Theodosius I makes his adventus, or formal entry, into Constantinople.

Theodosius IAdventus (ceremony)Constantinople

Polish Prince Leszek the White is assassinated at an assembly of Piast dukes at Gąsawa.

Leszek the WhitePiastGąsawa

In the middle of the night a mass on the north side of Mont Granier suddenly collapsed, in one of the largest historical rockslope failures known in Europe.

Mont Granier

Hundred Years' War: Joan of Arc unsuccessfully besieges La Charité.

Hundred Years' WarJoan of ArcSiege of La Charité

Battle of Solway Moss: An English army defeats a much larger Scottish force near the River Esk in Dumfries and Galloway.

Battle of Solway MossRiver Esk, Dumfries and GallowayDumfries and Galloway

Abel Tasman becomes the first European to discover the island Van Diemen's Land (later renamed Tasmania).

Abel TasmanVan Diemen's LandTasmania

The Texas Provincial Government authorizes the creation of a horse-mounted police force called the Texas Rangers (which is now the Texas Ranger Division of the Texas Department of Public Safety).

Texas Ranger DivisionTexas Department of Public Safety

Danish troops defeat a Schleswig-Holstein force in the town of Lottorf, Schleswig-Holstein.

Battle of LottorfSchleswig-HolsteinLottorf

Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.

Charles DarwinOn the Origin of Species

American Civil War: Battle of Lookout Mountain: Near Chattanooga, Tennessee, Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant capture Lookout Mountain and begin to break the Confederate siege of the city led by General Braxton Bragg.

American Civil WarThird Battle of ChattanoogaChattanooga, TennesseeUnited StatesUlysses S. Grant

Anna Sewell's animal welfare novel Black Beauty is published.

Anna SewellAnimal welfareBlack Beauty

A 13-6 victory by the Massillon Tigers over their rivals, the Canton Bulldogs, for the "Ohio League" Championship, leads to accusations that the championship series was fixed and results in the first major scandal in professional American football.

Massillon TigersCanton BulldogsOhio LeagueMatch fixingCanton Bulldogs-Massillon Tigers betting scandal

In Milwaukee, nine members of the Milwaukee Police Department are killed by a bomb, the most deaths in a single event in U.S. police history until the September 11 attacks in 2001.

MilwaukeeMilwaukee Police DepartmentSeptember 11 attacks2001

Nine Irish Republican Army members are executed by an Irish Free State firing squad. Among them is author Robert Erskine Childers, who had been arrested for illegally carrying a revolver.

Irish Republican ArmyExecutions during the Irish Civil WarIrish Free StateRobert Erskine Childers

In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens.

Federal Bureau of InvestigationFBI Crime Lab

The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its second congress.

Senegalese Socialist Party

World War II: The First Slovak Republic becomes a signatory to the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis powers.

Slovak Republic (1939-45)Tripartite PactAxis powers

World War II: The United States grants Lend-Lease to the Free French Forces.

Lend-LeaseFree French Forces

World War II: at the battle of Makin the USS Liscome Bay is torpedoed near Tarawa and sinks, killing 650 men.

Battle of MakinUSS Liscome Bay (CVE-56)

World War II: The 73rd Bombardment Wing launches the first attack on Tokyo from the Northern Mariana Islands.

73d Air DivisionBombing of TokyoNorthern Mariana Islands

The West Berlin branch of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany forms a separate party, the Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin.

West BerlinSocialist Unity Party of GermanySocialist Unity Party of West Berlin

The influential British satirical television programme That Was the Week That Was is first broadcast.

That Was the Week That Was

In the first live, televised murder, Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of President John F. Kennedy, is murdered two days after the assassination, by Jack Ruby, a nightclub operator, in the basement of Dallas police department headquarters. Oswald was being led by two detectives to an armoured car to take him to the nearby county jail.

Lee Harvey OswaldJohn F. KennedyJack RubyDallas

Joseph-Désiré Mobutu seizes power in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and becomes President; he rules the country (which he renames Zaire in 1971) for over 30 years, until being overthrown by rebels in 1997.

Mobutu Sese SekoRepublic of the Congo (Léopoldville)Heads of state of the Democratic Republic of the CongoZaire

Bulgarian TABSO Flight 101 crashes near Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, killing all 82 people on board.

TABSO Flight 101BratislavaCzechoslovak Socialist Republic

Apollo program: The Apollo 12 command module splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second manned mission to land on the Moon.

Apollo programApollo 12

During a severe thunderstorm over Washington state, a hijacker calling himself Dan Cooper (aka D. B. Cooper) parachutes from a Northwest Orient Airlines plane with $200,000 in ransom money. He has never been found.

Washington (state)Aircraft hijackingD. B. CooperNorthwest Orient Airlines

A national speed limit is imposed on the Autobahn in Germany because of the 1973 oil crisis. The speed limit lasts only four months.

Autobahn1973 oil crisis

Donald Johanson and Tom Gray discover the 40% complete Australopithecus afarensis skeleton, nicknamed "Lucy" (after The Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"), in the Awash Valley of Ethiopia's Afar Depression.

Donald JohansonAustralopithecus afarensisLucy (Australopithecus)The BeatlesLucy in the Sky with Diamonds

The Çaldıran-Muradiye earthquake in eastern Turkey kills between 4,000 and 5,000 people.

1976 Çaldıran-Muradiye earthquake