throw of 178.47 feet. |
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1978 |
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Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Red's broke the National League record for consecutive base hits as he got a hit in 38 straight games. |
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1987 |
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The Salt Lake City Trappers set a professional baseball record as the team won its 29th game in a row. |
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1999 |
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Lance Armstrong won the Tour de France. He was only the second American to win the race. He won the race again in 2000. |
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1854 |
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The paper collar was patented by Walter Hunt. |
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1871 |
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Seth Wheeler patented perforated wrapping paper. |
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1946 |
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Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis staged their first show as a team at Club 500 in Atlantic City, NJ.
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1394 |
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Charles VI of France issued a decree for the general expulsion of Jews from France. |
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1868 |
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The U.S. Congress passed an act creating the Wyoming Territory. |
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1845 |
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China granted Belgium equal trading rights with Britain, France and the United States. |
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1759 |
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British forces defeated a French army at Fort Niagara in Canada. |
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1799 |
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Napoleon Bonaparte defeated the Ottomans at Aboukir, Egypt. |
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1861 |
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The Crittenden Resolution, which called for the American Civil War to be fought to preserve the Union and not for slavery, was passed by the U.S. Congress. |
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1943 |
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Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini was overthrown in a coup. |
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1994 |
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Israel and Jordan formally ended the state of war that had existed between them since 1948. |
