Sinking of the SS Utopia
- 455 – After arranging for the assassination of Valentinian III, Petronius Maximus seized the throne of the Western Roman Empire, only to be killed 11 weeks later during the sack of Rome.
- 1860 – The First Taranaki War began at Waitara, New Zealand, marking an important phase of the New Zealand land wars.
- 1891 – The transatlantic steamship SS Utopia accidentally collided with the battleship HMS Anson in the Bay of Gibraltar, sinking in less than twenty minutes (pictured) and killing 562.
- 1950 – The synthesis of californium, a radioactive transuranium element, was announced.
- 1991 – Nearly 70% of voters in nine Soviet republics agreed that the Soviet Union should be preserved in the Soviet Union referendum.
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