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- 0764 Tibetan troops occupy Chang'an, the capital of the Chinese Tang Dynasty, for fifteen days.
- 1028 Future Byzantine empress Zoe marries Romanus Argyrus according to the wishes of the dying Constantine VIII.
- 1035 King Canute dies at Shaftesbury at age 39 His four sons are unable to control England, and Norway breaks away from Denmark
- 1439 Plymouth, England, becomes the first town incorporated by Parliament
- 1660 John Bunyan an English Baptist minister is jailed for preaching without a licence
- 1775 General Washington forbids recruiting officers enlisting blacks
- 1793 Jean Sylvain Bailly, the first Mayor of Paris, is guillotined.
- 1847 Sir James Young Simpson, a British physician, is the first to use chloroform as an anaesthetic.
- 1859 Jules Leotard performs first Flying Trapeze circus act (Paris). He also designed the garment that bears his name
- 1867 Mt. Vesuvius erupts.
- 1880 Mines explosion at Stellerton Nova Scotia in the Foord Pit kills 50
- 1892 Allegheny Athletic Association beats Pittsburgh Athletic Club, 4-0 in football
- 1892 Pudge Heffelfinger receives $500, becomes first pro football player
- 1893 The treaty of the Durand Line is signed between present day Pakistan and Afghanistan the Durand Line has gained international recognition as an international border between the two sister nations.
- 1905 (November 12 & November 13) Norway holds a referendum in favor of monarchy over republic.
- 1905 Martial law is declared in Russian-occupie Poland
- 1910 First Movie stunt: man jumps into Hudson river from a burning balloon
- 1912 The bodies of the members of Scott's Antarctic expedition are found.
- 1912 The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
- 1915 Britain annexes Gilbert & Ellice Islands
- 1915 Haiti approves the treaty making it a U.S. protectorate.
- 1918 Austria becomes a republic.
- 1918 Emperor Karl of Austria-Hungary abdicates, Austria becomes a republic
- 1919 Ross & Smith start a 1 month flight from London to Australia
- 1920 Italy and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes sign the Treaty of Rapallo.
- 1921 Washington Conference for Limitation of Armaments
- 1922 The Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority is founded on the campus of Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana.
- 1927 Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Communist Party, catapulting Josef Stalin to the top.
- 1927 Notre Dame's Fighting Irish changes blue jerseys for green
- 1928 British steamer "Vestris" capsizes & sinks off Virginia, kills 110
- 1933 First known photo of Loch Ness monster (or whatever) is taken
- 1933 Hugh Gray takes the first known photos of the Loch Ness Monster.
- 1933 Nazis receive 92% of vote in Germany
- 1934 Laurel and Hardy: The musical Babes in Toyland debuts, featuring Oliver Hardy and Stan Laurel as comic relief.
- 1936 In California, the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge opens to traffic.
- 1936 The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge opens to traffic.
- 1936 The first TV Gardening show airs
- 1938 Hermann Goering announces he wants Madagascar as a Jewish homeland
- 1938 Hermann Gring announces Nazi Germany plans to make Madagascar the "Jewish homeland", an idea that actually was first considered by 19th century journalist Theodor Herzl.
- 1939 Jews of Lodz Poland are ordered to wear yellow armbands
- 1941 Germany's drive to take Moscow halted
- 1941 The Soviet cruiser "Chervona Ukraina" is destroyed during the Battle of Sevastopol.
- 1941 World War II: Temperatures around Moscow drop to -12 C and the Soviet Union launches ski troops for the first time against the freezing German forces near the city.
- 1942 North Africa west of Algiers is subdued by Allied forces.
- 1942 World War II: The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal between Japanese and American forces begins near Guadalcanal, which would last for three days.
- 1945 Canadian rock musician Neil Young is born
- 1946 A branch of the Exchange National Bank in Chicago, Illinois opens the first ten drive-up teller windows.
- 1946 First drive-in bank window established (Chicago)
- 1946 Walt Disney's "Song Of The South" released
- 1948 In Tokyo, an international war crimes tribunal sentences seven Japanese military and government officials to death, including General Hideki Tojo, for their roles in World War II.
- 1948 Japanese premier Hideki Tojo sentenced to death by war crimes tribunal
- 1951 17 die in a train crash in Woodstock AL
- 1954 Ellis Island, the U.S. immigration processing center located in New York Harbor, closes today. Since it opened in 1892, it had processed more than 20 million immigrants.
- 1956 Largest observed iceberg, 208 by 60 miles, first sighted
- 1956 Morocco, Sudan, and Tunista join the United Nations.
- 1960 Mercury-Redstone 1 test launch fails
- 1961 Olympic gymnast Nadia Comaneci is born
- 1964 Paula Murphy sets female land speed record 226.37 MPH
- 1965 Venera 2 launched by Soviet Union toward Venus
- 1966 High schooler Robert Smith kills 7 for fame
- 1969 Vietnam War: My Lai Massacre Independent investigative journalist Seymour Hersh breaks the My Lai story.
- 1970 Charles de Gaulle is buried in Paris
- 1970 The Oregon Highway Division attempts to destroy a rotting beached Sperm whale with explosives, leading to the now infamous exploding whale incident.
- 1971 Vietnam War: As part of Vietnamization, US President Richard M. Nixon sets February 1, 1972 as the deadline for the removal of another 45,000 American troops from Vietnam.
- 1976 Visitor posting - Brian Smith, now a computer teacher, was born on this day.
- 1977 New Orleans elects first black mayor, Ernest (Dutch) Morial
- 1979 Iran hostage crisis: In response to the hostage situation in Tehran, US President Jimmy Carter orders a halt to all petroleum imports into the United States from Iran.
- 1979 US halts Iranian oil imports & freezes Iranian assets
- 1979 Visitor posting - Michael Keith born. Pet is a dog - USA
- 1980 NYC Mayor Ed Koch admits to trying marijuana
- 1980 US space probe Voyager I approaches 77,000-mi (124,000 km) of Saturn
- 1981 2nd shuttle mission-1st time spacecraft launched twice (Columbia 2)
- 1981 First balloon crossing of the Pacific is completed (Double Eagle V)
- 1981 The Space Shuttle Columbia becomes the first spacecraft to be launched twice.
- 1982 In the Soviet Union, Yuri Andropov becomes the general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee, succeeding Leonid I. Brezhnev.
- 1982 Lech Wasa, a Solidarity leader, is released from a Polish prison after eleven months.
- 1982 Yuri V Andropov succeeds Leonid Brezhnev as Soviet leader, but not for long
- 1983 4 die in a train crash in Marshall Texas
- 1984 Space shuttle astronauts snared a satellite first space salvage
- 1985 STS 61-B vehicle moves to the launch pad
- 1985 The province of Ontario looses its Standard & Poors triple A credit rating
- 1987 Heavy snow closes schools from DC to Maine
- 1989 Brazil holds first free presidential election in 29 years
- 1990 Crown Prince Akihito is formally installed as Emperor Akihito of Japan, becoming the 125th Japanese monarch.
- 1990 Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.
- 1991 "Full House" 100th episode-The twins are born
- 1991 Dili Massacre, Indonesian forces open fire on a crowd of student protesters in Dili, East Timor.
- 1993 Decree of President of Kazakhstan "About introducing national currency of Republic of Kazakhstan" is issued.
- 1993 The first Ultimate Fighting Championship is held in Denver, Colorado.
- 1994 Then Vice President of the United States Al Gore symbolically signs the Kyoto Protocol.
- 1995 Canadian Chris Hadfield flys on the space shuttle as mission specialist
- 1995 Visitor posting - A Baby boy was born by the name of Avery "Awesome" Redic - USA
- 1996 A Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 and a Kazakh Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane collide in mid-air near New Delhi, killing 349.
- 1997 Ramzi Yousef is found guilty of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
- 1998 Daimler-Benz completes a merger with Chrysler to form Daimler-Chrysler.
- 1999 The Dzce earthquake strikes Turkey with a magnitude of 7.2 on the Richter scale.
- 2001 2001 Attack on Afghanistan: Taliban forces abandon Kabul, Afghanistan, ahead of advancing Afghan Northern Alliance troops.
- 2001 In New York City, American Airlines Flight 587, an Airbus A300 on its way to the Dominican Republic, crashes minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 260 on board and five on the ground.
- 2003 Iraq war: In Nasiriya, Iraq, at least 23 people, among them the first Italian casualties of the 2003 Iraq war are killed in a suicide bomb attack on an Italian police base.
- 2006 The former Soviet republic of South Ossetia holds a referendum on independence from Georgia.
- 2009 At least 18 people are killed in an illegal mine collapse in western Ghana, Ghana's most devastating mining tragedy.
- 2009 Former President of Palau Tommy Remengesau is convicted of 12 ethics code violations.
- 2009 In the Glasgow North East by-election, voters pick Labour candidate Willie Bain as the replacement for former Speaker of the British House of Commons Michael Martin.
- 2009 Russian President Dmitry Medvedev calls for an overhaul of the Russian economy and democratic modernisation in an annual state of nation address.
- 2009 Sheikh Mohamed Abdi Aware, a Somali judge known for issuing tough sentences to pirates and Islamists, is shot dead in Somalia's Puntland region.
- 2009 The discovery of two sunken World War II Japanese submarines off Oahu, Hawaii, is announced.
- 2009 The government of Venezuela nationalizes the Fama de America and Cafea coffee producers.
- 2009 The head of the Sri Lankan armed forces Sarath Fonseka resigns over reports he is suspected to contest the next presidential election.
- 2009 Thousands of Maoist supporters demonstrate in an anti-government protest in Nepal over the President's decision to overrule attempts to sack the head of the army.
- 2009 U.S.-based rights group Human Rights Watch accuses Chinese authorities of running illegal "black jails" where Chinese citizens are detained for bringing up local complaints.
- 2009 United States Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan will face 13 charges of murder for the Fort Hood shooting.
- 2009 United States Federal prosecutors begin legal action to seize properties owned by the Alavi Foundation on the grounds that it has ties with Iran.
- 2010 A Chinese vase found during a house clearout in London has sold at auction for what is believed to be a world record œ43 million ($68 million). - UK
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