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- 1071 Battle of Cassel-Robert I the Frisian defeats Arnulf III/I
- 1281 Martin IV becomes Pope.
- 1281 Simon de Brion elected Pope Martinus IV
- 1288 Girolamo Masci elected Pope Nicolas IV
- 1288 Nicholas IV becomes Pope.
- 1295 BC - The coronation of Ramses II, on whose face the sun's rays fall each year in Abu Simbel temple.
- 1300 Pope Boniface VIII delegates degree
- 1495 French King Charles VIII enters Naples to claim the crown
- 1495 King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city's throne.
- 1561 William of Orange appointed viceroy of Burgundy/Charolais
- 1630 Indians introduce pilgrims to popcorn, at Thanksgiving
- 1632 Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is published.
- 1656 New Amsterdam granted a Jewish burial site
- 1732 George Washington's birthday
- 1744 Battle at Toulon English-French & Spanish fleet
- 1746 French troops conquer Brussels
- 1746 Jakobijnse troops vacate Aberdeen
- 1774 English House of Lords rules authors do not have perpetual copyright
- 1775 First US joint stock company (to make cloth) offers shares at £10
- 1775 Jews expelled from outskirts of Warsaw Poland
- 1784 First US ship to trade with China, "Empress of China," sails from New York
- 1797 UK hist French invade Fishguard, Wales; last time UK invaded; all captured 2 days later
- 1813 Ft. Presentation, NY is captured by the British
- 1813 Lt. Col. 'Red George' Macdonnell c1779-1871 leads 400 Prescott regular militia and Glengarry Light Infantry in a pre-dawn raid on US Fort Ogdensburg across the frozen St. Lawrence
- 1819 By the Adams-Ons Treaty, Spain sells Florida to the United States for five million U.S. dollars.
- 1821 Spain sells (east) Florida to United States for $5 million
- 1825 Britain and Russia set inland boundaries of Alaska/BC at first mountain range and 141st meridian
- 1825 Russia & Britain establish Alaska-Canada boundary
- 1828 Russia & Persia sign Peace of Turkmantsjai
- 1836 Dutch garrison evacuates fort Du Bus New Guinea
- 1847 Battle of Buena Vista US troops beat Mexican army
- 1851 The Kirkwood runs aground in New Jersey, mistaking the Smith Hotel for a vessel that refused to return its signal.
- 1853 The Washington University is founded in St. Louis as Eliot Seminary.
- 1854 First meeting of the Republican Party, Michigan
- 1855 The Pennsylvania State University is founded.
- 1856 First national meeting of the Republican Party (Pittsburgh)
- 1856 The Republican Party opens its first national meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
- 1858 Dion Boucicault's "Jessie Brown," premieres in New York NY
- 1860 Organized baseball played in San Francisco for the first time
- 1860 Shoe-making workers of Lynn MS, strike successfully for higher wages
- 1861 On a bet Edward Weston leaves Boston to walk to Lincoln's inauguration
- 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.
- 1864 2nd/last day of Battle of Okolona MS
- 1864 Battle at Dalton, Georgia
- 1864 Skirmish at Calfkiller Creek (Sparta) Tennessee
- 1865 Battle of Wilmington NC (Fort Anderson) occupied by Federals
- 1865 The U.S. state of Tennessee makes slavery illegal.
- 1872 First national convention of the Prohibition Party (Columbus OH)
- 1872 Labor Reform Party formed at Columbus OH
- 1876 Johns Hopkins University is founded in Baltimore, Maryland.
- 1878 Greenback Labor Party formed (Toledo OH)
- 1879 Frank W. Woolworth opens his first store in Utica, New York.
- 1879 In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of 5 and 10-cent Woolworth stores.
- 1882 Serbian kingdom refounded.
- 1887 Union Labor Party organized in Cincinnati
- 1888 John Reid of Scotland demonstrates golf to Americans (Yonkers NY)
- 1889 Dakotas, Montana & Washington admitted to the union
- 1889 President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states.
- 1889 U.S. President Grover Cleveland signs a bill to admit North and South Dakota, Montana and Washington (state) to the Union.
- 1892 "Lady Windermere's Fan" by Oscar Wilde premieres at St James Theater (London)
- 1892 Manitoba Rugby Football Union forms
- 1898 Black postmaster lynched, his wife & 3 daughters shot in Lake City SC
- 1900 Battle at Wynne's Hill, South-Africa (Boers vs British army)
- 1900 Hawaii became a US territory
- 1903 Due to drought the US side of Niagara Falls runs short of water
- 1904 UK recognises the South Orkney Islands as part of Argentina, in 1908 claims them again.
- 1906 Black evangelist William J Seymour arrives in Los Angeles CA
- 1907 Cabs with taxi meters begin operating in London
- 1909 Great White Fleet, first US fleet to circle the globe, returns to Virginia
- 1912 J Vedrines makes first airplane flight over 100 mph-161.29 kph
- 1913 Lowell High School, San Francisco opens (on it's first campus)
- 1915 Germany begins "unrestricted" submarine war
- 1917 German Navy torpedoes 7 Dutch ships
- 1918 Germany claims Baltic states, Finland & Ukraine from Russia
- 1920 In Emeryville, New York, the first dog race track to employ an imitation rabbit opens.
- 1920 The first artificial rabbit used at a dog race track (Emeryville CA)
- 1922 Congress authorizes Grant Memorial $1 gold coin
- 1923 First successful chinchilla farm in US (Los Angeles CA)
- 1923 The United States begins the first transcontinental air mail route.
- 1923 Transcontinental airmail service begins
- 1932 Purple Heart award re-instituted
- 1933 Göring forms SA/SS-police, shoots 40-50
- 1934 It Happened One Night, starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert, premieres at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.
- 1935 Airplanes are no longer permitted to fly over the White House
- 1936 Construction on Ypenburg Netherlands airport begins
- 1940 Finnish troops vacate Koivisto island
- 1940 German air force sinks 2 German destroyers, killing 578
- 1941 Arthur T "Bomber" Harris becomes British Air Marshal
- 1941 German assault on El Agheila Libya
- 1941 I G Farben decides building Buna-Werke in Auschwitz Concentration Camp
- 1941 Nazi SS begin rounding up Jews of Amsterdam
- 1941 Paul Creston's first Symphony, premieres
- 1941 Roy Harris' "Ballad of a Railroad Man," premieres
- 1943 HMCS Weyburn strikes a mine near Gibralter and sinks
- 1943 Members of White Rose are executed in Nazi Germany.
- 1943 Royal Canadian Navy corvette HMCS Weyburn strikes mine and sinks near Gibraltar.
- 1943 The Bulgarian government signs an agreement with the Germans to allow deportations from Macedonia and Thrace. 11,000 Jews are deported.
- 1944 American aircraft bombard the Dutch towns of Nijmegen, Arnhem, Enschede and Deventer by mistake, resulting in 800 dead in Nijmegen alone.
- 1944 US 8th Air Force bombs Enschede, Arnhem & Nijmegen by mistake/800+ die
- 1945 Arab League forms (Cairo)
- 1945 British troops take Ramree Island, Burma
- 1945 Canadian 3rd Division occupies Moyland
- 1948 Arabs bomb attack in Jerusalem, 50 die
- 1948 Communist coup in Czechoslovakia
- 1955 British aircraft carrier Ark Royal sets sail
- 1956 Elvis Presley's first hit in Billboard's top 10 "Heartbreak Hotel"
- 1958 Egypt & Syria form United Arab Republic (UAR)
- 1958 Egypt and Syria join to form the United Arab Republic.
- 1958 Indonesian air force bombs Padang, Sumatra/Menado, Celebes
- 1959 Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500.
- 1962 Number one hit on UK music charts - Elvis Presley - Can't Help Falling In Love With You
- 1963 Beatles begin their own music publishing company (Northern Songs)
- 1964 Beatles arrive back in England after their first US visit
- 1965 Felix Frankfurter, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, dies.
- 1965 The Beatles begin filming scenes on location in the Bahamas for their second movie, Help!
- 1965 USSR launches Kosmos 57 into earth orbit (Voskhod Test)
- 1966 Soviets launch Kosmos 110 with Veterok & Ugolek, first 2-dog crew
- 1967 25,000 US & S Vietnamese troops launched Operation Junction City, offensive to smash Viet Cong stronghold near Cambodian border
- 1968 Rock group Genesis release their first record "The Silent Sun"
- 1969 The last time all four Beatles were together for a recording session.
- 1971 Lieutenant General Hafiz al-Assad becomes President of Syria
- 1972 Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani becomes Amir & Prime Minister of Qatar
- 1972 President Nixon, meets with Chinese Premier Chou En-Lai in Beijing
- 1973 Cold War: Following United States President Richard Nixon's visit to the People's Republic of China, the two countries agree to establish liaison offices.
- 1973 Israeli fighter planes shoot down a Libyan commercial airliner (106 die)
- 1973 US & China agree to establish liaison offices in Beijing & Washington DC
- 1974 Ethiopian police shoot at demonstrators
- 1974 Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) summit conference starts in Lahore, Pakistan. Thirty-seven countries are attending. Twenty-two heads of state and government participate.
- 1974 Samuel Byck tries and fails to assassinate U.S. President Richard Nixon.
- 1975 Number one hit on UK music charts - Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel - Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me)
- 1977 Visitor posting - JENNIFER LYNN WAS BORN - United States
- 1978 2 tankers with propane gas explode killing 15 at Waverly TN
- 1979 Cleveland Metroparks Zoo's Primate & Cat Building is dedicated
- 1979 Independence of Saint Lucia from the United Kingdom.
- 1979 St Lucia gains independence from Britain
- 1980 Afghanistan declares martial law
- 1980 The United States ice hockey team defeats the Soviet Union team at the 1980 Winter Olympic Games in an upset dubbed the "Miracle on Ice".
- 1980 USA beats USSR in Olympics hockey 4-3 en route to a gold medal
- 1982 NYC Mayor Koch announces he will run for New York governor (unsuccessful)
- 1983 Harold Washington wins Chicago's Democratic mayoral primary
- 1983 Hindus kill 3000 Moslems in Assam, India
- 1984 Brothers Anton & Peter Stastny score 8 points each for NHL Québec
- 1986 Start of the 1986 EDSA Revolution in the Philippines.
- 1987 Pop artist Andy Warhol dies in New York City at age 58.
- 1989 31st Grammy Awards Don't Worry Be Happy, Faith, Tracy Chapman
- 1989 Fins ministry of Public health installs sex vacation to thwart stress
- 1989 New York Lotto pays $26.9 million to one winner (#s are 1-5-12-19-44-50)
- 1989 The first Spanish commercial on network TV (Pepsi-Cola-CBS Grammy Award)
- 1989 Visitor posting - Spencer Laine Key, American writer, was born.
- 1989 UK physicist Stephen Hawking calls Star Wars a "deliberate fraud"
- 1989 US authors demonstrate against Iranian death treats against Salman Rushdee, author of "Satanic Rituals"
- 1990 First day India vs New Zealand cricket at Auckland New Zealand 5-78 at lunch, 9-387 stumps
- 1990 Grain carrier collides with Polish fishing vessel in Vancouver Harbour; spilling 40,000 litres of diesel fuel
- 1991 Actor Bill Bixby (57) weds Laura Michael (32)
- 1991 Bush & US Gulf War allies give Iraq 24 hours to begin Kuwait withdrawal
- 1991 Visitor posting - Jillian Fuerman was born - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - USA
- 1991 Kelli McCarty, 21, (Kansas), crowned 40th Miss USA
- 1992 Visitor posting - Feb 22, James Cody Gesell was born. Dayton Ohio - USA
- 1992 Barry Diller resigns as CEO of Fox
- 1992 Ed McMahon, 69, weds Pamela Hurn, 37
- 1992 Rockers Kurt Cobain (Nirvana) & Courtney Love (Hole), wed
- 1993 Vinod Kambli scores 224 vs England at Bombay, 411 balls, 23 fours
- 1994 Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged by the United States Department of Justice with spying for the Soviet Union.
- 1994 Visitor posting - Chanakya Nag was born - India [email protected]
- 1994 Health Canada project finds traces of cigarette smoke compounds in fetal hair; first biochemical proof that even offspring of non-smoking mothers are affected by passive smoke Ladies there is a reason to quit smoking
- 1994 Paul Martin tables his first Budget as Finance Minister; wants to cut deficit from $45 to 39 billion; cuts tobacco taxes to curb smuggling; announces four military bases to close.
- 1995 Algiers police kill at least 99 prison rioters
- 1995 Visitor posting - February 22, 1995- Brianna Culp was born
- 1995 Bloc Quebecois leader Lucien Bouchard returns to the House of Commons where MPs give him a standing ovation; he had lost part of his leg to the so-called flesh-eating disease in late 1993
- 1995 Visitor posting - A.C. Roland III is born. - USA
- 1996 Actress Halle Berry files for divorce from David Justice
- 1996 STS 75 (Columbia 19), launches into orbit
- 1997 In Roslin, Scotland, scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly had been successfully cloned.
- 1997 Visitor posting - Sarah Pearl Pollock born. My dog's name is Cooper & my cat's name is Cookie - Australia
- 1998 "King & I," closes at Neil Simon Theater NYC after 781 performances
- 2002 A MH-47E Chinook helicopter crashes into the ocean near the Philippines, killing all 10 aboard.
- 2002 Angolan political and rebel leader Jonas Savimbi is killed in a military ambush.
- 2002 UK hist Millennium Bridge over the Thames in London finally opens
- 2006 At least six men stage Britain's biggest robbery ever, stealing 53m Pounds (about $92.5 million or 78 million Euros) from a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent.
- 2009 Visitor posting - Jay and Jim search what happened on their birthdays at the Heidelberg in Columbia Missouri
- 2010 Visitor posting - Mickey Kinsey was born !! - USA
- 2010 Visitor posting - Martin Foster turns 16 years old today---yippie - USA
- 2011 A magnitude 6.3 earthquake occurred very close to Christchurch, New Zealand causing extensive damage. 65 people confirmed dead.
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