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This random day in history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_20
This Day in History
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I'd really prefer an executive summary of the wiki page. What were the stand-out events for you?
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This so much, so here goes:Great Bights Mum:
1472: the isles of the Orkneys and the Shetlands are ceded to Scotland by Norway as security for the payment of the dowry for Margaret of Denmark to the Scottish King James III. The dowry would never be paid so the isles would default to Scotland, thus ending Scandinavian presence in the British isles since the first raid on Lindisfarne in 793 AD.
1547: Edward VI, son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour, is crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey. Edward is a first Protestant monarch of England and, despite a brief interlude when his elder sister Mary I succeeds him, marks a final divorce between the Church of England and the Roman Catholic Church.
1846: Polish insurgents launch an unsuccessful uprising in and around the free city of Krakow, then in the Austrian Empire's sphere of influence. Whilst the uprising failed, it helped to trigger both the abolition of serfdom in the Austrian Empire (of which Krakow now found itself part of) and also revived the idea of the Polish nation, helping to fuel a secessionist movement that would last well into the 20th century.
1933: At a secret meeting with leading German industrialists, Adolf Hitler manages to raise over two million Reichsmarks to fund the Nazi Party's upcoming election campaign. Among those who met with Hitler were representatives of companies such as steelmaker Krupp AG, automobile company Adam Opel AG, insurance giant Allianz, oil and gas company Wintershall, engineering conglomerate Siemens and electric company AEG.
1962: John Glenn, aboard Friendship 7, becomes the first American to orbit the Earth. This was part of Project Mercury launched by the US Air Force and later taken over by NASA.
1986: The Soviet Union launches the Mir spacecraft. Mir would stay in orbit over the Earth for the next 15 years and took ten years to assembly, finally being completed in 1996.
1988: The Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast votes to secede from Azerbaijan and join Armenia. Azerbaijan would reject the results of the vote and trigger the Nagorno-Karabakh War with Armenia. The war resulted in an Armenian victory, with the enclave controlled entirely by Armenia - along with almost 9% of Azerbaijani territory outside of the Oblast. The war also demonstrated the strength of the Armenian expatriate community within America, which successfully lobbied the US Congress to ban all military aid to Azerbaijan in 1992.
1991: Protesters in the Albanian capital of Tirana bring down a massive statue of Enver Hoxha, during the fall of Communist Albania as part of the wider end of the Cold War and de-establishment of the Eastern Bloc.
2005: Spain becomes the first EU nation to ratify the proposed Constitution of the European Union, passing the treaty by a wide margin.
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Your also forgetting that DisneyLand Florida was founded today 60 years ago
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February 22nd:
1371: Robert II ascends to the throne of Scotland as the first Stewart monarch, succeeding David Bruce, the only surviving son of Robert the Bruce, and ending the Bruce Royal Line.
1495: Charles VIII of France enters Naples and claims the throne of that state that had been left to his father Louis XI by Rene of Naples. Although he would lose all the land his army gained in Italy to a coalition formed by the Pope called the League of Venice by 1498, this would start a period of history known as the Italian Wars, which would last well into the next century.
1632: Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is published. The book, dedicated to his patron Ferdinando II de Medici, the Grand Duke of Tuscany, is a comparison of the Copernican system - which Galileo supports - with the traditionalist Ptolemaic system. The book would be banned in 1633 and added to the Papal Index of Forbidden Books, despite originally being licensed by the Inquisition.
1797: The last invasion of mainland Britain occurs during the French Revolution. A force of around 1500 French troops land at Fishguard, Wales, but would be defeated and surrender by February 24th. The following year, another French force would land in Ireland, to support a rebellion there, with limited success.
1819: Spain sells Florida to the United States of America for 5 million dollars.
1821: The Greek War of Independence begins as Alexander Ypsilantis crosses into the Danubian Principalities. The war would eventually see a Greece independent from Ottoman rule for the first time in more than 400 years.
1848: The Revolution of 1848 begins, forcing the abdication of Louis-Phillipe, the last Bourbon monarch of France. The Revolution would lead to the Second French Republic, led by Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, who would eventually coup the Second Republic, launching the Second French Empire as Napoleon III.
1958: Egypt under Nasser and the Republic of Syria merge to form the short lived United Arab Republic. The UAR would schism in 1961, however Egypt would continue to be known by the name into 1970s.
1980: The Miracle on Ice: The US defeat the Soviet Union in ice hockey at the 1980 Winter Olympic Games in New York. The Soviet team had won gold in 6 of the previous 7 Winter Olympic games prior to the US victory.
1986: The Yellow Revolution, also known as the People Power Revolution, started in the Philippine capital of Manila. The Revolution would result in the end of the over 20 year rule of President Ferdinand Marcos and the restoration of Philippine democracy.
1997: Researchers in Scotland announce that they have successfully cloned a sheep. Dolly, the first mammal to be cloned from an adult somatic cell, was named after Dolly Parton and lived until 2003.
2006: The Securitas Depot Robbery in the UK takes place. The largest cash robbery in UK history, 6 men abducted the family of the depot manager, tied up 14 staff members and stole more than £53 million ($92.5 million). £21 million of the stolen money has been recovered, leaving £32 million outstanding.
1371: Robert II ascends to the throne of Scotland as the first Stewart monarch, succeeding David Bruce, the only surviving son of Robert the Bruce, and ending the Bruce Royal Line.
1495: Charles VIII of France enters Naples and claims the throne of that state that had been left to his father Louis XI by Rene of Naples. Although he would lose all the land his army gained in Italy to a coalition formed by the Pope called the League of Venice by 1498, this would start a period of history known as the Italian Wars, which would last well into the next century.
1632: Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is published. The book, dedicated to his patron Ferdinando II de Medici, the Grand Duke of Tuscany, is a comparison of the Copernican system - which Galileo supports - with the traditionalist Ptolemaic system. The book would be banned in 1633 and added to the Papal Index of Forbidden Books, despite originally being licensed by the Inquisition.
1797: The last invasion of mainland Britain occurs during the French Revolution. A force of around 1500 French troops land at Fishguard, Wales, but would be defeated and surrender by February 24th. The following year, another French force would land in Ireland, to support a rebellion there, with limited success.
1819: Spain sells Florida to the United States of America for 5 million dollars.
1821: The Greek War of Independence begins as Alexander Ypsilantis crosses into the Danubian Principalities. The war would eventually see a Greece independent from Ottoman rule for the first time in more than 400 years.
1848: The Revolution of 1848 begins, forcing the abdication of Louis-Phillipe, the last Bourbon monarch of France. The Revolution would lead to the Second French Republic, led by Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, who would eventually coup the Second Republic, launching the Second French Empire as Napoleon III.
1958: Egypt under Nasser and the Republic of Syria merge to form the short lived United Arab Republic. The UAR would schism in 1961, however Egypt would continue to be known by the name into 1970s.
1980: The Miracle on Ice: The US defeat the Soviet Union in ice hockey at the 1980 Winter Olympic Games in New York. The Soviet team had won gold in 6 of the previous 7 Winter Olympic games prior to the US victory.
1986: The Yellow Revolution, also known as the People Power Revolution, started in the Philippine capital of Manila. The Revolution would result in the end of the over 20 year rule of President Ferdinand Marcos and the restoration of Philippine democracy.
1997: Researchers in Scotland announce that they have successfully cloned a sheep. Dolly, the first mammal to be cloned from an adult somatic cell, was named after Dolly Parton and lived until 2003.
2006: The Securitas Depot Robbery in the UK takes place. The largest cash robbery in UK history, 6 men abducted the family of the depot manager, tied up 14 staff members and stole more than £53 million ($92.5 million). £21 million of the stolen money has been recovered, leaving £32 million outstanding.
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February 24th:
303: Galerius begins the last great persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire. This would end by 313 with the proclamation of the Edict of Milan, which declared tolerance for Christianity. One of Galerius's successors - and key figure in the Edict of Milan, was Constantine the Great, who would unite the Empire and make Christianity its official religion by 324.
1303: The Battle of Roslin, in the First War of Scottish Independence, results in a victory for Scottish forces under John III Comyn, Guardian of Scotland.
1525: The Battle of Pavia is fought, with the French army of Francis I Valois being defeated by a combined Spanish-Imperial army led by Charles de Lannoy. The French army was obliterated, with Francis himself taken prisoner and forced to sign the Treaty of Madrid, which ceded all of Lombardy to the Hapsburgs.
1582: Pope Gregory XIII establishes the Gregorian Calendar, replacing the Roman-era Julian Calendar in Catholic Europe.
1739: The Persian Shah Nader defeats a numerically superior Indian Mughal Empire army at the Battle of Karnal. Nader would go on to sack the Mughal capital of Delhi, carrying away such a vast fortune that he would later issue a decree abolishing taxes for a period of three years. Karnal decisively weakened the Mughal Empire, making European colonisation of India a much easier task than it otherwise would've been.
1862: Andrew Johnson becomes the first President of the United States to be impeached by the House of Representatives. He would later be acquitted in the US Senate.
1917: The US Ambassador to the United Kingdom is given the Zimmerman telegram, in which Germany promises the return of New Mexico, Texas and Arizona to Mexico if Mexico declares war on the United States.
1920: The Nazi Party is founded.
1968: South Vietnamese forces, backed by US-led international troops, halt the Tet Offensive by the Vietcong. The ancient Vietnamese city of Hue is recaptured.
1989: Supreme Ayatollah Khomeini offers a $3 million bounty for the death of Salman Rushdie.
2008: 32 years to the day that the current constitution of Cuba is declared, Cuban dictator Fidel Castro retires, leaving power to his brother Raul.
303: Galerius begins the last great persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire. This would end by 313 with the proclamation of the Edict of Milan, which declared tolerance for Christianity. One of Galerius's successors - and key figure in the Edict of Milan, was Constantine the Great, who would unite the Empire and make Christianity its official religion by 324.
1303: The Battle of Roslin, in the First War of Scottish Independence, results in a victory for Scottish forces under John III Comyn, Guardian of Scotland.
1525: The Battle of Pavia is fought, with the French army of Francis I Valois being defeated by a combined Spanish-Imperial army led by Charles de Lannoy. The French army was obliterated, with Francis himself taken prisoner and forced to sign the Treaty of Madrid, which ceded all of Lombardy to the Hapsburgs.
1582: Pope Gregory XIII establishes the Gregorian Calendar, replacing the Roman-era Julian Calendar in Catholic Europe.
1739: The Persian Shah Nader defeats a numerically superior Indian Mughal Empire army at the Battle of Karnal. Nader would go on to sack the Mughal capital of Delhi, carrying away such a vast fortune that he would later issue a decree abolishing taxes for a period of three years. Karnal decisively weakened the Mughal Empire, making European colonisation of India a much easier task than it otherwise would've been.
1862: Andrew Johnson becomes the first President of the United States to be impeached by the House of Representatives. He would later be acquitted in the US Senate.
1917: The US Ambassador to the United Kingdom is given the Zimmerman telegram, in which Germany promises the return of New Mexico, Texas and Arizona to Mexico if Mexico declares war on the United States.
1920: The Nazi Party is founded.
1968: South Vietnamese forces, backed by US-led international troops, halt the Tet Offensive by the Vietcong. The ancient Vietnamese city of Hue is recaptured.
1989: Supreme Ayatollah Khomeini offers a $3 million bounty for the death of Salman Rushdie.
2008: 32 years to the day that the current constitution of Cuba is declared, Cuban dictator Fidel Castro retires, leaving power to his brother Raul.
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380: The Edict of Thessalonica requires all Roman subjects to convert to Nicene Christianity. The Edict was an attempt to establish an Empire-wide Orthodoxy by Roman Emperors and end the strife caused by the rivalry between Nicene and Arian Christianity. This would mark the beginning of a period of persecution of non-Nicene sects, including Arianism, Macedonian and Novatianism.
1560: The English Crown signs the Treaty of Berwick with the Scottish Lords of Congregation, expelling the French from Scotland - along with the Regent Mary Guise - and bringing into effect the Scottish Reformation, although strife between the Protestant camp of the Earl of Moray and Catholics loyal to Mary, Queen of Scots would continue for the rest of her reign - even whilst she was imprisoned in England by Elizabeth I.
1594: The Protestant King of Naverre Henry III, ascends to the French throne, becoming Henry IV, after the assassination of Henry III of France by a Catholic monk. Henry IV would soon convert to Catholicism, but his ascension marked a turning point in the French Wars of Religion, and would lead to an eventual peace between the Catholic and Huguenots.
1782: The House of Commons of the UK Parliament votes against further attempts to recover the Thirteen Provinces and to instead start to pursue attempts at a peaceful settlement to the American War of Independence.
1900: The UK Labour Party is founded, as is Bayern Munich Football Club.
1922: The Supreme Court of the United States denies a challenge to the Nineteenth Amendment of the US Constitution.
1933: The German parliament building, the Reichstag, burns to the ground. Local communists are blamed by the Nazi Party which uses the fire to sideline communist parties in Germany, hastening the fall of the Weimar Republic and bring about the rise of the Nazi state.
1943: The Rosenstrasee Protest: non-Jewish wives and relatives of 1,800 imprisoned Jewish men protest outside the Rosenstraße welfare office in Berlin.
1963: On the day it celebrates its 119th year since independence from Haiti, the Dominican Republic's first democratically elected President since the end of the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo, is sworn in.
1964: Italy asks for international assistance in preventing the Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling over.
1976: The former Spanish territory of Western Sahara declares independence, starting a conflict with Mauritania (until 1979) and Morocco that runs to this day.
1988: The Armenian community in Sumgait, Azerbaijan, is attacked in the Sumgait Pogrom, in the early stages of the Nagorno-Karabakh War.
1991: US President George H W Bush declares that Kuwait has been liberated by coalition forces fighting against Saddam Hussein's Iraq.
2002: A mob of around 2,000 Muslims attack and burn a train carrying Hindu pilgrims in the Godhra train burning. In response, rioting by local Hindus would result in the deaths of several hundred Muslims.
2004: Abu Sayyaf commit the Philippines worst ever terrorist attack, bombing SuperFerry 14 and killing 116 people.
1560: The English Crown signs the Treaty of Berwick with the Scottish Lords of Congregation, expelling the French from Scotland - along with the Regent Mary Guise - and bringing into effect the Scottish Reformation, although strife between the Protestant camp of the Earl of Moray and Catholics loyal to Mary, Queen of Scots would continue for the rest of her reign - even whilst she was imprisoned in England by Elizabeth I.
1594: The Protestant King of Naverre Henry III, ascends to the French throne, becoming Henry IV, after the assassination of Henry III of France by a Catholic monk. Henry IV would soon convert to Catholicism, but his ascension marked a turning point in the French Wars of Religion, and would lead to an eventual peace between the Catholic and Huguenots.
1782: The House of Commons of the UK Parliament votes against further attempts to recover the Thirteen Provinces and to instead start to pursue attempts at a peaceful settlement to the American War of Independence.
1900: The UK Labour Party is founded, as is Bayern Munich Football Club.
1922: The Supreme Court of the United States denies a challenge to the Nineteenth Amendment of the US Constitution.
1933: The German parliament building, the Reichstag, burns to the ground. Local communists are blamed by the Nazi Party which uses the fire to sideline communist parties in Germany, hastening the fall of the Weimar Republic and bring about the rise of the Nazi state.
1943: The Rosenstrasee Protest: non-Jewish wives and relatives of 1,800 imprisoned Jewish men protest outside the Rosenstraße welfare office in Berlin.
1963: On the day it celebrates its 119th year since independence from Haiti, the Dominican Republic's first democratically elected President since the end of the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo, is sworn in.
1964: Italy asks for international assistance in preventing the Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling over.
1976: The former Spanish territory of Western Sahara declares independence, starting a conflict with Mauritania (until 1979) and Morocco that runs to this day.
1988: The Armenian community in Sumgait, Azerbaijan, is attacked in the Sumgait Pogrom, in the early stages of the Nagorno-Karabakh War.
1991: US President George H W Bush declares that Kuwait has been liberated by coalition forces fighting against Saddam Hussein's Iraq.
2002: A mob of around 2,000 Muslims attack and burn a train carrying Hindu pilgrims in the Godhra train burning. In response, rioting by local Hindus would result in the deaths of several hundred Muslims.
2004: Abu Sayyaf commit the Philippines worst ever terrorist attack, bombing SuperFerry 14 and killing 116 people.
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February 29th:
1644: Abel Tasman begins his second voyage, mapping the northern coastline of Australia. This voyage was largely considered a failure by his backers, the Dutch East India Company, compared to his first, where he discovered Tasmania, New Zealand and on the return voyage the Tongan archipelago.
1796: The Jay Treaty comes into force, allowing for 10 years of peaceful trade between the United States and Great Britain.
1960: Agadir Earthquake: 12,000 people die as a 5.7 magnitude quake rocks southern Morocco.
1992: The Bosnian independence referendum begins. Voting ends the next day with 99.7% of those voting in favour of independence. The Bosnian-Serb population largely boycott the vote, or are prevented from voting by Bosnian-Serb authorities.
2008: Prince Harry is immediately withdrawn from deployment in Afghanistan after German and Australian press break a media blackout over the deployment.
1644: Abel Tasman begins his second voyage, mapping the northern coastline of Australia. This voyage was largely considered a failure by his backers, the Dutch East India Company, compared to his first, where he discovered Tasmania, New Zealand and on the return voyage the Tongan archipelago.
1796: The Jay Treaty comes into force, allowing for 10 years of peaceful trade between the United States and Great Britain.
1960: Agadir Earthquake: 12,000 people die as a 5.7 magnitude quake rocks southern Morocco.
1992: The Bosnian independence referendum begins. Voting ends the next day with 99.7% of those voting in favour of independence. The Bosnian-Serb population largely boycott the vote, or are prevented from voting by Bosnian-Serb authorities.
2008: Prince Harry is immediately withdrawn from deployment in Afghanistan after German and Australian press break a media blackout over the deployment.
March 1:
1642York, Maine becomes the first incorporated American city.
1692Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne and Tituba are arrested for the supposed practice of witchcraft in Salem, Mass.
1776French minister Charles Gravier advises his Spanish counterpart to support the American rebels against the English.
1780Pennsylvania becomes the first U.S. state to abolish slavery.
1803Ohio becomes the 17th state to join the Union.
1808In France, Napoleon creates an imperial nobility.
1815Napoleon lands at Cannes, France, returning from exile on Elba, with a force of 1,500 men and marches on Paris.
1871German troops enter Paris, France, during the Franco-Prussian War.
1875Congress passes the Civil Rights Act, which is invalidated by the Supreme Court in 1883.
1912Albert Berry completes the first in-flight parachute jump, from a Benoist plane over Kinlock Field in St. Louis, Missouri.
1915The Allies announce their aim to cut off all German supplies and assure the safety of the neutrals.
1919The Korean coalition proclaims their independence from Japan.
1921The Allies reject a $7.5 billion reparations offer in London. German delegations decides to quit all talks.
1932The Lindbergh baby is kidnapped from the Lindbergh home near Princeton, New Jersey.
1935Germany officially establishes the Luftwaffe.
1941Bulgaria joins the Axis as the Nazis occupy Sofia.
1942Japanese troops land on Java in the Pacific.
1943The British RAF conducts strategic bombing raids on all European railway lines.
19601,000 Black students pray and sing the national anthem on the steps of the old Confederate Capitol in Montgomery, Ala.
1968Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara is replaced by Clark Clifford.
1969Mickey Mantle announces his retirement from baseball.
1974A grand jury indicts seven of President Nixon‘s aides for the conspiracy on Watergate.
1985The Pentagon accepts the theory that an atomic war would block the sun, causing a “nuclear winter.”
1992Bosnian Serbs begin sniping in Sarajevo, after Croats and Muslims vote for Bosnian independence.
Born on March 1
1810Frédéric Chopin, composer and pianist.
1837William Dean Howells, novelist.
1904Glenn Miller, big band leader during the 1930s and ’40s.
1914Ralph Waldo Ellison, African-American author (Invisible Man).
1917Robert Lowell, Jr., poet, won Pulitzer Prize in 1947 for Lord Weary’s Castle.
1921Richard Wilbur, Pulitzer Prize winning poet and translator.
1921Howard Nemerov, writer, another Pulitzer Prize recipient.
1642York, Maine becomes the first incorporated American city.
1692Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne and Tituba are arrested for the supposed practice of witchcraft in Salem, Mass.
1776French minister Charles Gravier advises his Spanish counterpart to support the American rebels against the English.
1780Pennsylvania becomes the first U.S. state to abolish slavery.
1803Ohio becomes the 17th state to join the Union.
1808In France, Napoleon creates an imperial nobility.
1815Napoleon lands at Cannes, France, returning from exile on Elba, with a force of 1,500 men and marches on Paris.
1871German troops enter Paris, France, during the Franco-Prussian War.
1875Congress passes the Civil Rights Act, which is invalidated by the Supreme Court in 1883.
1912Albert Berry completes the first in-flight parachute jump, from a Benoist plane over Kinlock Field in St. Louis, Missouri.
1915The Allies announce their aim to cut off all German supplies and assure the safety of the neutrals.
1919The Korean coalition proclaims their independence from Japan.
1921The Allies reject a $7.5 billion reparations offer in London. German delegations decides to quit all talks.
1932The Lindbergh baby is kidnapped from the Lindbergh home near Princeton, New Jersey.
1935Germany officially establishes the Luftwaffe.
1941Bulgaria joins the Axis as the Nazis occupy Sofia.
1942Japanese troops land on Java in the Pacific.
1943The British RAF conducts strategic bombing raids on all European railway lines.
19601,000 Black students pray and sing the national anthem on the steps of the old Confederate Capitol in Montgomery, Ala.
1968Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara is replaced by Clark Clifford.
1969Mickey Mantle announces his retirement from baseball.
1974A grand jury indicts seven of President Nixon‘s aides for the conspiracy on Watergate.
1985The Pentagon accepts the theory that an atomic war would block the sun, causing a “nuclear winter.”
1992Bosnian Serbs begin sniping in Sarajevo, after Croats and Muslims vote for Bosnian independence.
Born on March 1
1810Frédéric Chopin, composer and pianist.
1837William Dean Howells, novelist.
1904Glenn Miller, big band leader during the 1930s and ’40s.
1914Ralph Waldo Ellison, African-American author (Invisible Man).
1917Robert Lowell, Jr., poet, won Pulitzer Prize in 1947 for Lord Weary’s Castle.
1921Richard Wilbur, Pulitzer Prize winning poet and translator.
1921Howard Nemerov, writer, another Pulitzer Prize recipient.
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Instead of just copying and pasting from history net, pick out some events and try to explain why they're important - or provide more background. Also use a site that isn't incorrect in a lot of what it says. 
March 1st:
752BCE: Romulus, mythical founder of Rome, celebrates the first Triumph following the Rape of the Sebine Women.
509BCE: The first Triumph of the Roman Republic is held, after the overthrow of Tarquinius, last Roman king. The Roman Republic would last until 27 BC, when Octavian became the first Roman Emperor, known as Augustus.
293 CE: The Emperors Dioletian and Maximian institute the Tetracrhy (Rule of 4) in the Roman Emperor, raising Constantius and Galerius as Caesars. The Tetrarchy would last into the next century but ultimately end with Constantius' son, who would become sole Emperor as Constantine the Great.
1476: The Battle of Toro ends in a stalemate between the forces of the Catholic Monarchs and the Kingdom of Portugal. Whilst winning the field, the Portuguese were unable to prevent Isabella of Castille from further legitimising her claim to the Kingdom, ahead of her half-niece Joanna, Queen of Portugal. The War of Castilian Succession would eventually end in the Peace of Alcáçovas, which would later form the basis of the Papal Bull Aeterni regis, which split the New World between Portugal and the Crown of Castille.
1593: The Uppsala Synod is summoned to confirm the conventions of the Church of Sweden. The Synod - a culmination of the Swedish Reformation and break from Rome in 1520s, led to the banning of all non-Lutheran forms of Christianity in Sweden.
1780: Pennsylvania adopts an act freeing the future children of slaves from bondage. All slaves living at the time were to remain slaves until their death - or 1847 when slavery in Pennsylvania would be officially abolished. Vermont had, in 1777, passed a constitution partially outlawing slavery, but it was an independent republic at the time, and wouldn't join the United States until 1791.
1805: Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Samuel Chase is impeached by the US House of Representatives. His impeachment is supported by President Thomas Jerfferson but despite the US Senate being controlled by the Jeffersonian Democratic-Republicans, Chase is acquitted of all charges. Chase remains the only member to the Supreme Court to be impeached and his acquittal has been heralded as something that ensured the independence of the US Judicial branch.
1815: Napoleon lands at Golfe-Juan, having escaped his exile on Elba. This begins the Hundred Days period of the Napoleonic Wars, culminating in the allies victory at the Battle of Waterloo and Napoleon's permanent exile, this time on St Helena.
1847: Michigan becomes the first US state to abolish capital punishment. Although it had executed several persons whilst under British rule (including time it was de jure an American territory following the Treaty of Paris), Michigan is one of the few states never to have executed anyone after admittance into the Union.
1872: Yellowstone National Park is established, becoming America's first National Park.
1896: Ethiopian victory at the Battle of Adwa over Italian forces brings the Italian Invasion of Ethiopia to an end. The war was a massive blow to Italian colonial ambitions and the defeat at Adwa was an engrained torment to Italian nationalists, leading to the Second Italian Invasion of Ethiopia by Fascist forces under Mussolini in 1935.
1934: Puyi becomes monarch of the Japanese puppet state Manchuria. More commonly known as Henry Pu Yi, was the last Emperor of China.
1936: The Hoover Dam is completed. The Dam, which generates hydroelectric power from the Colorado River, took over 13 years to build and claimed the lives of 112 people during its construction.
1941: Following promises from Hitler that Bulgaria would recover all the land it had lost following World War One if it supported the Axis powers, the Bulgarian Tsar Boris III signs the Tripartite Pact, entering the war on Hitler's side.
1966: The Ba'ath Party takes power in Syria. This, as well as the success of the Ba'ath Party in Iraq would eventually lead to a split in the Ba'ath movement between the Syrian faction led first by Salah Jadid and then later Hafez al-Assad and the Iraqi faction led by Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr (and later Saddam Hussein).
1981: Provisional Irish Republican Army terrorist Bobby Sands begins a hunger strike against conditions in the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland. Sands, and 9 other strikers, would eventually die during the strike, which brought greater publicity - and funding from sources outside of Ireland - to the PIRA.
1990: Steve Jackson Games is raided by the United States Secret Service, who confiscate the manuscript for his role-playing game GURPS Cyberpunk and leading to a successful legal action against the US Federal Government by SJG, aided by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
1998: Titanic becomes the first film to gross over $1 billion worldwide.
2002: The Euro replaces the Peseta as the currency of Spain.
2005: In Roper v. Simmons, the Supreme Court of the United States rules that it is unconstitutional to hand down a death sentence on offences committed under the age of 18. The 5-4 verdict was written by Associate Justice Kennedy, who was joined by Justices Souter, Ginsberg, Stevens and Breyer with Associate Justice Antonin Scalia leading a dissent joined by Chief Justice Rehnquist and Clarence Thomas. Sandra Day O'Conor authored a separate dissent.
March 1st:
752BCE: Romulus, mythical founder of Rome, celebrates the first Triumph following the Rape of the Sebine Women.
509BCE: The first Triumph of the Roman Republic is held, after the overthrow of Tarquinius, last Roman king. The Roman Republic would last until 27 BC, when Octavian became the first Roman Emperor, known as Augustus.
293 CE: The Emperors Dioletian and Maximian institute the Tetracrhy (Rule of 4) in the Roman Emperor, raising Constantius and Galerius as Caesars. The Tetrarchy would last into the next century but ultimately end with Constantius' son, who would become sole Emperor as Constantine the Great.
1476: The Battle of Toro ends in a stalemate between the forces of the Catholic Monarchs and the Kingdom of Portugal. Whilst winning the field, the Portuguese were unable to prevent Isabella of Castille from further legitimising her claim to the Kingdom, ahead of her half-niece Joanna, Queen of Portugal. The War of Castilian Succession would eventually end in the Peace of Alcáçovas, which would later form the basis of the Papal Bull Aeterni regis, which split the New World between Portugal and the Crown of Castille.
1593: The Uppsala Synod is summoned to confirm the conventions of the Church of Sweden. The Synod - a culmination of the Swedish Reformation and break from Rome in 1520s, led to the banning of all non-Lutheran forms of Christianity in Sweden.
1780: Pennsylvania adopts an act freeing the future children of slaves from bondage. All slaves living at the time were to remain slaves until their death - or 1847 when slavery in Pennsylvania would be officially abolished. Vermont had, in 1777, passed a constitution partially outlawing slavery, but it was an independent republic at the time, and wouldn't join the United States until 1791.
1805: Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Samuel Chase is impeached by the US House of Representatives. His impeachment is supported by President Thomas Jerfferson but despite the US Senate being controlled by the Jeffersonian Democratic-Republicans, Chase is acquitted of all charges. Chase remains the only member to the Supreme Court to be impeached and his acquittal has been heralded as something that ensured the independence of the US Judicial branch.
1815: Napoleon lands at Golfe-Juan, having escaped his exile on Elba. This begins the Hundred Days period of the Napoleonic Wars, culminating in the allies victory at the Battle of Waterloo and Napoleon's permanent exile, this time on St Helena.
1847: Michigan becomes the first US state to abolish capital punishment. Although it had executed several persons whilst under British rule (including time it was de jure an American territory following the Treaty of Paris), Michigan is one of the few states never to have executed anyone after admittance into the Union.
1872: Yellowstone National Park is established, becoming America's first National Park.
1896: Ethiopian victory at the Battle of Adwa over Italian forces brings the Italian Invasion of Ethiopia to an end. The war was a massive blow to Italian colonial ambitions and the defeat at Adwa was an engrained torment to Italian nationalists, leading to the Second Italian Invasion of Ethiopia by Fascist forces under Mussolini in 1935.
1934: Puyi becomes monarch of the Japanese puppet state Manchuria. More commonly known as Henry Pu Yi, was the last Emperor of China.
1936: The Hoover Dam is completed. The Dam, which generates hydroelectric power from the Colorado River, took over 13 years to build and claimed the lives of 112 people during its construction.
1941: Following promises from Hitler that Bulgaria would recover all the land it had lost following World War One if it supported the Axis powers, the Bulgarian Tsar Boris III signs the Tripartite Pact, entering the war on Hitler's side.
1966: The Ba'ath Party takes power in Syria. This, as well as the success of the Ba'ath Party in Iraq would eventually lead to a split in the Ba'ath movement between the Syrian faction led first by Salah Jadid and then later Hafez al-Assad and the Iraqi faction led by Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr (and later Saddam Hussein).
1981: Provisional Irish Republican Army terrorist Bobby Sands begins a hunger strike against conditions in the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland. Sands, and 9 other strikers, would eventually die during the strike, which brought greater publicity - and funding from sources outside of Ireland - to the PIRA.
1990: Steve Jackson Games is raided by the United States Secret Service, who confiscate the manuscript for his role-playing game GURPS Cyberpunk and leading to a successful legal action against the US Federal Government by SJG, aided by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
1998: Titanic becomes the first film to gross over $1 billion worldwide.
2002: The Euro replaces the Peseta as the currency of Spain.
2005: In Roper v. Simmons, the Supreme Court of the United States rules that it is unconstitutional to hand down a death sentence on offences committed under the age of 18. The 5-4 verdict was written by Associate Justice Kennedy, who was joined by Justices Souter, Ginsberg, Stevens and Breyer with Associate Justice Antonin Scalia leading a dissent joined by Chief Justice Rehnquist and Clarence Thomas. Sandra Day O'Conor authored a separate dissent.
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March 3rd
724: Empress Gensho abdicates in favour of her young nephew who becomes Emperor Shomo. Empress Gensho was the only empress of Japan to inherit her throne from another Empress. Shomo would reign for 25 years before abdicating in favour of his daughter, becoming a Buddhist monk post-abdication.
1284: The Statute of Rhuddlan incorporates the Principality of Wales as part of the English crown under Edward I. The Statute forms the legal basis for Welsh unification with England until the later Acts of Union.
1799: A combined Russian and Turkish force conquer the French occupied island of Corfu, ending the land portion of the Mediterranean Campaign of the War of the Second Coalition.
1861: Tsar Alexander II of Russia signs a declaration emancipating Russia's serfs. In Georgia, emancipation is delayed until 1864 and state owned serfs are only freed in 1866.
1875: The George Bizet opera Carmen opens in Paris, at the Opera-Comique.
1915: The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics is formed. NACA developed the key research that allowed the Bell X-1 to become the first manned plane to exceed the speed of sound. NACA would eventually turn into NASA, and take a leading role in the space race.
1924: The Ottoman Caliphate is overthrown by Kamal Ataturk, leaving the Islamic world without a caliph for the first time in its history.
1931: The United States adopt the Star Spangled Banner as its national anthem.
1938: Exploration drilling in Saudi Arabia finally yields results: a team for the California Arabian Standard Oil Company strike oil at Damman.
1945: The Battle of Manilla ends in American victory and the restoration of the Philippines Commonwealth.
1980: The world's first nuclear submarine, the USS Nautilius, begins to be decommissioned. The boat today is a museum.
1985: Arthur Scargill declares that the Miners Strike, the longest industrial action in British history, has ended.
1991: Amateur video footage captures members of the LA Police Department beating cab driver Rodney King. The footage and eventual acquittal of the four officers would lead to the 1992 Los Angeles Riots.
2005: Margaret Wilson becomes the Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives, marking the first occasion in world history where all the highest offices of state are occupied by women.
724: Empress Gensho abdicates in favour of her young nephew who becomes Emperor Shomo. Empress Gensho was the only empress of Japan to inherit her throne from another Empress. Shomo would reign for 25 years before abdicating in favour of his daughter, becoming a Buddhist monk post-abdication.
1284: The Statute of Rhuddlan incorporates the Principality of Wales as part of the English crown under Edward I. The Statute forms the legal basis for Welsh unification with England until the later Acts of Union.
1799: A combined Russian and Turkish force conquer the French occupied island of Corfu, ending the land portion of the Mediterranean Campaign of the War of the Second Coalition.
1861: Tsar Alexander II of Russia signs a declaration emancipating Russia's serfs. In Georgia, emancipation is delayed until 1864 and state owned serfs are only freed in 1866.
1875: The George Bizet opera Carmen opens in Paris, at the Opera-Comique.
1915: The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics is formed. NACA developed the key research that allowed the Bell X-1 to become the first manned plane to exceed the speed of sound. NACA would eventually turn into NASA, and take a leading role in the space race.
1924: The Ottoman Caliphate is overthrown by Kamal Ataturk, leaving the Islamic world without a caliph for the first time in its history.
1931: The United States adopt the Star Spangled Banner as its national anthem.
1938: Exploration drilling in Saudi Arabia finally yields results: a team for the California Arabian Standard Oil Company strike oil at Damman.
1945: The Battle of Manilla ends in American victory and the restoration of the Philippines Commonwealth.
1980: The world's first nuclear submarine, the USS Nautilius, begins to be decommissioned. The boat today is a museum.
1985: Arthur Scargill declares that the Miners Strike, the longest industrial action in British history, has ended.
1991: Amateur video footage captures members of the LA Police Department beating cab driver Rodney King. The footage and eventual acquittal of the four officers would lead to the 1992 Los Angeles Riots.
2005: Margaret Wilson becomes the Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives, marking the first occasion in world history where all the highest offices of state are occupied by women.
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March 5th:
1496: Italian explorer John Cabot and his three sons are granted letters patent by Henry VII of England to explore new lands. Cabots' expeditions to mainland North America are the first of any Europeans since the Vikings.
1811: A British division defeats a numerically superior French force at the Battle of Barrosa. The French had initiated the battle in an attempt to break the combined Anglo-Spanish-Portuguese Siege of Cadiz, and resulted in the defeat of the two French divisions, and the loss of a French Imperial Eagle.
1836: Samuel Colt patents the first production-model revolver, the .34-calibre.
1933: The Nazi Party wins 43% of seats in the Reichstag elections, bringing Adolf Hitler to power.
1936: The Supermarine Spitfire flies for the first time. The Spitfire would become considered one of the most iconic war planes of all time.
1946: Winston Churchill coins the term "Iron Curtain" in a speech in Missouri.
1970: The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty goes into effect, ratified by 43 nations, including both the Soviet Union and United States.
1981: The Sinclair ZX81 is launched. The British home computer would go on to sell more than 1.5 million units worldwide.
1982: Just over 16 years after Venera 3 became the first man made object to crash-land on Venus, the Soviet probe Venera 14 lands on Venus. It survives 57 minutes in an environment with a temperature of 465 °C (869 °F) and a pressure of 94 Earth atmospheres.
1984: 6,000 miners employed at Cortonwood Colliery go on strike after the British National Coal Board announce that the Yorkshire based pit is to close. The industrial action signals the beginning of the almost year long Miners Strike of 1984-85, which would end with the National Union of Miners admitting defeat, and with the widescale privitisation and eventual closure of all of Britain's coal mines.
1998: The first Winter Paralympics outside of Europe is held at Nagano, Japan.
2012: Invisible Children launches the Stop Kony 2012 campaign with their short film entitled Kony 2012. It is an effort to get the Ugandan Lords Resistance Army leader Joseph Kony arrested by the end of 2012. The campaign garners praise from across the world although it is criticised for oversimplifying the origins of the conflict in Ugandan and also the strength and whereabouts of Kony's forces.
1496: Italian explorer John Cabot and his three sons are granted letters patent by Henry VII of England to explore new lands. Cabots' expeditions to mainland North America are the first of any Europeans since the Vikings.
1811: A British division defeats a numerically superior French force at the Battle of Barrosa. The French had initiated the battle in an attempt to break the combined Anglo-Spanish-Portuguese Siege of Cadiz, and resulted in the defeat of the two French divisions, and the loss of a French Imperial Eagle.
1836: Samuel Colt patents the first production-model revolver, the .34-calibre.
1933: The Nazi Party wins 43% of seats in the Reichstag elections, bringing Adolf Hitler to power.
1936: The Supermarine Spitfire flies for the first time. The Spitfire would become considered one of the most iconic war planes of all time.
1946: Winston Churchill coins the term "Iron Curtain" in a speech in Missouri.
1970: The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty goes into effect, ratified by 43 nations, including both the Soviet Union and United States.
1981: The Sinclair ZX81 is launched. The British home computer would go on to sell more than 1.5 million units worldwide.
1982: Just over 16 years after Venera 3 became the first man made object to crash-land on Venus, the Soviet probe Venera 14 lands on Venus. It survives 57 minutes in an environment with a temperature of 465 °C (869 °F) and a pressure of 94 Earth atmospheres.
1984: 6,000 miners employed at Cortonwood Colliery go on strike after the British National Coal Board announce that the Yorkshire based pit is to close. The industrial action signals the beginning of the almost year long Miners Strike of 1984-85, which would end with the National Union of Miners admitting defeat, and with the widescale privitisation and eventual closure of all of Britain's coal mines.
1998: The first Winter Paralympics outside of Europe is held at Nagano, Japan.
2012: Invisible Children launches the Stop Kony 2012 campaign with their short film entitled Kony 2012. It is an effort to get the Ugandan Lords Resistance Army leader Joseph Kony arrested by the end of 2012. The campaign garners praise from across the world although it is criticised for oversimplifying the origins of the conflict in Ugandan and also the strength and whereabouts of Kony's forces.
418 - Pope Boniface I is elected.
457 - Majorian is acclaimed emperor of the Western Roman Empire and recognized by Emperor Leo I the Thracian.
484 - Alaric II succeeds his father Euric and becomes king of the Visigoths. He establishes his capital at Aire-sur-l'Adour (Southern Gaul).
893 - An earthquake destroys the city of Dvin, Armenia.
1065 - Westminster Abbey is consecrated.
1308 - The reign of Emperor Hanazono of Japan begins.
1768 - King Taksin's coronation achieved through conquest as a king of Thailand and established Thonburi as a capital.
1795 - Construction of Yonge Street, formerly recognized as the longest street in the world, begins in York, Upper Canada (present-day Toronto).
1832 - John C. Calhoun becomes the first Vice President of the United States to resign.
1835 - Osceola leads his Seminole warriors in Florida into the Second Seminole War against the United States Army.
1836 - South Australia and Adelaide are founded.
1836 - Spain recognizes the independence of Mexico with the signing of the Santa María–Calatrava Treaty.
1846 - Iowa is admitted as the 29th U.S. state.
1867 - United States claims Midway Atoll, the first territory annexed outside Continental limits.
1879 - Tay Bridge disaster: The central part of the Tay Rail Bridge in Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom collapses as a train passes over it, killing 75.
1885 - Indian National Congress, a political party of India is founded in Bombay Presidency, British India
.
1895 - The Lumière brothers perform for their first paying audience at the Grand Cafe in Boulevard des Capucines.
1895 - Wilhelm Röntgen publishes a paper detailing his discovery of a new type of radiation, which later will be known as x-rays.
1902 - The Syracuse Athletic Club defeated the New York Philadelphians, 5–0, in the first indoor professional football game, which was held at Madison Square Garden.
1908 - The 7.1 Mw Messina earthquake shakes Southern Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing between 75,000 and 200,000.
1912 - The first municipally owned streetcars take to the streets in San Francisco.
1918 - Constance Markievicz, while detained in Holloway prison, became the first woman to be elected MP to the British House of Commons.
1941 - World War II: Operation Anthropoid, the plot to assassinate high-ranking Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich, commences.
1943 - World War II: After eight days of brutal house-to-house fighting, the Battle of Ortona concludes with the victory of the 1st Canadian Infantry Division over the German 1st Parachute Division and the capture of the Italian town of Ortona.
1944 - Maurice Richard becomes the first player to score eight points in one game of NHL ice hockey.
1948 - The DC-3 airliner NC16002 disappears 50 miles south of Miami.
1956 - Chin Peng, David Marshall and Tunku Abdul Rahman meet in Baling, Malaya to try and resolve the Malayan Emergency situation.
1958 - "Greatest Game Ever Played": Baltimore Colts defeat the New York Giants in the first ever National Football League sudden death overtime game at New York's Yankee Stadium.
1973 - The Endangered Species Act is passed in the United States.
1989 - A magnitude 5.6 earthquake hits Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, killing 13 people.
2006 - War in Somalia: The militaries of Somalia's Transitional Federal Government and Ethiopian troops capture Mogadishu unopposed.
2009 - Forty-three people die in a suicide bombing in Karachi, Pakistan, where Shia Muslims are observing the Day of Ashura.
2014 - Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 crashes into the Karimata Strait en route from Surabaya to Singapore, killing all 162 people aboard.
2014 - Nine people die and another 19 are reported missing, when the MS Norman Atlantic catches fire in the Strait of Otranto, in the Adriatic Sea, in Italian waters.
457 - Majorian is acclaimed emperor of the Western Roman Empire and recognized by Emperor Leo I the Thracian.
484 - Alaric II succeeds his father Euric and becomes king of the Visigoths. He establishes his capital at Aire-sur-l'Adour (Southern Gaul).
893 - An earthquake destroys the city of Dvin, Armenia.
1065 - Westminster Abbey is consecrated.
1308 - The reign of Emperor Hanazono of Japan begins.
1768 - King Taksin's coronation achieved through conquest as a king of Thailand and established Thonburi as a capital.
1795 - Construction of Yonge Street, formerly recognized as the longest street in the world, begins in York, Upper Canada (present-day Toronto).
1832 - John C. Calhoun becomes the first Vice President of the United States to resign.
1835 - Osceola leads his Seminole warriors in Florida into the Second Seminole War against the United States Army.
1836 - South Australia and Adelaide are founded.
1836 - Spain recognizes the independence of Mexico with the signing of the Santa María–Calatrava Treaty.
1846 - Iowa is admitted as the 29th U.S. state.
1867 - United States claims Midway Atoll, the first territory annexed outside Continental limits.
1879 - Tay Bridge disaster: The central part of the Tay Rail Bridge in Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom collapses as a train passes over it, killing 75.
1885 - Indian National Congress, a political party of India is founded in Bombay Presidency, British India
.
1895 - The Lumière brothers perform for their first paying audience at the Grand Cafe in Boulevard des Capucines.
1895 - Wilhelm Röntgen publishes a paper detailing his discovery of a new type of radiation, which later will be known as x-rays.
1902 - The Syracuse Athletic Club defeated the New York Philadelphians, 5–0, in the first indoor professional football game, which was held at Madison Square Garden.
1908 - The 7.1 Mw Messina earthquake shakes Southern Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing between 75,000 and 200,000.
1912 - The first municipally owned streetcars take to the streets in San Francisco.
1918 - Constance Markievicz, while detained in Holloway prison, became the first woman to be elected MP to the British House of Commons.
1941 - World War II: Operation Anthropoid, the plot to assassinate high-ranking Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich, commences.
1943 - World War II: After eight days of brutal house-to-house fighting, the Battle of Ortona concludes with the victory of the 1st Canadian Infantry Division over the German 1st Parachute Division and the capture of the Italian town of Ortona.
1944 - Maurice Richard becomes the first player to score eight points in one game of NHL ice hockey.
1948 - The DC-3 airliner NC16002 disappears 50 miles south of Miami.
1956 - Chin Peng, David Marshall and Tunku Abdul Rahman meet in Baling, Malaya to try and resolve the Malayan Emergency situation.
1958 - "Greatest Game Ever Played": Baltimore Colts defeat the New York Giants in the first ever National Football League sudden death overtime game at New York's Yankee Stadium.
1973 - The Endangered Species Act is passed in the United States.
1989 - A magnitude 5.6 earthquake hits Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, killing 13 people.
2006 - War in Somalia: The militaries of Somalia's Transitional Federal Government and Ethiopian troops capture Mogadishu unopposed.
2009 - Forty-three people die in a suicide bombing in Karachi, Pakistan, where Shia Muslims are observing the Day of Ashura.
2014 - Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 crashes into the Karimata Strait en route from Surabaya to Singapore, killing all 162 people aboard.
2014 - Nine people die and another 19 are reported missing, when the MS Norman Atlantic catches fire in the Strait of Otranto, in the Adriatic Sea, in Italian waters.
1521 - Pope Leo X excommunicates Martin Luther in the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem.
1653 - By the Coonan Cross Oath, the Eastern Church in India cuts itself off from colonial Portuguese tutelage.
1749 - Benning Wentworth issues the first of the New Hampshire Grants, leading to the establishment of Vermont.
1749 - The first issue of Berlingske, Denmark's oldest continually operating newspaper, is published.
1777 - American General George Washington defeats British General Lord Cornwallis at the Battle of Princeton.
1815 - Austria, the United Kingdom, and France form a secret defensive alliance against Prussia and Russia.
1823 - Stephen F. Austin receives a grant of land in Texas from the government of Mexico.
1848 - Joseph Jenkins Roberts is sworn in as the first president of Liberia.
1861 - American Civil War: Delaware votes not to secede from the United States.
1868 - Meiji Restoration in Japan: The Tokugawa shogunate is abolished; agents of Satsuma and Ch?sh? seize power.
1870 - Construction of the Brooklyn Bridge begins.
1871 - Battle of Bapaume, a battle in the Franco-Prussian war occurs.
1885 - Sino-French War: Beginning of the Battle of Núi Bop.
1888 - The James Lick telescope at the Lick Observatory, measuring 91 cm in diameter, is used for the first time. It was the largest refracting telescope in the world at the time.
1911 - A magnitude 7.7 earthquake destroys the city of Almaty in Russian Turkestan.
1911 - A gun battle in the East End of London left two dead and sparked a political row over the involvement of then-Home Secretary Winston Churchill.
1913 - An Atlantic coast storm sets the lowest confirmed barometric pressure reading for a non-tropical system in the continental United States.
1919 - At the Paris Peace Conference, Emir Faisal I of Iraq signs an agreement with Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann on the development of a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
1925 - Benito Mussolini announces he is taking dictatorial powers over Italy.
1932 - Martial law is declared in Honduras to stop a revolt by banana workers fired by the United Fruit Company.
1933 - Minnie D. Craig becomes the first woman elected as Speaker of the North Dakota House of Representatives, the first woman to hold a Speaker position anywhere in the United States.
1938 - The March of Dimes is established as a foundation to combat infant polio by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1944 - World War II: Top Ace Major Greg "Pappy" Boyington is shot down in his Vought F4U Corsair by Captain Masajiro Kawato flying a Mitsubishi A6M Zero.
1945 - World War II: Admiral Chester W. Nimitz is placed in command of all U.S. Naval forces in preparation for planned assaults against Iwo Jima and Okinawa in Japan.
1946 - Popular Canadian American jockey George Woolf dies in a freak accident during a race; the annual George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award is created to honor him.
1947 - Proceedings of the U.S. Congress are televised for the first time.
1949 - The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, the central bank of the Philippines, is established.
1953 - Frances P. Bolton and her son, Oliver from Ohio, become the first mother and son to serve simultaneously in the U.S. Congress.
1956 - A fire damages the top part of the Eiffel Tower.
1957 - The Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch.
1958 - The West Indies Federation is formed.
1959 - Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. state.
1961 - The United States severs diplomatic relations with Cuba over the latter's nationalization of American assets.
1961 - The SL-1 nuclear reactor is destroyed by a steam explosion in the only reactor incident in the United States to cause immediate fatalities.
1961 - A protest by agricultural workers in Baixa de Cassanje, Portuguese Angola, turns into a revolt, opening the Angolan War of Independence, the first of the Portuguese Colonial Wars.
1962 - Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro.
1976 - International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights entered into force.
1977 - Apple Computer is incorporated.
1990 - Manuel Noriega, former leader of Panama, surrenders to American forces.
1993 - In Moscow, Russia, George Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).
1994 - More than seven million people from the former apartheid Homelands receive South African citizenship.
1999 - The Mars Polar Lander is launched by NASA.
2000 - Final daily edition of the Peanuts comic strip.
2002 - Israeli forces seize the Palestinian freighter Karine A in the Red Sea, finding 50 tons of weapons.
2004 - Flash Airlines Flight 604 crashes into the Red Sea, resulting in 148 deaths, making it one of the deadliest aviation accidents in Egyptian history.
2009 - The first block of the blockchain of the decentralized payment system Bitcoin, called the Genesis block, was established by the creator of the system, Satoshi Nakamoto.
2015 - Boko Haram militants raze the entire town of Baga in north-east Nigeria, starting the 2015 Baga massacre and killing as many as 2,000 people.
1653 - By the Coonan Cross Oath, the Eastern Church in India cuts itself off from colonial Portuguese tutelage.
1749 - Benning Wentworth issues the first of the New Hampshire Grants, leading to the establishment of Vermont.
1749 - The first issue of Berlingske, Denmark's oldest continually operating newspaper, is published.
1777 - American General George Washington defeats British General Lord Cornwallis at the Battle of Princeton.
1815 - Austria, the United Kingdom, and France form a secret defensive alliance against Prussia and Russia.
1823 - Stephen F. Austin receives a grant of land in Texas from the government of Mexico.
1848 - Joseph Jenkins Roberts is sworn in as the first president of Liberia.
1861 - American Civil War: Delaware votes not to secede from the United States.
1868 - Meiji Restoration in Japan: The Tokugawa shogunate is abolished; agents of Satsuma and Ch?sh? seize power.
1870 - Construction of the Brooklyn Bridge begins.
1871 - Battle of Bapaume, a battle in the Franco-Prussian war occurs.
1885 - Sino-French War: Beginning of the Battle of Núi Bop.
1888 - The James Lick telescope at the Lick Observatory, measuring 91 cm in diameter, is used for the first time. It was the largest refracting telescope in the world at the time.
1911 - A magnitude 7.7 earthquake destroys the city of Almaty in Russian Turkestan.
1911 - A gun battle in the East End of London left two dead and sparked a political row over the involvement of then-Home Secretary Winston Churchill.
1913 - An Atlantic coast storm sets the lowest confirmed barometric pressure reading for a non-tropical system in the continental United States.
1919 - At the Paris Peace Conference, Emir Faisal I of Iraq signs an agreement with Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann on the development of a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
1925 - Benito Mussolini announces he is taking dictatorial powers over Italy.
1932 - Martial law is declared in Honduras to stop a revolt by banana workers fired by the United Fruit Company.
1933 - Minnie D. Craig becomes the first woman elected as Speaker of the North Dakota House of Representatives, the first woman to hold a Speaker position anywhere in the United States.
1938 - The March of Dimes is established as a foundation to combat infant polio by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1944 - World War II: Top Ace Major Greg "Pappy" Boyington is shot down in his Vought F4U Corsair by Captain Masajiro Kawato flying a Mitsubishi A6M Zero.
1945 - World War II: Admiral Chester W. Nimitz is placed in command of all U.S. Naval forces in preparation for planned assaults against Iwo Jima and Okinawa in Japan.
1946 - Popular Canadian American jockey George Woolf dies in a freak accident during a race; the annual George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award is created to honor him.
1947 - Proceedings of the U.S. Congress are televised for the first time.
1949 - The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, the central bank of the Philippines, is established.
1953 - Frances P. Bolton and her son, Oliver from Ohio, become the first mother and son to serve simultaneously in the U.S. Congress.
1956 - A fire damages the top part of the Eiffel Tower.
1957 - The Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch.
1958 - The West Indies Federation is formed.
1959 - Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. state.
1961 - The United States severs diplomatic relations with Cuba over the latter's nationalization of American assets.
1961 - The SL-1 nuclear reactor is destroyed by a steam explosion in the only reactor incident in the United States to cause immediate fatalities.
1961 - A protest by agricultural workers in Baixa de Cassanje, Portuguese Angola, turns into a revolt, opening the Angolan War of Independence, the first of the Portuguese Colonial Wars.
1962 - Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro.
1976 - International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights entered into force.
1977 - Apple Computer is incorporated.
1990 - Manuel Noriega, former leader of Panama, surrenders to American forces.
1993 - In Moscow, Russia, George Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).
1994 - More than seven million people from the former apartheid Homelands receive South African citizenship.
1999 - The Mars Polar Lander is launched by NASA.
2000 - Final daily edition of the Peanuts comic strip.
2002 - Israeli forces seize the Palestinian freighter Karine A in the Red Sea, finding 50 tons of weapons.
2004 - Flash Airlines Flight 604 crashes into the Red Sea, resulting in 148 deaths, making it one of the deadliest aviation accidents in Egyptian history.
2009 - The first block of the blockchain of the decentralized payment system Bitcoin, called the Genesis block, was established by the creator of the system, Satoshi Nakamoto.
2015 - Boko Haram militants raze the entire town of Baga in north-east Nigeria, starting the 2015 Baga massacre and killing as many as 2,000 people.
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49 BC – Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signalling the start of civil war.
AD 9 – The Western Han dynasty ends when Wang Mang claims that the divine Mandate of Heaven called for the end of the dynasty and the beginning of his own, the Xin dynasty.
AD 69 – Lucius Calpurnius Piso Licinianus is appointed by Galba as deputy Roman Emperor.
236 – Pope Fabian succeeds Anterus to become the twentieth pope of Rome.
1072 – Robert Guiscard conquers Palermo.
1475 – Stephen III of Moldavia defeats the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Vaslui.
1645 – Archbishop William Laud is beheaded at the Tower of London.
1776 – Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet Common Sense.
1791 – The Siege of Dunlap's Station begins near Cincinnati during the Northwest Indian War.
1806 – Two British brigades occupy Cape Town after the Battle of Blaauwberg.
1812 – The first steamboat on the Ohio River or the Mississippi River arrives in New Orleans, 82 days after departing from Pittsburgh.
1861 – American Civil War: Florida becomes the third state to secede from the Union.
1863 – The Metropolitan Railway, the world's oldest underground railway, opens between Paddington and Farringdon, marking the beginning of the London Underground.
1870 – John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil.
1901 – The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.
1916 – World War I: In the Erzurum Offensive, Russia defeats the Ottoman Empire.
1920 – The Treaty of Versailles takes effect, officially ending World War I.
1927 – Fritz Lang's futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany.
1941 – World War II: The Greek army captures Kleisoura.
1946 – The first General Assembly of the United Nations opens in London. Fifty-one nations are represented.
1946 – The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts Project Diana, bouncing radio waves off the Moon and receiving the reflected signals.
1954 – BOAC Flight 781, a de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1, explodes and falls into the Tyrrhenian Sea killing 35 people.
1962 – Apollo program: NASA announces plans to build the C-5 rocket launch vehicle, which became known as the Saturn V Moon rocket, which launched every Apollo Moon mission.
1966 – Tashkent Declaration, a peace agreement between India and Pakistan signed that resolved the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.
1972 – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns to the newly independent Bangladesh as president after spending over nine months in prison in Pakistan.
1981 – Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major offensive, gaining control of most of Morazán and Chalatenango departments
1984 – Holy See–United States relations: The United States and Holy See (Vatican City) re-establish full diplomatic relations after almost 117 years, overturning the United States Congress's 1867 ban on public funding for such a diplomatic envoy.
1985 – Sandinista Daniel Ortega becomes president of Nicaragua and vows to continue the transformation to socialism and alliance with the Soviet Union and Cuba; American policy continues to support the Contras in their revolt against the Nicaraguan government.
1990 – Time Warner is formed by the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications.
2007 – A general strike begins in Guinea in an attempt to get President Lansana Conté to resign.
2012 – A bombing in Khyber Agency, Pakistan, kills at least 30 people and 78 others injured.
2013 – More than 100 people are killed and 270 injured in several bomb blasts in Pakistan.
2015 – A mass poisoning at a funeral in Mozambique involving beer that was deliberately contaminated with crocodile bile leaving at least 56 dead and nearly 200 hospitalized.
2015 – A traffic accident between an oil tanker truck and passenger coach en route to Shikarpur from Karachi on the Pakistan National Highway Link Road near Gulshan-e-Hadeed, Karachi, killing at least 62 people.
AD 9 – The Western Han dynasty ends when Wang Mang claims that the divine Mandate of Heaven called for the end of the dynasty and the beginning of his own, the Xin dynasty.
AD 69 – Lucius Calpurnius Piso Licinianus is appointed by Galba as deputy Roman Emperor.
236 – Pope Fabian succeeds Anterus to become the twentieth pope of Rome.
1072 – Robert Guiscard conquers Palermo.
1475 – Stephen III of Moldavia defeats the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Vaslui.
1645 – Archbishop William Laud is beheaded at the Tower of London.
1776 – Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet Common Sense.
1791 – The Siege of Dunlap's Station begins near Cincinnati during the Northwest Indian War.
1806 – Two British brigades occupy Cape Town after the Battle of Blaauwberg.
1812 – The first steamboat on the Ohio River or the Mississippi River arrives in New Orleans, 82 days after departing from Pittsburgh.
1861 – American Civil War: Florida becomes the third state to secede from the Union.
1863 – The Metropolitan Railway, the world's oldest underground railway, opens between Paddington and Farringdon, marking the beginning of the London Underground.
1870 – John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil.
1901 – The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.
1916 – World War I: In the Erzurum Offensive, Russia defeats the Ottoman Empire.
1920 – The Treaty of Versailles takes effect, officially ending World War I.
1927 – Fritz Lang's futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany.
1941 – World War II: The Greek army captures Kleisoura.
1946 – The first General Assembly of the United Nations opens in London. Fifty-one nations are represented.
1946 – The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts Project Diana, bouncing radio waves off the Moon and receiving the reflected signals.
1954 – BOAC Flight 781, a de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1, explodes and falls into the Tyrrhenian Sea killing 35 people.
1962 – Apollo program: NASA announces plans to build the C-5 rocket launch vehicle, which became known as the Saturn V Moon rocket, which launched every Apollo Moon mission.
1966 – Tashkent Declaration, a peace agreement between India and Pakistan signed that resolved the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.
1972 – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns to the newly independent Bangladesh as president after spending over nine months in prison in Pakistan.
1981 – Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major offensive, gaining control of most of Morazán and Chalatenango departments
1984 – Holy See–United States relations: The United States and Holy See (Vatican City) re-establish full diplomatic relations after almost 117 years, overturning the United States Congress's 1867 ban on public funding for such a diplomatic envoy.
1985 – Sandinista Daniel Ortega becomes president of Nicaragua and vows to continue the transformation to socialism and alliance with the Soviet Union and Cuba; American policy continues to support the Contras in their revolt against the Nicaraguan government.
1990 – Time Warner is formed by the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications.
2007 – A general strike begins in Guinea in an attempt to get President Lansana Conté to resign.
2012 – A bombing in Khyber Agency, Pakistan, kills at least 30 people and 78 others injured.
2013 – More than 100 people are killed and 270 injured in several bomb blasts in Pakistan.
2015 – A mass poisoning at a funeral in Mozambique involving beer that was deliberately contaminated with crocodile bile leaving at least 56 dead and nearly 200 hospitalized.
2015 – A traffic accident between an oil tanker truck and passenger coach en route to Shikarpur from Karachi on the Pakistan National Highway Link Road near Gulshan-e-Hadeed, Karachi, killing at least 62 people.
Berukhah
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Hope no one minds my supplementing this Wikipedia list with occasional comments of my own.
AD/CE 41 - After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman Emperor by the Senate.
750 - In the Battle of the Zab, the Abbasid rebels defeat the Umayyad Caliphate, leading to overthrow of the dynasty.
1348 - A strong earthquake strikes the South Alpine region of Friuli in modern Italy, causing considerable damage to buildings as far away as Rome.
1494 - Alfonso II becomes king of Naples.
1515 - Coronation of Francis I of France.
1533 - Henry VIII of England secretly marries his second wife Anne Boleyn. This set in motion the chain of events which would culminate in the Church of England 's break with Rome.
1554 - Founding of São Paulo city, Brazil.
1573 - Battle of Mikatagahara: In Japan, Takeda Shingen defeats Tokugawa Ieyasu.
1575 - Luanda, the capital of Angola, is founded by the Portuguese navigator Paulo Dias de Novais.
1704 - The Battle of Ayubale results in the destruction of most of the Spanish missions in Florida.
1755 - Moscow University is established on Tatiana Day.
1765 - Port Egmont, the first British settlement in the Falkland Islands at the southern tip of South America, is founded.
1787 - Shays's Rebellion: The rebellion's largest confrontation, outside the Springfield Armory, results in the killing of four rebels and the wounding of twenty.
1791 - The British Parliament passes the Constitutional Act of 1791 and splits the old Province of Quebec into Upper Canada and Lower Canada. For the non-Canadians: those would become respectively the present-day provinces of Ontario and Quebec.
1792 - The London Corresponding Society is founded.
1858 - The Wedding March by Felix Mendelssohn is played at the marriage of Queen Victoria's daughter, Victoria, and Friedrich of Prussia, and becomes a popular wedding processional. (It's the one that sounds like this.)
1879 - The Bulgarian National Bank is founded.
1881 - Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
1890 - Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days.
1909 - Richard Strauss's opera Elektra receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
1915 - Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
1918 - The Ukrainian People's Republic declares independence from Bolshevik Russia.
1924 - The 1924 Winter Olympics opens in Chamonix, in the French Alps, inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games.
1932 - Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese National Revolutionary Army begins the defense of Harbin.
1937 - The Guiding Light debuts on NBC radio from Chicago. In 1952 it moves to CBS television, where it remains until September 18, 2009. It was the longest continuous scripted drama in American broadcast history, and one of the longest continuous narrative fictions in world history.
1941 - Pope Pius XII elevates the Apostolic Vicariate of the Hawaiian Islands to the dignity of a diocese. It becomes the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu.
1942 - World War II: Thailand declares war on the United States and United Kingdom.
1945 - World War II: The Battle of the Bulge ends.
1946 - The United Mine Workers rejoins the American Federation of Labor.
1946 - United Nations Security Council Resolution 1 relating to Military Staff Committee is adopted.
1947 - Thomas Goldsmith Jr. files a patent for a "Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device", the first ever electronic game. Sorry, Pong.
1949 - The first Emmy Awards are presented; the venue is the Hollywood Athletic Club.
1960 - The National Association of Broadcasters reacts to the "payola" scandal by threatening fines for any disc jockeys who accept money for playing particular records.
1961 - In Washington, D.C., President John F. Kennedy delivers the first live presidential television news conference.
1964 - Blue Ribbon Sports is founded by University of Oregon track and field athletes, which would later become Nike.
1969 - Brazilian Army captain Carlos Lamarca deserts in order to fight against the military dictatorship, taking with him ten machine guns and 63 rifles.
1971 - Charles Manson and three female "Family" members are found guilty of the 1969 Tate–LaBianca murders.
1971 - Idi Amin leads a coup deposing Milton Obote and becomes Uganda's president.
1979 - Pope John Paul II starts his first official papal visits outside Italy to The Bahamas, Dominican Republic, and Mexico. He would go on to visit 129 countries during his papacy, travelling a total of 1.1 million kilometres.
1980 - Mother Teresa is honored with India's highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna.
1986 - The National Resistance Movement topples the government of Tito Okello in Uganda.
1993 - Five people are shot outside the CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Two are killed and three wounded.
1994 - The spacecraft Clementine by BMDO and NASA is launched.
1995 - The Norwegian rocket incident: Russia almost launches a nuclear attack after it mistakes Black Brant XII, a Norwegian research rocket, for a US Trident missile.
1996 - Billy Bailey becomes the last person to be hanged in the U.S.A.
1998 - During a historic visit to Cuba, Pope John Paul II demands political reforms and the release of political prisoners while condemning US attempts to isolate the country.
1998 - A suicide attack by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam on Sri Lanka's Temple of the Tooth kills eight and injures 25 others.
1999 - A 6.0 Richter scale earthquake hits western Colombia killing at least 1,000.
2003 - Iraq War: A group of people leave London, England, for Baghdad, Iraq, to serve as human shields, intending to prevent the U.S.-led coalition troops from bombing certain locations.
2005 - A stampede at the Mandhradevi temple in Maharashtra, India kills at least 258.
2006 - Mexican professional wrestler Juana Barraza is arrested in connection with the serial killing of at least ten elderly women.
2011 - The first wave of the Egyptian Revolution begins throughout the country, marked by street demonstrations, rallies, acts of civil disobedience, riots, labour strikes, and violent clashes.
2013 - At least 50 people are killed and 120 people are injured in a prison riot in Barquisimeto, Venezuela.
2015 - A clash in Mamasapano, Maguindanao in the Philippines kills 44 members of the Special Action Force (SAF), at least 18 from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and five from the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters.
AD/CE 41 - After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman Emperor by the Senate.
750 - In the Battle of the Zab, the Abbasid rebels defeat the Umayyad Caliphate, leading to overthrow of the dynasty.
1348 - A strong earthquake strikes the South Alpine region of Friuli in modern Italy, causing considerable damage to buildings as far away as Rome.
1494 - Alfonso II becomes king of Naples.
1515 - Coronation of Francis I of France.
1533 - Henry VIII of England secretly marries his second wife Anne Boleyn. This set in motion the chain of events which would culminate in the Church of England 's break with Rome.
1554 - Founding of São Paulo city, Brazil.
1573 - Battle of Mikatagahara: In Japan, Takeda Shingen defeats Tokugawa Ieyasu.
1575 - Luanda, the capital of Angola, is founded by the Portuguese navigator Paulo Dias de Novais.
1704 - The Battle of Ayubale results in the destruction of most of the Spanish missions in Florida.
1755 - Moscow University is established on Tatiana Day.
1765 - Port Egmont, the first British settlement in the Falkland Islands at the southern tip of South America, is founded.
1787 - Shays's Rebellion: The rebellion's largest confrontation, outside the Springfield Armory, results in the killing of four rebels and the wounding of twenty.
1791 - The British Parliament passes the Constitutional Act of 1791 and splits the old Province of Quebec into Upper Canada and Lower Canada. For the non-Canadians: those would become respectively the present-day provinces of Ontario and Quebec.
1792 - The London Corresponding Society is founded.
1858 - The Wedding March by Felix Mendelssohn is played at the marriage of Queen Victoria's daughter, Victoria, and Friedrich of Prussia, and becomes a popular wedding processional. (It's the one that sounds like this.)
1879 - The Bulgarian National Bank is founded.
1881 - Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
1890 - Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days.
1909 - Richard Strauss's opera Elektra receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
1915 - Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
1918 - The Ukrainian People's Republic declares independence from Bolshevik Russia.
1924 - The 1924 Winter Olympics opens in Chamonix, in the French Alps, inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games.
1932 - Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese National Revolutionary Army begins the defense of Harbin.
1937 - The Guiding Light debuts on NBC radio from Chicago. In 1952 it moves to CBS television, where it remains until September 18, 2009. It was the longest continuous scripted drama in American broadcast history, and one of the longest continuous narrative fictions in world history.
1941 - Pope Pius XII elevates the Apostolic Vicariate of the Hawaiian Islands to the dignity of a diocese. It becomes the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu.
1942 - World War II: Thailand declares war on the United States and United Kingdom.
1945 - World War II: The Battle of the Bulge ends.
1946 - The United Mine Workers rejoins the American Federation of Labor.
1946 - United Nations Security Council Resolution 1 relating to Military Staff Committee is adopted.
1947 - Thomas Goldsmith Jr. files a patent for a "Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device", the first ever electronic game. Sorry, Pong.
1949 - The first Emmy Awards are presented; the venue is the Hollywood Athletic Club.
1960 - The National Association of Broadcasters reacts to the "payola" scandal by threatening fines for any disc jockeys who accept money for playing particular records.
1961 - In Washington, D.C., President John F. Kennedy delivers the first live presidential television news conference.
1964 - Blue Ribbon Sports is founded by University of Oregon track and field athletes, which would later become Nike.
1969 - Brazilian Army captain Carlos Lamarca deserts in order to fight against the military dictatorship, taking with him ten machine guns and 63 rifles.
1971 - Charles Manson and three female "Family" members are found guilty of the 1969 Tate–LaBianca murders.
1971 - Idi Amin leads a coup deposing Milton Obote and becomes Uganda's president.
1979 - Pope John Paul II starts his first official papal visits outside Italy to The Bahamas, Dominican Republic, and Mexico. He would go on to visit 129 countries during his papacy, travelling a total of 1.1 million kilometres.
1980 - Mother Teresa is honored with India's highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna.
1986 - The National Resistance Movement topples the government of Tito Okello in Uganda.
1993 - Five people are shot outside the CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Two are killed and three wounded.
1994 - The spacecraft Clementine by BMDO and NASA is launched.
1995 - The Norwegian rocket incident: Russia almost launches a nuclear attack after it mistakes Black Brant XII, a Norwegian research rocket, for a US Trident missile.
1996 - Billy Bailey becomes the last person to be hanged in the U.S.A.
1998 - During a historic visit to Cuba, Pope John Paul II demands political reforms and the release of political prisoners while condemning US attempts to isolate the country.
1998 - A suicide attack by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam on Sri Lanka's Temple of the Tooth kills eight and injures 25 others.
1999 - A 6.0 Richter scale earthquake hits western Colombia killing at least 1,000.
2003 - Iraq War: A group of people leave London, England, for Baghdad, Iraq, to serve as human shields, intending to prevent the U.S.-led coalition troops from bombing certain locations.
2005 - A stampede at the Mandhradevi temple in Maharashtra, India kills at least 258.
2006 - Mexican professional wrestler Juana Barraza is arrested in connection with the serial killing of at least ten elderly women.
2011 - The first wave of the Egyptian Revolution begins throughout the country, marked by street demonstrations, rallies, acts of civil disobedience, riots, labour strikes, and violent clashes.
2013 - At least 50 people are killed and 120 people are injured in a prison riot in Barquisimeto, Venezuela.
2015 - A clash in Mamasapano, Maguindanao in the Philippines kills 44 members of the Special Action Force (SAF), at least 18 from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and five from the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters.
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On this day in history.. the Challenger disaster.
At 11:38 a.m. EST, on January 28, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger lifts off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and Christa McAuliffe is on her way to becoming the first ordinary U.S. civilian to travel into space. McAuliffe, a 37-year-old high school social studies teacher from New Hampshire, won a competition that earned her a place among the seven-member crew of the Challenger. She underwent months of shuttle training but then, beginning January 23, was forced to wait six long days as the Challenger‘s launch countdown was repeatedly delayed because of weather and technical problems. Finally, on January 28, the shuttle lifted off.
Read more here.
At 11:38 a.m. EST, on January 28, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger lifts off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and Christa McAuliffe is on her way to becoming the first ordinary U.S. civilian to travel into space. McAuliffe, a 37-year-old high school social studies teacher from New Hampshire, won a competition that earned her a place among the seven-member crew of the Challenger. She underwent months of shuttle training but then, beginning January 23, was forced to wait six long days as the Challenger‘s launch countdown was repeatedly delayed because of weather and technical problems. Finally, on January 28, the shuttle lifted off.
Read more here.
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On April 18:
1906- The San Fransisco Earthquake began at 5: 12 AM PST, at a Richter Scale of 7.8. It leveled over 28,000 buildings and left 300,000 people, 3 quarters of the city's population, homeless.
1906- The San Fransisco Earthquake began at 5: 12 AM PST, at a Richter Scale of 7.8. It leveled over 28,000 buildings and left 300,000 people, 3 quarters of the city's population, homeless.
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Today, 4-19 is anniversary of two American tragedies. Waco and Oklahoma City
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On this day in 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear plant near Kiev in Ukraine had a catastrophic meltdown, killing thousands with radiation poisoning and displacing over 150,000 residents from the area.
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English Channel tunnel opens
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AD 69 – Tiberius Julius Alexander orders his Roman legions in Alexandria to swear allegiance to Vespasian as Emperor.
552 – Battle of Taginae: Byzantine forces under Narses defeat the Ostrogoths in Italy. During the fighting king Totila is mortally wounded.
1097 – Battle of Dorylaeum: Crusaders led by prince Bohemond of Taranto defeat a Seljuk army led by sultan Kilij Arslan I.
1431 – The Battle of La Higueruela takes place in Granada, leading to a modest advance of the Kingdom of Castile during the Reconquista.
1523 – Johann Esch and Heinrich Voes become the first Lutheran martyrs, burned at the stake by Roman Catholic authorities in Brussels.
1569 – Union of Lublin: The Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania confirm a real union; the united country is called the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth or the Republic of Both Nations.
1643 – First meeting of the Westminster Assembly, a council of theologians ("divines") and members of the Parliament of England appointed to restructure the Church of England, at Westminster Abbey in London.
1690 – Glorious Revolution: Battle of the Boyne in Ireland (as reckoned under the Julian calendar).
1766 – François-Jean de la Barre, a young French nobleman, is tortured and beheaded before his body is burnt on a pyre along with a copy of Voltaire's Dictionnaire philosophique nailed to his torso for the crime of not saluting a Roman Catholic religious procession in Abbeville, France.
1770 – Lexell's Comet passes closer to the Earth than any other comet in recorded history, approaching to a distance of 0.0146 a.u.
1782 – Raid on Lunenburg: American privateers attack the British settlement of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.
1819 – Johann Georg Tralles discovers the Great Comet of 1819, (C/1819 N1). It was the first comet analyzed using polarimetry, by François Arago.
1837 – A system of civil registration of births, marriages and deaths is established in England and Wales.
1855 – Signing of the Quinault Treaty: The Quinault and the Quileute cede their land to the United States.
1858 – Joint reading of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace's papers on evolution to the Linnean Society of London.
1862 – The Russian State Library is founded as the Library of the Moscow Public Museum.
1862 – Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, second daughter of Queen Victoria, marries Prince Louis of Hesse, the future Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse.
1862 – American Civil War: The Battle of Malvern Hill takes place. It is the last of the Seven Days Battles, part of George B. McClellan's Peninsula Campaign.
1863 – Keti Koti (Emancipation Day) in Suriname, marking the abolition of slavery by the Netherlands.
1863 – American Civil War: The Battle of Gettysburg begins.
1867 – The British North America Act of 1867 takes effect as the Province of Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia join into confederation to create the modern nation of Canada. Sir John A. Macdonald is sworn in as the first Prime Minister of Canada. This date is commemorated annually in Canada as Canada Day, a national holiday.
1870 – The United States Department of Justice formally comes into existence.
1873 – Prince Edward Island joins into Canadian Confederation.
1874 – The Sholes and Glidden typewriter, the first commercially successful typewriter, goes on sale.
1878 – Canada joins the Universal Postal Union.
1879 – Charles Taze Russell publishes the first edition of the religious magazine The Watchtower.
1881 – The world's first international telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States.[1]
1881 – General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell and Childers reforms of the British Army, comes into effect.
1885 – The United States terminates reciprocity and fishery agreement with Canada.
1885 – The Congo Free State is established by King Léopold II of Belgium.[2]
1890 – Canada and Bermuda are linked by telegraph cable.
1898 – Spanish–American War: The Battle of San Juan Hill is fought in Santiago de Cuba.
1903 – Start of first Tour de France bicycle race.
1908 – SOS is adopted as the international distress signal.
1911 – Germany despatches the gunship SMS Panther to Morocco, sparking the Agadir Crisis.
1915 – Leutnant Kurt Wintgens of the then-named German Deutsches Heer's Fliegertruppe army air service achieves the first known aerial victory with a synchronized machine-gun armed fighter plane, the Fokker M.5K/MG Eindecker.
1916 – World War I: First day on the Somme: On the first day of the Battle of the Somme 19,000 soldiers of the British Army are killed and 40,000 wounded.
1922 – The Great Railroad Strike of 1922 begins in the United States.
1923 – The Canadian Parliament suspends all Chinese immigration.
1931 – United Airlines begins service (as Boeing Air Transport).
1931 – Wiley Post and Harold Gatty become the first people to circumnavigate the globe in a fixed-wing aircraft.
1932 – Australia's national broadcaster, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, was formed.
1935 – Regina, Saskatchewan police and Royal Canadian Mounted Police ambush strikers participating in the On-to-Ottawa Trek.
1942 – World War II: First Battle of El Alamein.
1942 – The Australian Federal Government becomes the sole collector of income tax in Australia as State Income Tax is abolished.
1943 – Tokyo City merges with Tokyo Prefecture and is dissolved. Since this date, no city in Japan has the name "Tokyo" (present-day Tokyo is not officially a city).
1947 – The Philippine Air Force is established.
1948 – Muhammad Ali Jinnah (Quaid-i-Azam) inaugurates Pakistan's central bank, the State Bank of Pakistan.
1949 – The merger of two princely states of India, Cochin and Travancore, into the state of Thiru-Kochi (later re-organized as Kerala) in the Indian Union ends more than 1,000 years of princely rule by the Cochin royal family.
1957 – The International Geophysical Year begins.
1958 – The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation links television broadcasting across Canada via microwave.
1958 – Flooding of Canada's Saint Lawrence Seaway begins.
1959 – Specific values for the international yard, avoirdupois pound and derived units (e.g. inch, mile and ounce) are adopted after agreement between the U.S.A., the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries.
1960 – Independence of Somalia.
1960 – Ghana becomes a republic and Kwame Nkrumah becomes its first President as Queen Elizabeth II ceases to be its head of state.
1962 – Independence of Rwanda and Burundi.
1963 – ZIP codes are introduced for United States mail.
1963 – The British Government admits that former diplomat Kim Philby had worked as a Soviet agent.
1966 – The first color television transmission in Canada takes place from Toronto.
1967 – Merger Treaty: The European Community is formally created out of a merger with the Common Market, the European Coal and Steel Community, and the European Atomic Energy Commission.
1968 – The United States Central Intelligence Agency's Phoenix Program is officially established.
1968 – The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons is signed in Washington, D.C., London and Moscow by sixty-two countries.
1968 – Formal separation of the United Auto Workers from the AFL–CIO in the United States.
1972 – The first Gay pride march in England takes place.
1976 – Portugal grants autonomy to Madeira.
1978 – The Northern Territory in Australia is granted self-government.
1979 – Sony introduces the Walkman.
1980 – "O Canada" officially becomes the national anthem of Canada.
1983 – A North Korean Ilyushin Il-62M jet en route to Conakry Airport in Guinea crashes into the Fouta Djallon mountains in Guinea-Bissau, killing all 23 people on board.
1984 – The PG-13 rating is introduced by the MPAA.
1987 – The American radio station WFAN in New York City is launched as the world's first all-sports radio station.
1990 – German reunification: East Germany accepts the Deutsche Mark as its currency, thus uniting the economies of East and West Germany.
1991 – Cold War: The Warsaw Pact is officially dissolved at a meeting in Prague.
1997 – China resumes sovereignty over the city-state of Hong Kong, ending 156 years of British colonial rule. The handover ceremony is attended by British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Prince Charles of Wales, Chinese President Jiang Zemin, and U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.
1999 – The Scottish Parliament is officially opened by Elizabeth II on the day that legislative powers are officially transferred from the old Scottish Office in London to the new devolved Scottish Executive in Edinburgh.
2002 – The International Criminal Court is established to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression.
2002 – Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937, a Tupolev Tu-154, and DHL Flight 611, a Boeing 757, collide in mid-air over Überlingen, southern Germany, killing all 71 on board both planes.
2003 – Over 500,000 people protest against efforts to pass anti-sedition legislation in Hong Kong.
2004 – Saturn orbit insertion of Cassini–Huygens begins at 01:12 UTC and ends at 02:48 UTC.
2006 – The first operation of Qinghai–Tibet Railway in China.
2007 – Smoking in England is banned in all public indoor spaces.
2008 – Rioting erupts in Mongolia in response to allegations of fraud surrounding the 2008 legislative elections.
2013 – Croatia becomes the 28th member of the European Union.
2016 – Latvia becomes the 35th member of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
552 – Battle of Taginae: Byzantine forces under Narses defeat the Ostrogoths in Italy. During the fighting king Totila is mortally wounded.
1097 – Battle of Dorylaeum: Crusaders led by prince Bohemond of Taranto defeat a Seljuk army led by sultan Kilij Arslan I.
1431 – The Battle of La Higueruela takes place in Granada, leading to a modest advance of the Kingdom of Castile during the Reconquista.
1523 – Johann Esch and Heinrich Voes become the first Lutheran martyrs, burned at the stake by Roman Catholic authorities in Brussels.
1569 – Union of Lublin: The Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania confirm a real union; the united country is called the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth or the Republic of Both Nations.
1643 – First meeting of the Westminster Assembly, a council of theologians ("divines") and members of the Parliament of England appointed to restructure the Church of England, at Westminster Abbey in London.
1690 – Glorious Revolution: Battle of the Boyne in Ireland (as reckoned under the Julian calendar).
1766 – François-Jean de la Barre, a young French nobleman, is tortured and beheaded before his body is burnt on a pyre along with a copy of Voltaire's Dictionnaire philosophique nailed to his torso for the crime of not saluting a Roman Catholic religious procession in Abbeville, France.
1770 – Lexell's Comet passes closer to the Earth than any other comet in recorded history, approaching to a distance of 0.0146 a.u.
1782 – Raid on Lunenburg: American privateers attack the British settlement of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.
1819 – Johann Georg Tralles discovers the Great Comet of 1819, (C/1819 N1). It was the first comet analyzed using polarimetry, by François Arago.
1837 – A system of civil registration of births, marriages and deaths is established in England and Wales.
1855 – Signing of the Quinault Treaty: The Quinault and the Quileute cede their land to the United States.
1858 – Joint reading of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace's papers on evolution to the Linnean Society of London.
1862 – The Russian State Library is founded as the Library of the Moscow Public Museum.
1862 – Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, second daughter of Queen Victoria, marries Prince Louis of Hesse, the future Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse.
1862 – American Civil War: The Battle of Malvern Hill takes place. It is the last of the Seven Days Battles, part of George B. McClellan's Peninsula Campaign.
1863 – Keti Koti (Emancipation Day) in Suriname, marking the abolition of slavery by the Netherlands.
1863 – American Civil War: The Battle of Gettysburg begins.
1867 – The British North America Act of 1867 takes effect as the Province of Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia join into confederation to create the modern nation of Canada. Sir John A. Macdonald is sworn in as the first Prime Minister of Canada. This date is commemorated annually in Canada as Canada Day, a national holiday.
1870 – The United States Department of Justice formally comes into existence.
1873 – Prince Edward Island joins into Canadian Confederation.
1874 – The Sholes and Glidden typewriter, the first commercially successful typewriter, goes on sale.
1878 – Canada joins the Universal Postal Union.
1879 – Charles Taze Russell publishes the first edition of the religious magazine The Watchtower.
1881 – The world's first international telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States.[1]
1881 – General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell and Childers reforms of the British Army, comes into effect.
1885 – The United States terminates reciprocity and fishery agreement with Canada.
1885 – The Congo Free State is established by King Léopold II of Belgium.[2]
1890 – Canada and Bermuda are linked by telegraph cable.
1898 – Spanish–American War: The Battle of San Juan Hill is fought in Santiago de Cuba.
1903 – Start of first Tour de France bicycle race.
1908 – SOS is adopted as the international distress signal.
1911 – Germany despatches the gunship SMS Panther to Morocco, sparking the Agadir Crisis.
1915 – Leutnant Kurt Wintgens of the then-named German Deutsches Heer's Fliegertruppe army air service achieves the first known aerial victory with a synchronized machine-gun armed fighter plane, the Fokker M.5K/MG Eindecker.
1916 – World War I: First day on the Somme: On the first day of the Battle of the Somme 19,000 soldiers of the British Army are killed and 40,000 wounded.
1922 – The Great Railroad Strike of 1922 begins in the United States.
1923 – The Canadian Parliament suspends all Chinese immigration.
1931 – United Airlines begins service (as Boeing Air Transport).
1931 – Wiley Post and Harold Gatty become the first people to circumnavigate the globe in a fixed-wing aircraft.
1932 – Australia's national broadcaster, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, was formed.
1935 – Regina, Saskatchewan police and Royal Canadian Mounted Police ambush strikers participating in the On-to-Ottawa Trek.
1942 – World War II: First Battle of El Alamein.
1942 – The Australian Federal Government becomes the sole collector of income tax in Australia as State Income Tax is abolished.
1943 – Tokyo City merges with Tokyo Prefecture and is dissolved. Since this date, no city in Japan has the name "Tokyo" (present-day Tokyo is not officially a city).
1947 – The Philippine Air Force is established.
1948 – Muhammad Ali Jinnah (Quaid-i-Azam) inaugurates Pakistan's central bank, the State Bank of Pakistan.
1949 – The merger of two princely states of India, Cochin and Travancore, into the state of Thiru-Kochi (later re-organized as Kerala) in the Indian Union ends more than 1,000 years of princely rule by the Cochin royal family.
1957 – The International Geophysical Year begins.
1958 – The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation links television broadcasting across Canada via microwave.
1958 – Flooding of Canada's Saint Lawrence Seaway begins.
1959 – Specific values for the international yard, avoirdupois pound and derived units (e.g. inch, mile and ounce) are adopted after agreement between the U.S.A., the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries.
1960 – Independence of Somalia.
1960 – Ghana becomes a republic and Kwame Nkrumah becomes its first President as Queen Elizabeth II ceases to be its head of state.
1962 – Independence of Rwanda and Burundi.
1963 – ZIP codes are introduced for United States mail.
1963 – The British Government admits that former diplomat Kim Philby had worked as a Soviet agent.
1966 – The first color television transmission in Canada takes place from Toronto.
1967 – Merger Treaty: The European Community is formally created out of a merger with the Common Market, the European Coal and Steel Community, and the European Atomic Energy Commission.
1968 – The United States Central Intelligence Agency's Phoenix Program is officially established.
1968 – The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons is signed in Washington, D.C., London and Moscow by sixty-two countries.
1968 – Formal separation of the United Auto Workers from the AFL–CIO in the United States.
1972 – The first Gay pride march in England takes place.
1976 – Portugal grants autonomy to Madeira.
1978 – The Northern Territory in Australia is granted self-government.
1979 – Sony introduces the Walkman.
1980 – "O Canada" officially becomes the national anthem of Canada.
1983 – A North Korean Ilyushin Il-62M jet en route to Conakry Airport in Guinea crashes into the Fouta Djallon mountains in Guinea-Bissau, killing all 23 people on board.
1984 – The PG-13 rating is introduced by the MPAA.
1987 – The American radio station WFAN in New York City is launched as the world's first all-sports radio station.
1990 – German reunification: East Germany accepts the Deutsche Mark as its currency, thus uniting the economies of East and West Germany.
1991 – Cold War: The Warsaw Pact is officially dissolved at a meeting in Prague.
1997 – China resumes sovereignty over the city-state of Hong Kong, ending 156 years of British colonial rule. The handover ceremony is attended by British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Prince Charles of Wales, Chinese President Jiang Zemin, and U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.
1999 – The Scottish Parliament is officially opened by Elizabeth II on the day that legislative powers are officially transferred from the old Scottish Office in London to the new devolved Scottish Executive in Edinburgh.
2002 – The International Criminal Court is established to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression.
2002 – Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937, a Tupolev Tu-154, and DHL Flight 611, a Boeing 757, collide in mid-air over Überlingen, southern Germany, killing all 71 on board both planes.
2003 – Over 500,000 people protest against efforts to pass anti-sedition legislation in Hong Kong.
2004 – Saturn orbit insertion of Cassini–Huygens begins at 01:12 UTC and ends at 02:48 UTC.
2006 – The first operation of Qinghai–Tibet Railway in China.
2007 – Smoking in England is banned in all public indoor spaces.
2008 – Rioting erupts in Mongolia in response to allegations of fraud surrounding the 2008 legislative elections.
2013 – Croatia becomes the 28th member of the European Union.
2016 – Latvia becomes the 35th member of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
202 BC – Second Punic War: At the Battle of Zama, Roman legions under Scipio Africanus defeat Hannibal Barca, leader of the army defending Carthage.
439 – The Vandals, led by King Gaiseric, take Carthage in North Africa.
1216 – King John of England dies at Newark-on-Trent and is succeeded by his nine-year-old son Henry.
1386 – The Universität Heidelberg holds its first lecture, making it the oldest German university.
1453 – The Hundred Years' War ends with the French recapture of Bordeaux, leaving English control only on Calais
1466 – The Thirteen Years' War ends with the Second Treaty of Thorn.
1469 – Ferdinand II of Aragon marries Isabella I of Castile, a marriage that paves the way to the unification of Aragon and Castile into a single country, Spain.
1512 – Martin Luther becomes a doctor of theology (Doctor in Biblia).
1596 – The Spanish ship San Felipe runs aground on the coast of Japan and its cargo is confiscated by local authorities
1649 – New Ross town, County Wexford, Ireland, surrenders to Oliver Cromwell.
1781 – At Yorktown, Virginia, representatives of British commander Lord Cornwallis hand over Cornwallis' sword and formally surrender to George Washington and the comte de Rochambeau.
1789 – John Jay is sworn in as the first Chief Justice of the United States.
1805 – Napoleonic Wars: Austrian General Mack surrenders his army to the Grande Armée of Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Ulm; 30,000 prisoners are captured and 10,000 casualties inflicted on the losers. 1812 – Napoleon Bonaparte retreats from Moscow.
1813 – The Battle of Leipzig concludes, giving Napoleon Bonaparte one of his worst defeats.
1822 – In Parnaíba; Simplício Dias da Silva, João Cândido de Deus e Silva and Domingos Dias declare the independent state of Piauí.
1864 – Battle of Cedar Creek: A U.S. Army force under Philip Sheridan destroys a Confederate army under Jubal Early.
1864 – St. Albans Raid: Confederate raiders launch an attack on Saint Albans, Vermont from Canada.
1866 – Austria cedes Veneto and Mantua to France, which immediately awards them to Italy in exchange for the earlier Italian acquiescence to the French annexation of Savoy and Nice.
1900 – Max Planck discovers the law of black-body radiation (Planck's law).
1912 – Italy takes possession of Tripoli, Libya from the Ottoman Empire.
1914 – The First Battle of Ypres begins.
1921 – Portuguese Prime Minister António Granjo and other politicians are murdered in a Lisbon coup. 1922 – British Conservative MPs meeting at the Carlton Club vote to break off the Coalition Government with David Lloyd George of the Liberal Party.
1933 – Germany withdraws from the League of Nations.
1935 – The League of Nations places economic sanctions on fascist Italy for its invasion of Ethiopia.
1943 – The cargo vessel Sinfra is attacked by Allied aircraft at Souda Bay, Crete, and sunk; 2,098 Italian prisoners of war drown with it.
1943 – Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University.
1944 – United States forces land in the Philippines.
1944 – A coup is launched against Juan Federico Ponce Vaides, beginning the ten-year Guatemalan Revolution
1950 – The People's Liberation Army takes control of the town of Chamdo; this is sometimes called the "Invasion of Tibet".
1950 – The People's Republic of China joins the Korean War by sending thousands of troops across the Yalu River to fight United Nations forces.
1950 – Iran becomes the first country to accept technical assistance from the United States under the Point Four Program.
1956 – The Soviet Union and Japan sign a Joint Declaration, officially ending the state of war between the two countries that had existed since August 1945.
1960 – Cold War: The United States government imposes a near-total trade embargo against Cuba.
1973 – President Richard Nixon rejects an Appeals Court decision that he turn over the Watergate tapes. 1974 – Niue becomes a self-governing colony of New Zealand.
1984 – Roman Catholic priest from Poland, Jerzy Popiełuszko, associated with the Solidarity Union, is murdered by three agents of the Polish Communist internal intelligence agency.
1986 – Samora Machel, President of Mozambique and a prominent leader of FRELIMO, and 33 others die when their Tupolev Tu-134 plane crashes into the Lebombo Mountains.
1987 – The United States Navy conducts Operation Nimble Archer, an attack on two Iranian oil platforms in the Persian Gulf.
1987 – Black Monday: The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 22%, 508 points.
1988 – The British government imposes a broadcasting ban on television and radio interviews with members of Sinn Féin and eleven Irish republican and Ulster loyalist paramilitary groups.
1989 – The convictions of the Guildford Four are quashed by the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, after they had spent 15 years in prison.
2001 – SIEV X, an Indonesian fishing boat en route to Christmas Island, carrying over 400 asylum seekers, sinks in international waters with the loss of 353 people.
2003 – Mother Teresa is beatified by Pope John Paul II.
2005 – Saddam Hussein goes on trial in Baghdad for crimes against humanity.
2005 – Hurricane Wilma becomes the most intense Atlantic hurricane on record with a minimum pressure of 882 mb.
2012 – A bomb explosion kills eight people and injures 110 people in Beirut, Lebanon.
2013 – At least 105 people are injured in a train crash at the Once railway station in Buenos Aires.
439 – The Vandals, led by King Gaiseric, take Carthage in North Africa.
1216 – King John of England dies at Newark-on-Trent and is succeeded by his nine-year-old son Henry.
1386 – The Universität Heidelberg holds its first lecture, making it the oldest German university.
1453 – The Hundred Years' War ends with the French recapture of Bordeaux, leaving English control only on Calais
1466 – The Thirteen Years' War ends with the Second Treaty of Thorn.
1469 – Ferdinand II of Aragon marries Isabella I of Castile, a marriage that paves the way to the unification of Aragon and Castile into a single country, Spain.
1512 – Martin Luther becomes a doctor of theology (Doctor in Biblia).
1596 – The Spanish ship San Felipe runs aground on the coast of Japan and its cargo is confiscated by local authorities
1649 – New Ross town, County Wexford, Ireland, surrenders to Oliver Cromwell.
1781 – At Yorktown, Virginia, representatives of British commander Lord Cornwallis hand over Cornwallis' sword and formally surrender to George Washington and the comte de Rochambeau.
1789 – John Jay is sworn in as the first Chief Justice of the United States.
1805 – Napoleonic Wars: Austrian General Mack surrenders his army to the Grande Armée of Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Ulm; 30,000 prisoners are captured and 10,000 casualties inflicted on the losers. 1812 – Napoleon Bonaparte retreats from Moscow.
1813 – The Battle of Leipzig concludes, giving Napoleon Bonaparte one of his worst defeats.
1822 – In Parnaíba; Simplício Dias da Silva, João Cândido de Deus e Silva and Domingos Dias declare the independent state of Piauí.
1864 – Battle of Cedar Creek: A U.S. Army force under Philip Sheridan destroys a Confederate army under Jubal Early.
1864 – St. Albans Raid: Confederate raiders launch an attack on Saint Albans, Vermont from Canada.
1866 – Austria cedes Veneto and Mantua to France, which immediately awards them to Italy in exchange for the earlier Italian acquiescence to the French annexation of Savoy and Nice.
1900 – Max Planck discovers the law of black-body radiation (Planck's law).
1912 – Italy takes possession of Tripoli, Libya from the Ottoman Empire.
1914 – The First Battle of Ypres begins.
1921 – Portuguese Prime Minister António Granjo and other politicians are murdered in a Lisbon coup. 1922 – British Conservative MPs meeting at the Carlton Club vote to break off the Coalition Government with David Lloyd George of the Liberal Party.
1933 – Germany withdraws from the League of Nations.
1935 – The League of Nations places economic sanctions on fascist Italy for its invasion of Ethiopia.
1943 – The cargo vessel Sinfra is attacked by Allied aircraft at Souda Bay, Crete, and sunk; 2,098 Italian prisoners of war drown with it.
1943 – Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University.
1944 – United States forces land in the Philippines.
1944 – A coup is launched against Juan Federico Ponce Vaides, beginning the ten-year Guatemalan Revolution
1950 – The People's Liberation Army takes control of the town of Chamdo; this is sometimes called the "Invasion of Tibet".
1950 – The People's Republic of China joins the Korean War by sending thousands of troops across the Yalu River to fight United Nations forces.
1950 – Iran becomes the first country to accept technical assistance from the United States under the Point Four Program.
1956 – The Soviet Union and Japan sign a Joint Declaration, officially ending the state of war between the two countries that had existed since August 1945.
1960 – Cold War: The United States government imposes a near-total trade embargo against Cuba.
1973 – President Richard Nixon rejects an Appeals Court decision that he turn over the Watergate tapes. 1974 – Niue becomes a self-governing colony of New Zealand.
1984 – Roman Catholic priest from Poland, Jerzy Popiełuszko, associated with the Solidarity Union, is murdered by three agents of the Polish Communist internal intelligence agency.
1986 – Samora Machel, President of Mozambique and a prominent leader of FRELIMO, and 33 others die when their Tupolev Tu-134 plane crashes into the Lebombo Mountains.
1987 – The United States Navy conducts Operation Nimble Archer, an attack on two Iranian oil platforms in the Persian Gulf.
1987 – Black Monday: The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 22%, 508 points.
1988 – The British government imposes a broadcasting ban on television and radio interviews with members of Sinn Féin and eleven Irish republican and Ulster loyalist paramilitary groups.
1989 – The convictions of the Guildford Four are quashed by the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, after they had spent 15 years in prison.
2001 – SIEV X, an Indonesian fishing boat en route to Christmas Island, carrying over 400 asylum seekers, sinks in international waters with the loss of 353 people.
2003 – Mother Teresa is beatified by Pope John Paul II.
2005 – Saddam Hussein goes on trial in Baghdad for crimes against humanity.
2005 – Hurricane Wilma becomes the most intense Atlantic hurricane on record with a minimum pressure of 882 mb.
2012 – A bomb explosion kills eight people and injures 110 people in Beirut, Lebanon.
2013 – At least 105 people are injured in a train crash at the Once railway station in Buenos Aires.
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1971 : Apollo 14, is launched and piloted by astronauts Alan B. Shepard Jr., Edgar D. Mitchell, and Stuart A. Roosa, on manned mission to the moon.
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1454: At a grand feast, Philip the Good of Burgundy takes the "vow of the pheasant," by which he swears to fight the Turks.
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February 28:
Pope Benedict XVI resigns and give his seat to Pope Francis.
Pope Benedict XVI resigns and give his seat to Pope Francis.
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March 6th:
Kohl becomes Chancellor of West Germany - 1983
US send two Marine Battalions into South Vietnam - 1965
Battle of the Flanks at Verdun - 1916
Supreme Court Rules on Dred Scott case - 1857
Michelangelo's Birthday - 1475
Kohl becomes Chancellor of West Germany - 1983
US send two Marine Battalions into South Vietnam - 1965
Battle of the Flanks at Verdun - 1916
Supreme Court Rules on Dred Scott case - 1857
Michelangelo's Birthday - 1475
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161 AD, March 7th:
Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius dies and is succeeded by co-Emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, an unprecedented political arrangement in the Roman Empire.
Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius dies and is succeeded by co-Emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, an unprecedented political arrangement in the Roman Empire.
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1945, March 26th:
The Battle of Iwo Jima ends after being secured by American forces. (USAFFE)
The Battle of Iwo Jima ends after being secured by American forces. (USAFFE)
April 2, 1982 - Argentina invades Falklands Islands
Argentina invaded the Falklands Islands, and quickly overcame the small garrison of British marines at the town of Stanley on East Falkland, this led to the Falklands Crisis (both sides never used the word war all throughout the conflict although the popular press in both countries did). The final official date of the conflict is given as 14th June just 6 weeks after the Argentinean Invasion with Britain back in full control of the Islands.
Argentina invaded the Falklands Islands, and quickly overcame the small garrison of British marines at the town of Stanley on East Falkland, this led to the Falklands Crisis (both sides never used the word war all throughout the conflict although the popular press in both countries did). The final official date of the conflict is given as 14th June just 6 weeks after the Argentinean Invasion with Britain back in full control of the Islands.