AD 37 The Roman Senate annuls Tiberius's will and proclaims Caligula emperor.
633 Ridda wars: The Arabian Peninsula is united under the central authority of Caliph Abu Bakr.
1068 An earthquake in the Levant and the Arabian Peninsula, leaves up to 20,000 dead.
1229 Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, declares himself King of Jerusalem in the Sixth Crusade.
1241 First Mongol invasion of Poland: Mongols overwhelm Polish armies in Krakσw in the Battle of Chmielnik and plunder the city.
1314 Jacques de Molay, the 23rd and final Grand Master of the Knights Templar, is burned at the stake.
1438 Albert II of Habsburg becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
1608 Susenyos is formally crowned Emperor of Ethiopia.
1644 The Third Anglo-Powhatan War begins in the Colony of Virginia.
1741 New York governor George Clarke's complex at Fort George is burned in an arson attack, starting the New York Conspiracy of 1741.
1766 American Revolution: The British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act.
1793 The first modern republic in Germany, the Republic of Mainz, is declared by Andreas Joseph Hofmann.
1793 Flanders Campaign of the French Revolution, Battle of Neerwinden.
1834 Six farm labourers from Tolpuddle, Dorset, England are sentenced to be transported to Australia for forming a trade union.
1848 March Revolution: In Berlin there is a struggle between citizens and military, costing about 300 lives.
1850 American Express is founded by Henry Wells and William Fargo.
1865 American Civil War: The Congress of the Confederate States adjourns for the last time.
1871 Declaration of the Paris Commune; President of the French Republic, Adolphe Thiers, orders the evacuation of Paris.
1874 Hawaii signs a treaty with the United States granting exclusive trade rights.
1892 Former Governor General Lord Stanley pledges to donate a silver challenge cup, later named after him, as an award for the best hockey team in Canada the Stanley Cup.
1913 King George I of Greece is assassinated in the recently liberated city of Thessaloniki.
1915 World War I: During the Battle of Gallipoli, three battleships are sunk during a failed British and French naval attack on the Dardanelles.
1921 The second Peace of Riga is signed between Poland and the Soviet Union.
1922 In India, Mohandas Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison for civil disobedience, of which he serves only two.
1925 The Tri-State Tornado hits the Midwestern states of Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, killing 695 people.
1937 The New London School explosion in New London, Texas, kills 300 people, mostly children.
1937 Spanish Civil War: Spanish Republican forces defeat the Italians at the Battle of Guadalajara.
1938 Mexico creates Pemex by expropriating all foreign-owned oil reserves and facilities.
1940 World War II: Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet at the Brenner Pass in the Alps and agree to form an alliance against France and the United Kingdom.
1942 The War Relocation Authority is established in the United States to take Japanese Americans into custody.
1944 The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Italy kills 26 people and causes thousands to flee their homes.
1948 Soviet consultants leave Yugoslavia in the first sign of the TitoStalin Split.
1953 An earthquake hits western Turkey, killing 265 people.
1959 The Hawaii Admission Act is signed into law.
1962 The Ιvian Accords end the Algerian War of Independence, which had begun in 1954.
1965 Cosmonaut Alexey Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space.
1967 The supertanker Torrey Canyon runs aground off the Cornish coast.
1968 Gold standard: The U.S. Congress repeals the requirement for a gold reserve to back US currency.
1969 The United States begins secretly bombing the Sihanouk Trail in Cambodia, used by communist forces to infiltrate South Vietnam.
1970 Lon Nol ousts Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia.
1971 Peru: a landslide crashes into Yanawayin Lake, killing 200 people at the mining camp of Chungar.
1980 A Vostok-2M rocket at Plesetsk Cosmodrome Site 43 explodes during a fueling operation, killing 48 people.
1990 Germans in the German Democratic Republic vote in the first democratic elections in the former communist dictatorship.
1990 In the largest art theft in US history, 12 paintings, collectively worth around $500 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.[1]
1994 Bosnia's Bosniaks and Croats sign the Washington Agreement, ending war between the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia and the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and establishing the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1996 A nightclub fire in Quezon City, Philippines kills 162 people.
1997 The tail of a Russian Antonov An-24 charter plane breaks off while en route to Turkey causing the plane to crash and killing all 50 people on board.
2014 The parliaments of Russia and Crimea sign an accession treaty.
2015 The Bardo National Museum in Tunisia is attacked by gunmen. 23 people, almost all tourists, are killed, and at least 50 other people are wounded.
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1279 A Mongol victory at the Battle of Yamen ends the Song dynasty in China.
1563 The Edict of Amboise is signed, ending the first phase of the French Wars of Religion and granting certain freedoms to the Huguenots.
1649 The House of Commons of England passes an act abolishing the House of Lords, declaring it "useless and dangerous to the people of England".
1687 Explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle, searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River, is murdered by his own men.
1812 The Cαdiz Cortes promulgates the Spanish Constitution of 1812.
1853 The Taiping reform movement occupies and makes Nanjing its capital until 1864.
1861 The First Taranaki War ends in New Zealand.
1863 The SS Georgiana, said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, is destroyed on her maiden voyage with a cargo of munitions, medicines and merchandise then valued at over $1,000,000.
1865 American Civil War: The Battle of Bentonville begins. By the end of the battle two days later, Confederate forces had retreated from Four Oaks, North Carolina.
1885 Louis Riel declares a provisional government in Saskatchewan, beginning the North-West Rebellion.
1895 Auguste and Louis Lumiθre record their first footage using their newly patented cinematograph.
1918 The U.S. Congress establishes time zones and approves daylight saving time.
1920 The United States Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles for the second time (the first time was on November 19, 1919).
1921 Irish War of Independence: One of the biggest engagements of the war takes place at Crossbarry, County Cork. About 100 Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteers escape an attempt by over 1,300 British forces to encircle them.
1931 Gambling is legalized in Nevada.
1932 The Sydney Harbour Bridge is opened.
1943 Frank Nitti, the Chicago Outfit Boss after Al Capone, commits suicide at the Chicago Central Railyard.
1944 World War II: The German army occupies Hungary.
1945 World War II: Off the coast of Japan, a dive bomber hits the aircraft carrier USS Franklin, killing 724 of her crew. Badly damaged, the ship is able to return to the U.S. under her own power.
1945 World War II: Adolf Hitler issues his "Nero Decree" ordering all industries, military installations, shops, transportation facilities and communications facilities in Germany to be destroyed.
1946 French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique and Rιunion become overseas dιpartements of France.
1954 Joey Giardello knocks out Willie Tory in round seven at Madison Square Garden in the first televised prize boxing fight shown in colour.
1954 Willie Mosconi sets a world record by running 526 consecutive balls without a miss during a straight pool exhibition at East High Billiard Club in Springfield, Ohio, setting a record which remains unbroken.
1958 The Monarch Underwear Company fire leaves 24 dead and 15 injured.
1962 Highly influential artist Bob Dylan releases his first album, Bob Dylan, for Columbia Records.
1962 Algerian War of Independence ends.
1965 The wreck of the SS Georgiana, valued at over $50,000,000 and said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, is discovered by teenage diver and pioneer underwater archaeologist E. Lee Spence, exactly 102 years after its destruction.
1966 Texas Western becomes the first college basketball team to win the Final four with an all-black starting lineup.
1969 The 385 metres (1,263 ft) tall TV-mast at Emley Moor transmitting station, United Kingdom, collapses due to ice build-up.
1979 The United States House of Representatives begins broadcasting its day-to-day business via the cable television network C-SPAN.
1982 Falklands War: Argentinian forces land on South Georgia Island, precipitating war with the United Kingdom.
1987 Televangelist Jim Bakker resigns as head of the PTL Club due to a brewing sex scandal; he hands over control to Jerry Falwell.
1989 The Egyptian flag is raised at Taba marking the end of Israeli occupation since the Yom Kippur War in 1973 and the peace negotiations in 1979.
1990 The ethnic clashes of Tβrgu Mureș begin four days after the anniversary of the Revolutions of 1848 in the Austrian Empire.
2002 Zimbabwe is suspended from the Commonwealth on charges of human rights abuses and of electoral fraud, following a turbulent presidential election.
2004 Catalina affair: A Swedish DC-3 shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 in 1952 over the Baltic Sea is finally recovered after years of work.
2004 3-19 shooting incident: the Republic of China(Taiwan) president Chen Shui-bian was shot just before the country's presidential election on March 20.
2008 GRB 080319B: A cosmic burst that is the farthest object visible to the naked eye is briefly observed.
2011 Libyan Civil War: After the failure of Muammar Gaddafi's forces to take Benghazi, French Air Force launches Opιration Harmattan, beginning foreign military intervention in Libya.
2013 A series of bombings and shootings kills at least 98 people and injures 240 others across Iraq.
2016 Flydubai Flight 981 crashes while attempting to land at Rostov-on-Don international airport, killing all 62 o
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673 Emperor Tenmu of Japan assumes the Chrysanthemum Throne at the Palace of Kiyomihara in Asuka.
1206 Michael IV Autoreianos is appointed Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
1600 The Linkφping Bloodbath takes place on Maundy Thursday in Linkφping, Sweden.
1602 The Dutch East India Company is established.
1616 Sir Walter Raleigh is freed from the Tower of London after 13 years of imprisonment.
1760 The Great Boston Fire of 1760 destroys 349 buildings.
1815 After escaping from Elba, Napoleon enters Paris with a regular army of 140,000 and a volunteer force of around 200,000, beginning his "Hundred Days" rule.
1848 German revolutions of 184849: King Ludwig I of Bavaria abdicates.
1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin is published.
1854 The Republican Party of the United States is organized in Ripon, Wisconsin.
1861 An earthquake destroys Mendoza, Argentina.
1883 The Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property is signed.
1888 The premiere of the very first Romani language operetta is staged in Moscow, Russia.
1913 Sung Chiao-jen, a founder of the Chinese Nationalist Party, is wounded in an assassination attempt and dies 2 days later.
1915 Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity.
1921 The Upper Silesia plebiscite was a plebiscite mandated by the Versailles Treaty to determine a section of the border between Weimar Germany and Poland.
1922 The USS Langley is commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier.
1923 The Arts Club of Chicago hosts the opening of Pablo Picasso's first United States showing, entitled Original Drawings by Pablo Picasso, becoming an early proponent of modern art in the United States.
1933 Giuseppe Zangara is executed in Florida's electric chair for fatally shooting Anton Cermak in an assassination attempt against President-Elect Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1933 Reichsfόhrer-SS Heinrich Himmler ordered the creation of Dachau concentration camp as Chief of Police of Munich and appointed Theodor Eicke as the camp commandant.
1942 World War II: General Douglas MacArthur, at Terowie, South Australia, makes his famous speech regarding the fall of the Philippines, in which he says: "I came out of Bataan and I shall return".
1948 With a Musicians Union ban lifted, the first telecasts of classical music in the United States, under Eugene Ormandy and Arturo Toscanini, are given on CBS and NBC.
1951 Fujiyoshida, a city located in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, in the center of the Japanese main island of Honshū is founded.
1952 The US Senate ratifies the Security Treaty Between the United States and Japan.
1956 Tunisia gains independence from France.
1964 The precursor of the European Space Agency, ESRO (European Space Research Organisation) is established per an agreement signed on June 14, 1962.
1972 The Troubles: The first Provisional IRA car bombing in Belfast kills seven people and injures 148 others in Northern Ireland.
1985 Libby Riddles becomes the first woman to win the 1,135-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
1985 Canadian paraplegic athlete and humanitarian Rick Hansen begins his circumnavigation of the globe in a wheelchair in the name of spinal cord injury medical research.
I made the above video when Rick was announced as a Stampede Parade Marshall
1987 The Food and Drug Administration approves the anti-AIDS drug, AZT.
1988 Eritrean War of Independence: Having defeated the Nadew Command, the Eritrean People's Liberation Front enters the town of Afabet, victoriously concluding the Battle of Afabet.
1990 Ferdinand Marcos's widow, Imelda Marcos, goes on trial for bribery, embezzlement, and racketeering.
1993 The Troubles: A Provisional IRA bomb kills two children in Warrington, England. It leads to mass protests in both Britain and Ireland.
1995 The Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo carries out a sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway, killing 12 and wounding over 1,300 people.
1999 Legoland California, the first Legoland outside of Europe, opens in Carlsbad, California.
2000 Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, a former Black Panther once known as H. Rap Brown, is captured after murdering Georgia sheriff's deputy Ricky Kinchen and critically wounding Deputy Aldranon English.
2003 Invasion of Iraq: In the early hours of the morning, the United States and three other countries (the UK, Australia and Poland) begin military operations in Iraq.
2006 Over 150 Chadian soldiers are killed in eastern Chad by members of the rebel UFDC. The rebel movement sought to overthrow Chadian president Idriss Dιby.
2012 At least 52 people are killed and more than 250 injured in a wave of terror attacks across ten cities in Iraq.
2014 Four suspected Taliban members attack the luxurious Kabul Serena Hotel, killing at least nine people.
2015 A Solar eclipse, equinox, and a Supermoon all occur on the same day.
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537 Siege of Rome: King Vitiges attempts to assault the northern and eastern city walls, but is repulsed at the Praenestine Gate, known as the Vivarium, by the defenders under the Byzantine generals Bessas and Peranius.
630 Emperor Heraclius returns the True Cross, one of the holiest Christian relics, to Jerusalem.
717 Battle of Vincy between Charles Martel and Ragenfrid.
1152 Annulment of the marriage of King Louis VII of France and Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine.
1188 Emperor Antoku accedes to the throne of Japan.
1556 In Oxford, Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer is burned at the stake.
1788 A fire in New Orleans leaves most of the town in ruins.
1800 With the church leadership driven out of Rome during an armed conflict, Pius VII is crowned Pope in Venice with a temporary papal tiara made of papier-mβchι.
1801 The Battle of Alexandria is fought between British and French forces near the ruins of Nicopolis in Egypt.
1804 Code Napolιon is adopted as French civil law.
1814 Napoleonic Wars: Austrian forces repel French troops in the Battle of Arcis-sur-Aube.
1844 The Bahα'ν calendar begins. This is the first day of the first year of the Bahα'ν calendar. It is annually celebrated by members of the Bahα'ν Faith as the Bahα'ν New Year or Nαw-Rϊz.
1861 Alexander Stephens gives the Cornerstone Speech.
1871 Otto von Bismarck is appointed as the first Chancellor of the German Empire.
1871 Journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his trek to find the missionary and explorer David Livingstone.
1913 Over 360 are killed and 20,000 homes destroyed in the Great Dayton Flood in Dayton, Ohio.
1918 World War I: The first phase of the German Spring Offensive, Operation Michael, begins.
1919 The Hungarian Soviet Republic is established becoming the first Communist government to be formed in Europe after the October Revolution in Russia.
1921 The New Economic Policy is implemented by the Bolshevik Party in response to the economic failure as a result of war communism.
1925 The Butler Act prohibits the teaching of human evolution in Tennessee.
1925 Syngman Rhee is removed from office after being impeached as the President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea.
1928 Charles Lindbergh is presented with the Medal of Honor for the first solo trans-Atlantic flight.
1935 Shah of Iran Reza Shah Pahlavi formally asks the international community to call Persia by its native name, Iran.
1937 Ponce massacre: Nineteen people in Ponce, Puerto Rico are gunned down by police acting on orders of the US-appointed Governor, Blanton C. Winship.
1943 Wehrmacht officer Rudolf von Gersdorff plots to assassinate Adolf Hitler by using a suicide bomb, but the plan falls through; von Gersdorff is able to defuse the bomb in time and avoid suspicion.
1945 World War II: British troops liberate Mandalay, Burma.
1945 World War II: Operation Carthage: Royal Air Force planes bomb Gestapo headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark. They also accidentally hit a school, killing 125 civilians.
1945 World War II: Bulgaria and the Soviet Union successfully complete their defense of the north bank of the Drava River as the Battle of the Transdanubian Hills concludes.
1946 The Los Angeles Rams sign Kenny Washington, making him the first African American player in the American football since 1933.
1952 Alan Freed presents the Moondog Coronation Ball, the first rock and roll concert, in Cleveland, Ohio.
1960 Apartheid: Sharpeville massacre, South Africa: Police open fire on a group of black South African demonstrators, killing 69 and wounding 180.
1963 Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary (in California) closes.
1965 Ranger program: NASA launches Ranger 9, the last in a series of unmanned lunar space probes.
1965 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. leads 3,200 people on the start of the third and finally successful civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
1968 Battle of Karameh in Jordan between the Israel Defense Forces and the combined forces of the Jordanian Armed Forces and PLO.
1970 The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by Joseph Alioto, Mayor of San Francisco.
1980 U.S. President Jimmy Carter announces a United States boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow to protest the SovietAfghan War.
1983 The first cases of the 1983 West Bank fainting epidemic begin; Israelis and Palestinians accuse each other of poison gas, but the cause is later determined mostly to be psychosomatic.
1986 Debi Thomas became the first African American to win the World Figure Skating Championships
Yeah not to be a jerk, but nobody in Canada remembers Debi Thomas' performance in Calgary, nor that she lost to Ekaterina Witt. They remember this. You know what, its my thread and i can do what I want to damnit.
1990 Namibia becomes independent after 75 years of South African rule.
1994 The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change enters into force.
1999 Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon.
2000 Pope John Paul II makes his first ever pontifical visit to Israel.
2006 The social media site Twitter is founded
2009 Four police officers are shot and killed and a fifth is wounded in two shootings at Oakland, California.
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238 Gordian I and his son Gordian II are proclaimed Roman emperors.
871 Ζthelred of Wessex is defeated by a Danish invasion army at the Battle of Marton.
1508 Ferdinand II of Aragon commissions Amerigo Vespucci chief navigator of the Spanish Empire.
1621 The Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony sign a peace treaty with Massasoit of the Wampanoags.
1622 Jamestown massacre: Algonquians kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia, a third of the colony's population, during the Second Anglo-Powhatan War.
1630 The Massachusetts Bay Colony outlaws the possession of cards, dice, and gaming tables.
1638 Anne Hutchinson is expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony for religious dissent.
1713 The Tuscarora War comes to an end with the fall of Fort Neoheroka, effectively opening up the interior of North Carolina to European colonization.
1739 Nader Shah occupies Delhi in India and sacks the city, stealing the jewels of the Peacock Throne.
1765 The British Parliament passes the Stamp Act that introduces a tax to be levied directly on its American colonies.
1784 The Emerald Buddha is moved with great ceremony to its current location in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand.
1829 In the London Protocol, the three protecting powers (United Kingdom, France and Russia) establish the borders of Greece.
1849 The Austrians defeat the Piedmontese at the Battle of Novara.
1871 In North Carolina, William Woods Holden becomes the first governor of a U.S. state to be removed from office by impeachment.
1872 Illinois becomes the first state to require gender equality in employment.
1873 The Spanish National Assembly abolishes slavery in Puerto Rico.
1894 The first playoff game for the Stanley Cup starts.
1906 The first England vs France rugby union match is played at Parc des Princes in Paris
1916 The last Emperor of China, Yuan Shikai, abdicates the throne and the Republic of China is restored.
1920 Azeri and Turkish army soldiers with participation of Kurdish gangs attacked the Armenian inhabitants of Shushi (Nagorno Karabakh).
1933 CullenHarrison Act: President Franklin Roosevelt signs an amendment to the Volstead Act, legalizing the manufacture and sale of "3.2 beer" (3.2% alcohol by weight, approximately 4% alcohol by volume) and light wines.
1939 Germany takes Memel from Lithuania.
1942 World War II: In the Mediterranean Sea, the Royal Navy confronts Italy's Regia Marina in the Second Battle of Sirte.
1943 World War II: the entire village of Khatyn (in what is the present-day Republic of Belarus) is burnt alive by Schutzmannschaft Battalion 118.
1945 The Arab League is founded when a charter is adopted in Cairo, Egypt.
1960 Arthur Leonard Schawlow and Charles Hard Townes receive the first patent for a laser.
1972 The United States Congress sends the Equal Rights Amendment to the states for ratification.
1972 In Eisenstadt v. Baird, the United States Supreme Court decides that unmarried persons have the right to possess contraceptives.
1975 A fire at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant in Decatur, Alabama causes a dangerous reduction in cooling water levels.
1978 Karl Wallenda of The Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
1982 NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia is launched from the Kennedy Space Center on its third mission, STS-3.
1992 USAir Flight 405 crashes shortly after takeoff from New York City's LaGuardia Airport, leading to a number of studies into the effect that ice has on aircraft.
1992 Fall of communism in Albania: The Democratic Party of Albania wins a decisive majority in the parliamentary election.
1993 The Intel Corporation ships the first Pentium chips (80586), featuring a 60 MHz clock speed, 100+ MIPS, and a 64 bit data path.
1995 Cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov returns to earth after setting a record of 438 days in space.
1997 Tara Lipinski, aged 14 years and 9 months, becomes the youngest women's World Figure Skating Champion.
2004 Ahmed Yassin, co-founder and leader of the Palestinian Sunni Islamist group Hamas, two bodyguards, and nine civilian bystanders are killed in the Gaza Strip when hit by Israeli Air Force Hellfire missiles.
2006 Three Christian Peacemaker Team (CPT) hostages are freed by British forces in Baghdad after 118 days of captivity and the murder of their colleague from the U.S., Tom Fox.
2013 At least 37 people are killed and 200 are injured after a fire destroys a camp containing Burmese refugees near Ban Mae, Thailand.
2016 Three suicide bombers kill 32 people and injure 316 in the 2016 Brussels bombings at the airport and at the Maelbeek/Maalbeek metro station.
2017 A terrorist attack in London near the Houses of Parliament leaves four people dead and at least 20 injured.
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1400 The Trần dynasty of Vietnam is deposed, after one hundred and seventy-five years of rule, by Hồ Quύ Ly, a court official.
1540 Waltham Abbey is surrendered to King Henry VIII of England; the last religious community to be closed during the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
1568 The Peace of Longjumeau is signed, ending the second phase of the French Wars of Religion.
1708 James Francis Edward Stuart lands at the Firth of Forth.
1775 American Revolutionary War: Patrick Henry delivers his speech "Give me liberty, or give me death!" at St. John's Episcopal Church, Richmond, Virginia.
1801 Tsar Paul I of Russia is struck with a sword, then strangled, and finally trampled to death inside his bedroom at St. Michael's Castle.
1806 After traveling through the Louisiana Purchase and reaching the Pacific Ocean, explorers Lewis and Clark and their "Corps of Discovery" begin their arduous journey home.
1821 Greek War of Independence: Battle and fall of city of Kalamata.
1848 The ship John Wickliffe arrives at Port Chalmers carrying the first Scottish settlers for Dunedin, New Zealand. Otago province is founded.
1857 Elisha Otis's first elevator is installed at 488 Broadway New York City.
1862 American Civil War - The First Battle of Kernstown, Virginia, marks the start of Stonewall Jackson's Valley Campaign. Although a Confederate defeat, the engagement distracts Federal efforts to capture Richmond.
1868 The University of California is founded in Oakland, California when the Organic Act is signed into law.
1879 War of the Pacific: The Battle of Topαter, the first battle of the war is fought between Chile and the joint forces of Bolivia and Peru.
1885 Sino-French War: Chinese victory in the Battle of Phu Lam Tao near Hưng Hσa, northern Vietnam.
1888 In England, The Football League, the world's oldest professional association football league, meets for the first time.
1889 The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is established by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in Qadian, British India.
1901 Emilio Aguinaldo, only President of the First Philippine Republic, was captured at Palanan, Isabela by the forces of General Frederick Funston.
1905 Eleftherios Venizelos calls for Crete's union with Greece, and begins what is to be known as the Theriso revolt.
1909 Theodore Roosevelt leaves New York for a post-presidency safari in Africa. The trip is sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and National Geographic Society.
1918 First World War: On the third day of the German Spring Offensive, the 10th Battalion of the Royal West Kent Regiment is annihilated with many of the men becoming prisoners of war
1919 In Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini founds his Fascist political movement.
1931 Bhagat Singh, Shivaram Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar are hanged for the killing of a deputy superintendent of police during the Indian struggle for independence.
1933 The Reichstag passes the Enabling Act of 1933, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany.
1935 Signing of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of the Philippines.
1939 The Hungarian air force attacks the headquarters of the Slovak air force in Spiskα Novα Ves, killing 13 people and beginning the SlovakHungarian War.
1940 The Lahore Resolution (Qarardad-e-Pakistan or Qarardad-e-Lahore) is put forward at the Annual General Convention of the All-India Muslim League.
1956 Pakistan becomes the first Islamic republic in the world. (Republic Day in Pakistan)
1965 NASA launches Gemini 3, the United States' first two-man space flight (crew: Gus Grissom and John Young).
1977 The first of The Nixon Interviews (12 will be recorded over four weeks) is videotaped with British journalist David Frost interviewing former United States President Richard Nixon about the Watergate scandal and the Nixon tapes.
1978 The first UNIFIL troops arrived in Lebanon for peacekeeping mission along the Blue Line.
1980 Archbishop Σscar Romero of El Salvador gives his famous speech appealing to men of the El Salvadoran armed forces to stop killing the Salvadorans.
1982 Guatemala's government, headed by Fernando Romeo Lucas Garcνa is overthrown in a military coup by right-wing General Efraνn Rνos Montt.
1983 Strategic Defense Initiative: President Ronald Reagan makes his initial proposal to develop technology to intercept enemy missiles.
1991 The Revolutionary United Front, with support from the special forces of Charles Taylor's National Patriotic Front of Liberia, invades Sierra Leone in an attempt to overthrow Joseph Saidu Momoh, sparking a gruesome 11-year Sierra Leone Civil War.
1994 At an election rally in Tijuana, Mexican presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio is assassinated by Mario Aburto Martνnez.
1994 A United States Air Force (USAF) F-16 aircraft collides with a USAF C-130 at Pope Air Force Base and then crashes, killing 24 United States Army soldiers on the ground. This later became known as the Green Ramp disaster.
1994 Aeroflot Flight 593 crashed into the Kuznetsk Alatau mountain, Kemerovo Oblast, Russia, killing 75.
1996 Taiwan holds its first direct elections and chooses Lee Teng-hui as President.
1999 Gunmen assassinate Paraguay's Vice President Luis Marνa Argaρa.
2001 The Russian Mir space station is disposed of, breaking up in the atmosphere before falling into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji.
2003 Battle of Nasiriyah, first major conflict during the invasion of Iraq.
2008 Official opening of Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad, India
2009 FedEx Express Flight 80: A McDonnell Douglas MD-11 flying from Guangzhou, China crashes at Tokyo's Narita International Airport, killing both the captain and the co-pilot.
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1603 James VI of Scotland becomes James I of England and Ireland, upon the death of Elizabeth I.
1603 Tokugawa Ieyasu is granted the title of shogun from Emperor Go-Yōzei, and establishes the Tokugawa shogunate in Edo, Japan.
1663 The Province of Carolina is granted by charter to eight Lords Proprietor in reward for their assistance in restoring Charles II of England to the throne.
1720 Count Frederick of Hesse-Kassel is elected King of Sweden by the Riksdag of the Estates, after his consort Ulrika Eleonora abdicated the throne on 29 February
1721 Johann Sebastian Bach dedicated six concertos to Margrave Christian Ludwig of Brandenburg-Schwedt, now commonly called the Brandenburg Concertos, BWV 10461051.
1731 Naturalization of Hieronimus de Salis Parliamentary Act is passed.
1765 Great Britain passes the Quartering Act, which requires the Thirteen Colonies to house British troops.
1794 In Krakσw, Tadeusz Kościuszko announces a general uprising against Imperial Russia and the Kingdom of Prussia, and assumes the powers of the Commander in Chief of all of the Polish forces.
1829 The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829, allowing Catholics to serve in Parliament.
1832 In Hiram, Ohio, a group of men beat and tar and feather Mormon leader Joseph Smith.
1837 Canada gives African Canadian men the right to vote.
1854 Slavery is abolished in Venezuela.
1860 Sakuradamon Incident: Assassination of Japanese Chief Minister (Tairō) Ii Naosuke.
1869 The last of Titokowaru's forces surrendered to the New Zealand government, ending his uprising.
1878 The British frigate HMS Eurydice sinks, killing more than 300.
1882 Robert Koch announces the discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis.
1885 Sino-French War: Chinese victory in the Battle of Bang Bo on the TonkinGuangxi border.
1896 A. S. Popov makes the first radio signal transmission in history.
1900 Mayor of New York City Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.
1907 The first issue of the Georgian Bolshevik newspaper Dro is published.
1921 The 1921 Women's Olympiad begins in Monte Carlo, first international women's sports event.
1927 Nanking Incident: Foreign warships bombard Nanjing, China, in defense of the foreign citizens within the city.
1933 The Enabling Act passed in both the Reichstag and Reichsrat.
1934 United States Congress passes the TydingsMcDuffie Act, allowing the Philippines to become a self-governing commonwealth.
1944 Ardeatine massacre: German troops murder 335 Italian civilians in Rome.
1944 World War II: In an event later dramatized in the movie The Great Escape, 76 Allied prisoners of war begin breaking out of the German camp Stalag Luft III.
1946 A British Cabinet Mission arrives in India to discuss and plan for the transfer of power from the British Raj to Indian leadership.
1958 Rock 'n' roll teen idol Elvis Presley is drafted in the U.S. Army.
1961 Quebec Board of the French Language is established.
1965 Images from the Ranger 9 lunar probe are broadcast live on network television.
1973 Kenyan athlete Kip Keino defeats Jim Ryun at the first-ever professional track meet in Los Angeles.
1976 In Argentina, the armed forces overthrow the constitutional government of President Isabel Perσn and start a 7-year dictatorial period self-styled the National Reorganization Process.
1977 - Morarji Desai became the Prime Minister of India, the first Prime Minister not to belong to Indian National Congress.
1980 El Salvadorian Archbishop Σscar Romero is assassinated while celebrating Mass in San Salvador.
1986 The Loscoe gas explosion leads to new UK laws on landfill gas migration and gas protection on landfill sites.
1989 In Prince William Sound in Alaska, the Exxon Valdez spills 240,000 barrels (38,000 m3) of crude oil after running aground.
1993 Discovery of Comet ShoemakerLevy 9.
1998 Mitchell Johnson and Andrew Golden, aged 11 and 13 respectively, fire upon teachers and students at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas; five people are killed and ten are wounded.
1998 A tornado sweeps through Dantan in India, killing 250 people and injuring 3,000 others.
1998 First computer-assisted Bone Segment Navigation, performed at the University of Regensburg, Germany
1999 Kosovo war: NATO began attacks on Yugoslavia without United Nations Security Council (UNSC) approval, marking the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country.
1999 A lorry carrying margarine and flour catches fire inside the Mont Blanc Tunnel. The resulting inferno kills 38 people.
2003 The Arab League votes 211 in favor of a resolution demanding the immediate and unconditional removal of U.S. and British soldiers from Iraq.
2008 Bhutan officially becomes a democracy, with its first ever general election.
2015 Germanwings Flight 9525 crashes in the French Alps in an apparent pilot mass murder-suicide, killing all 150 people on board.
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708 Pope Constantine succeeds Pope Sisinnius as the 88th pope.
717 Theodosius III resigns the throne to the Byzantine Empire to enter the clergy.
919 Romanos Lekapenos seizes the Boukoleon Palace in Constantinople and becomes regent of the Byzantine emperor Constantine VII.
1000 Fatimid caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah assassinates the eunuch chief minister Barjawan and assumes control of the government.
1199 Richard I is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting France, leading to his death on April 6.
1306 Robert the Bruce becomes King of Scots (Scotland).
1409 The Council of Pisa opens.
1555 The city of Valencia is founded in present-day Venezuela.
1576 Jerome Savage takes out a sub-lease to start the Newington Butts Theatre outside London.
1584 Sir Walter Raleigh is granted a patent to colonize Virginia.
1655 Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christiaan Huygens.
1802 The Treaty of Amiens is signed as a "Definitive Treaty of Peace" between France and the United Kingdom.
1807 The Slave Trade Act becomes law, abolishing the slave trade in the British Empire.
1807 The Swansea and Mumbles Railway, then known as the Oystermouth Railway, becomes the first passenger-carrying railway in the world.
1811 Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from the University of Oxford for publishing the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism.
1821 Traditional date of the start of the Greek War of Independence. The war had actually begun on 23 February 1821 (Julian calendar).
1845 New Zealand Legislative Council pass the first Militia Act constituting the New Zealand Army[1].
1865 American Civil War: In Virginia, Confederate forces temporarily capture Fort Stedman from the Union.
1894 Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, departs Massillon, Ohio for Washington, D.C.
1911 In New York City, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 146 garment workers.
1917 The Georgian Orthodox Church restores its autocephaly abolished by Imperial Russia in 1811.
1918 The Belarusian People's Republic is established.
1924 On the anniversary of Greek Independence, Alexandros Papanastasiou proclaims the Second Hellenic Republic.
1931 The Scottsboro Boys are arrested in Alabama and charged with rape.
1941 The Kingdom of Yugoslavia joins the Axis powers with the signing of the Tripartite Pact.
1947 An explosion in a coal mine in Centralia, Illinois kills 111.
1948 The first successful tornado forecast predicts that a tornado will strike Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma.
1949 More than 92,000 kulaks are suddenly deported from the Baltic states to Siberia.
1957 United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" on obscenity grounds.
1957 The European Economic Community is established with West Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg as the first members.
1965 Civil rights activists led by Martin Luther King Jr. successfully complete their 4-day 50-mile march from Selma to the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama.
1969 During their honeymoon, John Lennon and Yoko Ono hold their first Bed-In for Peace at the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel (until March 31).
1971 Bangladesh Liberation War: Beginning of Operation Searchlight by the Pakistan Armed Forces against East Pakistani civilians.
1971 The Army of the Republic of Vietnam abandon an attempt to cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos.
1975 Faisal of Saudi Arabia is shot and killed by a mentally ill nephew.
1979 The first fully functional Space Shuttle orbiter, Columbia, is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch.
1988 The Candle demonstration in Bratislava is the first mass demonstration of the 1980s against the communist regime in Czechoslovakia.
1995 WikiWikiWeb, the world's first wiki, and part of the Portland Pattern Repository, is made public by Ward Cunningham.
1996 The European Union's Veterinarian Committee bans the export of British beef and its by-products as a result of mad cow disease (Bovine spongiform encephalopathy).
2006 Capitol Hill massacre: A gunman kills six people before taking his own life at a party in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood.
2006 Protesters demanding a new election in Belarus, following the rigged Belarusian presidential election, 2006, clash with riot police. Opposition leader Aleksander Kozulin is among several protesters arrested.
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590 Emperor Maurice proclaims his son Theodosius as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
908 Emperor Zhu Wen of Later Liang has Li Zhu, the last Tang Dynasty emperor, poisoned.
1027 Pope John XIX crowns Conrad II as Holy Roman Emperor.
1169 Saladin becomes the emir of Egypt.
1344 The Siege of Algeciras, one of the first European military engagements where gunpowder was used, comes to an end.
1351 Combat of the Thirty: Thirty Breton knights call out and defeat thirty English knights.
1484 William Caxton prints his translation of Aesop's Fables.
1552 Guru Amar Das becomes the Third Sikh guru.
1636 Utrecht University is founded in the Netherlands.
1812 An earthquake devastates Caracas, Venezuela.
1812 A political cartoon in the Boston Gazette coins the term "gerrymander" to describe oddly shaped electoral districts designed to help incumbents win reelection.
1830 The Book of Mormon is published in Palmyra, New York.
1839 The first Henley Royal Regatta is held.
1871 The elections of Commune council of the Paris Commune are held.
1885 The Mιtis people of the District of Saskatchewan under Louis Riel begin the North-West Rebellion against Canada.
1913 First Balkan War: Bulgarian forces capture Adrianople.
1915 The Vancouver Millionaires win the 1915 Stanley Cup Finals, the first championship played between the Pacific Coast Hockey Association and the National Hockey Association.
1917 World War I: First Battle of Gaza: British troops are halted after 17,000 Turks block their advance.
1922 The German Social Democratic Party is founded in Poland.
1931 Swissair is founded as the national airline of Switzerland.
1931 Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union is founded in Vietnam.
1934 The United Kingdom driving test is introduced.
1939 Spanish Civil War: Nationalists begin their final offensive of the war.
1942 World War II: The first female prisoners arrive at Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland.
1945 World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ends as the island is officially secured by American forces.
1954 Nuclear weapons testing: The Romeo shot of Operation Castle is detonated at Bikini Atoll. Yield: 11 megatons.
1958 The United States Army launches Explorer 3.
1958 The African Regroupment Party is launched at a meeting in Paris.
1967 Ten thousand people gather for one of many Central Park be-ins in New York City.
1970 South Vietnamese President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu implements a land reform program to solve the problem of land tenancy
1971 East Pakistan declares its independence from Pakistan to form Bangladesh and the Bangladesh Liberation War begins.
1975 The Biological Weapons Convention comes into force.
1979 Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin and Jimmy Carter sign the EgyptIsrael Peace Treaty in Washington, D.C.
1981 Social Democratic Party (UK) is founded as a party.
1982 A groundbreaking ceremony for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is held in Washington, D.C..
1991 Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay sign the Treaty of Asunciσn, establishing Mercosur, the South Common Market.
1997 Thirty-nine bodies are found in the Heaven's Gate mass suicides.
1998 During the Algerian Civil War, the Oued Bouaicha massacre sees fifty-two people, mostly infants, killed with axes and knives.
2005 Around 200,000 to 300,000 Taiwanese demonstrate in Taipei in opposition to the Anti-Secession Law of China.
2010 The South Korean Navy corvette Cheonan is torpedoed, killing 46 sailors. After an international investigation, the President of the United Nations Security Council blames North Korea.
2017 Russia-wide anti-corruption protests in 99 cities. The Levada Center survey showed that 38% of surveyed Russians supported protests and that 67 percent held Putin personally responsible for high-level corruption.
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1309 Pope Clement V imposes excommunication and interdiction on Venice, and a general prohibition of all commercial intercourse with Venice, which had seized on Ferrara, a papal fiefdom.
1329 Pope John XXII issues his In Agro Dominico condemning some writings of Meister Eckhart as heretical.
1513 Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leσn reaches the northern end of The Bahamas on his first voyage to Florida.
1625 Charles I becomes King of England, Scotland and Ireland as well as claiming the title King of France.
1782 Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1794 The United States Government establishes a permanent navy and authorizes the building of six frigates.
1794 Denmark and Sweden form a neutrality compact.
1809 Peninsular War: A combined Franco-Polish force defeats the Spanish in the Battle of Ciudad Real.
1814 War of 1812: In central Alabama, U.S. forces under General Andrew Jackson defeat the Creek at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.
1836 Texas Revolution: On the orders of General Antonio Lσpez de Santa Anna, the Mexican army massacres 342 Texas POWs at Goliad, Texas.
1866 President Andrew Johnson vetoes the Civil Rights Act of 1866. His veto is overridden by Congress and the bill passes into law on April 9.
1871 The first international rugby football match, when Scotland defeats England in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.
1884 A mob in Cincinnati, Ohio, attacks members of a jury which had returned a verdict of manslaughter in what was seen as a clear case of murder; over the next few days the mob would riot and eventually destroy the courthouse.
1886 Geronimo, Apache warrior, surrenders to the U.S. Army, ending the main phase of the Apache Wars.
1899 Emilio Aguinaldo leads Filipino forces for the only time during the PhilippineAmerican War at the Battle of Marilao River.
1915 Typhoid Mary, the first healthy carrier of disease ever identified in the United States, is put in quarantine, where she would remain for the rest of her life.
1938 Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Taierzhuang begins, resulting several weeks later in the war's first major Chinese victory over Japan.
1941 World War II: Yugoslav Air Force officers topple the pro-Axis government in a bloodless coup.
1943 World War II: Battle of the Komandorski Islands: In the Aleutian Islands the battle begins when United States Navy forces intercept Japanese attempting to reinforce a garrison at Kiska.
1945 World War II: Operation Starvation, the aerial mining of Japan's ports and waterways begins. Argentina declares war on the Axis Powers.
1958 Nikita Khrushchev becomes Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union.
1964 The Good Friday earthquake, the most powerful earthquake recorded in North American history at a magnitude of 9.2 strikes Southcentral Alaska, killing 125 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of Anchorage.
1975 Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.
1977 Tenerife airport disaster: Two Boeing 747 airliners collide on a foggy runway on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, killing 583 (all 248 on KLM and 335 on Pan Am). Sixty-one survived on the Pan Am flight. This is the deadliest aviation accident in history.
1980 The Norwegian oil platform Alexander L. Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212.
1980 Silver Thursday: A steep fall in silver prices, resulting from the Hunt Brothers attempting to corner the market in silver, leads to panic on commodity and futures exchanges.
1981 The Solidarity movement in Poland stages a warning strike, in which at least 12 million Poles walk off their jobs for four hours.
1986 A car bomb explodes outside Russell Street Police HQ in Melbourne, Australia, killing one police officer and injuring 21 people.
1990 The United States begins broadcasting anti-Castro propaganda to Cuba on TV Martν.
1993 Jiang Zemin is appointed President of the People's Republic of China.
1993 Italian former minister and Christian Democracy leader Giulio Andreotti is accused of mafia allegiance by the tribunal of Palermo.
1998 The Food and Drug Administration approves Viagra for use as a treatment for male impotence, the first pill to be approved for this condition in the United States.
1999 Kosovo War: An American Lockheed F-117A Nighthawk is shot down by a Yugoslav SAM, the first and only Nighthawk to be lost in combat.
2000 A Phillips Petroleum plant explosion in Pasadena, Texas kills one person and injures 71 others.
2002 Passover massacre: A Palestinian suicide bomber kills 29 people at a Passover seder in Netanya, Israel.
2002 Nanterre massacre: In Nanterre, France, a gunman opens fire at the end of a town council meeting, resulting in the deaths of eight councilors; 19 other people are injured.
2004 HMS Scylla, a decommissioned Leander-class frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall, the first of its kind in Europe.
2009 The dam forming Situ Gintung, an artificial lake in Indonesia, fails, killing at least 99 people.
2014 Philippines signs a peace accord with the largest Muslim rebel group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, ending decades of conflict.
2015 Al-Shabab militants attack and temporarily occupy a Mogadishu hotel leaving at least 20 people dead.
2016 A suicide blast in Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park, Lahore claims over 70 lives and leaves almost 300 others injured. The target of the bombing are Christians celebrating Easter.
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AD 37 Roman emperor Caligula accepts the titles of the Principate, bestowed on him by the Senate.
193 Roman Emperor Pertinax is assassinated by Praetorian Guards, who then sell the throne to Didius Julianus in an auction.
364 Roman Emperor Valentinian I appoints his brother Flavius Valens co-emperor.
1566 The foundation stone of Valletta, Malta's capital city, is laid by Jean Parisot de Valette, Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.
1737 The Marathas under Baji Rao I attack and defeat the Mughals in the Battle of Delhi
1776 Juan Bautista de Anza finds the site for the Presidio of San Francisco.
1794 Allies under Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld defeat French forces at Le Cateau.
1795 Partitions of Poland: The Duchy of Courland and Semigallia, a northern fief of the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth, ceases to exist and becomes part of Imperial Russia.
1801 Treaty of Florence is signed.
1802 Heinrich Wilhelm Matthδus Olbers discovers 2 Pallas, the second asteroid ever to be discovered.
1809 Peninsular War: France defeats Spain in the Battle of Medellνn.
1814 War of 1812: In the Battle of Valparaνso, two American naval vessels are captured by two Royal Navy vessels of equal strength.
1842 First concert of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Otto Nicolai.
1854 Crimean War: France and Britain declare war on Russia.
1860 First Taranaki War: The Battle of Waireka begins.
1862 American Civil War: In the Battle of Glorieta Pass, Union forces stop the Confederate invasion of the New Mexico Territory. The battle began on March 26.
1871 The Paris Commune is formally established in Paris.
1883 Tonkin Campaign: French victory in the Battle of Gia Cuc.
1910 Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane, the Fabre Hydravion, after taking off from a water runway near Martigues, France.
1920 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1920 affects the Great Lakes region and Deep South states.
1933 The Imperial Airways biplane City of Liverpool is believed to be the first airliner lost to sabotage when a passenger sets a fire on board.
1939 Spanish Civil War: Generalissimo Francisco Franco conquers Madrid after a three-year siege.
1941 World War II: Britain's Mediterranean Fleet sinks three heavy cruisers and two destroyers of Italy's Regia Marina.
1942 World War II: A British combined force permanently disables the Louis Joubert Lock in Saint-Nazaire in order to keep the German battleship Tirpitz away from the mid-ocean convoy lanes.
1946 Cold War: The United States Department of State releases the AchesonLilienthal Report, outlining a plan for the international control of nuclear power.
1951 First Indochina War: In the Battle of Mạo Khκ, French Union forces, led by World War II hero Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, inflict a defeat on Việt Minh forces commanded by General Vυ Nguyκn Giαp.
1959 The State Council of the People's Republic of China dissolves the government of Tibet.
1968 Brazilian high school student Edson Luνs de Lima Souto is killed by military police at a protest for cheaper meals at a restaurant for low-income students.
1969 Greek poet and Nobel Prize laureate Giorgos Seferis makes a famous statement on the BBC World Service opposing the junta in Greece.
1970 An earthquake strikes western Turkey at about 23:05 local time, killing 1,086 and injuring 1,260.
1978 The US Supreme Court hands down 53 decision in Stump v. Sparkman, a controversial case involving involuntary sterilization and judicial immunity.
1979 A coolant leak at the Three Mile Island's Unit 2 nuclear reactor outside Harrisburg, Pennsylvania leads to the core overheating and a partial meltdown.
1979 The British House of Commons passes a vote of no confidence against James Callaghan's government, precipitating a general election.
1990 United States President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal.
1994 In South Africa, African National Congress security guards kill dozens of Inkatha Freedom Party protesters.
1999 Kosovo War: Serb paramilitary and military forces kill 146 Kosovo Albanians in Izbica.
2003 In a friendly fire incident, two American A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft attack British tanks participating in the 2003 invasion of Iraq, killing one soldier.
2005 An earthquake shakes northern Sumatra with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VI (Strong), leaving 9151,314 people dead and 3401,146 injured.
2006 Massive protests are mounted against France's First Employment Contract law, meant to reduce youth unemployment.
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502 King Gundobad issues a new legal code (Lex Burgundionum) at Lyon that makes Gallo-Romans and Burgundians subject to the same laws.
845 Paris is sacked by Viking raiders, probably under Ragnar Lodbrok, who collects a huge ransom in exchange for leaving.
1430 The Ottoman Empire under Murad II captures Thessalonica from the Republic of Venice.
1461 Wars of the Roses: Battle of Towton: Edward of York defeats Queen Margaret to become King Edward IV of England.
1500 Cesare Borgia is given the title of Captain General and Gonfalonier by his father Rodrigo Borgia after returning from his conquests in the Romagna.
1549 The city of Salvador da Bahia, the first capital of Brazil, is founded.
1632 Treaty of Saint-Germain is signed returning Quebec to French control after the English had seized it in 1629.
1792 King Gustav III of Sweden dies after being shot in the back at a midnight masquerade ball at Stockholm's Royal Opera 13 days earlier. He is succeeded by Gustav IV Adolf.
1806 Construction is authorized of the Great National Pike, better known as the Cumberland Road, becoming the first United States federal highway.
1809 King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden abdicates after a coup d'ιtat. At the Diet of Porvoo, Finland's four Estates pledge allegiance to Alexander I of Russia, commencing the secession of the Grand Duchy of Finland from Sweden.
1831 Great Bosnian uprising: Bosniaks rebel against Turkey.
1847 MexicanAmerican War: United States forces led by General Winfield Scott take Veracruz after a siege.
1849 The United Kingdom annexes the Punjab.
1857 Sepoy Mangal Pandey of the 34th Regiment, Bengal Native Infantry mutinies against the East India Company's rule in India and inspires the protracted Indian Rebellion of 1857, also known as the Sepoy Mutiny.
1865 American Civil War: Federal forces under Major General Philip Sheridan move to flank Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee as the Appomattox Campaign begins.
1867 Queen Victoria gives Royal Assent to the British North America Act which establishes the Dominion of Canada on July 1.
1871 Royal Albert Hall is opened by Queen Victoria.
1879 Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Kambula: British forces defeat 20,000 Zulus.
1882 The Knights of Columbus is established.
1886 John Pemberton brews the first batch of Coca-Cola in a backyard in Atlanta.
1911 The M1911 .45 ACP pistol becomes the official U.S. Army side arm.
1927 Sunbeam 1000hp breaks the land speed record at Daytona Beach, Florida.[1]
1930 Heinrich Brόning is appointed German Reichskanzler.
1936 In Germany, Adolf Hitler receives 99% of the votes in a referendum to ratify Germany's illegal remilitarization and reoccupation of the Rhineland, receiving 44.5 million votes out of 45.5 million registered voters.
1941 The North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement goes into effect at 03:00 local time.
1941 World War II: British Royal Navy and Royal Australian Navy forces defeat those of the Italian Regia Marina off the Peloponnesian coast of Greece in the Battle of Cape Matapan.
1942 The Bombing of Lόbeck in World War II is the first major success for the RAF Bomber Command against Germany and a German city.
1945 World War II: Last day of V-1 flying bomb attacks on England.
1945 World War II: The German 4th Army is almost destroyed by the Soviet Red Army.
1946 Instituto Tecnolσgico Autσnomo de Mιxico, one of Mexico's leading universities, is founded.
1947 Malagasy Uprising against French colonial rule in Madagascar.
1951 Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage.
1957 The New York, Ontario and Western Railway makes its final run, the first major U.S. railroad to be abandoned in its entirety.
1961 The Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, allowing residents of Washington, D.C., to vote in presidential elections.
1962 Arturo Frondizi, the president of Argentina, is overthrown in a military coup by Argentina's armed forces, ending an 11½ day constitutional crisis.
1971 My Lai Massacre: Lieutenant William Calley is convicted of premeditated murder and sentenced to life in prison.
1973 Vietnam War: The last United States combat soldiers leave South Vietnam.
1973 Operation Barrel Roll, a covert American bombing campaign in Laos to stop communist infiltration of South Vietnam, ends.
1974 NASA's Mariner 10 becomes the first space probe to fly by Mercury.
1974 Terracotta Army was discovered in Shaanxi province, China.
1982 The Canada Act 1982 receives the Royal Assent from Queen Elizabeth II, setting the stage for the Queen of Canada to proclaim the Constitution Act, 1982.
1984 The Baltimore Colts load its possessions onto fifteen Mayflower moving trucks in the early morning hours and transfer its operations to Indianapolis.
1990 The Czechoslovak parliament is unable to reach an agreement on what to call the country after the fall of Communism, sparking the so-called Hyphen War.
1993 Catherine Callbeck becomes premier of Prince Edward Island and the first woman to be elected in a general election as premier of a Canadian province.
1999 The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 10,000 mark (10,006.78) for the first time, during the height of the dot-com bubble.
1999 A magnitude 6.8 earthquake in India strikes the Chamoli district in Uttar Pradesh, killing 103.
2002 In reaction to the Passover massacre two days prior, Israel launches Operation Defensive Shield against Palestinian militants, its largest military operation in the West Bank since the 1967 Six-Day War.
2004 Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia join NATO as full members.
2010 Two suicide bombers hit the Moscow Metro system at the peak of the morning rush hour, killing 40.
2013 At least 36 people are killed when a 16-floor building collapses in the commercial capital Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
2014 The first same-sex marriages in England and Wales are performed.
2017 The United Kingdom invokes Article 50, beginning the formal process of Brexit.
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598 Balkan Campaign: The Avars lift the siege at the Byzantine stronghold of Tomis. Their leader Bayan I retreats north of the Danube River after the Avaro-Slavic hordes are decimated by the plague.
1282 The people of Sicily rebel against the Angevin king Charles I, in what becomes known as the Sicilian Vespers.
1296 Edward I sacks Berwick-upon-Tweed, during armed conflict between Scotland and England.
1815 Joachim Murat issues the Rimini Proclamation which would later inspire Italian unification.
1818 Physicist Augustin Fresnel reads a memoir on optical rotation to the French Academy of Sciences, reporting that when polarized light is "depolarized" by a Fresnel rhomb, its properties are preserved in any subsequent passage through an optically-rotating crystal or liquid.[1]
1822 The Florida Territory is created in the United States.
1841 The National Bank of Greece is founded in Athens.
1842 Ether anesthesia is used for the first time, in an operation by the American surgeon Dr. Crawford Long.
1844 One of the most important battles of the Dominican War of Independence from Haiti takes place near the city of Santiago de los Caballeros.
1855 Origins of the American Civil War: "Border Ruffians" from Missouri invade Kansas and force election of a pro-slavery legislature.
1856 The Treaty of Paris is signed, ending the Crimean War.
1861 Discovery of the chemical elements: Sir William Crookes announces his discovery of thallium.
1863 Danish prince Wilhelm Georg is chosen as King George of Greece.
1867 Alaska is purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, about 2-cent/acre ($4.19/km²), by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward.
1870 Texas is readmitted to the Union following Reconstruction.
1885 The Battle for Kushka triggers the Panjdeh Incident which nearly gives rise to war between the Russian and British Empire.
1899 German Society of Chemistry issues an invitation to other national scientific organizations to appoint delegates to the International Committee on Atomic Weights.
1912 Sultan Abd al-Hafid signs the Treaty of Fez, making Morocco a French protectorate.
1918 Outburst of bloody March Events in Baku and other locations of Baku Governorate.
1939 The Heinkel He 100 fighter sets a world airspeed record of 463 mph (745 km/h).
1940 Second Sino-Japanese War: Japan declares Nanking capital of a new Chinese puppet government, nominally controlled by Wang Jingwei.
1944 World War II: Allied bombers conduct their most severe bombing run on Sofia, Bulgaria.
1944 Out of 795 Lancasters, Halifaxes and Mosquitos sent to attack Nuremberg, 95 bombers do not return, making it the largest RAF Bomber Command loss of the war.
1945 World War II: Soviet forces invade Austria and capture Vienna; Polish and Soviet forces liberate Danzig.
1949 Cold War: A riot breaks out in Austurvφllur square in Reykjavνk, when Iceland joins NATO.
1961 The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs is signed in New York City.
1965 Vietnam War: A car bomb explodes in front of the United States Embassy, Saigon, killing 22 and wounding 183 others.
1972 Vietnam War: The Easter Offensive begins after North Vietnamese forces cross into the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) of South Vietnam.
1979 Airey Neave, a British Member of Parliament, is killed by a car bomb as he exits the Palace of Westminster. The Irish National Liberation Army claims responsibility.
1981 U.S. President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by John Hinckley, Jr.; three others are wounded in the same incident.
1982 Space Shuttle program: STS-3 Mission is completed with the landing of Columbia at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.
2009 Twelve gunmen attack the Manawan Police Academy in Lahore, Pakistan.
2017 SpaceX conducts the worlds first reflight of an orbital class rocket.[2][3]
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307 After divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine marries Fausta, daughter of the retired Roman Emperor Maximian.
1146 Bernard of Clairvaux preaches his famous sermon in a field at Vιzelay, urging the necessity of a Second Crusade. Louis VII is present, and joins the Crusade.
1492 Queen Isabella of Castile issues the Alhambra Decree, ordering her 150,000 Jewish and Muslim subjects to convert to Christianity or face expulsion.
1561 The city of San Cristσbal, Tαchira is founded.
1717 A sermon on "The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ" by Benjamin Hoadly, the Bishop of Bangor, provokes the Bangorian Controversy.
1774 American Revolutionary War: The Kingdom of Great Britain orders the port of Boston, Massachusetts closed pursuant to the Boston Port Act.
1822 The massacre of the population of the Greek island of Chios by soldiers of the Ottoman Empire following an attempted rebellion, depicted by the French artist Eugθne Delacroix.
1854 Commodore Matthew Perry signs the Convention of Kanagawa with the Tokugawa Shogunate, opening the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American trade.
1885 The United Kingdom establishes the Bechuanaland Protectorate.
1889 The Eiffel Tower is officially opened.
1899 Malolos, capital of the First Philippine Republic, is captured by American forces.
1906 The Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (later the National Collegiate Athletic Association) is established to set rules for college sports in the United States.
1909 Serbia accepts Austrian control over Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1913 The Vienna Concert Society rioted during a performance of modernist music by Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, Alexander von Zemlinsky, and Anton von Webern, causing a premature end to the concert due to violence; this concert became known as the Skandalkonzert.
1917 The United States takes possession of the Danish West Indies after paying $25 million to Denmark, and renames the territory the United States Virgin Islands.
1918 Massacre of ethnic Azerbaijanis is committed by allied armed groups of Armenian Revolutionary Federation and Bolsheviks. Nearly 12,000 Azerbaijani Muslims are killed.
1918 Daylight saving time goes into effect in the United States for the first time.
1921 The Royal Australian Air Force is formed.
1930 The Motion Picture Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in film, in the U.S., for the next thirty-eight years.
1931 An earthquake in Nicaragua destroys Managua; killing 2,000.
1931 A Transcontinental & Western Air airliner crashes near Bazaar, Kansas, killing eight, including University of Notre Dame head football coach Knute Rockne.
1933 The Civilian Conservation Corps is established with the mission of relieving rampant unemployment in the United States.
1942 World War II: Japanese forces invade Christmas Island, then a British possession.
1945 World War II: A defecting German pilot delivers a Messerschmitt Me 262A-1, the world's first operational jet-powered fighter aircraft, to the Americans, the first to fall into Allied hands.
1949 The Dominion of Newfoundland joins the Canadian Confederation and becomes the 10th Province of Canada.
1951 Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau.
1957 Elections to the Territorial Assembly of the French colony Upper Volta are held. After the elections PDU and MDV form a government.
1958 In the Canadian federal election, the Progressive Conservatives, led by John Diefenbaker, win the largest percentage of seats in Canadian history, with 208 seats of 265.
1959 The 14th Dalai Lama, crosses the border into India and is granted political asylum.
1964 A coup d'ιtat in Brazil establishes a military government, under the aegis of general Castelo Branco.
1966 The Soviet Union launches Luna 10 which later becomes the first space probe to enter orbit around the Moon.
1968 American President Lyndon B. Johnson speaks to the nation of "Steps to Limit the War in Vietnam" in a television address. At the conclusion of his speech, he announces: "I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your President."[1]
1970 Explorer 1 re-enters the Earth's atmosphere after 12 years in orbit.
1980 The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad operates its final train after being ordered to liquidate its assets because of bankruptcy and debts owed to creditors.
1985 The first WrestleMania, the biggest wrestling event from the WWE (then the WWF), takes place in Madison Square Garden in New York City.
1990 Approximately 200,000 protesters take to the streets of London to protest against the newly introduced Poll Tax.
1991 Georgian independence referendum, 1991: Nearly 99 percent of the voters support the country's independence from the Soviet Union.
1992 The USS Missouri, the last active United States Navy battleship, is decommissioned in Long Beach, California.
1995 Selena is murdered by her fan club's president Yolanda Saldνvar at a Days Inn in Corpus Christi, Texas after accusations of Saldνvar embezzling money from Selena's fan club.
1998 Netscape releases Mozilla source code under an open source license.
2004 Iraq War in Anbar Province: In Fallujah, Iraq, four American private military contractors working for Blackwater USA, are killed after being ambushed.
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286 Emperor Diocletian elevates his general Maximian to co-emperor with the rank of Augustus and gives him control over the Western regions of the Roman Empire.
325 Crown Prince Jin Chengdi, age 4, succeeds his father Jin Mingdi as emperor of the Eastern Jin dynasty.
457 Majorian is acclaimed emperor by the Roman army after defeating 900 Alemanni near Lake Maggiore (Italy).
527 Byzantine Emperor Justin I names his nephew Justinian I as co-ruler and successor to the throne.
528 The daughter of Emperor Xiaoming of Northern Wei was made the "Emperor" as a male heir of the late emperor by Empress Dowager Hu. Deposed and replaced by Yuan Zhao the next day, she was the first female monarch in the History of China, but is not widely recognised.
988 Robert II of France is married to Rozala of Italy. The marriage is arranged by his father, King Hugh Capet.
1293 Robert Winchelsey leaves England for Rome, to be consecrated as Archbishop of Canterbury.
1318 Berwick-upon-Tweed is captured by Scotland from England.
1340 Niels Ebbesen kills Gerhard III, Count of Holstein-Rendsburg in his bedroom, ending the 1332-1340 interregnum in Denmark.
1545 Potosν is founded after the discovery of huge silver deposits in the area.
1572 In the Eighty Years' War, the Watergeuzen capture Brielle from the Seventeen Provinces, gaining the first foothold on land for what would become the Dutch Republic.
1625 A combined Spanish and Portuguese fleet of 52 ships commences the recapture of Bahia from the Dutch during the DutchPortuguese War.
1789 In New York City, the United States House of Representatives holds its first quorum and elects Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania as its first Speaker.
1826 Samuel Morey received a patent for a compressionless "Gas or Vapor Engine".
1833 The Convention of 1833, a political gathering of settlers in Mexican Texas to help draft a series of petitions to the Mexican government, begins in San Felipe de Austin
1854 Charles Dickens' novel Hard Times begins serialisation in his magazine Household Words.
1865 American Civil War: Union troops led by Philip Sheridan decisively defeat Confederate troops led by George Pickett, cutting the Army of Northern Virginia's last supply line.
1867 Singapore becomes a British crown colony.
1873 The White Star steamer RMS Atlantic sinks off Nova Scotia, killing 547 in one of the worst marine disasters of the 19th century.
1889 The University of Northern Colorado was established, as the Colorado State Normal School.
1891 The Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago, Illinois.
1893 The rank of Chief Petty Officer in the United States Navy is established.
1908 The Territorial Force (renamed Territorial Army in 1920) is formed as a volunteer reserve component of the British Army.
1918 The Royal Air Force is created by the merger of the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service.
1924 Adolf Hitler is sentenced to five years imprisonment for his participation in the "Beer Hall Putsch" but spends only nine months in jail.
1924 The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed.
1933 The recently elected Nazis under Julius Streicher organize a one-day boycott of all Jewish-owned businesses in Germany, ushering in a series of anti-Semitic acts.
1935 India's central banking institution, The Reserve Bank of India is formed.
1937 Aden becomes a British crown colony.
1937 The Royal New Zealand Air Force is formed as an independent service.
1937 Spanish Civil War: Jaιn, Spain is bombed by German fascist forces, supporting Francoist Nationalists.
1939 Spanish Civil War: Generalνsimo Francisco Franco of the Spanish State announces the end of the Spanish Civil War, when the last of the Republican forces surrender.
1941 Fβntβna Albă massacre: Between 200 and 2,000 Romanian civilians are killed by Soviet Border Troops.
1941 A military coup in Iraq overthrows the regime of 'Abd al-Ilah and installs Rashid Ali al-Gaylani as Prime Minister.
1944 Navigation errors lead to an accidental American bombing of the Swiss city of Schaffhausen.
1945 World War II: The Tenth United States Army attacks the Thirty-Second Japanese Army on Okinawa.
1946 The 8.6 Mw Aleutian Islands earthquake shakes the Aleutian Islands with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VI (Strong). A destructive tsunami reaches the Hawaiian Islands resulting in dozens of deaths, mostly in Hilo, Hawaii.
1947 The only mutiny in the history of the Royal New Zealand Navy begins.
1948 Cold War: Communist forces respond to the introduction of the Deutsche Mark by attempting to force the western powers to withdraw from Berlin.
1948 Faroe Islands gain autonomy from Denmark.
1949 Chinese Civil War: The Chinese Communist Party holds unsuccessful peace talks with the Nationalist Party in Beijing, after three years of fighting.
1949 The Government of Canada repeals Japanese-Canadian internment after seven years.
1954 United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorizes the creation of the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado.
1955 The EOKA rebellion against the British Empire begins in Cyprus, with the goal of unifying with Greece.
1960 The TIROS-1 satellite transmits the first television picture from space.
1970 President Richard Nixon signs the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act into law, requiring the Surgeon General's warnings on tobacco products and banning cigarette advertising on television and radio in the United States, effective 1 January 1971.
1971 Bangladesh Liberation War: The Pakistan Army massacre over 1,000 people in Keraniganj Upazila, Bangladesh.
1973 Project Tiger, a tiger conservation project, is launched in the Jim Corbett National Park, India.
1974 The Local Government Act 1972 of England and Wales comes into effect.
1976 Apple Inc. is formed by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne in Cupertino, California, USA.
1978 The Philippine College of Commerce, through a presidential decree, becomes the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.
1979 Iran becomes an Islamic republic by a 99% vote, officially overthrowing the Shah.
1986 Communist Party of Nepal (Mashal) cadres attack a number of police stations in Kathmandu, seeking to incite a popular rebellion.
1989 Margaret Thatcher's new local government tax, the Community Charge (commonly known as the "poll tax"), is introduced in Scotland.
1997 Comet HaleBopp is seen passing at perihelion.
1999 Nunavut is established as a Canadian territory carved out of the eastern part of the Northwest Territories.
2001 An EP-3E United States Navy surveillance aircraft collides with a Chinese People's Liberation Army Shenyang J-8 fighter jet. The Navy crew makes an emergency landing in Hainan, China and is detained.
2001 Former President of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Miloević surrenders to police special forces, to be tried on war crimes charges.
2001 Same-sex marriage becomes legal in the Netherlands, the first contemporary country to allow it.
2004 Google announces Gmail to the public.
2011 After protests against the burning of the Quran turn violent, a mob attacks a United Nations compound in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan, resulting in the deaths of thirteen people, including eight foreign workers.
2016 Nagorno-Karabakh clashes: The Four Day War or April War, began along the Nagorno-Karabakh line of contact on April 1.
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1513 Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leσn first sights land in what is now the United States state of Florida.
1755 Commodore William James captures the Maratha fortress of Suvarnadurg on west coast of India.
1792 The Coinage Act is passed establishing the United States Mint.
1800 Ludwig van Beethoven leads the premiere of his First Symphony in Vienna.
1801 French Revolutionary Wars: The British capture the Danish fleet.
1851 Rama IV is crowned King of Thailand.
1863 American Civil War: The largest in a series of Southern bread riots occurs in Richmond, Virginia.
1865 American Civil War: Defeat at the Third Battle of Petersburg forces the Army of Northern Virginia and the Confederate government to abandon Richmond, Virginia.
1885 Canadian Cree warriors attack the village of Frog Lake, killing nine.
1900 The United States Congress passes the Foraker Act, giving Puerto Rico limited self-rule.
1902 Dmitry Sipyagin, Minister of Interior of the Russian Empire, is assassinated in the Marie Palace, Saint Petersburg.
1902 "Electric Theatre", the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles.
1911 The Australian Bureau of Statistics conducts the country's first national census.
1912 The ill-fated RMS Titanic begins sea trials.
1917 World War I: United States President Woodrow Wilson asks the U.S. Congress for a declaration of war on Germany.
1921 The Autonomous Government of Khorasan, a military government encompassing the modern state of Iran, is established.
1930 After the mysterious death of Empress Zewditu, Haile Selassie is proclaimed emperor of Ethiopia.
1956 As the World Turns and The Edge of Night premiere on CBS. The two soaps become the first daytime dramas to debut in the 30-minute format.
1972 Actor Charlie Chaplin returns to the United States for the first time since being labeled a communist during the Red Scare in the early 1950s.
1973 Launch of the LexisNexis computerized legal research service.
1975 Vietnam War: Thousands of civilian refugees flee from Quảng Ngγi Province in front of advancing North Vietnamese troops.
1976 Prince Norodom Sihanouk resigns as leader of Cambodia and is placed under house arrest.[1]
1979 A Soviet bio-warfare laboratory at Sverdlovsk accidentally releases airborne anthrax spores, killing 66 plus an unknown amount of livestock.
1980 United States President Jimmy Carter signs the Crude Oil Windfall Profits Tax Act.
1982 Falklands War: Argentina invades the Falkland Islands.
1986 Alabama governor George Wallace, a former segregationist, best known for the "Stand in the Schoolhouse Door", announces that he will not seek a fifth four-year term and will retire from public life upon the end of his term in January 1987.
1989 Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev arrives in Havana, Cuba, to meet with Fidel Castro in an attempt to mend strained relations.
1991 Rita Johnston becomes the first female Premier of a Canadian province when she succeeds William Vander Zalm (who had resigned) as Premier of British Columbia.
1992 In New York, Mafia boss John Gotti is convicted of murder and racketeering and is later sentenced to life in prison.
1992 Forty-two civilians were massacred in the town of Bijeljina.
2002 Israeli forces surround the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem into which armed Palestinians had retreated.
2004 Islamist terrorists involved in the 11 March 2004 Madrid attacks attempt to bomb the Spanish high-speed train AVE near Madrid; the attack is thwarted.
2006 Over 60 tornadoes break out in the United States; Tennessee is hardest hit with 29 people killed.
2012 A mass shooting at Oikos University in California leaves seven people dead and three injured.
2014 A spree shooting occurs at the Fort Hood army base in Texas, with four dead, including the gunman, and 16 others injured.
2015 Gunmen attack Garissa University College in Kenya, killing at least 148 people and wounding 79 others.
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686 Maya king Yuknoom Yich'aak K'ahk' assumes the crown of Calakmul.
801 King Louis the Pious captures Barcelona from the Moors after a siege of several months.
1043 Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England.
1077 The first Parliament of Friuli is created.
1559 The Peace of Cateau-Cambrιsis treaty is signed, ending the Italian Wars.
1834 The generals in the Greek War of Independence stand trial for treason.
1860 The first successful United States Pony Express run from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, begins.
1865 American Civil War: Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of America.
1882 American Old West: Robert Ford kills Jesse James.
1885 Gottlieb Daimler is granted a German patent for his engine design.
1888 The first of eleven unsolved brutal murders of women committed in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London, occurs.
1895 The trial in the libel case brought by Oscar Wilde begins, eventually resulting in his imprisonment on charges of homosexuality.
1922 Joseph Stalin becomes the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1933 First flight over Mount Everest, a British expedition, led by the Marquis of Clydesdale, and funded by Lucy, Lady Houston.
1936 Bruno Richard Hauptmann is executed for the kidnapping and death of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., the baby son of pilot Charles Lindbergh.
1942 World War II: Japanese forces begin an assault on the United States and Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula.
1946 Japanese Lt. General Masaharu Homma is executed in the Philippines for leading the Bataan Death March.
1948 Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the Marshall Plan, authorizing $5 billion in aid for 16 countries.
1948 In Jeju Province, South Korea, a civil-war-like period of violence and human rights abuses begins, known as the Jeju uprising.
1955 The American Civil Liberties Union announces it will defend Allen Ginsberg's book Howl against obscenity charges.
1956 HudsonvilleStandale tornado: The western half of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan is struck by a deadly F5 tornado.
1968 Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech. He was assassinated the next day.
1969 Vietnam War: United States Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announces that the United States will start to "Vietnamize" the war effort.
1973 Martin Cooper of Motorola makes the first handheld mobile phone call to Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs.
1974 The 1974 Super Outbreak occurs, the second biggest tornado outbreak in recorded history (after the 2011 Super Outbreak). The death toll is 315, with nearly 5,500 injured.
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1975 Bobby Fischer refuses to play in a chess match against Anatoly Karpov, giving Karpov the title of World Champion by default.
1981 The Osborne 1, the first successful portable computer, is unveiled at the West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco.
1996 Suspected "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski is captured at his Montana cabin in the United States.
1997 The Thalit massacre begins in Algeria; all but one of the 53 inhabitants of Thalit are killed by guerrillas.
2000 United States v. Microsoft Corp.: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust law by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors.
2004 Islamic terrorists involved in the 2004 Madrid train bombings are trapped by the police in their apartment and kill themselves.
2007 Conventional-Train World Speed Record: A French TGV train on the LGV Est high speed line sets an official new world speed record.
2008 ATA Airlines, once one of the ten largest U.S. passenger airlines and largest charter airline, files for bankruptcy for the second time in five years and ceases all operations.
2008 Texas law enforcement cordons off the FLDS's YFZ Ranch. Eventually 533 women and children will be taken into state custody.
2009 Jiverly Antares Wong opens fire at the American Civic Association immigration center in Binghamton, New York, killing thirteen and wounding four before committing suicide.
2010 Apple Inc. released the first generation iPad, a tablet computer.
2013 More than 50 people die in floods resulting from record-breaking rainfall in La Plata and Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2016 The Panama Papers, a leak of legal documents, reveals information on 214,488 offshore companies.
2017 A bomb explodes in the St Petersburg metro system, killing 14 and injuring several more people.
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503 BC – Roman consul Agrippa Menenius Lanatus celebrated a triumph for a military victory over the Sabines.
1147 – First historical record of Moscow.
1460 – Basel University is founded.
1581 – Francis Drake is knighted for completing a circumnavigation of the world.
1660 – Declaration of Breda by King Charles II of Great Britain.
1721 – Sir Robert Walpole becomes the first British prime minister.
1768 – In London, Philip Astley stages the first modern circus.
1796 – Georges Cuvier delivers the first paleontological lecture.
1812 – United States President James Madison enacts a ninety-day embargo on trade with the United Kingdom.
1814 – Napoleon abdicates for the first time and names his son Napoleon II as Emperor of the French.
1818 – The United States Congress, affirming the Second Continental Congress, adopts the flag of the United States with 13 red and white stripes and one star for each state (20 at that time).
1841 – William Henry Harrison dies of pneumonia, becoming the first President of the United States to die in office, and setting the record for the briefest administration. Vice President John Tyler succeeds Harrison as President.
1850 – A large part of the English village of Cottenham burns to the ground in suspicious circumstances.
1850 – Los Angeles is incorporated as a city.
1859 – Bryant's Minstrels debut "Dixie" in New York City in the finale of a blackface minstrel show.
1865 – American Civil War: A day after Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln visits the Confederate capital.
1866 – Alexander II of Russia narrowly escapes an assassination attempt by Dmitry Karakozov in the city of Saint Petersburg.
1873 – The Kennel Club is founded, the oldest and first official registry of purebred dogs in the world.
1887 – Argonia, Kansas elects Susanna M. Salter as the first female mayor in the United States.
1905 – In India, an earthquake hits the Kangra Valley, killing 20,000, and destroying most buildings in Kangra, McLeod Ganj and Dharamshala.
1913 – First Balkan War: Greek aviator Emmanouil Argyropoulos becomes the first pilot to die in the Hellenic Air Force when his plane crashes.
1925 – The Schutzstaffel (SS) is founded under Adolf Hitler's Nazi government in Germany.
1933 – U.S. Navy airship USS Akron is wrecked off the New Jersey coast due to severe weather.
1939 – Faisal II becomes King of Iraq.
1944 – World War II: First bombardment of oil refineries in Bucharest by Anglo-American forces kills 3000 civilians.
1945 – World War II: American troops liberate Ohrdruf forced labor camp in Germany.
1945 – World War II: American troops capture Kassel.
1945 – World War II: Soviet troops liberate Hungary from German occupation and occupy the country itself.
1949 – Cold War: Twelve nations sign the North Atlantic Treaty creating the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
1958 – The CND peace symbol is displayed in public for the first time in London.
1960 – France agrees to grant independence to the Mali Federation, a union of Senegal and French Sudan.
1964 – The Beatles occupy the top five positions on the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart.
1965 – The first model of the new Saab Viggen fighter aircraft is unveiled.
1967 – Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence" speech in New York City's Riverside Church.
1968 – Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated by James Earl Ray at a motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
1968 – Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 6.
1968 – A.E.K. Athens B.C. becomes the first Greek team to win the European Basketball Cup.
1969 – Dr. Denton Cooley implants the first temporary artificial heart.
1973 – The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City are officially dedicated.
1973 – A Lockheed C-141 Starlifter, dubbed the Hanoi Taxi, makes the last flight of Operation Homecoming.
1975 – Microsoft is founded as a partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico
1975 – Vietnam War: A United States Air Force Lockheed C-5A Galaxy transporting orphans, crashes near Saigon, South Vietnam shortly after takeoff, killing 172 people.
1979 – Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan is executed.
1981 – Iran–Iraq War: The Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force mounts an attack on H-3 Airbase and destroys about 50 Iraqi aircraft.
1983 – Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Challenger makes its maiden voyage into space.
1984 – President Ronald Reagan calls for an international ban on chemical weapons.
1988 – Governor Evan Mecham of Arizona is convicted in his impeachment trial and removed from office.
1991 – Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania and six others are killed when a helicopter collides with their airplane over an elementary school in Merion, Pennsylvania.
1991 – The current flag of Hong Kong is adopted for post-colonial Hong Kong during the Third Session of the Seventh National People's Congress.
1994 – Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark found Netscape Communications Corporation under the name Mosaic Communications Corporation.
1996 – Comet Hyakutake is imaged by the USA Asteroid Orbiter Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous.
2002 – The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign a peace treaty ending the Angolan Civil War.
2009 – France returns to being a member of NATO.
2013 – More than 70 people are killed in a building collapse in Thane, India.
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Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
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823 Lothair I is crowned King of Italy by Pope Paschal I.
1081 Alexios I Komnenos is crowned Byzantine emperor at Constantinople, bringing the Komnenian dynasty to full power.
1242 During the Battle on the Ice of Lake Peipus, Russian forces, led by Alexander Nevsky, rebuff an invasion attempt by the Teutonic Knights.
Awesome movie by Sergei Eisenstein
1536 Royal Entry of Charles V into Rome: The last Roman triumph.
1566 Two-hundred Dutch noblemen, led by Hendrick van Brederode, force themselves into the presence of Margaret of Parma and present the Petition of Compromise, denouncing the Spanish Inquisition in the Seventeen Provinces.
1609 Daimyo (Lord) Shimazu Tadatsune of the Satsuma Domain in southern Kyūshū, Japan, completes his successful invasion of the Ryūkyū Kingdom in Okinawa.
1614 In Virginia, Native American Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe.
1621 The Mayflower sets sail from Plymouth, Massachusetts on a return trip to England.
1710 The Statute of Anne receives the royal assent establishing the Copyright law of the United Kingdom.
1722 The Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen discovers Easter Island.
1792 United States President George Washington exercises his authority to veto a bill, the first time this power is used in the United States.
1795 Peace of Basel between France and Prussia is made.
1818 In the Battle of Maipϊ, Chile's independence movement, led by Bernardo O'Higgins and Josι de San Martνn, win a decisive victory over Spain, leaving 2,000 Spaniards and 1,000 Chilean patriots dead.
1862 American Civil War: The Battle of Yorktown begins.
1879 Chile declares war on Bolivia and Peru, starting the War of the Pacific.
1898 Founding and formation of Portsmouth Football Club
1900 Archaeologists in Knossos, Crete, discover a large cache of clay tablets with hieroglyphic writing in a script they call Linear B.
1904 The first international rugby league match is played between England and an Other Nationalities team (Welsh & Scottish players) in Central Park, Wigan, England.
1915 Boxing challenger Jess Willard knocks out Jack Johnson in Havana, Cuba to become the Heavyweight Champion of the World.
1922 The American Birth Control League, forerunner of Planned Parenthood, is incorporated.
1932 Dominion of Newfoundland: Ten thousand rioters seize the Colonial Building leading to the end of self-government.
1933 U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs two executive orders: 6101 to establish the Civilian Conservation Corps, and 6102 "forbidding the Hoarding of Gold Coin, Gold Bullion, and Gold Certificates" by U.S. citizens.
1936 TupeloGainesville tornado outbreak: An F5 tornado kills 233 in Tupelo, Mississippi.
1942 World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy launches a carrier-based air attack on Colombo, Ceylon during the Indian Ocean raid. Port and civilian facilities are damaged and the Royal Navy cruisers HMS Cornwall and HMS Dorsetshire are sunk southwest of the island.
1943 World War II: American bomber aircraft accidentally cause more than 900 civilian deaths, including 209 children, and 1,300 wounded among the civilian population of the Belgian town of Mortsel. Their target was the Erla factory one kilometer from the residential area hit.
1944 World War II: Two hundred seventy inhabitants of the Greek town of Kleisoura are executed by the Germans.
1945 Cold War: Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito signs an agreement with the Soviet Union to allow "temporary entry of Soviet troops into Yugoslav territory".
1946 Soviet troops end their year-long occupation of the Danish island of Bornholm.
1949 A fire in a hospital in Effingham, Illinois, kills 77 people and leads to nationwide fire code improvements in the United States.
1951 Cold War: Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are sentenced to death for spying for the Soviet Union.
1956 Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro declares himself at war with Cuban President Fulgencio Batista.
1956 In Sri Lanka, the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna win the general elections in a landslide and S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike is sworn in as the Prime Minister of Ceylon.
1957 In India, Communists win the first elections in united Kerala and E. M. S. Namboodiripad is sworn in as the first Chief Minister.
1958 Ripple Rock, an underwater threat to navigation in the Seymour Narrows in Canada is destroyed in one of the largest non-nuclear controlled explosions of the time.
1969 Vietnam War: Massive antiwar demonstrations occur in many U.S. cities.
1971 In Sri Lanka, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna launches a revolt against the United Front government of Sirimavo Bandaranaike.
1976 In China, the April Fifth Movement leads to the Tiananmen Incident.
1986 Three people are killed in the bombing of the La Belle discotheque in West Berlin, Germany.
1991 An ASA EMB 120 crashes in Brunswick, Georgia, killing all 23 aboard including Sen. John Tower and astronaut Sonny Carter.
1992 Alberto Fujimori, president of Peru, dissolves the Peruvian congress by military force.
1992 Peace protesters Suada Dilberovic and Olga Sučić are killed on the Vrbanja Bridge in Sarajevo, becoming the first casualties of the Bosnian War.
1998 In Japan, the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge opens to traffic, becoming the longest bridge span in the world.
1999 Two Libyans suspected of bringing down Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988 are handed over for eventual trial in the Netherlands.
2009 North Korea launches its controversial Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2 rocket. The satellite passed over mainland Japan, which prompted an immediate reaction from the United Nations Security Council, as well as participating states of Six-party talks.
2010 Twenty-nine coal miners are killed in an explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine in West Virginia.
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