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Events:C/P.
457 Leo I becomes emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
1074 Pandulf IV of Benevento is killed battling the invading Normans at the Battle of Montesarchio.
1301 Edward of Caernarvon (later King Edward II of England) becomes the first English Prince of Wales.
1497 The bonfire of the vanities occurs in which supporters of Girolamo Savonarola burn thousands of objects like cosmetics, art, and books in Florence, Italy.
1783 American Revolutionary War: French and Spanish forces lift the Great Siege of Gibraltar.
1795 The 11th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.
1807 Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Eylau Napolιon's French Empire begins fighting against Russian and Prussian forces of the Fourth Coalition at Eylau, Poland.
1812 The strongest in a series of earthquakes strikes New Madrid, Missouri.
1819 Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles leaves Singapore after just taking it over, leaving it in the hands of William Farquhar.
1842 Battle of Debre Tabor: Ras Ali Alula, Regent of the Emperor of Ethiopia defeats warlord Wube Haile Maryam of Semien.
1856 The colonial Tasmanian Parliament passes the second piece of legislation (the Electoral Act of 1856) anywhere in the world providing for elections by way of a secret ballot.
1863 HMS Orpheus sinks off the coast of Auckland, New Zealand, killing 189.
1894 The Cripple Creek miner's strike, led by the Western Federation of Miners, begins in Cripple Creek, Colorado.
1897 Greco-Turkish War: The first full-scale battle takes place when the Greek expeditionary force in Crete defeats a 4,000-strong Ottoman force at Livadeia.
1898 Ιmile Zola is brought to trial for libel for publishing J'Accuse.
1900 Second Boer War: British troops fail in their third attempt to lift the Siege of Ladysmith.
1904 A fire in Baltimore, Maryland destroys over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours.
1907 The Mud March is the first large procession organized by the National Union of Womens Suffrage Societies (NUWSS).
1935 The classic board game Monopoly is invented.
1940 The second full length animated Walt Disney film, Pinocchio, premieres.
1943 Imperial Japanese naval forces complete the evacuation of Imperial Japanese Army troops from Guadalcanal during Operation Ke, ending Japanese attempts to retake the island from Allied forces in the Guadalcanal Campaign.
1944 World War II: In Anzio, Italy, German forces launch a counteroffensive during the Allied Operation Shingle.
1948 Neil Harvey becomes the youngest Australian to score a century in Test cricket.
1951 Korean War: Sancheong-Hamyang massacre
1962 The United States bans all Cuban imports and exports.
1964 The Beatles first arrived in the United States. Their performance on The Ed Sullivan Show two days later would mark the beginning of the British Invasion.
1974 Grenada gains independence from the United Kingdom.
1976 Darryl Sittler sets an NHL record for scoring 10 points in a single game.
1979 Pluto moves inside Neptune's orbit for the first time since either was discovered.
1984 Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B Mission Astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make the first untethered space walk using the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU).
1986 Twenty-eight years of one-family rule end in Haiti, when President Jean-Claude Duvalier flees the Caribbean nation.
1990 Dissolution of the Soviet Union: The Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party agrees to give up its monopoly on power.
1991 Haiti's first democratically-elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, is sworn in.
1992 The Maastricht Treaty is signed, leading to the creation of the European Union.
1995 Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, is arrested in Islamabad, Pakistan.
1999 Crown Prince Abdullah becomes the King of Jordan on the death of his father, King Hussein.
2009 Bushfires in Victoria left 173 dead in the worst natural disaster in Australia's history.
2012 President Mohamed Nasheed of the Republic of Maldives resigns, after 23 days of anti-governmental protests calling for the release of Chief Judge unlawfully arrested by the military.
End of C/P
Events:C/P.
457 Leo I becomes emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
1074 Pandulf IV of Benevento is killed battling the invading Normans at the Battle of Montesarchio.
1301 Edward of Caernarvon (later King Edward II of England) becomes the first English Prince of Wales.
1497 The bonfire of the vanities occurs in which supporters of Girolamo Savonarola burn thousands of objects like cosmetics, art, and books in Florence, Italy.
1783 American Revolutionary War: French and Spanish forces lift the Great Siege of Gibraltar.
1795 The 11th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.
1807 Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Eylau Napolιon's French Empire begins fighting against Russian and Prussian forces of the Fourth Coalition at Eylau, Poland.
1812 The strongest in a series of earthquakes strikes New Madrid, Missouri.
1819 Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles leaves Singapore after just taking it over, leaving it in the hands of William Farquhar.
1842 Battle of Debre Tabor: Ras Ali Alula, Regent of the Emperor of Ethiopia defeats warlord Wube Haile Maryam of Semien.
1856 The colonial Tasmanian Parliament passes the second piece of legislation (the Electoral Act of 1856) anywhere in the world providing for elections by way of a secret ballot.
1863 HMS Orpheus sinks off the coast of Auckland, New Zealand, killing 189.
1894 The Cripple Creek miner's strike, led by the Western Federation of Miners, begins in Cripple Creek, Colorado.
1897 Greco-Turkish War: The first full-scale battle takes place when the Greek expeditionary force in Crete defeats a 4,000-strong Ottoman force at Livadeia.
1898 Ιmile Zola is brought to trial for libel for publishing J'Accuse.
1900 Second Boer War: British troops fail in their third attempt to lift the Siege of Ladysmith.
1904 A fire in Baltimore, Maryland destroys over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours.
1907 The Mud March is the first large procession organized by the National Union of Womens Suffrage Societies (NUWSS).
1935 The classic board game Monopoly is invented.
1940 The second full length animated Walt Disney film, Pinocchio, premieres.
1943 Imperial Japanese naval forces complete the evacuation of Imperial Japanese Army troops from Guadalcanal during Operation Ke, ending Japanese attempts to retake the island from Allied forces in the Guadalcanal Campaign.
1944 World War II: In Anzio, Italy, German forces launch a counteroffensive during the Allied Operation Shingle.
1948 Neil Harvey becomes the youngest Australian to score a century in Test cricket.
1951 Korean War: Sancheong-Hamyang massacre
1962 The United States bans all Cuban imports and exports.
1964 The Beatles first arrived in the United States. Their performance on The Ed Sullivan Show two days later would mark the beginning of the British Invasion.
1974 Grenada gains independence from the United Kingdom.
1976 Darryl Sittler sets an NHL record for scoring 10 points in a single game.
1979 Pluto moves inside Neptune's orbit for the first time since either was discovered.
1984 Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B Mission Astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make the first untethered space walk using the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU).
1986 Twenty-eight years of one-family rule end in Haiti, when President Jean-Claude Duvalier flees the Caribbean nation.
1990 Dissolution of the Soviet Union: The Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party agrees to give up its monopoly on power.
1991 Haiti's first democratically-elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, is sworn in.
1992 The Maastricht Treaty is signed, leading to the creation of the European Union.
1995 Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, is arrested in Islamabad, Pakistan.
1999 Crown Prince Abdullah becomes the King of Jordan on the death of his father, King Hussein.
2009 Bushfires in Victoria left 173 dead in the worst natural disaster in Australia's history.
2012 President Mohamed Nasheed of the Republic of Maldives resigns, after 23 days of anti-governmental protests calling for the release of Chief Judge unlawfully arrested by the military.
End of C/P