Historical EventsToday: 30 September

Events

• 1399 - Henry IV is proclaimed King of England.


• 1744 - France and Spain defeat the Kingdom of Sardinia at the Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo.


• 1781 - American War of Independence: The French defeat the British at the Battle of Chesapeake Capes.


• 1791 - The Magic Flute, the last opera composed by Mozart premiered at Theater an der Wien in Vienna, Austria.


• 1791 - The Constituent Assembly in Paris is dissolved; Parisians hail Maximilien Robespierre and Jérôme Pétion as incorruptible patriots.


• 1813 - Battle of Bárbula: Simón Bolívar defeats Santiago Bobadilla.


• 1860 - Britain's first tram service begins in Birkenhead, Merseyside.


• 1882 - The world's first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States.


• 1888 - Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.


• 1895 - Madagascar becomes a French protectorate.


• 1901 - Hubert Cecil Booth patents the vacuum cleaner.


• 1903 - New Gresham's School officially opened by Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood.


• 1906 - Real Academia Galega, Galician language biggest linguistic authority starts working in Havana.


• 1927 - Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season


• 1931 - Start of "Die Voortrekkers" youth movement for Afrikaners in Bloemfontein, South Africa.


• 1935 - The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated.


• 1938 - At 2:00 am, Britain, France, Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, allowing Germany to occupy the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.


• 1938 - The League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations".


• 1939 - Britain first evacuates citizens in anticipation of war.


• 1939 - General Władysław Sikorski becomes commander-in-chief of the Polish Government in exile.


• 1945 - Bourne End rail crash, Hertfordshire, England killed 43


• 1947 - The Islamic Republic of Pakistan joins the United Nations.


• 1947 - The World Series, featuring New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers, is televised for the first time.


• 1949 - The Berlin Airlift ends.


• 1954 - The U.S. Navy submarine USS Nautilus is commissioned as the world's first nuclear reactor powered vessel.


• 1955 - Film icon James Dean dies in a road accident, at age 24.


• 1962 - Mexican-American labor leader César Chávez founds the United Farm Workers.


• 1962 - James Meredith enters the University of Mississippi, defying segregation.


• 1965 - General Suharto rises to power after an alleged coup by the Communist Party of Indonesia. In response, Suharto and his army massacre over a million of Indonesian suspected as communists.


• 1966 - The British protectorate of Bechuanaland declares its independence, and becomes the Republic of Botswana. Seretse Khama takes office as the first President.


• 1967 - BBC Radio 1 is launched; the BBC's other national radio stations also adopt numeric names. Tony Blackburn presents the first show.


• 1970 - Jordan makes a deal with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) for the release of the remaining hostages from the Dawson's Field hijackings.


• 1972 - Roberto Clemente gets his 3000th base hit becoming just the 11th player to do so.


• 1975 - The J. Edgar Hoover Building is dedicatred by President Gerald Ford.


• 1975 - The Hughes (later McDonnell-Douglas, now Boeing) AH-64 Apache makes its first flight.


• 1977 - Due to US budget cuts, the Apollo program's ALSEP experiment packages left on the Moon are shut down.


• 1979 - The Hong Kong MTR commenced service with the opening of its Modified Initial System (aka. Kwun Tong Line).


• 1980 - Ethernet specifications published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.


• 1982 - Cyanide-laced Tylenol kills six people in the Chicago area. Seven were killed in all. The incident is known as the Tylenol murders.


• 1986 - Mordechai Vanunu, who revealed details of Israel covert nuclear program to British media, was kidnapped in Rome, Italy.


• 1989 - Foreign Minister of West Germany Hans-Dietrich Genscher's speech from the balcony of the German embassy in Prague.


• 1990 - The Dalai Lama unveils the Canadian Tribute to Human Rights in Canada's capital city of Ottawa.


• 1991 - President Jean-Bertrand Aristide of Haiti is forced from office.


• 1993 - An earthquake hits India's Latur and Osmanabad district of Marathwada (Aurangabad division) in Maharashtra state leaving tens of thousands of people dead and many more homeless.


• 1999 - Japan's worst nuclear accident at a uranium reprocessing facility in Tōkai-mura, northeast of Tokyo.


• 2004 - The first images of a live giant squid in its natural habitat are taken 600 miles south of Tokyo.


• 2004 - The AIM-54 Phoenix, the primary missile for the F-14 Tomcat, retired from service. Almost two years later, the Tomcat retires.


• 2005 - The Parliament of Catalonia passes with 120 plus votes and 15 against, the Project of New Catalan Statute of Autonomy, proclaiming in its article 1, "Catalonia is a nation".


• 2005 - The controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.


• 2006 - the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia adopted the Constitutional Act that proclaimed the new Constitution of Serbia.

Historical EventsToday: 29 September

Events

• 522 BC - Darius I of Persia kills the Magian usurper Gaumâta, securing his hold as king of the Persian Empire.


• 480 BC - Battle of Salamis: The Greek fleet under Themistokles defeats the Persian fleet under Xerxes I.


• 61 BC - Pompey the Great celebrates his third triumph for victories over the pirates and the end of the Mithridatic Wars on his 45th birthday.


• 1066 - William the Conqueror invades England.


• 1227 - Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, is excommunicated by Pope Gregory IX for his failure to go on crusade.


• 1364 - Battle of Auray: English forces defeat French in Brittany; end of the Breton War of Succession.


• 1567 - The second War of Religion in France breaks out.


• 1567 - At a dinner, the Duke of Alba arrests the Count of Egmont and the Count of Hoorn for treason.


• 1650 - Henry Robinson opens his Office of Addresses and Encounters - the first historically documented dating service - in Threadneedle Street, London.


• 1789 - The U.S. War Department first establishes a regular army with a strength of several hundred men.


• 1789 - The first U.S. Congress adjourns.


• 1829 - The Metropolitan Police of London, also known as the Met, is founded.


• 1848 - Battle of Pákozd: Hungarian forces defeat Croats at Pákozd; the first battle of the War of Independence.


• 1850 - The Roman Catholic hierarchy is re-established in England and Wales by Pope Pius IX.


• 1864 - American Civil War: The Battle of Chaffin's Farm is fought.


• 1885 - The first practical public electric tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool, England.


• 1907 - The cornerstone is laid at Washington National Cathedral in the U.S. capital.


• 1911 - Italy declares war on the Ottoman Empire.


• 1916 - John D. Rockefeller becomes the first billionaire.


• 1918 - The Hindenburg Line is broken by Allied forces during World War I. Bulgaria signs an armistice.


• 1924 - Plutarco Elías Calles is proclaimed President of Mexico.


• 1941 - Holocaust in Kiev, Ukraine: German Einsatzgruppe C starts Babi Yar massacre. According to the Einsatzgruppen Operational Situation Report No. 101, at least 33,771 Jews from Kiev and its suburbs were killed at Babi Yar on September 29 - 30, 1941.


• 1943 - U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio sign an armistice aboard the British ship HMS Nelson off Malta.


• 1954 - The convention establishing CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) is signed.


• 1954 - Major League Baseball: Willie Mays of the then New York Giants makes "The Catch" at The Polo Grounds in game one of the World Series.


• 1957 - 20 MCi (740 petabecquerels) of radioactive material is released in an explosion at the Soviet Mayak nuclear plant at Chelyabinsk.


• 1960 - Nikita Khrushchev, leader of Soviet Union, disorders a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly with a number of angry outbursts.


• 1962 - Alouette 1, the first Canadian satellite, is launched.


• 1963 - The second period of the Second Vatican Council opens.


• 1964 - The Argentine comic strip Mafalda is published for the first time.


• 1971 - Oman joins the Arab League.


• 1972 - Sino-Japanese relations: Japan establishes diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China after breaking official ties with the Republic of China.


• 1975 - WGPR in Detroit, Michigan, becomes the world's first black-owned-and-operated television station.


• 1975 - Sharon Dahlonega Raiford Bush becomes American television's first African-American weathercaster.


• 1979 - Pope John Paul II became the first pope to set foot on Irish soil with his pastoral visit to the Republic of Ireland.


• 1982 - Tylenol Crisis of 1982 began when the first of seven individuals died in metropolitan Chicago.


• 1988 - NASA resumes space shuttle flights, grounded after the Challenger disaster, with STS-26.

Historical EventsToday: 28 September

Events

• 48 BC - Pompey the Great is assassinated on orders of King Ptolemy of Egypt after landing in Egypt.


• 351 - Battle of Mursa Major: the Roman Emperor Constantius II defeats the usurper Magnentius.


• 365 - Roman usurper Procopius bribes two legions passing by Constantinople, and proclaims himself Roman emperor.


• 935 - Saint Wenceslas is murdered by his brother, Boleslaus I of Bohemia.


• 995 - Members of Slavník's dynasty - Spytimír, Pobraslav, Pořej and Čáslav are murdered by Boleslaus's son, Boleslaus II the Pious.


• 1066 - William the Conqueror invades England: the Norman Conquest begins.


• 1106 - The Battle of Tinchebrai - Henry I of England defeats his brother, Robert Curthose.


• 1322 - Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor defeats Frederick I of Austria in the Battle of Mühldorf.


• 1448 - Christian I is crowned king of Denmark.


• 1542 - Navigator João Rodrigues Cabrilho of Portugal arrives as what is now San Diego, California, United States.


• 1708 - Peter the Great defeats the Swedes at the Battle of Lesnaya.


• 1779 - American Revolution: Samuel Huntington is elected President of the Continental Congress, succeeding John Jay.


• 1781 - American forces backed by a French fleet begin the siege of Yorktown, Virginia, during the American Revolutionary War.


• 1787 - The newly completed United States Constitution is voted on by the U.S. Congress to be sent to the state legislatures for approval.


• 1844 - Oscar I of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Sweden.


• 1867 - Toronto becomes the capital of Ontario.


• 1867 - The United States takes control of Midway Island.


• 1868 - Battle of Alcolea causes Queen Isabella II of Spain to flee to France.


• 1889 - The first General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) defines the length of a meter as the distance between two lines on a standard bar of an alloy of platinum with ten percent iridium, measured at the melting point of ice.


• 1928 - UK passes the Dangerous Drugs Act outlawing cannabis.


• 1939 - Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agree on a division of Poland after their invasion during World War II.


• 1939 - Warsaw surrenders to Nazi Germany during World War II.


• 1941 - Major League Baseball: Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox hits a batting average of .406 that was originally at .3995. He is the last player to have a batting average of .400 or better.


• 1944 - Battle of Arnhem - Germans defeat British airborne at Arnhem, Netherlands.


• 1944 - Soviet Army troops liberate Klooga concentration camp in Klooga, Estonia.


• 1958 - France ratifies a new Constitution of France; the French Fifth Republic is then formed upon the formal adoption of the new constitution on October 4. Guinea rejects the new constitution, voting for independence instead.


• 1961 - A military coup in Damascus effectively ends the United Arab Republic, the union between Egypt and Syria.


• 1962 - Paddington tram depot fire destroys 65 trams in Brisbane, Australia.


• 1971 - UK passes the Misuse of Drugs Act banning the medicinal use of cannabis.


• 1973 - ITT Building in New York City bombed to protest ITT's involvement in the September 11 1973 coup d'état in Chile.


• 1975 - The Spaghetti House siege, in which nine people were taken as hostages, takes place in London.


• 1994 - The car ferry MS Estonia sinks in Baltic Sea, killing 852 people.


• 1995 - Bob Denard and a group of mercenaries take the islands of Comoros in a coup.


• 2000 - Al-Aqsa Intifada: Arial Sharon visits the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.

Historical EventsToday: 27 September

Events

• 489 - Odoacer attacks Theodoric at the Battle of Verona, and is defeated again.


• 1331 - the Battle of Płowce between the Kingdom of Poland and the Teutonic Order took place.


• 1540 - The Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) receives its charter from Pope Paul III.


• 1590 - Pope Urban VII dies 13 days after being chosen as the Pope, making his reign the shortest papacy in history.


• 1605 - The armies of Sweden are utterly defeated by the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Battle of Kircholm.


• 1777 - Lancaster, Pennsylvania is the capital of the United States, for one day.


• 1787 - The United States Constitution is delivered to the states for ratification.


• 1821 - Mexico gains its independence from Spain.


• 1822 - Jean-François Champollion announces that he has deciphered the Rosetta stone.


• 1825 - The Stockton and Darlington Railway opens, and begins operation of the world's first service of locomotive-hauled passenger trains.


• 1854 - The steamship SS Arctic sinks with 300 people on board. This marks the first great disaster in the Atlantic Ocean.


• 1903 - Wreck of the Old 97, a train crash made famous by the song of the same name.


• 1905 - The physics journal Annalen der Physik published Albert Einstein's paper "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?", introducing the equation E=mc².


• 1908 - The first production of the Ford Model T automobile was built at the Piquette Plant in Detroit, Michigan.


• 1916 - Iyasu is proclaimed deposed as ruler of Ethiopia in a palace coup in favor of his aunt Zauditu.


• 1922 - King Constantine I of Greece abdicates his throne in favor of his eldest son, King George II.


• 1928 - The Republic of China is recognised by the United States.


• 1930 - Bobby Jones wins the U.S. Amateur Championship to complete the Grand Slam of golf. The old structure of the grand slam was the U.S. Open, British Open, U.S. Amateur, and British Amateur.


• 1937 - Balinese Tiger declared extinct.


• 1938 - Ocean liner Queen Elizabeth launched in Glasgow.


• 1940 - World War II: The Tripartite Pact is signed in Berlin by Germany, Japan and Italy.


• 1941 - The SS Patrick Henry is launched becoming the first of more than 2,700 Liberty ships.


• 1941 - Foundation of EAM (National Liberation Front) in Greece.


• 1942 - Glenn Miller and his Orchestra perform for the last time before Miller enters the US Army.


• 1942 - Last day of the September Matanikau action on Guadalcanal as United States Marine Corps troops barely escape after being surrounded by Japanese forces near the Matanikau River.


• 1944 - The Kassel Mission results in the largest loss by a USAAF group on any mission in WWII.


• 1949 - The first Plenary Session of the National People's Congress approves the design of the Flag of the People's Republic of China.


• 1954 - The nationwide debut of Tonight! (The Tonight Show) hosted by Steve Allen on NBC.


• 1956 - USAF Captain Milburn G. Apt becomes the first man to exceed Mach 3 while flying the Bell X-2. Shortly thereafter, the craft goes out of control and Captain Apt is killed.


• 1959 - Nearly 5000 people die on the main Japanese island of Honshū as the result of a typhoon.


• 1964 - The Warren Commission releases its report, concluding that Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone, assassinated President John F. Kennedy.


• 1968 - The stage musical Hair opened at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London, where it played 1,998 performances until its closure was forced by the roof's collapsing in July 1973.


• 1977 - The 300 metre tall CKVR-TV transmission tower in Barrie, Ontario, Canada is hit by a light aircraft in a fog, causing it to collapse. All aboard the aircraft are killed.


• 1979 - The United States Department of Education receives final approval from the U.S. Congress to become the 13th US Cabinet agency.


• 1980 - Marvin Hagler defeats Alan Minter to claim boxing's world Middleweight championship in London. They have to be escorted away by police after a riot forms.


• 1983 - Richard Stallman announces the GNU project to develop a free Unix-like operating system.


• 1988 - The National League for Democracy, led by Aung San Suu Kyi is founded.


• 1993 - The Sukhumi massacre takes place in Abkhazia.


• 1995 - The Government of the United States unveils the first of its redesigned bank notes with the $100 bill featuring a larger portrait of Benjamin Franklin slightly off-center.


• 1996 - In Afghanistan, the Taliban capture the capital city Kabul after driving out President Burhanuddin Rabbani and executing former leader Mohammad Najibullah.


• 1996 - The Julie N. tanker skip crashes into the Million Dollar Bridge in Portland, Maine spilling thousands of gallons of oil.


• 1997 - Communications are suddenly lost with the Mars Pathfinder space probe.


• 1998 - Google is launched.


• 2002 - Timor-Leste (East Timor) joins the United Nations.


• 2003 - Smart 1 satellite is launched.

Historical EventsToday: 26 September

Events

• 46 BC - Julius Caesar dedicates a temple to his mythical ancestor Venus Genetrix in accordance with a vow he made at the battle of Pharsalus.


• 715 - Ragenfrid defeats Theudoald at the Battle of Compiègne.


• 1212 - Golden Bull of Sicily certified hereditary royal title in Bohemia for Přemyslid dynasty.


• 1580 - Sir Francis Drake circumnavigates the globe.


• 1687 - The Parthenon in Athens is partially destroyed after an explosion caused by the bombing from Venetian forces led by Morosini who were besieging the Ottoman Turks stationed in Athens.


• 1687 - The city council of Amsterdam votes to support William of Orange's invasion of England, which became the Glorious Revolution.


• 1777 - British troops occupy Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during the American Revolution.


• 1783 - Fayette County, Pennsylvania created


• 1789 - Thomas Jefferson is appointed the first United States Secretary of State, John Jay is appointed the first Chief Justice of the United States, Samuel Osgood is appointed the first United States Postmaster General, and Edmund Randolph is appointed the first United States Attorney General.


• 1792 - Marc-David Lasource begins accusing Maximilien Robespierre of wanting a dictatorship for France.


• 1810 - A new Act of Succession is adopted by the Riksdag of the Estates and Jean Baptiste Bernadotte becomes heir to the Swedish throne.


• 1872 - The first Shriners Temple (called Mecca) was established in New York City.


• 1907 - New Zealand and Newfoundland each become dominions within the British Empire.


• 1908 - Ed Reulbach became the first and only pitcher to throw two shutouts in one day against the Brooklyn Dodgers.


• 1914 - The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is established by the Federal Trade Commission Act.


• 1918 - World War I: Battle of Meuse.


• 1934 - Steamship RMS Queen Mary is launched.


• 1937 - Street and Smith Publications launches a half-hour radio program featuring the announcer for its "Detective Stories" radio show, The Shadow, with Orson Welles in the title role.


• 1944 - World War II: Operation Market Garden fails.


• 1944 - World War II: On the central front of the Gothic Line Brazilian troops controlled the Serchio valley region after ten days of fighting.


• 1950 - United Nations troops recapture Seoul from the North Koreans.


• 1950 - Indonesia admitted to the United Nations.


• 1954 - Japanese rail ferry Toya Maru sinks during a typhoon in the Tsugaru Strait, Japan killing 1,172.


• 1960 - In Chicago, the first televised debate takes place between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy.


• 1960 - Fidel Castro announces Cuba's support for the U.S.S.R.


• 1962 - Yemen Arab Republic is proclaimed.


• 1970 - The Laguna Fire starts in San Diego County, California, burning 175,425 acres (710 km²).


• 1973 - Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in record-breaking time.


• 1981 - Baseball: Nolan Ryan sets a Major League record by throwing his fifth no-hitter.


• 1983 - Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov averts a worldwide nuclear war.


• 1983 - Australia II, the first non-American winner, wins the Americas Cup.


• 1984 - United Kingdom agrees to handover of Hong Kong


• 1997 - A Garuda Indonesia Airbus A-300 crashes near Medan, Indonesia, airport, killing 234.


• 1997 - An earthquake strikes the Italian regions of Umbria and the Marche, causing part of the Basilica of St. Francis at Assisi to collapse.


• 2000 - Anti-globalization protests in Prague (some 20,000 protesters) turned violent during the IMF and World Bank summits.


• 2000 - M/S Express Samina sinks off Paros in the Agean sea killing 80 passengers.


• 2002 - The overcrowded Senegalese ferry MV Joola capsizes off the coast of Gambia killing more than 1,000.

Historical EventsToday: 25 September

Events

• 303 - On a voyage preaching the gospel, Saint Fermin of Pamplona is beheaded in Amiens, France.


• 1066 - The Battle of Stamford Bridge marks the end of the Anglo-Saxon era.


• 1396 - Ottoman Emperor Bayezid I defeats a Christian army at the Battle of Nicopolis.


• 1513 - Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa reached what would be known as the Pacific Ocean.


• 1555 - The Peace of Augsburg is signed in Augsburg by Charles V and the princes of the Schmalkaldic League.


• 1690 - "Publick Occurrences Both Foreign and Domestick", the first newspaper to appear in the Americas, is published for the first and only time.


• 1789 - The U.S. Congress passes twelve amendments to the United States Constitution: the Congressional Apportionment Amendment, the Congressional Compensation Amendment, and the ten that are known as the Bill of Rights. Only the Bill of Rights were ratified at the time, while the other two were proposed by James Madison but not ratified. In 1992, the Congressional Compensation Amendment was ratified as the 27th amendment to the Constitution.


• 1804 - The Teton Sioux (a subdivision of the Lakota) demand one of the boats from the Lewis and Clark Expedition as a toll for moving further upriver.


• 1846 - U.S. forces led by Zachary Taylor captured the Mexican city of Monterrey.


• 1868 - The Imperial Russian steam frigate Alexander Neuski shipwrecks off Jutland while carrying Grand Duke Alexei of Russia.


• 1906 - In the presence of the king and before a great crowd, Leonardo Torres Quevedo successfully demonstrates the invention of the Telekino in the port of Bilbao, guiding a boat from the shore, in what is considered the birth of the Remote control.


• 1911 - Ground is broken for Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts.


• 1912 - Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York, New York.


• 1915 - The Second Battle of Champagne begins.


• 1929 - Jimmy Doolittle performs the first blind flight from Mitchel Field proving that full Instrument Flying from take off to landing is possible.


• 1944 - Surviving elements of the British 1st Airborne Division withdraw from Arnhem in the Netherlands, thus ending Operation Market Garden.


• 1955 - The Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded.


• 1957 - Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated through the use of United States Army troops.


• 1959 - Solomon Bandaranaike, prime minister of Sri Lanka is mortally wounded by a Buddhist monk, Talduwe Somarama, and dies the next day.


• 1962 - The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria is formally proclaimed. Ferhat Abbas is elected President of the provisional government.


• 1970 - Cease-fire between Jordan and the fedayeen ends fighting triggered by four hijackings on September 6 and 9.


• 1972 - In the Norwegian EC referendum, 1972, the people of Norway reject membership.


• 1978 - PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727-214, collides in mid-air with a Cessna 172 and crashes in San Diego, California, resulting in the deaths of 144 people.


• 1980 - The first congress of the Democratic Youth Organization of Afghanistan held in Kabul.


• 1981 - Sandra Day O'Connor was the 102nd Justice sworn in as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, the first woman to hold the office.


• 1983 - Maze Prison escape. 38 republican prisoners, armed with 6 handguns, hijacked a prison meals lorry and smashed their way out of HMP Maze. The largest prison escape since WWII and in British history.


• 1996 - The last of the Magdalen Asylums closes in Ireland.


• 1997 - Wing Commander Andy Green, OBE (RAF) establishes the world Land Speed Record at Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah in the ThrustSSC jet-powered car, and becomes the first man to break the speed of sound on land.


• 2002 - The Vitim event, a possible bolide impact in Siberia, Russia.


• 2003 - A magnitude-8.0 earthquake strikes just offshore of Hokkaidō, Japan.


• 2005 - E1 Train Disaster