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Events:C/P.
428 Nestorius becomes Patriarch of Constantinople.
837 Halley's Comet and Earth experienced their closest approach to one another when their separating distance equalled 0.0342 AU (3.2 million miles).
879 Louis III becomes King of the Western Franks.
1407 the lama Deshin Shekpa visits the Ming Dynasty capital at Nanjing. He is awarded with the title Great Treasure Prince of Dharma.
1500 Ludovico Sforza is captured by the Swiss troops at Novara and is handed over to the French.
1606 The Charter of the Virginia Company of London is established by royal charter by James I of England with the purpose of establishing colonial settlements in North America.
1710 The Statute of Anne, the first law regulating copyright, enters into force in Great Britain.
1741 War of the Austrian Succession: Prussia defeats Austria in the Battle of Mollwitz.
1815 The Mount Tambora volcano begins a three-month-long eruption, lasting until July 15. The eruption ultimately kills 71,000 people and affects Earth's climate for the next two years.
1816 The United States Government approves the creation of the Second Bank of the United States.
1821 Patriarch Gregory V of Constantinople is hanged by the Ottoman government from the main gate of the Patriarchate and his body is thrown into the Bosphorus.
1826 The 10,500 inhabitants of the Greek town Missolonghi start leaving the town after a year's siege by Turkish forces. Very few of them survive.
1856 The Theta Chi fraternity is founded at Norwich University.
1858 After the original Big Ben, a 14.5 tonne bell for the Palace of Westminster had cracked during testing, it is recast into the current 13.76 tonne bell by Whitechapel Bell Foundry.
1864 Archduke Maximilian of Habsburg is proclaimed emperor of Mexico during the French intervention in Mexico.
1865 American Civil War: A day after his surrender to Union forces, Confederate General Robert E. Lee addresses his troops for the last time.
1866 The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) is founded in New York City by Henry Bergh.
1868 At Arogee in Abyssinia, British and Indian forces defeat an army of Emperor Tewodros II. While 700 Ethiopians are killed and many more injured, only two die from the British/Indian troops.
1874 The first Arbor Day is celebrated in Nebraska.
1887 On Easter Sunday, Pope Leo XIII authorizes the establishment of The Catholic University of America.
1904 British mystic Aleister Crowley transcribes the third and final chapter of The Book of The Law.
1912 The Titanic leaves port in Southampton, England for her first and only voyage.
1916 The Professional Golfers Association of America (PGA) is created in New York City.
1919 Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata is ambushed and shot dead by government forces in Morelos.
1925 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is first published in New York City, by Charles Scribner's Sons.
1941 World War II: The Axis Powers in Europe establish the Independent State of Croatia from occupied Yugoslavia with Ante Pavelić's Ustae fascist insurgents in power.
1944 Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler escape from the Birkenau death camp.
1953 Warner Brothers premieres the first 3-D film from a major American studio, entitled House of Wax.
1957 The Suez Canal is reopened for all shipping after being closed for three months.
1959 Akihito, future Emperor of Japan, weds Michiko.
1963 129 people die when the submarine USS Thresher sinks at sea.
1968 Shipwreck of the New Zealand inter-island ferry TEV Wahine outside Wellington harbour.
1970 Paul McCartney announces that he leaves The Beatles for personal and professional reasons.
1971 Ping Pong Diplomacy: In an attempt to thaw relations with the United States, the People's Republic of China hosts the U.S. table tennis team for a weeklong visit.
1972 20 days after he is kidnapped in Buenos Aires, Oberdan Sallustro is executed by communist guerrillas.
1972 Vietnam War: For the first time since November 1967, American B-52 bombers reportedly begin bombing North Vietnam.
1972 Seventy-four nations sign the Biological Weapons Convention, the first multilateral disarmament treaty banning the production of biological weapons.
1973 A British Vanguard turboprop crashes during a snowstorm at Basel, Switzerland killing 104.
1979 Red River Valley Tornado Outbreak: A tornado lands in Wichita Falls, Texas killing 42 people.
1991 Italian ferry Moby Prince collides with an oil tanker in dense fog off Livorno, Italy killing 140.
1991 A rare tropical storm develops in the South Atlantic Ocean near Angola; the first to be documented by satellites.
1992 The Maraghar Massacre, killing of ethnic Armenian civil population of the village Maraghar by Azerbaijani troops during the Nagorno-Karabakh War.
2009 President of Fiji Ratu Josefa Iloilo announces he will suspend the constitution and assume all governance in the country, creating a constitutional crisis.
2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154M crashes near Smolensk, Russia, killing all 96 people on board including President Lech Kaczyński.
End of C/P.
Events:C/P.
428 Nestorius becomes Patriarch of Constantinople.
837 Halley's Comet and Earth experienced their closest approach to one another when their separating distance equalled 0.0342 AU (3.2 million miles).
879 Louis III becomes King of the Western Franks.
1407 the lama Deshin Shekpa visits the Ming Dynasty capital at Nanjing. He is awarded with the title Great Treasure Prince of Dharma.
1500 Ludovico Sforza is captured by the Swiss troops at Novara and is handed over to the French.
1606 The Charter of the Virginia Company of London is established by royal charter by James I of England with the purpose of establishing colonial settlements in North America.
1710 The Statute of Anne, the first law regulating copyright, enters into force in Great Britain.
1741 War of the Austrian Succession: Prussia defeats Austria in the Battle of Mollwitz.
1815 The Mount Tambora volcano begins a three-month-long eruption, lasting until July 15. The eruption ultimately kills 71,000 people and affects Earth's climate for the next two years.
1816 The United States Government approves the creation of the Second Bank of the United States.
1821 Patriarch Gregory V of Constantinople is hanged by the Ottoman government from the main gate of the Patriarchate and his body is thrown into the Bosphorus.
1826 The 10,500 inhabitants of the Greek town Missolonghi start leaving the town after a year's siege by Turkish forces. Very few of them survive.
1856 The Theta Chi fraternity is founded at Norwich University.
1858 After the original Big Ben, a 14.5 tonne bell for the Palace of Westminster had cracked during testing, it is recast into the current 13.76 tonne bell by Whitechapel Bell Foundry.
1864 Archduke Maximilian of Habsburg is proclaimed emperor of Mexico during the French intervention in Mexico.
1865 American Civil War: A day after his surrender to Union forces, Confederate General Robert E. Lee addresses his troops for the last time.
1866 The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) is founded in New York City by Henry Bergh.
1868 At Arogee in Abyssinia, British and Indian forces defeat an army of Emperor Tewodros II. While 700 Ethiopians are killed and many more injured, only two die from the British/Indian troops.
1874 The first Arbor Day is celebrated in Nebraska.
1887 On Easter Sunday, Pope Leo XIII authorizes the establishment of The Catholic University of America.
1904 British mystic Aleister Crowley transcribes the third and final chapter of The Book of The Law.
1912 The Titanic leaves port in Southampton, England for her first and only voyage.
1916 The Professional Golfers Association of America (PGA) is created in New York City.
1919 Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata is ambushed and shot dead by government forces in Morelos.
1925 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is first published in New York City, by Charles Scribner's Sons.
1941 World War II: The Axis Powers in Europe establish the Independent State of Croatia from occupied Yugoslavia with Ante Pavelić's Ustae fascist insurgents in power.
1944 Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler escape from the Birkenau death camp.
1953 Warner Brothers premieres the first 3-D film from a major American studio, entitled House of Wax.
1957 The Suez Canal is reopened for all shipping after being closed for three months.
1959 Akihito, future Emperor of Japan, weds Michiko.
1963 129 people die when the submarine USS Thresher sinks at sea.
1968 Shipwreck of the New Zealand inter-island ferry TEV Wahine outside Wellington harbour.
1970 Paul McCartney announces that he leaves The Beatles for personal and professional reasons.
1971 Ping Pong Diplomacy: In an attempt to thaw relations with the United States, the People's Republic of China hosts the U.S. table tennis team for a weeklong visit.
1972 20 days after he is kidnapped in Buenos Aires, Oberdan Sallustro is executed by communist guerrillas.
1972 Vietnam War: For the first time since November 1967, American B-52 bombers reportedly begin bombing North Vietnam.
1972 Seventy-four nations sign the Biological Weapons Convention, the first multilateral disarmament treaty banning the production of biological weapons.
1973 A British Vanguard turboprop crashes during a snowstorm at Basel, Switzerland killing 104.
1979 Red River Valley Tornado Outbreak: A tornado lands in Wichita Falls, Texas killing 42 people.
1991 Italian ferry Moby Prince collides with an oil tanker in dense fog off Livorno, Italy killing 140.
1991 A rare tropical storm develops in the South Atlantic Ocean near Angola; the first to be documented by satellites.
1992 The Maraghar Massacre, killing of ethnic Armenian civil population of the village Maraghar by Azerbaijani troops during the Nagorno-Karabakh War.
2009 President of Fiji Ratu Josefa Iloilo announces he will suspend the constitution and assume all governance in the country, creating a constitutional crisis.
2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154M crashes near Smolensk, Russia, killing all 96 people on board including President Lech Kaczyński.
End of C/P.