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Events:C/P.
14 Tiberius is confirmed as Roman Emperor by the Roman Senate following the natural death of Augustus
96 Nerva is proclaimed Roman Emperor after Domitian is assassinated.
324 Constantine the Great decisively defeats Licinius in the Battle of Chrysopolis, establishing Constantine's sole control over the Roman Empire.
1180 Philip Augustus becomes king of France.
1454 In the Battle of Chojnice, the Polish army is defeated by the Teutonic army during the Thirteen Years' War.
1502 Christopher Columbus lands at Costa Rica on his fourth, and final voyage.
1635 Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II of Austria declares war on France.
1679 New Hampshire becomes a county of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1714 George I arrives in Great Britain for the first time since becoming king on August 1st.
1739 The Treaty of Belgrade is signed, ceding Belgrade to the Ottoman Empire.
1759 The British capture Quebec City.
1793 The first cornerstone of the Capitol building is laid by George Washington.
1809 The Royal Opera House in London opens.
1810 First Government Junta in Chile. Though supposed to rule only in the absence of the king, it is in fact the first step towards independence from Spain, and is commemorated as such.
1812 The 1812 Fire of Moscow dies down after destroying more than three-quarters of the city. Napoleon returns from the Petrovsky Palace to the Moscow Kremlin, spared from the fire.
1837 Tiffany and Co. (first named Tiffany & Young) is founded by Charles Lewis Tiffany and Teddy Young in New York City. The store is called a "stationery and fancy goods emporium".
1838 The Anti-Corn Law League is established by Richard Cobden.
1850 The U.S. Congress passes the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850.
1851 First publication of The New-York Daily Times, which later becomes The New York Times.
1870 Old Faithful Geyser is observed and named by Henry D. Washburn during the Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition to Yellowstone.
1872 King Oscar II accedes to the throne of Sweden-Norway.
1873 Panic of 1873: The U.S. bank Jay Cooke & Company declares bankruptcy, triggering a series of bank failures.
1879 The Blackpool Illuminations are switched on for the first time.
1882 The Pacific Stock Exchange opens.
1885 Riots break out in Montreal to protest against compulsory smallpox vaccination.
1895 Booker T. Washington delivers the "Atlanta Compromise" address.
1895 Daniel David Palmer gives the first chiropractic adjustment.
1898 Fashoda Incident Lord Kitchener's ships reach Fashoda, Sudan.
1906 A typhoon with tsunami kills an estimated 10,000 people in Hong Kong.
1910 In Amsterdam, 25,000 demonstrate for general suffrage.
1911 Russian Premier Peter Stolypin is shot at the Kiev Opera House.
1914 The Irish Home Rule Act becomes law, but is delayed until after World War I.
1914 World War I: South African troops land in German South West Africa.
1919 The Netherlands gives women the right to vote.
1919 Fritz Pollard becomes the first African-American to play professional football for a major team, the Akron Pros.
1922 Hungary is admitted to League of Nations.
1927 The Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air.
1928 Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro crossing of the English Channel.
1931 The Mukden Incident gives Japan the pretext to invade and occupy Manchuria.
1934 The USSR is admitted to League of Nations.
1939 World War II: Polish government of Ignacy Mościcki flees to Romania.
1939 The Nazi propaganda broadcaster known as Lord Haw-Haw begins transmitting.
1943 World War II: The Jews of Minsk are massacred at Sobibσr.
1943 World War II: Adolf Hitler orders the deportation of Danish Jews.
1944 World War II: The British submarine HMS Tradewind torpedoes Junyō Maru, 5,600 killed.
1945 General Douglas MacArthur moves his command headquarters to Tokyo.
1947 The United States Air Force becomes an independent branch of the United States armed forces.
1947 The National Security Council and the Central Intelligence Agency were established in the United States under the National Security Act.
1948 Operation Polo is terminated after Indian Army accepts the surrender of Nizam's Army.
1948 Communist Madiun uprising in Dutch Indies.
1948 Margaret Chase Smith of Maine becomes the first woman elected to the US Senate without completing another senator's term, when she defeats Democratic opponent Adrian Scolten.
1959 Vanguard 3 is launched into Earth orbit.
1960 Fidel Castro arrives in New York City as the head of the Cuban delegation to the United Nations.
1961 U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjφld dies in a plane crash while attempting to negotiate peace in the war-torn Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
1962 Burundi, Jamaica, Rwanda and Trinidad and Tobago are admitted to the United Nations.
1964 Constantine II of Greece marries Danish princess Anne-Marie.
1964 North Vietnamese Army begins infiltration of South Vietnam.
1973 The Bahamas, East Germany and West Germany are admitted to the United Nations.
1974 Hurricane Fifi strikes Honduras with 110 mph winds, killing 5,000 people.
1975 Patty Hearst is arrested after a year on the FBI Most Wanted List.
1977 Voyager I takes first photograph of the Earth and the Moon together.
1980 Soyuz 38 carries 2 cosmonauts (including 1 Cuban) to Salyut 6 space station.
1981 Assemblιe Nationale votes to abolish capital punishment in France.
1982 Christian militia begin killing six-hundred Palestinians in Lebanon.
1984 Joe Kittinger completes the first solo balloon crossing of the Atlantic.
1988 End of pro-democracy uprisings in Myanmar after a bloody military coup by the State Law and Order Restoration Council. Thousands, mostly monks and civilians (primarily students) are killed by the Tatmadaw.
1990 Liechtenstein becomes a member of the United Nations.
1991 Yugoslavia begins a naval blockade of 7 Adriatic port cities.
1992 An explosion rocks Giant Mine at the height of a labor dispute, killing 9 replacement workers.
1997 United States media magnate Ted Turner donates USD 1 billion to the United Nations.
1998 ICANN is formed.
2001 First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
2007 Pervez Musharraf announces that he will step down as army chief and restore civilian rule to Pakistan, but only after he is re-elected president.
2007 Buddhist monks join anti-government protesters in Myanmar, starting what some called the Saffron Revolution.
2009 The 72 year run of the soap opera The Guiding Light ends as its final episode is broadcast.
End of C/P.
Events:C/P.
14 Tiberius is confirmed as Roman Emperor by the Roman Senate following the natural death of Augustus
96 Nerva is proclaimed Roman Emperor after Domitian is assassinated.
324 Constantine the Great decisively defeats Licinius in the Battle of Chrysopolis, establishing Constantine's sole control over the Roman Empire.
1180 Philip Augustus becomes king of France.
1454 In the Battle of Chojnice, the Polish army is defeated by the Teutonic army during the Thirteen Years' War.
1502 Christopher Columbus lands at Costa Rica on his fourth, and final voyage.
1635 Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II of Austria declares war on France.
1679 New Hampshire becomes a county of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1714 George I arrives in Great Britain for the first time since becoming king on August 1st.
1739 The Treaty of Belgrade is signed, ceding Belgrade to the Ottoman Empire.
1759 The British capture Quebec City.
1793 The first cornerstone of the Capitol building is laid by George Washington.
1809 The Royal Opera House in London opens.
1810 First Government Junta in Chile. Though supposed to rule only in the absence of the king, it is in fact the first step towards independence from Spain, and is commemorated as such.
1812 The 1812 Fire of Moscow dies down after destroying more than three-quarters of the city. Napoleon returns from the Petrovsky Palace to the Moscow Kremlin, spared from the fire.
1837 Tiffany and Co. (first named Tiffany & Young) is founded by Charles Lewis Tiffany and Teddy Young in New York City. The store is called a "stationery and fancy goods emporium".
1838 The Anti-Corn Law League is established by Richard Cobden.
1850 The U.S. Congress passes the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850.
1851 First publication of The New-York Daily Times, which later becomes The New York Times.
1870 Old Faithful Geyser is observed and named by Henry D. Washburn during the Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition to Yellowstone.
1872 King Oscar II accedes to the throne of Sweden-Norway.
1873 Panic of 1873: The U.S. bank Jay Cooke & Company declares bankruptcy, triggering a series of bank failures.
1879 The Blackpool Illuminations are switched on for the first time.
1882 The Pacific Stock Exchange opens.
1885 Riots break out in Montreal to protest against compulsory smallpox vaccination.
1895 Booker T. Washington delivers the "Atlanta Compromise" address.
1895 Daniel David Palmer gives the first chiropractic adjustment.
1898 Fashoda Incident Lord Kitchener's ships reach Fashoda, Sudan.
1906 A typhoon with tsunami kills an estimated 10,000 people in Hong Kong.
1910 In Amsterdam, 25,000 demonstrate for general suffrage.
1911 Russian Premier Peter Stolypin is shot at the Kiev Opera House.
1914 The Irish Home Rule Act becomes law, but is delayed until after World War I.
1914 World War I: South African troops land in German South West Africa.
1919 The Netherlands gives women the right to vote.
1919 Fritz Pollard becomes the first African-American to play professional football for a major team, the Akron Pros.
1922 Hungary is admitted to League of Nations.
1927 The Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air.
1928 Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro crossing of the English Channel.
1931 The Mukden Incident gives Japan the pretext to invade and occupy Manchuria.
1934 The USSR is admitted to League of Nations.
1939 World War II: Polish government of Ignacy Mościcki flees to Romania.
1939 The Nazi propaganda broadcaster known as Lord Haw-Haw begins transmitting.
1943 World War II: The Jews of Minsk are massacred at Sobibσr.
1943 World War II: Adolf Hitler orders the deportation of Danish Jews.
1944 World War II: The British submarine HMS Tradewind torpedoes Junyō Maru, 5,600 killed.
1945 General Douglas MacArthur moves his command headquarters to Tokyo.
1947 The United States Air Force becomes an independent branch of the United States armed forces.
1947 The National Security Council and the Central Intelligence Agency were established in the United States under the National Security Act.
1948 Operation Polo is terminated after Indian Army accepts the surrender of Nizam's Army.
1948 Communist Madiun uprising in Dutch Indies.
1948 Margaret Chase Smith of Maine becomes the first woman elected to the US Senate without completing another senator's term, when she defeats Democratic opponent Adrian Scolten.
1959 Vanguard 3 is launched into Earth orbit.
1960 Fidel Castro arrives in New York City as the head of the Cuban delegation to the United Nations.
1961 U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjφld dies in a plane crash while attempting to negotiate peace in the war-torn Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
1962 Burundi, Jamaica, Rwanda and Trinidad and Tobago are admitted to the United Nations.
1964 Constantine II of Greece marries Danish princess Anne-Marie.
1964 North Vietnamese Army begins infiltration of South Vietnam.
1973 The Bahamas, East Germany and West Germany are admitted to the United Nations.
1974 Hurricane Fifi strikes Honduras with 110 mph winds, killing 5,000 people.
1975 Patty Hearst is arrested after a year on the FBI Most Wanted List.
1977 Voyager I takes first photograph of the Earth and the Moon together.
1980 Soyuz 38 carries 2 cosmonauts (including 1 Cuban) to Salyut 6 space station.
1981 Assemblιe Nationale votes to abolish capital punishment in France.
1982 Christian militia begin killing six-hundred Palestinians in Lebanon.
1984 Joe Kittinger completes the first solo balloon crossing of the Atlantic.
1988 End of pro-democracy uprisings in Myanmar after a bloody military coup by the State Law and Order Restoration Council. Thousands, mostly monks and civilians (primarily students) are killed by the Tatmadaw.
1990 Liechtenstein becomes a member of the United Nations.
1991 Yugoslavia begins a naval blockade of 7 Adriatic port cities.
1992 An explosion rocks Giant Mine at the height of a labor dispute, killing 9 replacement workers.
1997 United States media magnate Ted Turner donates USD 1 billion to the United Nations.
1998 ICANN is formed.
2001 First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
2007 Pervez Musharraf announces that he will step down as army chief and restore civilian rule to Pakistan, but only after he is re-elected president.
2007 Buddhist monks join anti-government protesters in Myanmar, starting what some called the Saffron Revolution.
2009 The 72 year run of the soap opera The Guiding Light ends as its final episode is broadcast.
End of C/P.