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- 0284 Diocletian is proclaimed emperor by his soldiers.
- 0473 The future Zeno I is named associate emperor by Emperor Leo I.
- 1183 Battle of Mizushima.
- 1278 680 Jews arrested (293 hanged) in England for counterfeiting coins
- 1292 (O.S.) John Balliol becomes King of Scotland.
- 1511 Spain and England ally against France.
- 1558 Elizabethan era begins: Queen Mary I of England dies and is succeeded by her half-sister Elizabeth I of England.
- 1603 English explorer, writer and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh goes on trial for treason.
- 1659 Peace of the Pyrenees is signed between France and Spain.
- 1745 Prince Charles Edward Stewart, accompanied by pipers, entered Carlysle following the surrender of the city to the Jacobite Army.
- 1796 Battle of Arcole-Napoleon I's French forces beat Austrians in Italy
- 1800 Congress held first session in Washington DC
- 1800 The United States Capitol building in Washington, DC holds its first session of the U.S. Congress.
- 1820 Captain Nathaniel Palmer becomes the first American to see Antarctica (the Palmer Peninsula was later named after him).
- 1827 The Delta Phi fraternity, America's oldest continuous social fraternity, was founded at Union College in Schenectady, New York.
- 1831 Ecuador and Venezuela were separated from Greater Colombia.
- 1839 Giuseppe Verdi's first opera, Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio opens in Milan.
- 1842 Fugitive slave George Latimer, captured in Boston
- 1855 David Livingstone becomes the first European to see Victoria Falls in what is now present-day Zambia-Zimbabwe.
- 1856 American Old West: On the Sonoita River in present-day southern Arizona, the United States Army establishes Fort Buchanan in order to help control new land acquired in the Gadsden Purchase.
- 1858 Modified Julian Day zero.
- 1862 Confederate Secretary of War George B Randolph resigns
- 1869 Suez Canal opens (Egypt)
- 1871 The National Rifle Association is granted a charter by the state of New York.
- 1878 First assassination attempt against Umberto I of Italy.
- 1889 Union Pacific begins daily through service, Chicago-Portland and San Francisco
- 1903 Dahomey (current Benin) becomes a French protectorate.
- 1903 The Russian Social Democratic Labor Party splits into two groups; the Bolsheviks (Russian for "majority") and Mensheviks (Russian for "minority").
- 1905 The Eulsa Treaty is signed between Japan and Korea.
- 1911 The Omega Psi Phi fraternity, the first African-American fraternity at a historically black college or university, is founded at Howard University in Washington, D.C.
- 1922 Former Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI goes into exile in Italy.
- 1933 United States recognizes Soviet Union.
- 1934 Lyndon B Johnson marries Claudia Alta Taylor
- 1937 Britain's Lord Halifax visits Germany, beginning of appeasement
- 1938 Italy passes their own version of the anti-Jewish Nuremberg laws
- 1939 Nine Czech students are executed as a response to anti-Nazi demonstrations prompted by the death of Jan Opletal; in addition, Czech universities are shut down and over a thousand Czech students sent to concentration camps.
- 1939 The Rome-Rio de Janeiro air connection is created.
- 1945 New world air speed record 606 mph (975 kph) set by HJ Wilson of RAF
- 1948 Britain's House of Commons votes to nationalize steel industry
- 1953 The remaining human inhabitants of the Blasket Islands, Kerry, Ireland are evacuated to the mainland.
- 1954 Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser becomes president of Egypt.
- 1964 Helicopters of HMM-162 from Princeton, began delivery of 1,300 tons of food and clothing to people in the inland areas of South Vietnam flooded by heavy rains following a typhoon.
- 1966 Leonids meteor shower peaks (150,000+ per hour)
- 1966 Number one hit on UK music charts - The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations
- 1967 Beatles Ltd and Apple Music Ltd swap names
- 1967 Surveyor 6 becomes first man-made object to lift off the Moon
- 1967 Vietnam War: Acting on optimistic reports he was given on November 13, US President Lyndon B. Johnson tells his nation that, while much remained to be done, "We are inflicting greater losses than we're taking...We are making progress."
- 1969 Cold War: Negotiators from the Soviet Union and the United States meet in Helsinki to begin SALT I negotiations aimed at limiting the number of strategic weapons on both sides.
- 1970 Douglas Engelbart receives the patent for the first computer mouse.
- 1970 Luna program: The Soviet Union lands Lunokhod 1 on Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) on the Moon. This is the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world and was released by the orbiting Luna 17 spacecraft.
- 1970 Russia lands Lunokhod 1 unmanned remote-controlled vehicle on Moon
- 1970 Vietnam War: Lieutenant William Calley goes on trial for the My Lai massacre.
- 1973 Number one hit on UK music charts - Gary Glitter - I Love You Love Me Love
- 1973 President Nixon told AP "...people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook"
- 1973 The Athens Polytechnic Uprising against the military regime ends in a bloodshed in the Greek capital.
- 1973 Watergate scandal: In Orlando, Florida, US President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors "I am not a crook".
- 1974 Aliana Operrio-Camponesa (Worker-Peasant Alliance) founded in Portugal, as a front of PCP(m-l).
- 1977 Egyptian President Sadat formally accepts invitation to visit Israel
- 1979 Number one hit on UK music charts - Dr Hook - When You're In Love With A Beautiful Woman
- 1988 Benzir Bhutto wins election in Pakistan
- 1989 Cold War: Velvet Revolution begins: In Czechoslovakia, a student demonstration in Prague is quelled by riot police. This sparks an uprising aimed at overthrowing the communist government (it succeeds on December 29).
- 1990 Fugendake, part of the Mount Unzen volcanic complex, Nagasaki prefecture, Japan becomes active again and erupts.
- 1993 US Congress votes for NAFTA
- 1995 Visitor posting - Leslee Marie Pafford Is Born At 5:15 A.M. I have a dog named Princess and a snake named baby - USA
- 1996 Visitor posting - Victor Gutsu's Birthday! o_0 - USA
- 1997 In Luxor, Egypt, 62 people are killed by 6 Islamic militants outside the Temple of Hatshepsut, known as Luxor massacre (The police then kill the assailants).
- 2000 A catastrophic landslide in Log pod Mangartom, Slovenia, kills 7, and causes millions of SIT of damage. It is one of the worst catastrophes in Slovenia in the past 100 years.
- 2000 Alberto Fujimori is removed from office as president of Peru.
- 2000 Visitor posting - cameron jones was born november 17,2000 - USA
- 2004 Kmart Corp. announces it is buying Sears, Roebuck and Co. for $11 billion USD and naming the newly merged company Sears Holdings Corporation.
- 2005 Italy's choice of national anthem, Il Canto degli Italiani, becomes official in law for the first time, almost 60 years after it was provisionally chosen following the birth of the republic.
- 2006 Official naming of element 111, Roentgenium (Rg).
- 2007 Visitor posting - Anea-Bari Donald and Eno-Obong got married in Port Harcourt - Nigeria
- 2009 A Russian icebreaker with 100 tourists on board is stranded in ice in the Antarctic.
- 2009 A chemical tanker, the Singapore-operated MV Theresa VIII with 28 North Koreans on board, is seized by Somali pirates northwest of the Seychelles.
- 2009 A prominent human rights campaigner for the Western Sahara region, Aminatou Haidar, who is on hunger strike at an airport in the Canary Islands, is to appear in a Spanish court on charges of public disorder. (Reuters) (AFP)
- 2009 An inquiry into a scandal known as "Indonesia's Watergate" says a police case against two anti-corruption officials should be dropped.
- 2009 Israel approves a further 900 settler homes in a settlement in East Jerusalem.
- 2009 Slovakia and the Czech Republic mark the 20th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution which overthrew the communist government of Czechoslovakia.
- 2009 South African human rights activist Kumi Naidoo becomes the executive director of Greenpeace, the first African to head the organisation.
- 2009 The Original of Laura, an incomplete novel by Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov, is published 32 years after his death despite his wish that its manuscript be burned.
- 2009 The Spanish ship Alakrana and its crew of 36 are released after a US$3.5 million ransom is paid.
- 2009 The death toll after a ferry collided with a oil barge in the Irrawaddy Delta, off the coast of Burma, rises to 50. (
- 2009 The head of the opposition in Comoros is arrested after openly criticising President Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi.
- 2009 U.S. President Barack Obama continues his first trip to China and meets with Chinese President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao.
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