On the day in the years 241 Before the common era (BCE) the Battle of the Aegates Islands takes place, in which the Navy of Republican Rome, sink the Carthaginian fleet, ending the First Punic War.
On this day in the year 1198 of the common era (CE) the Giralda minaret, designed by architect Ben Ahmad for the Almohad mosque in Seville is completed, now serving as the bell tower for cathedral of Seville; three hundred and thirty-seven years later , the Spanish bishop of Panama, Tomés de Berlanga discovers the uninhabited Galapagos Islands after his ship drifts off course.
On this day in the year 1661 CE, king Louis XIV, the “Sun King,” begins his personal rule of France after the death of his chief minister, Cardinal Mazarin; one hundred and one years later, French Huguenot Jean Calas, wrongly convicted of killing his son, is executed after being tortured by authorities. The event inspires Voltaire to begin campaign for religious tolerance and legal reform. Nine years after that, in 1791 CE, the pope condemns France's Civil Constitution of the clergy; forty years later, the newly formed French Foreign Legion is sanctioned by king Louis-Philippe to support his war in Algeria. Sixty-two years after that, in 1893 CE, the Ivory Coast becomes a French colony (Cote d'Ivoire).
On this day in 1783 CE the U.S.S. Alliance, under Captain Barry, fights and wins the final naval battle of the American Revolutionary War off Cape Canaveral.
In 1791 CE, John Stone of Concord, Massachusetts, patents a pile driver; fifty-eight years later, Abraham Lincoln applies for a patent for a device to lift a boat over shoals and obstructions The only American President to file for a patent). Twenty-seven years after that, in 1876 CE, the first telephone call is made by Alexander Graham Bell, who says to his assistant, Thomas Watson: "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you;" fifteen years later, Almon Brown Strowger, an undertaker in Topeka, Kansas, patents the “strowger switch,” a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching. Nine years after that, in 1902 CE, a United States Court of Appeals rules that Thomas Edison did not invent the movie camera; one year later Harry Gammeter of Cleveland patents the multigraph duplicating machine.
In 1801 CE the first official census in Great Britain is conductes, revealing a population of approximately ten million persons; one hundred and nineteen years later, the Home Rule Act is passed by the British Parliament, dividing Ireland into two parts; it is rejected by the southern counties, where the Anglo-Irish War continues for a year. Five years after that in 1925 CE, the Island of Cyprus becomes a British crown colony; forty five years later, Members of the Stormont Parliament of Northern Ireland are given police protection. One year after that, in 1971 CE, three members of the Royal Highland Fusiliers (a regiment of the British Army) are killed by members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA).
In 1847 CE the first money is minted in Hawaii; fifteen years later, the United States issues its legal tender in the form of paper money, the denominations of currency are: $5, $10, $20, $50, $100, $500 and $1000 notes
In 1888 CE the Heavyweight Boxing champ John L. Sullivan fights Charlie Mitchell to a draw after thirty rounds.
In 1910 CE the Republic of China officially abolishes slavery, while doing nothing to change the condition of workers, the common people, whom it considers the property of the state.
In 1913 CE, William Knox becomes first in American Bowling Congress to bowl a perfect game of 300.
In 1920 CE, Karl Hjalmar Branting becomes the first Social Democrat Prime Minister of Sweden.
In 1927 CE, Bavaria lifts its ban on Adolf Hitler's speeches…it was a bad idea.
In 1933 CE the state of Nevada becomes in the United States to regulate narcotics.
In 1937 CE, Benny Goodman is unofficially crowned the “King of Swing” at New York City's Paramount Theater as his band plays before an exuberant sell-out crowd filled with teenagers; unable to attend nightclub performances; the kids dance in the aisles; thirty-seven years later, Simon and Garfunkel record the first version of The Sound of Silence at Columbia Studios in New York, New Yor. One year after that, in 1965 CE, I've Got a Tiger By the Tail, a studio album by Buck Owens is released, becoming Billboard’s Album of the Year; two years later, American singer Aretha Franklin's tenth overall studio album, and first on Atlantic Records is released, I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You. Eight years after that, in 1975 CE, John Lennon releases the single Stand by Me, covering Ben E. King's hit song; six years later, the single Bette Davis Eyes is released by Kim Carnes, becoming Billboard’s Song of the Year. Sixteen years after that, in 2003 CE, at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts: The Clash; five years later, Leonard Cohen. Seven years after that, in 2015 CE, Marvin Gaye's family wins a record seven million dollar lawsuit for music copyright infringement against Robin Thicke, Pharrell Williams and T.I..
In 1940 CE the first opera telecast in the United States on W2XBS, New York, New York: Ruggero Leoncavallo's "Pagliacci;” thirty-two years later, Peter Bogdanovich's film homage to screwball comedies, What's Up, Doc?, starring Barbra Streisand, Ryan O'Neal, Madeline Kahn & Kenneth Mars premieres. Six years after that, in 1978 CE, The Incredible Hulk, starring Bill Bixby as David Banner and Lou Ferrigno as his green alter-ego, premieres on CBS; one year later; Eubie Blake, a 92-year old ragtime piano player and composer, together with dance legend Gregory Hines are musical guest on Saturday Night Live. Eighteen years after that, in 1997 CE, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, created by Joss Whedon and starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, premieres on the WB Television Network.
In 1945 CE, on one very eventful day, the following takes place: the deadliest air raid of World War II sets Tokyo on fire after nighttime B-29 bombings; more than one hundred thousand people die, mostly civilians; Fieldmarshal Albert Kesselring succeeds Gerd von Rundstedt as commander of German Army Command in the West; George S. Patton's Third U.S. Army makes contact with General Courtney Hodge's First U.S. Army; Germany blows up the Wessel Bridge on Rhine; Japan grants occupied Vietnam independence; US troops land in western Mindanao, Philippines, in Operation VICTOR IV.
In 1948 CE, Herb H. Hoover becomes the first civilian to exceed the speed of sound, at Edwards Air Force Base, California
In 1951 CE, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover declines the post of baseball commissioner; twelve years later, infielder Pete Rose debuts with Cincinnati at spring training in Tampa, Florida; hitting in his first two at bats. Fifty-nine years after that, in 2022 CE, after a ninety-nine day lockout, Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association reach a new collective bargaining agreement; MLB teams set to play the full one hundred and sixty-two game season in 2022.
In 1952 CE a military coup takes place, led by General Fulgencio Batista in Cuba; seven years later, an uprising takes place against the Chinese occupation forces in Lhasa, Tibet, leading to the Dalai Lamas permanent exile.
In 1960 CE the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) agrees to stop nuclear testing; twelve years later the U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan. Eighteen years after that the United States performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
In 1964 CE, a United States (U.S.) reconnaissance plane is shot down over East Germany; two years later, the North Vietnamese capture a U.S. Green Beret Camp at Ashau Valley. Two years after that, in 1968 CE, North Vietnamese and communist Laotion troops overrun a secret U.S. radar facility, Lima Site 85, on a Laos mountaintop.
In 1969 CE, James Earl Ray pleads guilty to the murder of Martin Luther King Jr.; three years later, the first African-American political convention in the United States opens in Gary, Indiana; two years later, the U.S. Senate approves an amendment lowering the voting age to eighteen.
In 1977 CE the rings of Uranus are discovered during occulation of SAO; five years later; all 9 planets aligned on same side of Sun. Twenty-three after that, in 2006 CE, the Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars; nineteen years later, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the first U.S. federal agency to begin firing career employees under President Trump's downsizing directives carried by Elon Musk and his dodgy team of tech-bandits.
In 1987 CE the Vatican states its formal opposition to test-tube fertilization & embryo transfer.
In 1990 CE the president of Haiti, Prosper Avril resigns, precipitating a humanitarian disaster, which I was called on to respond to in my capacity as a Hospital Corpsman with the United States Navy; Operation Joint Task Force, Safe Harbor.
In 1993 CE, physician David Gunn is shot and killed by anti-abortionist Michael Frederick Griffin in Pensacola, Florida, it is the first anti-abortion murder of a doctor in the United States.
In 2014 CE, German chancellor Angela Merkel warns the Russin Federation’s, Vladimir Putin, that making Crimea part of Russia is illegal and in violation of Ukraine's constitution; six years later the Russian lower house of Parliament passes legislation to allow Vladimir Putin to hold office of president for life.
In 2020 CE, New York governor Andrew Cuomo deploys the national guard to New Rochelle, quarantining the whole community and establishing a zone with a one-mile radius surrounding it, as soon as one hundred and eight cases of COVID-19 had been detected there; on this same day, three months into the COVID-19 epidemic, Chinese president Xi Jinping finally travels to Wuhan, the epicenter of the outbreak, as the rate of daily new infections declines in China falls to 19 new cases and 17 deaths. Two years after that, in 2022 CE, the true global death toll from COVID-19 is estimated at 18.2 million world-wide, in a finding published by Washington University.
In 2023 CE. Xi Jinping is appointed to a historic third term as president of China (the post had previously been restricted to two terms).
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