This Day In History
986- Louis V becomes King of the Franks.
1657- Great Fire of Meireki destroys 60-70% of the Japanese capital city of Edo, killing an estimated 100,000 people
1776 - American troops begin shelling the British in Boston
1796- Napoléon Bonaparte is appointed Commander-in-Chief of the French Army in Italy 1807- William Cavendish-Bentinck, Duke of Portland becomes British Prime Minister for the second time after the fall of William Grenville's Whig government
1815- Signing of Kandyan treaty by British invaders and Sri Lankan King
1819 Territory of Arkansas organized
1819- US passed its 1st immigration law
1855- Aleksandr Romanov becomes tsar of Russia
1858- Frederick Cook of New Orleans, patents a cotton-bale metallic tie
1865 - British newspaper “Morning Chronicle” begins publishing
1968 - USSR launches space probe Zond 4; fails to leave Earth orbit
1972 - NASA launches its Pioneer 10 space probe to Jupiter
1978 - Soyuz 28 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Czechoslovakian) to Salyut 6
1983 - Compact Disc recordings developed by Phillips & Sony introduced.
1984 - Iran offensive against Iraq fails
1989 - 12 European nations agree to ban chlorofluorocarbon production by 2000.
1991 NC State Chris Corchiani becomes 1st NCAAer to get 1,000 assists
1991 - UN votes in favor of US resolutions for cease fire with Iraq
1995 - Space shuttle STS-67 (Endeavour 8), launches
1997 - Saudi Arab billionaire Prince al-Waleed bin Talal aquires 5% of Apple
1997 - Soyuz TM-24 returns to Earth (Russia) 1998 - Data sent from the Galileo spacecraft indicates that Jupiter’s moon Europa has a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice.
2002 - U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: US conventional forces first deployed as part of Operation Anaconda
2004- War in Iraq: Al Qaeda carries out the Ashoura Massacre in Iraq, killing 170 and wounding over 500
2004 - Rosetta space probe is launched by the European Space Agency to study comet
2011- One of cricket’s great upsets; Kevin O’Brien scores fastest century in World Cup history off 50 balls (ends 113 off 63) to help Ireland beat England by 3 wickets in Bangalore
2014 - President Vladimir Putin receives unanimous approval from Russia's parliament to send troops to the Ukraine
2016- Longest non-stop scheduled commercial flight by distance, Emirates A380 flies 14,200km (8,824 miles) Dubai to Auckland in 17 hours, 15 minutes
2016 - Oldest known land fossil (Tortotubus 440 million years old) from Gotland, Sweden, revealed by British scientists
2016 - US astronauts Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko return to earth after nearly a year (340 days), setting an ISS record
2017- US Attorney General Jeff Sessions recuses himself from the investigation into Trump campaign contacts with Russia after revelations he met Russian ambassador
2018- Gunmen attack the French embassy and army HQ in suspected terrorist incident in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, killing 8 and injuring 80
2019- 37-year-old Swiss 20-time Grand Slam tennis champion Roger Federer beats Greece's Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-4, 6-4 to win his 100th ATP Tour title at the Dubai Championships