Lots of action today and quite a few places to avoid!
As always, we begin with the good stuff:
1152 A.D. – Frederick I Barbarossa is elected King of the Germans.
1351 A.D. – Ramathibodi becomes King of Siam.
1386 A.D. – Władysław II Jagiełło was crowned King of Poland.
1877 A.D. – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s ballet Swan Lake premiers at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
And a lot of places to avoid (unless you are feeling really lucky):
1238 A.D. – The Battle of the Sit River was fought in the northern part of the present-day Yaroslavl Oblast of Russia between the Mongol Hordes of Batu Khan and the Russians under Yuri II of Vladimir-Suzdal during the Mongol invasion of Russia.
1793 A.D. – French troops conquer Geertruidenberg, Netherlands.
1804 A.D. – The Battle of Vinegar Hill, colony of New South Wales (Australia), when Irish convicts led the colony’s only significant convict uprising.
1814 A.D. – Americans defeat the British at the Battle of Longwoods between London and Thamesville near present-day Wardsville, Ontario.
1893 A.D. – The army of Francis, Baron Dhanis attacks the Lualaba, enabling him to transport his troops across the Upper Congo and, capture Nyangwe almost without an effort.
1894 A.D. – Over 1,000 buildings are destroyed in a fire in Shanghai.
1899 A.D. – Cyclone Mahina sweeps in north of Cooktown, Queensland, with a 12 m wave that reaches up to 5 km inland – over 300 dead.
1908 A.D. – The Collinwood School Fire, Collinwood near Cleveland, Ohio, kills 174 people.
1930 A.D. – Terrible floods ransack Languedoc and the surrounds in south-west France, resulting in twelve departments being submerged by water and causing the death of over 700 people.
1941 A.D. – The United Kingdom launches Operation Claymore on the Lofoten Islands, during World War II.
1944 A.D. – First U.S. daylight bombing of Berlin and Anti-Germany strikes in northern Italy.
1960 A.D. – French freighter ‘La Coubre’ explodes in Havana, Cuba killing 100. Fidel Castro blames the U.S.
1966 A.D. – Canadian Pacific Air Lines DC-8-43 explodes on landing at Tokyo International Airport, killing 64 people.
1970 A.D. – French submarine Eurydice explodes.
1977 A.D. – The 1977 Bucharest Earthquake in southern and eastern Europe kills more than 1,500.
2001 A.D. – A massive explosion in front of the BBC Television Centre in London, seriously injuring 11 people. The attack was attributed to the Real IRA.
2001 A.D. – Hintze Ribeiro disaster, a bridge collapses in northern Portugal, killing up to 70 people.
Take care and remember,
