Today In History
Learn what happened today in history around the world including major events across the world!
Year: 657
Battle of Siffin during the first Muslim civil war between Ali ibn Abi Talib and Muawiyah I beside Euphrates River
Year: 1267
Inquisition forms in Rome under Pope Clement IV
Year: 1309
Henry VII is recognized King of the Romans by Pope Clement V
Year: 1519
Francisco Pizarro receives royal charter for the west coast of South America
Year: 1524
James V declared fit to govern by the Scottish Parliament
Year: 1529
Francisco Pizarro appointed Governor of Peru
Year: 1533
Francisco Pizarro orders the death of the last Sapa Inca Emperor, Atahualpa
Year: 1609
English mathematician Thomas Harriot is the first person to draw a map of the Moon by looking through a telescope
Year: 1803
The Surrey Iron Railway, arguably the world’s first public railway, opens in south London
Year: 1835
1st sugar cane plantation started in Hawaii
Year: 1847
The Liberian Declaration of Independence is signed making Liberia a sovereign nation, independent from the American Colonization Society
Year: 1863
Battle of Salineville Ohio, John Hunt Morgan and 364 troops surrender
Year: 1865
The capital of New Zealand moves from Auckland to Wellington
Year: 1891
Henry James’ “American” premieres in London
Year: 1902
Australia beat England by 3 runs at Old Trafford
Year: 1908
United States Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte issues an order to immediately staff the Office of the Chief Examiner (later renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation)
Year: 1944
Japanese suicide attack on US lines in Guam
Year: 1944
The first German V-2 rocket hits Great Britain (nicknamed “gasometer”).
Year: 1945
Declaration of Potsdam: US, Britain, and China demand the unconditional surrender of Japan during WWII
Year: 1951
Netherlands ends state of war with Germany
Year: 1953
Fidel Castro leads a failed attack on the Moncada Barracks, intended to spark a revolution in Cuba
Year: 1955
Ted Allen throws a record 72 consecutive horseshoe ringers
Year: 1958
Army launches 4th US successful satellite, Explorer IV
Year: 1965
Republic of Maldives gains independence from Britain (National Day)
Year: 1971
Apollo 15 launched (Scott and Irwin) to 4th manned landing on Moon
Year: 1999
Fighting ceases between India and Pakistan in the Kargil War, Kashmir, after two months of fighting.
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