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361- Julian enters Constantinople as sole Emperor of the roman Empire
861 - Assassination of the Abbasid caliph Al-Mitaswakkil by the Turkish Guard who raise Al-Muntasir to the throne. Start of the anrach at Samarra
1789 - The University of South Carolina is chartered
1792 - King Louis XVI of France is put on trial for treason
1815 - The US Senate creates a select committee on finance and a uniform national currency
1816 - Indian becomes the 19th US State
1905 - A workers uprising occurs in Kiev, Ukraine and establishes the Shulivaka Republic
1931 - Statute of Westminster: The British Parliament establishes legislative equality between the UK and the Dominions of the Commonwealth including Canada and Newfoundland
1934 - Bill Wilson co-founder of AA takes his last drink and enters treatment for the last time
1941 - Germany and Italy declare war on the United States following the American declaration of war on the Empire of Japan. The US declares war on Germany and Italy
1941 - Poland declares war on Japan
1941 - The Imperial Japanese Navy loses its first loss of surface vessels at Wake Island
1946 - UNICEF is established
1962 - Arthur Lucas convicted of murder is the last person executed in Canada
1972 - Apollo 17 lands on the moon and is the 6th and final manned mission to land on the moon
1978 - The Lufthansa heist is committed by a group lead by the Lucchese family associate Jimmy Burke, it is the largest cash robbery committed on American Soil at that time
1990 - Demonstrations by students and workers across Albania begin which triggers the downfall of communism in Albania.
1994 - Boris Yeltsin orders troops into Chechnya
1997 - The Kyoto Protocol opens for signature
2006 - The International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust is opened in Tehran, Iran by then president Mahmoud Ahmadineja
2006 - Mexican President Felipe Calderon launches a military led offensive to put down drug cartel violence in the state of Michoacan. This kicks off the Mexican Drug War
2008 - Bernie Madoff is arrested and charged with securities fraud in a $50 billion dollar Ponzi Scheme
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My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
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