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- 1327 Teenaged Edward III is crowned King of England, but the country is ruled by his mother Queen Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer.
- 1411 Peace of Toru 1411 signed in Toru, Poland
- 1539 Emperor Karel & King François I sign anti-English treaty
- 1587 English queen Elizabeth I signs Mary Stuart's death sentence
- 1662 Dutch garrison on Formosa surrenders for Chinese pirates
- 1662 The Chinese general Koxinga seizes the island of Taiwan after a nine-month siege.
- 1663 The town of Quebec is rocked by an evening earthquake
- 1669 French King Louis XIV limits freedom of religion
- 1709 Alexander Selkirk [Robinson Crusoe] rescued from Juan Fernandez
- 1713 The Kalabalik or Tumult in Bendery results from the Ottoman sultan's order that his unwelcome guest, King Charles XII of Sweden, be seized.
- 1717 Henri d'Aguesseau's first appointment as chancellor of France
- 1720 Sweden & Prussia sign peace treaty
- 1732 Parliament of Ratisborn accept Pragmatic Sanctions
- 1742 Sardinia & Austria sign alliance
- 1775 Peasants in Bohemia revolt against servitude.
- 1780 British Major John Graves Simcoe leads 200 of his Rangers in a foray into New Jersey in the American Revolutionary War
- 1783 William Herschel announces star Lambda Herculis as apex
- 1788 First US steamboat patent issued, by Georgia to Briggs & Longstreet
- 1788 Isaac Briggs and William Longstreet patent the steamboat.
- 1789 Chinese troops driven out of Vietnam capital Thang Long
- 1790 In New York City the Supreme Court of the United States convenes for the first time.
- 1790 Supreme Court convenes for the first time (New York NY)
- 1793 Patent granted Ralph Hodgson, New York, for oiled silk & linen
- 1796 Capital of Upper Canada transferred from Newark (Niagara) to York.
- 1796 The capital of Upper Canada is moved from Newark to York.
- 1799 Royal Assent given to change the name of Ile St. Jean (St. John's Island) to Prince Edward Island.
- 1809 Dutch King Louis Napoleon accepts metric system
- 1810 First insurance company managed by blacks (American Insurance Company of Philadelphia)
- 1810 Seville, Spain surrenders to the French
- 1810 US Population - 7,239,881; Black population - 1,377,808 (19%)
- 1811 UK hist Light first lit on Robert Stephenson's Inchcape (Bell) Rock lighthouse off Scotland
- 1814 Lord Byron's "The Corsair" sells 10,000 copies on the day of publication
- 1814 Mayon Volcano, in the Philippines, erupts, killing around 1,200 people; most devastating eruption of Mayon Volcano.
- 1840 The first U.S. college of Dentistry is chartered in Baltimore, MD.
- 1851 Anti-transportation groups meet in Melbourne to lobby for permanent end to shipping of convicts to eastern Australian colonies.
- 1851 Death of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, British author of Frankenstein.
- 1851 Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, dies at age 53.
- 1854 Fire destroys Parliament Buildings at Quebec; government transfers to Toronto; hastens the decision to move to Ottawa
- 1856 Auburn University is chartered as the East Alabama Male College.
- 1858 Douglas Law goes into effect in British Columbia; miners required to buy licenses to search for gold in the Fraser Valley.
- 1861 Dike breaks in Gelderland Netherlands
- 1861 Texas votes to secede from the Union.
- 1862 Julia Ward Howe's "Battle Hymn of the Republic" is published for the first time in the Atlantic Monthly.
- 1864 2nd German-Danish war begins
- 1864 Austrian/Prussian troops occupy Sleeswijk/Holstein
- 1864 Battle of Yazoo River, Mississippi
- 1865 13th amendment approved (National Freedom Day)
- 1865 General Sherman's march through South Carolina begins
- 1865 JS Rock, first black lawyer to practice in Supreme Court, admitted to bar
- 1867 Bricklayers start working 8-hour days
- 1870 Founding of the Quebec Provincial Police force.
- 1871 Jefferson Long of Georgia is first black to make an official speech in House of Representatives (opposing leniency to former Confederates)
- 1881 US Assay Office in St Louis MO authorized
- 1883 French Lieutenant-Colonel Gustave Borgnis-Desbordes reaches Bamako on the Niger
- 1884 Edition one of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
- 1884 First volume of the Oxford English Dictionary, A-Ant, published
- 1887 Harvey Wilcox of Kansas subdivides 120 acres he owned in Southern California & starts selling it off as a real estate development (Hollywood)
- 1892 Mrs William Astor invites 400 guests to a grand ball at her mansion thus beginning the use of the "400" to describe the socially elite
- 1893 Prince Albert, Saskatchewan recorded the coldest day on record in Saskatchewan: -56.7 degrees Celsius
- 1893 Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio, the Black Maria (West Orange, New Jersey).
- 1893 Thomas Edison completes worlds first movie studio (West Orange NJ)
- 1896 The opera La bohme premieres (Turin).
- 1897 Shinhan Bank (former CHB), oldest bank in South Korea, opened in Seoul.
- 1898 First auto insurance policy in US issued, by Travelers Insurance Company
- 1902 China's empress Tzu-hsi forbids binding woman's feet
- 1905 Hungarian premier Tisza resigns
- 1906 English Minister of Foreign Affairs Edward Grey's wife Dorothy fatally injured
- 1906 First federal penitentiary building completed, Leavenworth KS
- 1908 King Carlos I of Portugal and his son, Prince Luis Filipe are killed in Terreiro do Paco, Lisbon.
- 1909 US Assay Office in Salt Lake City, Utah opens
- 1910 Dragoumis government forms in Greece
- 1910 The first British labour exchange opens
- 1913 New York City's Grand Central Terminal opens as the world's largest train station.
- 1914 Pennsylvania State Board of [motion picture] Censors appointed
- 1914 Tanganyika Railway opens
- 1916 SS Empress Queen, stranded in fog off Bembridge, Isle of Wight, where she later broke up. Although there were 1300 troops on board all were got off.
- 1918 Russia adopts Gregorian calendar (becomes Feb 14)
- 1918 Russia adopts the Gregorian Calendar.
- 1918 The French ship LaDive is torpedoed in the Mediterranean.
- 1920 Royal Canadian Mounted Police forms as Royal Northwest Mounted Police merge with Dominion Police
- 1920 The Royal Canadian Mounted Police begin operations.
- 1920 The first commercial armored car introduced (St Paul MN)
- 1923 Allied ultimatum on Lithuanian occupation of Memel
- 1923 Fascists Voluntary Militia forms in Italy under Mussolini
- 1924 Amsterdam's Netherlands Press Museum opens
- 1924 New British MacDonald government recognizes USSR
- 1924 United Kingdom recognizes USSR.
- 1926 Kirghiz Autonomous Region in RSFSR becomes Kirghiz ASSR
- 1926 Land at Broadway & Wall Street sold at a record $7 per square inch
- 1929 Frenchman Charles Rigoulet is the first weightlifter to lift over 400 pounds (181 kg) in the "clean and jerk" method.
- 1930 Arnold Schönbergs opera premieres in Frankfurt
- 1932 Bradman makes 299 vs South Africa, runs out partner going for 300th
- 1933 Colonial government arrests Anton de Kom in Paramaribo Suriname
- 1933 Dutch bishops forbid membership in non-catholic unions
- 1933 German Parliament dissolves, General Ludendorf predicts catastrophe
- 1934 Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss dissolves all political parties but his own
- 1935 First "March of Time" newsreel premieres at the Capitol
- 1935 James T Farrell finishes his "Studs Lonigan" trilogy
- 1940 Russia begins new offensive against Finland
- 1943 German occupiers make Vidkun Quisling Norwegian premier
- 1943 Mussert forms pro Nazi shadow cabinet (Netherlands)
- 1943 World War II: Vidkun Quisling is appointed Premier of Norway by the Nazi occupiers.
- 1944 First Japanese territory invaded at Kwajalein.
- 1944 Supreme Soviet enlarges soviet republics' autonomy
- 1945 US Army arrives at Siegfriedlinie
- 1946 Norwegian statesman Trygve Lie is selected as the first secretary-general of the United Nations.
- 1946 Republic of Hungary proclaimed, Zolt n Tildy as communist president
- 1946 Trygve Lie of Norway is picked to be the first United Nations Secretary General.
- 1947 Aleide de Gasperi forms Italian government of Christian-democrats & communists
- 1947 Dmitri Shostakovitch named professor at conservatory of Leningrad
- 1947 NV United Dutch Fokker's Aircraft established
- 1948 Federation Malaysia forms from 9 sultanates
- 1948 Palestine Post building in Jerusalem bombed
- 1949 200" (5.08-meter) Hale telescope first used
- 1949 RCA releases first single record ever (45 rpm)
- 1950 USSR demands condemnation of Emperor Hirohito for war crimes
- 1950 Urko Kekkonen elected president of Finland
- 1951 -50ºF (-46ºC), Gavilan NM (state record)
- 1951 Alfred Krupp & 28 other German war criminals freed
- 1951 First telecast of atomic explosion
- 1951 The first X-ray moving picture process demonstrated
- 1951 UN condemns People's Republic of China as aggressor in Korea
- 1952 General strike against French colonial management in Tunisia
- 1952 The United Arab Republic (Egypt and Syria) is formed.
- 1953 "General Electric Theater" premieres on CBS TV; Reagan later hosts
- 1953 "You Are There" with Walter Cronkite premieres on CBS television great show for it's time
- 1953 Dr A de Waal appointed as Netherlands first female assistant Secretary of state
- 1953 Flooding in Netherlands, kills 1,835
- 1954 First TV soap opera "Secret Storm" premieres
- 1954 Scapino Ballet Studio in Amsterdam destroyed by fire
- 1954 Visitor posting - Robert Warren Billewicz born, Lawrence, MA, USA
- 1955 H C Hansen appointed premier of Denmark
- 1956 Hague Daily Newspaper reveals war crimes of Hague mayor Schokking
- 1957 Felix Wankel's first working prototype DKM 54 of the Wankel engine was running at the NSU research and development department Versuchsabteilung TX in Germany
- 1957 Gijsbert of Hall appointed mayor of Amsterdam
- 1957 The first black pilot (PH Young) on a US scheduled passenger airline
- 1958 1959 Swiss males vote against voting rights for women
- 1958 Egypt & Syria announce plans to merge into United Arab Republic
- 1958 Merger of Egypt and Syria to form the United Arab Republic, which lasted until 1961.
- 1958 US satellite (Explorer I) launched
- 1959 Texas Instruments requests patent of IC (Integrated Circuit)
- 1960 4 students stage first civil rights sit-in, at Greensboro NC Woolworth
- 1960 Extreme right-wing rebels in Algiers surrender
- 1960 Four black students stage a sit-in at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.
- 1961 A full-scale test of US Minuteman ICBM is successful
- 1961 British minister Enoch Powell makes medical insurance more expensive
- 1961 Mackay & Kline hang on for 100 minutes for cricket draw vs West Indies
- 1963 Neil Young performs his first professional date at a Winnipeg country club, at age 17.
- 1963 Nyasaland (now Malawi) becomes self-governing under Hastings Banda
- 1964 "Stop the World, I Want to..." closes at Shubert NYC after 556 performances
- 1964 Beatles' "I Want to Hold Your Hand," first #1 hit & stays #1 for 7 weeks
- 1964 Indiana Governor Mathew Walsh tries to ban "Louie Louie" for obscenity
- 1964 Suriname River dammed
- 1965 Churchill River, Newfoundland - Hamilton River in Labrador renamed Churchill River in honour of Winston Churchill.
- 1965 Dutch Queen Juliana opens Brienenoord Bridge in Rotterdam
- 1965 Peter Jennings, 26, becomes anchor of ABC's nightly news
- 1965 The Hamilton River in Labrador renamed Churchill River in honour of Winston Spencer Churchill
- 1966 Buster Keaton, famous comic film star, dies at age 69.
- 1967 Severe brush fires in Tasmania destroy $11 million & 60 lives
- 1968 Famous photo Saigon police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan executes a Viet Cong officer with a pistol shot to the head
- 1968 Former Vice-President Richard Nixon announces candidacy for President
- 1968 Merger of the historic New York Central Railroad and Pennsylvania Railroad to form ill-fated Penn Central Transportation.
- 1968 Official unification of the three military services of Canada, the Royal Canadian Navy, the Canadian Army and the Royal Canadian Air Force, into the Canadian Forces.
- 1968 The government halted further unification of the Canadian Armed Forces, many say it did not work
- 1968 Vietnam War: Viet Cong officer Nguyen Van Lem is executed by Nguyen Ngoc Loan a South Vietnamese National Police Chief. The execution was videotaped and photographed by Eddie Adams and helped sway public opinion against the war.
- 1968 Vince Lombardi resigns as coach of the Green Bay Packers
- 1968 World trade conference Unctad 2 opens in New Delhi
- 1969 Saturday mail delivery in Canada eliminated.
- 1970 Stalled commuter train rammed by express in Argentina, 139 die
- 1970 West-Germany & USSR sign gas contract
- 1971 Canada and China open diplomatic relations; exchange diplomats in both countries, and officially recognize each other's sovereignty
- 1972 Kuala Lumpur became a city by a royal charter granted by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
- 1972 The calculator arrives as a scientific hand-held calculator (HP-35) introduced ($395)
- 1972 Wings release "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" in UK
- 1973 Monte Irvin elected to baseball Hall of Fame
- 1974 "Good Times" (spinoff from "Maude") premieres on CBS TV
- 1974 Joelma Building fire - a fire in a 25-story office building kills 189 and injures 293 in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
- 1974 Kuala Lumpur declared a Federal Territory.
- 1975 "Hoppy, Gene & Me" by Roy Rogers peaks at #65
- 1975 "Men on the Moon" closes at Little Theater NYC after 5 performances
- 1975 Number one hit on UK music charts - Pilot - January
- 1975 Otis Francis Tabler is first open homosexual to get security clearance to work for the Defense Department
- 1976 "Rich Man, Poor Man" mini-series premieres on ABC TV
- 1976 Sonny & Cher resume TV show, despite real-life divorce
- 1977 Heavy blizzard in New England claims 100 lives
- 1978 Director Roman Polanski skips bail & fled to France after pleading guilty to charges of engaging in sex with a 13-year-old girl
- 1978 Harriet Tubman is first black woman honored on a US postage stamp
- 1979 Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Iran after 15 years in exile.
- 1979 Newspaper heiress Patty Hearst leaves federal prison when her sentence for bank robbery is commuted by President Jimmy Carter.
- 1979 Ayatollah Khomeini is welcomed back into Tehran, Iran after nearly 15 years of exile.
- 1979 Convicted bank robber Patty Hearst is released from prison after her sentence was commuted by President Jimmy Carter.
- 1980 Sears Radio Theater moves from CBS to Mutual Broadcasting System
- 1980 Soap opera "Love of Life" ends a 28 year run
- 1981 Australian cricket captain Greg Chappell causes furore when he orders his brother Trevor to bowl underarm to a New Zealand batsman.
- 1981 Duke Ellington-musical "Sophisticated Ladies," premieres in New York NY
- 1981 Dutch Antilles census is 231,932
- 1981 French government accord sends 60 Mirage fighter jets to Iraq
- 1981 Trevor Chappell bowls his infamous "Underarm Ball" to Brian McKechnie to prevent New Zealand scoring a 6, and tying the ODI, on the last ball of the third match in the final of the Benson & Hedges World Series Cup. It directly led to the banning of underarm bowling by the International Cricket Council as not within the spirit of the game.
- 1982 Amoco Canada and Chevron Standard Ltd. withdraw from $13.5 billion Alsands oil consortium in Alberta .
- 1982 David Letterman begins an 11-year run as the host of the NBC program Late Night with David Letterman.
- 1982 Late Night With David Letterman makes its debut on NBC-TV.
- 1982 Senegal & Gambia form loose confederation (Senegambia)
- 1982 Senegal and Gambia form a loose confederation known as Senegambia.
- 1983 New channels first available on cable as pay TV launched in Canada; First Choice, Superchannel and C-Channel allyou got to do is PAY
- 1983 USSR performs underground nuclear test
- 1984 China & Netherlands regain diplomatic relations
- 1984 Ravindara Mhatrem, Indian diplomat, kidnapped in England (killed 0203)
- 1985 -61ºF (-52ºC), Maybell CO (state record)
- 1985 -69ºF (-56ºC), Peter's Sink UT (state record)
- 1985 Azharuddin scores 3rd Test century in 3rd Test Cricket (122 vs England)
- 1986 Dick James, music publisher for the Beatles from 1962-70, dies in London at age 58.
- 1986 Singer Diana Ross marries Norwegian businessman Arne Naess in Switzerland
- 1987 163 day strike against Deere & Company ends, workers accept wage freeze
- 1989 Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 at perihelion
- 1989 Princess Diana of England visits New York NY
- 1989 The Western Australian towns of Kalgoorlie and Boulder amalgamate to form the City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder.
- 1990 CN Rail commences cabooseless train operations.
- 1991 35 people die when a USAir jetliner crashes atop a commuter plane at Los Angeles International Airport.
- 1991 Afghanistan/Pakistan hit by earthquake, 1,200 die
- 1991 Craig McDermott takes 8-97 vs England at the WACA
- 1991 President F W de Klerk, says he would repeal all apartheid laws
- 1992 The Chief Judicial Magistrate of Bhopal court declares Warren Anderson, ex-CEO of Union Carbide, a fugitive under Indian law for failing to appear in the Bhopal Disaster case.
- 1992 Uniondale, New York Denis Potvin's #5 becomes first number retired by the New York Islanders
- 1993 New York Judge Sol Wachtler indicted for harassing Joy Silverman
- 1993 Soyuz TM-16 lands
- 1994 Jeff Gillooly, Tonya Harding's ex-husband, pleads guilty to taking part in an attack on figure skater Nancy Kerrigan.
- 1994 In Portland, Oregon Tonya Harding's ex-husband Jeff Gillooly pleads guilty for his role in attacking figure skater Nancy Kerrigan.
- 1994 Large meteorite falls near Kusaie, Pacific Ocean
- 1995 Amtrak New York-Tampa run ends
- 1995 Visitor posting - Gabby Cano was Born on this day. - USA
- 1995 Andy & Grant Flower make 269 stand vs Pakistan, brotherly record
- 1995 Visitor posting - Gabby Cano was born - USA
- 1995 Belgium's TV channel VT4 goes on the air
- 1996 The Communications Decency Act is passed by the U.S. Congress.
- 1996 Toronto Stock Exchange 300 index breaks through the symbolic 5,000 mark for the first time, our Dow Jones
- 1998 "Street Corner Symphony," closes at Brooks Atkinson NYC after 79 performances
- 1998 86th Australian Mens Tennis Petr Korda beats Marcelo Rios (6-2 6-2 6-2)
- 1998 Australian Mixed Doubles Tennis J Gimelstob & V Williams beat Suk & Sukova (6-2 6-1)
- 2000 Scientists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico say they have traced the origin of the AIDS virus to around 1930.
- 2003 Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates during reentry into the Earth's atmosphere, killing all seven astronauts aboard.
- 2004 251 people are trampled to death and 244 injured in a stampede at the Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia.
- 2005 Canada introduces the Civil Marriage Act, making Canada the fourth country to sanction same-sex marriage.
- 2005 Nepal King Gyanendra exercises Coup d'tat to capture the democracy becoming Chairman of the Councils of ministers.
- 2006 Visitor posting - Dutch hero and "childmolester" Jelle de Vries was put into jail for wearing a horse-mask in public, great riots broke out about this and 17 other people were arrested along with the criminal itself. - Netherlands
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