Events

2017 Catalonia carnage: 14 dead, 120+ injured as police manhunt ongoing Live updates

2016 Cessna-model aircraft crashes in northwestern Turkey's province of Tekirdağ. Two dead

2016 3 soldiers killed as coast guard boat capsizes in Bosporus after crashing into cargo carrier

2016 Reports of explosions and gunfire in anti-terror raid in St. Petersburg. 4 persons killed

2016 2 men armed with axes, guns attack police station near Moscow, 2 officers injured, one killed

2015 Huge explosion rocks central Bangkok - casualties reported

2014 2 killed, residents evacuated after freight trains collide in Arkansas

2009 An accident at the Sayano–Shushenskaya Dam in Khakassia, Russia, kills 75 and shuts down the hydroelectric power station, leading to widespread power failure in the local area

2000 Two explosives placed at the downtown Riga shopping center Centrs

1988 Lewinsky scandal: US President Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony that he had an "improper physical relationship" with White House intern Monica Lewinsky

1977 The Soviet icebreaker Arktika becomes the first surface ship to reach the North Pole

1973 Seventeen Moments of Spring

1970 Soviet Venera program: Venera 7 launched

1970 Rice/Poindexter case

1960 The Beatles began a 3 month engagement at The Indra Club in Hamburg. Their time in Germany transformed their music

1958 Pioneer 0, America's first attempt at lunar orbit, is launched using the first Thor-Able rocket and fails. Notable as one of the first attempted launches beyond Earth orbit by any country

1950 Korean War. Hill 303 massacre: American POWs are shot to death by the North Korean Army

1943 World War II: First Québec Conference of Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and William Lyon Mackenzie King begins

1943 World War II: The Royal Air Force begins Operation Hydra, the first air raid of the Operation Crossbow strategic bombing campaign against Germany's V-weapon program

1937 USSR. Communist genocides against non-russians in USSR. Romanian operation. Executed (shot) 5439 Romanians

1918 Bolshevik revolutionary leader Moisei Uritsky is assassinated

1918 Thule Society

1903 The Pulitzer Prize

1896 First victim of a motor accident

1862 American Indian Wars: The Dakota War of 1862 begins in Minnesota as Lakota warriors attack white settlements along the Minnesota River

1740 Pope Benedict XIV, previously known as Prospero Lambertini succeeds Clement XII as the 247th Pope

1717 Austro-Turkish War of 1716–18: The month-long Siege of Belgrade ends with Prince Eugene of Savoy's Austrian troops capturing the city from the Ottoman Empire

1611 Gaspar de Borja y Velasco is made a cardinal by Pope Paul V

1585 Eighty Years' War: Siege of Antwerp: Antwerp is captured by Spanish forces under Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma

1560 The Roman Catholic Church is overthrown and Protestantism is established as the national religion in Scotland

1498 Cesare Borgia, son of Pope Alexander VI, becomes the first person in history to resign the cardinalate. On the same day, the French King Louis XII names him Duke of Valentinois

Events in other languages

2022 Krievijas iebrukums Ukrainā 175. diena

2021 В Московской области разбился опытный образец нового военно-транспортного самолета Ил-112В, погиб весь экипаж

2020 COVID19. Fiksēto saslimušo skaits pasaulē pārsniedz 22 miljonus. Mirušo skaits pārsniedz 770,000

2020 Mūsējās. 50 pasakas par Latvijas sievietēm

2019 Odesā, Ukraina, noticis ugunsgrēks viesnīcā Tokio Star. Vismaz 8 cilvēki gājuši bojā, 10 guvuši ievainojumus

2016 Uz sliedēm nokritis koks izraisa vilciena avāriju Francijā; desmitiem cietušo

2015 ASV gaisā notiek divu lidmašīnu sadursme; 4 bojāgājušie

2014 Идет бой за Саур-Могилу

2013 Krievijā piedzēries ātrgaitas kuģa kapteinis izraisa traģisku avāriju

2012 Pussy Riot tiesas spriedums

2009 Gruzja wystąpiła ze Wspólnoty Niepodległych Państw.

1988 30 osób (wśród nich prezydent Pakistanu Muhammad Zia ul-Haq i amerykański ambasador w tym kraju Arnold Raphel) zginęło w katastrofie samolotu Lockheed C-130 Hercules pod Bahawalpurem

1982 Vācijā izlaists pirmais kompaktdisks (CD)

1980 Polijas Atmoda - strādnieki Gdaņskā uzstāda 21 prasību Polijas komunistu valdībai

1977 Liepājas dzintars 77

1972 Ceplis (filma)

1960 Gabona ieguva neatkarību no Francijas

1945 W Wielkiej Brytanii ukazała się powieść Folwark zwierzęcy George’a Orwella

1945 Indonēzija deklarēja neatkarību no Nīderlandes

1944 17. dzień powstania warszawskiego

1502 Kristofors Kolumbs pasludināja Hondurasu par Spānijas īpašumu

682 Leon II został wybrany papieżem