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Events:C/P.
49 BC Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signaling the start of civil war.
69 Lucius Calpurnius Piso Licinianus is appointed by Galba to deputy Roman Emperor.
236 Pope Fabian succeeds Anterus as the twentieth pope of Rome.
1072 Robert Guiscard conquers Palermo.
1475 Stephen III of Moldavia defeats the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Vaslui.
1645 Archbishop William Laud is beheaded at the Tower of London.
1776 Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense.
1806 Dutch settlers in Cape Town surrender to the British.
1810 Napoleon Bonaparte divorces his first wife Josιphine.
1861 American Civil War: Florida secedes from the Union.
1863 The London Underground, the world's oldest underground railway, opens between London Paddington station and Farringdon station.
1870 John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil.
1901 The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.
1916 Erzurum Offensive during World War I, Russian victory over Ottoman Empire.
1920 The Treaty of Versailles takes effect, officially ending World War I.
1922 Arthur Griffith is elected President of the Dαil Ιireann.
1923 Lithuania seizes and annexes Memel.
1927 Fritz Lang's futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany.
1929 The Adventures of Tintin, one of the most popular European comic books ever, is first published in Belgium.
1941 World War II: The Greek army captures Kleisoura.
1946 The first General Assembly of the United Nations opens in London. Fifty-one nations are represented.
1946 The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts Project Diana, bouncing radio waves off the moon and receiving the reflected signals.
1954 BOAC Flight 781 A de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1 explodes and falls into the Tyrrhenian Sea killing 35 people.
1962 Apollo program: NASA announces plans to build the C-5 rocket launch vehicle. It became better known as the Saturn V Moon rocket, which launched every Apollo Moon mission.
1972 Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns to the newly independent Bangladesh as president after spending over nine months in prison in Pakistan.
1981 Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major offensive, gaining control of most of Morazαn and Chalatenango departments
1984 The United States and Vatican City establish full diplomatic relations after 117 years.
1985 Sandinista Daniel Ortega becomes president of Nicaragua and vows to continue the transformation to socialism and alliance with the Soviet Union and Cuba; American policy continues to support the Contras in their revolt against the Nicaraguan government.
1990 Time Warner is formed from the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications.
1999 Sanjeev Nanda kills three policemen in New Delhi, India with his car, an act for which he was later acquitted, resulting in a sharp drop in public confidence in the Indian legal system.
2005 A mudslide occurs in La Conchita, California, killing 10 people, injuring many more and closing U.S. Route 101, the main coastal corridor between San Francisco and Los Angeles, for 10 days.
2007 A general strike begins in Guinea in an eventually successful attempt to get President Lansana Contι to resign.
2011 20102011 Queensland floods: Torrential rain in the Lockyer Valley region of South East Queensland, Australia causes severe flash flooding, killing 9 people.
End of C/P.
Events:C/P.
49 BC Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signaling the start of civil war.
69 Lucius Calpurnius Piso Licinianus is appointed by Galba to deputy Roman Emperor.
236 Pope Fabian succeeds Anterus as the twentieth pope of Rome.
1072 Robert Guiscard conquers Palermo.
1475 Stephen III of Moldavia defeats the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Vaslui.
1645 Archbishop William Laud is beheaded at the Tower of London.
1776 Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense.
1806 Dutch settlers in Cape Town surrender to the British.
1810 Napoleon Bonaparte divorces his first wife Josιphine.
1861 American Civil War: Florida secedes from the Union.
1863 The London Underground, the world's oldest underground railway, opens between London Paddington station and Farringdon station.
1870 John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil.
1901 The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.
1916 Erzurum Offensive during World War I, Russian victory over Ottoman Empire.
1920 The Treaty of Versailles takes effect, officially ending World War I.
1922 Arthur Griffith is elected President of the Dαil Ιireann.
1923 Lithuania seizes and annexes Memel.
1927 Fritz Lang's futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany.
1929 The Adventures of Tintin, one of the most popular European comic books ever, is first published in Belgium.
1941 World War II: The Greek army captures Kleisoura.
1946 The first General Assembly of the United Nations opens in London. Fifty-one nations are represented.
1946 The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts Project Diana, bouncing radio waves off the moon and receiving the reflected signals.
1954 BOAC Flight 781 A de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1 explodes and falls into the Tyrrhenian Sea killing 35 people.
1962 Apollo program: NASA announces plans to build the C-5 rocket launch vehicle. It became better known as the Saturn V Moon rocket, which launched every Apollo Moon mission.
1972 Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns to the newly independent Bangladesh as president after spending over nine months in prison in Pakistan.
1981 Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major offensive, gaining control of most of Morazαn and Chalatenango departments
1984 The United States and Vatican City establish full diplomatic relations after 117 years.
1985 Sandinista Daniel Ortega becomes president of Nicaragua and vows to continue the transformation to socialism and alliance with the Soviet Union and Cuba; American policy continues to support the Contras in their revolt against the Nicaraguan government.
1990 Time Warner is formed from the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications.
1999 Sanjeev Nanda kills three policemen in New Delhi, India with his car, an act for which he was later acquitted, resulting in a sharp drop in public confidence in the Indian legal system.
2005 A mudslide occurs in La Conchita, California, killing 10 people, injuring many more and closing U.S. Route 101, the main coastal corridor between San Francisco and Los Angeles, for 10 days.
2007 A general strike begins in Guinea in an eventually successful attempt to get President Lansana Contι to resign.
2011 20102011 Queensland floods: Torrential rain in the Lockyer Valley region of South East Queensland, Australia causes severe flash flooding, killing 9 people.
End of C/P.