1985 SandinistaDaniel Ortega becomes president of Nicaragua and vows to continue the transformation to socialism and alliance with the Soviet Union and Cuba; American policy continues to support the Contras in their revolt against the Nicaraguan government.
1919 Great Molasses Flood: A wave of molasses released from an exploding storage tank sweeps through Boston, Massachusetts, killing 21 and injuring 150.
1969 Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 perform the first-ever docking of manned spacecraft in orbit, the first-ever transfer of crew from one space vehicle to another, and the only time such a transfer was accomplished with a space walk.
1944 World War II: Allied forces launch the first of four assaults on Monte Cassino with the intention of breaking through the Winter Line and seizing Rome, an effort that would ultimately take four months and cost 105,000 Allied casualties.
1944 – World War II: Allied forces launch the first of four assaults on Monte Cassino with the intention of breaking through the Winter Line and seizing Rome, an effort that would ultimately take four months and cost 105,000 Allied casualties.
For those wondering what hell is like read up on this battle.
pre battle (this is a photo of it re-built)
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1974 A Disengagement of Forces agreement is signed between the Israeli and Egyptian governments, ending conflict on the Egyptian front of the Yom Kippur War.
1986 – The first IBM PCcomputer virus is released into the wild. A boot sector virus dubbed (c)Brain, it was created by the Farooq Alvi Brothers in Lahore, Pakistan, reportedly to deter unauthorized copying of the software they had written.
1997 – Yasser Arafat returns to Hebron after more than 30 years and joins celebrations over the handover of the last Israeli-controlled West Bank city.
2007 – Turkish-Armenian Journalist Hrant Dink is assassinated in front of his newspaper's Istanbul office by 17-year-old Turkish ultra-nationalist Ogόn Samast.
2012 – The Hong Kong-based file-sharing website Megaupload is shut down by the FBI.
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1265 The first English parliament to include not only Lords but also representatives of the major towns holds its first meeting in the Palace of Westminster, now commonly known as the "Houses of Parliament".
1968 A B-52 bomber crashes near Thule Air Base, contaminating the area after its nuclear payload ruptures. One of the four bombs remains unaccounted for after the cleanup operation is complete.
2004 NASA's MER-A (the Mars Rover Spirit) ceases communication with mission control. The problem lies in the management of its flash memory and is fixed remotely from Earth on February 6.
2009 - Israel withdraws from the Gaza Strip, officially ending a three-week war it had with Hamas. However, intermittent air strikes by both sides continue in the weeks to follow.
2017 Over 400 cities across America and 160+ countries worldwide participate in a large-scale women's march, on Donald Trump's first full day as president of the United States.
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613 Eight-month-old Constantine is crowned as co-emperor (Caesar) by his father Heraclius at Constantinople.
871 Battle of Basing: The West Saxons led by king Ζthelred I are defeated by the Danelaw Vikings at Basing.
1506 The first contingent of 150 Swiss Guards arrives at the Vatican.
1517 The Ottoman Empire under Selim I defeats the Mamluk Sultanate and captures present-day Egypt at the Battle of Ridaniya.
1555 The Ava Kingdom falls to the Taungoo Dynasty in what is now Burma.
1689 The Convention Parliament convenes to determine whether James II and VII, the last Roman Catholic monarch of England, Ireland and Scotland, had vacated the thrones of England and Ireland when he fled to France in 1688.
1808 The Portuguese royal family arrives in Brazil after fleeing the French army's invasion of Portugal two months earlier.
1824 The Ashantis defeat British forces in the Gold Coast.
1849 Second Anglo-Sikh War: The Siege of Multan ends after nine months when the last Sikh defenders of Multan, Punjab, surrender.
1863 The January Uprising breaks out in Poland, Lithuania and Belarus. The aim of the national movement is to regain PolishLithuanianRuthenian Commonwealth from occupation by Russia.
1879 The Battle of Isandlwana during the Anglo-Zulu War results in a British defeat.
1879 The Battle of Rorke's Drift, also during the Anglo-Zulu War and just some 71km away from Isandlwana, results in a British victory.
1889 Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, D.C.
1890 The United Mine Workers of America is founded in Columbus, Ohio.
1901 Edward VII is proclaimed King after the death of his mother, Queen Victoria.
1905 Bloody Sunday in Saint Petersburg, beginning of the 1905 revolution.
1906 SS Valencia runs aground on rocks on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, killing more than 130.
1915 Over 600 people are killed in Guadalajara, Mexico, when a train plunges off the tracks into a deep canyon.
1917 World War I: President Woodrow Wilson of the still-neutral United States calls for "peace without victory" in Europe.
1919 Act Zluky is signed, unifying the Ukrainian People's Republic and the West Ukrainian National Republic.
1924 Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1927 Teddy Wakelam gives the first live radio commentary of a football match anywhere in the world, between Arsenal F.C. and Sheffield United at Highbury.
1941 World War II: British and Commonwealth troops capture Tobruk from Italian forces during Operation Compass.
1943 World War II: Australian and American forces defeat Japanese army and navy units in the bitterly-fought Battle of BunaGona.[1]
1944 World War II: The Allies commence Operation Shingle, an assault on Anzio and Nettuno, Italy.
1946 Creation of the Central Intelligence Group, forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency.
1947 KTLA, the first commercial television station west of the Mississippi River, begins operation in Hollywood.
1957 Israel withdraws from the Sinai Peninsula.
1957 The New York City "Mad Bomber", George P. Metesky, is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut and charged with planting more than 30 bombs.
1963 The Ιlysιe Treaty of cooperation between France and Germany is signed by Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer.
1968 Apollo 5 lifts off carrying the first Lunar module into space.
1968 Operation Igloo White, a US electronic surveillance system to stop communist infiltration into South Vietnam begins installation.
1970 The Boeing 747, the world's first "jumbo jet", enters commercial service for launch customer Pan American Airways with its maiden voyage from John F. Kennedy International Airport to London Heathrow Airport.
1971 The Singapore Declaration, one of the two most important documents to the uncodified constitution of the Commonwealth of Nations, is issued.
1973 The Supreme Court of the United States delivers its decisions in Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, legalizing elective abortion in all fifty states.
1973 The crew of Apollo 17 addresses a joint session of Congress after the completion of the final Apollo moon landing mission.
1973 A chartered Boeing 707 explodes in flames upon landing at Kano Airport, Nigeria, killing 176.
1984 The Apple Macintosh, the first consumer computer to popularize the computer mouse and the graphical user interface, is introduced during a Super Bowl XVIII television commercial.
1987 Philippine security forces open fire on a crowd of 10,00015,000 demonstrators at Malacaρang Palace, Manila, killing 13.
1992 Rebel forces occupy Zaire's national radio station in Kinshasa and broadcast a demand for the government's resignation.
1992 Space Shuttle program: Dr. Roberta Bondar becomes the first Canadian woman and the first neurologist in space.
1995 IsraeliPalestinian conflict: Beit Lid massacre: In central Israel, near Netanya, two Gazans blow themselves up at a military transit point, killing 19 Israelis.
1999 Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons are burned alive by radical Hindus while sleeping in their car in Eastern India.
2002 Kmart becomes the largest retailer in United States history to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
2006 Evo Morales is inaugurated as President of Bolivia, becoming the country's first indigenous president.
2007 At least 88 people are killed when two car bombs explode in the Bab Al-Sharqi market in central Baghdad, Iraq.
2015 An explosion near a civilian trolley-bus in Donetsk kills at least thirteen people.
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AD 41 Roman Emperor Caligula, known for his eccentricity and sadistic despotism, is assassinated by his disgruntled Praetorian Guards. The Guard then proclaims Caligula's uncle Claudius as Emperor
1438 The Council of Basel suspends Pope Eugene IV.
1458 Matthias Corvinus becomes king of Hungary.
1624 Afonso Mendes, appointed by Pope Gregory XV as Prelate of Ethiopia, arrives at Massawa from Goa.
1679 King Charles II of England dissolves the Cavalier Parliament.
1739 Peshva warrior Chimnaji Appa defeats Portuguese forces and captures Tarapur Fort, India.
1742 Charles VII Albert becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
1758 During the Seven Years' War the leading burghers of Kφnigsberg submit to Elizabeth of Russia, thus forming Russian Prussia (until 1763)
1817 Crossing of the Andes: Many soldiers of Juan Gregorio de las Heras are captured during the Action of Picheuta.
1835 Slaves in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, stage a revolt, which is instrumental in ending slavery there 50 years later.
1848 California Gold Rush: James W. Marshall finds gold at Sutter's Mill near Sacramento.
1857 The University of Calcutta is formally founded as the first fully fledged university in South Asia.
1859 The United Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia (later named Romania) formed as a personal union under the rule of Domnitor Alexandru Ioan Cuza.
1862 Bucharest is proclaimed the capital of Romania.
1900 Second Boer War: Boers stop a British attempt to break the Siege of Ladysmith in the Battle of Spion Kop.
1908 The first Boy Scout troop is organized in England by Robert Baden-Powell.
1915 World War I: British Grand Fleet battle cruisers under Vice-Admiral Sir David Beatty engage Rear-Admiral Franz von Hipper's battle cruisers in the Battle of Dogger Bank.
1916 In Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad Co., the Supreme Court of the United States declares the federal income tax constitutional.
1918 The Gregorian calendar is introduced in Russia by decree of the Council of People's Commissars effective February 14(NS)
1933 The 20th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, changing the beginning and end of terms for all elected federal offices.
1939 The deadliest earthquake in Chilean history strikes Chillαn, killing approximately 28,000 people.
1942 World War II: The Allies bombard Bangkok, leading Thailand, then under Japanese control, to declare war against the United States and United Kingdom.
1943 World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill conclude a conference in Casablanca.
1946 The United Nations General Assembly passes its first resolution to establish the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission.
1960 Algerian War: Some units of European volunteers in Algiers stage an insurrection known as the "barricades week", during which they seize government buildings and clash with local police.
1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash: A bomber carrying two H-bombs breaks up in mid-air over North Carolina. The uranium core of one weapon remains lost.
1968 Vietnam War: The 1st Australian Task Force launches Operation Coburg against the North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong during wider fighting around Long Bμnh and Biκn Hςa
1972 Japanese Sgt. Shoichi Yokoi is found hiding in a Guam jungle, where he had been since the end of World War II.
1977 Atocha massacre occurs in Madrid during the Spanish transition to democracy.
1978 Soviet satellite Kosmos 954, with a nuclear reactor on board, burns up in Earth's atmosphere, scattering radioactive debris over Canada's Northwest Territories. Only 1% is recovered.
1984 Apple Computer places the Macintosh personal computer on sale in the United States.
1989 Notorious serial killer Ted Bundy, with over 30 known victims, is executed by the electric chair at the Florida State Prison
1990 Japan launches Hiten, the country's first lunar probe, the first robotic lunar probe since the Soviet Union's Luna 24 in 1976, and the first lunar probe launched by a country other than Soviet Union or the United States.
2003 The United States Department of Homeland Security officially begins operation.
2009 Cyclone Klaus makes landfall near Bordeaux, France, causing 26 deaths as well as extensive disruptions to public transport and power supplies.
2011 At least 35 die and 180 are injured in a bombing at Moscow's Domodedovo Airport.
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AD 41 After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman Emperor by the Senate.
750 In the Battle of the Zab, the Abbasid rebels defeat the Umayyad Caliphate, leading to overthrow of the dynasty.
1348 A strong earthquake strikes the South Alpine region of Friuli in modern Italy, causing considerable damage to buildings as far away as Rome.
1494 Alfonso II becomes king of Naples.
1515 Coronation of Francis I of France.
1533 Henry VIII of England secretly marries his second wife Anne Boleyn.
1554 Founding of Sγo Paulo city, Brazil.
1573 Battle of Mikatagahara: In Japan, Takeda Shingen defeats Tokugawa Ieyasu.
1575 Luanda, the capital of Angola, is founded by the Portuguese navigator Paulo Dias de Novais.
1704 The Battle of Ayubale results in the destruction of most of the Spanish missions in Florida.
1755 Moscow University is established on Tatiana Day.
1765 Port Egmont, the first British settlement in the Falkland Islands at the southern tip of South America, is founded.
1787 Shays's Rebellion: The rebellion's largest confrontation, outside the Springfield Armory, results in the killing of four rebels and the wounding of twenty.
1791 The British Parliament passes the Constitutional Act of 1791 and splits the old Province of Quebec into Upper Canada and Lower Canada.
1792 The London Corresponding Society is founded.
1858 The Wedding March by Felix Mendelssohn is played at the marriage of Queen Victoria's daughter, Victoria, and Friedrich of Prussia, and becomes a popular wedding processional.
1879 The Bulgarian National Bank is founded.
1881 Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
1890 Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days.
1909 Richard Strauss's opera Elektra receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
1915 Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
1918 The Ukrainian People's Republic declares independence from Bolshevik Russia.
1924 The 1924 Winter Olympics opens in Chamonix, in the French Alps, inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games.
1932 Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese National Revolutionary Army begins the defense of Harbin.
1937 The Guiding Light debuts on NBC radio from Chicago. In 1952 it moves to CBS television, where it remains until September 18, 2009.
1941 Pope Pius XII elevates the Apostolic Vicariate of the Hawaiian Islands to the dignity of a diocese. It becomes the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu.
1942 World War II: Thailand declares war on the United States and United Kingdom.
1945 World War II: The Battle of the Bulge ends.
1946 The United Mine Workers rejoins the American Federation of Labor.
1947 Thomas Goldsmith Jr. files a patent for a "Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device", the first ever electronic game.
1949 The first Emmy Awards are presented; the venue is the Hollywood Athletic Club.
1960 The National Association of Broadcasters reacts to the "payola" scandal by threatening fines for any disc jockeys who accept money for playing particular records.
1961 In Washington, D.C., President John F. Kennedy delivers the first live presidential television news conference.
1964 Blue Ribbon Sports is founded by University of Oregon track and field athletes, which would later become Nike.
1969 Brazilian Army captain Carlos Lamarca deserts in order to fight against the military dictatorship, taking with him ten machine guns and 63 rifles.
1971 Charles Manson and three female "Family" members are found guilty of the 1969 TateLaBianca murders.
1971 Idi Amin leads a coup deposing Milton Obote and becomes Uganda's president.
1979 Pope John Paul II starts his first official papal visits outside Italy to The Bahamas, Dominican Republic and Mexico.
1980 Mother Teresa is honored with India's highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna
1986 The National Resistance Movement topples the government of Tito Okello in Uganda.
1993 Five people are shot outside the CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Two are killed and three wounded.
1995 The Norwegian rocket incident: Russia almost launches a nuclear attack after it mistakes Black Brant XII, a Norwegian research rocket, for a US Trident missile.
1996 Billy Bailey becomes the last person to be hanged in the U.S.A.
1998 During a historic visit to Cuba, Pope John Paul II demands political reforms and the release of political prisoners while condemning US attempts to isolate the country.
1998 A suicide attack by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam on Sri Lanka's Temple of the Tooth kills eight and injures 25 others.
1999 A 6.0 Richter scale earthquake hits western Colombia killing at least 1,000.
2003 Invasion of Iraq: A group of people leave London, England, for Baghdad, Iraq, to serve as human shields, intending to prevent the U.S.-led coalition troops from bombing certain locations.
2005 A stampede at the Mandhradevi temple in Maharashtra, India kills at least 258.
2006 Mexican professional wrestler Juana Barraza is arrested in connection with the serial killing of at least ten elderly women.
2011 The first wave of the Egyptian revolution begins throughout the country, marked by street demonstrations, rallies, acts of civil disobedience, riots, labour strikes, and violent clashes.
2013 At least 50 people are killed and 120 people are injured in a prison riot in Barquisimeto, Venezuela.
2015 A clash in Mamasapano, Maguindanao in the Philippines killing 44 members of Special Action Force (SAF), at least 18 from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and five from the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom
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1500 Vicente Yαρez Pinzσn becomes the first European to set foot on Brazil.
1531 The Lisbon earthquake kills about thirty thousand people.
1564 The Council of Trent establishes an official distinction between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism.
1564 The Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeats the Tsardom of Russia in the Battle of Ula during the Livonian War.
1565 Battle of Talikota, fought between the Vijayanagara Empire and the Deccan sultanates, leads to the subjugation, and eventual destruction of the last Hindu kingdom in India, and the consolidation of Islamic rule over much of the Indian subcontinent.
1699 For the first time, the Ottoman Empire permanently cedes territory to the Christian powers.
1700 The Cascadia earthquake takes place off the west coast of North America, as evidenced by Japanese records.
1736 Stanislaus I of Poland abdicates his throne.
1788 The British First Fleet, led by Arthur Phillip, sails into Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour) to establish Sydney, the first permanent European settlement on the continent. Commemorated as Australia Day.
1808 The Rum Rebellion is the only successful (albeit short-lived) armed takeover of the government in Australia.
1837 Michigan is admitted as the 26th U.S. state.
1838 Tennessee enacts the first prohibition law in the United States
1841 James Bremer takes formal possession of Hong Kong Island at what is now Possession Point, establishing British Hong Kong.
1855 Point No Point Treaty is signed in Washington Territory.
1856 First Battle of Seattle. Marines from the USS Decatur drive off American Indian attackers after all day battle with settlers.
1861 American Civil War: The state of Louisiana secedes from the Union.
1863 American Civil War: General Ambrose Burnside is relieved of command of the Army of the Potomac after the disastrous Fredericksburg campaign. He is replaced by Joseph Hooker.
1863 American Civil War: Governor of Massachusetts John Albion Andrew receives permission from the Secretary of War to raise a militia organization for men of African descent.
(Note: this lead to the raising of the 55th and 54th volunteer infantry regiments, the 54th was commanded by Robert Gould Shaw, you might recall this from the movie Glory, one of the most well known black military units in history)
1870 Reconstruction Era: Virginia rejoins the Union.
1885 Troops loyal to The Mahdi conquer Khartoum, killing the Governor-General Charles George Gordon.
1905 The world's largest diamond ever, the Cullinan weighing 3,106.75 carats (0.621350 kg), is found at the Premier Mine near Pretoria in South Africa.
1911 Glenn H. Curtiss flies the first successful American seaplane.
1915 The Rocky Mountain National Park is established by an act of the U.S. Congress.
1918 Finnish Civil War: A group of Red Guards hangs a red lantern atop the tower of Helsinki Workers' Hall to symbolically mark the start of the war.
1920 Former Ford Motor Company executive Henry Leland launches the Lincoln Motor Company which he later sold to his former employer.
1926 The first demonstration of the television by John Logie Baird.
1930 The Indian National Congress declares 26 January as Independence Day or as the day for Poorna Swaraj ("Complete Independence") which occurred 17 years later.
1934 The Apollo Theater reopens in Harlem, New York City.
1934 GermanPolish Non-Aggression Pact is signed.
1939 Spanish Civil War: Catalonia Offensive: Troops loyal to nationalist General Francisco Franco and aided by Italy take Barcelona.
1942 World War II: The first United States forces arrive in Europe landing in Northern Ireland.
1945 World War II: The Red Army begins encircling the German Fourth Army near Heiligenbeil in East Prussia, which will end in destruction of the 4th Army two months later.
1945 World War II: Audie Murphy displays valor and bravery in action for which he will later be awarded the Medal of Honor.
1949 The Hale telescope at Palomar Observatory sees first light under the direction of Edwin Hubble, becoming the largest aperture optical telescope (until BTA-6 is built in 1976).
1950 The Constitution of India comes into force, forming a republic. Rajendra Prasad is sworn in as its first President of India. Observed as Republic Day in India.
1952 Black Saturday in Egypt: rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses.
1956 Soviet Union cedes Porkkala back to Finland.
1961 John F. Kennedy appoints Janet G. Travell to be the first woman Physician to the President.
1962 Ranger 3 is launched to study the Moon. The space probe later misses the moon by 22,000 miles (35,400 km).
1965 Hindi becomes the official language of India.
1980 Israel and Egypt establish diplomatic relations.
1986 The Ugandan government of Tito Okello is overthrown by the National Resistance Army, led by Yoweri Museveni.
1991 Mohamed Siad Barre is removed from power in Somalia, ending centralized government, and is succeeded by Ali Mahdi.
1992 Boris Yeltsin announces that Russia will stop targeting United States cities with nuclear weapons.
1998 Lewinsky scandal: On American television, U.S. President Bill Clinton denies having had "sexual relations" with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
2001 The 7.7 Mw Gujarat earthquake shakes Western India with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), leaving 13,80520,023 dead and about 166,800 injured.
2009 Rioting breaks out in Antananarivo, Madagascar, sparking a political crisis that will result in the replacement of President Marc Ravalomanana with Andry Rajoelina.
2015 An aircraft crashes at Los Llanos Air Base in Albacete, Spain, killing 11 people and injuring 21 others.
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AD 98 Trajan succeeded his adoptive father Nerva as Roman emperor; under his rule the Roman Empire would reach its maximum extent.
945 The co-emperors Stephen and Constantine are overthrown. Constantine VII becomes sole emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
1142 Song dynasty General Yue Fei is executed.
1186 Henry VI, the son and heir of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I, marries Constance of Sicily.
1302 Dante Alighieri is exiled from Florence.
1343 Pope Clement VI issues the papal bull Unigenitus to justify the power of the pope and the use of indulgences. Nearly 200 years later, Martin Luther would protest this.
1606 Gunpowder Plot: The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators begins, ending with their execution on January 31.
1695 Mustafa II becomes the Ottoman sultan and Caliph of Islam in Istanbul on the death of Ahmed II. Mustafa rules until his abdication in 1703.
1776 American Revolutionary War: Henry Knox's "noble train of artillery" arrives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1785 The University of Georgia is founded, the first public university in the United States.
1820 A Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev discovers the Antarctic continent, approaching the Antarctic coast.
1825 The U.S. Congress approves Indian Territory (in what is present-day Oklahoma), clearing the way for forced relocation of the Eastern Indians on the "Trail of Tears".
1868 Boshin War: The Battle of TobaFushimi between forces of the Tokugawa shogunate and pro-Imperial factions begins, which will end in defeat for the shogunate, and is a pivotal point in the Meiji Restoration.
1869 Boshin War: Tokugawa rebels establish the Ezo Republic in Hokkaidō.
1880 Thomas Edison receives the patent on the incandescent lamp.
1927 Ibn Saud takes the title of King of Nejd.
1939 First flight of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning.
1943 World War II: The Eighth Air Force sorties ninety-one B-17s and B-24s to attack the U-boat construction yards at Wilhelmshaven, Germany. This was the first American bombing attack on Germany. The Memphis Belle took part in this raid, this was mission 16 of 29
1944 World War II: The 900-day Siege of Leningrad is lifted.
1945 World War II: The Red Army liberates the remaining inmates of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
1951 Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with Operation Ranger.
1961 The Soviet submarine S-80 sinks when its snorkel malfunctions, flooding the boat.
1967 Astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire during a test of their Apollo 1 spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
1967 United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union sign the Outer Space Treaty in Washington, D.C., banning deployment of nuclear weapons in space, and limiting use of the Moon and other celestial bodies to peaceful purposes.
1973 The Paris Peace Accords officially end the Vietnam War. Colonel William Nolde is killed in action becoming the conflict's last recorded American combat casualty.
1980 Through cooperation between the U.S. and Canadian governments, six American diplomats secretly escape hostilities in Iran in the culmination of the Canadian Caper.
1983 The pilot shaft of the Seikan Tunnel, the world's longest sub-aqueous tunnel (53.85 km) between the Japanese islands of Honshū and Hokkaidō, breaks through.
1996 In a military coup Colonel Ibrahim Barι Maοnassara deposes the first democratically elected president of Niger, Mahamane Ousmane.
1996 Germany first observes International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
2002 An explosion at a military storage facility in Lagos, Nigeria, kills at least 1,100 people and displaces over 20,000 others.
2003 The first selections for the National Recording Registry are announced by the Library of Congress.
2010 The 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis ends when Porfirio Lobo Sosa becomes the new President of Honduras.
2011 Arab Spring: The Yemeni Revolution begins as over 16,000 protestors demonstrate in Sana'a.
2013 Two hundred and forty-two people die in a nightclub fire in the Brazilian city of Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul.
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814 Charlemagne dies of pleurisy in Aachen as the first Holy Roman Emperor. He is succeeded by his son Louis the Pious as king of the Frankish Empire.
946 Caliph Al-Mustakfi is blinded and deposed by Emir Mu'izz al-Dawla, ruler of the Buyid Empire. He is succeeded by Al-Muti as caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate.
1069 Robert de Comines, the Earl of Northumbria, is killed while attempting to subdue rebels in Durham, England. This leads to the Harrying of the North by William the Conqueror.
1077 Walk to Canossa: The excommunication of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor is lifted.
1393 King Charles VI of France is nearly killed when several dancers' costumes catch fire during a masquerade ball.
1521 The Diet of Worms begins, lasting until May 25.
1547 Henry VIII dies. His nine-year-old son, Edward VI, becomes king.
1568 The Edict of Torda prohibited the persecution of individuals on religious ground in John Sigismund Zαpolya's Eastern Hungarian Kingdom.
1573 Articles of the Warsaw Confederation are signed, sanctioning freedom of religion in Poland.
1624 Sir Thomas Warner founds the first British colony in the Caribbean, on the island of Saint Kitts.
1724 The Russian Academy of Sciences is founded in St. Petersburg by Peter the Great, and implemented by Senate decree. It is called the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences until 1917.
1754 Sir Horace Walpole coins the word serendipity in a letter to a friend.
1813 Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is first published in the United Kingdom.
1846 The Battle of Aliwal, India, is won by British troops commanded by Sir Harry Smith.
1851 Northwestern University becomes the first chartered university in Illinois.
1855 A locomotive on the Panama Canal Railway runs from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean for the first time.
1871 Franco-Prussian War: The Siege of Paris ends in French defeat and an armistice.
1878 Yale Daily News becomes the first daily college newspaper in the United States.
1896 Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent, becomes the first person to be convicted of speeding. He was fined one shilling, plus costs, for speeding at 8 mph (13 km/h), thereby exceeding the contemporary speed limit of 2 mph (3.2 km/h).
1902 The Carnegie Institution of Washington is founded in Washington, D.C. with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.
1908 Members of the Portuguese Republican Party fail in their attempted coup d'ιtat against the administrative dictatorship of Prime Minister Joγo Franco.
1909 United States troops leave Cuba with the exception of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base after being there since the SpanishAmerican War.
1915 An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard as a branch of the United States Armed Forces.
1918 Finnish Civil War: The Red Guard rebels seize control of the capital, Helsinki; members of the Senate of Finland go underground.
1920 Foundation of the Spanish Legion.
1922 Knickerbocker Storm, Washington D.C.'s biggest snowfall, causes the city's greatest loss of life when the roof of the Knickerbocker Theatre collapses.
1932 Japanese forces attack Shanghai.
1933 The name Pakistan is coined by Choudhry Rahmat Ali Khan and is accepted by Indian Muslims who then thereby adopted it further for the Pakistan Movement seeking independence.
1935 Iceland becomes the first Western country to legalize therapeutic abortion.
1938 The World Land Speed Record on a public road is broken by Rudolf Caracciola in the Mercedes-Benz W195 at a speed of 432.7 kilometres per hour (268.9 mph).
1941 Franco-Thai War: Final air battle of the conflict. A Japanese-mediated armistice goes into effect later in the day.
1945 World War II: Supplies begin to reach the Republic of China over the newly reopened Burma Road.
1956 Elvis Presley makes his first national television appearance.
1958 The Lego company patents the design of its Lego bricks, still compatible with bricks produced today.
1960 The National Football League announced expansion teams for Dallas to start in the 1960 NFL season and Minneapolis-St. Paul for 1961 NFL season.
1964 An unarmed United States Air Force T-39 Sabreliner on a training mission is shot down over Erfurt, East Germany, by a Soviet MiG-19.
1965 The current design of the Flag of Canada is chosen by an act of Parliament.
1977 The first day of the Great Lakes Blizzard of 1977 which dumps 10 feet (3.0 m) of snow in one day in Upstate New York, with Buffalo, Syracuse, Watertown, and surrounding areas are most affected.
1980 USCGC Blackthorn collides with the tanker Capricorn while leaving Tampa, Florida and capsizes, killing 23 Coast Guard crewmembers.
1981 Ronald Reagan lifts remaining domestic petroleum price and allocation controls in the United States helping to end the 1979 energy crisis and begin the 1980s oil glut.
1982 US Army general James L. Dozier is rescued by Italian anti-terrorism forces from captivity by the Red Brigades.
1984 Tropical Storm Domoina makes landfall in southern Mozambique, eventually causing 214 deaths and some of the most severe flooding so far recorded in the region.
1985 Supergroup USA for Africa (United Support of Artists for Africa) records the hit single We Are the World, to help raise funds for Ethiopian famine relief.
1986 Space Shuttle program: STS-51-L mission: Space Shuttle Challenger explodes after liftoff, killing all seven astronauts on board.
1988 In R v Morgentaler the Supreme Court of Canada strikes down all anti-abortion laws.
2002 TAME Flight 120, a Boeing 727-100 crashes in the Andes mountains in southern Colombia, killing 92.
2006 The roof of one of the buildings at the Katowice International Fair in Poland, collapses due to the weight of snow, killing 65 and injuring more than 170 others.
2016 - The World Health Organization announces an outbreak of the Zika virus.
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My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
