NATIONAL CAMERA DAY
1194 – Sverre is crowned King of Norway. He married Margareta Eriksdotter, the daughter of the Swedish king Eric IX, by whom he had the daughter Kristina Sverresdotter. Many consider him one of the most important rulers in Norwegian history. He assumed power as the leader of the rebel party known as the Birkebeiner in 1177, during their struggle against King Magnus Erlingsson. After Magnus fell at the Battle of Fimreite in 1184, Sverre ruled as sole king of Norway. Differences with the Church, however, led to his excommunication in 1194. Another civil war began against the church-supportedBaglers, which lasted beyond Sverre's death in 1202.
1444 – Albanian warrior and nobleman, Skanderbeg, defeats an Ottoman invasion force at Torvioll. Skanderbeg's military skills presented a major obstacle to Ottoman expansion, and he was considered by many in western Europe to be a model of Christian resistance against the Ottoman Muslims.
1534 – Jacques Cartier is the first European to reach Prince Edward Island.
1613 – The Globe Theatre in London burns to the ground.
1776 – First privateer battle of the American Revolutionary War fought at Turtle Gut Inlet near Cape May, New Jersey
1776 – First privateer battle of the American Revolutionary War fought at Turtle Gut Inlet near Cape May, New Jersey
1786 – Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.
1864 – Ninety-nine people are killed in Canada's worst railway disaster near St-Hilaire, Quebec.
1881 – In Sudan, Muhammad Ahmad declares himself to be the Mahdi, the messianic redeemer of Islam. Among the Sudanese population of the oppressive policies of the Turco-Egyptian rulers, and capitalized on the messianic beliefs popular among the various Sudanese religious sects of the time. After Muhammad Ahmad's unexpected death on 22 June 1885, a mere six months after the conquest of Khartoum, his chief deputy, Abdallahi ibn Muhammad took over the administration of the nascent Mahdist state.
1888 – George Edward Gouraud records Handel's Israel in Egypt onto a phonograph cylinder, thought for many years to be the oldest known recording of music.
1889 – Hyde Park and several other Illinois townships vote to be annexed by Chicago, forming the largest United States city in area and second largest in population.
1928 – The Outerbridge Crossing and Goethals Bridge in Staten Island, New York are both opened.
2007 – Apple Inc. releases its first mobile phone, the iPhone.
2014 – The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant self-declared its caliphate in Syria and northern Iraq.
1858 – George Washington Goethals, American general and engineer, co-designed the Panama Canal (d. 1928)
1861 – William James Mayo, American physician and surgeon, co-founded the Mayo Clinic (d. 1939)
1912 – John Toland, American historian and author (d. 2004)
1925 – Francis S. Currey, American World War II Medal of Honor recipient
1944 – Seán Patrick O'Malley, American cardinal
From Wikipedia and Google (images), ex as noted.
1889 – Hyde Park and several other Illinois townships vote to be annexed by Chicago, forming the largest United States city in area and second largest in population.
1914 – Jina Guseva attempts to assassinate Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin at his home town in Siberia. Accounts of his life are often based on dubious memoirs, hearsay, and legend.[note 1] While his influence and position may have been exaggerated — he had become synonymous with power, debauchery and lust — his presence played a significant role in the increasing unpopularity of the Imperial couple.
1928 – The Outerbridge Crossing and Goethals Bridge in Staten Island, New York are both opened.
1956 – The Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 is signed, officially creating the United States Interstate Highway System. With an original authorization of US$25 billion for the construction of 41,000 miles (66,000 km) of the Interstate Highway System supposedly over a 10-year period, it was the largest public works project in American history through that time.
1972 – The United States Supreme Court rules in the case Furman v. Georgia that arbitrary and inconsistent imposition of the death penalty violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, and constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.
1995 – Space Shuttle program: STS-71 Mission (Atlantis) docks with the Russian space station Mir for the first time. For the five days the shuttle was docked to Mir they were the largest spacecraft in orbit at the time. STS-71 marked the first docking of a space shuttle to a space station, the first time a shuttle crew switched members with the crew of a station, and the 100th manned space launch by the United States. The mission carried Spacelab and included a logistical resupply of Mir. Together the shuttle and station crews conducted various on-orbit joint US/Russian life science investigations with Spacelab along with the Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment-II (SAREX-II) experiment.
2002 – Naval clashes between South Korea and North Korea lead to the death of six South Korean sailors and sinking of a North Korean vessel.
2007 – Apple Inc. releases its first mobile phone, the iPhone.
2014 – The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant self-declared its caliphate in Syria and northern Iraq.
BORN TODAY
1803 – John Newton Brown, American minister and author (d. 1868)
1803 – John Newton Brown, American minister and author (d. 1868)
1858 – George Washington Goethals, American general and engineer, co-designed the Panama Canal (d. 1928)
1861 – William James Mayo, American physician and surgeon, co-founded the Mayo Clinic (d. 1939)
1912 – John Toland, American historian and author (d. 2004)
1925 – Francis S. Currey, American World War II Medal of Honor recipient
1944 – Seán Patrick O'Malley, American cardinal
From Wikipedia and Google (images), ex as noted.
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