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842 Charles the Bald and Louis the German swear the Oaths of Strasbourg in the French and German languages.
1014 Pope Benedict VIII crowns Henry of Bavaria, King of Germany and of Italy, as Holy Roman Emperor.
1076 Pope Gregory VII excommunicates Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor.
1349 Several hundred Jews are burned to death by mobs while the remainder of their population is forcibly removed from the city of Strasbourg.
1400 Richard II dies, most likely from starvation in Pontifract Castle, on orders from Henry Bolingbroke
1556 Thomas Cranmer is declared a heretic.
1778 The United States Flag is formally recognized by a foreign naval vessel for the first time, when French Admiral Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte rendered a nine gun salute to USS Ranger, commanded by John Paul Jones.
1779 American Revolutionary War: the Battle of Kettle Creek is fought in Georgia.
1779 James Cook is killed by Native Hawaiians near Kealakekua on the Island of Hawaii.
1797 French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Cape St. Vincent John Jervis, (later 1st Earl of St Vincent) and Horatio Nelson (later 1st Viscount Nelson) lead the British Royal Navy to victory over a Spanish fleet in action near Gibraltar.
1804 Karadjordje leads the First Serbian Uprising against the Ottoman Empire.
1831 Ras Marye of Yejju marches into Tigray and defeats and kills Dejazmach Sabagadis in the Battle of Debre Abbay.
1835 The original Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, in the Latter Day Saint movement is formed in Kirtland, Ohio.
1849 In New York City, James Knox Polk becomes the first serving President of the United States to have his photograph taken.
1852 Great Ormond St Hospital for Sick Children, the first hospital providing in-patient beds specifically for children in the English-speaking world, is founded in London.
1855 Texas is linked by telegraph to the rest of the United States, with the completion of a connection between New Orleans and Marshall, Texas.
1859 Oregon is admitted as the 33rd U.S. state.
1876 Alexander Graham Bell applies for a patent for the telephone, as does Elisha Gray.
1879 The War of the Pacific breaks out when Chilean armed forces occupy the Bolivian port city of Antofagasta.
1899 Voting machines are approved by the U.S. Congress for use in federal elections.
1900 Second Boer War: In South Africa, 20,000 British troops invade the Orange Free State.
1903 The United States Department of Commerce and Labor is established (later split into Department of Commerce and Department of Labor).
1912 Arizona is admitted as the 48th U.S. state.
1912 In Groton, Connecticut, the first diesel-powered submarine is commissioned.
1918 The Soviet Union adopts the Gregorian calendar (on 1 February according to the Julian calendar).
1919 The Polish-Soviet War begins.
1920 The League of Women Voters is founded in Chicago, Illinois.
1924 The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company changes its name to International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).
1929 Saint Valentine's Day massacre: Seven people, six of them gangster rivals of Al Capone's gang, are murdered in Chicago, Illinois.
1942 Battle of Pasir Panjang contributes to the fall of Singapore.
1943 World War II: Rostov-on-Don, Russia is liberated.
1943 World War II: Tunisia Campaign General Hans-Jurgen von Arnim's Fifth Panzer Army launches a concerted attack against Allied positions in Tunisia.
1944 World War II: Anti-Japanese revolt on Java.
1945 World War II: On the first day of the bombing of Dresden, the British Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Forces begin fire-bombing Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony.
1945 World War II: Navigational error leads to the mistaken bombing of Prague, Czechoslovakia by an American squadron of B-17s assisting in the Soviet's VistulaOder Offensive.
1945 World War II: Mostar is liberated by Yugoslav partisans.
1945 President Franklin D. Roosevelt meets with King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia aboard the USS Quincy, officially starting the U.S.-Saudi diplomatic relationship.
1946 The Bank of England is nationalized.
1949 The Knesset (Israeli parliament) convenes for the first time.
1949 The Asbestos Strike begins in Canada. The strike marks the beginning of the Quiet Revolution in Quebec.
1950 Chinese Civil War: The National Revolutionary Army instigates the unsuccessful Battle of Tianquan against the People's Liberation Army.
1956 The XX Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union begins in Moscow. On the last night of the meeting, Premier Nikita Khrushchev condemns Joseph Stalin's crimes in a secret speech.
1961 Discovery of the chemical elements: Element 103, Lawrencium, is first synthesized at the University of California.
1962 First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy takes television viewers on a tour of the White House.
1966 Australian currency is decimalised.
1979 In Kabul, Setami Milli militants kidnap the American ambassador to Afghanistan, Adolph Dubs who is later killed during a gunfight between his kidnappers and police.
1981 Stardust Disaster: A fire in a Dublin nightclub kills 48 people
1983 United American Bank of Knoxville, Tennessee collapses. Its president, Jake Butcher, is later convicted of fraud.
1989 Union Carbide agrees to pay $470 million to the Indian government for damages it caused in the 1984 Bhopal disaster.
1989 Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini issues a fatwa encouraging Muslims to kill the author of The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie.
1990 92 people are killed aboard Indian Airlines Flight 605 at Bangalore, India.
1998 An oil tanker train collides with a freight train in Yaoundι, Cameroon, spilling fuel oil. One person scavenging the oil drops a lit cigarette, creating a massive explosion which kills 120.
2000 The spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker enters orbit around asteroid 433 Eros, the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid.
2002 The Budapest Open Access Initiative, one of the cornerstones of the Open access movement, was released to the public.
2004 In a suburb of Moscow, Russia, the roof of the Transvaal water park collapses, killing more than 25 people, and wounding more than 100 others.
2005 Lebanese self-made billionaire and business tycoon Rafik Hariri is killed, along with 21 others, when explosives, equivalent of around 1,000 kg of TNT, are detonated as his motorcade drove near the St. George Hotel in Beirut.
2005 Seven people are killed and 151 wounded in a series of bombings by suspected al-Qaeda-linked militants that hit the Philippines' Makati financial district in Metro Manila, Davao City, and General Santos City.
2008 Northern Illinois University shooting: a gunman opened fire in a lecture hall of the DeKalb County, Illinois university resulting in 6 fatalities (including gunman) and 18 injuries.
2011 As a part of Arab Spring, the Bahraini uprising, a series of demonstrations, amounting to a sustained campaign of civil resistance, in the Persian Gulf country of Bahrain begins with a 'Day of Rage'.
End of C/P.
Events:C/P.
842 Charles the Bald and Louis the German swear the Oaths of Strasbourg in the French and German languages.
1014 Pope Benedict VIII crowns Henry of Bavaria, King of Germany and of Italy, as Holy Roman Emperor.
1076 Pope Gregory VII excommunicates Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor.
1349 Several hundred Jews are burned to death by mobs while the remainder of their population is forcibly removed from the city of Strasbourg.
1400 Richard II dies, most likely from starvation in Pontifract Castle, on orders from Henry Bolingbroke
1556 Thomas Cranmer is declared a heretic.
1778 The United States Flag is formally recognized by a foreign naval vessel for the first time, when French Admiral Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte rendered a nine gun salute to USS Ranger, commanded by John Paul Jones.
1779 American Revolutionary War: the Battle of Kettle Creek is fought in Georgia.
1779 James Cook is killed by Native Hawaiians near Kealakekua on the Island of Hawaii.
1797 French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Cape St. Vincent John Jervis, (later 1st Earl of St Vincent) and Horatio Nelson (later 1st Viscount Nelson) lead the British Royal Navy to victory over a Spanish fleet in action near Gibraltar.
1804 Karadjordje leads the First Serbian Uprising against the Ottoman Empire.
1831 Ras Marye of Yejju marches into Tigray and defeats and kills Dejazmach Sabagadis in the Battle of Debre Abbay.
1835 The original Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, in the Latter Day Saint movement is formed in Kirtland, Ohio.
1849 In New York City, James Knox Polk becomes the first serving President of the United States to have his photograph taken.
1852 Great Ormond St Hospital for Sick Children, the first hospital providing in-patient beds specifically for children in the English-speaking world, is founded in London.
1855 Texas is linked by telegraph to the rest of the United States, with the completion of a connection between New Orleans and Marshall, Texas.
1859 Oregon is admitted as the 33rd U.S. state.
1876 Alexander Graham Bell applies for a patent for the telephone, as does Elisha Gray.
1879 The War of the Pacific breaks out when Chilean armed forces occupy the Bolivian port city of Antofagasta.
1899 Voting machines are approved by the U.S. Congress for use in federal elections.
1900 Second Boer War: In South Africa, 20,000 British troops invade the Orange Free State.
1903 The United States Department of Commerce and Labor is established (later split into Department of Commerce and Department of Labor).
1912 Arizona is admitted as the 48th U.S. state.
1912 In Groton, Connecticut, the first diesel-powered submarine is commissioned.
1918 The Soviet Union adopts the Gregorian calendar (on 1 February according to the Julian calendar).
1919 The Polish-Soviet War begins.
1920 The League of Women Voters is founded in Chicago, Illinois.
1924 The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company changes its name to International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).
1929 Saint Valentine's Day massacre: Seven people, six of them gangster rivals of Al Capone's gang, are murdered in Chicago, Illinois.
1942 Battle of Pasir Panjang contributes to the fall of Singapore.
1943 World War II: Rostov-on-Don, Russia is liberated.
1943 World War II: Tunisia Campaign General Hans-Jurgen von Arnim's Fifth Panzer Army launches a concerted attack against Allied positions in Tunisia.
1944 World War II: Anti-Japanese revolt on Java.
1945 World War II: On the first day of the bombing of Dresden, the British Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Forces begin fire-bombing Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony.
1945 World War II: Navigational error leads to the mistaken bombing of Prague, Czechoslovakia by an American squadron of B-17s assisting in the Soviet's VistulaOder Offensive.
1945 World War II: Mostar is liberated by Yugoslav partisans.
1945 President Franklin D. Roosevelt meets with King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia aboard the USS Quincy, officially starting the U.S.-Saudi diplomatic relationship.
1946 The Bank of England is nationalized.
1949 The Knesset (Israeli parliament) convenes for the first time.
1949 The Asbestos Strike begins in Canada. The strike marks the beginning of the Quiet Revolution in Quebec.
1950 Chinese Civil War: The National Revolutionary Army instigates the unsuccessful Battle of Tianquan against the People's Liberation Army.
1956 The XX Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union begins in Moscow. On the last night of the meeting, Premier Nikita Khrushchev condemns Joseph Stalin's crimes in a secret speech.
1961 Discovery of the chemical elements: Element 103, Lawrencium, is first synthesized at the University of California.
1962 First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy takes television viewers on a tour of the White House.
1966 Australian currency is decimalised.
1979 In Kabul, Setami Milli militants kidnap the American ambassador to Afghanistan, Adolph Dubs who is later killed during a gunfight between his kidnappers and police.
1981 Stardust Disaster: A fire in a Dublin nightclub kills 48 people
1983 United American Bank of Knoxville, Tennessee collapses. Its president, Jake Butcher, is later convicted of fraud.
1989 Union Carbide agrees to pay $470 million to the Indian government for damages it caused in the 1984 Bhopal disaster.
1989 Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini issues a fatwa encouraging Muslims to kill the author of The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie.
1990 92 people are killed aboard Indian Airlines Flight 605 at Bangalore, India.
1998 An oil tanker train collides with a freight train in Yaoundι, Cameroon, spilling fuel oil. One person scavenging the oil drops a lit cigarette, creating a massive explosion which kills 120.
2000 The spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker enters orbit around asteroid 433 Eros, the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid.
2002 The Budapest Open Access Initiative, one of the cornerstones of the Open access movement, was released to the public.
2004 In a suburb of Moscow, Russia, the roof of the Transvaal water park collapses, killing more than 25 people, and wounding more than 100 others.
2005 Lebanese self-made billionaire and business tycoon Rafik Hariri is killed, along with 21 others, when explosives, equivalent of around 1,000 kg of TNT, are detonated as his motorcade drove near the St. George Hotel in Beirut.
2005 Seven people are killed and 151 wounded in a series of bombings by suspected al-Qaeda-linked militants that hit the Philippines' Makati financial district in Metro Manila, Davao City, and General Santos City.
2008 Northern Illinois University shooting: a gunman opened fire in a lecture hall of the DeKalb County, Illinois university resulting in 6 fatalities (including gunman) and 18 injuries.
2011 As a part of Arab Spring, the Bahraini uprising, a series of demonstrations, amounting to a sustained campaign of civil resistance, in the Persian Gulf country of Bahrain begins with a 'Day of Rage'.
End of C/P.