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Events:C/P.
238 Gordian II loses the Battle of Carthage against the Numidian forces loyal to Maximinus Thrax and is killed. Gordian I, his father, commits suicide.
467 Anthemius is elevated to Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
1204 The Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade breach the walls of Constantinople and enter the city, which they completely occupy the following day.
1557 Cuenca is founded in Ecuador.
1606 The Union Flag is adopted as the flag of Great Britain.
1633 The formal inquest of Galileo Galilei by the Inquisition begins.
1776 American Revolution: With the Halifax Resolves, the North Carolina Provincial Congress authorizes its Congressional delegation to vote for independence from Britain.
1820 Alexander Ypsilantis is declared leader of Filiki Eteria, a secret organization to overthrow Ottoman rule over Greece.
1831 Soldiers marching on the Broughton Suspension Bridge in Manchester, England cause it to collapse.
1861 American Civil War: The war begins with Confederate forces firing on Fort Sumter, in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina.
1862 American Civil War: The Andrews Raid (the Great Locomotive Chase) occurred, starting from Big Shanty, Georgia (now Kennesaw).
1864 American Civil War: The Fort Pillow massacre: Confederate forces kill most of the African American soldiers that surrendered at Fort Pillow, Tennessee.
1865 American Civil War: Mobile, Alabama, falls to the Union Army.
1877 The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.
1910 The SMS Zrinyi, one of the last pre-dreadnoughts built by the Austro-Hungarian Navy, is launched.
1917 World War I: Canadian forces successfully complete the taking of Vimy Ridge from the Germans.
1927 April 12 Incident: Chiang Kai-shek orders the Communist Party of China members executed in Shanghai, ending the First United Front.
1934 The strongest surface wind gust in the world at 231 mph, is measured on the summit of Mount Washington, New Hampshire.
1934 The U.S. Auto-Lite Strike begins, culminating in a five-day melee between Ohio National Guard troops and 6,000 strikers and picketers.
1935 First flight of the Bristol Blenheim.
1937 Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft, at Rugby, England.
1945 U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies while in office; vice-president Harry Truman is sworn in as the 33rd President.
1955 The polio vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, is declared safe and effective.
1961 The Russian (Soviet) cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space and perform the first manned orbital flight, in Vostok 3KA-2 (Vostok 1).
1963 The Soviet nuclear powered submarine K-33 collides with the Finnish merchant vessel M/S Finnclipper in the Danish straits.
1968 Nerve gas accident at Skull Valley, Utah.
1970 Soviet submarine K-8, carrying four nuclear torpedoes, sinks in the Bay of Biscay four days after a fire on board.
1980 Samuel Doe takes control of Liberia in a coup d'ιtat, ending over 130 years of minority Americo-Liberian rule over the country.
1980 Terry Fox begins his "Marathon of Hope" at St. John's, Newfoundland.
1981 The first launch of a Space Shuttle (Columbia) launches on the STS-1 mission.
1990 Jim Gary's "Twentieth Century Dinosaurs" exhibition opens at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.
1992 The Euro Disney Resort officially opens with its theme park Euro Disneyland. The resort and its park's name are subsequently changed to Disneyland Paris.
1994 Canter & Siegel post the first commercial mass Usenet spam.
1998 An earthquake in Slovenia, measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale occurs near the town of Bovec.
1999 US President Bill Clinton is cited for contempt of court for giving "intentionally false statements" in a sexual harassment civil lawsuit.
2002 A female suicide bomber detonated at the entrance to Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda open-air market, killing 7 and wounding 104.
2007 A suicide bomber penetrated the Green Zone and detonated in a cafeteria within a parliament building, killing Iraqi MP Mohammed Awad and wounding more than twenty other people.
2009 Zimbabwe officially abandons the Zimbabwe Dollar as their official currency.
2010 A train derails near Merano, Italy, after running into a landslide, causing nine deaths and injuring 28 people.
End of C/P.
Events:C/P.
238 Gordian II loses the Battle of Carthage against the Numidian forces loyal to Maximinus Thrax and is killed. Gordian I, his father, commits suicide.
467 Anthemius is elevated to Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
1204 The Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade breach the walls of Constantinople and enter the city, which they completely occupy the following day.
1557 Cuenca is founded in Ecuador.
1606 The Union Flag is adopted as the flag of Great Britain.
1633 The formal inquest of Galileo Galilei by the Inquisition begins.
1776 American Revolution: With the Halifax Resolves, the North Carolina Provincial Congress authorizes its Congressional delegation to vote for independence from Britain.
1820 Alexander Ypsilantis is declared leader of Filiki Eteria, a secret organization to overthrow Ottoman rule over Greece.
1831 Soldiers marching on the Broughton Suspension Bridge in Manchester, England cause it to collapse.
1861 American Civil War: The war begins with Confederate forces firing on Fort Sumter, in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina.
1862 American Civil War: The Andrews Raid (the Great Locomotive Chase) occurred, starting from Big Shanty, Georgia (now Kennesaw).
1864 American Civil War: The Fort Pillow massacre: Confederate forces kill most of the African American soldiers that surrendered at Fort Pillow, Tennessee.
1865 American Civil War: Mobile, Alabama, falls to the Union Army.
1877 The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.
1910 The SMS Zrinyi, one of the last pre-dreadnoughts built by the Austro-Hungarian Navy, is launched.
1917 World War I: Canadian forces successfully complete the taking of Vimy Ridge from the Germans.
1927 April 12 Incident: Chiang Kai-shek orders the Communist Party of China members executed in Shanghai, ending the First United Front.
1934 The strongest surface wind gust in the world at 231 mph, is measured on the summit of Mount Washington, New Hampshire.
1934 The U.S. Auto-Lite Strike begins, culminating in a five-day melee between Ohio National Guard troops and 6,000 strikers and picketers.
1935 First flight of the Bristol Blenheim.
1937 Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft, at Rugby, England.
1945 U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies while in office; vice-president Harry Truman is sworn in as the 33rd President.
1955 The polio vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, is declared safe and effective.
1961 The Russian (Soviet) cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space and perform the first manned orbital flight, in Vostok 3KA-2 (Vostok 1).
1963 The Soviet nuclear powered submarine K-33 collides with the Finnish merchant vessel M/S Finnclipper in the Danish straits.
1968 Nerve gas accident at Skull Valley, Utah.
1970 Soviet submarine K-8, carrying four nuclear torpedoes, sinks in the Bay of Biscay four days after a fire on board.
1980 Samuel Doe takes control of Liberia in a coup d'ιtat, ending over 130 years of minority Americo-Liberian rule over the country.
1980 Terry Fox begins his "Marathon of Hope" at St. John's, Newfoundland.
1981 The first launch of a Space Shuttle (Columbia) launches on the STS-1 mission.
1990 Jim Gary's "Twentieth Century Dinosaurs" exhibition opens at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.
1992 The Euro Disney Resort officially opens with its theme park Euro Disneyland. The resort and its park's name are subsequently changed to Disneyland Paris.
1994 Canter & Siegel post the first commercial mass Usenet spam.
1998 An earthquake in Slovenia, measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale occurs near the town of Bovec.
1999 US President Bill Clinton is cited for contempt of court for giving "intentionally false statements" in a sexual harassment civil lawsuit.
2002 A female suicide bomber detonated at the entrance to Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda open-air market, killing 7 and wounding 104.
2007 A suicide bomber penetrated the Green Zone and detonated in a cafeteria within a parliament building, killing Iraqi MP Mohammed Awad and wounding more than twenty other people.
2009 Zimbabwe officially abandons the Zimbabwe Dollar as their official currency.
2010 A train derails near Merano, Italy, after running into a landslide, causing nine deaths and injuring 28 people.
End of C/P.