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Events:C/P.
489 Battle of Verona: The Ostrogoths under king Theodoric the Great defeat the forces of Odoacer for the second time at Verona (Northern Italy).
737 Battle of the Baggage: Turgesh drive back an Umayyad invasion of Khuttal, follow them south of the Oxus and capture their baggage train.
1399 Henry IV is proclaimed King of England.
1744 France and Spain defeat the Kingdom of Sardinia at the Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo.
1791 The first performance of The Magic Flute, the last opera by Mozart to make its debut, took place at Freihaus-Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna, Austria.
1791 The National Constituent Assembly in Paris is dissolved; Parisians hail Maximilien Robespierre and Jιrτme Pιtion as "incorruptible patriots".
1813 Battle of Bαrbula: Simσn Bolνvar defeats Santiago Bobadilla.
1860 Britain's first tram service begins in Birkenhead, Merseyside.
1882 Thomas Edison's first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States.
1888 Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.
1895 Madagascar becomes a French protectorate.
1903 The new Gresham's School is officially opened by Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood.
1906 The Real Academia Galega, Galician language's biggest linguistic authority, starts working in Havana.
1907 McKinley National Memorial, final resting place of assassinated U.S. President William McKinley and his family, dedicated in Canton, Ohio.
1927 Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season.
1931 Start of "Die Voortrekkers" youth movement for Afrikaners in Bloemfontein, South Africa.
1935 The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated.
1938 At 2:00 am, Britain, France, Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, allowing Germany to occupy the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
1938 The League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations".
1939 General Władysław Sikorski becomes commander-in-chief of the Polish Government in exile.
1941 World War II: Holocaust in Kiev, Ukraine: German Einsatzgruppe C complete Babi Yar massacre.
1945 The Bourne End rail crash, in Hertfordshire, England, kills 43
1947 The Islamic Republic of Pakistan and Yemen join the United Nations.
1947 The World Series, featuring the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers, is televised for the first time.
1949 The Berlin Airlift ends.
1954 The U.S. Navy submarine USS Nautilus is commissioned as the world's first nuclear reactor powered vessel.
1955 Film star James Dean dies in a road accident aged 24.
1962 Mexican-American labor leader Cιsar Chαvez founds the National Farm Workers Association, which later becomes United Farm Workers.
1962 James Meredith enters the University of Mississippi, defying segregation.
1965 The Lockheed L-100, the civilian version of the C-130 Hercules, is introduced.
1965 The 30 September Movement attempts a coup against the Indonesian government, which is crushed by the military under Suharto and leads to a mass anti-communist purge, with over 500,000 people killed.
1966 The British protectorate of Bechuanaland declares its independence, and becomes the Republic of Botswana. Seretse Khama takes office as the first President.
1967 BBC Light Programme, Third Programme and Home Service are replaced with BBC Radio 2, 3 and 4 Respectively, BBC Radio 1 is also launched with Tony Blackburn presenting the first show.
1968 The Boeing 747 is rolled out and shown to the public for the first time at the Boeing Everett Factory.
1970 Jordan makes a deal with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) for the release of the remaining hostages from the Dawson's Field hijackings.
1972 Roberto Clemente records the 3,000th and final hit of his career.
1975 The Hughes (later McDonnell-Douglas, now Boeing) AH-64 Apache makes its first flight.
1977 Because of US budget cuts and dwindling power reserves, the Apollo program's ALSEP experiment packages left on the Moon are shut down.
1979 The Hong Kong MTR commences service with the opening of its Modified Initial System (aka. Kwun Tong Line).
1980 Ethernet specifications are published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.
1982 Cyanide-laced Tylenol kills six people in the Chicago area. Seven are killed in all.
1986 Mordechai Vanunu, who revealed details of Israel's covert nuclear program to British media, is kidnapped in Rome, Italy by the Israeli Mossad.
1990 The Dalai Lama unveils the Canadian Tribute to Human Rights in Canada's capital city of Ottawa.
1993 An earthquake hits India's Latur and Osmanabad district of Marathwada (Aurangabad division) in Maharashtra state leaving tens of thousands of people dead and many more homeless.
1994 Aldwych tube station (originally Strand Station) of the London Underground closes after eighty-eight years of service.
1994 Ongar railway station, the furthest London Underground from Central London, closes.
1999 Japan's second worst nuclear accident at a uranium reprocessing facility in Tōkai-mura, northeast of Tokyo.
2004 The first images of a live giant squid in its natural habitat are taken 600 miles south of Tokyo.
2004 The AIM-54 Phoenix, the primary missile for the F-14 Tomcat, is retired from service. Almost two years later, the Tomcat is retired.
2005 The controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
2009 The 2009 Sumatra earthquakes occur, killing over 1,115 people.
End of C/P.
Events:C/P.
489 Battle of Verona: The Ostrogoths under king Theodoric the Great defeat the forces of Odoacer for the second time at Verona (Northern Italy).
737 Battle of the Baggage: Turgesh drive back an Umayyad invasion of Khuttal, follow them south of the Oxus and capture their baggage train.
1399 Henry IV is proclaimed King of England.
1744 France and Spain defeat the Kingdom of Sardinia at the Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo.
1791 The first performance of The Magic Flute, the last opera by Mozart to make its debut, took place at Freihaus-Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna, Austria.
1791 The National Constituent Assembly in Paris is dissolved; Parisians hail Maximilien Robespierre and Jιrτme Pιtion as "incorruptible patriots".
1813 Battle of Bαrbula: Simσn Bolνvar defeats Santiago Bobadilla.
1860 Britain's first tram service begins in Birkenhead, Merseyside.
1882 Thomas Edison's first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States.
1888 Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.
1895 Madagascar becomes a French protectorate.
1903 The new Gresham's School is officially opened by Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood.
1906 The Real Academia Galega, Galician language's biggest linguistic authority, starts working in Havana.
1907 McKinley National Memorial, final resting place of assassinated U.S. President William McKinley and his family, dedicated in Canton, Ohio.
1927 Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season.
1931 Start of "Die Voortrekkers" youth movement for Afrikaners in Bloemfontein, South Africa.
1935 The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated.
1938 At 2:00 am, Britain, France, Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, allowing Germany to occupy the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
1938 The League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations".
1939 General Władysław Sikorski becomes commander-in-chief of the Polish Government in exile.
1941 World War II: Holocaust in Kiev, Ukraine: German Einsatzgruppe C complete Babi Yar massacre.
1945 The Bourne End rail crash, in Hertfordshire, England, kills 43
1947 The Islamic Republic of Pakistan and Yemen join the United Nations.
1947 The World Series, featuring the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers, is televised for the first time.
1949 The Berlin Airlift ends.
1954 The U.S. Navy submarine USS Nautilus is commissioned as the world's first nuclear reactor powered vessel.
1955 Film star James Dean dies in a road accident aged 24.
1962 Mexican-American labor leader Cιsar Chαvez founds the National Farm Workers Association, which later becomes United Farm Workers.
1962 James Meredith enters the University of Mississippi, defying segregation.
1965 The Lockheed L-100, the civilian version of the C-130 Hercules, is introduced.
1965 The 30 September Movement attempts a coup against the Indonesian government, which is crushed by the military under Suharto and leads to a mass anti-communist purge, with over 500,000 people killed.
1966 The British protectorate of Bechuanaland declares its independence, and becomes the Republic of Botswana. Seretse Khama takes office as the first President.
1967 BBC Light Programme, Third Programme and Home Service are replaced with BBC Radio 2, 3 and 4 Respectively, BBC Radio 1 is also launched with Tony Blackburn presenting the first show.
1968 The Boeing 747 is rolled out and shown to the public for the first time at the Boeing Everett Factory.
1970 Jordan makes a deal with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) for the release of the remaining hostages from the Dawson's Field hijackings.
1972 Roberto Clemente records the 3,000th and final hit of his career.
1975 The Hughes (later McDonnell-Douglas, now Boeing) AH-64 Apache makes its first flight.
1977 Because of US budget cuts and dwindling power reserves, the Apollo program's ALSEP experiment packages left on the Moon are shut down.
1979 The Hong Kong MTR commences service with the opening of its Modified Initial System (aka. Kwun Tong Line).
1980 Ethernet specifications are published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.
1982 Cyanide-laced Tylenol kills six people in the Chicago area. Seven are killed in all.
1986 Mordechai Vanunu, who revealed details of Israel's covert nuclear program to British media, is kidnapped in Rome, Italy by the Israeli Mossad.
1990 The Dalai Lama unveils the Canadian Tribute to Human Rights in Canada's capital city of Ottawa.
1993 An earthquake hits India's Latur and Osmanabad district of Marathwada (Aurangabad division) in Maharashtra state leaving tens of thousands of people dead and many more homeless.
1994 Aldwych tube station (originally Strand Station) of the London Underground closes after eighty-eight years of service.
1994 Ongar railway station, the furthest London Underground from Central London, closes.
1999 Japan's second worst nuclear accident at a uranium reprocessing facility in Tōkai-mura, northeast of Tokyo.
2004 The first images of a live giant squid in its natural habitat are taken 600 miles south of Tokyo.
2004 The AIM-54 Phoenix, the primary missile for the F-14 Tomcat, is retired from service. Almost two years later, the Tomcat is retired.
2005 The controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
2009 The 2009 Sumatra earthquakes occur, killing over 1,115 people.
End of C/P.