495 Pope Gelasius asserts that his authority is superior to Emperor Ananstasius.
996 Gregory V consecrated as pope. The pontificate of Gregory was brief and turbulent, and was interrupted by the installation of John XVI as antipope.
1469 Birth of Niccol Machiavelli, political advisor and writer. The earliest great political theorist, whose work is still controversial today. In addition to writing The Prince (the actual meaning and intent of which is still debated) and historical tracts, Machiavelli wrote humorous plays and poetry. He was also a statesman who worked for Cesare Borgia and the Medici, and served as an ambassador and military advisor.
1494 Cristopher Columbus discovers Jamaica.
1500 The Portuguese land in Brasil.
1568 French forces in Florida slaughter hundreds of Spanish.
1695 Birth of Henri Pitot, French hydraulic engineer and inventor of the pitot tube, which measures flow velocity.
1747 First Battle of Cape Finisterre. British fleet soundly defeated French.
1802 Washington, D.C., was incorporated as a city
1809 Battle of Ebersberg. Massena's corps stormed the bridge and castle driving Austrians out of city.
1849 Birth of Jacob Riis, American reformer (How the Other Half Lives).
1855 Macon B. Allen becomes the first African American to be admitted to the Bar in Massachusetts.
1859 France declares war on Austria.
1863 The Battle of Chancellorsville rages for a second day.
1865 President Lincoln's funeral train arrives in Springfield, Illinois.
1898 Birth of Golda Meir, Fourth Prime Minister of Israel (1969-1974).
1900 During the Boer War, General Lord Roberts departs from Bloemfontein and begins the 'March to Pretoria' with almost 44,000 men, 18,000 horses, and 1200 field-guns.
1920 Birth of Walker Smith, Jr. (Sugar Ray Robinson), champion middleweight boxer.
1921 West Virginia imposed the first state sales tax.
1926 U.S. Marines land in Nicaragua.
1933 Birth of James Brown, American singer and songwriter.
1933 Nellie T. Ross became the first female director of the U.S. Mint.
1944 U.S. wartime rationing of most grades of meats ended.
1945 Indian forces captured Rangoon, Burma, from the Japanese.
1948 The Supreme Court ruled that covenants prohibiting the sale of real estate to blacks or members of other racial groups were legally unenforceable.
1952 The first airplane lands at the geographic North Pole.
1953 Nineteen Kikuyu 'home guards' are killed by Mau Mau activists in Kenya.
1968 After three days of battle, the U.S. Marines retake Dai Do complex in Vietnam, only to find the North Vietnamese have evacuated the area.
1968 Dr. Denton Cooley performed the first successful heart transplant in the United States on Everett Thomas, whose heart was damaged from rheumatic heart disease. In 1969, he became the first heart surgeon to implant an artificial heart in man.
1968 Student riots in Paris begin.
1971 James Earl Ray, Martin Luther King's assassin, is caught in a jail break attempt.
1971 Antiwar protesters began four days of demonstrations in Washington, D.C., aimed at shutting down the nation's capital
1971 Erich Honecker becomes leader of the Communist Party in East Germany.
1978 "Sun Day" fell on a Wednesday as thousands of people extolling the virtues of solar energy held events across the US.
1979 Margaret Thatcher becomes the first woman prime minister of Great Britain.
1982 A British submarine sinks Argentina's only cruiser during the Falkland Islands War.
1986 In NASA's first post-Challenger launch, an unmanned Delta rocket lost power in its main engine shortly after liftoff, forcing safety officers to destroy it by remote control
1992 Bosnian forces attack the withdrawing Yugoslav Army in Sarajevo. The withdrawal was negotiated and the guarantees for the safe passage given. However, the Bosnians ambushed and killed about 200 soldiers, officers and civilians (mostly officer's family members).
1993 American sailor Terry M. Helvey confessed to stomping to death Allen Schindler, a homosexual shipmate, but told his court-martial in Yokosuka, Japan, that he was drunk and did not plan the killing (Helvey was later sentenced to life in prison).
1998 Space shuttle Columbia and its crew returned to Earth, ending two weeks of lab work that advanced brain research.
1998 After a daylong squabble that had stretched past midnight, European leaders meeting in Brussels, Belgium, agreed on Wim Duisenberg of the Netherlands as the chief of the new European Central Bank, but with the proviso that he step down in 2002 to make way for Frenchman Jean-Claude Trichet.
1999 Another refugee bus hit by NATO in Kosovo - 20 die.
2002 The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston backed out of a settlement agreement with 86 people who had accused defrocked priest John Geoghan of child molestation, saying the deal was becoming too expensive. (The archdiocese later agreed to a $10 settlement.)
2002 Pipe bombs exploded in six mailboxes in rural parts of Illinois and Iowa, injuring six people. (A suspect, Luke Helder, is awaiting trial.)
996 Gregory V consecrated as pope. The pontificate of Gregory was brief and turbulent, and was interrupted by the installation of John XVI as antipope.
1469 Birth of Niccol Machiavelli, political advisor and writer. The earliest great political theorist, whose work is still controversial today. In addition to writing The Prince (the actual meaning and intent of which is still debated) and historical tracts, Machiavelli wrote humorous plays and poetry. He was also a statesman who worked for Cesare Borgia and the Medici, and served as an ambassador and military advisor.
1494 Cristopher Columbus discovers Jamaica.
1500 The Portuguese land in Brasil.
1568 French forces in Florida slaughter hundreds of Spanish.
1695 Birth of Henri Pitot, French hydraulic engineer and inventor of the pitot tube, which measures flow velocity.
1747 First Battle of Cape Finisterre. British fleet soundly defeated French.
1802 Washington, D.C., was incorporated as a city
1809 Battle of Ebersberg. Massena's corps stormed the bridge and castle driving Austrians out of city.
1849 Birth of Jacob Riis, American reformer (How the Other Half Lives).
1855 Macon B. Allen becomes the first African American to be admitted to the Bar in Massachusetts.
1859 France declares war on Austria.
1863 The Battle of Chancellorsville rages for a second day.
1865 President Lincoln's funeral train arrives in Springfield, Illinois.
1898 Birth of Golda Meir, Fourth Prime Minister of Israel (1969-1974).
1900 During the Boer War, General Lord Roberts departs from Bloemfontein and begins the 'March to Pretoria' with almost 44,000 men, 18,000 horses, and 1200 field-guns.
1920 Birth of Walker Smith, Jr. (Sugar Ray Robinson), champion middleweight boxer.
1921 West Virginia imposed the first state sales tax.
1926 U.S. Marines land in Nicaragua.
1933 Birth of James Brown, American singer and songwriter.
1933 Nellie T. Ross became the first female director of the U.S. Mint.
1944 U.S. wartime rationing of most grades of meats ended.
1945 Indian forces captured Rangoon, Burma, from the Japanese.
1948 The Supreme Court ruled that covenants prohibiting the sale of real estate to blacks or members of other racial groups were legally unenforceable.
1952 The first airplane lands at the geographic North Pole.
1953 Nineteen Kikuyu 'home guards' are killed by Mau Mau activists in Kenya.
1968 After three days of battle, the U.S. Marines retake Dai Do complex in Vietnam, only to find the North Vietnamese have evacuated the area.
1968 Dr. Denton Cooley performed the first successful heart transplant in the United States on Everett Thomas, whose heart was damaged from rheumatic heart disease. In 1969, he became the first heart surgeon to implant an artificial heart in man.
1968 Student riots in Paris begin.
1971 James Earl Ray, Martin Luther King's assassin, is caught in a jail break attempt.
1971 Antiwar protesters began four days of demonstrations in Washington, D.C., aimed at shutting down the nation's capital
1971 Erich Honecker becomes leader of the Communist Party in East Germany.
1978 "Sun Day" fell on a Wednesday as thousands of people extolling the virtues of solar energy held events across the US.
1979 Margaret Thatcher becomes the first woman prime minister of Great Britain.
1982 A British submarine sinks Argentina's only cruiser during the Falkland Islands War.
1986 In NASA's first post-Challenger launch, an unmanned Delta rocket lost power in its main engine shortly after liftoff, forcing safety officers to destroy it by remote control
1992 Bosnian forces attack the withdrawing Yugoslav Army in Sarajevo. The withdrawal was negotiated and the guarantees for the safe passage given. However, the Bosnians ambushed and killed about 200 soldiers, officers and civilians (mostly officer's family members).
1993 American sailor Terry M. Helvey confessed to stomping to death Allen Schindler, a homosexual shipmate, but told his court-martial in Yokosuka, Japan, that he was drunk and did not plan the killing (Helvey was later sentenced to life in prison).
1998 Space shuttle Columbia and its crew returned to Earth, ending two weeks of lab work that advanced brain research.
1998 After a daylong squabble that had stretched past midnight, European leaders meeting in Brussels, Belgium, agreed on Wim Duisenberg of the Netherlands as the chief of the new European Central Bank, but with the proviso that he step down in 2002 to make way for Frenchman Jean-Claude Trichet.
1999 Another refugee bus hit by NATO in Kosovo - 20 die.
2002 The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston backed out of a settlement agreement with 86 people who had accused defrocked priest John Geoghan of child molestation, saying the deal was becoming too expensive. (The archdiocese later agreed to a $10 settlement.)
2002 Pipe bombs exploded in six mailboxes in rural parts of Illinois and Iowa, injuring six people. (A suspect, Luke Helder, is awaiting trial.)
Francois: Do you know what kind of a bomb it was?
Clouseau: The exploding kind.
Clouseau: The exploding kind.
