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197 – Emperor Septimius Severus defeats usurper Clodius Albinus in the Battle of Lugdunum, the bloodiest battle between Roman armies.
356 – Emperor Constantius II issues a decree closing all pagan temples in the Roman Empire.
1539 Jews of Tyrnau Hungary (then Trnava Czech), expelled BEST ONE YET ( I wonder why not executed though)
1594 – Having already inherited the throne of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth through his mother Catherine Jagiellon of Poland in 1587, Sigismund III of the House of Vasa is crowned King of Sweden, having succeeded his father John III of Sweden in 1592.
1600 – The Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina explodes in the most violent eruption in the recorded history of South America.
1649 – The Second Battle of Guararapes takes place, effectively ending Dutch colonization efforts in Brazil.
1674 – England and the Netherlands sign the Treaty of Westminster, ending the Third Anglo-Dutch War. A provision of the agreement transfers the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam to England, and it is renamed New York.
1726 – The Supreme Privy Council is established in Russia.
1807 – Former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr is arrested for treason in Wakefield, Alabama and confined to Fort Stoddert.
1819 – British explorer William Smith discovers the South Shetland Islands, and claims them in the name of King George III.
1846 – In Austin, Texas the newly formed Texas state government is officially installed. The Republic of Texas government officially transfers power to the State of Texas government following the annexation of Texas by the United States.
1847 – The first group of rescuers reaches the Donner Party.
1859 – Daniel E. Sickles, a New York Congressman, is acquitted of murder on grounds of temporary insanity. This is the first time this defense is successfully used in the United States.
1878 – Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
1884 – More than sixty tornadoes strike the Southern United States, one of the largest tornado outbreaks in U.S. history.
1913 – Pedro Lascuráin becomes President of Mexico for 45 minutes; this is the shortest term to date of any person as president of any country.
1915 – World War I: The first naval attack on the Dardanelles begins when a strong Anglo-French task force bombards Ottoman artillery along the coast of Gallipoli.
1937 – Yekatit 12: During a public ceremony at the Viceregal Palace (the former Imperial residence) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, two Ethiopian nationalists of Eritrean origin attempt to kill viceroy Rodolfo Graziani with a number of grenades.
1942 – World War II: Nearly 250 Japanese warplanes attack the northern Australian city of Darwin killing 243 people.
1942 – World War II: United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the executive order 9066, allowing the United States military to relocate Japanese Americans to internment camps.
1943 – World War II: Battle of Kasserine Pass in Tunisia begins.
1945 – World War II: Battle of Iwo Jima: About 30,000 United States Marines land on the island of Iwo Jima.
1948 – The Conference of Youth and Students of Southeast Asia Fighting for Freedom and Independence convenes in Calcutta.
1949 – Ezra Pound is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University.
1953 – Censorship: Georgia approves the first literature censorship board in the United States.
1959 – The United Kingdom grants Cyprus independence, which is then formally proclaimed on August 16, 1960.
1960 – China successfully launches the T-7, its first sounding rocket.
1963 – The publication of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique reawakens the feminist movement in the United States as women's organizations and consciousness raising groups spread.
1965 – Colonel Phạm Ngọc Thảo of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, and a communist spy of the North Vietnamese Viet Minh, along with Generals Lâm Văn Phát and Trần Thiện Khiêm attempted a coup against the military junta of Nguyễn Khánh.
1972 – The Asama-Sansō hostage standoff begins in Japan.
1976 – Executive Order 9066, which led to the relocation of Japanese Americans to internment camps, is rescinded by President Gerald Ford's Proclamation 4417
1978 – Egyptian forces raid Larnaca International Airport in an attempt to intervene in a hijacking, without authorisation from the Republic of Cyprus authorities. The Cypriot National Guard and Police forces kill 15 Egyptian commandos and destroy the Egyptian C-130 transport plane in open combat.
1985 – William J. Schroeder becomes the first recipient of an artificial heart to leave hospital.
1985 – Iberia Airlines Boeing 727 crashes into Mount Oiz in Spain, killing 148.
1985 – EastEnders, BBC's flagship soap opera, broadcasts for the first time.
1986 – Akkaraipattu massacre: the Sri Lankan Army massacres 80 Tamil farm workers in the eastern province of Sri Lanka.
2001 – The Oklahoma City bombing museum is dedicated at the Oklahoma City National Memorial.
2002 – NASA's Mars Odyssey space probe begins to map the surface of Mars using its thermal emission imaging system.
2003 – An Ilyushin Il-76 military aircraft crashes near Kerman, Iran, killing 275.
2006 – A methane explosion in a coal mine near Nueva Rosita, Mexico, kills 65 miners.
2011 – The debut exhibition of the Belitung shipwreck, containing the largest collection of Tang dynasty artefacts found in one location, begins in Singapore.
2012 – Forty-four people are killed in a prison brawl in Apodaca, Nuevo León, Mexico.

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some of the important things

37 – Roman emperor Caligula accepts the titles of the Principate, entitled to him by the Senate.
193 – Roman Emperor Pertinax is assassinated by Praetorian Guards, who then sell the throne in an auction to Didius Julianus.
364 – Roman Emperor Valentinian I appoints his brother Flavius Valens co-emperor.
1566 – The foundation stone of Valletta, Malta's capital city, is laid by Jean Parisot de Valette, Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.
1776 – Juan Bautista de Anza finds the site for the Presidio of San Francisco.
1794 – Allies under Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld defeat French forces at Le Cateau.
1802 – Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers discovers 2 Pallas, the second asteroid known to man.
1809 – Peninsular War: France defeats Spain in the Battle of Medellín.
1814 – War of 1812: The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom defeats the United States Navy in the Battle of Valparaíso, Chile.
1854 – Crimean War: France and Britain declare war on Russia.
1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Glorieta Pass – in New Mexico, Union forces stop the Confederate invasion of New Mexico territory. The battle began on March 26.
1871 – The Paris Commune is formally established in Paris.
1910 – Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane, the Fabre Hydravion, after taking off from a water runway near Martigues, France.
1939 – Spanish Civil War: Generalissimo Francisco Franco conquers Madrid after a three-year siege.
1941 – World War II: Battle of Cape Matapan – in the Mediterranean, British Admiral Andrew Browne Cunningham leads the Royal Navy in the destruction of three major Italian heavy cruisers and two destroyers.
1942 – World War II: St Nazaire Raid: In occupied France, British naval forces successfully raid the German-occupied port of Saint-Nazaire.
1951 – First Indochina War: In the Battle of Mạo Khê, French Union forces, led by World War II hero Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, inflict a defeat on Việt Minh forces commanded by General Võ Nguyên Giáp.
1959 – The State Council of the People's Republic of China dissolves the government of Tibet.

1049 Bruno count of Egesheim & Dagsburg crowned Pope Leo IX
1111 German King Hendry V arrives at St Peter, Rome
1130 Pope Innocent II elected
1502 Muslims in Granada forced to convert to Catholicism
1502 Vasco da Gama sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal on his second voyage to India.
1528 Treaty of Dordrecht between emperor & ecclesiastical power
1541 Santiago, Chile founded (or Feb 24)
1554 Queen of England for nine days, Lady Jane Grey is executed for treason.
1577 Spanish land guardian Don Juan of Habsburg signs "Eternal Edict"
1624 English "Happy Parliament commenced
1700 The Great Northern War begins in Northern Europe between Denmark–Norway, Saxony and Russia and the Swedish Empire.
1719 The Onderlinge van 1719 u.a., the oldest existing life insurance company in the Netherlands is founded.
1733 Georgia founded by James Oglethorpe, at site of Savannah
1762 British fleet occupies Martinique
1763 John Casteret appointed British minister of foreign affairs
1771 Gustav III becomes the King of Sweden.
1772 Yves de Kerguelen of France discovers Kerguelen Archipelago, India
1793 1st US fugitive slave law passed; requires return of escaped slaves
1797 Haydn's song "Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser" premieres in Vienna
1818 Chile gains independence from Spain
1821 Mercantile Library of City of NY opens
1825 Creek Indian treaty signed. Tribal chiefs agree to turn over all their land in Georgia to the government & migrate west by Sept 1, 1826
1832 Ecuador annexes Galapagos Islands
1839 Aroostoock (or "Pork & Beans) War: Boundary dispute between Maine & New Brunswick
1840 Housatonic Railroad opens
1848 Ballet "Faust" premieres in Milan
1850 Original Washington's Farewell Address manuscript sells for $2,300
1855 Michigan State University was established.
1861 State troops seize US munitions in Napoleon, Arkansas, during the US Civil War
1865 Henry Highland Garnet is 1st black to speak in US House of Reps
1870 Official proclamation sets April 15 as last day of grace for US silver coins to circulate in Canada
1873 US Congress abolishes bimetallism & authorizes $1 & $3 gold coins
1874 King David Kalakaua of Sandwich Is Hawaii, is 1st king to visit US
1876 Al Spalding opens his sporting good shop
1877 1st news dispatch by telephone, between Boston & Salem, Mass
1877 US railroad builders strike against wage reduction
1878 Frederick Thayer patents catcher's mask (pat # 200,358)
1879 1st artificial ice rink in North America (Madison Sq Garden, NYC)
1879 News about slaughtering of Isandlwana reaches London
1880 US National Croquet League organizes (Phila)
1882 Social-Democratic Union forms in Amsterdam
1885 Carl Peters founds German East-Africa Society
1886 2nd British government of Salisbury forms
1889 Caesar Franck's Symphony in D premieres
1889 Henrik Ibsen's "Fruen fra Haven" premieres in Oslo
1894 Anarchist Émile Henry hurls a bomb into Paris's Cafe Terminus, killing one and wounding 20.
1899 -47°F (-44°C), Camp Clarke, Nebraska (state record)
1899 1st 2-man team 6-day bicycle race in US begins, Madison Square Garden, NYC
1901 Dutch Penitentiary children's law proclaimed
1906 George Cohan's musical "George Washington" premieres in NYC
1908 Anna Jeanes bequeaths $1,000,000 to Swarthmore to become all female
1908 NY to Paris auto race (via Alaska & Siberia) begins in NYC George Schuster wins after 88 days behind the wheel
1909 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) forms
1909 Netherlands' SDAP suspends Marxist Tribune group (Gorter & Wijnkoop)
1909 Robert Fowler runs world record marathon (2:46:52.6)
1912 China adopts Gregorian calendar
1912 Last Ch'ing (Manchu) emperor of China, Hsuan T'ung, abdicates
1914 Dedication ceremony for the about to be constructed Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
1914 "The Squaw Man", 1st feature-length film shot in Hollywood, directed by Cecil B. DeMille and Oscar Apfel, is released in the US
1915 Adolf Hitler receives the relatively common Iron Cross second class for bravery in World War I
1916 1st edition of Joseph Patterson/Sidney Smith's strip "The Gumps"
1920 -Apr 26] 14,000 Rotterdam/Amsterdam harbor workers strike
1920 NL votes 6-2 for 1 commissioner AL votes 6-2 to keep group commission
1921 Soviet troops invade Georgia
1921 Winston Churchill becomes British Minister of Colonies
1924 George Gershwin's "Rhapsody In Blue" premieres at Aeolian Hall, NYC
1924 George Kaufman's "Beggar on Horseback" premieres in NYC
1925 1st federal arbitration law approved by Congress
1925 E Thieffry departs with Handley Page for the Belgian Congo
1925 Estonia bans communist Party
1926 Barendrecht soccer team forms
1927 British expeditionary army lands in Shanghai
1929 Karst Leemburg wins Dutch 11 cities skate (11:30)
1931 Vatican Radio begins broadcasting with the callsign HVJ
1932 Communist Party of Holland forms Unemployed Combat Committees
1933 German vice-chancellor von Papen demands Catholic aid for Nazis
1934 Export-Import Bank incorporates
1934 France hit by a general strike against fascists & royalists
1934 The four-day February Uprising, sometimes called the Austrian Civil War, begins.
1935 Great airship, USS Macon, crashes into Pacific Ocean
1937 Cleveland (now Los Angeles) Rams granted an NFL franchise
1938 Austrian chancellor Schuschnigg visits Hitler in Berchtesgaden
1938 German troops entered Austria
1938 The first 'Kindertransport' carrying Jewish refugee children from Nazi Germany arrives in Britain.
1938 3rd British Empire Games close in Sydney, Australia
1941 Jewish Council for Amsterdam forms under Ascher/Cohen
1941 Occupation Police arrest "Jewish Foursome"
1942 German battle cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau and heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen escape from Brest to Germany in a dash up the English Channel
1943 General Eisenhower departs Algiers for Tebessa
1944 Wendell Wilkie (R) enters presidential race
1945 SF selected for site of UN Conference
1946 World War II: Operation Deadlight ends after scuttling 121 of 154 captured U-boats.
1947 Daytime fireball & meteorite fall seen in eastern Siberia
1947 Record 100.5-kg sailfish caught, C W Stewart, Galapagos Islands
1947 French fashion designer Christian Dior presents his first influential collection, named the "New Look"
1948 1st Lt Nancy Leftenant becomes 1st black in army nursing corps
1949 "Annie Get Your Gun" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 1147 performances
1949 Panic in Quito, Ecuador, after "War of the Worlds" played on radio
1949 Team Canada beats Denmark 47-0 in hockey
1949 Unidentified aircraft bomb Jerusalem
1950 Albert Einstein warns against hydrogen bomb
1950 Sen Joe McCarthy claims to have list of 205 communist government employees
1953 USSR breaks relations with Israel
1954 The UK government establishes an organisation to control atomic energy in the country under The Atomic Energy Authority Bill
1955 McGuire Sisters' "Sincerely" single goes #1 & stays #1 for 10 weeks
1955 President Eisenhower sends 1st US advisors to South Vietnam
1955 Soviets decides space center built in Baikonur, Kazachstan
1955 WTVY TV channel 4 in Dothan, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting
1956 Fay Crocker wins LPGA Miami Beach Golf Open
1957 Researchers announce Borazan (harder than diamonds) been developed
1958 Celtic Bill Russell grabs 41 rebounds to beat Syracuse 119-101
1958 Gen Miguel Ydegoras Fuentes elected president of Guatemala
1960 Chinese army kills 12 Indian soldiers
1961 Celtic Bill Russell grabs 40 rebounds to beat Warriors 136-125
1961 Mickey Wright wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Open
1961 Mushtaq Mohammad scores 1st Test Cricket century at 17 yrs 82 days
1961 USSR launches Venera 1 toward Venus
1962 Bus boycott starts in Macon, Georgia
1963 Argentina asks extraditon of ex-president Peron
1964 Beatles 1st NYC concert (Carnegie Hall)
1964 End of Richie Benaud's 63-Test Cricket career
1964 US female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming
1964 US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Allen
1964 Fighting breaks out between Turks and Greeks over dispute islands in Cyprus and 16 are killed; the UN responds the following month by sending a peacekeeping force
1965 KHFI (now KBVO) TV channel 42 in Austin, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
1965 Nuclear test at Pacific Ocean

1967 Kees Verkerk becomes world champ all round skater
1967 Keith Richards, Mick Jagger & Marianne Faithful busted for drugs
1967 Pirate Radio Free Harlem (NYC) begins transmitting
1968 25th Golden Globes: In the Heat of the Night, Rod Steiger, & Edith Evans win
1970 Anthony Shaffer's "Sleuth" premieres in NYC
1971 Only Test Cricket for Ken Eastwood, who scored 5 & 0 Aust v England
1973 1st US POWs in N Vietnam released; 116 of 456 flown to Philippine
1974 Heads of state of Algeria, Egypt, Syria, and Saudi Arabia discuss oil strategy in view of the progress in Arab-Israeli disengagement
1976 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1977 Toronto Maple Leafs shutout Washington Capitals 10-0
1978 "Jesus Christ Superstar" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 96 performances
1978 Debbie Austin wins LPGA American Cancer Society Golf Classic
1978 US female Figure Skating championship won by Linda Fratianne
1978 US male Figure Skating championship won by Charles Tickner
1979 Kosmos 1076, 1st Soviet oceanographic satellite, launched
1979 Bakhtiar resigns as prime minister of Iran after losing support of the military
1980 "Canterbury Tales" opens at Rialto Theater NYC for 16 performances
1980 NY Islanders 2nd scoreless tie, vs Winnipeg Jets
1980 Richard Hadlee becomes NZ's top wicket-taker with 117
1981 Admiral Bobby R Inman, USN, becomes deputy director of CIA
1981 Arbitrator Goetz declares Red Sox catcher Carlton Fisk a free agent
1981 Cape Verde amends its constitution
1981 Pete Squires sets record for 1575 steps of Empire State Bldg, 10m
1982 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1982 Wayne Gretzky scores 153rd point of season, breaking NHL record
1982 32nd Berlin International Film Festival: "Veronika Voss" wins the Golden Bear
1984 Alice Miller wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic
1984 Cale Yarborough, becomes 1st Daytona 500 qualifier, above 200 MPH
1984 Jayne Torvill & Christopher Dean skate "Bolero" at Olympics
1984 West Indies beat Australia 2-1 to win cricket's World Series Cup after going undefeated in the qualifying rounds
1985 37th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 6-4 at Calgary
1985 West Indies beat Australia 2-1 to win cricket's World Series Cup (Australian Tri-Series)
1986 1st-class cricket debut of Curtly Ambrose, Leeward Is v Guyana
1987 Survivors of a black man murdered by KKK members awarded $7 M damages
1988 38th Berlin International Film Festival: "Red Sorgum" wins the Golden Bear
1989 39th NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 143-134 at Houston
1989 5 Pakistani Muslim rioters killed protesting "Satanic Verses" novel
1989 50th PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Larry Mowry
1989 Barbara Harris becomes 1st female bishop of a US Episcopal church
1989 Gretzky sets 2 records, his 45th hat trick & 10th 40+ goal season
1989 Thursday's Child sets sailing record, NY-Cape Horn-SF, 80 d 20 h
1989 US male Figure Skating championship won by Christopher Bowman
1989 Loyalist paramilitary group kill Pat Finucane, a Belfast lawyer who represented republican hunger striker Bobby Sands, while he is having dinner with family
1991 Iceland recognizes Lithuania's independence
1991 North & South Korea form a joint team for table tennis competition
1994 17th Winter Olympic games opens in Lillehammer, Norway
1994 20th century premiere of 6 restored Haydn-sonatas in Boston
1994 "The Scream" by Norwegian painter Edvard Munch (1893 pastel version) is stolen in Oslo
1994 Inna Lassovskaya jumps world record 14.90m
1994 Model Anna Nicole Smith hospitalized for drug overdose
1995 45th NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 139-112 at Phoenix
1995 Angela Kennedy swims woman's world record 50m butterfly
1995 Bonnie Blair skates female world record 500m (38.69 sec)
1995 Dieter Baumann runs European record 3k indoor (7:37.51)
1995 Jeff Rouse swims world record 50m backstroke (24.37 sec)
1995 Moses Kiptanui runs world record 3k indoor (7:35.15)
1995 PRI loses/PAN wins Mexican regional elections
1995 Sun Cayun pole vaults indoor female world record (4.13m)
1995 Susan Auch skates female world record 500m (38.94 sec)
1996 4th ESPY Awards: Cal Ripken, Rebecca Lobo win
1997 Fred Goldman says he will settle for a signed murder confession from O J Simpson in lieu of his $20.5 million judgement
1998 "Freak" opens at Cort Theater NYC
1998 250-car Italy pile-up due to fog, 4 die & 50 hurt
1998 Dallas Cowboys sign Chan Gailey as their 4th head coach
1998 Intel unveils its 1st graphics chip i740
1998 US district judge T Hogan declares line-item veto law unconstitutional
1999 US President Bill Clinton acquitted by the Senate in his impeachment trial
1999 Scientists warn about harmful impacts on health of genetically modified (GM) food
2000 31st NAACP Image Awards: "The Best Man" wins Outstanding Motion Picture
2001 NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touchdown in the "saddle" region of 433 Eros becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.
2001 9th ESPY Awards: Tiger Woods, Marion Jones win
2002 US Secretary of Energy makes the decision that Yucca Mountain is suitable to be the United States' nuclear waste repository.
2002 An Iran Air Tupolev Tu-154 crashes prior to landing in Khorramabad, Iran, killing 119.
2002 The trial of former President of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milošević begins at the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague. He eventually dies four years later before its conclusion.
2004 The city of San Francisco, California begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in response to a directive from Mayor Gavin Newsom.
2005 58th British Film and Television Awards (BAFTAS): "The Aviator" Best Film, Mike Leigh Best Director
2006 A powerful winter storm blankets the Northeastern United States dumping 1 to 2 feet of snow from Washington, D.C. up to Boston, Massachusetts. The storm dumped a record 26.9 inches of snow in New York City.
2006 NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 23-17
2007 A gunman opens fire in a mall in Salt Lake City, killing 5 people in the Trolley Square shooting.
2007 Marty Schottenheimer is abruptly fired as head coach of the San Diego Chargers due to lack of playoff success and a strained relationship with ownership
2009 Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashes near Buffalo in the state of New York killing 50 people.
2009 40th NAACP Image Awards: "The Secret Life of Bees" wins Outstanding Motion Picture
2010 21st Winter Olympic Games open at Vancouver, Canada
2012 Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow is re-elected president of Turkmenistan with 97% of the vote
2012 Zambia defeat Ivory Coast 8-7 on penalties in the Africa Cup of Nations
2012 54th Grammy Awards: Rolling In The Deep, Bon Iver wins
2012 65th British Film and Television Awards (BAFTAS): "The Artist" Best Film, Michel Hazanavicius Best Director
2013 North Korea confirms it has successfully tested a nuclear device that could be weaponized
2013 At a ceremony in Philadelphia, the NFL pays tribute to the life of the late Steve Sabol and his many contributions to the league
2014 Tatyana Volosozhar and Maksim Trankov win the Olympic gold in pairs figure skating
2014 Intel entrepreneur and cofounder of the X-PRIZE Foundation, Peter Diamandis, claims that 50% of US jobs are under threat of being mechanized within 10 years
2016 Pope Francis begins his visit to Mexico, arriving at “Benito Juarez” International Airport in Mexico City
2016 Pope Francis meets Patriarch Kirill in Havana - first meeting between Catholic and Russian Orthodox church heads for nearly 1,000 years
2016 Fiji becomes the first country to ratify the UN climate deal (signed Paris, December 2015)

February 28
1066 Westminster Abbey, the most famous church in England, opens its doors.
1574 On the orders of the Holy Office of the Inquisition, two Englishmen and an Irishman are burnt for heresy.
1610 Thomas West is appointed governor of Virginia.
1704 Indians attack Deerfield, Mass. killing 40 and kidnapping 100.
1847 Colonel Alexander Doniphan and his ragtag Missouri Mounted Volunteers ride to victory at the Battle of Sacramento, during the Mexican War.
1861 The territory of Colorado is established.
1900 After a 119-day siege by the Boers, the surrounded British troops in Ladysmith, South Africa, are relieved.
1863 Four Union gunboats destroy the CSS Nashville near Fort McAllister, Georgia.
1916 Haiti becomes the first U.S. protectorate.
1924 U.S. troops are sent to Honduras to protect American interests during an election conflict.
1936 The Japanese Army restores order in Tokyo and arrests officers involved in a coup.
1945 U.S. tanks break the natural defense line west of the Rhine and cross the Erft River.
1946 The U.S. Army declares that it will use V-2 rocket to test radar as an atomic rocket defense system.
1953 Greece, Turkey and Yugoslavia sign a 5-year defense pact in Ankara.
1967 In Mississippi, 19 are indicted in the slayings of three civil rights workers.
1969 A Los Angeles court refuses Robert Kennedy assassin Sirhan Sirhan’s request to be executed.

Events:
250-St Fabian ends his reign as Catholic Pope (236-50)
820-Book of mother, published
1045-Giovanni di Sabina elected Pope Sylvester III
1156-According to legend, freeholder Lalli slays English crusader Bishop Henry with an axe on the ice of Lake Köyliönjärvi in Finland
1265-the first Parliament of England summoned other than by royal command (in this instance by Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester) met in Westminster Hall
1320-Duke Wladyslaw Lokietek becomes king of Poland
1356-Edward Balliol abdicates as King of Scots.
1502-The present-day location of Rio de Janeiro is first explored.
1503-Casa Contratacion (Board of Trade) found (Spain) to deal with American affairs
1513-Christian II succeeds Johan I as Danish/Norwegian king
1523-Christian II is forced to abdicate as King of Denmark and Norway.
1576-The Mexican city of León is founded by order of the viceroy Don Martín Enríquez de Almansa.
1613-Peace of Knarod ends War of Kalmar between Denmark & Sweden
1648-Cornerstone of Amsterdam townhall laid
1667-Treaty of Andrussovo-ends 13 year war between Poland & Russia
1778-1st American military court martial trial begins, Cambridge, Mass
1781-1st edition of Pieter It Hoens "Post of Neder-Rhijn" published
1785-Samuel Ellis advertises to sell Oyster Island (Ellis Is), no takers
1788-Pioneer African Baptist church organizes in Savannah, Ga
*1801-John Marshall appointed US chief justice
*1807-Napoleon convenes great Sanhedrin, Paris
1809-1st US geology book published by William Maclure
1839-In the Battle of Yungay, Chile defeats a Peruvian and Bolivian alliance.
1840-Dumont D'Urville discovers Adélie Land, Antarctica
1840-Dutch King Willem II crowned
1841-China cedes Hong Kong to the British during the 1st Opium War
1850-Investigator, first ship to effect northwest passage, leaves England
1860-Dutch troops conquer Watampone in Celebes
1866-Prim's Insurrection in Spain ends
1868-Florida constitutional convention meets in Tallahassee
*1869-Elizabeth Cady Stanton becomes 1st woman to testify before US Congress
1870-"City of Boston" vanishes at sea with all 177 aboard
*1870-Hiram R. Revels elected to fill unexpired term of Jefferson Davis as US Senator for Mississippi
1872-California Stock Exchange Board organized
1879-British troops under Lord Chelmsford set camp at Isandlwana
1883-Billy Barnes takes a hat-trick, England v Aust MCG
1887-US Senate approves naval base lease of Pearl Harbor
1905-The US begins supervision of the Dominican Republic's national and international debts, testing Roosevelt's 'Corollary' to the Monroe Doctrine
1914-The first group of Transvaal Indian women satyagrahis are released from Pietermaritzburg Prison in South Africa after three months imprisonment
1920-Dutch 2nd Chamber passes school laws
1920-The American Civil Liberties Union is founded.
1921-British submarine HMS K5 (which was unusually equipped with steam turbines) sank with 57 crew during exercises in the Bay of Biscay
1921-Dagestan ASSR forms in RSFSR
1921-Mountain Autonomous Republic established in RSFSR
1921-Republic of Turkey declared in remnants of Ottoman Empire
1922-Arthur Honegger's ballet "Skating Rink" premieres, Paris
1925-The Soviet and Japan sign a convention resuming relations: Russia agrees to limit revolutionary activity of the Third Communist International, while Japan agrees to leave the Sakhalin
1926-2nd German government of Luther begins
1929-1st feature talking motion picture taken outdoors, "In Old Arizona"
1930-1st radio broadcast of "Lone Ranger" (WXYZ-Detroit)
1934-Japan sends Henry Pu Yi as regent to emperor of Manchuria
*1936-Edward VIII succeeds British king George V
1937#-45°F (-43°C), Boca, California (state record)
1937-1st US Presidential Inauguration day held on Jan 20th, (previously March 4th)
1939-Charles Ives' 1st Sonata "Concord" premieres
1941-Bela Bartok's 6th string quartet, premieres in NYC
1942-Japanese invade Burma
1942-Nazi officials hold notorious Wannsee conference in Berlin to organise the "final solution", the extermination of Europe's Jews
1943-Lead, South Dakota, temp is 52°F, while 1.5 miles away Deadwood SD records -16°F
1943-Operation Weiss: German, Italian, Bulgarian & Croatian troops attempt to retake land liberated by Tito's partisans
1944-RAF drops 2,300 ton bombs on Berlin
*1945-Franklin D. Roosevelt sworn-in for an unprecedented (and never to be repeated) 4th term as US President
1945-The Hungarian Provisional Government concludes an armistice with the USSR, US, and Britain, agree to pay reparations and to join the war against Germany
1946-F Gouin follows De Gaulle as temporary leader of French government
1947-Brigadier General Edwin K Wright, USA, becomes deputy director of CIA
*1949-US President Harry Truman announces his four point program
1950-Suriname becomes independent part in Realm of Netherlands
1952-British army occupies Ismailiya, Suez Canal Zone
1953-1st US telecast transmitted to Canada-from Buffalo NY
*1953-1st live US coast-to-coast inauguration address (Eisenhower)
1954#-70°F (-57°C), Rogers Pass, Montana (US 48 state record)
1954-Dmitri Shostakovitch's' "Concertino opus 94" premieres
1954-The National Negro Network is established with 40 charter member radio stations.
1955-The first nuclear powered submarine, USS Nautilus, launched at Groton, Connecticut
1957-Gomulka wins Poland's parliamentary election
1957-Morton Gould's "Declaration" premieres in Washington, D.C.
1958-A group attempting the 1st surface crossing of Antarctic join up at the South Pole
1959-Dmitri Shostakovitch's Moscow-Tsjerjomoesjki premieres in Moscow
1960-Patrice Lumumba sentenced to 6 months in Belgian Congo
1961-Francis Poulenc's "Gloria" premieres in Boston
*1961-Robert Frost recites "Gift Outright" at JFK's inauguration
1961-Yugoslav ex-vice-president Milovan Djilas flees
1961-The Democrat J.F. Kennedy is inaugurated as President of the United States, the youngest ever sworn in
1965-The Byrds record "Mr Tambourine Man"
1965-The US Jet Propulsion Laboratory proposes modified Apollo flight to fly around Mars & return
*1965-Generalissimo Francisco Franco meets with Jewish representatives to discuss legitimizing Jewish communities in Spain
1968-US female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming
1968-US male Figure Skating championship won by Tim Wood
1969-Richard M Nixon inaugurated as US president
1969-U of Az reports 1st optical id of pulsar (in Crab Nebula)
1970-Super Fight, computer mock championship between Ali & Marciano; Marciano won.
1971-Ard Schenk skates world record 1000m (1:18.8)
1972-Six oil exporting countries conclude meetings with Western oil companies; an agreement is reached to raise the price of crude
1972-Number of people out of work and claiming unemployment benefit in UK rises to over 1 million
1973-A car bomb explodes in Sackville Place, Dublin, Republic of Ireland, killing 1 person and injuring 17 (no organisation claimed responsibility)
1974-7th ABA All-Star Game: East 128 beats West 112 at Virginia
1975-Terrence McNally's "Ritz" premieres in NYC
1977-George H W Bush ends term as 11th director of CIA
1977-Mr Knoche, serves as acting director of CIA
*1979-1 million Iranians march in Tehran in a show of support for the exiled Ayatollah Khomeini, fundamentalist Muslim leader

Birthdays:
225-Gordian III, Roman Emperor (d. 244)
1292-Elisabeth I of Bohemia (d. 1330)
1358-Eleanor of Aragon, wife of John I of Castile (d. 1382)
1435-Ashikaga Yoshimasa, Japanese shogun (d. 1490)
1554-King Sebastian of Portugal (d. 1578)
1622-Susanna van Baerle, Dutch poet/wife of Geeraert Burns
1651-Edward Tyson, British Physician and father of comparative anatomy (The Anatomy of a Pygmy, 1698)
1654-Michiel de Swaen, South Netherland physician/poet
1664-Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina, Italian writer and jurist (d. 1718)
1716-Carlos III, king of Naples/Spain (1759-88) Pompei/Jesuits
1716-King Charles III of Spain (d. 1788)
1716-Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, French writer and numismatist (d. 1795)
1732-Richard H Lee, US farmer (signed Declaration of Independence)
1763-Theobald Wolfe Tone, Irish patriot
1775-André-Marie Ampère, French physicist (d. 1836)
1781-Joseph Hormayr Freiherr zu Hortenburg, Austrian politician (d. 1848)
1782-Johan B J F S, archduke of Austria
1798-Anson Jones, 5th and last President of Texas (d. 1858)
1804-Eugène Sue, French novelist (d. 1857)
1806-Nathaniel Willis, writer/editor/founder (American Monthly Mag)
1812-Ralph Pomeroy Buckland, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), (d. 1892)
1812-Thomas Meik, Scottish engineer (d. 1896)
1813-Jacon Gartner Lauman, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), (d. 1867)
1820-Anne Jemima Clough, England, promoted higher education for women
1831-Pieter J Joubert, general (South Africa)
1834-George D. Robinson, 34th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1896)
1837-David Josiah Brewer, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1910)
1843-Pierre-Paul Cambon, French diplomat (Madrid, Constantinople, London)
1847-W R Pettiford, Founder (Alabama Penny Savings Bank)
1865-Friedrich A H von Waldeck, brother of queen Emma/last ruler of Waldeck
1866-Richard Le Gallienne, English writer (Maker of Gainborg)
1873-Charles A Ellwood, US, sociologist/psychologist
1873-Johannes V Jensen, Denmark, novelist/poet (Energy Storage, Nobel 1944)
1880-Walter W. Bacon, American politician (d. 1962)
1883-Betram Home Ramsay, English admiral/Commander Allied Naval Forces
1884-A[braham P] Merritt, US, sci-fi author (Moon Pool, Creep Shadow!)
1889-Allan Haines Loughead, American aviation executive (d. 1969)
1893-Kaj Birket-Smith, Danish etnologist/anthropologist (Eskimos)
1894-Harold L Gray, creator (Little Orphan Annie)
1898-U Razak, Burmese politician (d. 1947)
1899-Kenjiro Takayanagi, VP (JVC)
1900-Doris Deane, WI, entertainer
1903-Sybil Marion Rosenfeld, theatre historian
1904-Alexandra Danilova, Peterhof Russia, ballerina (Turning Point)
1904-Renato Caccioppoli, Italian mathematician/grandson of Bakunin
1904-Theodore Brameld, author/educator (Use of Explosive Ideas)
1907-Roy Welensky, Premier (Rhodesia/Nyasaland 1956-63)
*1910-Joy Adamson, (born Friederike Viktoria Gessner) Troppau Austria-Hungary, naturalist/author (Born Free)
1910-Lauritz Lauritzen, German politician
1915-C W Ceram, [Kurt W Marek], German/US writer (March of Archaeology)
1915-Joe Hitchcock, darts player (leader of St Dunstan's Four)
1915-Ghulam Ishaq Khan, President of Pakistan (d. 2006)
1916-Jopie [Johan A] Pengel, premier of Suriname (1963-69)
1916-Walter Bartley, biochemist
1920-Peter Clemoes, anglo-Saxon scholar
1920-Richard John Copeland Atkinson, archaeologist
1920-Sam M Gibbons, (Rep-D-FL, 1963- )
1921-Bernt Engelmann, Germany, writer
1922-Lord James Hanson, English industrialist/House of Lords (Conservative)
1925-E Cardenal, writer
1925-Edwin Gordon, VOA correspondant, born in NYC, New York
1925-Eugen Gomringer, writer
1926-Robert L Van Citters, cardiology/advisory panelist/UW dean
1926-Jamiluddin Aali, Pakistani poet, essayist and columnist
1926-Qurratulain Hyder, Pakistani novelist (d. 2007)
1927-Geoffrey WT Atkins, British World Champion racket player (1954-72)
1927-Olivier Strebelle, Belgian sculptor/ceramist
1928-Peter Donat, Kentville Nova Scotia, (Flamingo Road, Different Story)
1929-Bob Denard, French mercenary
*1930-Edwin Aldrin Jr, USAF/astro (Gem 12, Ap 11), born in Montclair, New Jersey
1931-Sawako Ariyoshi, Japanese writer (Compound Pollution, Doctor's Wife)
1931-Thomas Roy Garrett, museum curator
1935-Joan Weston, Roller Derby Queen (d. 1997)
1936-Eldred G Maduro, minister (Netherland Antilles)
1939-Nalin Chandra Wickramasinghe, Indian astronomer
1939-Paul Coverdell, American politician (d. 2000)
1943-Roeland HG "Roel" van Duyn, Dutch Provo politician
1944-Eddie Shah, English publisher (Today, Post)
1944-Lieven Soete, Dutch publicist (Molotov-Ribbentrop-pact)
1945-Peter Beckwith, English real estate developer/multi-millionaire
1948-Jerry Ross, Ind, Lt Col USAF/astronaut (STS 61B, 27, 37, 55, 74, sk:88)
1948-Natan Sharansky, Russian-born physicist and politician
1948-Nancy Kress, American writer
1949-Kieron Walsh, academic
1950-Mahamane Ousmane, President of Niger
1951-Magomed Omarovich Tolboyev, Russian cosmonaut
1955-Joe Doherty, Ireland, IRA activist (jailed in US)
1956-John McNally, Naha Okinawa, US rapid fire pistol (Oly-84, 88, 92, 96)
1956-Maria Larsson, Swedish politician
1964-Kazushige Nojima, Japanese game scenario writer
1969-Tia Marie Zorne, Miss Nevada-America (1991), born in Las Vegas, Nevada
1969-Patrick K. Kroupa, American computer hacker
1971-Karin Smith, Miss Minnesota USA (1996)
1973-Princess Mathilde, Duchess of Brabant
1979-Asaka Kubo, Japanese gravure idol of 20th Century
1980-Philippe Cousteau Jr., Freanch oceanographer; grandson of Jacques Cousteau
1980-Brigitte Olivier, Belgian judoka

Weddings:
1382-King Richard II of England marries Anne of Bohemia and daughter of the Holy Roman Emperor at Westminster Abbey. Anne died of plague in 1394.
1800-Napoleon I's sister Carolina marries King Joachim Murat of Naples

Deaths:
250-Fabianus, Pope (236-50)/saint, dies
288-St. Sebastian, early Christian martyr (commemorated as his feast day)
820-Muslim jurist Abu Abdallah M ibn Idris al-Sjafi'i, dies
842-Theophilus, Byzantine kaiser (829-42), dies
882-Louis II/III the Younger, German king (876-82), dies
1156-Bishop Henry, patron saint of Finland
1191-Frederick VI, Duke of Swabia (b. 1167)
1479-John II, king of Aragon/Navarra, dies at 81
1569-Miles Coverdale, English bible translator Great bible, dies at 80
1612-Rudolf II von Habsburg, emperor of Germany (1576-1612), dies at 59
1639-Mustapha I, sultan of Turkey (1622-23), dies
1666-Anna of Austria, queen of France/daughter of Philip III, dies at 64
1707-Humphrey Hody, English theologian (b. 1659)
1709-François de la Chaise, French confessor of Louis XIV of France (b. 1624)
1713-Pavao Vitezovic, Croatian historian, dies
1727-John van Bylevelt, Catholic apostole, dies
1739-Francesco Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect/designer (b. 1659)
1745-Charles VII Albert, German emperor (1742-45), dies at 47
1751-John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, English politician (b. 1665)
1770-Charles Yorke, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1722)
1779-Johannes Burman, Dutch botanist, plant author and physician, dies at 71
1810-Benjamin Chew, Chief Justice of colonial Pennsylvania (b. 1722)
1813-C M Wieland, writer, dies at 79
1819-Carlos IV, King of Spain (1788-1808), dies at 70
1837-John Soane, English architect (Book of Designs), dies at 84
1848-Christian VIII of Denmark (b. 1786)
1850-Adam Oehlenschläger, Danish poet (b. 1779)
1859-B v Arnim, writer, dies at 73
1862-Felix Zollicoffer, Gen killed after mistakenly riding into Union lines
1873-The Venerable Father Basil Anthony Marie Moreau, Founder of the Congregation of Holy Cross (b. 1799)
1875-Jean-François Millet, French painter (b. 1814)
1882-John Linnell, British painter/minaturist/engraver, dies
1891-David Kalakahua, emperor of Hawaii, dies
1896-Heinrich M von Battenberg, German son-in-law of Victoria, dies at 37
1900-John Ruskin, English writer (Dearest Mama Talbot), dies of flu at 81
1900-Richard D Blackmore, English novelist (Lorna Doone), dies at 74
1901-Zénobe Gramme, Belgian engineer (b. 1826)
*1936-George V, King of Britain (1910-36), dies at 70
1940-Omar Bundy, U.S. army general (b. 1861)
1944-James McKeen Cattell, American psychologist (b. 1860)
1947-Josh Gibson, Negro League slugger, dies of a brain tumor at age 35
1949-Josephus T J Cuypers, architect (Amsterdam Stock Exchange), dies at 87
1957-James Connolly, 1st Oly winner (1896) since Barasdates (369 CE), dies
1962-Robinson Jeffers, poet/playwright (Dear Judas), dies at 75
1965-Alan Freed, DJ (Big Beat), dies at 42
1973-Amilcar L Cabral, fought for Guinea Bissau independence, murdered 51
1973-Lorenz Böhler, Austrian physician (b. 1885)
1974-Edmund Blunden, British poet/critic, dies at 77
1988-Philippe de Rothschild, Bordeaux Vineyard manager, dies in Paris at 86
1988-Dora Stratou, Greek choreographer and folklorist (b. 1903)
1990-Naruhito Higashi-Kuni, Japanese PM (1945), dies
1992-Muhammad Abd al-Khaliq Hassuna, sec-gen of Arab League (1952-72), dies
1993-Mercer McCleod, entertainer, dies of heart failure at 86
1994-Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, Kenyan vice-pres (1963-66), dies at about 81
1995-Mehdi Bazargan, director Iranian oil corp/premier (1979), dies at 86
1995-Robert Shaw, town Planner, dies at 81
1996-David Robin Francis Guy Greville, 8th Duke of Warwick, dies at 61
1996-Ellis Hillman, politician, dies at 68
1996-Liesbeth Askonas, concert agent, dies at 83
1996-Sidney Korshak, lawyer, dies at 87
1997-Curt Flood, centerfielder (Cards), dies of throat cancer at 59
1997-Edith Haisman, the oldest survivor of Titanic, dies at 100
1997-Vladimir Yamnikov, owner (Kristall vodka), dies of cirrhosis at 56
1998-Zevulun Hammer, Vice PM of Israel, dies
2003-Al Hirschfeld, American caricaturist (b. 1903)
2003-Bill Werbeniuk, Canadian snooker player (b. 1947)
2005-Per Borten, Prime Minister of Norway (b. 1913)
2005-Roland Frye, American literary critic and theologian (b. 1921)
2005-Jan Nowak-Jeziorański, Polish journalist, writer, and politician (b. 1913)
2005-Miriam Louisa Rothschild, British zoologist, entomologist, and author (b. 1908)
2008-Ali Sadikin, former Jakarta famous governor (b. 1927)
2009-Stéphanos II Ghattas, Patriarch Emeritus of Alexandria for the Coptic Catholic Church (b. 1920)
2009-Stan Hagen, Canadian politician (b. 1940)
2009-Sheila O'Nions Walsh (aka Sheila Walsh, Sophie Leyton), English romance writer (b. 1928)
2012-John F Baker Jnr, United States Army Master Sergeant and Medal of Honour recipient dies at 66
2016-George Weidenfeld, British Publisher (Weidenfeld & Nicolson), dies at 96

I just can´t believe this all happened on 1 day.

Important events, birthdays, weddings and deaths are marked with an *.

Edited 4/22/2016 22:47:48

1 day yea, but in every year something

I won't post it all here, over 200 results. Mostly wars and massacres, ahah.

http://www.onthisday.com/day/july/9

960 – Battle of Andrassos: Byzantines under Leo Phokas the Younger score a crushing victory over the Hamdanid Emir of Aleppo, Sayf al-Dawla.

1278 – Trần Thánh Tông, the second emperor of the Trần dynasty, decides to pass the throne to his crown prince Trần Khâm and take up the post of Retired Emperor.

1519 – Hernán Cortés enters Tenochtitlán and Aztec ruler Moctezuma welcomes him with a great celebration.

1520 – Stockholm Bloodbath begins: A successful invasion of Sweden by Danish forces results in the execution of around 100 people.

1576 – Eighty Years' War: Pacification of Ghent: The States General of the Netherlands meet and unite to oppose Spanish occupation.

1602 – The Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford is opened to the public.

1605 – Robert Catesby, ringleader of the Gunpowder Plotters, is killed.

1614 – Japanese daimyo Dom Justo Takayama is exiled to the Philippines by shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu for being Christian.

1620 – The Battle of White Mountain takes place near Prague, ending in a decisive Catholic victory in only two hours.

1644 – The Shunzhi Emperor, the third emperor of the Qing dynasty, is enthroned in Beijing after the collapse of the Ming dynasty as the first Qing emperor to rule over China.

1745 – Charles Edward Stuart invades England with an army of ~5000 that would later participate in the Battle of Culloden.

1837 – Mary Lyon founds Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, which later becomes Mount Holyoke College.

1861 – American Civil War: The "Trent Affair": The USS San Jacinto stops the British mail ship Trent and arrests two Confederate envoys, sparking a diplomatic crisis between the UK and US.

1889 – Montana is admitted as the 41st U.S. state.

1892 – The New Orleans general strike begins, uniting black and white American trade unionists in a successful four-day general strike action for the first time.

1895 – While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen discovers the X-ray.

1898 – The Wilmington insurrection of 1898, the only instance of an attempted coup d'état in American history.

1901 – Bloody clashes take place in Athens following the translation of the Gospels into demotic Greek.

1917 – The People's Commissars give authority to Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, and Joseph Stalin.

1923 – Beer Hall Putsch: In Munich, Adolf Hitler leads the Nazis in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government.

1933 – Great Depression: New Deal: US President Franklin D. Roosevelt unveils the Civil Works Administration, an organization designed to create jobs for more than 4 million unemployed.

1936 – Spanish Civil War: Francoist troops fail in their effort to capture Madrid, but begin the 3-year Siege of Madrid afterwards.

1937 – The Nazi exhibition Der ewige Jude ("The Eternal Jew") opens in Munich.

1939 – Venlo Incident: Two British agents of SIS are captured by the Germans.

1939 – In Munich, Adolf Hitler narrowly escapes the assassination attempt of Georg Elser while celebrating the 16th anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch.

1940 – Greco-Italian War: The Italian invasion of Greece fails as outnumbered Greek units repulse the Italians in the Battle of Elaia–Kalamas.

1942 – World War II: French Resistance coup in Algiers, in which 400 civilian French patriots neutralize Vichyist XIXth Army Corps after 15 hours of fighting, and arrest several Vichyst generals, allowing the immediate success of Operation Torch in Algiers.

1950 – Korean War: United States Air Force Lt. Russell J. Brown, while piloting an F-80 Shooting Star, shoots down two North Korean MiG-15s in the first jet aircraft-to-jet aircraft dogfight in history.

1950 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 88 is adopted.

1957 – A Boeing 377 Stratocruiser disappeared en route from San Francisco, California to Honolulu, Hawaii. Wreckage and bodies were discovered a week later.

1957 – Operation Grapple X, Round C1: The United Kingdom conducts its first successful hydrogen bomb test over Kiritimati in the Pacific.

1960 – John F. Kennedy defeats Richard Nixon in one of the closest presidential elections of the twentieth century to become the 35th president of the United States.

1965 – The British Indian Ocean Territory is created, consisting of Chagos Archipelago, Aldabra, Farquhar and Des Roches islands.

1965 – The Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965 is given Royal Assent, formally abolishing the death penalty in the United Kingdom.

1965 – The 173rd Airborne is ambushed by over 1,200 Viet Cong in Operation Hump during the Vietnam War, while the 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment fight one of the first set-piece engagements of the war between Australian forces and the Viet Cong at the Battle of Gang Toi.

1966 – Former Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke becomes the first African American elected to the United States Senate since Reconstruction.

1966 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs into law an antitrust exemption allowing the National Football League to merge with the upstart American Football League.

1968 – The Vienna Convention on Road Traffic is signed to facilitate international road traffic and to increase road safety by standardising the uniform traffic rules among the signatories.

1972 – HBO launches its programming, with the broadcast of the 1971 movie Sometimes a Great Notion, starring Paul Newman and Henry Fonda.

1973 – The right ear of John Paul Getty III is delivered to a newspaper together with a ransom note, convincing his father to pay US$2.9 million.

1976 – A series of earthquakes spreads panic in the city of Thessaloniki, which is evacuated.

1977 – Manolis Andronikos, a Greek archaeologist and professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, discovers the tomb of Philip II of Macedon at Vergina.

1987 – Remembrance Day bombing: A Provisional IRA bomb explodes in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland during a ceremony honouring those who had died in wars involving British forces. Twelve people are killed and sixty-three wounded.

1994 – Republican Revolution: On the night of the 1994 United States midterm elections, Republicans make historic electoral gains by securing massive majorities in both houses of congress (54 seats in the House and eight seats in the Senate, additionally). Thus bringing a close to four decades of Democratic domination.

2002 – Iraq disarmament crisis: UN Security Council Resolution 1441: The United Nations Security Council unanimously approves a resolution on Iraq, forcing Saddam Hussein to disarm or face "serious consequences".

2004 – War in Iraq: More than 10,000 U.S. troops and a small number of Iraqi army units participate in a siege on the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.

2011 – The potentially hazardous asteroid 2005 YU55 passes 0.85 lunar distances from Earth (about 324,600 kilometres or 201,700 miles), the closest known approach by an asteroid of its brightness since 2010 XC15 in 1976.

2013 – Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest tropical cyclones ever recorded, strikes the Visayas region of the Philippines. The storm left at least 6,340 people dead with over 1,000 still missing, and caused S$2.86 billion (USD) in damage.

Edited 4/23/2016 18:36:07