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- 0307 After divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine marries Fausta, the daughter of the retired Roman Emperor Maximian.
- 1084 Anti-pope Clemens crowns German emperor Hendrik IV
- 1146 Bernard of Clairvaux preaches his famous sermon in a field at Vzelay, urging the necessity of a Second Crusade. Louis VII is present, and joins the Crusade.
- 1492 Queen Isabella of Castilia and Ferdinand of Aragon expels Jews
- 1504 France and Spain signs ceasefire
- 1521 Magelhaes takes possession of Homohon, Archipelago of St Lazarus
- 1547 Henry II succeeds François I as king of France
- 1644 Pope Urbanus VIII and duke of Parma signs Peace of Ferrara
- 1651 Great earthquake at Cuzco Peru
- 1657 English Humble Petition offers Lord Protector Cromwell the crown
- 1667 France/England sign anti-Dutch military accord
- 1683 Emperor Leopold I/Poland signs covenant against Turkey
- 1717 A sermon on "The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ" by Benjamin Hoadly, the Bishop of Bangor, provoked the Bangorian Controversy.
- 1776 Abigail Adams wrote her famous "Remember the ladies" letter to her husband, John, urging him to include women as he helped construct the US Constitution. He didn't.
- 1808 French created Kingdom of Westphalia orders Jews to adopt family names
- 1814 Forces allied against Napoleon capture Paris France
- 1822 The massacre of the population of the Greek island of Chios by soldiers of the Ottoman Empire following a rebellion attempt, depicted by the French artist Eugne Delacroix.
- 1831 Mainzer Rijnvaart Convention ends
- 1831 Québec and Montréal incorporated
- 1837 Death of English landscape painter John Constable.
- 1841 First performance of Robert Schumann's first Symphony in B
- 1849 Colonel John W Geary arrives as first postmaster of San Francisco
- 1850 US population hits 23,191,876 (Black population: 3,638,808 (15.7%))
- 1854 Commodore Matthew Perry signs the Treaty of Kanagawa with the Japanese government, opening the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American trade.
- 1854 Treaty of Kanagawa: Commodore Perry forces Japan to opens ports to foreign trade
- 1861 Confederacy takes over mint at New Orleans
- 1862 Civil War action at Island #10 on the Mississippi River
- 1865 Battle of Boydton, Virginia (White Oaks Roads, Dinwiddie Court House)
- 1865 General Pickette moves to 5 Forks, abandoning the defense of Peterburg
- 1866 The Spanish Navy bombs the harbour of Valparaso, Chile.
- 1868 Chinese Embassy arrives aboard steamship China
- 1870 Thomas P Mundy became first black to vote in US (Perth Amboy NJ)
- 1877 British high director/Governor sir Bartle Frere arrives in Capetown
- 1877 The family with samurai antecedents who responded to the Saigo army in ita Nakatsu rebels.
- 1878 Jack Johnson is first black to hold a heavyweight boxing title
- 1880 The First town completely illuminated by electric lighting (Wabash IN)
- 1883 Utrecht begins water pipe system
- 1885 The United Kingdom establishes a protectorate over Bechuanaland.
- 1889 UK hist Eiffel Tower completed (to mark centenary of French Revolution)
- 1896 Whitcomb Judson, Chicago IL, patents a hookless fastening (zipper)
- 1900 Brigadier-General Broadwoods troops fall into guerrilla hands
- 1900 The first car advertisement to run in a national magazine appeared in the Saturday Evening Post.
- 1901 UK hist Seventh full British Census (available for inspection Jan 2002)
- 1903 Richard Pearse apparently made the worlds first powered flight, after flying a few hundred metres he crashed into a hedge.
- 1906 King Edward VII grants British Columbia's Coat-of-Arms.
- 1906 The Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (later National Collegiate Athletic Association) is established to set rules for amateur sports in the United States.
- 1907 Romanian Army puts down Moldavian farmers' revolt
- 1909 Serbia accepts Austrian control over Bosnia-Herzegovina.
- 1914 Canada now has 3,000 officers and men in the Permanent Force; 5,615 officers and 68,991 men in the militia
- 1914 Seventy-eight hunters die, many crippled by frostbite, in a two day long storm when their sealing steamer, the Newfoundland, fails to pick them up due to mistaken orders.
- 1916 Dutch government ends all military engagements
- 1917 US purchases Danish West Indies for $25M and renames them Virgin Islands
- 1918 First daylight savings time in US goes into effect
- 1919 Strike against Ruhrgebied government of Scheidemann
- 1920 British parliament accept Irish "Home Rule"-law
- 1921 Albert Einstein lectures in New York on his new theory of relativity
- 1921 British coal miners goes on strike
- 1922 Prince Hendrik opens trade fair building in Amsterdam
- 1923 French soldiers fire on workers at Krupp factory in Essen; 13 die
- 1924 London public transport strike ends
- 1924 UK hist British Imperial Airways begins operations (formed by merger of four British airline companies – became BOAC in 1940)
- 1926 German Special Court of Justice for state security disbands
- 1929 Aviators Kingsford Smith, Ulm, Litchfield and McWilliam leave Sydney for England in Southern Cross; they were forced down in northwest Australia and lost until April 12).
- 1930 The Motion Pictures Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in motion pictures for the next thirty eight years.
- 1931 The great Knute Rockne died in a plane crash
- 1931 in Nicaragua a 5.6 earthquake occurred 2,450 dead. One of the world's deadliest earthquakes.
- 1932 150 wild swans die in Niagara waterfall
- 1932 Ford publicly unveils its V-8 engine
- 1933 Congress authorizes Civilian Conservation Corps
- 1933 German Republic gives power to Hitler
- 1933 The Civilian Conservation Corps is established with the mission to relieve rampant unemployment.
- 1939 Britain and France agree to support Poland if invaded by Germany (and so it begins)
- 1941 Germany begins a counter offensive in Africa
- 1941 Ground broken for Union Square Garage, San Francisco
- 1942 Holocaust in Ivano-Frankivsk (then called Stanislawow), western Ukraine. German Gestapo organise the first deportation of 5.000 Jews from Stanislawow ghetto to Belzec death camp. It was one of the biggest transports to Belzec in the first phase of the camp.
- 1942 In World War II, Japanese forces invade Christmas Island, then a British possession.
- 1943 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "Oklahoma!" opens on Broadway
- 1943 US errantly bombs Rotterdam, kills 326
- 1944 Hungary orders all Jews to wear yellow stars
- 1944 Japanese Navy Marshal Mineichi Koga dies in the performance of job in the Navy Second Incident.
- 1945 3rd Algerian division crosses the Rhine
- 1945 Sicherheitsdienst murders 10 political prisoners in Zutphen
- 1945 Tennessee Williams' "Glass Menagerie", premieres in New York NY
- 1945 US artillery lands on Keise Shima/begins firing on Okinawa
- 1946 The first election is held in Greece after World War II.
- 1948 Congress passes Marshall Aid Act to rehabilitate war-torn Europe
- 1949 Newfoundland becomes Canada's 10th province
- 1949 The Dominion of Newfoundland joins Confederation and becomes the 10th Province of Canada.
- 1951 The first commercial US made computer, UNIVAC I, was delivered to the United States Census Bureau.
- 1951 US tanks exceed 38º of latitude in Korea
- 1953 Department of Health, Education and Welfare established
- 1953 UN Security Council nominates Dag Hammarskjöld Secretary-General
- 1954 US Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs CO, established
- 1954 USSR offers to join NATO
- 1955 Chase National (3rd largest bank) and Bank of the Manhattan Company (15th largest bank) merge to form Chase Manhattan
- 1955 Collie Smith scores 104 on cricket debut West Indies vs Australia, Kingston
- 1955 US Assay Office in Seattle WA closes
- 1957 Elections to the Territorial Assembly of the French colony Upper Volta. After the elections PDU and MDV form a government.
- 1958 US Navy forms atomic sub division
- 1958 USSR suspends nuclear weapons tests, and urges US and Britain to do same
- 1959 The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, crosses the border into India and is granted political asylum.
- 1959 The Dalai Lama, fleeing the Chinese suppression of a national uprising in Tibet, crosses the border into India, where he is granted political asylum
- 1960 Gore Vidal's "Best Man", premieres in New York NY
- 1960 Number one hit on UK music charts - Lonnie Donegan - My Old Man's A Dustman
- 1960 Visitor posting - Marty Martin was born in North Dakota
- 1961 Aklilou Habtewold becomes first premier of Ethiopia
- 1963 Los Angeles ends streetcar service after 90 years
- 1964 President Jango Goulart of Brazil chased out of office by military
- 1964 The Dictatorship in Brazil, under the aegis of general Castello Branco, begins.
- 1965 Iberia Airlines Convair 440, crashed into the sea on approach to Tangier killing 47 of 51 occupants.
- 1965 US ordered the first combat troops to Vietnam
- 1966 25,000 anti war demonstrators march in New York NY
- 1966 USSR launches Luna 10, first lunar orbiter
- 1967 Jimi Hendrix begins his tradition of burning his guitar
- 1969 George Harrison and Patti Boyd are fined £250 each for illegal drugs
- 1970 Eight terrorists from the Japanese Red Army hijacked Japan Airlines Flight 351 at Tokyo International Airport, wielding samurai swords and carrying a bomb.
- 1970 Explorer 1 re-enters the Earth's atmosphere (after 12 years in orbit).
- 1971 South Africa national debt hits 5.45 billion
- 1971 William L Calley Jr sentenced to life for My Lai Massacre
- 1972 Official Beatles Fan Club closes down
- 1973 Ken Norton defeats Muhammad Ali in a 12 round split decision
- 1973 Number one hit on UK music charts - Donny Osmond - The Twelfth Of Never
- 1975 Visitor posting - Ray R born - USA
- 1976 New Jersey Court rules Karen Anne Quinlan may be disconnected from respirator
- 1978 Biochemist Charles Best dies at age 79; co-discoverer of insulin, used to treat diabetes.
- 1978 Wings release "London Town" album
- 1979 The last British soldier leaves the Maltese Islands. Malta declares its Freedom Day (Jum il-Helsien).
- 1980 Larry Holmes TKOs Leroy Jones in 8 for (WBC) heavyweight boxing title
- 1980 Mike Weaver KOs John Tate in 15 for (WBA) heavyweight boxing title
- 1981 53rd Academy Awards: "Ordinary People", Robert De Niro, Sissy Spacek win
- 1982 Arkas tanker at Montz LA, spills 1.47 million gallons of oil
- 1982 Canada's first fibre optics cable manufacturing plant opens in Saskatoon.
- 1982 Rock group Doobie Brothers split up
- 1983 Earthquake in Colombia kills some 5,000 people
- 1983 In Colombia a 5.5 quake occurred Between 250 and 350 people killed, many injured and extensive damage (VIII) in the Popayan area
- 1984 One-legged runner Steve Fonyo dips his artificial leg in St. John's Harbour to start run across Canada to raise money for cancer research
- 1985 El Salvador's President Duartes Christian-Democrats win election
- 1986 167 die when Mexicana Airlines Boeing 727 crashes
- 1986 A Mexicana Boeing 727 en route to Puerto Vallarta erupts in flames and crashes in the mountains northwest of Mexico City, killing 166.
- 1986 English Hampton Court palace destroyed by fire, 1 dead
- 1986 In Central California a 5.5 quake occurred Six people were treated for minor injuries. Slight damage (VI) in the Fremont area and power outages in parts of Fremont and San Jose
- 1986 Six metropolitan county councils are abolished in England.
- 1987 Visitor posting - Georg Listing is born - Germany [email protected]
- 1988 Death of Sir William McMahon, Australian Liberal prime minister
- 1988 Last East Limburg coal mine closes in Gent Belgium
- 1989 Donald Trump purchases Eastern's Northeast Shuttle
- 1990 "Carol and Company" starring Carol Burnett premieres on NBC-TV
- 1990 200,000 protestors took to the streets of London to show their displeasure at the newly introduced Poll Tax.
- 1990 Number one hit on UK music charts - Snap - The Power
- 1990 Riots began in London over the new poll tax laws
- 1990 Thousands riot against new poll tax in central London, leaving 75 civilians and 58 police injured and 341 demonstrators under arrest.
- 1991 Albania offers first multi-party election in 50 years
- 1991 Danny Bonaduce attacks a transvestite prostitute in Phoenix AZ
- 1991 Georgian independence referendum, 1991: nearly 99 per cent of the voters support the country's independence from the Soviet Union.
- 1991 Visitor posting - Joe brisbane was born. I'm 19 now - USA
- 1991 Soviet Republic of Georgia endorsed independence; Warsaw Pact dissolves
- 1991 The Establishment of Islamic Constitutional Movement - Hadas in Kuwait.
- 1992 Delhi beat Tamil Nadu on first innings to win cricket Ranji Trophy
- 1992 USS Missouri (BB-63), the last active US Navy Battleship, is decommissioned in Long Beach, California.
- 1993 On this day in 1993, Lou Gerstner was approved as IBM's next chairman at a salary of $3.5 million in 1993-$2 million in base salary and a $1.5 million bonus for reaching performance goals.
- 1994 James Farentino pleads no contest to stalking Tina Sinatra
- 1994 The journal Nature reports the finding in Ethiopia of the first complete Australopithecus afarensis skull (see Human evolution).
- 1994 Visitor posting - Violent J.J was born! - USA
- 1995 Bombay beat Punjab on first innings to win cricket Ranji Trophy
- 1995 Federal judge orders injunction to end baseball strike
- 1995 In Corpus Christi, Texas, Latin superstar Selena Quintanilla Perez is shot and killed by Yolanda Saldivar, the president of her own fan club.
- 1995 Microsoft Bob, a much ballyhooed "social interface" from Microsoft, started shipping.
- 1996 25th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Patty Sheehan
- 1996 Karnataka defeat Tamil Nadu on first innings to win Ranji Trophy
- 1996 Radio Canada International's final shortwave broadcast
- 1996 Space Shuttle STS 76 (Atlantis 16), lands
- 1996 The sun set on eWorld as Apple pulled the plug on its struggling two-year-old online service.
- 1996 Wrestlemania XII: Shawn Michaels beats Brett Hart for WWF title
- 1997 "Daytime to Remember" a series showing old soaps premieres on ABC-TV
- 1997 Pioneer 10, ends its mission
- 1998 Netscape releases the code base of its browser under an open-source license agreement; the project is given the code name Mozilla and would eventually be spun off into the non-profit Mozilla Foundation.
- 1999 Australian aid workers Steve Pratt and Peter Wallace are arrested by Serb authorities
- 2002 331 Earthquake in Taiwan, which measured 7.1 and killed at least four people.
- 2004 In Fallujah, Iraq, 4 American private military contractors working for Blackwater USA, are killed and their bodies mutilated after being ambushed.
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