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- 0324 Licinius abdicates his position as Roman Emperor.
- 0401 St Anastasius I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
- 1154 Henry II of England is crowned at Westminster Abbey.
- 1490 Anne of Brittany is married to Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor by proxy.
- 1606 The Susan Constant, the Godspeed, and the Discovery depart England carrying settlers who, at Jamestown, Virginia, found the first of the thirteen colonies that became the United States.
- 1686 Robinson Crusoe leaves his island after 28 years (as per Defoe)
- 1732 Benjamin Franklin begins publication of "Poor Richard's Almanack"
- 1776 Thomas Paine publishes his first "American Crisis" essay
- 1777 Washington settles his troops at Valley Forge, Pa for the winter
- 1795 First state appropriation of money for road building, Kentucky
- 1823 Georgia passes state birth registration law the first in the union
- 1828 Nullification Crisis: Vice President of the United States John C. Calhoun pens the South Carolina Exposition and Protest, protesting the Tariff of 1828.
- 1842 US recognizes independence of Hawaii
- 1843 A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, is first published in England.
- 1854 Allen Wilson of Conn patents sewing machine to sew curving seams
- 1859 Grading started for Market Street RR
- 1861 Battle of Black Water
- 1867 Victims of "Angola Horror" burned to death (Angola NY)
- 1871 Albert Jones, New York NY, patents corrugated paper
- 1881 The opera "Herodiade" is produced (Brussels)
- 1887 Jake Kilrain and Jem Smith fight 106 round bare knuckle draw
- 1889 Bishop Museum founded in Hawaii
- 1891 First Negro Catholic priest ordained in US, Charles Uncles, Baltimore
- 1903 Williamsburg suspension bridge opens between Brooklyn and Manhattan
- 1904 The Dawson City (Yukon) hockey team starts walking towards Seattle to catch a train to Ottawa to play in the Stanley Cup on Jan 13 1905
- 1906 Leonid Brezhnev Russian leader of the Communist Party was born
- 1907 239 workers died in a coal mine explosion in Jacobs Creek PA
- 1907 A group of 239 coal miners die during a mine explosion in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania.
- 1907 Explosion at Jacobs Creek PA, coal mine kills 239
- 1910 Rayon first commercially produced, Marcus Hook PA
- 1912 William H. Van Schaick, captain of the steamship General Slocum which caught fire and killed over 1,000 people, is pardoned by U.S. President William Howard Taft after three-and-a-half-years in Sing Sing prison.
- 1918 Robert Ripley began his Believe It or Not feature in The New York Globe. (If you like the weird and unusual, check out the bizarre web sites featured on our Strange But True page.)
- 1919 American Meteorological Society found
- 1920 King Constantine I is restored as King of the Hellenes after the death of his son Alexander I of Greece and a plebiscite.
- 1922 Mrs Theres Vaughn, 24, confessed in court to being married 62 times
- 1924 The last Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost is sold in London, England.
- 1928 First autogiro (predecessor of helicopter) flight in US
- 1930 James Weldon Johnson resigns as executive secretary of NAACP
- 1932 British Broadcasting Corp begins transmitting overseas
- 1933 Electric Home and Farm Authority Inc, authorized
- 1938 Nazi "Ransom Plan" is rejected here, Joint Distribution Committee's Boycott Council votes for intensification of boycott against German goods. Failure of "Barter Plan" is seen.
- 1941 Company-Sgt. Major John Robert Osborn (The Winnipeg Grenadiers) wins the Victoria Cross at Hong Kong
- 1941 World War II: Adolf Hitler becomes Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the German Army.
- 1942 Visitor posting - Fred K born - Austria
- 1945 Austrian Republic re-establishes
- 1946 War breaks out in Indochina as Ho Chi Minh attacks French in Hanoi
- 1948 8th largest snowfall in NYC history (15.3")
- 1950 General Eisenhower named NATO commander
- 1956 Visitor posting - jana rae burns was born Pet: dog named bosko - USA
- 1957 "The Music Man," starring Robert Preston, opens on Broadway
- 1958 Visitor posting - Radio DJ Mike Shannon of "Shannon In the Morning & Deb" was born - USA
- 1959 Penn State’s Nittany Lions beat Alabama, 7-0, in the first Liberty Bowl football game
- 1959 Walter Williams, thought to be the last surviving veteran of the US Civil War, dies in Houston, Texas at age 117.
- 1960 Fire aboard USS Constellation, under construction at Brooklyn (50 die)
- 1960 Mercury-Redstone 1A reaches 210 km in test flight
- 1960 Neil Sedaka’s Calendar Girl was released on RCA Victor Records
- 1961 India annexes Daman and Diu, part of Portuguese India.
- 1962 Nyasaland secedes from Rhodesia and Nyasaland
- 1962 Street signs in Golden Gate Park approved by Park Commission
- 1965 Prison guard George Hodson is killed during Ronald Ryan and Peter Walker's escape from HM Prison Pentridge in Coburg, Victoria.
- 1969 Beatle's 7th Christmas album is released
- 1971 The British film A Clockwork Orange opens.
- 1972 Apollo 17 (last of Apollo Moon landing series) returns to Earth
- 1972 Apollo program: The last manned lunar flight, Apollo 17, crewed by Eugene Cernan, Ron Evans and Harrison Schmitt, returns to Earth.
- 1974 Nelson A Rockefeller sworn-in as the 41st VP
- 1974 The personal computer revolution was launched quietly on this day when the Altair 8800, a do-it-yourself computer kit, went on sale for $397
- 1975 John Paul Stevens becomes a Supreme Court Justice
- 1975 Visitor posting - Bradley James Mattson - Born - USA
- 1979 The Senate green lighted a $1.5 billion loan to help put the auto maker Chrysler back on its feet. In the short term, though, the loan did little to staunch the bleeding
- 1980 Anguilla becomes a British dependency separate from St Kitts
- 1980 Iran requests $24 billion in US guarantees to free hostages
- 1981 Sixteen lives are lost when the Penlee lifeboat goes to the aid of the stricken coaster Union Star in heavy seas.
- 1983 After a grueling and sometimes bloody six weeks on the picket line, striking Greyhound workers agreed to sign off on a new contract and head back to work
- 1983 The original FIFA World Cup trophy, the Jules Rimet Trophy, is stolen from the headquarters of the Brazilian Football Confederation in Rio de Janeiro.
- 1984 Fire at the Wilberg Mine in central Utah killed 27 people
- 1984 The Sino-British Joint Declaration, stating that the People's Republic of China would resume the exercise of sovereignty over Hong Kong and the United Kingdom would restore Hong Kong to China with effect from July 1, 1997 is signed in Beijing by Deng Xiaoping and Margaret Thatcher.
- 1984 Visitor posting - Amanda Paige Abney is born!!!!!! - USA
- 1985 ABC Sports announced that it was severing ties with Howard Cosell and released ‘The Mouth’ from all TV commitments
- 1985 ABC Sports announces that sportscaster Howard Cosell will no longer be providing television commentary.
- 1985 NFL kicker Jan Stenerud announces his retirement, leaving behind a record of most career field goals (373).
- 1986 Michael Sergio, a 37 year-old man who parachuted into Game 6 of the World Series was sentenced to 100 hours of community service and fined $500.
- 1986 USSR frees dissident Andrei Sakharov from internal exile
- 1987 Number one hit on UK music charts - Pet Shop Boys - Always On My Mind
- 1988 NASA unveils plans for lunar colony and manned missions to Mars
- 1988 Unexploded WW II bomb found in Frankfurt, Germany-5,000 evacuated
- 1989 American Airlines purchases Eastern Airline's Latin American route
- 1991 6,000th episode of One Life To Live
- 1991 Boris Yeltsin takes control of Kremlin
- 1991 Visitor posting - mark cooper was born in fayetville north carolina - USA
- 1993 Visitor posting - KaBriea Allen was born. - USA
- 1993 Visitor posting - Miguel (Skater) Perez was born woooo!!! - United States
- 1994 Great Britain's prestigious Rolls-Royce, a luxury automobile maker, announced that its future cars would feature 12-cylinder motors manufactured by Germany's BMW
- 1994 Rolls-Royce announces its future cars will feature V12 engine which will be produced by BMW.
- 1996 Visitor posting - Amazing Child by the Name of Valerie is Born - USA
- 1997 Silkair Flight 185 crashes into the Musi River, near Palembang in Indonesia, killing 104.
- 1997 Visitor posting - Sabrina Morgan Springer was born - USA
- 1998 Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives forwards articles I and III of impeachment against President Bill Clinton to the Senate.
- 2000 The Leninist Guerrilla Units wing of the Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist attack a Nationalist Movement Party office in Istanbul, killing one person and injuring three.
- 2000 Visitor posting - Shaian Simon was born my first beautiful blessing - United Kingdom
- 2001 A record high barometric pressure of 1085.6 hPa (32.06 inHg) is recorded at Tosontsengel, Khvsgl Province, Mongolia.
- 2001 Argentine economic crisis: December 2001 riots - Riots erupt in Buenos Aires after Domingo Cavallo's corralito measures restrict the withdrawal of cash from bank deposits.
- 2003 Nepal financial crisis leads hundreds to protest outside of palace.
- 2009 A 6.4 Mw earthquake strikes Taiwan collapsing one building.
- 2009 A faction from the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta says it carried out an attack on an oil pipeline, breaking a ceasefire agreed upon with the Nigerian government.
- 2009 Freezing conditions cause electrical faults in the Channel Tunnel between Great Britain and France, isolating 2,000 passengers in five trains. The situation is coupled with disruptions at London Heathrow Airport and traffic delays due to snowy conditions in the south-east of England.
- 2009 In association football, FC Barcelona sets a new record by winning all 6 possible competitions (The Sextuple) in one year.
- 2009 Iran's military prosecutor charges three officials with killing three people at a detention centre used to house post-election protesters.
- 2009 Iraq deploys troops on its border with Iran to monitor a disputed oil well seized by Iranian troops, while an arbitration commission is established to resolve the dispute.
- 2009 Madagascar's President Andry Rajoelina dismisses his Prime Minister, Eugène Mangalaza, whom he appointed in October.
- 2009 NASA releases the first ever photo of liquid outside of Earth, in the form of sunlight reflecting on a lake on Saturn's largest moon, Titan.
- 2009 Police recruit sniffer dogs and detectives in their hunt for the Arbeit macht frei sign missing from Auschwitz as appeals for its return are made by Israel, Poland and the European Union.
- 2009 Pope Benedict XVI declares two of his predecessors, John Paul II and Pius XII to be Venerable, the second step toward sainthood.
- 2009 Scientists announced the discovery of GJ 1214 b, an ocean planet orbiting a star in the Ophiuchus constellation.
- 2009 Serbians, Macedonians, and Montenegrins are able to travel to continental Europe without a visa from this day on.
- 2009 The Cambodian government expels 22 Chinese Muslim Uyghurs who arrived in the country back to China, despite criticism from the UN.
- 2009 The Fatah movement in the West Bank rejects local mediation between itself and Hamas.
- 2009 The North American blizzard of 2009 produces record snowfall, causing power outages, deaths, and impacting retail sales.
- 2009 Visitor posting - Bayo's family in Columbus - Ohio - Father Elhadj Karamba, Mother Salematou Bangoura and Silankonet Bayo on one hand and Moustapha Bayo, Shenna Bayo and Karamba Alexander Bayo on the other hand left on plane from New York via Dublin to spend the winter break 2009 in the son Mohamed Bayo in Utrecht home up to 01/09/2010 - Netherlands
- 2009 Visitor posting - Gabriel Ward Abney was born at 2:28pm. 5 lbs 3oz, 18 1/2 in. long!!!!! - USA
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