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66 Roman Emperor Nero creates the Legion I Italica.
1236 The Lithuanians and Semigallians defeat the Livonian Brothers of the Sword in the Battle of Saule.
1499 Treaty of Basel: Switzerland becomes an independent state.
1586 Battle of Zutphen: Spanish victory over the English and Dutch.
1598 English playwright Ben Jonson kills an actor in a duel and is indicted for manslaughter.
1692 Last people hanged for witchcraft in England's North American colonies.
1711 The Tuscarora War begins in present-day North Carolina.
1761 George III and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz are crowned King and Queen, respectively, of the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1776 Nathan Hale is hanged for spying during American Revolution.
1789 The office of United States Postmaster General is established.
1789 Battle of Rymnik establishes Alexander Suvorov as a pre-eminent Russian military commander after his allied army defeat superior Ottoman Empire forces.
1792 Primidi Vendιmiaire of year 1 of the French Republican Calendar as the French First Republic comes into being.
1823 Joseph Smith, Jr. states he found the Golden plates on this date after being directed by God through the Angel Moroni to the place where they were buried.
1857 The Russian warship Lefort capsizes and sinks during a storm in the Gulf of Finland, killing all 826 aboard.
1862 Slavery in the United States: a preliminary version of the Emancipation Proclamation is released.
1866 Battle of Curupaity in the Paraguayan War.
1869 Richard Wagner's opera Das Rheingold premieres in Munich.
1885 Lord Randolph Churchill makes a speech in Ulster in opposition to Home Rule.
1888 The first issue of National Geographic Magazine is published.
1896 Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.
1908 The Bulgarian Declaration of Independence is proclaimed.
1910 The Duke of York's Picture House opens in Brighton, now the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain.
1914 German submarine U-9 torpedoes and sinks the British cruisers, HMS Aboukir, HMS Hogue and HMS Cressy on the Broad Fourteens off the Dutch coast with the loss of nearly 1400 men and boys.
1919 The steel strike of 1919, led by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, begins in Pennsylvania before spreading across the United States.
1927 Jack Dempsey loses the "Long Count" boxing match to Gene Tunney.
1934 An explosion takes place at Gresford Colliery in Wales, leading to the deaths of 266 miners and rescuers.
1937 Spanish Civil War: Peρa Blanca is taken; the end of the Battle of El Mazuco.
1939 Joint victory parade of Wehrmacht and Red Army in Brest-Litovsk at the end of the Invasion of Poland.
1941 World War II: On Jewish New Year Day, the German SS murder 6,000 Jews in Vinnytsya, Ukraine. Those are the survivors of the previous killings that took place a few days earlier in which about 24,000 Jews were executed.
1955 In the United Kingdom, the television channel ITV goes live for the first time.
1957 In Haiti, Franηois Duvalier is elected president.
1960 The Sudanese Republic is renamed Mali after the withdrawal of Senegal from the Mali Federation.
1965 The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 (also known as the Second Kashmir War) between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, ends after the UN calls for a cease-fire.
1975 Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford, but is foiled by Oliver Sipple.
1979 The Vela Incident (also known as the South Atlantic Flash) is observed near Bouvet Island, thought to be a nuclear weapons test.
1980 Iraq invades Iran.
1991 The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time by the Huntington Library.
1993 A barge strikes a railroad bridge near Mobile, Alabama, causing the deadliest train wreck in Amtrak history. 47 passengers are killed.
1993 A Transair Georgian Airlines Tu-154 is shot down by a missile in Sukhumi, Georgia.
1994 The television sitcom Friends, about six young adults living in New York City, debuts on NBC.
1995 An E-3B AWACS crashes outside Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska after multiple bird strikes to two of the four engines soon after takeoff; all 24 on board are killed.
1995 Nagerkovil school bombing, is carried out by Sri Lankan Air Force in which at least 34 die, most of them ethnic Tamil school children.
2011 CERN scientists announce their discovery of neutrinos breaking the speed of light.
End of C/P.
Events:C/P.
66 Roman Emperor Nero creates the Legion I Italica.
1236 The Lithuanians and Semigallians defeat the Livonian Brothers of the Sword in the Battle of Saule.
1499 Treaty of Basel: Switzerland becomes an independent state.
1586 Battle of Zutphen: Spanish victory over the English and Dutch.
1598 English playwright Ben Jonson kills an actor in a duel and is indicted for manslaughter.
1692 Last people hanged for witchcraft in England's North American colonies.
1711 The Tuscarora War begins in present-day North Carolina.
1761 George III and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz are crowned King and Queen, respectively, of the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1776 Nathan Hale is hanged for spying during American Revolution.
1789 The office of United States Postmaster General is established.
1789 Battle of Rymnik establishes Alexander Suvorov as a pre-eminent Russian military commander after his allied army defeat superior Ottoman Empire forces.
1792 Primidi Vendιmiaire of year 1 of the French Republican Calendar as the French First Republic comes into being.
1823 Joseph Smith, Jr. states he found the Golden plates on this date after being directed by God through the Angel Moroni to the place where they were buried.
1857 The Russian warship Lefort capsizes and sinks during a storm in the Gulf of Finland, killing all 826 aboard.
1862 Slavery in the United States: a preliminary version of the Emancipation Proclamation is released.
1866 Battle of Curupaity in the Paraguayan War.
1869 Richard Wagner's opera Das Rheingold premieres in Munich.
1885 Lord Randolph Churchill makes a speech in Ulster in opposition to Home Rule.
1888 The first issue of National Geographic Magazine is published.
1896 Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.
1908 The Bulgarian Declaration of Independence is proclaimed.
1910 The Duke of York's Picture House opens in Brighton, now the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain.
1914 German submarine U-9 torpedoes and sinks the British cruisers, HMS Aboukir, HMS Hogue and HMS Cressy on the Broad Fourteens off the Dutch coast with the loss of nearly 1400 men and boys.
1919 The steel strike of 1919, led by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, begins in Pennsylvania before spreading across the United States.
1927 Jack Dempsey loses the "Long Count" boxing match to Gene Tunney.
1934 An explosion takes place at Gresford Colliery in Wales, leading to the deaths of 266 miners and rescuers.
1937 Spanish Civil War: Peρa Blanca is taken; the end of the Battle of El Mazuco.
1939 Joint victory parade of Wehrmacht and Red Army in Brest-Litovsk at the end of the Invasion of Poland.
1941 World War II: On Jewish New Year Day, the German SS murder 6,000 Jews in Vinnytsya, Ukraine. Those are the survivors of the previous killings that took place a few days earlier in which about 24,000 Jews were executed.
1955 In the United Kingdom, the television channel ITV goes live for the first time.
1957 In Haiti, Franηois Duvalier is elected president.
1960 The Sudanese Republic is renamed Mali after the withdrawal of Senegal from the Mali Federation.
1965 The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 (also known as the Second Kashmir War) between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, ends after the UN calls for a cease-fire.
1975 Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford, but is foiled by Oliver Sipple.
1979 The Vela Incident (also known as the South Atlantic Flash) is observed near Bouvet Island, thought to be a nuclear weapons test.
1980 Iraq invades Iran.
1991 The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time by the Huntington Library.
1993 A barge strikes a railroad bridge near Mobile, Alabama, causing the deadliest train wreck in Amtrak history. 47 passengers are killed.
1993 A Transair Georgian Airlines Tu-154 is shot down by a missile in Sukhumi, Georgia.
1994 The television sitcom Friends, about six young adults living in New York City, debuts on NBC.
1995 An E-3B AWACS crashes outside Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska after multiple bird strikes to two of the four engines soon after takeoff; all 24 on board are killed.
1995 Nagerkovil school bombing, is carried out by Sri Lankan Air Force in which at least 34 die, most of them ethnic Tamil school children.
2011 CERN scientists announce their discovery of neutrinos breaking the speed of light.
End of C/P.