881 Pope John VIII crowns Charles the Fat, the King of Italy: Holy Roman Emperor
1429 English forces under Sir John Fastolf defend a supply convoy carrying rations to the army besieging Orlιans in the Battle of the Herrings.
1502 Isabella I issued an edict outlawing Islam in the Crown of Castile, forcing virtually all her Muslim subjects to convert to Christianity.
1502 Vasco da Gama sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal, on his second voyage to India.
1541 Santiago, Chile is founded by Pedro de Valdivia.
1554 A year after claiming the throne of England for nine days, Lady Jane Grey is beheaded for treason.
1593 Japanese invasion of Korea: Approximately 3,000 Joseon defenders led by general Kwon Yul successfully repel more than 30,000 Japanese forces in the Siege of Haengju.
1689 The Convention Parliament declares that the flight to France in 1688 by James II, the last Roman Catholic British monarch, constitutes an abdication.
1733 Englishman James Oglethorpe founds Georgia, the 13th colony of the Thirteen Colonies, and its first city at Savannah (known as Georgia Day).
1771 Gustav III becomes the King of Sweden.
1817 An Argentine/Chilean patriotic army, after crossing the Andes, defeats Spanish troops on the Battle of Chacabuco.
1818 Bernardo O'Higgins formally approves the Chilean Declaration of Independence near Concepciσn, Chile.
1825 The Creek cede the last of their lands in Georgia to the United States government by the Treaty of Indian Springs, and migrate west.
1832 Ecuador annexes the Galαpagos Islands.
1851 Edward Hargraves announces he has found gold in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia, starting the Australian gold rushes.
1855 Michigan State University is established.
1894 Anarchist Ιmile Henry hurls a bomb into the Cafe Terminus in Paris, killing one person and wounding 20.
1909 The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded.
1909 New Zealand's worst maritime disaster of the 20th century happens when the SS Penguin, an inter-island ferry, sinks and explodes at the entrance to Wellington Harbour.
1912 The Xuantong Emperor, the last Emperor of China, abdicates.
1915 In Washington, D.C., the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.
1921 Bolsheviks launch a revolt in Georgia as a preliminary to the Red Army invasion of Georgia.
1924 George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue received its premiere in a concert titled "An Experiment in Modern Music", in Aeolian Hall, New York, by Paul Whiteman and his band, with Gershwin playing the piano.
1935 USS Macon, one of the two largest helium-filled airships ever created, crashes into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California and sinks.
1946 World War II: Operation Deadlight ends after scuttling 121 of 154 captured U-boats.
1946 African American United States Army veteran Isaac Woodard is severely beaten by a South Carolina police officer to the point where he loses his vision in both eyes. The incident later galvanizes the Civil Rights Movement and partially inspires Orson Welles' film Touch of Evil.
1947 The largest observed iron meteorite until that time creates an impact crater in Sikhote-Alin, in the Soviet Union.
1947 Christian Dior unveils a "New Look", helping Paris regain its position as the capital of the fashion world.
1961 The Soviet Union launches Venera 1 towards Venus.
1963 Construction begins on the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri.
1965 Malcolm X visits Smethwick following the racial charged 1964 general election.[1]
1968 Phong Nhị and Phong Nhất massacre.
1974 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970, is exiled from the Soviet Union.
1983 One hundred women protest in Lahore, Pakistan against military dictator Zia-ul-Haq's proposed Law of Evidence. The women were tear-gassed, baton-charged and thrown into lock-up. The women were successful in repealing the law.
1988 Cold War: The 1988 Black Sea bumping incident: The U.S. missile cruiser USS Yorktown (CG-48) is intentionally rammed by the Soviet frigate Bezzavetnyy in the Soviet territorial waters, while Yorktown claims innocent passage.
1990 Carmen Lawrence becomes the first female Premier in Australian history when she becomes Premier of Western Australia.
1992 The current Constitution of Mongolia comes into effect.
1993 Two-year-old James Bulger is abducted from New Strand Shopping Centre by two ten-year-old boys, who later torture and murder him.
1994 Four thieves break into the National Gallery of Norway and steal Edvard Munch's iconic painting The Scream.
1999 United States President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial.
2001 NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touches down in the "saddle" region of 433 Eros, becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.
2002 The trial of Slobodan Miloević, the former President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, begins at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands. He dies four years later before its conclusion.
2002 An Iran Airtour Tupolev Tu-154 crashes in the mountains outside Khorramabad, Iran while descending for a landing at Khorramabad Airport, killing 119.
2004 The city of San Francisco begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in response to a directive from Mayor Gavin Newsom.
2009 Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashes into a house in Clarence Center, New York while on approach to Buffalo Niagara International Airport, killing all on board and one on the ground.
2016 Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill sign an Ecumenical Declaration in the first such meeting between leaders of the Catholic and Russian Orthodox Churches since their split in 1054.
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951 Guo Wei, a court official, leads a military coup and declares himself emperor of the new Later Zhou.
962 Emperor Otto I and Pope John XII co-sign the Diploma Ottonianum, recognizing John as ruler of Rome.
1322 The central tower of Ely Cathedral falls on the night of 12th13th.
1462 The Treaty of Westminster is finalised between Edward IV of England and the Scottish Lord of the Isles.
1503 Challenge of Barletta: Tournament between 13 Italian and 13 French knights near Barletta.
1542 Catherine Howard, the fifth wife of Henry VIII of England, is executed for adultery.
1575 Henry III of France is crowned at Reims.
1633 Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition.
1660 With the accession of young Charles XI of Sweden, his regents begin negotiations to end the Second Northern War.
1689 William and Mary are proclaimed co-rulers of England.
1692 Massacre of Glencoe: Almost 80 Macdonalds at Glen Coe, Scotland are killed early in the morning for not promptly pledging allegiance to the new king, William of Orange.
1739 Battle of Karnal: The army of Iranian ruler Nader Shah defeats the forces of the Mughal emperor of India, Muhammad Shah.
1755 Treaty of Giyanti signed by VOC, Pakubuwono III and Prince Mangkubumi. The treaty divides the Javanese kingdom of Mataram into 2: Sunanate of Surakarta and Sultanate of Yogyakarta.
1849 The delegation headed by Metropolitan bishop Andrei Șaguna hands out to the Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria the General Petition of Romanian leaders in Transylvania, Banat and Bukovina, which demands that the Romanian nation be recognized.
1861 In Gaeta the capitulation of the fortress decreeing the end of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies is signed.
1867 Work begins on the covering of the Senne, burying Brussels's primary river and creating the modern central boulevards.
1880 Thomas Edison observes the Edison effect.
1913 The 13th Dalai Lama proclaims Tibetan independence following a period of domination by Manchu Qing dynasty and initiated a period of almost four decades of independence.
1914 Copyright: In New York City the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers is established to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members.
1920 The Negro National League is formed.
1931 The British Raj completes its transfer from Calcutta to New Delhi.
1935 A jury in Flemington, New Jersey finds Bruno Hauptmann guilty of the 1932 kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby, the son of Charles Lindbergh.
1945 World War II: The siege of Budapest concludes with the unconditional surrender of German and Hungarian forces to the Red Army.
1945 World War II: Royal Air Force bombers are dispatched to Dresden, Germany to attack the city with a massive aerial bombardment.
1951 Korean War: Battle of Chipyong-ni, which represented the "high-water mark" of the Chinese incursion into South Korea, commences.
1954 Frank Selvy becomes the only NCAA Division I basketball player ever to score 100 points in a single game.
1955 Israel obtains four of the seven Dead Sea Scrolls.
1960 With the success of a nuclear test codenamed "Gerboise Bleue", France becomes the fourth country to possess nuclear weapons.
1960 Black college students stage the first of the Nashville sit-ins at three lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee.
1961 An allegedly 500,000-year-old rock is discovered near Olancha, California, US, that appears to anachronistically encase a spark plug.
1967 American researchers discover the Madrid Codices by Leonardo da Vinci in the National Library of Spain.
1975 Fire at the World Trade Center in New York.
1978 Hilton bombing: a bomb explodes in a refuse truck outside the Hilton Hotel in Sydney, Australia, killing two refuse collectors and a policeman.
1979 An intense windstorm strikes western Washington and sinks a 1/2-mile-long section of the Hood Canal Bridge.
1981 A series of sewer explosions destroys more than two miles of streets in Louisville, Kentucky.
1983 A cinema fire in Turin, Italy, kills 64 people.
1984 Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1990 German reunification: An agreement is reached on a two-stage plan to reunite Germany.
1991 Gulf War: Two laser-guided "smart bombs" destroy the Amiriyah shelter in Baghdad. Allied forces said the bunker was being used as a military communications outpost, but over 400 Iraqi civilians inside were killed.
1996 The Nepalese Civil War is initiated in the Kingdom of Nepal by the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist-Centre).
2001 An earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter magnitude scale hits El Salvador, killing at least 400.
2004 The HarvardSmithsonian Center for Astrophysics announces the discovery of the universe's largest known diamond, white dwarf star BPM 37093. Astronomers named this star "Lucy" after The Beatles' song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds".
2007 Taiwan opposition leader Ma Ying-jeou resigns as the chairman of the Kuomintang party after being indicted on charges of embezzlement during his tenure as the mayor of Taipei; Ma also announces his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election.
2008 Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd makes a historic apology to the Indigenous Australians and the Stolen Generations.
2010 A bomb explodes in the city of Pune, Maharashtra, India, killing 17 and injuring 60 more.
2011 For the first time in more than 100 years the Umatilla, an American Indian tribe, are able to hunt and harvest a bison just outside Yellowstone National Park, restoring a centuries-old tradition guaranteed by a treaty signed in 1855.
2012 The European Space Agency (ESA) conducted the first launch of the European Vega rocket from Europe's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
2017 Kim Jong-nam is assassinated at Kuala Lumpur International Airport.
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748 Abbasid Revolution: The Hashimi rebels under Abu Muslim Khorasani take Merv, capital of the Umayyad province Khorasan, marking the consolidation of the Abbasid revolt.
842 Charles the Bald and Louis the German swear the Oaths of Strasbourg in the French and German languages.
1014 Pope Benedict VIII crowns Henry of Bavaria, King of Germany and of Italy, as Holy Roman Emperor.
1076 Pope Gregory VII excommunicates Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor.
1130 Pope Innocent II is elected.
1349 Several hundred Jews are burned to death by mobs while the remaining Jews are forcibly removed from Strasbourg.
1400 Richard II of England dies, most probably from starvation, in Pontefract Castle, on the orders of Henry Bolingbroke.
1530 Spanish conquistadores, led by Nuρo de Guzmαn, overthrow and execute Tangaxuan II, the last independent monarch of the Tarascan state in present-day central Mexico.
1556 Thomas Cranmer is declared a heretic.
1556 Coronation of Akbar.
1655 Arauco War: The Mapuche under their elected military leader, Clentaru, rise up against the Spanish in an insurrection in present-day central Chile.
1778 The United States flag is formally recognized by a foreign naval vessel for the first time, when French Admiral Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte renders a nine gun salute to USS Ranger, commanded by John Paul Jones.
1779 American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Kettle Creek is fought in Georgia.
1779 James Cook is killed by Native Hawaiians near Kealakekua on the Island of Hawaii.
1797 French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Cape St. Vincent: John Jervis, (later 1st Earl of St Vincent) and Horatio Nelson (later 1st Viscount Nelson) lead the British Royal Navy to victory over a Spanish fleet in action near Gibraltar.
1804 Karađorđe leads the First Serbian Uprising against the Ottoman Empire.
1831 Ras Marye of Yejju marches into Tigray and defeats and kills Dejazmach Sabagadis in the Battle of Debre Abbay.
1835 The original Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, in the Latter Day Saint movement, is formed in Kirtland, Ohio.
1849 In New York City, James Knox Polk becomes the first serving President of the United States to have his photograph taken.
1852 Great Ormond St Hospital for Sick Children, the first hospital in England to provide in-patient beds specifically for children, is founded in London.
1855 Texas is linked by telegraph to the rest of the United States, with the completion of a connection between New Orleans and Marshall, Texas.
1859 Oregon is admitted as the 33rd U.S. state.
1876 Alexander Graham Bell applies for a patent for the telephone, as does Elisha Gray.
1879 The War of the Pacific breaks out when Chilean armed forces occupy the Bolivian port city of Antofagasta.
1899 Voting machines are approved by the U.S. Congress for use in federal elections.
1900 British forces begin the Battle of the Tugela Heights in an effort to lift the Siege of Ladysmith.
1903 The United States Department of Commerce and Labor is established (later split into the Department of Commerce and the Department of Labor).
1912 Arizona is admitted as the 48th and the last contiguous U.S. state.
1912 The U.S. Navy commissions its first class of diesel-powered submarines.
1918 The Soviet Union adopts the Gregorian calendar (on 1 February according to the Julian calendar).
1919 The PolishSoviet War begins.
1920 The League of Women Voters is founded in Chicago.
1924 The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company changes its name to International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).
1929 Saint Valentine's Day Massacre: Seven people, six of them gangster rivals of Al Capone's gang, are murdered in Chicago.
1942 Battle of Pasir Panjang contributes to the fall of Singapore.
1943 World War II: Rostov-on-Don, Russia is liberated.
1943 World War II: Tunisia Campaign: General Hans-Jόrgen von Arnim's Fifth Panzer Army launches a concerted attack against Allied positions in Tunisia.
1944 World War II: In the Action of 14 February 1944, a British submarine sinks a German-controlled Italian submarine in the Strait of Malacca.
1945 World War II: On the first day of the bombing of Dresden, the British Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Forces begin fire-bombing Dresden.
1945 World War II: Navigational error leads to the mistaken bombing of Prague, Czechoslovakia by an American squadron of B-17s assisting in the Soviet's VistulaOder Offensive.
1945 World War II: Mostar is liberated by Yugoslav partisans
1945 President Franklin D. Roosevelt meets with King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia aboard the USS Quincy, officially beginning U.S.-Saudi diplomatic relations.
1946 The Bank of England is nationalized.
1949 The Knesset (Israeli parliament) convenes for the first time.
1949 The Asbestos Strike begins in Canada. The strike marks the beginning of the Quiet Revolution in Quebec.
1950 Chinese Civil War: The National Revolutionary Army instigates the unsuccessful Battle of Tianquan against the People's Liberation Army.
1961 Discovery of the chemical elements: Element 103, Lawrencium, is first synthesized at the University of California.
1966 Australian currency is decimalized.
1979 In Kabul, Setami Milli militants kidnap the American ambassador to Afghanistan, Adolph Dubs who is later killed during a gunfight between his kidnappers and police.
1983 United American Bank of Knoxville, Tennessee collapses. Its president, Jake Butcher, is later convicted of fraud.
1989 Union Carbide agrees to pay $470 million to the Indian government for damages it caused in the 1984 Bhopal disaster.
1989 Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini issues a fatwa encouraging Muslims to kill Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses.
1990 Ninety-two people are killed when Indian Airlines Flight 605 crashes in Bangalore, India.
1990 The Voyager 1 spacecraft takes the photograph of planet Earth that later become famous as Pale Blue Dot.
1998 An oil tanker train collides with a freight train in Yaoundι, Cameroon, spilling fuel oil. One person scavenging the oil created a massive explosion which kills 120.
2000 The spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker enters orbit around asteroid 433 Eros, the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid.
2004 In a suburb of Moscow, Russia, the roof of the Transvaal water park collapses, killing more than 25 people, and wounding more than 100 others.
2005 Lebanese self-made billionaire and business tycoon Rafic Hariri is assassinated in Beirut, along with 21 other people, when the equivalent of around 1,000 kg of TNT is detonated as his motorcade drove near the St. George Hotel.
2005 Seven people are killed and 151 wounded in a series of bombings by suspected al-Qaeda-linked militants that hit Makati, Davao City, and General Santos City, all in the Philippines.
2005 YouTube is launched by a group of college students, eventually becoming the largest video sharing website in the world and a main source for viral videos.
2008 Northern Illinois University shooting: A gunman opened fire in a lecture hall of the DeKalb County, Illinois university resulting in six fatalities (including gunman) and 21 injuries.
2011 As a part of Arab Spring, the Bahraini uprising begins with a 'Day of Rage'.
2012 Rangers Football Club enter administration and are deducted 10 points in the SPL[1]
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706 Byzantine emperor Justinian II has his predecessors Leontios and Tiberios III publicly executed in the Hippodrome of Constantinople.
1113 Pope Paschal II issues Pie Postulatio Voluntatis, recognizing the Order of Hospitallers.
1214 During the Anglo-French War (12131214), an English invasion force lands at La Rochelle in France.
1493 While on board the Niρa, Christopher Columbus writes an open letter (widely distributed upon his return to Portugal) describing his discoveries and the unexpected items he came across in the New World.
1637 Ferdinand III becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
1690 Constantin Cantemir, Prince of Moldavia, and the Holy Roman Empire sign a secret treaty in Sibiu, stipulating that Moldavia would support the actions led by the House of Habsburg against the Ottoman Empire.
1764 The city of St. Louis is established in Spanish Louisiana (now in Missouri, USA).
1798 The Roman Republic is proclaimed after Louis-Alexandre Berthier, a general of Napoleon, had invaded the city of Rome five days earlier.
1835 The first constitutional law in modern Serbia is adopted.
1862 American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant attacks Fort Donelson, Tennessee.
1870 Stevens Institute of Technology is founded in New Jersey, USA and offers the first Bachelor of Engineering degree in Mechanical Engineering.
1879 Women's rights: US President Rutherford B. Hayes signs a bill allowing female attorneys to argue cases before the Supreme Court of the United States.
1891 Allmδnna Idrottsklubben (AIK) (Swedish Sports Club) is founded.
1898 The battleship USS Maine explodes and sinks in Havana harbor in Cuba, killing 274. This event leads the United States to declare war on Spain.
1901 The association football club Alianza Lima is founded in Lima, Peru, under the name Sport Alianza.
1909 The Flores Theater fire in Acapulco, Mexico kills 250.
1921 Kingdom of Romania establishes its legation in Helsinki.
1923 Greece becomes the last European country to adopt the Gregorian calendar.
1925 The 1925 serum run to Nome: The second delivery of serum arrives in Nome, Alaska.
1933 In Miami, Giuseppe Zangara attempts to assassinate US President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, but instead shoots Chicago mayor Anton J. Cermak, who dies of his wounds on March 6, 1933.
1942 World War II: Fall of Singapore. Following an assault by Japanese forces, the British General Arthur Percival surrenders. About 80,000 Indian, United Kingdom and Australian soldiers become prisoners of war, the largest surrender of British-led military personnel in history.
1944 World War II: The assault on Monte Cassino, Italy begins.
1944 World War II: The Narva Offensive begins.
1945 World War II: Third day of bombing in Dresden.
1946 ENIAC, the first electronic general-purpose computer, is formally dedicated at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
1949 Gerald Lankester Harding and Roland de Vaux begin excavations at Cave 1 of the Qumran Caves, where they will eventually discover the first seven Dead Sea Scrolls.
1952 King George VI of the United Kingdom is buried in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.
1954 Canada and the United States agree to construct the Distant Early Warning Line, a system of radar stations in the far northern Arctic regions of Canada and Alaska.
1961 Sabena Flight 548 crashes in Belgium, killing 73, including the entire United States figure skating team along with several of their coaches and family members.
1965 A new red-and-white maple leaf design is adopted as the flag of Canada, replacing the old Canadian Red Ensign banner.
1971 The decimalisation of British coinage is completed on Decimal Day.
1972 Sound recordings are granted U.S. federal copyright protection for the first time.
1972 Josι Marνa Velasco Ibarra, serving as President of Ecuador for the fifth time, is overthrown by the military for the fourth time.
1982 The drilling rig Ocean Ranger sinks during a storm off the coast of Newfoundland, killing 84 workers.
1989 SovietAfghan War: The Soviet Union officially announces that all of its troops have left Afghanistan.
1991 The Visegrαd Agreement, establishing cooperation to move toward free-market systems, is signed by the leaders of Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland.
1992 Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is sentenced in Milwaukee to life in prison.
1996 At the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in China, a Long March 3 rocket, carrying an Intelsat 708, crashes into a rural village after liftoff, killing many people.
2001 The first draft of the complete human genome is published in Nature.
2003 Protests against the Iraq war take place in over 600 cities worldwide. It is estimated that between eight million to 30 million people participate, making this the largest peace demonstration in history.
2012 Three hundred sixty people die in a fire at a Honduran prison in the city of Comayagua.
2013 A meteor explodes over Russia, injuring 1,500 people as a shock wave blows out windows and rocks buildings. This happens unexpectedly only hours before the expected closest ever approach of the larger and unrelated asteroid 2012 DA14.
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1966 Australian currency is decimalized.
1970 - Furnaceface is born ;-)
1979 In Kabul, Setami Milli militants kidnap the American ambassador to Afghanistan, Adolph Dubs who is later killed during a gunfight between his kidnappers and police.
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116 Emperor Trajan sends laureatae to the Roman Senate at Rome on account of his victories and being conqueror of Parthia.
1249 Andrew of Longjumeau is dispatched by Louis IX of France as his ambassador to meet with the Khagan of the Mongol Empire.
1270 Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeats the Livonian Order in the Battle of Karuse.
1630 Dutch forces led by Hendrick Lonck capture Olinda in what was to become part of Dutch Brazil.
1646 Battle of Torrington, Devon: The last major battle of the first English Civil War.
1699 First Leopoldine Diploma is issued by the Holy Roman Emperor, recognizing the Greek Catholic clergy enjoyed the same privileges as Roman Catholic priests in the Principality of Transylvania.
1742 Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, becomes British Prime Minister.
1804 First Barbary War: Stephen Decatur leads a raid to burn the pirate-held frigate USS Philadelphia.
1862 American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant captures Fort Donelson, Tennessee.
1866 Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington becomes British Secretary of State for War.
1881 The Canadian Pacific Railway is incorporated by Act of Parliament at Ottawa (44th Vic., c.1).
1899 Iceland's first football club, Knattspyrnufιlag Reykjavνkur, is founded.
1918 The Council of Lithuania unanimously adopts the Act of Independence, declaring Lithuania an independent state.
1923 Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun.
1930 The Romanian Football Federation joins FIFA.
1933 The Blaine Act ends Prohibition in the United States.
1934 The Austrian Civil War ends with the defeat of the Social Democrats and the Republikanischer Schutzbund.
1936 Elections bring the Popular Front to power in Spain.
1937 Wallace H. Carothers receives a United States patent for nylon.
1940 World War II: Altmark Incident: The German tanker Altmark is boarded by sailors from the British destroyer HMS Cossack. 299 British prisoners are freed.
1943 World War II: In the early phases of the Third Battle of Kharkov, Red Army troops re-enter the city.
1945 World War II: American forces land on Corregidor Island in the Philippines.
1959 Fidel Castro becomes Premier of Cuba after dictator Fulgencio Batista was overthrown on January 1.
1960 The U.S. Navy submarine USS Triton begins Operation Sandblast, setting sail from New London, Connecticut, to begin the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
1961 Explorer program: Explorer 9 (S-56a) is launched.
1962 Flooding in the coastal areas of West Germany kills 315 and destroys the homes of about 60,000 people.
1968 In Haleyville, Alabama, the first 9-1-1 emergency telephone system goes into service.
1978 The first computer bulletin board system is created (CBBS in Chicago).
1983 The Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia kill 75.
1985 Hezbollah is founded.
1986 The Soviet liner MS Mikhail Lermontov runs aground in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand.
1991 Nicaraguan Contras leader Enrique Bermϊdez is assassinated in Managua.
1996 A Chicago-bound Amtrak train, the Capitol Limited, collides with a MARC commuter train bound for Washington, D.C., killing 11 people.
1998 China Airlines Flight 676 crashes into a road and residential area near Chiang Kai-shek International Airport in Taiwan, killing all 196 aboard and seven more on the ground.
2005 The Kyoto Protocol comes into force, following its ratification by Russia.
2005 The National Hockey League cancels the entire 200405 regular season and playoffs.
2006 The last Mobile army surgical hospital (MASH) is decommissioned by the United States Army.
2013 A bomb blast at a market in Hazara Town, Quetta, Pakistan kills more than 80 people and injures 190 others.
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364 Roman Emperor Jovian dies after a reign of eight months. He is found dead in his tent at Tyana (Asia Minor) en route back to Constantinople in suspicious circumstances.
1370 Northern Crusades: Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Teutonic Knights meet in the Battle of Rudau.
1411 Following the successful campaigns during the Ottoman Interregnum, Musa Ηelebi, one of the sons of Bayezid I, becomes Sultan with the support of Mircea I of Wallachia.
1500 Duke Friedrich and Duke Johann attempt to subdue the peasantry of Dithmarschen, Denmark, in the Battle of Hemmingstedt.
1600 The philosopher Giordano Bruno is burned alive, for heresy, at Campo de' Fiori in Rome.
1621 Myles Standish is appointed as first military commander of the English Plymouth Colony in North America.
1753 In Sweden February 17 is followed by March 1 as the country moves from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar.
1801 An electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr is resolved when Jefferson is elected President of the United States and Burr, Vice President by the United States House of Representatives.
1814 War of the Sixth Coalition: The Battle of Mormant.
1819 The United States House of Representatives passes the Missouri Compromise for the first time.
1838 Weenen massacre: Hundreds of Voortrekkers along the Blaukraans River, Natal are killed by Zulus.
1854 The United Kingdom recognizes the independence of the Orange Free State.
1859 Cochinchina Campaign: The French Navy captured the Citadel of Saigon, a fortress that was manned by 1,000 Nguyễn dynasty soldiers, en route to conquering Saigon and other regions of southern Viet Nam.
1863 A group of citizens of Geneva founded an International Committee for Relief to the Wounded, which later became known as the International Committee of the Red Cross.
1864 American Civil War: The H. L. Hunley becomes the first submarine to engage and sink a warship, the USS Housatonic.
1865 American Civil War: Columbia, South Carolina, is burned as Confederate forces flee from advancing Union forces.
1867 The first ship passes through the Suez Canal.
1871 The victorious Prussian Army parades through Paris, France, after the end of the Siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War.
1904 Madama Butterfly receives its premiθre at La Scala in Milan.
1913 The Armory Show opens in New York City, displaying works of artists who are to become some of the most influential painters of the early 20th century.
1919 The Ukrainian People's Republic asks Entente and the US for help fighting the Bolsheviks.
1933 Newsweek magazine is first published.
1944 World War II: The Battle of Eniwetok begins: The battle ends in an American victory on February 22.
1944 World War II: Operation Hailstone begins: U.S. naval air, surface, and submarine attack against Truk Lagoon, Japan's main base in the central Pacific, in support of the Eniwetok invasion.
1949 Chaim Weizmann begins his term as the first President of Israel.
1959 Project Vanguard: Vanguard 2: The first weather satellite is launched to measure cloud-cover distribution.
1964 In Wesberry v. Sanders the Supreme Court of the United States rules that congressional districts have to be approximately equal in population.
1964 Gabonese president Lιon M'ba is toppled by a coup and his rival, Jean-Hilaire Aubame, is installed in his place.
1965 Project Ranger: The Ranger 8 probe launches on its mission to photograph the Mare Tranquillitatis region of the Moon in preparation for the manned Apollo missions. Mare Tranquillitatis or the "Sea of Tranquility" would become the site chosen for the Apollo 11 lunar landing.
1968 In Springfield, Massachusetts, the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame opens.
1972 Cumulative sales of the Volkswagen Beetle exceed those of the Ford Model T.
1974 Robert K. Preston, a disgruntled U.S. Army private, buzzes the White House in a stolen helicopter.
1978 The Troubles: The Provisional IRA detonates an incendiary bomb at the La Mon restaurant, near Belfast, killing 12 and seriously injuring 30 others, all Protestants.
1979 The Sino-Vietnamese War begins.
1980 First winter ascent of Mount Everest by Krzysztof Wielicki and Leszek Cichy.
1992 Nagorno-Karabakh War: Armenian troops massacre more than 20 Azerbaijani civilians during the Capture of Garadaghly.
1995 The Cenepa War between Peru and Ecuador ends on a ceasefire brokered by the UN.
1996 In Philadelphia, world champion Garry Kasparov beats the Deep Blue supercomputer in a chess match.
1996 NASA's Discovery Program begins as the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft lifts off on the first mission ever to orbit and land on an asteroid, 433 Eros.
1996 The 8.2 Mw Biak earthquake shakes the Papua province of eastern Indonesia with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). A large tsunami followed, leaving one-hundred sixty-six people dead or missing and 423 injured.
2006 A massive mudslide occurs in Southern Leyte, Philippines; the official death toll is set at 1,126.
2008 Kosovo declares independence as the Republic of Kosovo.
2011 Libyan protests begin. In Bahrain, security forces launched a deadly pre-dawn raid on protesters in Pearl Roundabout in Manama, the day is locally known as Bloody Thursday.
2015 Eighteen people are killed and 78 injured in a stampede at a Mardi Gras parade in Haiti.
2016 Military vehicles explode outside a Turkish Armed Forces barracks in Ankara, Turkey, killing at least 29 people and injuring 61 others.
1229 The Sixth Crusade: Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor signs a ten-year truce with al-Kamil, regaining Jerusalem, Nazareth, and Bethlehem with neither military engagements nor support from the papacy.
1268 The Livonian Order is defeated by Dovmont of Pskov in the Battle of Rakvere.
1332 Amda Seyon I, Emperor of Ethiopia begins his campaigns in the southern Muslim provinces.
1478 George, Duke of Clarence, convicted of treason against his older brother Edward IV of England, is executed in private at the Tower of London.
1637 Eighty Years' War: Off the coast of Cornwall, England, a Spanish fleet intercepts an important Anglo-Dutch merchant convoy of 44 vessels escorted by six warships, destroying or capturing 20 of them.
1745 The city of Surakarta, Central Java is founded on the banks of Bengawan Solo River, and becomes the capital of the Sunanate of Surakarta Hadiningrat.
1766 A mutiny by captive Malagasy begins at sea on the slave ship Meermin, leading to the ship's destruction on Cape Agulhas in present-day South Africa and the recapture of the instigators.
1781 Fourth Anglo-Dutch War: Captain Thomas Shirley opens his expedition against Dutch colonial outposts on the Gold Coast of Africa (present-day Ghana).
1791 Congress passes a law admitting the state of Vermont to the Union, effective 4 March, after that state had existed for 14 years as a de facto independent largely unrecognized state.
1797 French Revolutionary Wars: Sir Ralph Abercromby and a fleet of 18 British warships invade Trinidad.
1814 Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Montereau.
1861 In Montgomery, Alabama, Jefferson Davis is inaugurated as the provisional President of the Confederate States of America.
1861 With Italian unification almost complete, Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont, Savoy and Sardinia assumes the title of King of Italy.
1865 American Civil War: Union forces under Major General William T. Sherman set the South Carolina State House on fire during the burning of Columbia.
1873 Bulgarian revolutionary leader Vasil Levski is executed by hanging in Sofia by the Ottoman authorities.
1878 John Tunstall is murdered by outlaw Jesse Evans, sparking the Lincoln County War in Lincoln County, New Mexico.
1885 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is published in the United States.
1900 Second Boer War: Imperial forces suffer their worst single-day loss of life on Bloody Sunday, the first day of the Battle of Paardeberg.
1906 Ιdouard de Laveleye forms the Belgian Olympic Committee in Brussels.
1911 The first official flight with airmail takes place from Allahabad, United Provinces, British India (now India), when Henri Pequet, a 23-year-old pilot, delivers 6,500 letters to Naini, about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) away.
1930 While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto.
1930 Elm Farm Ollie becomes the first cow to fly in a fixed-wing aircraft and also the first cow to be milked in an aircraft.
1932 The Empire of Japan declares a puppet state of Manzhouguo (the obsolete Chinese name for Manchuria) independent from the Republic of China and installed former Chinese Emperor Aisin Gioro Puyi as Chief Executive of the State.
1938 Second Sino-Japanese War: During the Nanking Massacre the Nanking Safety Zone International Committee is renamed "Nanking International Rescue Committee" and the safety zone in place for refugees falls apart.
1942 World War II: The Imperial Japanese Army begins the systematic extermination of perceived hostile elements among the Chinese in Singapore.
1943 World War II: The Nazis arrest the members of the White Rose movement.
1943 World War II: Joseph Goebbels delivers his Sportpalast speech.
1946 Sailors of the Royal Indian Navy mutiny in Bombay harbour, from where the action spreads throughout the Provinces of British India, involving 78 ships, twenty shore establishments and 20,000 sailors
1947 First Indochina War: The French gain complete control of Hanoi after forcing the Viet Minh to withdraw to mountains.
1954 The first Church of Scientology is established in Los Angeles.
1955 Operation Teapot: Teapot test shot "Wasp" is successfully detonated at the Nevada Test Site with a yield of 1.2 kilotons. Wasp is the first of fourteen shots in the Teapot series.
1957 Kenyan rebel leader Dedan Kimathi is executed by the British colonial government.
1957 Walter James Bolton becomes the last person legally executed in New Zealand.
1965 The Gambia becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
1970 The Chicago Seven are found not guilty of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
1972 The California Supreme Court in the case of People v. Anderson, (6 Cal.3d 628) invalidates the state's death penalty and commutes the sentences of all death row inmates to life imprisonment.
1977 The Space Shuttle Enterprise test vehicle is carried on its maiden "flight" on top of a Boeing 747.
1979 Richard Petty wins a then-record 6th Daytona 500 after leaders Donnie Allison and Cale Yarborough crash on the final lap of the first NASCAR race televised live flag-to-flag.
1983 Thirteen people die and one is seriously injured in the Wah Mee massacre in Seattle. It is said to be the largest robbery-motivated mass-murder in U.S. history.
1991 The IRA explodes bombs in the early morning at Paddington station and Victoria station in London.
2001 FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested for spying for the Soviet Union. He is ultimately convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.
2001 Seven-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion Dale Earnhardt dies in an accident during the Daytona 500.
2001 Sampit conflict: Inter-ethnic violence between Dayaks and Madurese breaks out in Sampit, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, ultimately resulting in more than 500 deaths and 100,000 Madurese displaced from their homes.
2003 Nearly 200 people die in the Daegu subway fire in South Korea.
2004 Up to 295 people, including nearly 200 rescue workers, die near Nishapur, Iran when a runaway freight train carrying sulfur, petrol and fertilizer catches fire and explodes.
2010 WikiLeaks publishes the first of hundreds of thousands of classified documents disclosed by the soldier now known as Chelsea Manning.
2013 Armed robbers steal a haul of diamonds worth $50 million during a raid at Brussels Airport in Belgium.
2014 At least 76 people are killed and hundreds are injured in clashes between riot police and demonstrators in Kiev, Ukraine.
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197 Emperor Septimius Severus defeats usurper Clodius Albinus in the Battle of Lugdunum, the bloodiest battle between Roman armies.
356 Emperor Constantius II issues a decree closing all pagan temples in the Roman Empire.
1594 Having already been elected to the throne of the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth in 1587, Sigismund III of the House of Vasa is crowned King of Sweden, having succeeded his father John III of Sweden in 1592.
1600 The Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina explodes in the most violent eruption in the recorded history of South America.
1649 The Second Battle of Guararapes takes place, effectively ending Dutch colonization efforts in Brazil.
1674 England and the Netherlands sign the Treaty of Westminster, ending the Third Anglo-Dutch War. A provision of the agreement transfers the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam to England, and it is renamed New York.
1726 The Supreme Privy Council is established in Russia.
1807 Former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr is arrested for treason in Wakefield, Alabama and confined to Fort Stoddert.
1819 British explorer William Smith discovers the South Shetland Islands and claims them in the name of King George III.
1846 In Austin, Texas the newly formed Texas state government is officially installed. The Republic of Texas government officially transfers power to the State of Texas government following the annexation of Texas by the United States.
1847 The first group of rescuers reaches the Donner Party.
1859 Daniel E. Sickles, a New York Congressman, is acquitted of murder on grounds of temporary insanity.
1878 Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
1884 More than sixty tornadoes strike the Southern United States, one of the largest tornado outbreaks in U.S. history.
1913 Pedro Lascurαin becomes President of Mexico for 45 minutes; this is the shortest term to date of any person as president of any country.
1915 World War I: The first naval attack on the Dardanelles begins when a strong Anglo-French task force bombards Ottoman artillery along the coast of Gallipoli.
1937 Yekatit 12: During a public ceremony at the Viceregal Palace (the former Imperial residence) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, two Ethiopian nationalists of Eritrean origin attempt to kill viceroy Rodolfo Graziani with a number of grenades.
1942 World War II: Nearly 250 Japanese warplanes attack the northern Australian city of Darwin, killing 243 people.
1942 World War II: United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs executive order 9066, allowing the United States military to relocate Japanese Americans to internment camps.
1943 World War II: Battle of Kasserine Pass in Tunisia begins.
1945 World War II: Battle of Iwo Jima: About 30,000 United States Marines land on the island of Iwo Jima.
1948 The Conference of Youth and Students of Southeast Asia Fighting for Freedom and Independence convenes in Calcutta.
1949 Ezra Pound is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University.
1953 Censorship: Georgia approves the first literature censorship board in the United States.
1954 Transfer of Crimea: The Soviet Politburo of the Soviet Union orders the transfer of the Crimean Oblast from the Russian SFSR to the Ukrainian SSR.
1959 The United Kingdom grants Cyprus independence, which is formally proclaimed on August 16, 1960.
1960 China successfully launches the T-7, its first sounding rocket.
1963 The publication of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique reawakens the feminist movement in the United States as women's organizations and consciousness raising groups spread.
1965 Colonel Phạm Ngọc Thảo of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, and a communist spy of the North Vietnamese Viet Minh, along with Generals Lβm Văn Phαt and Trần Thiện Khiκm, all Catholics, attempt a coup against the military junta of the Buddhist Nguyễn Khαnh.
1976 Executive Order 9066, which led to the relocation of Japanese Americans to internment camps, is rescinded by President Gerald Ford's Proclamation 4417.
1978 Egyptian forces raid Larnaca International Airport in an attempt to intervene in a hijacking, without authorisation from the Republic of Cyprus authorities. The Cypriot National Guard and Police forces kill 15 Egyptian commandos and destroy the Egyptian C-130 transport plane in open combat.
1985 William J. Schroeder becomes the first recipient of an artificial heart to leave hospital.
1985 Iberia Airlines Boeing 727 crashes into Mount Oiz in Spain, killing 148.
1986 Akkaraipattu massacre: the Sri Lankan Army massacres 80 Tamil farm workers in eastern Sri Lanka.
2002 NASA's Mars Odyssey space probe begins to map the surface of Mars using its thermal emission imaging system.
2003 An Ilyushin Il-76 military aircraft crashes near Kerman, Iran, killing 275.
2006 A methane explosion in a coal mine near Nueva Rosita, Mexico, kills 65 miners.
2011 The debut exhibition of the Belitung shipwreck, containing the largest collection of Tang dynasty artifacts found in one location, begins in Singapore.
2012 Forty-four people are killed in a prison brawl in Apodaca, Nuevo Leσn, Mexico.
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1339 The Milanese army and the St. George's (San Giorgio) Mercenaries of Lodrisio Visconti clashed in the Battle of Parabiago.
1472 Orkney and Shetland are pawned by Norway to Scotland in lieu of a dowry for Margaret of Denmark.
1547 Edward VI of England is crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey.
1685 Renι-Robert Cavelier establishes Fort St. Louis at Matagorda Bay thus forming the basis for France's claim to Texas.
1792 The Postal Service Act, establishing the United States Post Office Department, is signed by United States President George Washington.
1798 Louis-Alexandre Berthier removes Pope Pius VI from power.
1810 Andreas Hofer, Tirolean patriot and leader of rebellion against Napoleon's forces, is executed.
1813 Manuel Belgrano defeats the royalist army of Pνo de Tristαn during the Battle of Salta.
1816 Rossini's opera The Barber of Seville premieres at the Teatro Argentina in Rome.
1835 The 1835 Concepciσn earthquake destroys Concepciσn, Chile.
1846 Polish insurgents lead an uprising in Krakσw to incite a fight for national independence.
1864 American Civil War: Battle of Olustee: The largest battle fought in Florida during the war.
1865 End of the Uruguayan War, with a peace agreement between President Tomαs Villalba and rebel leader Venancio Flores, setting the scene for the destructive War of the Triple Alliance.
1872 The Metropolitan Museum of Art opens in New York City.
1877 Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake receives its premiere at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
1901 The legislature of Hawaii Territory convenes for the first time.
1909 Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.
1913 King O'Malley drives in the first survey peg to mark commencement of work on the construction of Canberra.
1931 The Congress of the United States approves the construction of the San FranciscoOakland Bay Bridge by the state of California.
1933 The Congress of the United States proposes the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution that will end Prohibition in the United States.
1933 Adolf Hitler secretly meets with German industrialists to arrange for financing of the Nazi Party's upcoming election campaign.
1935 Caroline Mikkelsen becomes the first woman to set foot in Antarctica.
1942 Lieutenant Edward O'Hare becomes America's first World War II flying ace.
1943 American movie studio executives agree to allow the Office of War Information to censor movies.
1943 The Saturday Evening Post publishes the first of Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms in support of United States President Franklin Roosevelt's 1941 State of the Union address theme of Four Freedoms.
1944 World War II: The "Big Week" began with American bomber raids on German aircraft manufacturing centers.
1944 World War II: The United States takes Eniwetok Island.
1952 Emmett Ashford becomes the first African-American umpire in organized baseball by being authorized to be a substitute umpire in the Southwestern International League.
1956 The United States Merchant Marine Academy becomes a permanent Service Academy.
1959 The Avro Arrow program to design and manufacture supersonic jet fighters in Canada is cancelled by the Diefenbaker government amid much political debate.
1962 Mercury program: While aboard Friendship 7, John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the earth, making three orbits in four hours, 55 minutes.
1965 Ranger 8 crashes into the Moon after a successful mission of photographing possible landing sites for the Apollo program astronauts.
1971 The United States Emergency Broadcast System is accidentally activated in an erroneous national alert.
1979 Earthquake cracks Sinila volcanic crater in Dieng Plateau, releases poisonous H2S gas and kills 149 villagers in Indonesian province of Central Java.
1986 The Soviet Union launches its Mir spacecraft. Remaining in orbit for 15 years, it is occupied for ten of those years.
1988 The Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast votes to secede from Azerbaijan and join Armenia, triggering the Nagorno-Karabakh War.
1991 In the Albanian capital Tirana, a gigantic statue of Albania's long-time leader, Enver Hoxha, is brought down by mobs of angry protesters.
1998 American figure skater Tara Lipinski becomes the youngest gold-medalist at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.
2003 During a Great White concert in West Warwick, Rhode Island, a pyrotechnics display sets the Station nightclub ablaze, killing 100 and injuring over 200 others.
2005 Spain becomes the first country to vote in a referendum on ratification of the proposed Constitution of the European Union, passing it by a substantial margin, but on a low turnout.
2009 Two Tamil Tigers aircraft packed with C4 explosives en route to the national airforce headquarters are shot down by the Sri Lankan military before reaching their target, in a kamikaze style attack.
2010 In Madeira Island, Portugal, heavy rain causes floods and mudslides, resulting in at least 43 deaths, in the worst disaster in the history of the archipelago.
2014 Dozens of Euromaidan anti-government protesters died in Ukraine's capital Kiev, many reportedly killed by snipers.
2015 Two trains collide in the Swiss town of Rafz resulting in as many as 49 people injured and Swiss Federal Railways cancelling some services.
2016 Six people are killed and two injured in multiple shooting incidents in Kalamazoo County, Michigan.
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My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
1245 Thomas, the first known Bishop of Finland, is granted resignation after confessing to torture and forgery.
1437 James I of Scotland is assassinated.
1440 The Prussian Confederation is formed.
1543 Battle of Wayna Daga: A combined army of Ethiopian and Portuguese troops defeats a Muslim army led by Ahmed Gragn.
1613 Mikhail I is unanimously elected Tsar by a national assembly, beginning the Romanov dynasty of Imperial Russia.
1797 A force of 1,400 French soldiers invaded Britain at Fishguard in support of the Society of United Irishmen. They were defeated by 500 British reservists.
1804 The first self-propelling steam locomotive makes its outing at the Pen-y-Darren Ironworks in Wales.
1808 Without a previous declaration of war, Russian troops cross the border to Sweden at Abborfors in eastern Finland, thus beginning the Finnish War, in which Sweden will lose the eastern half of the country (i.e. Finland) to Russia.
1828 Initial issue of the Cherokee Phoenix is the first periodical to use the Cherokee syllabary invented by Sequoyah.
1842 John Greenough is granted the first U.S. patent for the sewing machine.
1848 Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish The Communist Manifesto.
1862 American Civil War: Battle of Valverde is fought near Fort Craig in New Mexico Territory.
1874 The Oakland Daily Tribune publishes its first edition.
1878 The first telephone directory is issued in New Haven, Connecticut.
1885 The newly completed Washington Monument is dedicated.
1896 An Englishman raised in Australia, Bob Fitzsimmons, fought an Irishman, Peter Maher, in an American promoted event which technically took place in Mexico, winning the 1896 World Heavyweight Championship in boxing.
1913 Ioannina is incorporated into the Greek state after the Balkan Wars.
1916 World War I: In France, the Battle of Verdun begins.
1918 The last Carolina parakeet dies in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo.
1919 German socialist Kurt Eisner is assassinated. His death results in the establishment of the Bavarian Soviet Republic and parliament and government fleeing Munich, Germany.
1921 Constituent Assembly of the Democratic Republic of Georgia adopts the country's first constitution.
1921 Rezā Shāh takes control of Tehran during a successful coup.
1925 The New Yorker publishes its first issue.
1937 The League of Nations bans foreign national "volunteers" in the Spanish Civil War.
1945 World War II: During the Battle of Iwo Jima, Japanese kamikaze planes sink the escort carrier USS Bismarck Sea and damage the USS Saratoga.
1945 World War II: the Brazilian Expeditionary Force defeat the German forces in the Battle of Monte Castello on the Italian front
1947 In New York City, Edwin Land demonstrates the first "instant camera", the Polaroid Land Camera, to a meeting of the Optical Society of America.
1948 NASCAR is incorporated.
1952 The British government, under Winston Churchill, abolishes identity cards in the UK to "set the people free".
1952 The Bengali Language Movement protests occur at the University of Dhaka in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).
1958 The CND symbol, aka peace symbol, commissioned by the Direct Action Committee in protest against the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, is designed and completed by Gerald Holtom.
1965 Malcolm X is assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City.
1971 The Convention on Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna.
1972 United States President Richard Nixon visits the People's Republic of China to normalize Sino-American relations.
1972 The Soviet unmanned spaceship Luna 20 lands on the Moon.
1973 Over the Sinai Desert, Israeli fighter aircraft shoot down Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 jet killing 108 people.
1974 The last Israeli soldiers leave the west bank of the Suez Canal pursuant to a truce with Egypt.
1975 Watergate scandal: Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are sentenced to prison.
1995 Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon.
2013 At least 17 people are killed and 119 injured following several bombings in the Indian city of Hyderabad.
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705 Empress Wu Zetian abdicates the throne, restoring the Tang dynasty.
1316 Battle of Picotin between Ferdinand of Majorca and the forces of Matilda of Hainaut
1371 Robert II becomes King of Scotland, beginning the Stuart dynasty.
1495 King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city's throne.
1632 Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is published.
1651 St. Peter's Flood: A storm surge floods the Frisian coast, drowning 15,000 people.
1744 War of the Austrian Succession: The Battle of Toulon causes several Royal Navy captains to be court-martialed, and the Articles of War to be amended.
1797 The last Invasion of Britain begins near Fishguard, Wales.
1819 By the AdamsOnνs Treaty, Spain sells Florida to the United States for five million U.S. dollars.
1821 Greek War of Independence: Alexander Ypsilantis crosses the Prut river at Sculeni into the Danubian Principalities.
1847 MexicanAmerican War: The Battle of Buena Vista: Five thousand American troops defeat 15,000 Mexicans troops.
1848 The French Revolution of 1848, which would lead to the establishment of the French Second Republic, begins.
1853 Washington University in St. Louis is founded as Eliot Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri.
1855 The Pennsylvania State University is founded in State College, Pennsylvania (as the Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania).
1856 The United States Republican Party opens its first national convention in Pittsburgh.
1862 Jefferson Davis is officially inaugurated for a six-year term as the President of the Confederate States of America in Richmond, Virginia. He was previously inaugurated as a provisional president on February 18, 1861.
1872 The Prohibition Party holds its first national convention in Columbus, Ohio, nominating James Black as its presidential nominee.
1878 In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of five-and-dime Woolworth stores.
1889 President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states.
1899 Filipino forces led by General Antonio Luna launch counterattacks for the first time against the American forces during the PhilippineAmerican War. The Filipinos fail to regain Manila from the Americans.
1904 The United Kingdom sells a meteorological station on the South Orkney Islands to Argentina; the islands are subsequently claimed by the United Kingdom in 1908.
1907 Robert Baden-Powell made the first scouting camp in Brownsea, England.
1909 The sixteen battleships of the Great White Fleet, led by USS Connecticut, return to the United States after a voyage around the world.
1915 World War I: The Imperial German Navy institutes unrestricted submarine warfare.
1921 After Russian forces under Baron Roman von Ungern-Sternberg drive the Chinese out, the Bogd Khan is reinstalled as the emperor of Mongolia.
1924 U.S. President Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President to deliver a radio address from the White House.
1942 World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as the Japanese victory becomes inevitable.
1943 World War II: Members of the White Rose resistance, Sophie Scholl, Hans Scholl, and Christoph Probst are executed in Nazi Germany.
1944 World War II: American aircraft mistakenly bomb the Dutch towns of Nijmegen, Arnhem, Enschede and Deventer, resulting in 800 dead in Nijmegen alone.
1944 World War II: The Soviet Red Army recaptures Krivoi Rog.
1957 Ngτ Đμnh Diệm of South Vietnam survives a communist shooting assassination attempt in Buτn Ma Thuột.
1958 Egypt and Syria join to form the United Arab Republic.
1959 Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500.
1972 The Official Irish Republican Army detonates a car bomb at Aldershot barracks, killing seven and injuring nineteen others.
1973 Cold War: Following President Richard Nixon's visit to the People's Republic of China, the two countries agree to establish liaison offices.
1974 The Organisation of the Islamic Conference summit begins in Lahore, Pakistan. Thirty-seven countries attend and twenty-two heads of state and government participate. It also recognizes Bangladesh.
1974 Samuel Byck attempts to hijack an aircraft at Baltimore/Washington International Airport with the intention of crashing it into the White House to assassinate Richard Nixon, but is killed by police.[1]
1980 Miracle on Ice: In Lake Placid, New York, the United States hockey team defeats the Soviet Union hockey team 43.
1983 The notorious Broadway flop Moose Murders opens and closes on the same night at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre.
1986 Start of the People Power Revolution in the Philippines.
1994 Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged by the United States Department of Justice with spying for the Soviet Union.
1995 The Corona reconnaissance satellite program, in existence from 1959 to 1972, is declassified.
1997 In Roslin, Midlothian, British scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly has been successfully cloned.
2002 Angolan political and rebel leader Jonas Savimbi is killed in a military ambush.
2005 The 6.4 Mw Zarand earthquake shakes the Kerman Province of Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), leaving 612 people dead and 1,411 injured.
2006 At least six men stage Britain's biggest robbery, stealing £53m (about $92.5 million or 78 million) from a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent.
2011 New Zealand's second deadliest earthquake strikes Christchurch, killing 185 people.
2011 Bahraini uprising: Tens of thousands of people march in protest against the deaths of seven victims killed by police and army forces during previous protests.
2012 A train crash in Buenos Aires, Argentina, kills 51 people and injures 700 others.
2014 President Viktor Yanukovych of Ukraine is impeached by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine by a vote of 3280, fulfilling a major goal of the Euromaidan rebellion.
2015 A ferry carrying 100 passengers capsizes in the Padma River, killing 70 people.
2018 A man throws a grenade at the U.S embassy in Podgorica, Montenegro. He dies at the scene from a second explosion, with no one else hurt.
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303 Roman emperor Diocletian orders the destruction of the Christian church in Nicomedia, beginning eight years of Diocletianic Persecution.
532 Byzantine emperor Justinian I orders the building of a new Orthodox Christian basilica in Constantinople the Hagia Sophia.
1455 Traditional date for the publication of the Gutenberg Bible, the first Western book printed with movable type.
1554 Mapuche forces, under the leadership of Lautaro, score a victory over the Spanish at the Battle of Marihueρu in Chile.
1739 At York Castle, the outlaw Dick Turpin is identified by his former schoolteacher. Turpin had been using the name Richard Palmer.
1778 American Revolutionary War: Baron von Steuben arrives at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania to help to train the Continental Army.
1820 Cato Street Conspiracy: A plot to murder all the British cabinet ministers is exposed.
1836 Texas Revolution: The Siege of the Alamo (prelude to the Battle of the Alamo) begins in San Antonio, Texas.
1847 MexicanAmerican War: Battle of Buena Vista: In Mexico, American troops under future president General Zachary Taylor defeat Mexican General Antonio Lσpez de Santa Anna.
1854 The official independence of the Orange Free State is declared.
1861 President-elect Abraham Lincoln arrives secretly in Washington, D.C., after the thwarting of an alleged assassination plot in Baltimore, Maryland.
1870 Reconstruction Era: Post-U.S. Civil War military control of Mississippi ends and it is readmitted to the Union.
1883 Alabama becomes the first U.S. state to enact an anti-trust law.
1885 Sino-French War: French Army gains an important victory in the Battle of Đồng Đăng in the Tonkin region of Vietnam.
1886 Charles Martin Hall produced the first samples of man-made aluminum, after several years of intensive work. He was assisted in this project by his older sister, Julia Brainerd Hall.
1887 The French Riviera is hit by a large earthquake, killing around 2,000.
1898 Ιmile Zola is imprisoned in France after writing "J'accuse", a letter accusing the French government of antisemitism and wrongfully imprisoning Captain Alfred Dreyfus.
1900 Second Boer War: During the Battle of the Tugela Heights, the first British attempt to take Hart's Hill fails.
1903 Cuba leases Guantαnamo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity".
1905 Chicago attorney Paul Harris and three other businessmen meet for lunch to form the Rotary Club, the world's first service club.
1909 The AEA Silver Dart makes the first powered flight in Canada and the British Empire.
1917 First demonstrations in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The beginning of the February Revolution (March 8 in the Gregorian calendar).
1927 U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs a bill by Congress establishing the Federal Radio Commission (later replaced by the Federal Communications Commission) which was to regulate the use of radio frequencies in the United States.
1927 German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg writes a letter to fellow physicist Wolfgang Pauli, in which he describes his uncertainty principle for the first time.
1934 Leopold III becomes King of Belgium.
1941 Plutonium is first produced and isolated by Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg.
1942 World War II: Japanese submarines fire artillery shells at the coastline near Santa Barbara, California.
1943 A fire breaks out at Saint Joseph's Orphanage, County Cavan, Ireland, killing 35 children and one adult.
1943 Greek Resistance: The United Panhellenic Organization of Youth is founded in Greece.
1944 The Soviet Union begins the forced deportation of the Chechen and Ingush people from the North Caucasus to Central Asia.
1945 World War II: During the Battle of Iwo Jima, a group of United States Marines and a U.S. Navy hospital corpsman reach the top of Mount Suribachi on the island and are photographed raising the American flag.
1945 World War II: The 11th Airborne Division, with Filipino guerrillas, free the captives of the Los Baρos internment camp.
1945 World War II: The capital of the Philippines, Manila, is liberated by combined Filipino and American forces.
1945 World War II: Capitulation of German garrison in Poznań. The city is liberated by Soviet and Polish forces.
1945 World War II: The German town of Pforzheim is annihilated in a raid by 379 British bombers.
1954 The first mass inoculation of children against polio with the Salk vaccine begins in Pittsburgh.
1966 In Syria, Ba'ath Party member Salah Jadid leads an intra-party military coup that replaces the previous government of General Amin al-Hafiz, also a Baathist.
1974 The Symbionese Liberation Army demands $4 million more to release kidnap victim Patty Hearst.
1980 Iran hostage crisis: Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini states that Iran's parliament will decide the fate of the American embassy hostages.
1981 In Spain, Antonio Tejero attempts a coup d'ιtat by capturing the Spanish Congress of Deputies.
1983 The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces its intent to buy out and evacuate the dioxin-contaminated community of Times Beach, Missouri.
1987 Supernova 1987a is seen in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
1991 In Thailand, General Sunthorn Kongsompong leads a bloodless coup d'ιtat, deposing Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhavan.
1998 In the United States, tornadoes in central Florida destroy or damage 2,600 structures and kill 42 people.
1999 Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Φcalan is charged with treason in Ankara, Turkey.
2007 A train derails on an evening express service near Grayrigg, Cumbria, England, killing one person and injuring 88. This results in hundreds of points being checked over the UK after a few similar accidents.
2008 A United States Air Force B-2 Spirit bomber crashes on Guam, marking the first operational loss of a B-2.
2010 Unknown criminals pour more than 2.5 million liters of diesel oil and other hydrocarbons into the river Lambro, in northern Italy, sparking an environmental disaster.
2012 A series of attacks across Iraq leave at least 83 killed and more than 250 injured.
2017 The Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army captures Al-Bab from ISIL.
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303 Galerius publishes his edict that begins the persecution of Christians in his portion of the Roman Empire.
484 King Huneric removes the Christian bishops from their offices and banished some to Corsica. A few are martyred, including former proconsul Victorian along with Frumentius and other merchants. They are killed at Hadrumetum after refusing to become Arians.
1303 Battle of Roslin, of the First War of Scottish Independence.
1386 King Charles III of Naples and Hungary is assassinated at Buda.
1525 A Spanish-Austrian army defeats a French army at the Battle of Pavia.
1538 Treaty of Nagyvαrad between Ferdinand I and John Zαpolya.
1582 With the papal bull Inter gravissimas, Pope Gregory XIII announces the Gregorian calendar.
1607 L'Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi, one of the first works recognized as an opera, receives its premiθre performance.
1711 The London premiθre of Rinaldo by George Frideric Handel, the first Italian opera written for the London stage.
1739 Battle of Karnal: The army of Iranian ruler Nader Shah defeats the forces of the Mughal emperor of India, Muhammad Shah.
1803 In Marbury v. Madison, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the principle of judicial review.
1809 London's Drury Lane Theatre burns to the ground, leaving owner Richard Brinsley Sheridan destitute.
1821 Final stage of the Mexican War of Independence from Spain with Plan of Iguala.
1822 The first Swaminarayan temple in the world, Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Ahmedabad, is inaugurated.
1826 The signing of the Treaty of Yandabo marks the end of the First Anglo-Burmese War.
1831 The Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, the first removal treaty in accordance with the Indian Removal Act, is proclaimed. The Choctaws in Mississippi cede land east of the river in exchange for payment and land in the West.
1848 King Louis-Philippe of France abdicates the throne.
1854 A Penny Red with perforations was the first perforated postage stamp to be officially issued for distribution.
1863 Arizona is organized as a United States territory.
1868 Andrew Johnson becomes the first President of the United States to be impeached by the United States House of Representatives. He is later acquitted in the Senate.
1875 The SS Gothenburg hits the Great Barrier Reef and sinks off the Australian east coast, killing approximately 100, including a number of high-profile civil servants and dignitaries.
1881 China and Russia sign the Sino-Russian Ili Treaty.
1895 Revolution breaks out in Baire, a town near Santiago de Cuba, beginning the Cuban War of Independence, that ends with the SpanishAmerican War in 1898.
1916 The Governor-General of Korea establishes a clinic called Jahyewon in Sorokdo to segregate Hansen's disease patients.
1917 World War I: The U.S. ambassador Walter Hines Page to the United Kingdom is given the Zimmermann Telegram, in which Germany pledges to ensure the return of New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona to Mexico if Mexico declares war on the United States.
1918 Estonian Declaration of Independence.
1920 The Nazi Party is founded.
1920 Nancy Astor became the first woman to speak in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom following her election as a Member of Parliament (MP) three months earlier.
1942 The Battle of Los Angeles: A false alarm led to an anti-aircraft barrage that lasted into the early hours of February 25.
1942 An order-in-council passed under the Defence of Canada Regulations of the War Measures Act gives the Canadian federal government the power to intern all "persons of Japanese racial origin".
1944 Merrill's Marauders: The Marauders begin their 1,000-mile journey through Japanese occupied Burma.
1945 Egyptian Premier Ahmad Mahir Pasha is killed in Parliament after reading a decree.
1946 Colonel Juan Perσn, founder of the political movement that became known as Peronism, is elected to his first term as President of Argentina.
1968 Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive is halted; South Vietnam recaptures Huι.
1971 The All India Forward Bloc holds an emergency central committee meeting after its chairman, Hemantha Kumar Bose, is killed three days earlier. P.K. Mookiah Thevar is appointed as the new chairman.
1976 The current constitution of Cuba is formally proclaimed.
1980 The United States Olympic hockey team completes its Miracle on Ice by defeating Finland 42 to win the gold medal.
1981 The 6.7 Ms Gulf of Corinth earthquake affected Central Greece with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). Twenty-two people were killed, 400 were injured, and damage totaled $812 million.
1983 A special commission of the United States Congress condemns the Japanese American internment during World War II.
1984 Tyrone Mitchell perpetrates the 49th Street Elementary School shooting in Los Angeles, killing two children and injuring 12 more.
1989 Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issues a fatwa and offers a USD $3 million bounty for the death of Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses.
1989 United Airlines Flight 811, bound for New Zealand from Honolulu, rips open during flight, blowing nine passengers out of the business-class section.
1991 Gulf War: Ground troops cross the Saudi Arabian border and enter Iraq, thus beginning the ground phase of the war.
1996 Two civilian airplanes operated by the Miami-based group Brothers to the Rescue are shot down in international waters by the Cuban Air Force.
2004 The 6.3 Mw Al Hoceima earthquake strikes northern Morocco with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). At least 628 people are killed, 926 are injured, and up to 15,000 are displaced.
2006 Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo declares Proclamation 1017 placing the country in a state of emergency in attempt to subdue a possible military coup.
2007 Japan launches its fourth spy satellite, stepping up its ability to monitor potential threats such as North Korea.
2008 Fidel Castro retires as the President of Cuba and the Council of Ministers after 32 years. He remains as head of the Communist Party for another three years.
2015 A Metrolink train derails in Oxnard, California following a collision with a truck, leaving more than 30 injured.
2016 Tara Air Flight 193, a de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter aircraft, crashed, with 23 fatalities, in Solighopte, Myagdi District, Dhaulagiri Zone, while en route from Pokhara Airport to Jomsom Airport.
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138 The Roman emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius, effectively making him his successor.
493 Odoacer surrenders Ravenna after a 3-year siege and agrees to a mediated peace with Theoderic the Great.
628 Khosrow II, the last great king of the Sasanian Empire, is overthrown by his son Kavadh II.
1336 Four thousand defenders of Pilėnai commit mass suicide rather than be taken captive by the Teutonic Knights.
1631 Franηois de Bassompierre, a French courtier, is arrested on Richelieu's orders.
1797 Colonel William Tate and his force of 10001500 soldiers surrender after the Last invasion of Britain.
1831 Battle of Olszynka Grochowska, part of Polish November Uprising against Russian Empire.
1836 Samuel Colt is granted a United States patent for the Colt revolver.
1843 Lord George Paulet occupies the Kingdom of Hawaii in the name of Great Britain in the Paulet Affair (1843).
1848 Provisional government in revolutionary France, by Louis Blanc's motion, guarantees workers' rights.
1856 A Peace conference opens in Paris after the Crimean War.
1866 Miners in Calaveras County, California, discover what is now called the Calaveras Skull human remains that supposedly indicated that man, mastodons, and elephants had co-existed.
1870 Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, is sworn into the United States Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in the U.S. Congress.
1875 Guangxu Emperor of Qing dynasty China begins his reign, under Empress Dowager Cixi's regency.
1901 J. P. Morgan incorporates the United States Steel Corporation.
1912 Marie-Adιlaοde, the eldest of six daughters of Guillaume IV, becomes the first reigning Grand Duchess of Luxembourg.
1916 World War I: The Germans capture Fort Douaumont during the Battle of Verdun.
1919 Oregon places a one cent per U.S. gallon tax on gasoline, becoming the first U.S. state to levy a gasoline tax.
1921 Tbilisi, capital of the Democratic Republic of Georgia, is occupied by Bolshevist Russia.
1928 Charles Jenkins Laboratories of Washington, D.C. becomes the first holder of a broadcast license for television from the Federal Radio Commission.
1932 Adolf Hitler obtains German citizenship by naturalization, which allows him to run in the 1932 election for Reichsprδsident.
1933 The USS Ranger is launched. It is the first US Navy ship to be designed from the start of construction as an aircraft carrier.
1939 The first of 21⁄2 million Anderson air raid shelters appeared in North London.
1941 February strike: In occupied Amsterdam, a general strike is declared in response to increasing anti-Jewish measures instituted by the Nazis.
1945 World War II: Turkey declares war on Germany.
1947 The formal abolition of Prussia is proclaimed by the Allied Control Council. The Prussian government had already been abolished by the Preuίenschlag of 1932.
1948 The Communist Party takes control of government in Czechoslovakia and the period of the Third Republic ends.
1951 The first Pan American Games were officially opened in Buenos Aires, Argentina by President Juan Perσn.
1954 Gamal Abdel Nasser is made premier of Egypt.
1956 In his speech On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences, Nikita Khrushchev, leader of the Soviet Union denounces the cult of personality of Joseph Stalin.
1964 North Korean Prime Minister Kim Il-sung calls for the removal of feudalistic land ownership aimed at turning all cooperative farms into state-run ones.
1968 Vietnam War: One hundred thirty-five unarmed citizens of Hΰ My village in South Vietnam's Quảng Nam Province are killed and buried en masse by South Korean troops in what would come to be known as the Hΰ My massacre.
1980 The government of Suriname is overthrown by a military coup led by Dιsi Bouterse.
1986 People Power Revolution: President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos flees the nation after 20 years of rule; Corazon Aquino becomes the Philippines' first woman president.
1987 Southern Methodist University's football program is the first college football program to be banned from competition by the NCAA's Committee on Infractions.
1991 Gulf War: An Iraqi scud missile hits an American military barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia killing 28 U.S. Army Reservists from Pennsylvania.
1991 The Warsaw Pact is abolished.
1992 Khojaly massacre: About 613 civilians are killed by Armenian armed forces during the conflict in the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan.
1994 Mosque of Abraham massacre: In the Cave of the Patriarchs in the West Bank city of Hebron, Baruch Goldstein opens fire with an automatic rifle, killing 29 Palestinian worshippers and injuring 125 more before being subdued and beaten to death by survivors.
1997 Yi Han-yong, a North Korean defector, was murdered by unidentified assailants in Bundang, South Korea.
2009 Members of the Bangladesh Rifles mutiny at their headquarters in Pilkhana, Dhaka, Bangladesh, resulting in 74 deaths, including more than 50 army officials.
2009 Turkish Airlines Flight 1951 crashed during landing at the Amsterdam Schiphol Airport, Netherlands, primarily due to a faulty radio altimeter, resulting in the death of nine passengers and crew including all three pilots.
2015 At least 310 people are killed in avalanches in northeastern Afghanistan.
2016 Three people are killed and fourteen others injured in a series of shootings in the small Kansas cities of Newton and Hesston.
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747 BC Epoch (origin) of Ptolemy's Nabonassar Era.
364 Valentinian I is proclaimed Roman emperor.
1233 MongolJin War: The Mongols capture Kaifeng, the capital of the Jin dynasty, after besieging it for months.
1266 Battle of Benevento: An army led by Charles, Count of Anjou, defeats a combined German and Sicilian force led by Manfred, King of Sicily. Manfred is killed in the battle and Pope Clement IV invests Charles as king of Sicily and Naples.
1616 Galileo Galilei is formally banned by the Roman Catholic Church from teaching or defending the view that the earth orbits the sun.
1794 The first Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen burns down.
1815 Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from Elba.
1876 Japan and Korea sign a treaty granting Japanese citizens extraterritoriality rights, opening three ports to Japanese trade, and ending Korea's status as a tributary state of Qing dynasty China.
1909 Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is first shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London.
1914 HMHS Britannic, sister to the RMS Titanic, is launched at Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast.
1919 President Woodrow Wilson signs an act of Congress establishing the Grand Canyon National Park.
1929 President Calvin Coolidge signs an executive order establishing the 96,000 acre Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming.
1935 Adolf Hitler orders the Luftwaffe to be re-formed, violating the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles.
1935 Robert Watson-Watt carries out a demonstration near Daventry which leads directly to the development of radar in the United Kingdom.
1936 In the February 26 Incident, young Japanese military officers attempt to stage a coup against the government.
1952 Vincent Massey is sworn in as the first Canadian-born Governor General of Canada.
1960 A New York-bound Alitalia airliner crashes into a cemetery in Shannon, Ireland, shortly after takeoff, killing 34 of the 52 persons on board.
1966 Apollo program: Launch of AS-201, the first flight of the Saturn IB rocket
1971 U.N. Secretary-General U Thant signs United Nations proclamation of the vernal equinox as Earth Day.
1979 The Superliner railcar enters revenue service with Amtrak.
1980 Egypt and Israel establish full diplomatic relations.
1987 IranContra affair: The Tower Commission rebukes President Ronald Reagan for not controlling his national security staff.
1992 Nagorno-Karabakh War: Khojaly Massacre: Armenian armed forces open fire on Azeri civilians at a military post outside the town of Khojaly leaving hundreds dead.
1993 1993 World Trade Center bombing: In New York City, a truck bomb parked below the North Tower of the World Trade Center explodes, killing six and injuring over a thousand.
1995 The UK's oldest investment banking institute, Barings Bank, collapses after a rogue securities broker Nick Leeson loses $1.4 billion by speculating on the Singapore International Monetary Exchange using futures contracts.
1996 Keddies, the Southend-on-Sea department store closes it doors after 104 years of trading.
2008 The New York Philharmonic performs in Pyongyang, North Korea; this is the first event of its kind to take place in North Korea.
2012 A train derails in Burlington, Ontario, Canada killing at least three people and injuring 45.
2013 A hot air balloon crashes near Luxor, Egypt, killing 19 people.
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380 Edict of Thessalonica: Emperor Theodosius I and his co-emperors Gratian and Valentinian II, declare their wish that all Roman citizens convert to trinitarian Christianity.
425 The University of Constantinople is founded by Emperor Theodosius II at the urging of his wife Aelia Eudocia.
907 Abaoji, a Khitan chieftain, is enthroned as Emperor Taizu, establishing the Liao dynasty in northern China.
1560 The Treaty of Berwick, which would expel the French from Scotland, is signed by England and the Lords of the Congregation of Scotland.
1594 Henry IV is crowned King of France.
1617 Sweden and Russia sign the Treaty of Stolbovo, ending the Ingrian War and shutting Russia out of the Baltic Sea.
1626 Yuan Chonghuan is appointed Governor of Liaodong, after he led the Chinese into a great victory against the Manchurians under Nurhaci.
1700 - The island of New Britain is discovered.
1776 American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge in North Carolina breaks up a Loyalist militia.
1782 American Revolutionary War: The House of Commons of Great Britain votes against further war in America.
1801 Pursuant to the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801, Washington, D.C. is placed under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Congress.
1809 Action of 27 February 1809: Captain Bernard Dubourdieu captures HMS Proserpine
1812 Argentine War of Independence: Manuel Belgrano raises the Flag of Argentina in the city of Rosario for the first time.
1812 Poet Lord Byron gives his first address as a member of the House of Lords, in defense of Luddite violence against Industrialism in his home county of Nottinghamshire.
1844 The Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti.
1860 Abraham Lincoln makes a speech at Cooper Union in the city of New York that is largely responsible for his election to the Presidency.
1861 Russian troops fire on a crowd in Warsaw protesting against Russian rule over Poland, killing five protesters.
1864 American Civil War: The first Northern prisoners arrive at the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia.
1870 The current flag of Japan is first adopted as the national flag for Japanese merchant ships.
1881 First Boer War: The Battle of Majuba Hill takes place.
1898 King George I of Greece survives an assassination attempt.
1900 Second Boer War: In South Africa, British military leaders receive an unconditional notice of surrender from Boer General Piet Cronjι at the Battle of Paardeberg.
1900 The British Labour Party is founded.
1900 Fuίball-Club Bayern Mόnchen is founded.
1902 Second Boer War: Australian soldiers Harry "Breaker" Morant and Peter Handcock are executed in Pretoria after being convicted of war crimes.
1921 The International Working Union of Socialist Parties is founded in Vienna.
1922 A challenge to the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, allowing women the right to vote, is rebuffed by the Supreme Court of the United States in Leser v. Garnett.
1933 Reichstag fire: Germany's parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag, is set on fire; Marinus van der Lubbe, a young Dutch Communist claims responsibility. The Nazis used the fire to solidify their power and eliminate the communists as political rivals.
1939 United States labor law: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that sit-down strikes violate property owners' rights and are therefore illegal.
1940 Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14.
1942 World War II: During the Battle of the Java Sea, an Allied strike force is defeated by a Japanese task force in the Java Sea in the Dutch East Indies.
1943 The Smith Mine #3 in Bearcreek, Montana, explodes, killing 74 men.
1943 In Berlin, the Gestapo arrest 1,800 Jewish men with German wives, leading to the Rosenstrasse protest.
1951 The Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting Presidents to two terms, is ratified.
1961 The first congress of the Spanish Trade Union Organisation is inaugurated.
1962 Two dissident Republic of Vietnam Air Force pilots bomb the Independence Palace in Saigon in a failed attempt to assassinate South Vietnam President Ngτ Đμnh Diệm.
1963 The Dominican Republic receives its first democratically elected president, Juan Bosch, since the end of the dictatorship led by Rafael Trujillo.
1964 The Government of Italy asks for help to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling over.
1971 Doctors in the first Dutch abortion clinic (the Mildredhuis in Arnhem) start performing artificially-induced abortions.
1976 The formerly Spanish territory of Western Sahara, under the auspices of the Polisario Front declares independence as the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.
1988 Sumgait pogrom: The Armenian community in Sumgait, Azerbaijan is targeted in a violent pogrom.
1991 Gulf War: U.S. President George H. W. Bush announces that "Kuwait is liberated".
2002 Ryanair Flight 296 catches fire at London Stansted Airport. Subsequent investigations criticize Ryanair's handling of the evacuation.
2002 Godhra train burning: A Muslim mob torches a train returning from Ayodhya, killing 59 Hindu pilgrims.
2004 A bombing of a Superferry by Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines' worst terrorist attack kills 116.
2004 Shoko Asahara, the leader of the Japanese doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo, is sentenced to death for masterminding the 1995 Tokyo subway sarin attack
2007 The Chinese Correction: The Shanghai Stock Exchange falls 9%, the largest drop in ten years.
2010 An earthquake measuring 8.8 on the moment magnitude scale strikes central parts of Chile leaving over 500 victims, and thousands injured. The quake triggered a tsunami which struck Hawaii shortly after.
2013 Five people (including the perpetrator) are killed and five others injured in a shooting at a factory in Menznau, Switzerland.
2015 Assassination of Boris Nemtsov occurs.
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202 BC Liu Bang is enthroned as the Emperor of China, beginning four centuries of rule by the Han dynasty.
628 Khosrow II is executed by Mihr Hormozd under the orders of Kavadh II.
870 The Fourth Council of Constantinople closes.
1246 The siege of Jaιn ends in the context of the Spanish Reconquista resulting in the Castilian takeover of the city from the Taifa of Jaen.
1525 Aztec king Cuauhtιmoc is executed on the order of conquistador Hernαn Cortιs.
1638 The Scottish National Covenant is signed in Edinburgh.
1700 Today is followed by March 1 in Sweden, thus creating the Swedish calendar.
1710 Battle of Helsingborg: 14,000 Danish invaders under Jψrgen Rantzau are decisively defeated by an equally sized Swedish force under Magnus Stenbock. This is the last time Swedish and Danish troops meet on Swedish soil.
1728 Peshwa Bajirao I of the Maratha Empire defeats Asaf Jah I in the Battle of Palkhed
1784 John Wesley charters the Methodist Church.
1827 The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad is incorporated, becoming the first railroad in America offering commercial transportation of both people and freight.
1838 Robert Nelson, leader of the Patriotes, proclaims the independence of Lower Canada (today Quebec).
1844 A gun on USS Princeton explodes while the boat is on a Potomac River cruise, killing six people, including two United States Cabinet members.
1847 The Battle of the Sacramento River during the MexicanAmerican War is a decisive victory for the United States leading to the capture of Chihuahua.
1849 Regular steamship service from the east to the west coast of the United States begins with the arrival of the SS California in San Francisco Bay, four months 22 days after leaving New York Harbor.
1867 Seventy years of Holy SeeUnited States relations are ended by a Congressional ban on federal funding of diplomatic envoys to the Vatican and are not restored until January 10, 1984.
1870 The Bulgarian Exarchate is established by decree of Sultan Abdόlaziz of the Ottoman Empire.
1874 One of the longest cases ever heard in an English court ends when the defendant is convicted of perjury for attempting to assume the identity of the heir to the Tichborne baronetcy.
1885 The American Telephone and Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York as the subsidiary of American Bell Telephone. (American Bell would later merge with its subsidiary.)
1893 The USS Indiana, the lead ship of her class and the first battleship in the United States Navy comparable to foreign battleships of the time, is launched.
1897 Queen Ranavalona III, the last monarch of Madagascar, is deposed by a French military force.
1900 The Second Boer War: The 118-day "Siege of Ladysmith" is lifted.
1904 S.L. Benfica is founded in Portugal.
1922 The United Kingdom ends its protectorate over Egypt through a Unilateral Declaration of Independence.
1925 The Charlevoix-Kamouraska earthquake strikes northeastern North America.
1933 Gleichschaltung: The Reichstag Fire Decree is passed in Germany a day after the Reichstag fire.
1939 The erroneous word "dord" is discovered in the Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition, prompting an investigation.
1940 Basketball is televised for the first time (Fordham University vs. the University of Pittsburgh in Madison Square Garden).
1942 The heavy cruiser USS Houston is sunk in the Battle of Sunda Strait with 693 crew members killed, along with HMAS Perth which lost 375 men.
1947 February 28 Incident: In Taiwan, civil disorder is put down with the loss of an estimated 30,000 civilians.
1948 Christiansborg Cross-Roads shooting in the Gold Coast, when a British police officer opens fire on a march of ex-servicemen, killing three of them and sparking major riots and looting in Accra.
1953 James Watson and Francis Crick announce to friends that they have determined the chemical structure of DNA; the formal announcement takes place on April 25 following publication in April's Nature (pub. April 2).
1954 The first color television sets using the NTSC standard are offered for sale to the general public.
1958 A school bus in Floyd County, Kentucky hits a wrecker truck and plunges down an embankment into the rain-swollen Levisa Fork river. The driver and 26 children die in what remains one of the worst school bus accidents in U.S. history.
1959 Discoverer 1, an American spy satellite that is the first object intended to achieve a polar orbit, is launched but fails to achieve orbit.
1972 ChinaUnited States relations: The United States and China sign the Shanghai Communiquι.
1975 In London, an underground train fails to stop at Moorgate terminus station and crashes into the end of the tunnel, killing 43 people.
1980 Andalusia approves its statute of autonomy through a referendum.
1983 The final episode of M*A*S*H airs, with almost 106 million viewers. It still holds the record for the highest viewership of a season finale.
1985 The Provisional Irish Republican Army carries out a mortar attack on the Royal Ulster Constabulary police station at Newry, killing nine officers in the highest loss of life for the RUC on a single day.
1986 Olof Palme, 26th Prime Minister of Sweden, is assassinated in Stockholm.
1991 The first Gulf War ends.
1993 The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents raid the Branch Davidian church in Waco, Texas with a warrant to arrest the group's leader David Koresh. Four ATF agents and six Davidians die in the initial raid, starting a 51-day standoff.
1995 Former Australian Liberal party leader John Hewson resigns from the Australian parliament almost two years after losing the Australian federal election, 1993.
1997 An earthquake in northern Iran is responsible for about 3,000 deaths.
1997 GRB 970228, a highly luminous flash of gamma rays, strikes the Earth for 80 seconds, providing early evidence that gamma-ray bursts occur well beyond the Milky Way.
1998 First flight of RQ-4 Global Hawk, the first unmanned aerial vehicle certified to file its own flight plans and fly regularly in U.S. civilian airspace.
1998 Kosovo War: Serbian police begin the offensive against the Kosovo Liberation Army in Kosovo.
2002 During the religious violence in Gujarat, the 97 people killed in the Naroda Patiya massacre and 69 in Gulbarg Society massacre.
2004 Over one million Taiwanese participate in the 228 Hand-in-Hand rally form a 500-kilometre (310 mi) long human chain to commemorate the February 28 Incident in 1947
2005 A suicide bombing at a police recruiting centre in Al Hillah, Iraq kills 127.
2013 Pope Benedict XVI resigns as the pope of the Catholic Church, becoming the first pope to do so since Pope Gregory XII, in 1415.
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509 BC Publius Valerius Publicola celebrates the first triumph of the Roman Republic after his victory over the deposed king Lucius Tarquinius Superbus at the Battle of Silva Arsia.
86 BC Lucius Cornelius Sulla, at the head of a Roman Republic army, enters Athens, removing the tyrant Aristion who was supported by troops of Mithridates VI of Pontus ending the Siege of Athens and Piraeus.
293 Emperor Diocletian and Maximian appoint Constantius Chlorus and Galerius as Caesars. This is considered the beginning of the Tetrarchy, known as the Quattuor Principes Mundi ("Four Rulers of the World").
317 Crispus and Constantine II, sons of Roman Emperor Constantine I, and Licinius Iunior, son of Emperor Licinius, are made Caesares.
350 Vetranio is asked by Constantina, sister of Constantius II, to proclaim himself Caesar.
834 Emperor Louis the Pious is restored as sole ruler of the Frankish Empire. After his re-accession to the throne, his eldest son Lothair I flees to Burgundy.
1457 The Unitas Fratrum is established in the village of Kunvald, on the Bohemian-Moravian borderland. It is to date the second oldest Protestant denomination.
1476 Forces of the Catholic Monarchs engage the combined Portuguese-Castilian armies of Afonso V and Prince John at the Battle of Toro.
1562 Sixty-three Huguenots are massacred in Wassy, France, marking the start of the French Wars of Religion.
1565 The city of Rio de Janeiro is founded.
1628 Writs issued in February by Charles I of England mandate that every county in England (not just seaport towns) pay ship tax by this date.
1633 Samuel de Champlain reclaims his role as commander of New France on behalf of Cardinal Richelieu.
1642 Georgeana, Massachusetts (now known as York, Maine), becomes the first incorporated city in the United States.
1692 Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne and Tituba are brought before local magistrates in Salem Village, Massachusetts, beginning what would become known as the Salem witch trials.
1700 Sweden introduces its own Swedish calendar, in an attempt to gradually merge into the Gregorian calendar, reverts to the Julian calendar on this date in 1712, and introduces the Gregorian calendar on this date in 1753.
1713 The siege and destruction of Fort Neoheroka begins during the Tuscarora War in North Carolina, effectively opening up the colony's interior to European colonization.
1781 The Continental Congress adopts the Articles of Confederation.
1790 The first United States census is authorized.
1793 French Revolutionary War: Battle of Aldenhoven during the Flanders Campaign.
1796 The Dutch East India Company is nationalized by the Batavian Republic.
1805 Justice Samuel Chase is acquitted at the end of his impeachment trial by the U.S. Senate.
1811 Leaders of the Mamluk dynasty are killed by Egyptian ruler Muhammad Ali.
1815 Napoleon returns to France from his banishment on Elba.
1815 Georgetown University's congressional charter is signed into law by President James Madison.
1836 A convention of delegates from 57 Texas communities convenes in Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas, to deliberate independence from Mexico.
1845 United States President John Tyler signs a bill authorizing the United States to annex the Republic of Texas.
1852 Archibald Montgomerie, 13th Earl of Eglinton, is appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
1854 German psychologist Friedrich Eduard Beneke disappears; two years later his remains are found in a canal near Charlottenburg.
1867 Nebraska becomes the 37th U.S. state; Lancaster, Nebraska is renamed Lincoln and becomes the state capital.
1868 The Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity is founded at the University of Virginia.
1870 Marshal F. S. Lσpez dies during the Battle of Cerro Corα thus marking the end of the Paraguayan War.
1872 Yellowstone National Park is established as the world's first national park.
1873 E. Remington and Sons in Ilion, New York begins production of the first practical typewriter.
1881 The first Minnesota State Capitol burns down due to a fire.
1886 The Anglo-Chinese School, Singapore is founded by Bishop William Oldham.
1893 Electrical engineer Nikola Tesla gives the first public demonstration of radio in St. Louis, Missouri.
1896 Battle of Adwa: An Ethiopian army defeats an outnumbered Italian force, ending the First Italo-Ethiopian War.
1896 Henri Becquerel discovers radioactive decay.
1901 The Australian Army is formed.
1910 The worst avalanche in United States history buries a Great Northern Railway train in northeastern King County, Washington, killing 96 people.
1914 The Republic of China joins the Universal Postal Union.
1917 The Zimmermann Telegram is reprinted in newspapers across the United States after the U.S. government releases its unencrypted text.
1919 March 1st Movement begins in Korea under Japanese rule.
1921 The Australian cricket team captained by Warwick Armstrong becomes the first team to complete a whitewash of The Ashes, something that would not be repeated for 86 years.
1932 Charles Lindbergh's son is reportedly kidnapped.
1936 The Hoover Dam is completed.
1939 An Imperial Japanese Army ammunition dump explodes at Hirakata, Osaka, Japan, killing 94.
1941 World War II: Bulgaria signs the Tripartite Pact, allying itself with the Axis powers.
1942 World War II: Japanese forces land on Java, the main island of the Dutch East Indies, at Merak and Banten Bay (Banten), Eretan Wetan (Indramayu) and Kragan (Rembang).
1946 The Bank of England is nationalised.
1947 The International Monetary Fund begins financial operations.
1949 Indonesian Army recaptures and occupies for six hours its capital city Yogyakarta from the Dutch.
1950 Cold War: Klaus Fuchs is convicted of spying for the Soviet Union by disclosing top secret atomic bomb data.
1953 Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses; he dies four days later.
1954 Nuclear weapons testing: The Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb, is detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in the worst radioactive contamination ever caused by the United States.
1954 Armed Puerto Rican nationalists attack the United States Capitol building, injuring five Representatives.
1956 The International Air Transport Association finalizes a draft of the Radiotelephony spelling alphabet for the International Civil Aviation Organization.
1956 Formation of the East German Nationale Volksarmee.
1958 Samuel Alphonsus Stritch is appointed Pro-Prefect of the Propagation of Faith and thus becomes the first U.S. member of the Roman Curia.
1961 United States President John F. Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps.
1961 Uganda becomes self-governing and holds its first elections.
1964 Villarrica Volcano begins a strombolian eruption causing lahars that destroy half of the town of Coρaripe.
1966 Venera 3 Soviet space probe crashes on Venus becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet's surface.
1966 The Ba'ath Party takes power in Syria.
1971 President of Pakistan Yahya Khan indefinitely postpones the pending national assembly session, precipitating massive civil disobedience in East Pakistan.
1972 The Thai province of Yasothon is created after being split off from the Ubon Ratchathani Province.
1973 Black September storms the Saudi embassy in Khartoum, Sudan, resulting in the assassination of three Western hostages.
1974 Watergate scandal: Seven are indicted for their role in the Watergate break-in and charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice.
1981 Provisional Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands begins his hunger strike in HM Prison Maze.
1990 Steve Jackson Games is raided by the United States Secret Service, prompting the later formation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
1991 Uprisings against Saddam Hussein begin in Iraq, leading to the death of more than 25,000 people mostly civilian.
1992 Bosnia and Herzegovina declares its independence from Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
1998 Titanic became the first film to gross over $1 billion worldwide.
Men learn to dread the phrase "Honey lets go to a movie"
2002 U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda begins in eastern Afghanistan.
2002 The Envisat environmental satellite successfully reaches an orbit 800 kilometers (500 mi) above the Earth on its 11th launch, carrying the heaviest payload to date at 8500 kilograms (8.5 tons).
2003 Management of the United States Customs Service and the United States Secret Service move to the United States Department of Homeland Security.
2003 The International Criminal Court holds its inaugural session in The Hague.
2005 In Roper v. Simmons, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that the execution of juveniles found guilty of murder is unconstitutional.
2006 English-language Wikipedia reaches its one millionth article, Jordanhill railway station.
2007 Tornadoes break out across the southern United States, killing at least 20 people, including eight at Enterprise High School.
2008 The Armenian police clash with peaceful opposition rally protesting against allegedly fraudulent presidential elections, as a result ten people are killed.
2014 At least 29 people are killed and 130 injured in a mass stabbing at Kunming Railway Station in China.
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