68 Roman Emperor Nero commits suicide, imploring his secretary Epaphroditos to slit his throat to evade a Senate-imposed death by flogging

641 Arabic-Islamic army conquers Romans at Alexandria, taking control of Egypt

1310 Duccio di Buoninsegna’s ‘Maestà’ Altarpiece, a seminal artwork of the early Italian Renaissance, is unveiled and installed in the Siena Cathedral in Siena, Italy

1456 23rd recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet

1529 Zurich declares war on Catholic kantons

1534 French explorer Jacques Cartier is the 1st European to sail into mouth of St Lawrence River

1628 1st deportation from what is now US, Thomas Morton from Massachusetts, a non-conformist and critic of Plymouth and the Massachusetts Bay colonies.  Morton was eventually exiled to Maine.

1650 The Harvard Corporation, the more powerful of the two administrative boards of Harvard, is established. First legal corporation in the Americas.

1715 King Philip V, unifies the Kingdom of Castile and the Kingdom of Aragon into a single state - the Kingdom of Spain.

1732 Royal charter for Georgia granted to British military officer and philanthropist soldier James Oglethorpe

1772 1st naval attack of Revolutionary War takes place in Providence, Rhode Island

1772 1st Protestant church west of Pennsylvania (in Ohio) holds communion

1784 John Carroll, the first Bishop and Archbishop of Baltimore, appointed supervisor of US Catholic Missions

1790 1st book copyrighted under constitution, "Philadelphia Spelling Book"

1803 British explorer Matthew Flinders arrives in Sydney becoming the first person to circumnavigate Australia, proving it is one continent

1822 Charles Graham of New York patents porcelain false teeth

1851 San Francisco Committee of Vigilance forms (1st time).  The catalyst for its formation was the criminality of the Sydney Ducks gang.  It was revived in 1856 in response to rampant crime and corruption in the municipal government of San Francisco, California.

1856 500 Mormons leave Iowa City, Iowa, and head west for Salt Lake City, Utah, carrying all their possessions in two-wheeled handcarts

1860 1st US "dime novel" published: "Malaseka, The Indian Wife of the White Hunter," by Mrs Ann Stevens

1868 1st meeting of Board of Regents, University of California

1870 US President Ulysses S. Grant meets with Sioux Chief Red Cloud at The White House in Washington, D.C.

1898 Second Convention of Peking leases the "New Territories" of Hong Kong to United Kingdom for 99 years rent-free, expiring on 30 June 1997

1900 In China, Boxers destroy the race course in Peking, a few miles from the legations and the center and symbol of diplomatic social life and Western privilege

1902 1st Automat restaurant opens at 818 Chestnut St, Philadelphia.  It’s America’s first coin-operated cafeteria. Customers would put nickels into slots, turn a knob and open a little glass door to get their food.

1906 Boston Beaneaters (NL) end 19-game losing streak beat Cards 6-3

1909 Alice Huyler Ramsey, 22-year-old housewife from Hackensack, New Jersey, becomes the 1st woman to drive across the US, in a Maxwell 30, drives 3,800 miles from Manhattan to San Francisco in 59 days

1915 US President Woodrow Wilson sends second Lusitania note to Germany protesting sinking of the Lusitania and refuting German claim British blockade illegal

1922 First ringing of the Harkness Memorial Chime at Yale University

1923 American cash carrying company Brinks unveils 1st armored security vans

1928 Australians Charles Kingsford-Smith & Charles Ulm are 1st to fly across the Pacific when they end their flight from California to Brisbane

1930 Chicago Tribune reporter and closet racketeer Jake Lingle is shot at close range and killed at the Illinois Central train station, allegedly over a $100,000 USD gambling debt owed to Al Capone; mobster Leo Brothers was convicted of the murder

1931 First rocket-powered aircraft design patented by Robert Goddard

1941 Archbishop De Young bans priests cooperating with Rijks radio.  Many Catholic Priests would pay with their lives for challenging the Nazi regime.

1943 US President FDR signs Current Tax Payment Act into law - tax is withheld from worker's wages to go straight to government

1946 Canfield Hotel fire (Dubuque, Iowa).  The destruction of the hotel in 1946 was one of Dubuque's worst FIRES. A fire broke out in the six-story 200-room Canfield killing nineteen people including William J. Canfield, Sr. His wife died at the hospital as a result of her injuries.

1949 Georgian Neese Clark of Kansas becomes 1st woman treasurer of US

1953 Worcester County, Massachusetts, tornado kills 94 injures 1310 and leaves 10,000 homeless

1957 First ascent of Broad Peak (the world's 12th highest mountain), in the Karakoram range spanning Pakistan and China

1959 1st ballistic missile sub launched (George Washington-Groton, Ct)

1962 Warner Bros "Bill of Hare" with Bug Bunny premieres in USA

1967 Israeli troops reach Suez Canal

1972 14" of rain in 6 hrs bursts dam in Rapid City, South Dakota; 237 people drown

1975 Tony Orlando & Dawn receives gold record for "He Don't Love You"

1978 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) strikes down 148 year policy of excluding black men from priesthood

1978 Johannes Gutenberg's Bible, the first book produced using the printing press, (1 of 21 complete versions) sells for $2.4 million, London

1982 Israel wipes out Syrian SAM missiles in Bekaa Valley

1984 Polygram's Hanover, Germany, plant produces its 10 millionth CD

1989 Rare tornado in Philadelphia kills 1

1993 "Body Snatchers" (1993) premieres in France

1999 Kosovo War: the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and North Atlantic Treaty Organization sign a peace treaty.

2013 Edward Snowden publicly makes his identity known as the leaker of NSA documents

2016 Successful attempts to turn CO2 gases into stone underground in Iceland published in the journal "Science"

2019 Over 1 million people protest in Hong Kong over proposed new extradition laws to China in one of largest-ever protests in the city

2020 US Senate confirms General Charles Q. Brown as Air Force Chief of Staff, 1st African American to lead a US armed forces branch

2021 Record price for a coin sold at auction as 1933 'Double Eagle' gold coin sells for $18.9 million in New York

2022 NASA announces it will begin research into UFOs, focusing on unidentified aerial phenomena (U.A.P.s)

2022 Two people are rescued after falling into a tank of chocolate at Mars M&M factory in Pennsylvania

2023 Four Colombian children are found safe after surviving 40 days in the Colombian jungle after their plane crashed killing the three adults on board