On This Day

This Day in History

1. 2017North Korea executed its sixth and most potent nuclear test at Punggye-ri, triggering a magnitude-6.3 earthquake.
2. 2017North Korea carried out its sixth and most powerful nuclear test.
3. 2016The Paris global climate agreement was formally ratified by both the U.S. and China, who together account for 40% of global carbon emissions.
4. 2001During The Troubles, Ulster loyalists restarted a picket outside a Catholic girls' primary school located in the Protestant area of Ardoyne in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
5. 1991A fire at a chicken processing plant in Hamlet, North Carolina, U.S., claimed the lives of 25 people who were locked inside the burning facility.
6. 1987Burundian president Jean-Baptiste Bagaza was ousted in a military coup d'état led by Pierre Buyoya while Bagaza was abroad.
7. 1942In what was possibly the first Jewish ghetto uprising during the Holocaust, residents of the Łachwa Ghetto in occupied Poland unsuccessfully fought their Nazi captors after learning of the ghetto's impending liquidation.
8. 1941The mass expulsion of Soviet Germans originating from the Volga German ASSR commenced.
9. 1936The Guild of Carillonneurs in North America was established at Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Canada.
10. 1935British racing motorist Malcolm Campbell became the first person to drive a car faster than 300 mph (480 km/h), achieving the feat on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah.
11. 1901The flag of Australia was flown for the very first time at the Royal Exhibition Building in Melbourne.
12. 1878More than 600 people died when the passenger steamship SS Princess Alice sank in the River Thames following a collision with the collier Bywell Castle.
13. 1651English Parliamentarian forces led by Oliver Cromwell prevailed at the Battle of Worcester, marking the conclusion of the English Civil War. Additionally in 1777, British troops and Hessian allies defeated American militia at the Battle of Cooch's Bridge.
14. 1650The English New Model Army, commanded by Oliver Cromwell, launched an ambush against an ill-prepared Scottish force at the Battle of Dunbar, opening the Third English Civil War.
15. 1411The Treaty of Selymbria was formally agreed upon between the Ottoman prince Musa Çelebi and the Republic of Venice.
16. 863The Byzantine Empire secured a decisive victory over the Emirate of Melitene at the Battle of Lalakaon during the Arab–Byzantine wars, initiating a period of Byzantine dominance.