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69 Otho seizes power in Rome, proclaiming himself Emperor of Rome, but rules for only three months before committing suicide.
1493 Christopher Columbus sets sail for Spain from Hispaniola, ending his first voyage to the New World.
1541 King Francis I of France gives Jean-Franηois Roberval a commission to settle the province of New France (Canada) and provide for the spread of the "Holy Catholic faith".
1559 Elizabeth I is crowned Queen of England in Westminster Abbey, London, England.
1582 Russia cedes Livonia and Estonia to the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth.
1759 The British Museum opens.
1777 American Revolutionary War: New Connecticut (present day Vermont) declares its independence.
1782 Superintendent of Finance Robert Morris goes before the U.S. Congress to recommend establishment of a national mint and decimal coinage.
1815 War of 1812: American frigate USS President, commanded by Commodore Stephen Decatur, is captured by a squadron of four British frigates.
1822 Greek War of Independence: Demetrios Ypsilantis is elected president of the legislative assembly.
1844 University of Notre Dame receives its charter from the state of Indiana.
1865 American Civil War: Fort Fisher in North Carolina falls to the Union, thus cutting off the last major seaport of the Confederacy.
1870 A political cartoon for the first time symbolizes the Democratic Party with a donkey ("A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion" by Thomas Nast for Harper's Weekly).
1889 The Coca-Cola Company, then known as the Pemberton Medicine Company, is originally incorporated in Atlanta, Georgia.
1892 James Naismith publishes the rules of basketball.
1908 The Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority becomes the first Greek-letter organization founded and established by African American college women.
1910 Construction ends on the Buffalo Bill Dam in Wyoming, United States, which was the highest dam in the world at the time, at 325 ft (99 m).
1919 Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, two of the most prominent socialists in Germany, are tortured and murdered by the Freikorps at the end of the Spartacist uprising.
1919 Boston Molasses Disaster: A large molasses tank in Boston, Massachusetts, bursts and a wave of molasses rushes through the streets, killing 21 people and injuring 150 others.
1933 A twelve-year-old girl experiences the first Marian apparition of Our Lady of Banneux in Banneux, Belgium.
1936 The first building to be completely covered in glass, built for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company, is completed in Toledo, Ohio.
1937 Spanish Civil War: Nationalists and Republican both withdraw after suffering heavy losses, ending the Second Battle of the Corunna Road.
1943 World War II: The Soviet counter-offensive at Voronezh begins.
1943 The world's largest office building, The Pentagon, is dedicated in Arlington, Virginia.
1947 The brutalized corpse of Elizabeth Short ("The Black Dahlia") is found in Leimert Park, Los Angeles.
1949 Chinese Civil War: The Communist Party of China forces take over Tianjin from the Nationalist Government.
1951 Ilse Koch, "The Witch of Buchenwald", wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment by a court in West Germany.
1962 The Derveni papyrus, Europe's oldest surviving manuscript dating to 340 BC, is found in northern Greece.
1966 The Nigerian First Republic, led by Abubakar Tafawa Balewa is overthrown in a military coup d'ιtat.
1967 The first Super Bowl is played in Los Angeles, California. The Green Bay Packers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs 3510.
1969 The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 5.
1970 Nigerian Civil War: After a 32-month fight for independence from Nigeria, Biafra surrenders.
1970 Moammar Gadhafi is proclaimed premier of Libya.
1973 Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, President Richard Nixon announces the suspension of offensive action in North Vietnam.
1974 Dennis Rader aka the BTK Killer kills his first victims by binding, torturing and murdering Joseph, Joseph II, Josephine and Julie Otero in their house.
1975 The Alvor Agreement is signed, ending the Angolan War of Independence and giving Angola independence from Portugal.
1976 Gerald Ford's would-be assassin, Sara Jane Moore, is sentenced to life in prison.
1991 The United Nations deadline for the withdrawal of Iraqi forces from occupied Kuwait expires, preparing the way for the start of Operation Desert Storm.
1991 Elizabeth II, in her capacity as Queen of Australia, signs letters patent allowing Australia to become the first Commonwealth Realm to institute its own separate Victoria Cross award in its own honours system.
1992 The international community recognizes the independence of Slovenia and Croatia from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
1993 Salvatore Riina, the Mafia boss known as "The Beast", is arrested in Sicily, Italy after three decades as a fugitive.
2001 Wikipedia, a free Wiki content encyclopedia, goes online.
2005 ESA's SMART-1 lunar orbiter discovers elements such as calcium, aluminum, silicon, iron, and other surface elements on the moon.
2007 Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, former Iraqi intelligence chief and half-brother of Saddam Hussein, and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, former chief judge of the Revolutionary Court, are executed by hanging in Iraq.
2009 US Airways Flight 1549 makes an emergency landing in the Hudson River shortly after takeoff from LaGuardia Airport in New York, New York. All passengers and crew members survive.
End of C/P.
69 Otho seizes power in Rome, proclaiming himself Emperor of Rome, but rules for only three months before committing suicide.
1493 Christopher Columbus sets sail for Spain from Hispaniola, ending his first voyage to the New World.
1541 King Francis I of France gives Jean-Franηois Roberval a commission to settle the province of New France (Canada) and provide for the spread of the "Holy Catholic faith".
1559 Elizabeth I is crowned Queen of England in Westminster Abbey, London, England.
1582 Russia cedes Livonia and Estonia to the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth.
1759 The British Museum opens.
1777 American Revolutionary War: New Connecticut (present day Vermont) declares its independence.
1782 Superintendent of Finance Robert Morris goes before the U.S. Congress to recommend establishment of a national mint and decimal coinage.
1815 War of 1812: American frigate USS President, commanded by Commodore Stephen Decatur, is captured by a squadron of four British frigates.
1822 Greek War of Independence: Demetrios Ypsilantis is elected president of the legislative assembly.
1844 University of Notre Dame receives its charter from the state of Indiana.
1865 American Civil War: Fort Fisher in North Carolina falls to the Union, thus cutting off the last major seaport of the Confederacy.
1870 A political cartoon for the first time symbolizes the Democratic Party with a donkey ("A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion" by Thomas Nast for Harper's Weekly).
1889 The Coca-Cola Company, then known as the Pemberton Medicine Company, is originally incorporated in Atlanta, Georgia.
1892 James Naismith publishes the rules of basketball.
1908 The Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority becomes the first Greek-letter organization founded and established by African American college women.
1910 Construction ends on the Buffalo Bill Dam in Wyoming, United States, which was the highest dam in the world at the time, at 325 ft (99 m).
1919 Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, two of the most prominent socialists in Germany, are tortured and murdered by the Freikorps at the end of the Spartacist uprising.
1919 Boston Molasses Disaster: A large molasses tank in Boston, Massachusetts, bursts and a wave of molasses rushes through the streets, killing 21 people and injuring 150 others.
1933 A twelve-year-old girl experiences the first Marian apparition of Our Lady of Banneux in Banneux, Belgium.
1936 The first building to be completely covered in glass, built for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company, is completed in Toledo, Ohio.
1937 Spanish Civil War: Nationalists and Republican both withdraw after suffering heavy losses, ending the Second Battle of the Corunna Road.
1943 World War II: The Soviet counter-offensive at Voronezh begins.
1943 The world's largest office building, The Pentagon, is dedicated in Arlington, Virginia.
1947 The brutalized corpse of Elizabeth Short ("The Black Dahlia") is found in Leimert Park, Los Angeles.
1949 Chinese Civil War: The Communist Party of China forces take over Tianjin from the Nationalist Government.
1951 Ilse Koch, "The Witch of Buchenwald", wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment by a court in West Germany.
1962 The Derveni papyrus, Europe's oldest surviving manuscript dating to 340 BC, is found in northern Greece.
1966 The Nigerian First Republic, led by Abubakar Tafawa Balewa is overthrown in a military coup d'ιtat.
1967 The first Super Bowl is played in Los Angeles, California. The Green Bay Packers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs 3510.
1969 The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 5.
1970 Nigerian Civil War: After a 32-month fight for independence from Nigeria, Biafra surrenders.
1970 Moammar Gadhafi is proclaimed premier of Libya.
1973 Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, President Richard Nixon announces the suspension of offensive action in North Vietnam.
1974 Dennis Rader aka the BTK Killer kills his first victims by binding, torturing and murdering Joseph, Joseph II, Josephine and Julie Otero in their house.
1975 The Alvor Agreement is signed, ending the Angolan War of Independence and giving Angola independence from Portugal.
1976 Gerald Ford's would-be assassin, Sara Jane Moore, is sentenced to life in prison.
1991 The United Nations deadline for the withdrawal of Iraqi forces from occupied Kuwait expires, preparing the way for the start of Operation Desert Storm.
1991 Elizabeth II, in her capacity as Queen of Australia, signs letters patent allowing Australia to become the first Commonwealth Realm to institute its own separate Victoria Cross award in its own honours system.
1992 The international community recognizes the independence of Slovenia and Croatia from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
1993 Salvatore Riina, the Mafia boss known as "The Beast", is arrested in Sicily, Italy after three decades as a fugitive.
2001 Wikipedia, a free Wiki content encyclopedia, goes online.
2005 ESA's SMART-1 lunar orbiter discovers elements such as calcium, aluminum, silicon, iron, and other surface elements on the moon.
2007 Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, former Iraqi intelligence chief and half-brother of Saddam Hussein, and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, former chief judge of the Revolutionary Court, are executed by hanging in Iraq.
2009 US Airways Flight 1549 makes an emergency landing in the Hudson River shortly after takeoff from LaGuardia Airport in New York, New York. All passengers and crew members survive.
End of C/P.