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Events:C/P.
1479 BC Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Egypt, although power effectively shifts to Hatshepsut (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th Dynasty).
1547 Battle of Mόhlberg. Duke of Alba, commanding Spanish-Imperial forces of Charles I of Spain, defeats the troops of Schmalkaldic League.
1558 Mary, Queen of Scots, marries the Dauphin of France, Franηois, at Notre Dame de Paris.
1704 The first regular newspaper in the United States, the News-Letter, is published in Boston, Massachusetts.
1800 The United States Library of Congress is established when President John Adams signs legislation to appropriate $5,000 USD to purchase "such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress".
1862 American Civil War: A flotilla commanded by Union Admiral David Farragut passes two Confederate forts on the Mississippi River on its way to capture New Orleans, Louisiana.
1877 Russo-Turkish War: Abbott declares war on Ottoman Empire.
1885 American sharpshooter Annie Oakley was hired by Nate Salsbury to be a part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West.
1898 The Spanish-American War: Abbott declares war on Spain.
1904 The Lithuanian press ban is lifted after almost 40 years.
1907 Hersheypark, founded by Milton S. Hershey for the exclusive use of his employees, is opened.
1907 Al Ahly was founded.
1913 The Woolworth Building skyscraper in New York City is opened.
1915 The arrest of 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Istanbul marks the beginning of the Armenian Genocide.
1916 Easter Rising: The Irish Republican Brotherhood led by nationalists Patrick Pearse, James Connolly, and Joseph Plunkett starts a rebellion in Ireland.
1916 Ernest Shackleton and five men of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition launch a lifeboat from uninhabited Elephant Island in the Southern Ocean to organise a rescue for the ice-trapped ship Endurance.
1918 First tank-to-tank combat, at Villers-Bretonneux, France, when three British Mark IVs met three German A7Vs.
1922 The first segment of the Imperial Wireless Chain providing wireless telegraphy between Leafield in Oxfordshire, England, and Cairo, Egypt, comes into operation.
1926 The Treaty of Berlin is signed. Germany and the Soviet Union each pledge neutrality in the event of an attack on the other by a third party for the next five years.
1932 Benny Rothman leads the mass trespass of Kinder Scout, leading to substantial legal reforms in the United Kingdom.
1953 Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
1955 The Bandung Conference ends: 29 non-aligned nations of Asia and Africa finish a meeting that condemns colonialism, racism, and the Cold War.
1957 Suez Crisis: The Suez Canal is reopened following the introduction of UNEF peacekeepers to the region.
1963 Marriage of HRH Princess Alexandra of Kent to the Hon Angus Ogilvy at Westminster Abbey in London.
1965 Civil war breaks out in the Dominican Republic when Colonel Francisco Caamaρo, overthrows the triumvirate that had been in power since the coup d'ιtat against Juan Bosch.
1967 Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies in Soyuz 1 when its parachute fails to open. He is the first human to die during a space mission.
1967 Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland says in a news conference that the enemy had "gained support in the United States that gives him hope that he can win politically that which he cannot win militarily."
1968 Mauritius becomes a member state of the United Nations.
1970 The first Chinese satellite, Dong Fang Hong I, is launched.
1970 The Gambia becomes a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations, with Dawda Jawara as the first President.
1971 Soyuz 10 docks with Salyut 1.
1980 Eight U.S. servicemen die in Operation Eagle Claw as they attempt to end the Iran hostage crisis.
1990 STS-31: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched from the Space Shuttle Discovery.
1990 Gruinard Island, Scotland, is officially declared free of the anthrax disease after 48 years of quarantine.
1993 An IRA bomb devastates the Bishopsgate area of London.
1996 In the United States, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 is introduced.
2004 The United States lifts economic sanctions imposed on Libya 18 years previously, as a reward for its cooperation in eliminating weapons of mass destruction.
2005 Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as the 265th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church taking the name Pope Benedict XVI.
2005 Snuppy, the world's first cloned dog, is born in South Korea.
2006 King Gyanendra of Nepal gives into the demands of protesters and restores the parliament that he dissolved in 2002.
2007 Iceland announces that Norway will shoulder the defense of Iceland during peacetime.
End of C/P.
Events:C/P.
1479 BC Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Egypt, although power effectively shifts to Hatshepsut (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th Dynasty).
1547 Battle of Mόhlberg. Duke of Alba, commanding Spanish-Imperial forces of Charles I of Spain, defeats the troops of Schmalkaldic League.
1558 Mary, Queen of Scots, marries the Dauphin of France, Franηois, at Notre Dame de Paris.
1704 The first regular newspaper in the United States, the News-Letter, is published in Boston, Massachusetts.
1800 The United States Library of Congress is established when President John Adams signs legislation to appropriate $5,000 USD to purchase "such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress".
1862 American Civil War: A flotilla commanded by Union Admiral David Farragut passes two Confederate forts on the Mississippi River on its way to capture New Orleans, Louisiana.
1877 Russo-Turkish War: Abbott declares war on Ottoman Empire.
1885 American sharpshooter Annie Oakley was hired by Nate Salsbury to be a part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West.
1898 The Spanish-American War: Abbott declares war on Spain.
1904 The Lithuanian press ban is lifted after almost 40 years.
1907 Hersheypark, founded by Milton S. Hershey for the exclusive use of his employees, is opened.
1907 Al Ahly was founded.
1913 The Woolworth Building skyscraper in New York City is opened.
1915 The arrest of 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Istanbul marks the beginning of the Armenian Genocide.
1916 Easter Rising: The Irish Republican Brotherhood led by nationalists Patrick Pearse, James Connolly, and Joseph Plunkett starts a rebellion in Ireland.
1916 Ernest Shackleton and five men of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition launch a lifeboat from uninhabited Elephant Island in the Southern Ocean to organise a rescue for the ice-trapped ship Endurance.
1918 First tank-to-tank combat, at Villers-Bretonneux, France, when three British Mark IVs met three German A7Vs.
1922 The first segment of the Imperial Wireless Chain providing wireless telegraphy between Leafield in Oxfordshire, England, and Cairo, Egypt, comes into operation.
1926 The Treaty of Berlin is signed. Germany and the Soviet Union each pledge neutrality in the event of an attack on the other by a third party for the next five years.
1932 Benny Rothman leads the mass trespass of Kinder Scout, leading to substantial legal reforms in the United Kingdom.
1953 Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
1955 The Bandung Conference ends: 29 non-aligned nations of Asia and Africa finish a meeting that condemns colonialism, racism, and the Cold War.
1957 Suez Crisis: The Suez Canal is reopened following the introduction of UNEF peacekeepers to the region.
1963 Marriage of HRH Princess Alexandra of Kent to the Hon Angus Ogilvy at Westminster Abbey in London.
1965 Civil war breaks out in the Dominican Republic when Colonel Francisco Caamaρo, overthrows the triumvirate that had been in power since the coup d'ιtat against Juan Bosch.
1967 Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies in Soyuz 1 when its parachute fails to open. He is the first human to die during a space mission.
1967 Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland says in a news conference that the enemy had "gained support in the United States that gives him hope that he can win politically that which he cannot win militarily."
1968 Mauritius becomes a member state of the United Nations.
1970 The first Chinese satellite, Dong Fang Hong I, is launched.
1970 The Gambia becomes a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations, with Dawda Jawara as the first President.
1971 Soyuz 10 docks with Salyut 1.
1980 Eight U.S. servicemen die in Operation Eagle Claw as they attempt to end the Iran hostage crisis.
1990 STS-31: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched from the Space Shuttle Discovery.
1990 Gruinard Island, Scotland, is officially declared free of the anthrax disease after 48 years of quarantine.
1993 An IRA bomb devastates the Bishopsgate area of London.
1996 In the United States, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 is introduced.
2004 The United States lifts economic sanctions imposed on Libya 18 years previously, as a reward for its cooperation in eliminating weapons of mass destruction.
2005 Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as the 265th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church taking the name Pope Benedict XVI.
2005 Snuppy, the world's first cloned dog, is born in South Korea.
2006 King Gyanendra of Nepal gives into the demands of protesters and restores the parliament that he dissolved in 2002.
2007 Iceland announces that Norway will shoulder the defense of Iceland during peacetime.
End of C/P.