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==Events== ===Pre-1600=== * [[829]] – [[Theophilos (emperor)|Theophilos]] succeeds his father [[Michael II]] as [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantine Emperor]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Skylitzes |first1=John |last2=Wortley |first2=John |title=John Skylitzes: A Synopsis of Byzantine History, 811–1057: Translation and Notes |date=7 October 2010 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-139-48915-7 |page=51 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vGE8Xq832A0C&pg=PA51 |language=en}}</ref> * [[939]] – [[Battle of Andernach]]: [[Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor]], crushes a rebellion against his rule, by a coalition of [[Eberhard of Franconia]] and other Frankish dukes.<ref name="Bachrach"/> *[[1263]] – The [[Battle of Largs]] is fought between Norwegians and Scots.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Forte |first1=Angelo |last2=Oram |first2=Richard D. |last3=Oram |first3=Richard |last4=Pedersen |first4=Frederik |title=Viking Empires |date=5 May 2005 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-82992-2 |page=256 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_vEd859jvk0C&pg=PA256 |language=en}}</ref> *[[1470]] – [[Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick|The Earl of Warwick]]'s rebellion forces King [[Edward IV of England]] to flee to the [[Netherlands]],<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wagner |first1=John A. |last2=Wagner |first2=Edward Ed |title=Encyclopedia of the Wars of the Roses |date=2001 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-1-85109-358-8 |page=102 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ubXnWRMt6uoC&pg=PA102 |language=en}}</ref> restoring [[Henry VI of England|Henry VI]] to the throne.<ref>{{cite web |title=Henry VI | Biography & Facts |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-VI-king-of-England |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=4 September 2021 |language=en}}</ref> *[[1552]] – Russo-Kazan Wars: Russian troops [[Siege of Kazan|enter Kazan]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hartley |first1=Janet M. |title=The Volga: A History |year= 2021 |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=978-0-300-24564-6 |page=45 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DjoHEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA45 |language=en}}</ref> ===1601–1900=== *[[1766]] - The [[Nottingham cheese riot|Nottingham Cheese Riot]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Periodic Table of Nottingham - University of Nottingham |url=https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/periodicnottingham/chromium#:~:text=On%202%20October%201766%20the,knocked%20down%20by%20a%20cheese. |access-date=2024-10-02 |website=www.nottingham.ac.uk}}</ref> breaks out at the [[Nottingham Goose Fair|Goose Fair]] in [[Nottingham]], UK, in response to the excessive cost of cheese. *[[1780]] – [[American Revolutionary War]]: [[John André]], a British Army officer, is hanged as a spy by the Continental Army.<ref name="André">{{cite web |title=John André | British military officer |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Andre |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=4 September 2021 |language=en}}</ref> *[[1789]] – The [[United States Bill of Rights]] is sent to the various States for ratification.<ref>{{cite book |last1=States |first1=U. S. Constitution Council of the Thirteen Original |title=The Bill of Rights and the States: The Colonial and Revolutionary Origins of American Liberties |date=1992 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-0-945612-29-2 |page=242 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6yyQXl4LmdAC&pg=PA242 |language=en}}</ref> *[[1835]] – Texas Revolution: Mexican troops attempt to [[Battle of Gonzales|disarm the people of Gonzales]], but encounter stiff resistance from a hastily assembled militia.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Tucker |first1=Spencer |last2=Arnold |first2=James R. |last3=Wiener |first3=Roberta |last4=Pierpaoli (Jr.) |first4=Paul G. |last5=Cutrer |first5=Thomas W. |last6=Santoni |first6=Pedro |title=The Encyclopedia of the Mexican-American War: A Political, Social, and Military History |date=2013 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-1-85109-853-8 |page=226 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FZVQcZpic-8C&pg=PA226 |language=en}}</ref> *[[1864]] – [[American Civil War]]: Confederates [[First Battle of Saltville|defeat]] a Union attack on Saltville, Virginia. A massacre of wounded Union prisoners ensues.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Shaffer |first1=Michael |title=In Memory of Self and Comrades: Thomas Wallace Colley's Recollections of Civil War Service in the 1st Virginia Cavalry |date=2018 |publisher=Univ. of Tennessee Press |isbn=978-1-62190-430-4 |page=272 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ofuwDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA272 |language=en}}</ref> *[[1870]] – By [[plebiscite]], the citizens of the Papal States accept [[Capture of Rome|annexation by the Kingdom of Italy]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bartolini |first1=Giulio |title=A History of International Law in Italy |date= 2020 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-884293-4 |page=311 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d4_UDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA311 |language=en}}</ref> ===1901–present=== *[[1919]] – Seven days after suffering a "[[Stroke#Signs and symptoms|physical collapse]]" following a [[Pueblo speech|speech in Pueblo, Colorado]], U.S. President [[Woodrow Wilson]] has a catastrophic [[Stroke#Ischemic|stroke]] at the [[White House]], leaving him physically and mentally incapacitated for the remainder of his presidency.<ref>{{cite book|last=O'Toole|first=Patricia|title=The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made|location=New York|publisher=Simon & Schuster|date=2018|isbn=9780743298094|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6RgyDwAAQBAJ|page=425}}</ref> *[[1920]] – [[Ukrainian War of Independence]]: [[Mikhail Frunze]] orders the [[Red Army]] to immediately cease hostilities with the [[Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Malet |first1=Michael |title=Nestor Makhno in the Russian Civil War |date=1982 |language=English |isbn=978-0-333-25969-6 |publisher=[[Palgrave Macmillan]] |location=[[London]] |oclc=8514426 |page=64}}</ref> *[[1928]] – The "Prelature of the Holy Cross and the Work of God", commonly known as ''[[Opus Dei]]'', is founded.<ref>{{cite web |title=Opus Dei | Meaning, Beliefs, Members, & Controversy |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Opus-Dei |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=5 September 2021 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Saint Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer | Biography & Facts |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/St-Josemaria-Escriva-de-Balaguer |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=5 September 2021 |language=en}}</ref> *[[1937]] – [[Rafael Trujillo]] orders the [[Parsley massacre|execution of Haitians]] living in the border region of the Dominican Republic.<ref>{{cite news |title=80 Years On, Dominicans And Haitians Revisit Painful Memories Of Parsley Massacre |url=https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/10/07/555871670/80-years-on-dominicans-and-haitians-revisit-painful-memories-of-parsley-massacre |newspaper=NPR |date=7 October 2017 |access-date=5 September 2021 |language=en|last1=Bishop |first1=Marlon |last2=Fernandez |first2=Tatiana }}</ref> *[[1942]] – [[World War II]]: Ocean Liner {{RMS|Queen Mary}} accidentally rams and sinks {{HMS|Curacoa|D41|6}}, killing over 300 crewmen aboard ''Curacoa''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Queen Mary's deadly drama at sea |url=https://www.scotsman.com/whats-on/arts-and-entertainment/queen-marys-deadly-drama-sea-2463862 |website=www.scotsman.com |date=17 April 2006 |access-date=5 September 2021 |language=en}}</ref> *[[1944]] – World War II: German troops end the [[Warsaw Uprising]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Warsaw Uprising | Polish history |url=https://www.britannica.com/event/Warsaw-Uprising |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=5 September 2021 |language=en}}</ref> *[[1958]] – [[Guinea]] declares its independence from France.<ref name=Chase2019 /> *[[1967]] – [[Thurgood Marshall]] is sworn in as the first African-American justice of the United States Supreme Court.<ref name=Chase2019 /> *[[1968]] – Mexican President [[Gustavo Díaz Ordaz]] orders soldiers to [[Tlatelolco massacre|suppress a demonstration of unarmed students]], ten days before the start of the [[1968 Summer Olympics]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Mexico's 1968 Massacre: What Really Happened? |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97546687 |website=NPR |access-date=5 September 2021 |language=en}}</ref> *[[1970]] – An aircraft carrying the Wichita State University football team, administrators, and supporters [[Wichita State University football team plane crash|crashes]] in Colorado, killing 31 people.<ref>{{cite web |title=Three generations later, the secrets of Wichita State's devastating plane crash are still unfolding |url=https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/29993873/three-generations-later-secrets-wichita-state-devastating-plane-crash-unfolding |website=ESPN.com |access-date=5 September 2021 |language=en |date=1 October 2020}}</ref> *[[1971]] – South Vietnamese President [[Nguyen Van Thieu]] is [[1971 South Vietnamese presidential election|re-elected]] in a one-man election.<ref>{{cite book |author=Penniman, Howard R. |title=Elections in South Vietnam |url=https://archive.org/details/electionsinsouth00penn |url-access=registration |location=Washington, D.C. |publisher=American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research |year=1972 |pages=126–146}}</ref> *1971 – [[British European Airways Flight 706]] crashes near [[Aarsele]], Belgium, killing 63.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ranter |first=Harro |title=ASN Aircraft accident Vickers 951 Vanguard G-APEC Aarsele |url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19711002-1 |access-date=2022-10-01 |website=aviation-safety.net}}</ref> *[[1980]] – [[Michael Myers (Pennsylvania politician)|Michael Myers]] becomes the first member of either chamber of Congress to be [[Expulsion from the United States Congress|expelled]] since the [[American Civil War|Civil War]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Hunter |first1=Marjorie |title=Myers Is First Member of House To Be Expelled Since Civil War; 'Support of Rebellion' Two Attempts at Expulsion Powell Was Not Seated |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1980/10/03/archives/myers-is-first-member-of-house-to-be-expelled-since-civil-war.html |website=The New York Times |access-date=5 September 2021 |date=3 October 1980}}</ref> *[[1990]] – Xiamen Airlines Flight 8301 is hijacked and lands at Guangzhou, where it [[1990 Guangzhou Baiyun airport collisions|crashes]] into two other airliners on the ground, killing 132.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Haine |first1=Edgar A. |title=Disaster in the Air |date=2000 |publisher=Associated University Presses |isbn=978-0-8453-4777-5 |page=53 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=twKfXowAigIC&pg=PA53 |language=en}}</ref> *[[1992]] – Military police storm the Carandiru Penitentiary in São Paulo, Brazil during a prison riot. The resulting [[Carandiru Massacre|massacre]] leaves 111 prisoners dead.<ref>{{cite web |title=Brazil police on trial over 1992 Carandiru jail massacre |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-26235791 |website=BBC News |access-date=5 September 2021 |date=18 February 2014}}</ref> *[[1996]] – [[Aeroperú Flight 603]] crashes into the ocean near Peru, killing all 70 people on board.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Matthewman |first1=Steve |title=Disasters, Risks and Revelation: Making Sense of Our Times |date=2016 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-1-137-29426-5 |page=65 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z2ekCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT65 |language=en}}</ref> * 1996 – The [[Freedom of Information Act (United States)|Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments]] are signed by U.S. President Bill Clinton.<ref>{{cite book |author=<!--staff writer-->|publisher=United States Federal Communications Commission|title=FCC Record: A Comprehensive Compilation of Decisions, Reports, Public Notices, and Other Documents of the Federal Communications Commission of the United States |date=1997 |page=8491 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qFH7HJxUmK4C&pg=PA8491 |language=en}}</ref> *[[2002]] – The [[Beltway sniper attacks]] begin in Washington, D.C., extending over three weeks and killing 10 people.<ref>{{cite web |title=Beltway sniper attacks | Description, History, & Facts |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Beltway-sniper-attacks |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=5 September 2021 |language=en}}</ref> *[[2004]] – The first [[parkrun]], then known as the Bushy Park Time Trial, takes place in [[Bushy Park]], [[London]], UK.<ref>{{cite web |title=Our story |url=https://www.parkrun.com/about/our-story/ |website=www.parkrun.com |access-date=18 August 2019}}</ref> *[[2006]] – Five Amish girls are murdered in a [[West Nickel Mines School shooting|shooting at a school]] in Pennsylvania, United States.<ref>{{cite web |title='The happening': 10 years after the Amish shooting |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/02/amish-shooting-10-year-anniversary-pennsylvania-the-happening |website=The Guardian |access-date=5 September 2021 |language=en |date=2 October 2016}}</ref> *[[2007]] – President Roh Moo-hyun of South Korea goes to North Korea for an [[Inter-Korean summit]] with North Korean leader Kim Jong-il.<ref>{{cite web |title=South Korean president crosses border for landmark summit |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/oct/02/northkorea |website=The Guardian |access-date=4 September 2021 |language=en |date=2 October 2007}}</ref> *[[2016]] – [[2016 Ethiopian protests|Ethiopian protests]] break out during a festival in the Oromia region, killing dozens of people.<ref>{{cite web |title=Ethiopia: After a year of protests, time to address grave human rights concerns |url=https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/press-release/2016/11/ethiopia-after-a-year-of-protests-time-to-address-grave-human-rights-concerns/ |website=Amnesty International |access-date=4 September 2021 |language=en |date=9 November 2016}}</ref> *[[2018]] – ''[[The Washington Post]]'' journalist [[Jamal Khashoggi]] is [[Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi|assassinated]] in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey.<ref name="bbcsaudi">{{cite news|date=7 October 2018|title=Jamal Khashoggi: An unauthorized Turkey source says journalist was murdered in Saudi consulate|work=[[BBC News]]|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45775819|url-status=live|access-date=12 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181009004244/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45775819|archive-date=9 October 2018}}</ref> *[[2019]] – A privately-owned [[Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress]] conducting a [[living history]] exhibition flight [[2019 Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress crash|crashes shortly after takeoff]] from [[Windsor Locks, Connecticut]], killing seven.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.courant.com/breaking-news/hc-br-bradley-airport-deadly-b17-crash-ntsb-investigation-20191003-ldarjpewife6fj7hafiqz7zecy-story.html |title=NTSB investigating whether B-17 that crashed at Bradley International Airport Wednesday had engine trouble prior to takeoff |last1=Altimari |first1=Dave |last2=Brindley |first2=Emily |last3=Kovner |first3=Josh |last4=Owens |first4=David |last5=Rondinone |first5=Nicholas |publisher=[[Hartford Courant]] |access-date=March 7, 2021}}</ref>
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