70 – Tower of Antonia destroyed by Romans
936 – German king Otto I the Great crowned
1220 – Sweden is defeated by Estonian tribes in the Battle of Lihula.
1322 – Emperor Godaigo, makes Sojiji monastery. Chief monastery of Soto Sect
1508 – Spaniard Juan Ponce de Leon founds Caparra the 1st European settlement in Puerto Rico
1509 – The Emperor Krishnadevaraya is crowned, marking the beginning of the regeneration of the Vijayanagara Empire in Southern India.
1709 – 1st known ascent in hot-air balloon, Bartolomeu de Gusmao (indoors)
1786 – US Congress adopts silver dollar & decimal system of money
1786 – Jacques Balmat & Michel Paccard are 1st to climb to top of Mont Blanc
1831 – Battle of Hasselt – Dutch army drives out Belgian Army
1839 – Beta Theta Pi is founded in Oxford, Ohio.
1843 – Natal (in South Africa) is made a British colony
1868 – Earthquake destroys Arica, Chile
1876 – Dan O’Leary completes 500 mile walk in 139h32m
1876 – Thomas Edison patents mimeograph
1882 – Snow falls on Lake Michigan
1919 – Treaty of Rawalpindi, British recognise Afghanistan’s independence
1945 – President Harry Truman signs the United Nations Charter
1945 – US, USSR, Britain & France sign Treaty of London, set down procedures for Nuremberg trials
1945 – USSR declares war against Japan in WW II
1945 – USSR establishes a communist government in North Korea
1946 – India agrees to give Bhutan 32 sq miles
1946 – Dreyfuss family, owners of Pittsburgh Pirates since 1900, sells club to Frank McKinney & John Galbreath for $25 million
1946 – First flight of the Convair B-36.
1947 – Pakistan’s National Flag is approved.
1949 – Bhutan, land of Dragon, becomes an independent monarchy
1950 – Florence Chadwick swims English Channel (13:23)
1960 – Ivory Coast declares independence
1967 – Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore & Thailand meet to form Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN)
1975 – Hank Williams Jr. falls off the side of Ajax Peak in Montana
2012 – 16 people are killed from flooding from heavy rain in Manilla, Philippines
2013 – 28 people are killed by a suicide bombing in Quetta, Pakistan
2013 – 14 people are killed by a bomb explosion in Nangarhar, Afghanistan
2013 – 4 people are killed and 4 are wounded in a shooting spree in Dallas, Texas
2014 – The West African Ebola outbreak is categorized as an international concern by the WHO
By : Archa Dave
