Friday, October 7, 2016

[Today] October 08 Battle of Andernach etc






01) 451 – At Chalcedon, a city of Bithynia in Asia Minor, the first session of the Council of Chalcedon begins (ends on November 1).
02) 876 – Battle of Andernach: Frankish forces led by Louis the Younger prevent a West Frankish invasion and defeat emperor Charles II ("the Bald").
03) 1200 – Isabella of Angoulême is crowned Queen consort of England.
04) 1573 – End of the Spanish siege of Alkmaar, the first Dutch victory in Eighty Years' War.
05) 1806 – Napoleonic Wars: Forces of the British Empire lay siege to the port of Boulogne in France by using Congreve rockets, invented by Sir William Congreve.
06) 1829 – Rail transport: Stephenson's The Rocket wins The Rainhill Trials.
07) 1860 – Telegraph line between Los Angeles and San Francisco opens.
08) 1895 – Eulmi incident: Queen Min of Joseon, the last empress of Korea, is assassinated and her corpse burnt by Japanese infiltrators inside Gyeongbok Palace.
09) 1968 – Vietnam War: Operation Sealords: United States and South Vietnamese forces launch a new operation in the Mekong Delta.
10) 1973 – Yom Kippur War: Gabi Amir's armored brigade attacks Egyptian occupied positions on the Israeli side of the Suez Canal, in hope of driving them away. The attack fails, and over 150 Israeli tanks are destroyed.
11) 1990 – Israeli–Palestinian conflict: In Jerusalem, Israeli police kill 17 Palestinians and wound over 100 near the Dome of the Rock mosque on the Temple Mount.
12) 2001 – U.S. President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security.

Thursday, October 6, 2016

[Today] October 7, Franco-Prussian War etc








01) 3761 BC – The epoch reference date epoch (origin) of the modern Hebrew calendar (Proleptic Julian calendar).
02) 1406 – French troops comprising 1,000 men at arms landed on Jersey and fought a battle against 3,000 defenders.
03) 1542 – Explorer Cabrillo discovers Santa Catalina Island off of the California coast.
04) 1780 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Kings Mountain: American Patriot militia defeat Loyalist irregulars led by British major Patrick Ferguson in South Carolina.
05) 1826 – The Granite Railway begins operations as the first chartered railway in the U.S.
06) 1870 – Franco-Prussian War: Siege of Paris: Léon Gambetta flees Paris in a hot-air balloon.
07) 1918 – The Regency Council of the Kingdom of Poland declares independence from the German Empire and forms the Republic of Poland.
08) 1924 – Andreas Michalakopoulos becomes Prime Minister of Greece for a short period of time.
09) 1944 – World War II: During an uprising at Birkenau concentration camp, Jewish prisoners burn down the crematoria.
10) 1959 – U.S.S.R. probe Luna 3 transmits the first ever photographs of the far side of the Moon.
11) 2001 – The Global War on Terrorism begins as a result of the September 11 attacks. The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan initiates with an air assault and covert operations on the ground.
12) 2003 – The governor of California, Gray Davis, is recalled in favor of Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Wednesday, October 5, 2016

[Today] October 06 To remember 12 events






01) 69 BC – Battle of Tigranocerta: Forces of the Roman Republic led by Lucullus defeat the army of the Kingdom of Armenia led by King Tigranes the Great.
02) 404 – Byzantine Empress Eudoxia has her seventh and last pregnancy which ends in a miscarriage. She is left bleeding and dies of an infection shortly after.
03) 618– Wang Shichong decisively defeats Li Mi at the Battle of Yanshi, during the transition from Sui to Tang civil war.
04) 1539 – Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto and his army enter the Apalachee capital of Anhaica (present-day Tallahassee, Florida) by force.
05) 1600 – Jacopo Peri's Euridice, the earliest surviving opera, receives its première performance in Florence, signifying the beginning of the Baroque period
06) 1723 – Benjamin Franklin arrives in Philadelphia at the age of 17.
07) 1849 – The execution of The 13 Martyrs of Arad after the Hungarian war of independence.
08) 1898 – Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, the largest American music fraternity, is founded at the New England Conservatory of Music by Ossian Everett Mills.
09) 1939 – World War II: Germany's invasion of Poland ends with the surrender of Independent Operational Group Polesie after the Battle of Kock
10) 1976 – New Premier Hua Guofeng orders the arrest of the Gang of Four and associates and ends the Cultural Revolution in the People's Republic of China.
11) 1977 – The first prototype of the Mikoyan MiG-29, designated 9-01, makes its maiden flight.
12) 2007 – Jason Lewis completes the first human-powered circumnavigation of the globe.

Tuesday, October 4, 2016

[Today] October 05 To remember 12 events






1) 456 The Visigoths under king Theodoric II invade Iberia with an army of Burgundians, Franks and Goths, led by the kings Chilperic I and Gondioc.
2) 816 King Louis the Pious is crowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire
by Pope Stephen IV at Reims.
3) 869 The Fourth Council of Constantinople is convened to decide about what to do about patriarch Photius of Constantinople.
04) 1550 Foundation of Concepción, city in Chile.
05) 1793 French Revolution: Christianity is disestablished in France.
06) 1877 Chief Joseph surrenders his Nez Perce band to General Nelson A. Miles.
07) 1905 Wilbur Wright pilots Wright Flyer III in a flight of 24 miles in 39 minutes, a world record that stood until 1908.
08) 1944 Suffrage is extended to women in France.
09) 1962 Dr. No, the first in the James Bond film series, is released.
10) 1969 The first episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus airs on BBC One.
11) 1999 The Ladbroke Grove rail crash in west London kills 31 people.
12) 2001 Barry Bonds surpasses Mark McGwire's single-season home run total with his milestone 71st and 72nd home runs.

Monday, October 3, 2016

[Today] October 04 To remember 12 events

[Today] October 04 To remember 12 events





01) 23 – Rebels capture and sack the Chinese capital Chang'an during a peasant rebellion. They kill and decapitate the emperor, Wang Mang, two days later.

02) 1363 – End of the Battle of Lake Poyang; the Chinese rebel forces of Zhu Yuanzhang defeat that of his rival, Chen Youliang, in one of the largest naval battles in history.

03) 1535 – The first complete English-language Bible (the Coverdale Bible) is printed, with translations by William Tyndale and Myles Coverdale.

04) 1582 – Pope Gregory XIII implements the Gregorian calendar. In Italy, Poland, Portugal, and Spain, October 4 of this year is followed directly by October 15.

05) 1597 – The first Guale uprising begins against the Spanish missions in Georgia.

06) 1824 – Mexico adopts a new constitution and becomes a federal republic.
1830 – Creation of the Kingdom of Belgium after separation from the Netherlands.

07) 1853 – Crimean War: The Ottoman Empire declares war on Russia.

08) 1936 – In the East End of London, marches staged by British fascists and various anti-fascist organizations result in violent clashes between them in what becomes known as the Battle of Cable Street.

09) 1941 – Norman Rockwell's Willie Gillis character debuts on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post.

10) 1963 – Hurricane Flora kills 6,000 in Cuba and Haiti.

11) 2003 – Maxim restaurant suicide bombing in Haifa, Israel: Twenty-one Israelis, Jews and Arabs, are killed, and 51 others wounded.

12) 2010 – The Ajka plant accident in western Hungary releases about a million cubic metres (35 million cubic feet) of liquid alumina sludge. Nine people are killed and 122 injured, and the Marcal and Danube rivers are severely contaminated.

Sunday, October 2, 2016

[Today] October 03 To remember 12 events







[Today] October 03 To remember 12 events


01) 52 BC – Vercingetorix, leader of the Gauls, surrenders to the Romans under Julius Caesar, ending the siege and Battle of Alesia.
02) 42 BC – First Battle of Philippi: Triumvirs Mark Antony and Octavian fight a decisive battle with Caesar's assassins Brutus and Cassius.
03) 1574 – The Siege of Leiden is lifted by the Watergeuzen.
04) 1712 – The Duke of Montrose issues a warrant for the arrest of Rob Roy MacGregor.
05) 1789 – George Washington makes the first Thanksgiving Day designated by the national government of the United States of America.
06) 1849 – American author Edgar Allan Poe is found delirious in a gutter in Baltimore under mysterious circumstances; it is the last time he is seen in public before his death.
07) 1873 – Captain Jack and companions are hanged for their part in the Modoc War.
08) 1918 – King Boris III of Bulgaria accedes to the throne.
09) 1935 – Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italy invades Ethiopia under General de Bono.
10) 1950 – Korean War: The First Battle of Maryang San, primarily pitting Australian and British forces against communist China, begins.
11) 1995 – O. J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
12) 2009 – The presidents of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkey sign the Nakhchivan Agreement on the Establishment of Turkic Council.

Saturday, October 1, 2016

[Today] October 02 To remember 12 events

[Today] October 02 To remember 12 events









01) 829 – Theophilos succeeds his father Michael II as Byzantine Emperor.
02) 1263 – The battle of Largs is fought between Norwegians and Scots.
03) 1528 – William Tyndale, the renowned English Reformer and Bible translator published his famous work The Obedience of a Christian Man
04) 1780 – John André, British Army officer of the American Revolutionary War, is hanged as a spy by American forces.
05) 1835 – The Texas Revolution begins with the Battle of Gonzales: Mexican soldiers attempt to disarm the people of Gonzales, Texas, but encounter stiff resistance from a hastily assembled militia.
06) 1925 – John Logie Baird performs the first test of a working television system.
07) 1958 – Guinea declares its independence from France.
08) 1959 – The anthology series The Twilight Zone premieres on CBS television.
09) 1967 – Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first African-American justice of United States Supreme Court.
10) 1990 – Xiamen Airlines Flight 8301 is hijacked and lands at Guangzhou, where it crashes into two other airliners on the ground, killing 128.
11) 2005 – Ethan Allen boating accident: The Ethan Allen tour boat capsizes on Lake George in Upstate New York, killing twenty people.
12) 2007 – President Roh Moo-hyun of South Korea walks across the Military Demarcation Line into North Korea on his way to the second Inter-Korean Summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-il.