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- 0306 Maxentius is proclaimed Roman Emperor.
- 0312 Battle of Milvian Bridge: Constantine I defeats Maxentius, becoming the sole Roman Emperor.
- 0969 Antioch falls to Byzantine forces after a long siege, ending 300 years of Arab rule in the Syrian city
- 1061 Empress Agnes, acting as Regent for her son, brings about the election of Bishop Cadalus, the antipope Honorius II
- 1348 Third wave of the Great plague hits the Old World
- 1516 Battle of Yaunis Khan: Turkish forces under the Grand Vizier Sinan Pasha defeat the Mameluks near Gaza.
- 1520 Pier Gerlofs Donia, the legendary Frisian warrior, folk hero and giant freedom fighter, dies aged 40 in Kimswerd, Frisia.
- 1531 Battle of Amba Sel: Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi again defeats the army of Lebna Dengel, Emperor of Ethiopia. The southern part of Ethiopia falls under Imam Ahmad's control.
- 1538 The first university in the New World, the Universidad Santo Toms de Aquino, is established.
- 1628 The Siege of La Rochelle, which had been ongoing for 14 months, ends with Huguenot surrender
- 1636 A vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony establishes the first college in what would become the United States, today known as Harvard University.
- 1664 The Duke of York and Albany's Maritime Regiment of Foot, later to be known as the Royal Marines, is established.
- 1683 Harvard College is founded in Massachusetts.
- 1726 Gulliver's Travels is published.
- 1776 Battle of White Plains; Washington retreats to NJ
- 1790 New York gives up claims to Vermont for $30,000
- 1834 The Battle of Pinjarra occurs in the Swan River Colony in present-day Pinjarra, Western Australia. Between 14 and 40 Aborigines are killed by British colonists.
- 1848 The first railroad in Spain - between Barcelona and Matar - is opened.
- 1868 Thomas Edison applied for his first patent, an electrical vote recorder.
- 1886 In New York Harbor, President Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.
- 1886 Statue of Liberty dedicated by Pres Grover Cleveland, it is celebrated by the 1st confetti (ticker tape) parade in NYC
- 1890 The German East Africa Co. cedes all its territorial rights to the German government
- 1891 Quake strikes Mino-Owari, Japan kills 7,300
- 1891 The Mino-Owari Earthquake, the largest earthquake in Japan's history, strikes Gifu Prefecture.
- 1893 Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Pathtique, premiered in St. Petersburg, only nine days before the composer's death.
- 1900 After over 5 months the Paris Olympic games close
- 1904 St Louis police try a new investigation method-fingerprints
- 1914 Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, founded at Howard University, incorporates
- 1914 The single largest one-day percentage decline of the Dow Jones Industrial Average in the recorded history of the New York stock market.
- 1916 First conscription referendum in Australia and among forces overseas Proposal to introduce conscription defeated
- 1917 Prv. Cecil John Kinross (49th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Passchendaele, Belgium
- 1918 Czechoslovakia gains independence as Austria-Hungary breaks up
- 1918 New Polish government in Western Galicia (Central Europe) is established.
- 1918 The German fleet is immobilized when sailors mutiny en masse and disobey an order to leave port five times; 1,000 would ultimately be arrested.
- 1918 World War I: Czechoslovakia is granted its independence from Austria-Hungary.
- 1919 Congress overrides the presidential veto of the Volstead Prohibition Act.
- 1919 Volstead Act passed by Congress, start prohibition over Wilson's veto
- 1922 Benito Mussolini takes control and brings fascism to Italy.
- 1922 March on Rome: Italian fascists led by Benito Mussolini march on Rome and take over the Italian government.
- 1929 The first child born in aircraft, Miami, Fl
- 1936 FDR rededicates Statue of Liberty on its 50th anniversary
- 1938 Polish "Aktion." Thousands of Polish Jews are rounded up and sent back to the Polish border town of Zbonzyn. Poland expels all its German Jewish residents.
- 1939 The first Polish ghetto is established in Piotrkow, Poland.
- 1940 Greece successfully resists Italy's attack
- 1941 Holocaust in Kaunas, Lithuania: German SS forces arrange the massacre of more than 9,000 Jews of the Kaunas ghetto. After the victims assembled on the Demokratu square at 6 am to be shot they are buried in gigantic ditches.
- 1942 Holocaust: 2,000 Jewish children and 6,000 Jewish adults from Cracow are deported by Germans to Belzec death camp.
- 1942 Holocaust: SS directive orders all Jewish children's mittens and stockings to be sent from the death camps to the SS families.
- 1942 The Alaska Highway (Alcan Highway) is completed through Canada to Fairbanks, Alaska.
- 1942 Train crashes into bus, killing 16 & injuring 20 (Detroit Michigan)
- 1943 The alleged Philadelphia Experiment supposedly occurred.
- 1946 German rocket engineers begin work in USSR
- 1948 Flag of Israel is adopted
- 1948 Swiss chemist Paul Mller is awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of the insecticidal properties of DDT.
- 1949 Eugenie Anderson, the first U.S. woman ambassador, is sworn in.
- 1953 Bud Grant of Winnipeg Blue Bombers intercepts 5 passes (record)
- 1954 The modern Kingdom of the Netherlands is re-founded as a federal monarchy.
- 1955 Visitor posting - David Opman born. My Pet is a cat named Chyunya - USA
- 1958 Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli is elected Pope; he takes the name John XXIII.
- 1961 Ground broken for Municipal (Shea) Stadium for NY Mets
- 1962 Khrushchev orders withdrawal of missiles from Cuba, ending crisis
- 1962 Y.A. Tittle of the New York Giants became the third quarterback in NFL history to throw seven touchdown passes in one game.
- 1964 Vietnam War: U.S. officials deny any involvement in bombing North Vietnam.
- 1965 French foreign minister Couve de Murville travels to Moscow.
- 1965 Gateway Arch (630' (190m) high) completed in St Louis, Missouri
- 1965 In St. Louis, Missouri, the 630-foot-tall parabolic (catenarian) stainless steel Gateway Arch monument is completed.
- 1965 Nostra Aetate, the "Declaration on the Relation of the Church with Non-Christian Religions" of the Second Vatican Council, is promulgated by Pope Paul VI; it absolves the Jews of the alleged killing of Jesus, reversing Innocent III's declaration from 760 years ago. In short, Pope Paul VI announces that the ecumenical council has decided that Jews are not collectively responsible for the killing of Christ.
- 1965 Pope Paul VI decrees that Jews are absolved of blame for the crucifixion of Christ.
- 1966 Belgium's Gaston Roelants runs 12-4/5 miles in 1 hour
- 1970 The land speed record set by Gary Gabelich in a rocket-powered automobile called the Blue Flame, fueled with natural gas.
- 1970 US/USSR sign an agreement to discuss joint space efforts
- 1971 Britain launches its first (and as of 2007, only) satellite, Prospero, into low Earth orbit atop a Black Arrow carrier rocket.
- 1971 England becomes 6th nation to have a satellite (Prospero) in orbit
- 1971 John & Yoko record "Happy Xmas (War is Over)" in NYC
- 1972 The first Airbus A300 flies into the skies.
- 1976 John D. Ehrlichman, former domestic policy adviser of President Nixon and convicted Watergate felon, arrives at the Swift Trail Camp minimum-security facility in southeastern Arizona.
- 1977 TV's Rhoda gets married
- 1979 USS Kitty Hawk and her escort ships were directed to operate south of the Korean peninsula in response to the assassination of South Korean President Park on 26 October.
- 1981 Edward M McIntrye elected 1st black mayor of Augusta Georgia
- 1982 NASA launches RCA-E
- 1982 Visitor posting - Billie Jo Desiree Muirhead born to Brenda (Kenney) & Robert Muirhead. - USA
- 1982 Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) wins elections, leading to first Socialist government in Spain after death of Franco. Felipe Gonzalez becomes Prime Minister-elect.
- 1985 Sandinista Daniel Ortega becomes president of Nicaragua and makes peace overtures to the United States; American policy continues to support the Contras in their revolt against the Nicaraguan government.
- 1986 The centennial of the Statue of Liberty's dedication is re-celebrated in New York Harbor.
- 1988 Jurors award $147,000 to Tacoma parishioner seduced by her minister
- 1988 Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen gives $10 million to U Wash library
- 1988 The French drug manufacturer Roussel Uclaf states that it will resume distribution of the so-called abortion drug RU-486.
- 1989 Oakland A's sweep SF Giants in earthquake/BART series
- 1991 Visitor posting - Kody Spruiell born Brooklyn New York
- 1992 Visitor posting - My brother, John, was born to the parents of John and Doreen - USA
- 1993 Visitor posting - Jennifer Leigh Anne Gardner is born in Ketchikan, Alaska, USA
- 1998 An Air China (Mainland China) jetliner is hijacked by disgruntled pilot Yuan Bin and flown to Taiwan.
- 2004 The Boeing 757 ends production.
- 2005 Plame affair: Lewis Libby, Vice-president Dick Cheney's chief of staff, is indicted in the Valerie Plame case. Libby resigns later that day.
- 2006 Funeral service for the peace of the executed at Bykivnia forest, outside of Kiev, Ukraine, with reburial of 817 Ukrainian civilians (out of some 100,000) executed by Bolsheviks at Bykivnia in 1930s early 1940s.
- 2006 Voting on a new constitution that would make Kosovo officially a part of Serbia begins; voter turnout on day one was low. (BBC)
- 2008 Visitor posting - Oct. 28, 2008 Christopher was born at 5:34 pm and weight was 7lbs 7oz, to the parents of Estrella and Justin
- 2009 12 people – including six United Nations staff – are killed after Taliban militants assault an international guesthouse in the Afghan capital Kabul.
- 2009 A blast in Meena Bazar, Peshawar, Pakistan, kills at least 95 people while 110 are injured.
- 2009 Ares I-X, the first test article for NASA's Ares I rocket, launches successfully from Launch Complex 39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a sub-orbital test flight.
- 2009 Canadian folk singer Taylor Mitchell is mauled to death by coyotes at the age of 19.
- 2009 Chinese police rescue over 2,000 children in a six month campaign against human trafficking.
- 2009 Federal agents attached to the FBI fatally shoot the leader of a Sunni Muslim group wanted on firearm charges in Detroit, USA.
- 2009 Hamas orders Palestinians in the Gaza Strip not to vote in a January election called by West Bank leader Mahmoud Abbas.
- 2009 In an appearance before the House of Lords Communications Select Committee, BBC Director-General Mark Thompson denies that the appearance of British National Party leader Nick Griffin on Question Time was a bid for ratings.
- 2009 Ireland and the United Kingdom agree to ensure drivers disqualified from driving are disqualified in all their countries.
- 2009 Mongolia's parliament approves the resignation of Prime Minister Sanjaagiin Bayar, who stepped down due to ill health. He was replaced by the Foreign Minister Sükhbaataryn Batbold.
- 2009 One of Germany's last Nazi war crimes trials begins, with Heinrich Boere charged with the killings of three civilians in the Netherlands.
- 2009 The Lebanese army says it has found and deactivated four 107-mm rockets in the garden of a partly built house a day after a rocket fired from Houla hit the northern Israeli border town of Kiryat Shmona. This is the fifth time rocket attacks have been used to try to break the cease-fire.
- 2009 The Matthew Shepard Act, providing legal protection against hate crimes to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered people, is signed into law in the United States by President Barack Obama.
- 2009 The United Nations Torture Investigator, Manfred Nowak, is prevented last minute from entering Zimbabwe. (
- 2009 The main opposition Democratic Party wins three out of five seats in by-elections in South Korea.
- 2009 Voters in Mozambique go to the polls for the general election. (AFP via Google News)
- 2010 Visitor posting - Aiden James Brow born to Brittany and Brandon in Grand Blanc, Mi @ 6:06 pm - USA
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