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- 0456 Magister militum Ricimer defeats the Emperor Avitus at Piacenza and becomes master of the western Roman Empire.
- 1311 Council of Vienne opens
- 1775 Portland, Maine burned by British
- 1780 Royalton, Vermont and Tunbridge, Vermont last major raid of the American Revolutionary War.
- 1781 George Washington captures Yorktown, Virginia after the Siege of Yorktown.
- 1793 Battle of Wattignies.
- 1793 Marie Antoinette, wife of Louis XVI is guillotined at the height of the French Revolution.
- 1813 The Sixth Coalition attacks Napoleon Bonaparte in the Battle of Leipzig.
- 1829 Tremont Hotel, first US modern hotel opens in Boston
- 1834 Much of the ancient structures of the Palace of Westminster in London is burnt down.
- 1841 Queen's University is founded in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
- 1843 Sir William Rowan Hamilton comes up with the idea of quaternions, a non-commutative extension of complex numbers.
- 1846 Dentist William T Morton demonstrated the effectiveness of ether
- 1849 Avery College establishes in Allegheny, Pennsylvania
- 1859 John Brown leads 20 in raid on federal arsenal, Harper's Ferry, Va
- 1861 Confedercy starts selling postage stamps
- 1867 Alaska adopts the Gregorian calendar
- 1869 Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is discovered.
- 1869 England's first residential college for women, Girton College, Cambridge, is founded.
- 1869 Hotel in Boston becomes the first to have indoor plumbing
- 1875 Brigham Young University is founded in Provo, Utah.
- 1882 The Nickel Plate Railroad opens for business.
- 1905 The Partition of Bengal (India) occurred.
- 1906 The Captain of Kpenick fools the city hall of Kpenick and several soldiers by impersonating a Prussian officer.
- 1916 Margaret Sanger opens first birth control clinic in Brooklyn
- 1923 Disney Company is founded
- 1925 Germany Weimar Republic signs Lucarno agreement guaranteeing as equal partner with Western European states the frontiers of Western Europe and that no country will attack or invade the other.
- 1925 Texas School Board prohibits teaching of evolution
- 1926 US Troop ship sinks in Yangtze River, killing 1,200
- 1931 Trunk murderess Winnie Ruth Judd kills her first victim
- 1934 Chinese Communists begin the Long March; it ended a year and four days later, by which time Mao Zedong had regained his title as party chairman.
- 1940 Benjamin O. Davis Sr. named first African American general in the United States Army.
- 1940 Benjamin Oliver Davis Sr named first black general in regular army
- 1940 Lottery for first US WW II draftees held; #158 was drawn 1st
- 1940 Warsaw Ghetto established
- 1941 "Gordo" comic strip first appears in newspapers
- 1941 General Hideki Tojo takes over as Japanese Premier.
- 1941 Germany advances within 60 miles of Moscow
- 1942 Cyclone in Bay of Bengal kills 40,000 south of Calcutta India
- 1943 Chicago opens new subway system
- 1943 The Navy accepted its first helicopter, a Sikorsky YR-4B (HNS-1), at Bridgeport, Connecticut
- 1945 The Food and Agriculture Organization was founded in Quebec City, Canada.
- 1945 UN's Food & Agriculture Organization comes into existence
- 1945 Visitor posting - Charlene Marie Lawrence was born in Kenosha, WI - USA
- 1946 10 Nazi leaders hanged as war criminals after Nuremberg trials
- 1946 Ten war criminals of the Second World War, condemned in the Nuremberg trials are hanged.
- 1949 Nikolaos Zachariadis, leader of the Communist Party of Greece, announces a "temporary cease-fire", effectively ending the Greek Civil War.
- 1951 The first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, is assassinated in Rawalpindi.
- 1952 Woolworth's opens in San Francisco at Powell & Market street
- 1957 Queen Elizabeth & Prince Philip visit Williamsburg Virginia
- 1961 Cork Airport opened in Ireland.
- 1962 Cuban missile crisis began as JFK becomes aware of missiles in Cuba
- 1968 Kingston, Jamaica is rocked by the Rodney Riots, inspired by the barring of Walter Rodney from the country.
- 1968 United States athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos are kicked out of the USA's team for performing a Black Power salute during a medal ceremony.
- 1969 Soyuz 6 (Russian) returns to Earth
- 1969 United States - The "miracle" New York Mets win the World Series, defeating the Baltimore Orioles 4 games to 1.
- 1970 Anwar Sadat elected president of Egypt, succeeding Nasser
- 1970 Canada - In response to the October Crisis terrorist kidnapping, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau invokes the War Measures Act.
- 1972 The Commission of Inquiry in the Matter of the Employment Practices Relating to the Running-Trades' Employees in the Railway Industry, the Gallagher Commission publishes its report. This looked at the employment practices, particularly hours of work.
- 1973 Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
- 1973 Kissinger & Le Duc Tho jointly awarded Nobel peace prize
- 1975 The Balibo Five, a group of Australian television journalists based in the town of Balibo in the then Portuguese Timor (now East Timor), are killed by Indonesian troops.
- 1976 Soyuz 23 (Russian) returns to Earth
- 1978 Karol Jzef Wojtya becomes Pope John Paul II.
- 1978 Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla elected supreme pontiff-John Paul II
- 1979 Visitor posting - Great Mangesh Was born in Mumbai - India
- 1982 Mt Palomar Observatory first to detect Halley's comet on 13th return
- 1984 Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
- 1984 Desmond Tutu, black Anglican Bishop, wins the Nobel Peace Prize
- 1985 Intel introduces 32-bit 80386 microcomputer chip(more power more power!!)
- 1987 175-kph winds cause blackout in London, much of southern England
- 1987 Baby Jessica, Jessica McClure, is rescued after being trapped in a well for 58 hours.
- 1987 Great Storm of 1987: hurricane force winds to hit much of the South of England killing 23 people.
- 1987 Jessica McClure rescued 58 hrs after falling 22 feet into a well shaft
- 1990 US forces reach 200,000 in the Persian Gulf
- 1991 George Jo Hennard, 35, kills 23 & himself & wounds 20 in Texas
- 1991 Jharkhand Chhatra Yuva Morcha is founded at a conference in Ranchi, India.
- 1991 Luby's massacre: George Hennard runs amok in Killeen, Texas, killing 23 and wounding 20 in Luby's Cafeteria.
- 1993 Anti-Nazi riot breaks out in Welling in Kent, after police stop protesters approaching British National Party headquarters
- 1994 The great Aman Singh Chauhan took birth.
- 1995 The Million Man March occurs in Washington, DC.
- 1996 Eighty-four people are killed and more than 180 injured as 47,000 football fans attempt to squeeze into the 36,000-seat Estadio Mateo Flores in Guatemala City.
- 1996 Visitor posting - Brandon Presley was born - USA
- 1997 First color photograph on the front page of the New York Times appeared
- 2002 Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002, was signed into law by President George W. Bush.
- 2002 Bibliotheca Alexandrina in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, a commemoration of the Library of Alexandria that was lost in antiquity, is officially inaugurated.
- 2007 AOL, once the largest ISP in the U.S., lays off over 30% of its worldwide workforce, including over 750 employees at the Dulles, Virginia headquarters, as part of its transition from ISP to online advertising provider.
- 2009 A strong earthquake hits Indonesia, causing mass panic and evacuations in Jakarta.
- 2009 An opinion poll shows that 65% of Czechs support President Václav Klaus’ refusal to sign the Lisbon Treaty.
- 2009 At least seven people are killed and at least ten are injured in an explosion at a mosque, police station and passenger bus in Peshawar, Pakistan.
- 2009 Australian pop singer, songwriter, and actress Kylie Minogue makes her Hindi cinema debut in Blue, thought to be the most expensive Bollywood production ever.
- 2009 Controversial Dutch politician Geert Wilders arrives in the UK amid protests from the Netherlands, proclaiming "a victory for the freedom of speech".
- 2009 Czech Prime Minister Jan Fischer says President Václav Klaus's disruption of the Treaty of Lisbon is harming the country's credit.
- 2009 Five men are convicted in Sydney, Australia of plotting a terrorist attack.
- 2009 German heavy metal band Rammstein releases their seventh album, Liebe ist für Alle Da in Germany.
- 2009 Guinea's civil service minister Alpha Diallo resigns after a massacre of opposition supporters, following agriculture minister Abdourahmane Sanoh who resigned days earlier.
- 2009 In Berlin, the reconstructed Neues Museum officially reopens after 70 years.
- 2009 North and South Korea fail to agree on further family reunions, after the North linked the prospect with humanitarian aid deliveries.
- 2009 One part of Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) ends a three-month ceasefire and resumes attacks on the oil industry in Nigeria.
- 2009 Roy Bennett is later released from jail on bail, ordered by the High Court.
- 2009 The MDC partially pulls out of the unity government with Zanu PF in Zimbabwe after one of their members, Roy Bennett is detained on terrorism charges.
- 2009 The Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-Moon announces plans to establish a commission into the killing of unarmed protestors in Guinea last month.
- 2009 The UK Press Complaints Commission's website crashes after receiving hundreds of complaints about a Jan Moir article in the Daily Mail concerning her views on the singer's death. Retailer Marks & Spencer withdraws advertising and Nestlé disassociates itself from her writing.
- 2009 The United Nations Human Rights Council endorses the Goldstone report on the Gaza War, accusing both Israel and Hamas of war crimes.
- 2009 The United States records a budget deficit of $1.42 trillion
- 2009 The surviving members of Boyzone fly to Majorca to escort the body of Stephen Gately home to Dublin. (
- 2009 Uruguay becomes the first country to provide a laptop for every child attending state primary school.
- 2009 Voters in Botswana take part in a general election.
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