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==Events== ===Pre-1600=== * [[610]] – [[Heraclius]] arrives at Constantinople, kills Byzantine Emperor Phocas, and becomes emperor.<ref>{{cite book |last=Olster, David Michael |title=The politics of usurpation in the seventh century: rhetoric and revolution in Byzantium |edition=1993 |publisher=A.M. Hakkert |page=133}}</ref> * [[816]] – King [[Louis the Pious]] is crowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by the Pope.<ref>{{cite book |author=Richard A. Jackson |title=Ordines Coronationis Franciae, Volume 1: Texts and Ordines for the Coronation of Frankish and French Kings and Queens in the Middle Ages |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eNTe7z63cJ4C&pg=PA104 |year=1995 |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press |isbn=0-8122-3263-1 |pages=104}}</ref> * [[869]] – The [[Fourth Council of Constantinople (Roman Catholic)|Fourth Council of Constantinople]] is convened to depose patriarch Photios I.<ref>{{cite book |author=Raymond Davis |title=The Lives of the Ninth-century Popes (Liber Pontificalis): The Ancient Biographies of Ten Popes from A.D. 817-891 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q7EuWhDYxM4C&pg=PA252 |year=1995 |publisher=Liverpool University Press |isbn=978-0-85323-479-1 |pages=252}}</ref> *[[1143]] – With the signing of the [[Treaty of Zamora]], King [[Alfonso VII of León and Castile]] recognises Portugal as a Kingdom.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I2CCDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA81 |title=The Reconquest Kings of Portugal: Political and Cultural Reorientation on the Medieval Frontier |last=Lay |first=S. |year=2008 |publisher=Springer |isbn=9780230583139 |language=en}}</ref> *[[1450]] – [[Louis IX, Duke of Bavaria]] expels Jews from his jurisdiction. ===1601–1900=== *[[1607]] – Assassins attempt to kill Venetian statesman and scientist [[Paolo Sarpi]]. *[[1789]] – French Revolution: The [[Women's March on Versailles]] effectively terminates royal authority. *[[1813]] – [[War of 1812]]: The Army of the Northwest [[Battle of the Thames|defeats]] a British and Native Canadian force threatening Detroit. *[[1838]] – The [[Killough massacre]] in east Texas sees eighteen Texian settlers either killed or kidnapped. *[[1869]] – The [[Saxby Gale]] devastates the Bay of Fundy region in Canada. * 1869 – The [[Eastman tunnel]], in Minnesota, United States, collapses during construction, causing a landslide that nearly destroys St. Anthony Falls.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Benidt |first=Bruce |date=November 15, 1987 |work=Star Tribune |location=Minneapolis |title=River Has Powerful History of Damage at Falls |page=7B}}</ref> *[[1877]] – The [[Nez Perce War]] in the northwestern United States comes to an end. *[[1900]] – Peace congress in Paris condemns British policy in South Africa and asserts [[South African Republic|Boer Republic]]'s right to self-determination.<ref>{{cite book |first=Jacques |last=Legrand |title=Chronicle of the 20th Century |publisher=Ecam Publication |year=1987 |page=20 |isbn=0-942191-01-3}}</ref> ===1901–present=== *[[1905]] – The [[Wright brothers]] pilot the [[Wright Flyer III]] in a new world record flight of 24 miles in 39 minutes. *[[1910]] – In a [[5 October 1910 revolution|revolution]] in Portugal the monarchy is overthrown and a republic is declared. *[[1911]] – The [[Kowloon–Canton Railway]] commences service. *[[1914]] – [[World War I]]: An aircraft successfully [[Fighter aircraft|destroys another aircraft]] with gunfire for the first time.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Reichhardt |first1=Tony |title=The First Aerial Combat Victory |url=http://www.airspacemag.com/daily-planet/first-aerial-combat-victory-180952933/?no-ist |website=Air & Space |publisher=Smithsonian Institution |access-date=October 4, 2018 |date=October 4, 2014}}</ref> *[[1921]] – The [[1921 World Series|World Series]] is the first to be broadcast on radio. *[[1930]] – British airship [[R101]] crashes in France ''en route'' to India on its maiden voyage killing 48 people.<ref>{{cite web |title=R101 airship crash: 'Hope and sadness' on 90th anniversary |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-54338833 |website=BBC News |access-date=4 October 2020 |date=3 October 2020}}</ref> *[[1931]] – [[Clyde Edward Pangborn]] and Hugh Herndon,Jr. make the first nonstop flight across the Pacific Ocean in the plane ''[[Miss Veedol]]''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Pangborn-Herndon Memorial Site |url=http://www.nps.gov/nr//travel/aviation/pan.htm |work=Aviation: From Sand Dunes To Sonic Booms |publisher=[[National Park Service]] |access-date=2012-05-31}}</ref> *[[1936]] – The [[Jarrow March]] sets off for [[London]]. *[[1938]] – [[Holocaust]]: In Nazi Germany, Jews' [[Nuremberg Laws|passports are invalidated]]. *[[1943]] – [[World War II]]: [[Pacific War|Pacific Theater]]: Ninety-eight American POWs are executed by Japanese forces on [[Wake Island]]. *[[1944]] – The [[Provisional Government of the French Republic]] enfranchises women. *[[1945]] – A six-month strike by Hollywood set decorators turns into a [[Hollywood Black Friday|bloody riot]] at the gates of the Warner Brothers studio. *[[1947]] – President Truman makes the first televised [[Oval Office address]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-presidential-speech-on-tv |title=First presidential speech on TV}}</ref> *[[1962]] – The first of the [[James Bond]] film series, based on the novels by [[Ian Fleming]], ''[[Dr. No (film)|Dr. No]]'', is released in Britain.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Dr. No |url=https://www.007.com/the-films/dr-no/ |access-date=2021-06-14 |website=James Bond 007 |date=7 March 2021 |language=en-US}}</ref> * 1962 – The first [[The Beatles|Beatles]] single "[[Love Me Do]]" is released in Britain.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.thisdayinmusic.com/liner-notes/love-me-do/ |title=Love Me do – the Day the World Changed Forever |date=18 July 2018}}</ref> *[[1963]] – The United States suspends the [[Commercial Import Program]] in response to [[Buddhist crisis|repression of the Buddhist majority]] by the regime of President Ngo Dinh Diem.<ref>{{cite book |title=Intervention : how America became involved in Vietnam |author=Kahin, George McT. |author-link=George McTurnan Kahin |location=New York |publisher=Knopf |year=1986 |isbn=0-394-54367-X |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/intervention00geor |page=86}}</ref> *[[1966]] – A reactor at the [[Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station]] near Detroit suffers a partial meltdown. *[[1968]] – A [[Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association]] march in Derry is violently suppressed by police. *[[1970]] – The [[PBS|Public Broadcasting Service]] (PBS) is founded. * 1970 – The British Trade Commissioner, [[James Cross]], is kidnapped by members of the [[Front de libération du Québec]], triggering the [[October Crisis]] in Canada. *[[1974]] – Bombs planted by the [[Provisional Irish Republican Army|PIRA]] in pubs in [[Guildford]] [[Guildford pub bombings|kill]] four British soldiers and one civilian. *[[1982]] – [[Tylenol (brand)|Tylenol]] products are recalled after [[Chicago Tylenol murders|bottles in Chicago]] laced with cyanide cause seven deaths. *[[1984]] – [[Marc Garneau]] becomes the first Canadian in space. *[[1986]] – [[Mordechai Vanunu]]'s story in ''[[The Sunday Times]]'' reveals Israel's secret nuclear weapons. *[[1988]] – A Chilean opposition coalition defeats [[Augusto Pinochet]] in [[1988 Chilean presidential referendum|his re-election attempt]]. *[[1990]] – After 150 years ''[[The Herald (Melbourne)|The Herald]]'' newspaper in [[Melbourne]], [[Australia]], is published for the last time as a separate newspaper. *[[1991]] – An [[1991 Jakarta Indonesian Air Force C-130 crash|Indonesian Air Force C-130 crash]] kills 135 people. *[[1994]] – Swiss police find the bodies of 48 members of the [[Order of the Solar Temple]], who had died in a [[1994 Solar Temple massacres|cult mass murder-suicide]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-10-05 |title=Today in History: October 5, Earl Warren becomes chief justice |url=https://apnews.com/today-in-history/october-5 |access-date=2024-09-19 |website=[[Associated Press]] |language=en-US}}</ref> *[[1999]] – The [[Ladbroke Grove rail crash]] in [[West London]] kills 31 people.<ref>{{cite web |title='A body drifted past the window': surviving the Ladbroke Grove train crash |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/oct/17/ladbroke-grove-paddington-train-crash-inquiry |website=The Guardian |access-date=22 July 2021 |language=en |date=17 October 2019}}</ref> *[[2000]] – [[Overthrow of Slobodan Milošević|Mass demonstrations]] in [[Serbia]] force the resignation of [[Slobodan Milošević]]. *[[2011]] – In the [[Mekong River massacre]], two Chinese cargo boats are hijacked and 13 crew members murdered.
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