1534 - Turkish admiral Chaireddin "Barbarossa" occupies Tunis 1619 - Slavery begins in America: 1st known African Americans (approx. 20) land at Point Comfort (Fort Monroe), Virginia before being sold or traded into servitude 1648 - Battle of Lens: French Duc d'Enghien defeats Spaniards 1795 - Joseph Haydn returns to Vienna from England 1913 - 1st pilot to parachute from an aircraft (Adolphe Pégoud, France) 1962 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR 1974 - Nelson Rockefeller is selected as US Vice President by President Gerald Ford 1980 - UN Security Council condemns (14-0, US abstains) Israeli declaration that all of Jerusalem is its capital 1998 - The Supreme Court of Canada rules that Quebec cannot legally secede from Canada without the federal government's approval. 2018 - Polish immigrant and former volunteer Nazi guard Jakiw Palij (95) is deported from the US in New York to Germany More Historical Events »