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• 1009 - The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a Christian church in Jerusalem, is completely destroyed by the "mad" Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, who hackes out the Church's foundations down to bedrock.
• 1016 - The Danes defeat the Saxons in the Battle of Ashingdon .
• 1561 - Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima -- Takeda Shingen beats Uesugi Kenshin in the climax of their ongoing conflicts
• 1685Events February 6 James Stuart, Duke of York becomes King James II of England and Ireland and King James VII of Scotland. February 18 Fort St. Louis is established by a Frenchman at Matagorda Bay thus forming the basis for France's claim to Texas. June 20 - Louis XIV of FranceHyacinthe Rigaud (1701 Louis XIV (Louis-Dieudonne) ( 5 September 1638 1 September 1715) reigned as King of France and King of Navarre from 14 May 1643 until his death. He was a minor when he inherited the Crown; he did not actually assume personal control revokes the Edict of NantesThe Edict of Nantes was issued on April 13, 1598 by Henry IV of France to grant French Protestants (also known as Huguenots) substantial rights in a Catholic nation. The main concern was civil unity, and the Edict separated civil from religious unity, tre, which has protected French Protestants
• 1748Events April 24 A congress assembles at Aix-la-Chapelle with the intent to conclude the struggle known as the War of Austrian Succession at October 18 The Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle is signed to end the war Adam Smith begins to deliver public lectures in E - Signing of the Treaty of Aix-la-ChapelleThere were two Treaties of Aix-la-Chapelle . The first was in 1668, ending the War of Devolution; the second was in 1748, ending the War of Austrian Succession. These are sometimes known as Treaties of Aachen since, "Aix-la-Chapelle" is the French name fo ended the War of the Austrian SuccessionThe War of the Austrian Succession ( 1740- 1748). When Maria Theresa of Austria succeeded her father Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor in his Hapsburg dominions in 1740 in accordance with the pragmaticae sanctiones ( Pragmatic Sanction), she, as a woman, was.
• 1767Events The Burmese invasion reaches the Thai capital of Ayutthaya, razing it. North Carolina woodsman Daniel Boone goes through the Cumberland Gap and reaches Kentucky in defiance of a decree from King George III. He discovers a rich hunting ground, conte - Mason-Dixon lineLiterally, the Mason-Dixon Line (or "Mason and Dixon's Line") demarcated state boundaries between the Province of Pennsylvania, the Province of Maryland, Delaware Colony and parts of Virginia Colony in colonial North America and between their successor-st, survey separating Maryland from Pennsylvania completed
• 1851 - " Moby-Dick", by US- novelist Herman Melville, is first published as "The Whale" by Richard Bentley, London.
• 1860 - The Second Opium War finally ended at the Convention of Peking with the ratification of the Treaty of Tientsin, an unequal treaty.
• 1867 - United States takes possession of Alaska ( Alaska Day)
• 1898 - United States takes possession of Puerto Rico
• 1907 - Second Geneva Convention
• 1908 - Belgium annexes Congo Free State
• 1912 - Beginning of First Balkan War
• 1922 - The British Broadcasting Company was founded by a consortium to establish a nationwide network of radio transmitters to provide a national broadcasting service.
• 1925 - The Grand Ole Opry opens
• 1944 - Adolf Hitler orders the establishment of a German national militia
• 1944 - Soviet Union invades Czechoslovakia
• 1945 - The USSR's nuclear program receives plans for the USA's plutonium bomb from Klaus Fuchs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory
• 1954 - Texas Instruments announces the first Transistor radio
• 1968 - John Lennon and Yoko Ono are fined UKP 150 after 168 grains of marijuana are found in their apartment in a police raid.
• 1969 - Jefferson Airplane member Paul Kantner is charged with possessin of marijuana on Hawaii.
• 1974 - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre opens in theaters.
• 1977 - German Autumn: a set of events revolving around the kidnapping of Hanns-Martin Schleyer and the hijacking of the Lufthansa airplane by the Red Army Faction (RAF) came to an end when Schleyer was executed and various RAF members committed suicide. The German government stated that it would never again negotiate with terrorists.
• 1993 - Andreas Papandreou begins his second term as Prime Minister of Greece.
• 2003 - Bolivian Gas War: President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, was forced to resign and leave Bolivia.