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Events :C/P.
9 Arminius' alliance of six Germanic tribes ambushes and annihilates three Roman legions of Publius Quinctilius Varus in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest.
337 Constantine II, Constantius II, and Constans I succeed their father Constantine I as co-emperors. The Roman Empire is divided between the three Augusti.
1000 Battle of Svolder, Viking Age.
1379 Treaty of Neuberg, splitting the Austrian Habsburg lands between the Habsburg Dukes Albert III and Leopold III.
1493 Battle of Krbava field, a decisive defeat of Croats in Croatian struggle against the invasion by the Ottoman Empire.
1513 James IV of Scotland is defeated and dies in the Battle of Flodden Field, ending Scotland's involvement in the War of the League of Cambrai.
1543 Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is crowned "Queen of Scots" in the central Scottish town of Stirling.
1561 The ultimately unsuccessful Colloquy at Poissy opens in an effort to reconcile French Catholics and Protestants.
1739 Stono Rebellion, the largest slave uprising in Britain's mainland North American colonies prior to the American Revolution, erupts near Charleston, South Carolina.
1776 The Continental Congress officially names its new union of sovereign states the United States.
1791 Washington, D.C., the capitol of the United States, is named after President George Washington.
1801 Alexander I of Russia confirms the privileges of Baltic provinces.
1839 John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph.
1850 California is admitted as the thirty-first U.S. state.
1850 The Compromise of 1850 transfers a third of Texas's claimed territory (now parts of Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Wyoming) to federal control in return for the U.S. federal government assuming $10 million of Texas's pre-annexation debt.
1855 Crimean War: The Siege of Sevastopol comes to an end when Russian forces abandon the city.
1863 American Civil War: The Union Army enters Chattanooga, Tennessee.
1886 The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works is finalized.
1914 World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army.
1922 The Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922 effectively ends with Turkish victory over the Greeks in Smyrna.
1923 Mustafa Kemal Atatόrk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey, founds the Republican People's Party.
1924 Hanapepe Massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii.
1926 The U.S. National Broadcasting Company is formed.
1939 World War II: The Battle of Hel begins, the longest-defended pocket of Polish Army resistance during the German invasion of Poland.
1939 Burmese national hero U Ottama dies in prison after a hunger strike to protest Britain's colonial government.
1940 George Stibitz pioneers the first remote operation of a computer.
1942 World War II: A Japanese floatplane drops incendiary bombs on Oregon.
1943 World War II: The Allies land at Salerno and Taranto, Italy.
1944 World War II: The Fatherland Front takes power in Bulgaria through a military coup in the capital and armed rebellion in the country. A new pro-Soviet government is established.
1945 Second Sino-Japanese War: Japan formally surrenders to China.
1947 First actual case of a computer bug being found: a moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University.
1948 Kim Il-sung declares the establishment of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
1956 Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time.
1965 The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development is established.
1965 Hurricane Betsy makes its second landfall near New Orleans, Louisiana, leaving 76 dead and $1.42 billion ($1012 billion in 2005 dollars) in damages, becoming the first hurricane to top $1 billion in unadjusted damages.
1966 The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act is signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.
1969 Allegheny Airlines Flight 853 DC-9 collides in flight with a Piper PA-28 and crashes near Fairland, Indiana.
1969 In Canada, the Official Languages Act comes into force, making the French language equal to the English language throughout the Federal government.
1970 A British airliner is hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and flown to Dawson's Field in Jordan.
1971 The four-day Attica Prison riot begins, which eventually results in 39 dead, most killed by state troopers retaking the prison.
1972 In Kentucky's Mammoth Cave National Park, a Cave Research Foundation exploration and mapping team discovers a link between the Mammoth and Flint Ridge cave systems, making it the longest known cave passageway in the world.
1990 1990 Batticaloa massacre, massacre of 184 minority Tamil civilians by Sri Lankan Army in the eastern Batticaloa District of Sri Lanka.
1991 Tajikstan gains independence from the Soviet Union.
1993 The Palestine Liberation Organization officially recognizes Israel as a legitimate state.
1995 The debut of the Sony Playstation.
1999 The beginning of the Y2K bug, the debut of the Dreamcast, and the 1999 MTV Video Music Awards.
2001 Ahmed Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance, is assassinated in Afghanistan by two al Qaeda assassins who claimed to be Arab journalists wanting an interview.
2001 Pδrnu methanol tragedy occurs in Pδrnu County, Estonia.
2001 At exactly 01:46:40 UTC, the Unix billenium is reached, marking the beginning of the use of 10-digit decimal Unix timestamps.
2004 2004 Australian embassy bombing: A bomb explodes outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta, killing 10 people.
2009 At exactly 9:09:09 PM, the Dubai Metro, the first urban train network in the Arabian Peninsula, is ceremonially inaugurated.
2010 A natural gas pipeline explosion in San Bruno, California, creates a "wall of fire" more than 1,000 feet (300 m) high.
2012 - SatFix will be shutting its door and going offline.
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Events :C/P.
9 Arminius' alliance of six Germanic tribes ambushes and annihilates three Roman legions of Publius Quinctilius Varus in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest.
337 Constantine II, Constantius II, and Constans I succeed their father Constantine I as co-emperors. The Roman Empire is divided between the three Augusti.
1000 Battle of Svolder, Viking Age.
1379 Treaty of Neuberg, splitting the Austrian Habsburg lands between the Habsburg Dukes Albert III and Leopold III.
1493 Battle of Krbava field, a decisive defeat of Croats in Croatian struggle against the invasion by the Ottoman Empire.
1513 James IV of Scotland is defeated and dies in the Battle of Flodden Field, ending Scotland's involvement in the War of the League of Cambrai.
1543 Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is crowned "Queen of Scots" in the central Scottish town of Stirling.
1561 The ultimately unsuccessful Colloquy at Poissy opens in an effort to reconcile French Catholics and Protestants.
1739 Stono Rebellion, the largest slave uprising in Britain's mainland North American colonies prior to the American Revolution, erupts near Charleston, South Carolina.
1776 The Continental Congress officially names its new union of sovereign states the United States.
1791 Washington, D.C., the capitol of the United States, is named after President George Washington.
1801 Alexander I of Russia confirms the privileges of Baltic provinces.
1839 John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph.
1850 California is admitted as the thirty-first U.S. state.
1850 The Compromise of 1850 transfers a third of Texas's claimed territory (now parts of Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Wyoming) to federal control in return for the U.S. federal government assuming $10 million of Texas's pre-annexation debt.
1855 Crimean War: The Siege of Sevastopol comes to an end when Russian forces abandon the city.
1863 American Civil War: The Union Army enters Chattanooga, Tennessee.
1886 The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works is finalized.
1914 World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army.
1922 The Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922 effectively ends with Turkish victory over the Greeks in Smyrna.
1923 Mustafa Kemal Atatόrk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey, founds the Republican People's Party.
1924 Hanapepe Massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii.
1926 The U.S. National Broadcasting Company is formed.
1939 World War II: The Battle of Hel begins, the longest-defended pocket of Polish Army resistance during the German invasion of Poland.
1939 Burmese national hero U Ottama dies in prison after a hunger strike to protest Britain's colonial government.
1940 George Stibitz pioneers the first remote operation of a computer.
1942 World War II: A Japanese floatplane drops incendiary bombs on Oregon.
1943 World War II: The Allies land at Salerno and Taranto, Italy.
1944 World War II: The Fatherland Front takes power in Bulgaria through a military coup in the capital and armed rebellion in the country. A new pro-Soviet government is established.
1945 Second Sino-Japanese War: Japan formally surrenders to China.
1947 First actual case of a computer bug being found: a moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University.
1948 Kim Il-sung declares the establishment of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
1956 Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time.
1965 The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development is established.
1965 Hurricane Betsy makes its second landfall near New Orleans, Louisiana, leaving 76 dead and $1.42 billion ($1012 billion in 2005 dollars) in damages, becoming the first hurricane to top $1 billion in unadjusted damages.
1966 The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act is signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.
1969 Allegheny Airlines Flight 853 DC-9 collides in flight with a Piper PA-28 and crashes near Fairland, Indiana.
1969 In Canada, the Official Languages Act comes into force, making the French language equal to the English language throughout the Federal government.
1970 A British airliner is hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and flown to Dawson's Field in Jordan.
1971 The four-day Attica Prison riot begins, which eventually results in 39 dead, most killed by state troopers retaking the prison.
1972 In Kentucky's Mammoth Cave National Park, a Cave Research Foundation exploration and mapping team discovers a link between the Mammoth and Flint Ridge cave systems, making it the longest known cave passageway in the world.
1990 1990 Batticaloa massacre, massacre of 184 minority Tamil civilians by Sri Lankan Army in the eastern Batticaloa District of Sri Lanka.
1991 Tajikstan gains independence from the Soviet Union.
1993 The Palestine Liberation Organization officially recognizes Israel as a legitimate state.
1995 The debut of the Sony Playstation.
1999 The beginning of the Y2K bug, the debut of the Dreamcast, and the 1999 MTV Video Music Awards.
2001 Ahmed Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance, is assassinated in Afghanistan by two al Qaeda assassins who claimed to be Arab journalists wanting an interview.
2001 Pδrnu methanol tragedy occurs in Pδrnu County, Estonia.
2001 At exactly 01:46:40 UTC, the Unix billenium is reached, marking the beginning of the use of 10-digit decimal Unix timestamps.
2004 2004 Australian embassy bombing: A bomb explodes outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta, killing 10 people.
2009 At exactly 9:09:09 PM, the Dubai Metro, the first urban train network in the Arabian Peninsula, is ceremonially inaugurated.
2010 A natural gas pipeline explosion in San Bruno, California, creates a "wall of fire" more than 1,000 feet (300 m) high.
2012 - SatFix will be shutting its door and going offline.
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