Yeah and for all of those dorks who claim to have been born on a day that doesn't exist.
Here's your it likely didn't happen because its not real events of Feb 29th
1504 – Christopher Columbus uses his knowledge of a lunar eclipse that night to convince Native Americans to provide him with supplies.
1644 – Abel Tasman's second Pacific voyage began.
1704 – Queen Anne's War: French forces and Native Americans stage a raid on Deerfield, Massachusetts Bay Colony, killing 56 villagers and taking more than 100 captive.
1712 – February 29 is followed by February 30 in Sweden, in a move to abolish the Swedish calendar for a return to the Julian calendar.
1720 – Ulrika Eleonora, Queen of Sweden abdicates in favour of her husband, who becomes King Frederick I on 24 March.
1752 – King Alaungpaya founds Konbaung Dynasty, the last dynasty of Burmese monarchy.
1768 – Polish nobles formed Bar Confederation.
1796 – The Jay Treaty between the United States and Great Britain comes into force, facilitating ten years of peaceful trade between the two nations.
1864 – American Civil War: Kilpatrick–Dahlgren Raid fails: Plans to free 15,000 Union soldiers being held near Richmond, Virginia are thwarted.
1892 – St. Petersburg, Florida is incorporated.
1912 – The Piedra Movediza (Moving Stone) of Tandil falls and breaks.
1916 – Tokelau is annexed by the United Kingdom.
1916 – Child labor: In South Carolina, the minimum working age for factory, mill, and mine workers is raised from twelve to fourteen years old.
1920 – Czechoslovak National assembly adopted the Constitution.
1936 – February 26 Incident in Tokyo ends.
1940 – For her performance as "Mammy" in Gone with the Wind, Hattie McDaniel becomes the first African American to win an Academy Award.
1940 – Finland initiates Winter War peace negotiations.
1940 – In a ceremony held in Berkeley, California, because of the war, physicist Ernest Lawrence receives the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics from Sweden's Consul General in San Francisco.
1944 – World War II: The Admiralty Islands are invaded in Operation Brewer led by American General Douglas MacArthur.
1960 – The 5.7 Mw Agadir earthquake shakes coastal Morocco with a maximum perceived intensity of X (Extreme), destroying Agadir, and leaving 12,000 dead and another 12,000 injured.
1964 – In Sydney, Australian swimmer Dawn Fraser sets a new world record in the 100-meter freestyle swimming competition (58.9 seconds).
1972 – Vietnam War: Vietnamization: South Korea withdraws 11,000 of its 48,000 troops from Vietnam.
1980 – Gordie Howe of the then Hartford Whalers makes NHL history as he scores his 800th goal.
1988 – South African archbishop Desmond Tutu is arrested along with 100 clergymen during a five-day anti-apartheid demonstration in Cape Town.
1988 – Svend Robinson becomes the first member of the Canadian House of Commons to come out as gay.
1992 – First day of Bosnia and Herzegovina independence referendum.
1996 – Faucett Flight 251 crashes in the Andes, all 123 passengers and crew died.
1996 – Siege of Sarajevo officially ends.
2000 – Second Chechen War: Eighty-four Russian paratroopers are killed in a rebel attack on a guard post near Ulus Kert.
2004 – Jean-Bertrand Aristide is removed as President of Haiti following a coup.
2008 – The United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence decides to withdraw Prince Harry from a tour of Afghanistan "immediately" after a leak led to his deployment being reported by foreign media.
2008 – Misha Defonseca admits to fabricating her memoir, Misha: A Mιmoire of the Holocaust Years, in which she claimed to have lived with a pack of wolves in the woods during the Holocaust.
2012 – Tokyo Skytree construction completed. It is, as of 2017, the tallest tower in the world, 634 meters high, and second tallest (man-made) structure on Earth, next to Burj Khalifa.
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537 Siege of Rome: The Ostrogoth army under king Vitiges begins the siege of the capital. Belisarius conducts a delaying action outside the Flaminian Gate; he and a detachment of his bucellarii are almost cut off.
986 Louis V becomes King of the Franks.
1127 Assassination of Charles the Good, Count of Flanders.
1444 Skanderbeg organizes a group of Albanian nobles to form the League of Lezhλ.
1458 George of Poděbrady is chosen as the king of Bohemia.
1476 Burgundian Wars: The Old Swiss Confederacy hands Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, a major defeat in the Battle of Grandson in Canton of Neuchβtel.
1484 The College of Arms is formally incorporated by Royal Charter signed by King Richard III of England.
1498 Vasco da Gama's fleet visits the Island of Mozambique.
1561 Mendoza, Argentina is founded by Spanish conquistador Pedro del Castillo.
1657 Great Fire of Meireki: A fire in Edo (now Tokyo), Japan, caused more than 100,000 deaths; it lasted three days
1717 The Loves of Mars and Venus is the first ballet performed in England.
1776 American Revolutionary War: Patriot militia units arrest the Royal Governor of Georgia James Wright and attempt to prevent capture of supply ships in the Battle of the Rice Boats.
1791 Long-distance communication speeds up with the unveiling of a semaphore machine in Paris.
1797 The Bank of England issues the first one-pound and two-pound banknotes.
1807 The U.S. Congress passes the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves, disallowing the importation of new slaves into the country.
1808 The inaugural meeting of the Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is held in Edinburgh.
1811 Argentine War of Independence: A royalist fleet defeats a small flotilla of revolutionary ships in the Battle of San Nicolαs on the River Plate.
1815 Signing of the Kandyan Convention treaty by British invaders and the leaders of the Kingdom of Kandy.
1825 Roberto Cofresν, one of the last successful Caribbean pirates, is defeated in combat and captured by authorities.
1836 Texas Revolution: The Declaration of independence of the Republic of Texas from Mexico is adopted.
1855 Alexander II becomes Tsar of Russia.
1859 The two-day Great Slave Auction, the largest such auction in United States history, begins.
1865 East Cape War: The Vφlkner Incident in New Zealand.
1867 The U.S. Congress passes the first Reconstruction Act.
1877 U.S. presidential election, 1876: Just two days before inauguration, the U.S. Congress declares Rutherford B. Hayes the winner of the election even though Samuel J. Tilden had won the popular vote on November 7, 1876.
1882 Queen Victoria narrowly escapes an assassination attempt by Roderick McLean in Windsor.
1896 The Battle of Adwa - The Italian Army defeated by the Ethiopian Army in Adwa, Tigray, Ethiopia.
1901 United States Steel Corporation is founded as a result of a merger between Carnegie Steel Company and Federal Steel Company which became the first corporation in the world with a market capital over $1 billion.
1901 The U.S. Congress passes the Platt Amendment limiting the autonomy of Cuba, as a condition of the withdrawal of American troops.
1903 In New York City the Martha Washington Hotel opens, becoming the first hotel exclusively for women.
1917 The enactment of the JonesShafroth Act grants Puerto Ricans United States citizenship.
1919 The first Communist International meets in Moscow
1933 The film King Kong opens at New York's Radio City Music Hall.
1937 The Steel Workers Organizing Committee signs a collective bargaining agreement with U.S. Steel, leading to unionization of the United States steel industry.
1939 Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli is elected Pope and takes the name Pius XII.
1941 World War II: First German military units enter Bulgaria after it joins the Axis Pact.
1943 World War II: Battle of the Bismarck Sea: United States and Australian forces sink Japanese convoy ships.
1946 Ho Chi Minh is elected the President of North Vietnam.
1949 Captain James Gallagher lands his B-50 Superfortress Lucky Lady II in Fort Worth, Texas after completing the first non-stop around-the-world airplane flight in 94 hours and one minute.
1955 Norodom Sihanouk, king of Cambodia, abdicates the throne in favor of his father, Norodom Suramarit.
1956 Morocco gains its independence from France.
1961 John F. Kennedy announces the creation of the Peace Corps in a nationally televised broadcast.
1962 In Burma, the army led by General Ne Win seizes power in a coup d'ιtat.
1962 Wilt Chamberlain sets the single-game scoring record in the National Basketball Association by scoring 100 points.
1965 The US and Republic of Vietnam Air Force begin Operation Rolling Thunder, a sustained bombing campaign against North Vietnam.
1968 Baggeridge Colliery closes marking the end of over 300 years of coal mining in the Black Country.[1]
1969 In Toulouse, France, the first test flight of the Anglo-French Concorde is conducted.
1970 Rhodesia declares itself a republic, breaking its last links with the British crown.
1972 The Pioneer 10 space probe is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida with a mission to explore the outer planets.
1977 Libya becomes the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya as the General People's Congress adopted the "Declaration on the Establishment of the Authority of the People".
1978 Czech Vladimνr Remek becomes the first non-Russian or non-American to go into space, when he is launched aboard Soyuz 28.
1983 Compact discs and players are released for the first time in the United States and other markets. They had previously been available only in Japan.
1989 Twelve European Community nations agree to ban the production of all chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) by the end of the century.
1990 Nelson Mandela is elected deputy President of the African National Congress.
1991 Battle at Rumaila oil field brings an end to the 1991 Gulf War.
1992 Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, San Marino, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan join the United Nations.
1995 Researchers at Fermilab announce the discovery of the top quark.
1995 Yahoo! is incorporated.
1998 Data sent from the Galileo spacecraft indicates that Jupiter's moon Europa has a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice.
2002 U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda begins, (ending on March 19 after killing 500 Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters, with 11 Western troop fatalities).
2004 War in Iraq: Al-Qaeda carries out the Ashoura Massacre in Iraq, killing 170 and wounding over 500.
2012 A tornado outbreak occurred over a large section of the Southern United States and into the Ohio Valley region, resulting in 40 tornado-related fatalities
2017 The elements Moscovium, Tennessine, and Oganesson were officially added to the periodic table at a conference in Moscow, Russia
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473 Gundobad (nephew of Ricimer) nominates Glycerius as emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
724 Empress Genshō abdicates the throne in favor of her nephew Shōmu who becomes emperor of Japan.
1284 The Statute of Rhuddlan incorporates the Principality of Wales into England.
1575 Indian Mughal Emperor Akbar defeats Bengali army at the Battle of Tukaroi.
1585 The Olympic Theatre, designed by Andrea Palladio, is inaugurated in Vicenza.
1776 American Revolutionary War: The first amphibious landing of the United States Marine Corps begins the Battle of Nassau.
1779 American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army is routed at the Battle of Brier Creek near Savannah, Georgia.
1799 The Russo-Ottoman siege of Corfu ends with the surrender of the French garrison.
1820 The U.S. Congress passes the Missouri Compromise.
1845 Florida is admitted as the 27th U.S. state.
1849 The Territory of Minnesota was created.
1857 Second Opium War: France and the United Kingdom declare war on China.
1859 The two-day Great Slave Auction, the largest such auction in United States history, concludes.
1861 Alexander II of Russia signs the Emancipation Manifesto, freeing serfs.
1865 Opening of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, the founding member of the HSBC Group.
1873 Censorship in the United States: The U.S. Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any "obscene, lewd, or lascivious" books through the mail.
1875 Georges Bizet's opera Carmen receives its premiθre at the Opιra-Comique in Paris.
1875 The first ever organized indoor game of ice hockey is played in Montreal, Quebec, Canada as recorded in the Montreal Gazette.
1878 The Russo-Turkish War ends with Bulgaria regaining its independence from the Ottoman Empire according to the Treaty of San Stefano; a few months afterwards the Congress of Berlin stripped its status to a vassal principality of the Ottoman Empire.
1885 The American Telephone & Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York.
1904 Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany becomes the first person to make a sound recording of a political document, using Thomas Edison's phonograph cylinder.
1910 Rockefeller Foundation: John D. Rockefeller Jr. announces his retirement from managing his businesses so that he can devote all his time to philanthropy.
1913 Thousands of women march in a suffrage parade in Washington, D.C.
1918 Russia signs the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, agreeing to withdraw from World War I, and conceding German control of the Baltic States, Belarus and Ukraine. It also conceded Turkish control of Ardahan, Kars and Batumi.
1923 TIME magazine is published for the first time.
1924 The fourteenth-century Islamic caliphate is abolished when Caliph Abdόlmecid II of the Ottoman Empire is deposed. The last remnant of the old regime gives way to the reformed Turkey of Kemal Atatόrk.
1924 The Free State of Fiume is annexed by the Kingdom of Italy.
1931 The United States adopts The Star-Spangled Banner as its national anthem.
1938 Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.
1939 In Bombay, Mohandas Gandhi begins a hunger strike in protest at the autocratic rule in British India.
1940 Five people are killed in an arson attack on the offices of the communist newspaper Flamman in Luleε, Sweden.
1942 World War II: Ten Japanese warplanes raid Broome, Western Australia, killing more than 100 people.
1943 World War II: In London, 173 people are killed in a crush while trying to enter an air-raid shelter at Bethnal Green tube station.
1944 The Order of Nakhimov and Order of Ushakov are instituted in USSR as the highest naval awards.
1945 World War II: American and Filipino troops recapture Manila.
1945 World War II: The RAF accidentally bombs the Bezuidenhout area of The Hague, Netherlands, killing 511 people.
1951 Jackie Brenston, with Ike Turner and his band, records "Rocket 88", often cited as "the first rock and roll record", at Sam Phillips's recording studios in Memphis, Tennessee.
1953 A De Havilland Comet (Canadian Pacific Air Lines) crashes in Karachi, Pakistan, killing 11.
1958 Nuri al-Said becomes Prime Minister of Iraq for the eighth time.
1969 Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 to test the lunar module.
1972 Mohawk Airlines Flight 405 crashes as a result of a control malfunction and insufficient training in emergency procedures.
1974 Turkish Airlines Flight 981 crashes at Ermenonville near Paris, France killing all 346 aboard.
1980 The USS Nautilus is decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register.
1985 Arthur Scargill declares that the National Union of Mineworkers' national executive voted to end the longest-running industrial dispute in Great Britain without any peace deal over pit closures.
1985 A magnitude 8.3 earthquake strikes the Valparaνso Region of Chile, killing 177 and leaving nearly a million people homeless.
1986 The Australia Act 1986 commences, causing Australia to become fully independent from the United Kingdom.
1991 An amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers.
1997 The tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere, Sky Tower in downtown Auckland, New Zealand, opens after two-and-a-half years of construction.
2005 James Roszko murders four Royal Canadian Mounted Police constables during a drug bust at his property in Rochfort Bridge, Alberta, then commits suicide. This is the deadliest peace-time incident for the RCMP since 1885 and the North-West Rebellion.
2005 Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly an airplane non-stop around the world solo without refueling.
2005 Margaret Wilson is elected as Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives, beginning a period lasting until August 23, 2006 where all the highest political offices (including Elizabeth II as Head of State), were occupied by women, making New Zealand the first country for this to occur.
2013 A bomb blast in Karachi, Pakistan, kills at least 45 people and injured 180 others in a predominately Shia Muslim area.
2017 Nintendo releases the hybrid Nintendo Switch video game console worldwide to critical acclaim, later becoming the fastest selling console in the United States.
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AD 51 Nero, later to become Roman emperor, is given the title princeps iuventutis (head of the youth).
306 Martyrdom of Saint Adrian of Nicomedia.
852 Croatian Knez Trpimir I issues a statute, a document with the first known written mention of the Croats name in Croatian sources.
932 Translation of the relics of martyr Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia, Prince of the Czechs.
1152 Frederick I Barbarossa is elected King of Germany.
1238 The Battle of the Sit River is fought in the northern part of the present-day Yaroslavl Oblast of Russia between the Mongol hordes of Batu Khan and the Russians under Yuri II of Vladimir-Suzdal during the Mongol invasion of Rus'.
1351 Ramathibodi becomes King of Siam.
1386 Władysław II Jagiełło (Jogaila) is crowned King of Poland.
1461 Wars of the Roses in England: Lancastrian King Henry VI is deposed by his House of York cousin, who then becomes King Edward IV.
1493 Explorer Christopher Columbus arrives back in Lisbon, Portugal, aboard his ship Niρa from his voyage to what are now The Bahamas and other islands in the Caribbean.
1519 Hernαn Cortιs arrives in Mexico in search of the Aztec civilization and its wealth.
1628 The Massachusetts Bay Colony is granted a Royal charter.
1665 English King Charles II declares war on the Netherlands marking the start of the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
1675 John Flamsteed is appointed the first Astronomer Royal of England.
1681 Charles II grants a land charter to William Penn for the area that will later become Pennsylvania.
1776 American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army fortifies Dorchester Heights with cannon, leading the British troops to abandon the Siege of Boston.
1789 In New York City, the first Congress of the United States meets, putting the United States Constitution into effect. The United States Bill of Rights is written and proposed to Congress.
1790 France is divided into 83 dιpartements, cutting across the former provinces in an attempt to dislodge regional loyalties based on ownership of land by the nobility.
1791 The Constitutional Act of 1791 is introduced by the British House of Commons in London which envisages the separation of Canada into Lower Canada (Quebec) and Upper Canada (Ontario).
1791 Vermont is admitted to the United States as the fourteenth state.
1794 The 11th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is passed by the U.S. Congress.
1797 John Adams is inaugurated as the 2nd President of the United States of America, becoming the first President to begin his presidency on March 4.
1804 Castle Hill Rebellion: Irish convicts rebel against British colonial authority in the Colony of New South Wales.
1813 Cyril VI of Constantinople is elected Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
1814 Americans defeat British forces at the Battle of Longwoods between London, Ontario and Thamesville, near present-day Wardsville, Ontario.
1837 The city of Chicago is incorporated.
1848 Carlo Alberto di Savoia signs the Statuto Albertino that will later represent the first constitution of the Regno d'Italia.
1861 The first national flag of the Confederate States of America (the "Stars and Bars") is adopted.
1865 The third and final national flag of the Confederate States of America is adopted by the Confederate Congress.
1882 Britain's first electric trams run in east London.
1890 The longest bridge in Great Britain, the Forth Bridge in Scotland, measuring 1,710 feet (520 m) long, is opened by the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII.
1899 Cyclone Mahina sweeps in north of Cooktown, Queensland, with a 12 metres (39 ft) wave that reaches up to 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) inland, killing over 300.
1908 The Collinwood school fire, Collinwood near Cleveland, Ohio, kills 174 people.
1909 U.S. President William Taft used what became known as a Saxbe fix, a mechanism to avoid the restriction of the U.S. Constitution's Ineligibility Clause, to appoint Philander C. Knox as U.S. Secretary of State
1913 First Balkan War: The Greek army engages the Turks at Bizani, resulting in victory two days later.
1913 The United States Department of Labor is formed.
1917 Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first female member of the United States House of Representatives.
1933 Frances Perkins becomes United States Secretary of Labor, the first female member of the United States Cabinet.
1933 The Parliament of Austria is suspended because of a quibble over procedure Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss initiates an authoritarian rule by decree.
1941 World War II: The United Kingdom launches Operation Claymore on the Lofoten Islands; the first large scale British Commando raid.
1943 World War II: The Battle of the Bismarck Sea in the south-west Pacific comes to an end.
1944 World War II: After the success of Big Week, the USAAF begins a daylight bombing campaign of Berlin.
1957 The S&P 500 stock market index is introduced, replacing the S&P 90.
1960 The French freighter La Coubre explodes in Havana, Cuba, killing 100.
1962 A Caledonian Airways Douglas DC-7 crashes shortly after takeoff from Cameroon, killing 111 the worst crash of a DC-7.
1966 A Canadian Pacific Air Lines DC-8-43 explodes on landing at Tokyo International Airport, killing 64 people.
1966 In an interview in the London Evening Standard, The Beatles' John Lennon declares that the band is "more popular than Jesus now".
1970 French submarine Eurydice explodes underwater, resulting in the loss of the entire 57-man crew.
1974 People magazine is published for the first time in the United States as People Weekly.
1976 The Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention is formally dissolved in Northern Ireland resulting in direct rule of Northern Ireland from London by the British parliament.
1977 The 1977 Vrancea earthquake in eastern and southern Europe kills more than 1,500, mostly in Bucharest, Romania.
1980 Nationalist leader Robert Mugabe wins a sweeping election victory to become Zimbabwe's first black prime minister.
1985 The Food and Drug Administration approves a blood test for AIDS infection, used since then for screening all blood donations in the United States.
1986 The Soviet Vega 1 begins returning images of Halley's Comet and the first images of its nucleus.
1996 A derailed train in Weyauwega, Wisconsin (USA) causes the emergency evacuation of 2,300 people for 16 days.
1998 Gay rights: Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services, Inc.: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that federal laws banning on-the-job sexual harassment also apply when both parties are the same sex.
2001 BBC bombing: A massive car bomb explodes in front of the BBC Television Centre in London, seriously injuring one person; the attack was attributed to the Real IRA.
2002 Afghanistan: Seven American Special Operations Forces soldiers and 200 Al-Qaeda Fighters are killed as American forces attempt to infiltrate the Shah-i-Kot Valley on a low-flying helicopter reconnaissance mission.
2009 The International Criminal Court (ICC) issues an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur. Al-Bashir is the first sitting head of state to be indicted by the ICC since its establishment in 2002.
2012 A series of explosions is reported at a munitions dump in Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of the Congo, killing at least 250 people.
2015 At least 34 miners die in a suspected gas explosion at the Zasyadko coal mine in the rebel-held Donetsk region of Ukraine.
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363 Roman Emperor Julian moves from Antioch with an army of 90,000 to attack the Sasanian Empire, in a campaign which would bring about his own death.
1046 Nasir Khusraw begins the seven-year Middle Eastern journey which he will later describe in his book Safarnama.
1279 The Livonian Order is defeated in the Battle of Aizkraukle by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
1496 King Henry VII of England issues letters patent to John Cabot and his sons, authorising them to explore unknown lands.
1616 Nicolaus Copernicus's book On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres is added to the Index of Forbidden Books 73 years after it was first published.
1766 Antonio de Ulloa, the first Spanish governor of Louisiana, arrives in New Orleans.
1770 Boston Massacre: Five Americans, including Crispus Attucks, are fatally shot by British troops in an event that would contribute to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War (also known as the American War of Independence) five years later.
1811 Peninsular War: A French force under the command of Marshal Victor is routed while trying to prevent an Anglo-Spanish-Portuguese army from lifting the Siege of Cαdiz in the Battle of Barrosa.
1824 First Anglo-Burmese War: The British officially declare war on Burma.
1836 Samuel Colt patents the first production-model revolver, the .34-caliber.
1850 The Britannia Bridge across the Menai Strait between the island of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales is opened.
1860 Parma, Tuscany, Modena and Romagna vote in referendums to join the Kingdom of Sardinia.
1868 Mefistofele, an opera by Arrigo Boito, receives its premiere performance at La Scala.
1872 George Westinghouse patents the air brake.
1906 Moro Rebellion: United States Army troops bring overwhelming force against the native Moros in the First Battle of Bud Dajo, leaving only six survivors.
1912 Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, employing them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.
1931 The British Raj: GandhiIrwin Pact is signed.
1933 Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a "bank holiday", closing all U.S. banks and freezing all financial transactions.
1933 Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party receives 43.9% at the Reichstag elections, which allows the Nazis to later pass the Enabling Act and establish a dictatorship.
1936 First flight of K5054, the first prototype Supermarine Spitfire advanced monoplane fighter aircraft in the United Kingdom.
1940 Six high-ranking members of Soviet politburo, including Joseph Stalin, sign an order for the execution of 25,700 Polish intelligentsia, including 14,700 Polish POWs, in what will become known as the Katyn massacre.
1942 World War II: Japanese forces captures Batavia, capital of Dutch East Indies, which left undefended after the withdrawal of KNIL garrison and Australian Blackforce battalion to Buitenzorg and Bandung.
1943 First Flight of the Gloster Meteor, Britain's first combat jet aircraft.
1944 World War II: The Red Army begins the UmanBotoșani Offensive in the western Ukrainian SSR.
1946 Cold War: Winston Churchill coins the phrase "Iron Curtain" in his speech at Westminster College, Missouri.
1953 Joseph Stalin, the longest serving leader of the Soviet Union, dies at his Volynskoe dacha in Moscow after being hit by a cerebral hemorrhage.
1960 Indonesian President Soekarno dismissed the Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat (DPR), 1955 democratically elected parliament, and replaced with DPR-GR, the parliament of his own selected members.
1963 American country music stars Patsy Cline, Hawkshaw Hawkins, Cowboy Copas and their pilot Randy Hughes are killed in a plane crash in Camden, Tennessee.
1965 March Intifada: A Leftist uprising erupts in Bahrain against British colonial presence.
1970 The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations.
1974 Yom Kippur War: Israeli forces withdraw from the west bank of the Suez Canal.
1978 The Landsat 3 is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
1979 Soviet probes Venera 11, Venera 12 and the German-American solar satellite Helios II all are hit by "off the scale" gamma rays leading to the discovery of soft gamma repeaters.
1981 The ZX81, a pioneering British home computer, is launched by Sinclair Research and would go on to sell over 1.5 million units around the world.
1982 Soviet probe Venera 14 lands on Venus.
2003 In Haifa, 17 Israeli civilians are killed in the Haifa bus 37 suicide bombing.
2012 Tropical Storm Irina kills over 75 as it passes through Madagascar.
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161 Emperor Antoninus Pius dies and is succeeded by his adoptive sons Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus.
238 Roman subjects in the province of Africa revolt against Maximinus Thrax and elect Gordian I as emperor.
321 Emperor Constantine I decrees that the dies Solis Invicti (sun-day) is the day of rest in the Empire.
1277 Stephen Tempier, bishop of Paris, condemns 219 philosophical and theological theses.
1573 A peace treaty is signed between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice, ending the OttomanVenetian War and leaving Cyprus in Ottoman hands.
1799 Napoleon Bonaparte captures Jaffa in Palestine and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000 Albanian captives.
1814 Emperor Napoleon I of France wins the Battle of Craonne.
1827 Brazilian marines unsuccessfully attack the temporary naval base of Carmen de Patagones, Argentina.
1827 Shrigley abduction: Ellen Turner is abducted by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, a future politician in colonial New Zealand.
1850 Senator Daniel Webster gives his "Seventh of March" speech endorsing the Compromise of 1850 in order to prevent a possible civil war.
1862 American Civil War: Union forces defeat Confederate troops at the Pea Ridge in northwestern Arkansas.
1876 Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the "telephone".
1900 The German liner SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse becomes the first ship to send wireless signals to shore.
1902 Second Boer War: Boers, led by Koos de la Rey, inflict the biggest defeat upon the British since the beginning of the war, at Tweebosch.
1914 Prince William of Wied arrives in Albania to begin his reign as King.
1936 Prelude to World War II: In violation of the Locarno Pact and the Treaty of Versailles, Germany reoccupies the Rhineland.
1945 World War II: American troops seize the Ludendorff Bridge over the Rhine river at Remagen.
1950 Cold War: The Soviet Union issues a statement denying that Klaus Fuchs served as a Soviet spy.
1951 Korean War: Operation Ripper: United Nations troops led by General Matthew Ridgway begin an assault against Chinese forces.
1965 Bloody Sunday: a group of 600 civil rights marchers is brutally attacked by state and local police in Selma, Alabama.
1967 The Majelis Permusyawaratan Rakyat Sementara (MPRS), Indonesia's provisional parliament, revoked Sukarno's mandate as President of Indonesia.
1968 Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnamese military begin Operation Truong Cong Dinh to root out Viet Cong forces from the area surrounding Mỹ Tho.
1971 Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, political leader of then East Pakistan (present day-Bangladesh), delivers his historic 7th March speech in the Racecourse Field (Now Suhrawardy Udyan) in Dhaka.
1986 Challenger Disaster: Divers from the USS Preserver locate the crew cabin of Challenger on the ocean floor.
1987 Lieyu massacre: Taiwanese military massacre of 19 unarmed Vietnamese refugees at Donggang, Lieyu, Kinmen.
1989 Iran and the United Kingdom break diplomatic relations after a row over Salman Rushdie and his controversial novel, The Satanic Verses.
2006 The terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba coordinates a series of bombings in Varanasi, India.
2007 The British House of Commons votes to make the upper chamber, the House of Lords, 100% elected.
2009 The Real Irish Republican Army kills two British soldiers and injures two other soldiers and two civilians at Massereene Barracks, the first British military deaths in Northern Ireland since the end of The Troubles.
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12 BC The Roman Emperor Augustus is named Pontifex Maximus, incorporating the position into that of the emperor.
632 The Farewell Sermon (Khutbah, Khutbatul Wada') of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
845 Execution of the 42 Martyrs of Amorium at Samarra.
961 Byzantine conquest of Chandax by Nikephoros Phokas, end of the Emirate of Crete.
1204 The Siege of Chβteau Gaillard ends in a French victory over King John of England, who loses control of Normandy to King Philip II Augustus.
1323 Treaty of Paris of 1323 is signed.
1454 Thirteen Years' War: Delegates of the Prussian Confederation pledge allegiance to King Casimir IV of Poland who agrees to commit his forces in aiding the Confederation's struggle for independence from the Teutonic Knights.
1521 Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Guam.
1665 The first joint Secretary of the Royal Society, Henry Oldenburg, publishes the first issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, the world's longest-running scientific journal.
1788 The First Fleet arrives at Norfolk Island in order to found a convict settlement.
1820 The Missouri Compromise is signed into law by President James Monroe. The compromise allows Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state, brings Maine into the Union as a free state, and makes the rest of the northern part of the Louisiana Purchase territory slavery-free.
1834 York, Upper Canada, is incorporated as Toronto.
1836 Texas Revolution: Battle of the Alamo After a thirteen-day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, the 187 Texas volunteers, including frontiersman Davy Crockett and colonel Jim Bowie, defending the Alamo are killed and the fort is captured.
1857 The Supreme Court of the United States rules in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case.
1869 Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
1882 The Serbian kingdom is re-founded.
1899 Bayer registers "Aspirin" as a trademark.
1902 Real Madrid C.F. is founded.
1912 Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces become the first to use airships in war, as two dirigibles drop bombs on Turkish troops encamped at Janzur, from an altitude of 6,000 feet.
1921 Portuguese Communist Party is founded as the Portuguese Section of the Communist International.
1930 International Unemployment Day demonstrations globally initiated by the Comintern
1943 Norman Rockwell published Freedom from Want in The Saturday Evening Post with a matching essay by Carlos Bulosan as part of the Four Freedoms series.
1945 World War II: Cologne is captured by American troops.
1945 World War II: Operation Spring Awakening, the last major German offensive of the war, begins.
1946 Ho Chi Minh signs an agreement with France which recognizes Vietnam as an autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union.
1951 Cold War: The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins.
1953 Georgy Malenkov succeeds Joseph Stalin as Premier of the Soviet Union and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1957 Ghana becomes the first Sub-Saharan country to gain independence from the British.
1964 Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad officially gives boxing champion Cassius Clay the name Muhammad Ali.
1964 Constantine II becomes King of Greece.
1965 Premier Tom Playford of South Australia loses power after 27 years in office.
1967 Cold War: Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States.
1968 Three rebels are executed by Rhodesia, the first executions since UDI, prompting international condemnation.
1970 An explosion at the Weather Underground safe house in Greenwich Village kills three.
1975 For the first time the Zapruder film of the assassination of John F. Kennedy is shown in motion to a national TV audience by Robert J. Groden and Dick Gregory.
1975 Algiers Accord: Iran and Iraq announce a settlement of their border dispute.
1983 The first United States Football League games are played.
1984 In the United Kingdom, a walkout at Cortonwood Colliery in Brampton Bierlow signals the start of a strike that lasted almost a year and involved the majority [but never all] of the country's miners.
1987 The British ferry MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes in about 90 seconds, killing 193.
1988 Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers are shot dead by the SAS in Gibraltar in Operation Flavius.
1992 The Michelangelo computer virus begins to affect computers.
2008 A suicide bomber kills 68 people (including first responders) in Baghdad on the same day that a gunman kills eight students in Jerusalem.
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1010 Ferdowsi completes his epic poem Shahnameh.
1126 Following the death of his mother Urraca, Alfonso VII is proclaimed king of Castile and Leσn.
1262 Battle of Hausbergen between bourgeois militias and the army of the bishop of Strasbourg.
1576 Spanish explorer Diego Garcνa de Palacio first sights the ruins of the ancient Mayan city of Copαn.
1618 Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion.
1655 John Casor becomes the first legally-recognized slave in England's North American colonies where a crime was not committed.
1658 Treaty of Roskilde: After a devastating defeat in the Northern Wars (16551661), Frederick III, the King of DenmarkNorway is forced to give up nearly half his territory to Sweden to save the rest.
1702 Queen Anne, the younger sister of Mary II, becomes Queen regnant of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
1722 The Safavid Empire of Iran is defeated by an army from Afghanistan at the Battle of Gulnabad, pushing Iran into anarchy.
1736 Nader Shah, founder of the Afsharid dynasty, is crowned Shah of Iran.
1775 An anonymous writer, thought by some to be Thomas Paine, publishes "African Slavery in America", the first article in the American colonies calling for the emancipation of slaves and the abolition of slavery.
1777 Regiments from Ansbach and Bayreuth, sent to support Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War, mutiny in the town of Ochsenfurt.
1782 Gnadenhutten massacre: Ninety-six Native Americans in Gnadenhutten, Ohio, who had converted to Christianity are killed by Pennsylvania militiamen in retaliation for raids carried out by other Indian tribes.
1801 War of the Second Coalition: At the Battle of Abukir, a British force under Sir Ralph Abercromby lands in Egypt with the aim of ending the French campaign in Egypt and Syria.
1817 The New York Stock Exchange is founded.
1844 King Oscar I ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.
1862 American Civil War: The Naval Battle of Hampton Roads begins.
1868 Sakai incident: Japanese samurai kill 11 French sailors in the port of Sakai, Osaka.
1910 French aviator Raymonde de Laroche becomes the first woman to receive a pilot's license.
1914 First flights (for the Royal Thai Air Force) at Don Mueang International Airport in Bangkok.
1916 World War I: A British force unsuccessfully attempts to relieve the siege of Kut (present-day Iraq) in the Battle of Dujaila.
1917 International Women's Day protests in St. Petersburg mark the beginning of the February Revolution (February 23rd in the Julian calendar).
1917 The United States Senate votes to limit filibusters by adopting the cloture rule.
1920 The Arab Kingdom of Syria, the first modern Arab state to come into existence, is established.
1921 Spanish Prime Minister Eduardo Dato Iradier is assassinated while exiting the parliament building in Madrid.
1924 A mine disaster kills 172 coal miners near Castle Gate, Utah.
1936 Daytona Beach and Road Course holds its first oval stock car race.
1937 Spanish Civil War: The Battle of Guadalajara begins.
1942 World War II: Imperial Japanese Army forces gave ultimatum to Dutch East Indies Governor General Jonkheer Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer and KNIL Commander in Chief Lieutenant General Hein Ter Poorten, to unconditionally surrender.
1942 World War II: Imperial Japanese Army forces captured Rangoon, Burma from British.
1947 Thirteen thousand troops of the Republic of China Army arrive in Taiwan after the February 28 Incident and launch crackdowns which kill thousands of people, including many elites. This turns into a major root of the Taiwan independence movement.
1949 President of France Vincent Auriol and ex-emperor of Annam Bảo Đại sign the Ιlysιe Accords, giving Vietnam greater independence from France and creating the State of Vietnam to oppose Viet Minh-led Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
1957 Egypt re-opens the Suez Canal after the Suez Crisis.
1957 The 1957 Georgia Memorial to Congress, which petitions the U.S. Congress to declare the ratification of the 14th and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution null and void, is adopted by the U.S. state of Georgia.
1963 The Ba'ath Party comes to power in Syria in a coup d'ιtat by a clique of quasi-leftist Syrian Army officers calling themselves the National Council of the Revolutionary Command.
1965 Thirty-five hundred United States Marines are the first American land combat forces committed during the Vietnam War.
1966 Nelson's Pillar in Dublin, Ireland, destroyed by a bomb.
1971 The Fight of the Century between Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali commences. Frazier wins in 15 rounds via unanimous decision.
1974 Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France.
1979 Philips demonstrates the compact disc publicly for the first time.
1983 Cold War: While addressing a convention of Evangelicals, U.S. President Ronald Reagan labels the Soviet Union an "evil empire".
1985 A supposed failed assassination attempt on Islamic cleric Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah in Beirut, Lebanon kills at least 45 and injures 175 others.
2004 A new constitution is signed by Iraq's Governing Council.
2014 Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, carrying a total of 239 people, disappears en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
2017 The Azure Window, a natural arch on the Maltese island of Gozo, collapsed in stormy weather.
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141 BC Liu Che, posthumously known as Emperor Wu of Han, assumes the throne over the Han dynasty of China.
1009 First known mention of Lithuania, in the annals of the monastery of Quedlinburg.
1230 Bulgarian tsar Ivan Asen II defeats Theodore of Epirus in the Battle of Klokotnitsa.
1276 Augsburg becomes a Free imperial city.
1500 The fleet of Pedro Αlvares Cabral leaves Lisbon for the Indies. The fleet will discover Brazil which lies within boundaries granted to Portugal in the Treaty of Tordesillas.
1566 David Rizzio, private secretary to Mary, Queen of Scots, is murdered in the Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, Scotland.
1765 After a campaign by the writer Voltaire, judges in Paris posthumously exonerate Jean Calas of murdering his son. Calas had been tortured and executed in 1762 on the charge, though his son may have actually committed suicide.
1776 The Wealth of Nations by Scottish economist and philosopher Adam Smith is published.
1796 Napolιon Bonaparte marries his first wife, Josιphine de Beauharnais.
1811 Paraguayan forces defeat Manuel Belgrano at the Battle of Tacuarν.
1815 Francis Ronalds describes the first battery-operated clock in the Philosophical Magazine.
1841 The U.S. Supreme Court rules in the United States v. The Amistad case that captive Africans who had seized control of the ship carrying them had been taken into slavery illegally.
1842 Giuseppe Verdi's third opera, Nabucco, receives its premiθre performance in Milan; its success establishes Verdi as one of Italy's foremost opera composers.
1842 The first documented discovery of gold in California occurs at Rancho San Francisco, six years before the California Gold Rush.
1847 MexicanAmerican War: The first large-scale amphibious assault in U.S. history is launched in the Siege of Veracruz.
1862 American Civil War: The USS Monitor and CSS Virginia fight to a draw in the Battle of Hampton Roads, the first battle between two ironclad warships.
1896 Prime Minister Francesco Crispi resigns following the Italian defeat at the Battle of Adwa.
1908 Inter Milan was founded on Football Club Internazionale, following a schism from the Milan Cricket and Football Club.
1910 The Westmoreland County coal strike, involving 15,000 coal miners represented by the United Mine Workers, begins.
1916 Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa leads nearly 500 Mexican raiders in an attack against the border town of Columbus, New Mexico.
1925 Pink's War: The first Royal Air Force operation conducted independently of the British Army or Royal Navy begins.
1933 Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt submits the Emergency Banking Act to Congress, the first of his New Deal policies.
1942 World War II: Dutch East Indies, represented by KNIL Commander in Chief Lieutenant General Hein Ter Poorten, unconditionally surrendered to the Japanese forces in Kalijati, Subang, West Java, and the Japanese completed their Dutch East Indies campaign.
1944 World War II: Japanese troops counter-attack American forces on Hill 700 in Bougainville in a five-day battle.
1944 World War II: Soviet Army planes attack Tallinn, Estonia.
1945 World War II: The first nocturnal incendiary attack on Tokyo inflicts damage comparable to that inflicted on both Hiroshima and Nagasaki five months later.
1945 World War II: A coup d'ιtat by Japanese forces in French Indochina removes the French from power.
1946 Bolton Wanderers stadium disaster at Burnden Park, Bolton, England, kills 33 and injures hundreds more.
1954 McCarthyism: CBS television broadcasts the See It Now episode, "A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy", produced by Fred Friendly.
1956 Soviet forces suppress mass demonstrations in the Georgian SSR, reacting to Nikita Khrushchev's de-Stalinization policy.
1957 The 8.6 Mw Andreanof Islands earthquake shakes the Aleutian Islands with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), causing $5 million in damage from ground movement and a destructive tsunami that affected Hawaii, where two people were killed in a plane crash while documenting its arrival.
1959 The Barbie doll makes its debut at the American International Toy Fair in New York.
1960 Dr. Belding Hibbard Scribner implants for the first time a shunt he invented into a patient, which allows the patient to receive hemodialysis on a regular basis.
1961 Sputnik 9 successfully launches, carrying a human dummy nicknamed Ivan Ivanovich, and demonstrating that the Soviet Union was ready to begin human spaceflight.
1967 Trans World Airlines Flight 553, a Douglas DC-9-15, crashes in a field in Concord Township, Ohio following a mid-air collision with a Beechcraft Baron, killing 26.
1974 The Mars 7 Flyby bus releases the descent module too early, missing Mars.
1976 Forty-two people die in the Cavalese cable car disaster, the worst cable-car accident to date.
1977 The Hanafi Siege: In a thirty-nine-hour standoff, armed Hanafi Muslims seize three Washington, D.C., buildings, killing two and taking 149 hostage.
1978 President Soeharto inaugurated Jagorawi Toll Road, the first toll highway in Indonesia, connecting Jakarta, Bogor and Ciawi, West Java.
1982 "Krononauts" hosted an event in Baltimore, Maryland asking time-travelers to meet and demonstrate future science methods of Time travel.
1997 Comet HaleBopp: Observers in China, Mongolia and eastern Siberia are treated to a rare double feature as an eclipse permits Hale-Bopp to be seen during the day.
2011 Space Shuttle Discovery makes its final landing after 39 flights.
2012 At least 130 rockets are fired into Israel from Gaza. Twelve Palestinians militants are killed as part of the latest escalation in violence in the region.
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241 BC First Punic War: Battle of the Aegates: The Romans sink the Carthaginian fleet bringing the First Punic War to an end.
298 Roman Emperor Maximian concludes his campaign in North Africa against the Berbers, and makes a triumphal entry into Carthage.
947 The Later Han is founded by Liu Zhiyuan. He declares himself emperor and establishes the capital in Bian, present-day Kaifeng.
1607 Susenyos I defeats the combined armies of Yaqob and Abuna Petros II at the Battle of Gol in Gojjam, making him Emperor of Ethiopia.
1629 Charles I of England dissolves Parliament, beginning the eleven-year period known as the Personal Rule.
1735 An agreement between Nader Shah and Russia is signed near Ganja, Azerbaijan and Russian troops are withdrawn from Baku.
1762 French Huguenot Jean Calas, who had been wrongly convicted of killing his son, dies after being tortured by authorities; the event inspired Voltaire to begin a campaign for religious tolerance and legal reform.
1804 Louisiana Purchase: In St. Louis, Missouri, a formal ceremony is conducted to transfer ownership of the Louisiana Territory from France to the United States.
1814 Emperor Napoleon I is defeated at the Battle of Laon in France.
1816 Crossing of the Andes: A group of royalist scouts are captured during the Action of Juncalito.
1830 The Royal Netherlands East Indies Army is created.
1848 The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is ratified by the United States Senate, ending the MexicanAmerican War.
1861 El Hadj Umar Tall seizes the city of Sιgou, destroying the Bamana Empire of Mali.
1865 - Amy Spain, American slave, is executed for stealing from her owner; believed to have been the last legal execution of a female slave in America
1876 The first successful test of a telephone is made by Alexander Graham Bell.
1891 Almon Strowger, an undertaker in Topeka, Kansas, patents the Strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching.
1906 The Courriθres mine disaster, Europe's worst ever, kills 1099 miners in northern France.
1909 By signing the Anglo-Siamese Treaty of 1909, Thailand relinquishes its sovereignty over the Malay states of Kedah, Kelantan, Perlis and Terengganu, which become British protectorates.
1915 World War I: The Battle of Neuve Chapelle begins. This is the first large-scale operation by the British Army in the war.
1916 The McMahonHussein Correspondence between Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca and the British official Henry McMahon concerning the Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire ends.
1917 Some provinces and cities in the Philippines are incorporated due to the ratification of Act No. 2711 or the Administrative Code of the Philippines.
1922 Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in India, tried for sedition, and sentenced to six years in prison, only to be released after nearly two years for an appendicitis operation.
1933 The 6.4 Mw Long Beach earthquake affects the Greater Los Angeles Area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), leaving 115120 people dead, and causing an estimated $40 million in damage.
1944 Greek Civil War: The Political Committee of National Liberation is established in Greece by the National Liberation Front.
1945 World War II: The U.S. Army Air Force firebombs Tokyo, and the resulting conflagration kills more than 100,000 people, mostly civilians.
1949 Mildred Gillars ("Axis Sally") is convicted of treason.[1]
1952 Fulgencio Batista leads a successful coup in Cuba and appoints himself as the "provisional president".
1959 Tibetan uprising: Fearing an abduction attempt by China, thousands of Tibetans surround the Dalai Lama's palace to prevent his removal.
1966 Military Prime Minister of South Vietnam Nguyễn Cao Kỳ sacked rival General Nguyễn Chαnh Thi, precipitating large-scale civil and military dissension in parts of the nation.
1968 Vietnam War: Battle of Lima Site 85, concluding the 11th with largest single ground combat loss of United States Air Force members (12) during that war.
1969 In Memphis, Tennessee, James Earl Ray pleads guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King, Jr. He later unsuccessfully attempts to recant.
1970 Vietnam War: Captain Ernest Medina is charged by the U.S. military with My Lai war crimes.
1975 Vietnam War: Ho Chi Minh Campaign: North Vietnamese troops attack Ban Mκ Thuột in the South on their way to capturing Saigon in the final push for victory over South Vietnam.
1977 Astronomers discover the rings of Uranus.
1990 In Haiti, Prosper Avril is ousted 18 months after seizing power in a coup.
2000 The Nasdaq Composite stock market index peaks at 5132.52, signaling the beginning of the end of the dot-com boom.
2006 The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars.
2017 The impeachment of President Park Geun-hye of South Korea in response to a major political scandal is unanimously upheld by the country's Constitutional Court, ending her presidency.
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222 Emperor Elagabalus is assassinated, along with his mother, Julia Soaemias, by the Praetorian Guard during a revolt. Their mutilated bodies are dragged through the streets of Rome before being thrown into the Tiber.
1387 Battle of Castagnaro: English condottiero Sir John Hawkwood leads Padova to victory in a factional clash with Verona.
1641 Guaranν forces living in the Jesuit reductions defeat bandeirantes loyal to the Portuguese Empire at the Battle of Mbororι in present-day Panambν, Argentina.
1649 The Frondeurs and the French sign the Peace of Rueil.
1702 The Daily Courant, England's first national daily newspaper is published for the first time.
1708 Queen Anne withholds Royal Assent from the Scottish Militia Bill, the last time a British monarch vetoes legislation.
1784 The signing of the Treaty of Mangalore brings the Second Anglo-Mysore War to an end.
1811 During Andrι Massιna's retreat from the Lines of Torres Vedras, a division led by French Marshal Michel Ney fights off a combined Anglo-Portuguese force to give Massιna time to escape.
1824 The United States Department of War creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
1845 Flagstaff War: Unhappy with translational differences regarding the Treaty of Waitangi, chiefs Hone Heke, Kawiti and Māori tribe members chop down the British flagpole for a fourth time and drive settlers out of Kororareka, New Zealand.
1848 Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine and Robert Baldwin become the first Prime Ministers of the Province of Canada to be democratically elected under a system of responsible government.
1851 The first performance of Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi takes place in Venice.
1861 American Civil War: The Constitution of the Confederate States of America is adopted.
1864 The Great Sheffield Flood kills 238 people in Sheffield, England.
1872 Construction of the Seven Sisters Colliery, South Wales, begins; located on one of the richest coal sources in Britain.
1879 Shō Tai formally abdicated his position of King of Ryūkyū, under orders from Tokyo, ending the Ryukyu Kingdom.
1888 The Great Blizzard of 1888 begins along the eastern seaboard of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400.
1917 World War I: Mesopotamian campaign: Baghdad falls to Anglo-Indian forces commanded by General Stanley Maude.
1927 In New York City, Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens the Roxy Theatre.
1931 Ready for Labour and Defence of the USSR, abbreviated as GTO, is introduced in the Soviet Union.
1941 World War II: United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act into law, allowing American-built war supplies to be shipped to the Allies on loan.
1945 World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy attempts a large-scale kamikaze attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet anchored at Ulithi atoll in Operation Tan No. 2.
1945 World War II: The Empire of Vietnam, a short-lived Japanese puppet state, is established with Bảo Đại as its ruler.
1946 Rudolf Hφss, the first commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, is captured by British troops.
1975 Vietnam War: North Vietnamese and Viet Cong guerrilla forces establish control over Buτn Ma Thuột commune from the South Vietnamese army.
1977 The 1977 Hanafi Siege: More than 130 hostages held in Washington, D.C., by Hanafi Muslims are set free after ambassadors from three Islamic nations join negotiations.
1978 Coastal Road massacre: At least 37 are killed and more than 70 are wounded when Fatah hijack an Israeli bus, prompting Israel's Operation Litani.
1983 Pakistan successfully conducts a cold test of a nuclear weapon.
1983 Bob Hawke is appointed Prime Minister of Australia.
1990 Lithuania declares itself independent from the Soviet Union.
1990 Patricio Aylwin is sworn in as the first democratically elected President of Chile since 1970.
1993 Janet Reno is confirmed by the United States Senate and sworn in the next day, becoming the first female Attorney General of the United States.
1999 Infosys becomes the first Indian company listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange.
2004 Madrid train bombings: Simultaneous explosions on rush hour trains in Madrid, Spain, kill 192 people.
2006 Michelle Bachelet is inaugurated as first female president of Chile.
2007 Georgia claims Russian helicopters attacked the Kodori Valley in Abkhazia, an accusation that Russia categorically denies later.
2009 Winnenden school shooting: Sixteen are killed and 11 are injured before recent-graduate Tim Kretschmer shoots and kills himself, leading to tightened weapons restrictions in Germany.
2010 Economist and businessman Sebastiαn Piρera is sworn in as President of Chile, while three earthquakes, the strongest measuring magnitude 6.9 and all centered next to Pichilemu, capital of Cardenal Caro province, hit central Chile during the ceremony.
2011 An earthquake measuring 9.0 in magnitude strikes 130 km (81 mi) east of Sendai, Japan, triggering a tsunami killing thousands of people. This event also triggered the second largest nuclear accident in history, and one of only two events to be classified as a Level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale.
2012 A U.S. soldier kills 16 civilians in the Panjwayi District of Afghanistan near Kandahar.
2016 At least 21 people are killed by flooding and mudslides in and around Sγo Paulo, Brazil, following heavy rain.
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538 Vitiges, king of the Ostrogoths ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving the city in the hands of the victorious Byzantine general, Belisarius
1550 Several hundred Spanish and indigenous troops under the command of Pedro de Valdivia defeat an army of 60,000 Mapuche at the Battle of Penco during the Arauco War in present-day Chile
1622 Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier, founders of the Society of Jesus, are canonized by the Roman Catholic Church
1689 The Williamite War in Ireland begins.
1811 Peninsular War: A day after a successful rearguard action, French Marshal Michel Ney once again successfully delayed the pursuing Anglo-Portuguese force at the Battle of Redinha
1864 American Civil War: The Red River Campaign begins as a US Navy fleet of 13 Ironclads and 7 Gunboats and other support ships enter the Red River
1881 Andrew Watson makes his Scotland debut as the world's first black international football player and captain.
1885 Tonkin Campaign: France captures the citadel of Bắc Ninh.
1894 Coca-Cola is bottled and sold for the first time in Vicksburg, Mississippi, by local soda fountain operator Joseph A. Biedenharn.
1912 The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the United States.
1913 Canberra Day: The future capital of Australia is officially named Canberra. (Melbourne remains temporary capital until 1927 while the new capital is still under construction.)
1918 Moscow becomes the capital of Russia again after Saint Petersburg held this status for 215 years.
1920 The Kapp Putsch begins when the Marinebrigade Ehrhardt is ordered to march on Berlin.
1921 İstiklβl Marşı is adopted in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey.
1922 Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan form the Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic
1928 In California, the St. Francis Dam fails; the resulting floods kills 431 people.
1930 Mahatma Gandhi begins the Salt March, a 200-mile march to the sea to protest the British monopoly on salt in India
1933 Great Depression: Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses the nation for the first time as President of the United States. This is also the first of his "fireside chats".
1934 Konstantin Pδts and General Johan Laidoner stage a coup in Estonia, and ban all political parties.
1938 Anschluss: German troops occupy and absorb Austria.
1940 Winter War: Finland signs the Moscow Peace Treaty with the Soviet Union, ceding almost all of Finnish Karelia. Finnish troops and the remaining population are immediately evacuated.
1942 World War II: Pacific War: The Battle of Java ends with an ABDACOM surrender to the Japanese Empire in Bandung, West Java, Dutch East Indies.
1943 Italian occupation of Greece: The Italian occupying forces abandon the town of Karditsa to the partisans. On the same day, an Italian motorized column razes the village of Tsaritsani, burning 360 of its 600 houses and shooting 40 civilians.
1947 Cold War: The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of Communism.
1950 The Llandow air disaster occurs near Sigingstone, Wales, in which 80 people die when their aircraft crashed, making it the world's deadliest air disaster at the time.
1961 First winter ascent of the North Face of the Eiger.
1967 Suharto takes power from Sukarno when the MPRS inaugurate him as Acting President of Indonesia.
1968 Mauritius achieves independence from the United Kingdom.
1971 The March 12 Memorandum is sent to the Suleyman Demirel government of Turkey and the government resigns.
1992 Mauritius becomes a republic while remaining a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
1993 Several bombs explode in Mumbai, India, killing about 300 and injuring hundreds more.
1993 North Korea nuclear weapons program: North Korea says that it plans to withdraw from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and refuses to allow inspectors access to its nuclear sites.
1994 The Church of England ordains its first female priests.
1999 Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO.
2003 Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia, is assassinated in Belgrade.
2003 WHO officially release global warning on pandemic SARS disease.
2004 The President of South Korea, Roh Moo-hyun, is impeached by its National Assembly: The first such impeachment in the nation's history.
2009 Financier Bernard Madoff pleads guilty in New York to scamming $18 billion, the largest in Wall Street's history.
2011 A reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant melts and explodes and releases radioactivity into the atmosphere a day after Japan's earthquake.
2014 A gas explosion in the New York City neighborhood of East Harlem kills eight and injures 70 others.
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624 Battle of Badr: a key battle between Muhammad's army the new followers of Islam and the Quraysh of Mecca. The Muslims won this battle, known as the turning point of Islam, which took place in the Hejaz region of western Arabia.
874 The bones of Saint Nicephorus are interred in the Church of the Holy Apostles, Constantinople.
1138 Cardinal Gregorio Conti is elected Antipope as Victor IV, succeeding Anacletus II. (If a Pope and Antipope collide does it usher in the end of days?)
1567 The Battle of Oosterweel, traditionally regarded as the start of the Eighty Years' War, commences.
1591 Battle of Tondibi: In Mali, Moroccan forces of the Saadi dynasty led by Judar Pasha defeat the Songhai Empire, despite being outnumbered by at least five to one.
1639 Harvard College is named after clergyman John Harvard.
1697 Nojpetιn, capital of the last independent Maya kingdom, fell to Spanish conquistadors, the final step in the Spanish conquest of Guatemala.
1781 William Herschel discovers Uranus.
1809 Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden is deposed in a coup d'ιtat.
1845 Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto receives its premiθre performance in Leipzig with Ferdinand David as soloist.
1848 The German revolutions of 184849 begin in Vienna.
1862 American Civil War: The U.S. federal government forbids all Union army officers from returning fugitive slaves, thus effectively annulling the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and setting the stage for the Emancipation Proclamation.
1865 American Civil War: The Confederate States of America agree to the use of African-American troops.
1881 Alexander II of Russia is killed near his palace when a bomb is thrown at him (this is the Gregorian date; it was March 1 in the Julian calendar then in use in Russia).
1884 The Siege of Khartoum begins. It lasts until January 26, 1885.
1900 Second Boer War: British forces occupy Bloemfontein, Orange Free State.
1920 The Kapp Putsch briefly ousts the Weimar Republic government from Berlin.
1921 Mongolia is proclaimed an independent monarchy, ruled by Russian military officer Roman von Ungern-Sternberg as a dictator.
1930 The news of the discovery of Pluto is telegraphed to the Harvard College Observatory.
1933 Great Depression: Banks in the U.S. begin to re-open after President Franklin D. Roosevelt mandates a "bank holiday".
1940 The Russo-Finnish Winter War ends.
1943 The Holocaust: German forces liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Krakσw.
1954 First Indochina War: Viet Minh forces under Vυ Nguyκn Giαp unleashed a massive artillery barrage on the French to begin the Battle of Điện Biκn Phủ, the climactic battle in the First Indochina War.
1957 Cuban student revolutionaries storm the presidential palace in Havana in a failed attempt on the life of President Fulgencio Batista.
1962 Lyman Lemnitzer, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, delivers a proposal, called Operation Northwoods, regarding performing terrorist attacks upon Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. The proposal is scrapped and President John F. Kennedy removes Lemnitzer from his position. (conspiracy theorists point to this all the time in terms of every thing that happens is a false flag from the government. They say, look at Operation Northwoods, but fail to mention that Kennedy took one look at the plan and fired the man who came up with the plan. I wanted to post a video but there's a whole lot of crazy out there. )
1969 Apollo program: Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module.
1979 The New Jewel Movement, headed by Maurice Bishop, ousts Prime Minister Eric Gairy in a nearly bloodless coup d'ιtat in Grenada.
1985 The Kenilworth Road riot takes place at an association football match at Kenilworth Road in Luton, England with disturbances before, during and after an FA Cup 6th Round tie between Luton Town F.C. and Millwall F.C..
1988 The Seikan Tunnel, the longest undersea tunnel in the world, opens between Aomori and Hakodate, Japan.
1991 The United States Department of Justice announces that Exxon has agreed to pay $1 billion for the clean-up of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska.
1992 The Mw 6.7 Erzincan earthquake strikes eastern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). At least 498 were killed in this strike-slip event on the North Anatolian Fault.
1996 Dunblane school massacre: in Dunblane, Scotland, 16 primary school children and one teacher are shot dead by a spree killer, Thomas Watt Hamilton, who later commits suicide.
1997 India's Missionaries of Charity chooses Sister Nirmala to succeed Mother Teresa as its leader.
1997 The Phoenix Lights are seen over Phoenix, Arizona by hundreds of people, and by millions on television.
2003 The journal Nature reports that 350,000-year-old footprints have been found in Italy.
2008 Gold prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange hit $1,000 per ounce for the first time.
2012 At least 28 people are killed in a bus crash in a motorway tunnel near the town of Sierre in the Swiss canton of Valais.
2013 Pope Francis is elected, in the papal conclave, as the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church.
2016 An explosion occurs in central Ankara, Turkey, with at least 37 people killed and 127 wounded.
2016 Three gunmen attack two hotels in the Ivory Coast town of Grand-Bassam, killing at least 18 people and injuring 33 others.
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44 BC Casca and Cassius decide, on the night before the Assassination of Julius Caesar, that Mark Antony should live.
313 Emperor Jin Huaidi is executed by Liu Cong, ruler of the Xiongnu state (Han Zhao).
1381 Chioggia concludes an alliance with Zadar and Trogir against Venice, which becomes changed in 1412 in ibenik.
1489 The Queen of Cyprus, Catherine Cornaro, sells her kingdom to Venice.
1590 Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the Huguenots defeat the forces of the Catholic League under Charles, Duke of Mayenne during the French Wars of Religion.
1647 Thirty Years' War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm.
1663 Otto von Guericke completes his book on Vacuum.
1757 Admiral Sir John Byng is executed by firing squad aboard HMS Monarch for breach of the Articles of War.
1780 American Revolutionary War: Spanish forces capture Fort Charlotte in Mobile, Alabama, the last British frontier post capable of threatening New Orleans in Spanish Louisiana.
1782 Battle of Wuchale: Emperor Tekle Giyorgis I pacifies a group of Oromo near Wuchale.
1794 Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin.
1885 The Mikado, a light opera by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, receives its first public performance in London.
1900 The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing United States currency on the gold standard.
1903 The HayHerrαn Treaty, granting the United States the right to build the Panama Canal, is ratified by the United States Senate. The Senate of Colombia would later reject the treaty.
1903 Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge is established by US President Theodore Roosevelt.
1910 Lakeview Gusher, the largest U.S. oil well gusher near Bakersfield, California, vents to atmosphere.
1926 El Virilla train accident, Costa Rica: A train falls off a bridge over the Rνo Virilla between Heredia and Tibαs. Two hundred forty-eight are killed and 93 wounded.
1931 Alam Ara, India's first talking film, is released.
1936 The first all-sound film version of Show Boat opens at Radio City Music Hall.
1939 Slovakia declares independence under German pressure.
1942 Orvan Hess and John Bumstead became the first in the United States successfully to treat a patient, Anne Miller, using penicillin.
1943 World War II: The Krakσw Ghetto is "liquidated".
1945 World War II: The R.A.F.'s first operational use of the Grand Slam bomb, Bielefeld, Germany.
1951 Korean War: For the second time, United Nations troops recapture Seoul.
1961 USAF Broken Arrow nuclear weapon mishap in B-52 crash near Yuba City, Ca.
1964 A jury in Dallas finds Jack Ruby guilty of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the assumed assassin of John F. Kennedy.
1967 The body of U.S. President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery.
1972 Italian publisher and former partisan Giangiacomo Feltrinelli is killed by an explosion near Segrate.
1978 The Israel Defense Forces invade and occupies southern Lebanon in Operation Litani.
1979 In China, a Hawker Siddeley Trident crashes into a factory near Beijing, killing 44 and injuring at least 200.
1980 In Poland, LOT Flight 7 crashes during final approach near Warsaw, killing 87 people, including a 14-man American boxing team.
1988 Johnson South Reef Skirmish: Chinese forces defeat Vietnamese forces in Johnson South Reef, disputed Spratly Islands.
1994 Timeline of Linux development: Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released.
1995 Space exploration: Astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on board a Russian launch vehicle.
2006 Members of the Chadian military fail in an attempted coup d'ιtat.
2007 The Left Front government of West Bengal sends at least 3,000 police to Nandigram in an attempt to break Bhumi Uchhed Pratirodh Committee resistance there; the resulting clash leaves 14 dead.
2008 A series of riots, protests, and demonstrations erupt in Lhasa and elsewhere in Tibet.
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474 BC Roman consul Gnaeus Manlius Vulso celebrates an ovation for concluding the war against Veii and securing a forty years' truce.
44 BC Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus, and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March.
220 Cao Cao, Chinese warlord and penultimate Chancellor of the Han dynasty, passes away.
280 Sun Hao of Eastern Wu surrenders to Sima Yan which began the Jin dynasty.
351 Constantius II elevates his cousin Gallus to Caesar, and puts him in charge of the Eastern part of the Roman Empire.
493 Odoacer, the first barbarian King of Italy after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, is slain by Theoderic the Great, king of the Ostrogoths, while the two kings were feasting together.
856 Michael III, emperor of the Byzantine Empire, overthrows the regency of his mother, empress Theodora (wife of Theophilos) with support of the Byzantine nobility.
933 After a ten-year truce, German King Henry the Fowler defeats a Hungarian army at the Battle of Riade near the Unstrut river.
1147 Conquest of Santarιm: The forces of Afonso I of Portugal capture Santarιm.
1311 Battle of Halmyros: The Catalan Company defeats Walter V, Count of Brienne to take control of the Duchy of Athens, a Crusader state in Greece.
1493 Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his first trip to the Americas.
1564 Mughal Emperor Akbar abolishes "jizya" (per capita tax).
1672 Charles II of England issues the Royal Declaration of Indulgence.
1781 American Revolutionary War: Battle of Guilford Court House: Near present-day Greensboro, North Carolina, 1,900 British troops under General Charles Cornwallis defeat a mixed American force numbering 4,400 in a Pyrrhic victory.
1783 In an emotional speech in Newburgh, New York, George Washington asks his officers not to support the Newburgh Conspiracy. The plea is successful and the threatened coup d'ιtat never takes place.
1819 French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel wins a contest at the Acadιmie des Sciences in Paris by proving that light behaves like a wave. The Fresnel integrals, still used to calculate wave patterns, silence skeptics who had backed the particle theory of Isaac Newton.
1820 Maine becomes the 23rd U.S. state.
1848 A revolution breaks out in Hungary. The Habsburg rulers are compelled to meet the demands of the Reform party.
1864 American Civil War: The Red River Campaign: U.S. Navy fleet arrives at Alexandria, Louisiana.
1874 France and Vietnam sign the Second Treaty of Saigon, further recognizing the full sovereignty of France over Cochinchina.
1875 Archbishop of New York John McCloskey is named the first cardinal in the United States.
1877 First ever official cricket test match is played: Australia vs England at the MCG Stadium, in Melbourne, Australia.
1878 Restoration of the Scottish Catholic hierarchy, broken off back in 1603.
1888 Start of the Anglo-Tibetan War of 1888.
1906 Rolls-Royce Limited is incorporated.
1916 United States President Woodrow Wilson sends 4,800 United States troops over the U.S.Mexico border to pursue Pancho Villa.
1917 Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicates the Russian throne ending the 304-year Romanov dynasty.
1921 Talaat Pasha, former Grand Vizir of the Ottoman Empire and chief architect of the Armenian Genocide is assassinated in Berlin by a 23-year-old Armenian, Soghomon Tehlirian.
1922 After Egypt gains nominal independence from the United Kingdom, Fuad I becomes King of Egypt.
1926 The dictator Theodoros Pangalos is elected President of Greece without opposition.
1927 The first Women's Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes place on The Isis in Oxford.
1931 SS Viking explodes off Newfoundland, killing 27 of the 147 on board.
1933 Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss keeps members of the National Council from convening, starting the Austrofascist dictatorship.
1939 Carpatho-Ukraine declares itself an independent republic, but is annexed by Hungary the next day.
1941 Philippine Airlines, the flag carrier of the Philippines takes its first flight between Manila (from Nielson Field) to Baguio City with a Beechcraft Model 18 making the airline the first and oldest commercial airline in Asia operating under its original name.
1943 World War II: Third Battle of Kharkov: The Germans retake the city of Kharkov from the Soviet armies in bitter street fighting.
1945 World War II: Soviet forces begin an offensive to push Germans from Upper Silesia.
1951 Iranian oil industry is nationalized.
1952 In Cilaos, Rιunion, 1870 mm (73 inches) of rain falls in a 24-hour period, setting a new world record (March 15 through March 16).
1961 At the 1961 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference, South Africa announces that it will withdraw from the Commonwealth when the South African Constitution of 1961 comes into effect.
1965 President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to the Selma crisis, tells U.S. Congress "We shall overcome" while advocating the Voting Rights Act.
1978 Somalia and Ethiopia signed a truce to end the Ethio-Somali War.
1985 The first Internet domain name is registered (symbolics.com).
1986 Collapse of Hotel New World: Thirty-three people die when the Hotel New World in Singapore collapses.
1990 Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first President of the Soviet Union.
1991 Cold War: The Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany comes into effect, granting full sovereignty to the Federal Republic of Germany.
2008 Stockpiles of obsolete ammunition explode at an ex-military ammunition depot in the village of Gλrdec, Albania, killing 26 people. To date, no other tragedy has caused more deaths in post-World War II Albania.
2011 Beginning of the Syrian Civil War.
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597 BC Babylonians capture Jerusalem, and replace Jeconiah with Zedekiah as king.
455 Emperor Valentinian III is assassinated by two Hunnic retainers while training with the bow on the Campus Martius (Rome).
934 Meng Zhixiang declares himself emperor and establishes Later Shu as a new state independent of Later Tang.
1190 Massacre of Jews at Clifford's Tower, York.
1244 Over 200 Cathars are burned after the Fall of Montsιgur.
1322 The Battle of Boroughbridge takes place in the Despenser Wars.
1521 Ferdinand Magellan reaches the island of Homonhon in the Philippines.
1621 Samoset, a Mohegan, visited the settlers of Plymouth Colony and greets them, "Welcome, Englishmen! My name is Samoset."
1660 The Long Parliament of England is dissolved so as to prepare for the new Convention Parliament.
1689 The 23rd Regiment of Foot, or Royal Welch Fusiliers, is founded.
1782 American Revolutionary War: Spanish troops capture the British-held island of Roatαn.
1782 Anglo-Spanish War (1779): Action of 16 March 1782
1792 King Gustav III of Sweden is shot; he dies on March 29.
1797 French Revolutionary Wars: An Austrian column is defeated by the French in the Battle of Valvasone.
1802 The Army Corps of Engineers is established to found and operate the United States Military Academy at West Point.
1812 The Siege of Badajoz begins: British and Portuguese forces besiege and defeat the French garrison during the Peninsular War.
1815 Prince Willem proclaims himself King of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, the first constitutional monarch in the Netherlands.
1818 In the Second Battle of Cancha Rayada, Spanish forces defeated Chileans under Josι de San Martνn.
1864 American Civil War: During the Red River Campaign, Union troops reach Alexandria, Louisiana.
1865 American Civil War: The Battle of Averasborough began as Confederate forces suffer irreplaceable casualties in the final months of the war.
1870 The first version of the overture fantasy Romeo and Juliet by Tchaikovsky receives its premiθre performance.
1872 The Wanderers F.C. won the first FA Cup, the oldest football competition in the world, beating Royal Engineers A.F.C. 10 at The Oval in Kennington, London.
1894 Jules Massenet's opera Thaοs is first performed.
1898 In Melbourne the representatives of five colonies adopted a constitution, which would become the basis of the Commonwealth of Australia.[1]
1900 Sir Arthur Evans purchased the land around the ruins of Knossos, the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete.
1916 The 7th and 10th US cavalry regiments under John J. Pershing cross the USMexico border to join the hunt for Pancho Villa.
1917 World War I: A German auxiliary cruiser is sunk in the Action of 16 March 1917.
1918 Finnish Civil War: Battle of Lδnkipohja is infamous for its bloody aftermath as the Whites executed 70100 capitulated Reds.
1924 In accordance with the Treaty of Rome, Fiume becomes annexed as part of Italy.
1925 An earthquake occurs in Yunnan, China.
1926 History of Rocketry: Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.
1935 Adolf Hitler orders Germany to rearm herself in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. Conscription is reintroduced to form the Wehrmacht.
1936 Warmer-than-normal temperatures rapidly melt snow and ice on the upper Allegheny and Monongahela rivers, leading to a major flood in Pittsburgh.
1939 From Prague Castle, Hitler proclaims Bohemia and Moravia a German protectorate.
1940 First person killed (James Isbister) in a German bombing raid on the UK in World War II during a raid on Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands.
1945 World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ended, but small pockets of Japanese resistance persisted.
1945 Ninety percent of Wόrzburg, Germany is destroyed in only 20 minutes by British bombers, resulting in around 5,000 deaths.
1958 The Ford Motor Company produces its 50 millionth automobile, the Thunderbird, averaging almost a million cars a year since the company's founding.
1962 A Flying Tiger Line Super Constellation disappears in the western Pacific Ocean, with all 107 aboard missing and presumed dead.
1966 Launch of Gemini 8, the 12th manned American space flight and first space docking with an Agena Target Vehicle.
1968 Vietnam War: My Lai Massacre occurs; between 347 and 500 Vietnamese villagers (men, women, and children) are killed by American troops.
1968 General Motors produces its 100 millionth automobile, the Oldsmobile Toronado.
1969 A Viasa McDonnell Douglas DC-9 crashes in Maracaibo, Venezuela, killing 155.
1976 British Prime Minister Harold Wilson resigns, citing personal reasons.
1977 Assassination of Kamal Jumblatt, the main leader of the anti-government forces in the Lebanese Civil War.
1978 Former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro is kidnapped. (He is later murdered by his captors.)
1978 Supertanker Amoco Cadiz splits in two after running aground on the Portsall Rocks, three miles off the coast of Brittany, resulting in the largest oil spill in history at that time.
1979 Sino-Vietnamese War: The People's Liberation Army crosses the border back into China, ends the war.
1983 Demolition of the Ismaning radio transmitter, the last wooden radio tower in Germany.
1984 William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Beirut, Lebanon, is kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists. (He later dies in captivity.)
1985 Associated Press newsman Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut. He is released on December 4, 1991.
1988 IranContra affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States.
1988 Halabja chemical attack: The Kurdish town of Halabja in Iraq is attacked with a mix of poison gas and nerve agents on the orders of Saddam Hussein, killing 5000 people and injuring about 10000 people.
1988 The Troubles: Ulster loyalist militant Michael Stone attacks a Provisional IRA funeral in Belfast with pistols and grenades. A PIRA volunteer and two civilians are killed, and more than 60 others are wounded.
1989 In Egypt, a 4400-year-old mummy is found near the Pyramid of Cheops.
1991 The airplane carrying eight members of Reba McEntire's touring band crashed on the side of Otay Mountain.
1995 Mississippi formally ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was officially ratified in 1865.
2001 A series of bomb blasts that took place in the city of Shijiazhuang, China killed 108 people and injured 38 others, was the biggest mass murder in China in decades.
2003 American activist Rachel Corrie is killed in Rafah trying to obstruct the demolition of a home by being run over by a bulldozer.
2005 Israel officially hands over Jericho to Palestinian control.
2014 Crimea votes in a controversial referendum to secede from Ukraine to join Russia.
2016 A bomb detonates in a bus carrying government employees in Peshawar, Pakistan, killing 15 and injuring at least 54.
2016 Two suicide bombers detonate their explosives at a mosque during morning prayer on the outskirts of Maiduguri, Nigeria, killing 22 and injuring 18.
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45 BC In his last victory, Julius Caesar defeats the Pompeian forces of Titus Labienus and Pompey the Younger in the Battle of Munda.
180 Marcus Aurelius dies leaving Commodus the sole emperor of the Roman Empire.
455 Petronius Maximus becomes, with support of the Roman Senate, emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
1001 The Raja of Butuan in what is now the Philippines sends a tributary mission to the Song dynasty.
1337 Edward, the Black Prince is made Duke of Cornwall, the first Duchy in England.
1452 The Battle of Los Alporchones is fought in the context of the Spanish Reconquista between the Emirate of Granada and the combined forces of the Kingdom of Castile and Murcia resulting in a Christian victory.
1560 Fort Coligny on Villegagnon Island in Rio de Janeiro is attacked and destroyed during the Portuguese campaign against France Antarctique.
1677 The Siege of Valenciennes, during the Franco-Dutch War, ends with France's taking of the city.
1776 American Revolution: British forces evacuate Boston, ending the Siege of Boston, after George Washington and Henry Knox place artillery in positions overlooking the city.
1780 American Revolution: George Washington grants the Continental Army a holiday "as an act of solidarity with the Irish in their fight for independence".
1805 The Italian Republic, with Napoleon as president, becomes the Kingdom of Italy, with Napoleon as King.
1824 The Malay archipelago splits into two domains after the Anglo-Dutch Treaty is signed in London. As a result, the Malay Peninsula is dominated by the British, while Sumatra and Java and surrounding areas are dominated by the Dutch.
1842 The Relief Society of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is formed.
1852 Annibale De Gasparis discovers in Naples the asteroid Psyche from the north dome of the Astronomical Observatory of Capodimonte
1860 The First Taranaki War begins in Taranaki, New Zealand, a major phase of the New Zealand land wars.
1861 The Kingdom of Italy is proclaimed.
1891 SS Utopia collides with HMS Anson in the Bay of Gibraltar and sinks, killing 562 of the 880 passengers on board.
1921 The Second Polish Republic adopts the March Constitution.
1939 Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanchang between the Kuomintang and Japan begins.
1941 In Washington, D.C., the National Gallery of Art is officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1942 Holocaust: The first Jews from the Lvov Ghetto are gassed at the Belzec death camp in what is today eastern Poland.
1945 The Ludendorff Bridge in Remagen, Germany, collapses, ten days after its capture.
1947 First flight of the B-45 Tornado strategic bomber.
1948 Belgium, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Brussels, a precursor to the North Atlantic Treaty establishing NATO.
1950 Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley announce the creation of element 98, which they name "californium".
1957 A plane crash in Cebu, Philippines kills Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay and 24 others.
1958 The United States launches the Vanguard 1 satellite.
1959 Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, flees Tibet for India.
1960 U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the National Security Council directive on the anti-Cuban covert action program that will ultimately lead to the Bay of Pigs Invasion.
1963 Mount Agung erupted on Bali killing more than 1,100 people.
1966 Off the coast of Spain in the Mediterranean, the DSV Alvin submarine finds a missing American hydrogen bomb.
1968 As a result of nerve gas testing in Skull Valley, Utah, over 6,000 sheep are found dead.
1969 Golda Meir becomes the first female Prime Minister of Israel.
1973 The Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph Burst of Joy is taken, depicting a former prisoner of war being reunited with his family, which came to symbolize the end of United States involvement in the Vietnam War.
1979 The Penmanshiel Tunnel collapses during engineering works, killing two workers.
1985 Serial killer Richard Ramirez, aka the "Night Stalker", commits the first two murders in his Los Angeles murder spree.
1988 A Colombian Boeing 727 jetliner, Avianca Flight 410, crashes into a mountainside near the Venezuelan border killing 143.
1988 Eritrean War of Independence: The Nadew Command, an Ethiopian army corps in Eritrea, is attacked on three sides by military units of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front in the opening action of the Battle of Afabet.
1992 Israeli Embassy attack in Buenos Aires: Car bomb attack kills 29 and injures 242.
1992 A referendum to end apartheid in South Africa is passed 68.7% to 31.2%.
2000 Five hundred thirty members of the Ugandan cult Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God die in a fire, considered to be a mass murder or suicide orchestrated by leaders of the cult. Elsewhere another 248 members are later found dead.
2003 Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Robin Cook, resigns from the British Cabinet in disagreement with government plans for the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
2004 Unrest in Kosovo: More than 22 are killed and 200 wounded. Thirty-five Serbian Orthodox shrines in Kosovo and two mosques in Serbia are destroyed.
2011 United Nations Security Council Resolution 1972 relating to Somalia is adopted.
2011 United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973 relating to Libyan Civil War is adopted.
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