49 BC – Julius Caesar’s general Gaius Scribonius Curio is defeated in the Second Battle of the Bagradas River by the Numidians under PubliusAttiusVarus and King Juba of Numidia. Curio commits suicide to avoid capture.
79 – Mt Vesuvius erupts, buries Pompeii & Herculaneum, 15,000 die
410 – Rome overrun by Visigoths under Alaric I for the first time in nearly 800 years, seen as the fall of the Western Roman Empire
1215 – Pope Innocent III declares Magna Carta invalid
1349 – Jews of Cologne Germany set themselves on fire to avoid baptism
1456 – The printing of the Gutenberg Bible is completed.
1608 – 1st English convoy lands at Surat, India
1690 – Job Charnock founds Calcutta, India
1847 – Charlotte Brontë finishes manu script of “Jane Eyre”
1891 – Thomas Edison patents kinetoscope and kinetograph
1932 – 1st transcontinental non-stop flight by a woman, Amelia Earhart
1949 – The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) went into effect. The agreement was that an attack against on one of the parties would be considered “an attack against them all.”
1981 – American Charles Chapman is 1st black to swim English Channel
1989 – Voyager 2 flies past Neptune
1991 – Ukraine declares independence from USSR
1993 – Mars Observer comes closest to Mars
1995 – Windows 95 debuts
2006 – The International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefines the term “planet” such that Pluto is considered a Dwarf Planet.
2011 – Tim Cook succeeds Steve Jobs as CEO of Apple Inc., due to Jobs illness
2012 – Both Apple and Samsung are found guilty of patent infringement in a South Korean court
2012 – The newly built Yangmingtan Bridge collapsed in Harbin City in China. Poor construction and over-loading were blamed for the incident.
By: Archa Dave
