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Events:C/P.
1071 Bari, the last Byzantine possession in southern Italy, is surrendered to Robert Guiscard.
1395 TokhtamyshTimur war: Battle of the Terek River: Timur defeats Tokhtamysh of the Golden Horde at the Volga. The Golden Horde capital city, Sarai, is razed to the ground and Timur installs a puppet ruler on the Golden Horde throne. Tokhtamysh escapes to Lithuania.
1450 Battle of Formigny: Toward the end of the Hundred Years' War, the French attack and nearly annihilate English forces, ending English domination in Northern France.
1632 Battle of Rain: Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeat the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War.
1642 Irish Confederate Wars: A Confederate Irish militia is routed in the Battle of Kilrush when it attempts to halt the progress of the British Army.
1638 Tokugawa shogunate forces put down the Shimabara Rebellion when they retake Hara Castle from the rebels.
1715 Pocotaligo Massacre triggers the start of the Yamasee War in colonial South Carolina.
1738 Premiere in London, England, Great Britain of Serse, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel.
1755 Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language is published in London.
1783 Preliminary articles of peace ending the American Revolutionary War (or American War of Independence) are ratified.
1802 William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy see a "long belt" of daffodils, inspiring the former to pen I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.
1817 Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc founded the American School for the Deaf, the first American school for deaf students, in Hartford, Connecticut.
1865 Abraham Lincoln dies without regaining consciousness after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth.
1892 The General Electric Company is formed.
1896 Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece.
1900 PhilippineAmerican War: Filipino guerrillas launch a surprise attack on U.S. infantry and begin a four-day siege of Catubig, Philippines.
1912 The British passenger liner, the RMS Titanic, sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20 a.m., two and a half hours after hitting an iceberg. 1,517 people are killed.
1920 Two security guards are murdered during a robbery in South Braintree, Massachusetts. Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti would be convicted of and executed for the crime, amid much controversy.
1921 Black Friday: mine owners announce more wage and price cuts, leading to the threat of a strike all across England.
1923 Insulin becomes generally available for use by people with diabetes.
1924 Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas.
1927 The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, the most destructive river flood in U.S. history, begins.
1935 Roerich Pact signed in Washington, D.C.
1936 First day of the Arab revolt in Palestine.
1940 The Allies begin their attack on the Norwegian town of Narvik which is occupied by Nazi Germany.
1941 In the Belfast Blitz, two-hundred bombers of the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) attack Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom killing one thousand people.
1942 The George Cross is awarded to "to the island fortress of Malta its people and defenders" by King George VI.
1943 An Allied bomber attack misses the Minerva automobile factory and hits the Belgian town of Mortsel instead, killing 936 civilians.
1945 The Bergen-Belsen concentration camp is liberated.
1947 Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball's color line.
1952 The maiden flight of the B-52 Stratofortress
1955 McDonald's restaurant dates its founding to the opening of a franchised restaurant by Ray Kroc, in Des Plaines, Illinois
1957 White Rock, British Columbia officially separates from Surrey, British Columbia and is incorporated as a new city.
1958 Walter O'Malley's Los Angeles Dodgers host the first Major League Baseball game played on the West Coast of the United States.
1960 At Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, Ella Baker leads a conference that results in the creation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, one of the principal organizations of the African-American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
1969 The EC-121 shootdown incident: North Korea shoots down a United States Navy aircraft over the Sea of Japan, killing all 31 on board.
1970 During the Cambodian Civil War, massacres of the Vietnamese minority results in 800 bodies flowing down the Mekong River into South Vietnam.
1979 A disastrous earthquake (of M 7.1) occurs on Montenegro coast.
1986 The United States launches Operation El Dorado Canyon, its bombing raids against Libyan targets in response to a bombing in West Germany that killed two U.S. servicemen.
1989 Hillsborough disaster: A human crush occurs at Hillsborough Stadium, home of Sheffield Wednesday, in the FA Cup Semi Final, resulting in the deaths of 96 Liverpool fans.
1989 Upon Hu Yaobang's death, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 begin in the People's Republic of China.
1992 The National Assembly of Vietnam adopts the 1992 Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
1994 Representatives of 124 countries and the European Communities sign the Marrakesh Agreements revising the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and initiating the World Trade Organization (effective January 1, 1995).
2002 An Air China Boeing 767-200, flight CA129 crashes into a hillside during heavy rain and fog near Busan, South Korea, killing 128.
End of C/P.
Events:C/P.
1071 Bari, the last Byzantine possession in southern Italy, is surrendered to Robert Guiscard.
1395 TokhtamyshTimur war: Battle of the Terek River: Timur defeats Tokhtamysh of the Golden Horde at the Volga. The Golden Horde capital city, Sarai, is razed to the ground and Timur installs a puppet ruler on the Golden Horde throne. Tokhtamysh escapes to Lithuania.
1450 Battle of Formigny: Toward the end of the Hundred Years' War, the French attack and nearly annihilate English forces, ending English domination in Northern France.
1632 Battle of Rain: Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeat the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War.
1642 Irish Confederate Wars: A Confederate Irish militia is routed in the Battle of Kilrush when it attempts to halt the progress of the British Army.
1638 Tokugawa shogunate forces put down the Shimabara Rebellion when they retake Hara Castle from the rebels.
1715 Pocotaligo Massacre triggers the start of the Yamasee War in colonial South Carolina.
1738 Premiere in London, England, Great Britain of Serse, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel.
1755 Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language is published in London.
1783 Preliminary articles of peace ending the American Revolutionary War (or American War of Independence) are ratified.
1802 William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy see a "long belt" of daffodils, inspiring the former to pen I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.
1817 Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc founded the American School for the Deaf, the first American school for deaf students, in Hartford, Connecticut.
1865 Abraham Lincoln dies without regaining consciousness after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth.
1892 The General Electric Company is formed.
1896 Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece.
1900 PhilippineAmerican War: Filipino guerrillas launch a surprise attack on U.S. infantry and begin a four-day siege of Catubig, Philippines.
1912 The British passenger liner, the RMS Titanic, sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20 a.m., two and a half hours after hitting an iceberg. 1,517 people are killed.
1920 Two security guards are murdered during a robbery in South Braintree, Massachusetts. Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti would be convicted of and executed for the crime, amid much controversy.
1921 Black Friday: mine owners announce more wage and price cuts, leading to the threat of a strike all across England.
1923 Insulin becomes generally available for use by people with diabetes.
1924 Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas.
1927 The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, the most destructive river flood in U.S. history, begins.
1935 Roerich Pact signed in Washington, D.C.
1936 First day of the Arab revolt in Palestine.
1940 The Allies begin their attack on the Norwegian town of Narvik which is occupied by Nazi Germany.
1941 In the Belfast Blitz, two-hundred bombers of the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) attack Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom killing one thousand people.
1942 The George Cross is awarded to "to the island fortress of Malta its people and defenders" by King George VI.
1943 An Allied bomber attack misses the Minerva automobile factory and hits the Belgian town of Mortsel instead, killing 936 civilians.
1945 The Bergen-Belsen concentration camp is liberated.
1947 Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball's color line.
1952 The maiden flight of the B-52 Stratofortress
1955 McDonald's restaurant dates its founding to the opening of a franchised restaurant by Ray Kroc, in Des Plaines, Illinois
1957 White Rock, British Columbia officially separates from Surrey, British Columbia and is incorporated as a new city.
1958 Walter O'Malley's Los Angeles Dodgers host the first Major League Baseball game played on the West Coast of the United States.
1960 At Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, Ella Baker leads a conference that results in the creation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, one of the principal organizations of the African-American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
1969 The EC-121 shootdown incident: North Korea shoots down a United States Navy aircraft over the Sea of Japan, killing all 31 on board.
1970 During the Cambodian Civil War, massacres of the Vietnamese minority results in 800 bodies flowing down the Mekong River into South Vietnam.
1979 A disastrous earthquake (of M 7.1) occurs on Montenegro coast.
1986 The United States launches Operation El Dorado Canyon, its bombing raids against Libyan targets in response to a bombing in West Germany that killed two U.S. servicemen.
1989 Hillsborough disaster: A human crush occurs at Hillsborough Stadium, home of Sheffield Wednesday, in the FA Cup Semi Final, resulting in the deaths of 96 Liverpool fans.
1989 Upon Hu Yaobang's death, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 begin in the People's Republic of China.
1992 The National Assembly of Vietnam adopts the 1992 Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
1994 Representatives of 124 countries and the European Communities sign the Marrakesh Agreements revising the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and initiating the World Trade Organization (effective January 1, 1995).
2002 An Air China Boeing 767-200, flight CA129 crashes into a hillside during heavy rain and fog near Busan, South Korea, killing 128.
End of C/P.