Pompey the Great, (Latin, Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus), is assassinated . A general and statesman of the Roman Republic, he played a significant role in the transformation of Rome from republic to empire and became a contender to Caesar for the leadership of the Rome State leading to the Caesar Civil War where he was defeated at the Battle of Pharsalus. He took refuge in Ptolemaic Egypt, where he was assassinated by the courtiers of Ptolemy XIII. More
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William the Conqueror invades England after seven months of preparation for his invasion force, landing unopposed at Pevensey with about 7,000 men (including 2,000-3,000 cavalry). He quickly build fortifications at Hastings in preparation to fight the English army under the Anglo-Saxon King King Harold II (Harold Godwinson)
The Battle of Hastings, fought on October 14, 1066, was a decisive win for William, marking the beginning of the Norman Conquest of England. More
The Battle of Tinchebray takes place in Normandy, France, where King Henry I of England defeats his older brother Robert Curthose, the Duke of Normandy, securing control over Normandy. Robert was captured and spent the rest of his life in prison, dying in Cardiff Castle at 80 years of age.
The Battle of Mühldorf occurs between the Duchy of Bavaria and the Archduchy of Austria. The Bavarians were led by German King Louis of Wittelsbach, while the Austrians were under the command of his cousin, Anti-king Frederick of Habsburg. The Bavarian forces, loyal to Emperor Louis IV defeat the Habsburgs, securing Louis' position as Holy Roman Emperor.
Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo (João Rodrigues Cabrilho) a Portuguese explorer sailing the Caravel "San Salvador" under the Spanish flag, enters San Diego Bay on September 28, 1542, landing at what is now Point Loma. Cabrillo named the bay San Miguel, in honor of Saint Michael the Archangel. This was the first recorded European landing on the West Coast of the United States.
Cabrillo had set sail from the port of Navidad, Mexico, on June 27, 1542 with a Spanish-commissioned expedition to find a route to the Orient and to map the coast of the present-day United States. Cabrillo died on January 3, 1543, from an infected injury sustained during a skirmish on an island, likely San Miguel Island part of the Channel Islands off Santa Barbara. the The expedition's second-in-command, Bartolomé Ferrelo, took command and continued the voyage, potentially reaching as far north as the Rogue River in Oregon, and returning to Mexico the following year with the log of their discoveries. More
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Philadelphia Liberty Loan Parade, goes on as scheduled, bringing 200,000 Philadelphians together; taking place right after the pandemic commonly called the Spanish flu – the H1N1 virus – arrived in the city of 1.7 million people.
72 hours following the parade all the beds in the city’s 31 hospitals were filled. Philadelphia was one of the hardest-hit US citieswith More than 12,000 people dying within six weeks. More
Fidel Castro announces that any Cuban who wished to leave the country was free to do so. . The announcement took place six years after the Cuban revolution and four years after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion supported by the CIA. The proclamation resulted in hundreds of thousands of Cuban immigrants emigrating to Florida.
The Passenger ferry, Estonia, sinks resulting in 852 lives lost. The official disaster report, published in 1997, said the fatal event started when the locks on the ferry’s bow door failed from the strain of the waves. Conspiracy theories questioning the official report pointed to an explosion onboard the ferry or a collision with an unidentified submarine.
A new official investigation of the MS Estonia wreck was launched in the wake of the Swedish documentary, “Estonia: The Discovery that Changes Everything”, which premiered in 2020 and showed that the sunken cruise ferry had a large wide hole in the hull. More
The second Intifada, a period of intensified Israeli-Palestinian conflict, begins with the visit of Ariel Sharon to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, sparking protests and escalating violence in the region.
The International Criminal Court convicts Ahmad Al Faqi Al Mahdiu guilty of the war crime of intentionally directing attacks against religious and historical buildings in Timbuktu, Mali. Al-Mahdi, an Islamist rebel and member of Ansar Eddine, was sentenced to nine years in prison for the destruction of cultural heritage, which occurred between June and July 2012.