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2005: Installation of Pope Benedict XVI.On this day in 2005, Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger), successor to John Paul II, formally assumed his position as the new leader of the Roman Catholic Church during a mass in St. Peter's Square in Vatican City.More events on this day2003:Officials of North Korea informed U.S. diplomats that it had nuclear weapons and was making bomb-grade plutonium. |
1967:Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov became the first man to die during a space mission when his spacecraft became entangled in its parachute during an attempted landing. |
1949:Communist forces occupied the Chinese capital, Nanking (Nanjing), after crossing the Yangtze River virtually unopposed by adherents to the Nationalist government under President Chiang Kai-shek. |
1916:Members of the Irish Volunteers and the Irish Citizen Army seized strategic points in Dublin during the Easter Rising, which heralded the end of British power in Ireland. |
1904:Painter Willem de Kooning, one of the leading exponents of Abstract Expressionism, was born in Rotterdam, Netherlands. |
1898:Spain declared war on the United States. |
1877:War broke out between Russia and the Ottoman Empire at the conclusion of the Serbo-Turkish War, resulting in independence for Serbia and Montenegro. |
1792:French army officer Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle composed
"La Marseillaise,"
the French national anthem. |
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