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- 0837 15th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
- 1526 Saxony & Hesse form League of Gotha (league of Protestant princes)
- 1531 Evangelical German monarchy/towns form Schmalkaldische Union
- 1557 First Russian Embassy opens in London, Russia & US sign trade agreement
- 1560 The Treaty of Berwick, which would expel the French from Scotland, is signed by England and the Congregation of Scotland.
- 1563 William Byrd is appointed organist at Lincoln Cathedral
- 1594 Henry IV is crowned King of France.
- 1617 Sweden and Russia sign the Treaty of Stolbovo, ending the Ingrian War and shutting Russia out of the Baltic Sea.
- 1626 Yuan Chonghuan is appointed Governor of Liaodong, after he led the Chinese into a great victory against the Manchurians under Nurhaci.
- 1665 Battle at Elmina, Gold Coast Vice-Admiral De Ruyter beats English
- 1667 Abraham Crijnssen conquerors Fort Willoughby (Zeelandia), Suriname
- 1678 Earl of Shaftesbury freed out of London Tower
- 1696 English/Welsh nobles lay down Oath of Association
- 1700 Pacific island of New Britain discovered
- 1700 The island of New Britain is discovered.
- 1703 The first Mardi Gras is celebrated in Mobile, Alabama.
- 1713 French troops bomb Willemstad Curaçao
- 1801 The District of Columbia is placed under the jurisdiction of the US Congress.
- 1801 Washington, DC is placed under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Congress.
- 1803 Great fire in Bombay, India
- 1807 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poet was born
- 1812 Poet Lord Byron gives his first address as a member of the House of Lords, in defense of Luddite violence against Industrialism in his home county of Nottinghamshire.
- 1813 Congress authorizes use of steamboats to transport mail
- 1813 First federal vaccination legislation enacted
- 1814 Ludwig von Beethovens 8th Symphony in F, premieres
- 1816 Dutch regain Suriname
- 1827 First Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans LA
- 1844 Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti (National Day)
- 1854 Composer Robert Schumann saved from suicide attempt in Rhine
- 1861 A crowd in Warsaw protesting Russian rule over Poland is fired upon by Russian troops, killing five protesters.
- 1861 US Congress authorizes first stamped newspaper wrappers for mailing
- 1861 Warsaw Massacre Russians fire on crowd demonstrating against Russian rule of Poland
- 1864 6th & last day of Battle at Dalton, Georgia (about 600 casualties)
- 1864 Near Andersonville GA, rebels open a new POW camp "Camp Sumpter"
- 1865 Civil War skirmish near Sturgeon MO
- 1869 John Menard is first black to make a speech in Congress
- 1871 Meeting of Alabama claims commission
- 1872 Charlotte Ray, first Black woman lawyer, graduated Harvard U
- 1873 Dutch socialist Samuel van Wooden demands law against child labor
- 1874 Baseball first played in England, at Lord's Cricket Grounds
- 1877 US Electoral College declares R Hayes winner Presidential election
- 1879 Announcement of the discovery of artificial sweetener saccharin.
- 1879 Constantine Fahlberg discovers saccharin (artificial sweetener)
- 1881 Battle at Amajuba, South Africa Boers vs British army under General Colley
- 1883 Oscar Hammerstein patents first cigar-rolling machine
- 1890 D Needham & P Kerrigan box 100 rounds (6 hours 39 minutes), San Francisco; match is draw
- 1900 Battle at Pietershoogte; Boer General Cronjé surrenders to English in Pardenberg, South-Africa
- 1900 England's Labour Party is founded.
- 1900 The FC Bayern Mnchen (Munich) is founded.
- 1905 Montana adopts its state flag.
- 1906 France & Britain agree to joint control of New Hebrides
- 1908 Sacrifice fly adopted (repealed in 1931, reinstated 1954)
- 1908 Star #46 was added to US flag for Oklahoma
- 1912 Lord Kitchener opens Khartoum-El Obeid (Nyala) railway
- 1917 Women in Ontario win right to vote in provincial elections
- 1919 American Association for the Hard of Hearing formed (New York NY)
- 1921 The International Working Union of Socialist Parties is founded in Vienna.
- 1922 A challenge to the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, allowing women the right to vote, is rebuffed by the Supreme Court of the United States in Leser v. Garnett.
- 1922 Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover convenes first National Radio Conference
- 1922 G B Shaw's "Back to Methusaleh I/II," premieres in New York NY
- 1924 Belgium's Theunis government falls
- 1925 Hitler resurrects NSDAP political party in Munich
- 1927 For 2nd Sunday in a row golfers in South Carolina arrested for violating Sabbath
- 1929 Turkey signs Litvinov-pact
- 1930 Bouvet Island declared a Norwegian dependency
- 1932 Explosion in coal mine Boissevain, Virginia, USA (38 dead)
- 1933 German parliament building, Reichstag, destroyed by fire
- 1933 Jean Genet's "Intermezzo," premieres in Paris
- 1933 Nazis set fire to German parliament, blame it on communists
- 1933 Reichstag fire: Germany's parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag, is set on fire.
- 1934 Ralph Nader consumer advocate, known for role against GM and Ford was born
- 1936 Willy den Ouden swims world record 100 meter free style (1:04.6)
- 1937 Bradman scores 169 in 5th Test Cricket vs England in 223 minutes
- 1938 Britain & France recognize Franco government in Spain
- 1939 English Spook house Borley Rectory destroyed in a fire
- 1939 The US Supreme Court outlaws sit-down strikes.
- 1940 Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discovered carbon-14
- 1940 Visitor posting - Loretta Murphy born in Illinois - USA
- 1942 First transport of French Jews to Nazi-Germany
- 1942 J S Hey discovers radio emissions from the Sun
- 1942 The allies are routed in the Battle of the Java Sea.
- 1943 The Rosenstrasse protest starts in Berlin
- 1943 The Smith Mine #3 in Bearcreek, Montana, explodes, killing 74 men.
- 1945 U.S. troops land on Iwo Jima.
- 1946 4th "Road" film, "Road to Utopia" premieres (New York NY)
- 1947 Paul-Emile Victor French polar expeditions organized
- 1947 Visitor posting - Bruce MacFadyen was born - USA
- 1949 Chaim Weizmann becomes first Israeli President
- 1950 General Chiang Kai-shek elected President of Nationalist China
- 1951 22nd amendment ratified, limiting President to 2 terms
- 1951 Canada posts army officer to staff of Supreme Allied Commander; first step in providing Canadian ground troops in Europe for NATO
- 1951 The Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting Presidents to two terms, is ratified.
- 1955 Betty Jameson wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Open
- 1956 Elvis Presley's releases "Heartbreak Hotel"
- 1956 Female suffrage in Egypt
- 1957 Mao's speech "On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among People"
- 1957 Premiere of only prime-time network TV show beginning with an "X" "Xavier Cugat Show" on NBC (until
- 1960 Oil pipe line from Rotterdam to Ruhrgebied opens
- 1960 Visitor posting - Judi Grant was born in Wisconsin - USA
- 1960 US Olympics Ice Hockey Team beats USSR 3-2 en route to gold medal
- 1961 The first congress of the Spanish Trade Union Organisation is inaugurated.
- 1962 South-Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem's palace bombed, first US killed
- 1962 Visitor posting - Tariq Saleem was born. My pet is a cat named shesha - Pakistan
- 1963 Mickey Mantle of New York Yankees sign a baseball contract worth $100,000
- 1964 "What Makes Sammy Run?" opens at 84th St Theater NYC for 540 performances
- 1964 Number one hit on UK music charts - Cilla Black - Anyone Who Had A Heart
- 1964 The government of Italy asks for help to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling over.
- 1965 "High Spirits" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 375 performances
- 1965 Dutch Marijnen government resigns
- 1965 France performs Underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria
- 1967 Antigua & St Christopher-Nevis become associated states of UK
- 1967 Dominica gains independence from England
- 1967 Pink Floyd release their first single "Arnold Layne"
- 1967 Rio de la Plata Treaty
- 1969 General Hafez al-Assad becomes head of Syria via military coup
- 1969 President Nixon visits West-Berlin
- 1970 New York Times (falsely) reports US army has ended domestic surveillance
- 1971 Doctors in the first Dutch abortion clinic (the Mildredhuis in Arnhem) start to perform abortus provocatus.
- 1972 President Nixon & Chinese Premier Chou En-lai issued Shanghai Communique
- 1973 -Airborne mine countermeasures began off Haiphong during Operation Endsweep. This was a "first" in mine warfare
- 1973 Dick Allen signs a record $675,000 3-year contract with White Sox
- 1973 Pope Paul VI publishes constitution motu proprio Quo aptius
- 1973 Supporters of the American American Indian Movement begin their occupation of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, site of the 1890 Sioux massacre.
- 1973 The American Indian Movement occupies Wounded Knee, South Dakota.
- 1974 People magazine is published for the first time.
- 1974 The first issue of People magazine makes its appearance on newsstands.
- 1975 CDU-politician Peter Lorentz kidnapped in West Berlin
- 1976 Final meeting between Mao tse Tung & Richard Nixon
- 1976 The formerly Spanish territory of Western Sahara, under the auspices of the Polisario Front declares independence as the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.
- 1977 In Toronto, Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones rock group is arrested by the RCMP and charged with possession of heroin with intent to traffic and possession of cocaine
- 1977 Judy Rankin wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic
- 1977 Keith Richards gets suspended sentence for heroin possession, Canada
- 1979 The Navy took delivery of the last A-4 Skyhawk from the McDonnell Douglas Corporation, setting a record for the longest production run for any U.S. military aircraft.
- 1980 22nd Grammy Awards What a Fool Believe, Streisand-Diamond duet (You Don't Bring Me Flowers)
- 1980 Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF wins elections in Zimbabwe
- 1980 Terrorists occupies Dominican embassy in Bogota
- 1981 Greatest passenger load on a commercial airliner-610 on Boeing 747
- 1981 Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder record "Ebony & Ivory"
- 1982 Dan Issel (NBA-Nuggets), hits on 63rd consecutive free throw
- 1982 Earl Anthony becomes first pro bowler to win more than $1 million
- 1982 Wayne B. Williams is convicted of murdering two of 28 Atlanta area youngsters whose bodies were found over a 22-month period.
- 1983 Eamonn Coghlan sets indoor mile record of 3 49.78
- 1983 Jan Stephenson wins Tucson Conquistadores LPGA Golf Tournament
- 1983 Visitor posting - Joseph Christian Garate Birthday
- 1984 Carl Lewis jumps world record indoor (8,675 meters)
- 1984 WRC-AM in Washington DC changes call letters to WWRC
- 1984 Worker's union leader Billy Nair freed in South Africa
- 1985 Farmers converge in Washington to demand economic relief
- 1985 Mauritania's new constitutional charter published
- 1985 US dollar is worth ƒ3.9355 (Netherlands)
- 1986 The United States Senate allows its debates to be televised on a trial basis.
- 1986 Visitor posting - Brittany was born - USA
- 1986 Visitor posting - Michele Hokulani is born to Bevie and Mikey deGuzman.
- 1987 "Washington Week In Review," 20th anniversary on PBS
- 1987 Donald Regan resigned as White House chief of staff
- 1987 Mike Conley triple jumps world indoor record (17.76 meters)
- 1987 NCAA cancels SMU's entire 1987 football schedule for gross violations of NCAA rules regarding athletic
- 1988 Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Orient Leasing Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open
- 1988 Bonnie Blair (US) wins Olympics 500 meter speed skating in record 39.1
- 1988 Gulfstream G-IV goes around the world 36 08 34
- 1988 Katarina Witt (GDR) wins 2nd consecutive Olympics figure skating
- 1989 German war criminals Austria der Fünten/Fischer, freed in Holland
- 1989 Venezuela is rocked by the Caracazo.
- 1990 Exxon Corp & Exxon Shipping are indicted on 5 criminal counts (Valdez)
- 1990 Visitor posting - My Birthday!!!!(Lea) - USA
- 1991 Ben Elton's "Silly Cow," premieres in London
- 1991 Gulf War ends after Iraqi troops retreat & Kuwait is liberated
- 1991 Gulf War: U.S. President George H. W. Bush announces that "Kuwait is liberated."
- 1991 Noureddine Morcelli set 1500 meter mark at 3 34 16
- 1991 Singer James Brown is released from prison
- 1992 Larry Smith, named 9th Commissioner of the CFL
- 1992 Tiger Woods, 16, becomes youngest PGA golfer in 35 years
- 1993 PBA National Championship Won by Ron Palombi Jr
- 1993 USA Camden Burriss is born.
- 1993 Visitor posting - February 27 1993 Kara Wellendorf was born - California, United States of America
- 1994 Maronite church near Beirut bombed, 10 killed
- 1995 Car bomb explodes in Zakho, North-Iraq (54-80 killed)
- 1995 Visitor posting - Tim Yerigan is born - USA
- 1995 Visitor posting - Jasen Cawthon was born! - USA
- 1996 Mark Waugh scores 126 in World Cup against India
- 1996 Visitor posting - I was born (Brooke)
- 1996 Satoshi Tajiri creates the hit media franchise Pokmon.
- 1997 "Last Night of Ballyhoo" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC
- 1997 Divorces become legal in Ireland.
- 1997 Singer Sade (Helen Folasade), arrested in Jamaica for disobeying a cop
- 1998 14th Soap Opera Digest Awards
- 1998 Apple discontinues developing Newton computer
- 1998 FBI arrests 10 most wanted suspected serial killer Tony Ray Amati
- 1998 New England Patriot David Meggett arrested in Toronto on sex assault charges
- 1999 Democratic rule returns to Nigeria as its citizens elect Olusegun Obasanjo as president.
- 1999 Korea International School is founded by Soon-Il Chung. It is currently directed by Ann Clapper.
- 1999 Olusegun Obasanjo becomes Nigeria's first elected president since mid-1983.
- 1999 While trying to circumnavigate the world in a hot air balloon, Colin Prescot and Andy Elson set a new endurance record after being in a hot air balloon for 233 hours and 55 minutes.
- 2002 Godhra train burning, a Muslim mob kills 59 Hindu pilgrims returning from Ayodhya;
- 2002 Ryanair Flight 296 catches fire in London Stansted Airport. Subsequent investigations criticize Ryanair's handling of the evacuation.
- 2003 Rowan Williams is enthroned as the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury in the Anglican church.
- 2004 A bombing of a Superferry by Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines worst terrorist attack kills 116.
- 2004 Former BPMC general secretary Ordrick Samuel launches a new party in Barbuda, Barbudans for a Better Barbuda.
- 2005 Pre-pay price capping on the Transport for London oyster card is introduced.
- 2006 Visitor posting - Josh and Stephanie's love started
- 2006 The Harlem Globetrotters extended their overall record to 22,000 wins.
- 2007 The Chinese Correction the Shanghai Stock Exchange tumbled 9% the largest drop in 10 years.
- 2007 The general strike against Lansana Cont in Guinea ends.
- 2007 Visitor posting - samuel carter is born - USA
- 2009 Visitor posting - Celeste Alegria was born - USA
- 2009 Visitor posting - Mildred C Malee greatest mom in the world went to heaven
- 2010 8.8 Quake strikes Chile - World's 5th biggest quake since 1900
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