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- 0138 The Emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius, effectively making him his successor.
- 1095 Council of Rockingham bishop Anselmus vs King William II Rufus
- 1358 Dalmatië flees Venice
- 1497 Italians troops reconquer Taranto on France
- 1502 Austrian emperor Maximilian I reformats government machine
- 1540 Francisco Vásquez de Coronado searches for 7 cities of Cibola México
- 1570 UK hist Pope Pius V issued the papal bull 'Regnans in Excelsis' to excommunicate Elizabeth I and her followers in the Church of England
- 1605 Portuguese garrison on Ambon surrenders to Admiral Van der Haghen
- 1623 Duke Maximilian I of Bavaria becomes monarch of Palts
- 1634 Irish captain Walter Devereaux kills duke Wallenstein
- 1643 Dutch US colonists kill Algonquin-Indians
- 1667 Abraham Crijnssens fleet reach Fort Willoughby on Suriname River
- 1746 Cumberlands troops occupy Aberdeen
- 1751 First performing monkey exhibited in America, NYC (admission 1¢)
- 1793 George Washington holds the first Cabinet meeting as President of the United States.
- 1793 US President George Washington and his department heads hold their first Cabinet meeting.
- 1797 Colonel William Tate and his force of 1000-1500 soldiers surrender after the Last Invasion of Britain
- 1803 1,800 sovereign German states unite into 60 states
- 1804 Jefferson nominated for President at Democratic-Republican caucus
- 1828 John Quincy Adam's son John marries in the White House
- 1836 Samuel Colt receives an American patent for the Colt revolver.
- 1836 US Showman Phineas Taylor Barnum exhibits African American slave Joice Heth.
- 1837 First U.S. electric printing press patented by Thomas Davenport.
- 1837 The first US electric printing press patented by Thomas Davenport
- 1838 Canadian militia routs American republican sympathizers on Fighting Island, in the Detroit River
- 1839 Seminoles & black allies shipped from Tampa Bay FL, to the West
- 1847 State University of Iowa is approved
- 1862 Congress establishes the US Bureau of Engraving & Printing
- 1862 Paper currency (greenbacks) introduced in US by President Abraham Lincoln
- 1863 Congress creates national banking system, comptroller of currency
- 1868 Andrew Johnson impeached for violation of the Tenure of Office act
- 1870 Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, is sworn into the United States Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in the U.S. Congress.
- 1875 Kiowa Indians under Lone Wolf (Guipago) surrender at Ft Sill
- 1879 Congress passed first Timberland Protection Act
- 1885 US Congress condemns barbed wire around government grounds
- 1896 Italian government decides to attack governor Baratieri of Eritrea
- 1899 Paul Julius Reuter, founder of the eponymous British news agency, dies in Nice, France.
- 1901 J.P. Morgan incorporates the United States Steel Corporation.
- 1901 US Steel Corp organizes under directorship of J P Morgan
- 1907 US proclaims protectorate over Dominican Republic
- 1908 The tunnel under the Hudson River (railway tunnel) opens
- 1910 Dali Lama flees Tibet from Chinese troop to British-Indies
- 1912 Marie-Adlade, the eldest of six daughters of Guillaume IV, becomes the first reigning Grand Duchess of Luxembourg.
- 1913 16th Amendment ratified, authorizing income tax
- 1917 Laconia, a Cunard ship. Sunk by torpedo attack from German U-boat U50 on the return journey from the USA to Liverpool while about 150 miles north west of the Fastnet Rock. There was a crew of 217 and she was carrying 75 passengers. 12 people were killed, 6 crew and 6 passengers.
- 1919 League of Nations set up by Paris Treaty
- 1919 Oregon is first state to tax gasoline (1¢ per gallon)
- 1919 Oregon places a 1 cent per U.S. gallon tax on gasoline, becoming the first U.S. state to levy a gasoline tax.
- 1920 The NSDAP - National Socialist German Workers Party - publishes a 25-point program in Munich. The party has 60 members. Hitler begins making speeches, drawing thousands; he builds the Nazi Party and the S.A. Stormtroopers, a private army.
- 1921 Georgian SSR proclaimed
- 1921 Jack Haley (Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz) marries Florence McFadden.
- 1921 Tbilisi, capital of the Democratic Republic of Georgia, occupied by Bolshevist Russia.
- 1923 Bread in Berlin rises to 2,000 mark
- 1925 Glacier Bay National Monument (now Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve) is established in Alaska.
- 1926 Francisco Franco becomes General of Spain
- 1926 Kwo-Min-Tang (Guomindang) declares war on government/warlords
- 1927 Gdansk & Polish accord concerning traffic through Polish corridor
- 1928 Charles Jenkins Laboratories of Washington, DC becomes the first holder of a television license from the Federal Radio Commission.
- 1932 Adolf Hitler obtains the German citizenship by naturalization, opening the opportunity for him to run in the 1932 election for Reichsprsident.
- 1933 The USS Ranger is launched, becoming the first custom-built aircraft carrier.
- 1938 British Lord Halifax becomes Foreign Minister
- 1939 First Anderson bomb shelter in Britain erected in an Islington garden
- 1941 February strike: First general & physical protest against Nazi anti-Jewish behaviour & -laws (Amsterdam)
- 1943 Vietminh forms Indo Chinese Democratic Front
- 1943 George Harold Harrison of The Beatles is born in Liverpool England
- 1944 US first Army completes invasion plan
- 1945 Sgt. Aubrey Cosens (Queen's Own Rifles of Canada) awarded the Victoria Cross at the Goch-Calear Road, Germany
- 1945 US aircraft carriers attack Tokyo
- 1945 World War II: Turkey declares war on Germany.
- 1948 Communists seize Czechoslovakia/C Gottwald becomes premier
- 1951 The first Pan American Games are held in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- 1954 Abdul Nasser appointed Egyptian premier
- 1956 In his speech On the Personality Cult and its Consequences Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev denounces the actions of Joseph Stalin.
- 1957 Buddy Holly & the Crickets record "That'll Be the Day"
- 1958 CND launched
- 1959 Visitor posting - Roslynne Joy Byfieldt born - Australia
- 1962 India Congress Party wins elections
- 1962 Robert Kennedy visits Netherlands
- 1963 Beatles release their first single in US "Please Please Me"
- 1964 Austrian chancellor Alfons Gorbach resigns
- 1964 Cassius Clay, a 7-1 underdog, TKOs champion Sonny Liston in the 7th round to win the world heavyweight title
- 1965 Number one hit on UK music charts - The Seekers - I'll Never Find Another You
- 1966 Syrian military coup under Hafiz al-Assad
- 1968 430 Unification Church couples wed in Korea
- 1968 Makarios re-elected President of Cyprus
- 1969 Beatles begin recording for the Abbey Road album
- 1969 Germany gives $5 million to an Arab terrorist as ransom for the passengers and crew of a hijacked jumbo jet.
- 1971 "Oh! Calcutta!" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 1,316 performances
- 1971 The first unit of the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station, first commercial nuclear power station in Canada, goes online.
- 1972 Ontario Hydro opens $75 million Pickering nuclear power plant; has been the largest single producer of electricity in the world
- 1977 Oil tanker explosion west of Honolulu spills 31 million gallons
- 1977 Soyuz 24 returns to Earth
- 1979 Soyuz 32 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
- 1980 Coup ousts PM Henck Arron of Suriname
- 1980 The Suriname government ( elected after gaining independance from the Netherlands in 1975 ) was overthrown by a military coup which was initiated with the bombing of the police station from an army ship of the coast of the nations capital; Paramaribo
- 1981 L Calvo Sotelo elected premier of Spain
- 1981 The Calgary Flames score 11 goals against New York Islanders
- 1982 Final episode of "The Lawrence Welk Show" airs
- 1982 House of Commons starts inquiry into bank profits, in wake of record interest rates
- 1982 Record speed for a snowmobile (239 kph)
- 1984 Oil fire in Cubatao Brazil kills 500
- 1984 Visitor posting - An Angel was born in India to spread HAPPINESS in the World. - India
- 1986 EDSA Revolution: President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines flees the nation after 20 years of rule; Corazon Aquino becomes the first Filipino woman president.
- 1986 Iran conquerors Iraq peninsula Fao
- 1986 Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos flees after 20 years of rule, following that country's national election; Corazon Aquino was elected successor.
- 1986 Thousands of Egyptian military police riot, destroy 2 luxury hotel
- 1988 Bruce Springsteen "Tunnel of Love Tour," begins in Worcester MA
- 1988 South Korea adopts constitution
- 1989 First independent blue-collar labor union in Communist Hungary forms
- 1989 Lowest barometric pressure in Netherlands (956.7 mbar at De Bilt)
- 1989 Mike Tyson TKOs Frank Bruno in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
- 1989 Number one hit on UK music charts - Simple Minds - Belfast Child
- 1989 Rob Boyd wins a World Cup downhill race in home town of Whistler; first Canadian to win a FIS World Cup Ski race in Canada
- 1990 Australia beat Pakistan 2-0 to win the Cricket World Series Cup
- 1990 Nicaraguans vote out Sandinistas
- 1990 On a BBC taped interview, rock star Stevie Nicks breaks down, saying that she will never have children & no man can stand her for long
- 1991 28 Americans are killed in the Gulf War when an Iraqi Scud missile hits their barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
- 1991 Gulf War: An Iraqi Scud missile hits an American military barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia killing 28 U.S. Army Reservists from Pennsylvania.
- 1992 Khojaly massacre: about 613 civilians killed by Armenian armed forces during the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan
- 1994 Baruch Goldstein shoots and kills 29 worshippers inside the Tomb of the Patriarchs in the West Bank. He is later beaten to death by survivors.
- 1994 Jersey Joe Walcott, world heavyweight boxing champ (1951-52), dies in Camden, NJ, at age 80.
- 1994 Mosque of Abraham massacre: In the Cave of the Patriarchs in the West Bank city of Hebron, Dr. Baruch Kappel Goldstein opens fire with an assault rifle, killing 29 Palestinian worshippers and injuring 125 more before being subdued and beaten to death by survivors. Subsequent rioting kills 26 more Palestinians and 9 Israelis.
- 1994 Peruvian Yak-40 crashes into mountain near Tingo Maria, kills 31
- 1995 Bomb attack on train in Assam India (27 soldiers killed)
- 1995 Moslem fundamentalists shoot 20 Shiite mosque goers dead
- 1998 Pamela Lee has husband Tommy Lee arrested on battery charges
- 1998 Switzerland's first legal brothel opens in Zurich
- 2000 The Swedish political party New Democracy is declared financially bankrupt.
- 2002 Visitor posting - mark green cooper born today 21:38 - United Kingdom
- 2006 The world's estimated population reaches 6.5 billion.
- 2007 Visitor posting - Guadalupe Velma passed away
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