[Today] October 01 To remember 12 events

[Today] October 01 To remember 12 events

01) 331 BC – Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela.
02) 1553 – Coronation of Queen Mary I of England.
03) 1811 – The first steamboat to sail the Mississippi River arrives in New Orleans.
04) 1843 – The News of the World tabloid begins publication in London.
05) 1890 – Yosemite National Park is established by the U.S. Congress.
06) 1891 – Stanford University opens its doors in California.
07) 1918 – World War I: Arab forces under T. E. Lawrence, also known as "Lawrence of Arabia", capture Damascus.
08) 1946 – Nazi leaders are sentenced at Nuremberg trials.
09) 1947 – The North American F-86 Sabre flies for the first time.
10) 1962 – First broadcast of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
11) 1979 – The United States returns sovereignty of the Panama Canal to Panama.
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12) 2012 – A ferry collision off the coast of Hong Kong kills 38 people and injures 102 others.

[Today] september 30 To remember 12 events

[Today] september 30 To remember 12 events






01) 1399 – Henry IV is proclaimed King of England.

02) 1541 – Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto and his forces enter Tula territory in present-day western Arkansas, encountering fierce resistance.

03) 1791 – The first performance of The Magic Flute, the last opera by Mozart to make its debut, took place at Freihaus-Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna, Austria.

04) 1882 – Thomas Edison's first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States.

05) 1907 – McKinley National Memorial, the final resting place of assassinated U.S. President William McKinley and his family, is dedicated in Canton, Ohio.

06) 1927 – Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season.

07) 1931 – Start of "Die Voortrekkers" youth movement for Afrikaners in Bloemfontein, South Africa.

08) 1955 – Film star James Dean dies in a road accident aged 24.

09) 1975 – The Hughes (later McDonnell Douglas, now Boeing) AH-64 Apache makes its first flight.

10) 1980 – Ethernet specifications are published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.

11) 1999 – Japan's second-worst nuclear accident at a uranium reprocessing facility in Tōkai-mura, northeast of Tokyo.

12) 2005 – The controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.

Today september 29 To remember 12 events

Today september 29 To remember 12 events







01) 522 BC – Darius I of Persia kills the Magian usurper Gaumata, securing his hold as king of the Persian Empire.

02) 1227 – Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, is excommunicated by Pope Gregory IX for his failure 5o participate in the Crusades.

03) 1789 – The United States Department of War first establishes a regular army with a strength of several hundred men.

04) 1848 – Battle of Pákozd: Stalemate between Hungarian and Croatian forces at Pákozd; the first battle of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848.

05) 1899 – The Malolos Congress ratified the Philippine Declaration of Independnce from Spain.

06) 1907 – The cornerstone is laid at Washington National Cathedral in the U.S. capital.

07) 1938 – The Munich Agreement between Germany, the United Kingdom, France and Italy settles the Sudetenland dispute in Germany's favor. The Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia are not invited.

08) 1940 – Two Avro Ansons of No. 2 Service Flying Training School RAAF collide in mid-air over Brocklesby, New South Wales, Australia, remain locked together after colliding, and then land safely.

9) 1957 – Twenty MCi (740 petabecquerels) of radioactive material is released in an explosion at the Soviet Mayak nuclear plant at Chelyabinsk.

10) 1988 – Space Shuttle: NASA launches STS-26, the return to flight mission, after the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.

11) 2007 – Calder Hall, the world's first commercial nuclear power station, is demolished in a controlled explosion.

12) 2009 – The 8.1 Mw Samoa earthquake strikes with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VI (Strong). A destructive tsunami follows, leaving 189 dead and hundreds injured.

[Today] september 28 To remember 12 events

[Today] september 28 To remember 12 events







01) 48 BC – Pompey the Great is assassinated on the orders of King Ptolemy of Egypt after landing in Egypt.

02) 351 – Battle of Mursa Major: The Roman emperor Constantius II defeats the usurper Magnentius.

03) 995 – Members of the Slavník dynasty: Spytimír, Pobraslav, Pořej and Čáslav are murdered by Boleslaus's son, Boleslaus II the Pious.

04) 1106 – Battle of Tinchebray: Henry I of England defeats his brother, Robert Curthose.

05) 1538 – Ottoman–Venetian War: The Ottoman Navy scores a decisive victory over a Holy League fleet in the Battle of Preveza.

06) 1779 – American Revolution: Samuel Huntington is elected President of the Continental Congress, succeeding John Jay.

07) 1868 – Battle of Alcolea causes Queen Isabella II of Spain to flee to France.

08) 1892 – The first night game for American football takes place in a contest between Wyoming Seminary and Mansfield State Normal.

09) 1912 – The Ulster Covenant is signed by some 500,000 Ulster Protestant Unionists in opposition to the Third Irish Home Rule Bill.

10) 1924 – First round-the-world flight completed.

11) 2000 – Al-Aqsa Intifada: Ariel Sharon visits Al-Aqsa Mosque known to Jews as the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.

12) 2008 – SpaceX launches the first private spacecraft, the Falcon 1 into orbit.

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[Today] september 26 To remember 12 events

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