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- 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 Brothers of the Sword are defeated by Dovmont of Pskov in the Battle of Rakovor.
- 1332 Amda Seyon I, Emperor of Ethiopia begins his campaigns in the southern Muslim provinces. (some sources state 1329)
- 1478 George, Duke of Clarence, convicted of treason against his older brother Edward IV of England, is privately executed in the Tower of London.
- 1503 Henry Tudor created Prince of Wales (later Henry VIII)
- 1536 France & Turkey sign military/trade agreement against King Karel
- 1546 Martin Luther, who started the Lutheran religion, dies in Germany.
- 1563 Huguenot Jean Poltrot de Méré shoots General François De Guise
- 1564 Michelangelo dies in Rome.
- 1574 Zeeland falls to Dutch rebels
- 1634 Ferdinand II orders commander Albrecht von Wallenstein, execution
- 1678 John Bunyan's "The Pilgrim's Progress" is published
- 1685 Fort St. Louis is established by a Frenchman at Matagorda Bay thus forming the basis for France's claim to Texas.
- 1688 First vote against slavery is recorded in the U.S. in Germantown, PA.
- 1713 French invade under Jacques Cassard on Curaçao
- 1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie's troops occupy Inverness Scotland
- 1787 Austrian emperor Jozef II bans children under 8 from labor
- 1797 Trinidad is surrendered to a British fleet under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby.
- 1814 Battle of Montereau occurs.
- 1828 More than 100 vessels destroyed in a storm, near Gibraltar
- 1841 A continuous filibuster in US Senate begins, lasting until March 11
- 1841 The first ongoing filibuster in the United States Senate begins and lasts until March 11.
- 1849 First regular steamboat service to San Francisco CA starts: gold rush prospectors from east coast
- 1850 California Legislature creates 9 Bay Area counties
- 1856 The American Party (Know-Nothings) convene in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to nominate their first Presidential candidate, former President Millard Fillmore.
- 1857 Insurrection of Chinese in Sarawak, Borneo
- 1861 Confederate President Jefferson Davis inaugurated at Montgomery AL
- 1861 In Montgomery, Alabama, Jefferson Davis is inaugurated as the provisional President of the Confederate States of America.
- 1861 King Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia becomes first king of Italy
- 1861 With the Italian unification almost complete, King Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont, Savoy and Sardinia assumes the title of King of Italy.
- 1864 The Mark Twain classic, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, is published in the U.S.
- 1865 Battle of Ft Moultrie SC occupied by Federals
- 1865 Evacuation of Charleston SC; Sherman's troops burn the city
- 1865 Union forces under Major General William T. Sherman set the South Carolina State House on fire during the burning of Columbia.
- 1865 Union troops force Confederates to abandon Fort Anderson NC
- 1876 Direct telegraph link established between Britain & New Zealand
- 1878 The Lincoln County War begins in Lincoln County, New Mexico.
- 1879 Arabs capture Egyptian premier Nabar Pasha
- 1884 General Charles Gordon arrives in Khartoum
- 1884 Police seize all copies of Tolstoy's "What I Believe In"
- 1885 Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," published
- 1885 Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published for the first time.
- 1891 Captain Archinard's army fights with Nyamina of Niger in West-Sudan
- 1896 Cave of Winds at Niagara Falls goes almost dry for first time in 50 years
- 1899 80º F, San Francisco CA
- 1899 San Francisco named as a port of dispatch for Army transports
- 1900 Battle at Paardeberg, 1,270 British killed/injured
- 1901 H Cecil Booth patented a dust removing suction cleaner
- 1901 Winston Churchill makes his maiden speech in the British House of Commons.
- 1902 Charles F. Tiffany, founder of the jewelry company that bears his name, dies.
- 1903 Kuyper government launches anti strike laws
- 1908 US postage stamps in coils issued
- 1911 The first official flight with air mail takes place in Allahabad, British India, when Henri Pequet, a 23-year-old pilot, delivers 6,500 letters to Naini, about 10 km away.
- 1913 French painting "Nude Descending a Staircase" displayed in New York NY
- 1913 Raymond Poincar becomes President of France.
- 1915 Germany begins a blockade of England
- 1923 Belgium Borinage-mine workers strike for higher wages
- 1924 US, Minister of Marine Edwin Denby ends term due to Teapot Dome-scandal
- 1927 US & Canada begin diplomatic relations
- 1929 First Academy Awards are announced.
- 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.
- 1930 Pluto, the ninth planet of our solar system, is discovered.
- 1930 While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto.
- 1932 Japan declares Manchuria Independent
- 1932 Sonja Henie wins her 6th straight World Women's figure skating title
- 1932 The Empire of Japan declares Manzhouguo (obsolete Chinese name for Manchuria) independent from the Republic of China.
- 1939 The Golden Gate International Exposition opens in San Francisco.
- 1942 Japanese troop land on Bali
- 1943 Augusto Pinochet Ugarte (Chilean General/dictator) marries Lucia Hiriart
- 1943 First edition of Dutch resistance newspaper "Trouw"
- 1943 Joseph Goebbels delivers the Sportpalast speech.
- 1943 Munich resistance group "White Rose" captured by Nazis
- 1943 The Nazis arrest the members of the White Rose movement.
- 1944 Maastricht resistance fighter JAJ Janssen arrested
- 1945 Visitor posting - Bill Flournoy born - USA
- 1947 24 die in a train crash in Gallitzin PA
- 1948 Eamon de Valera resigns as Taoiseach of Ireland.
- 1951 Nepál becomes a constitutional monarchy
- 1952 4th Emmy Awards Red Skelton, Sid Caesar & Imogene Coca win
- 1953 Premiere of first 3-D feature film-"Bwana Devil" (New York NY)
- 1953 The first 3D film, Bwana Devil, opens.
- 1954 The first Church of Scientology is established in Los Angeles, California.
- 1955 Baghdad Pact signed, making Turkey & Iraq a defense alliance
- 1957 Dedan Kimathi, a Kenyan rebel leader is executed by the British colonial government.
- 1960 U.S. Vice President Nixon opens the Eighth Winter Olympic Games in Squaw Valley, CA.
- 1961 Henk van der Grift becomes world champion skater
- 1962 France & Algerian Moslems negotiate truce to end 7 year war
- 1964 Papandreou government takes power in Greece
- 1965 27 copper miners die in avalanche, Granduc Mountain British Columbia
- 1965 Gambia gains independence from Britain (National Day)
- 1965 Number one hit on UK music charts - The Kinks - Tired Of Waiting For You
- 1965 The Gambia becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
- 1967 Visitor posting - Dennis Michael Dickens was born
- 1968 10,000 demonstrators against US in Vietnam War in West-Berlin
- 1968 David Gilmour joins rock group Pink Floyd
- 1968 UK hist British Standard Time introduced – Summer Time became permanent [which I remember thinking was a great idea!], but arguments prevailed and we reverted to GMT in October 1971 :–(
- 1969 Hawthorne Nevada Airlines Flight 708 disaster kills all on board.
- 1969 PLO-attack El-Al plane in Zurich Switzerland
- 1970 The Chicago Seven are found innocent of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic national convention.
- 1970 US President Nixon launches "Nixon-doctrine"
- 1972 California Supreme Court abolishes death penalty
- 1972 Giulio Andreotti sworn in as premier of Italy
- 1972 John & Yoko end a week of co-hosting Mike Douglas Show
- 1972 Visitor posting - i was carried into town hall in tasmania by harlem globetrotters - Australia [email protected]
- 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 in prison.
- 1973 54-kg octopus measuring 7 meter across captured in Hood Canal, Washington
- 1974 NASA launches Italian satellite San Marcos C-2 (235/843 km)
- 1975 2nd American Music Award
- 1975 Visitor posting - Jim Yeske began historical research
- 1975 Italy broadens abortion law
- 1977 The first space shuttle, Enterprise, makes its maiden flight (carried atop a Boeing 747), over the Mojave Desert.
- 1978 Number one hit on UK music charts - Abba - Take A Chance On Me
- 1978 The first Iron Man Triathlon (swim, bike ride, marathon) held, Kona HI
- 1979 -52º F (-47º C), Old Forge NY (state record)
- 1979 Miniseries "Roots The Next Generations" premieres on ABC TV
- 1979 President Zia ur-Rahmans National Party wins elections in Bangladesh
- 1979 Snow fell in the Sahara Desert in southern Algeria for the first and only recorded time in history.
- 1980 Billy Wyman said he will leave the Rolling Stones in 1983 (Sure!)
- 1982 Late Pope John Paul ll visited Nigeria.
- 1983 Thirteen people die and one is seriously injured in the Wah Mee Massacre in Seattle, Washington, said to be the largest robbery-motivated mass-murder in American history.
- 1984 Revised concordat between Italy & the Vatican signed
- 1988 Anthony M. Kennedy is sworn in as the 104th justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
- 1991 The IRA explodes bombs in the early morning at both Paddington station and Victoria station in London.
- 1994 Actor Joe Pantoliano (41) weds model Nancy Sheppard (31)
- 1995 Pamela Anderson (Baywatch) & Tommy Lee (Motley Crue) wed
- 1996 Tendulkar scores 127 in India's Cricket World Cup win over Kenya
- 1998 Two white separatists are arrested in Nevada and accused of plotting a biological attack on New York City subways.
- 1999 Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic is warned by the U.S. to make peace with ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, or face military intervention.
- 2000 Stjepan Mesi becomes the second president of Croatia.
- 2001 Dale Earnhardt is killed in a crash during the final lap of the Daytona 500, which was won by Michael Waltrip, driving in a car that Earnhardt owned. His son, Dale Earnhardt, Jr. finished second.
- 2001 FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested for spying for the Soviet Union. He was ultimately convicted and sentenced to life in prison.
- 2003 Comet C/2002 V1 (NEAT) makes perihelion, seen by SOHO.
- 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 Neyshabur in Iran when a run-away freight train carrying sulfur, petrol and fertiliser catches fire and explodes.
- 2005 The United Kingdom law banning fox hunting, hare coursing and other sports which kill wild mammals is enforced from this date.
- 2006 Visitor posting - Osmar and Saul were born
- 2010 Joseph Stack flies his plane into the side of an Austin Texas Internal Revenue Service building. He was killed. - USA
- 2010 NORTH RICHLAND HILLS Texas -Eric Frias, 24, of Fort Worth led police on a chase in a car with a dead woman inside, died after he was shot while pointing a pistol at officers. Police found the body of Martha Martinez, 22. of Fort Worth in the car. - USA
- 3102 BC - Epoch (origin) of the Kali Yuga- Lord Krishna is believed by Hare Krishnas and Hindus to have left the planet on this day.
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