The Montgolfier brothers first test fly an unmanned hot air balloon in France; it floats nearly 2.5 km (1.6 mi). The Montgolfier brothers, Joseph-Michel and…

St. Lucia’s flood: The Zuiderzee sea wall in the Netherlands collapses, killing over 50,000 people The St. Lucia’s Flood of 1287 was one of the…

Founding Father Alexander Hamilton marries Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton at the Schuyler Mansion in Albany, New York. Alexander Hamilton was one of the Founding Fathers of…

Construction begins on the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze river.

Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting: Twenty-eight people, including the gunman, are killed in Sandy Hook, Connecticut.

Muntadhar al-Zaidi throws his shoes at then-U.S. President George W. Bush during a press conference in Baghdad, Iraq.

Over 200 of East Pakistan’s intellectuals are executed by the Pakistan Army and their local allies. (The date is commemorated in Bangladesh as Martyred Intellectuals…

The Toledo War ends. Mason’s successor Horner proved to be extremely unpopular as governor and his tenure was very short. Residents disliked him so much…

The Toledo War come to an end. The Toledo War (1835–36), also known as the Michigan–Ohio War, was an almost bloodless boundary dispute between the U.S. state of Ohio and the adjoining…