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Events:C/P.
138 The Emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius, effectively making him his successor.
493 Odoacer surrenders Ravenna after a 3-year siege and agrees to a mediated peace with Theodoric the Great.
1336 4,000 defenders of Pilėnai commit a mass suicide rather than be taken captive by the Teutonic Knights.
1570 Pope Pius V excommunicates Queen Elizabeth I of England.
1631 Franηois de Bassompierre, a French courtier, arrested by Richelieu's orders.
1797 Colonel William Tate and his force of 1000-1500 soldiers surrender after the Last Invasion of Britain.
1831 Battle of Olszynka Grochowska, part of Polish November Uprising against Russian Empire.
1836 Samuel Colt is granted a United States patent for the Colt revolver.
1843 Provisional Cession of the Hawaiian or Sandwich Islands established by Lord George Paulet.
1848 Provisional government in revolutionary France, by Louis Blanc's motion, guarantees workers right.
1856 A Peace conference opened in Paris after Crimean War.
1866 Miners in Calaveras County, California, discover what is now called the Calaveras Skull, human remains that supposedly indicated that man, mastodons, and elephants had co-existed.
1870 Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, is sworn into the United States Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in the U.S. Congress.
1875 Guangxu Emperor of China began his reign, under Empress Dowager Cixi's regency.
1901 J. P. Morgan incorporates the United States Steel Corporation.
1912 Marie-Adιlaοde, the eldest of six daughters of Guillaume IV, becomes the first reigning Grand Duchess of Luxembourg.
1916 Germans captured Fort Douaumont during Battle of Verdun.
1919 Oregon places a 1 cent per U.S. gallon tax on gasoline, becoming the first U.S. state to levy a gasoline tax.
1921 Tbilisi, capital of the Democratic Republic of Georgia, is occupied by Bolshevist Russia.
1928 Charles Jenkins Laboratories of Washington, D.C. becomes the first holder of a television license from the Federal Radio Commission.
1932 Adolf Hitler obtains German citizenship by naturalization, which allows him to run in the 1932 election for Reichsprδsident.
1933 The USS Ranger is launched. It is the first US Navy ship to be built solely as an aircraft carrier.
1941 February Strike: In occupied Amsterdam, a general strike is declared in response to increasing anti-Jewish measures instituted by the Nazis.
1945 World War II: Turkey declares war on Germany.
1947 The State of Prussia ceases to exist.
1948 The Communist Party takes control of government in Czechoslovakia and the period of the Third Republic ends.
1951 The first Pan American Games are held in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1954 Gamal Abdul Nasser is made premier of Egypt.
1956 In his speech On the Personality Cult and its Consequences Nikita Khrushchev, leader of the Soviet Union denounces the cult of personality of Joseph Stalin.
1964 North Korean Prime Minister Kim Il-sung calls for the removal of feudalistic land ownership aimed at turning all cooperative farms into state-run ones.
1964 Muhammad Ali vs. Sonny Liston, Ali took the title.
1964 U.S. Air Force launches a satellite employing a US Air Force Atlas/Agena combination from Point Arguello (LC-2-3) in California and from Cape Kennedy in Florida.
1968 Vietnam War: 135 unarmed citizens of Ha My village in South Vietnam's Quảng Nam Province are killed and buried en masse by South Korean troops in what would come to be known as the Ha My massacre.
1971 The first unit of the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station, the first commercial nuclear power station in Canada, goes online.
1980 The Suriname government is overthrown by a military coup which is initiated with the bombing of the police station from an army ship off the coast of the nation's capital, Paramaribo
1983 Statute of Autonomy approved for the Balearic Islands.
1986 People Power Revolution: President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos flees the nation after 20 years of rule; Corazon Aquino becomes the Philippines' first woman president.
1988 Roh Tae-woo became president of South Korea.
1990 Violeta Chamorro wins presidential elections in Nicaragua, against Daniel Ortega.
1991 Gulf War: An Iraqi scud missile hits an American military barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia killing 28 U.S. Army Reservists from Pennsylvania.
1991 The Warsaw Pact is declared disbanded.
1992 Khojaly massacre: about 613 civilians are killed by Armenian armed forces during the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan.
1994 Mosque of Abraham massacre: In the Cave of the Patriarchs in the West Bank city of Hebron, Baruch Goldstein opens fire with an automatic rifle, killing 29 Palestinian worshippers and injuring 125 more before being subdued and beaten to death by survivors.
2001 Non-reformed communists win the elections in Moldova.
2009 Members of the Bangladesh Rifles mutiny at their headquarters in Pilkhana, Dhaka, Bangladesh, resulting in 74 deaths, including more than 50 army officials.
2011 In the Irish general election, the Fianna Fαil-led government suffers the worst defeat of a sitting government since the formation of the Irish state in 1921.
Events:C/P.
138 The Emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius, effectively making him his successor.
493 Odoacer surrenders Ravenna after a 3-year siege and agrees to a mediated peace with Theodoric the Great.
1336 4,000 defenders of Pilėnai commit a mass suicide rather than be taken captive by the Teutonic Knights.
1570 Pope Pius V excommunicates Queen Elizabeth I of England.
1631 Franηois de Bassompierre, a French courtier, arrested by Richelieu's orders.
1797 Colonel William Tate and his force of 1000-1500 soldiers surrender after the Last Invasion of Britain.
1831 Battle of Olszynka Grochowska, part of Polish November Uprising against Russian Empire.
1836 Samuel Colt is granted a United States patent for the Colt revolver.
1843 Provisional Cession of the Hawaiian or Sandwich Islands established by Lord George Paulet.
1848 Provisional government in revolutionary France, by Louis Blanc's motion, guarantees workers right.
1856 A Peace conference opened in Paris after Crimean War.
1866 Miners in Calaveras County, California, discover what is now called the Calaveras Skull, human remains that supposedly indicated that man, mastodons, and elephants had co-existed.
1870 Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, is sworn into the United States Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in the U.S. Congress.
1875 Guangxu Emperor of China began his reign, under Empress Dowager Cixi's regency.
1901 J. P. Morgan incorporates the United States Steel Corporation.
1912 Marie-Adιlaοde, the eldest of six daughters of Guillaume IV, becomes the first reigning Grand Duchess of Luxembourg.
1916 Germans captured Fort Douaumont during Battle of Verdun.
1919 Oregon places a 1 cent per U.S. gallon tax on gasoline, becoming the first U.S. state to levy a gasoline tax.
1921 Tbilisi, capital of the Democratic Republic of Georgia, is occupied by Bolshevist Russia.
1928 Charles Jenkins Laboratories of Washington, D.C. becomes the first holder of a television license from the Federal Radio Commission.
1932 Adolf Hitler obtains German citizenship by naturalization, which allows him to run in the 1932 election for Reichsprδsident.
1933 The USS Ranger is launched. It is the first US Navy ship to be built solely as an aircraft carrier.
1941 February Strike: In occupied Amsterdam, a general strike is declared in response to increasing anti-Jewish measures instituted by the Nazis.
1945 World War II: Turkey declares war on Germany.
1947 The State of Prussia ceases to exist.
1948 The Communist Party takes control of government in Czechoslovakia and the period of the Third Republic ends.
1951 The first Pan American Games are held in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1954 Gamal Abdul Nasser is made premier of Egypt.
1956 In his speech On the Personality Cult and its Consequences Nikita Khrushchev, leader of the Soviet Union denounces the cult of personality of Joseph Stalin.
1964 North Korean Prime Minister Kim Il-sung calls for the removal of feudalistic land ownership aimed at turning all cooperative farms into state-run ones.
1964 Muhammad Ali vs. Sonny Liston, Ali took the title.
1964 U.S. Air Force launches a satellite employing a US Air Force Atlas/Agena combination from Point Arguello (LC-2-3) in California and from Cape Kennedy in Florida.
1968 Vietnam War: 135 unarmed citizens of Ha My village in South Vietnam's Quảng Nam Province are killed and buried en masse by South Korean troops in what would come to be known as the Ha My massacre.
1971 The first unit of the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station, the first commercial nuclear power station in Canada, goes online.
1980 The Suriname government is overthrown by a military coup which is initiated with the bombing of the police station from an army ship off the coast of the nation's capital, Paramaribo
1983 Statute of Autonomy approved for the Balearic Islands.
1986 People Power Revolution: President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos flees the nation after 20 years of rule; Corazon Aquino becomes the Philippines' first woman president.
1988 Roh Tae-woo became president of South Korea.
1990 Violeta Chamorro wins presidential elections in Nicaragua, against Daniel Ortega.
1991 Gulf War: An Iraqi scud missile hits an American military barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia killing 28 U.S. Army Reservists from Pennsylvania.
1991 The Warsaw Pact is declared disbanded.
1992 Khojaly massacre: about 613 civilians are killed by Armenian armed forces during the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan.
1994 Mosque of Abraham massacre: In the Cave of the Patriarchs in the West Bank city of Hebron, Baruch Goldstein opens fire with an automatic rifle, killing 29 Palestinian worshippers and injuring 125 more before being subdued and beaten to death by survivors.
2001 Non-reformed communists win the elections in Moldova.
2009 Members of the Bangladesh Rifles mutiny at their headquarters in Pilkhana, Dhaka, Bangladesh, resulting in 74 deaths, including more than 50 army officials.
2011 In the Irish general election, the Fianna Fαil-led government suffers the worst defeat of a sitting government since the formation of the Irish state in 1921.