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Events:C/P.
196 BC Ptolemy V ascends to the throne of Egypt.
1309 Pope Clement V imposes excommunication, interdiction, and a general prohibition of all commercial intercourse against Venice, which had unjustly seized on Ferrara, a fief of the Patrimony of Peter.
1329 Pope John XXII issues his In Agro Dominico condemning some writings of Meister Eckhart as heretical.
1613 The first English child born in Canada at Cuper's Cove, Newfoundland to Nicholas Guy.
1625 Charles I becomes King of England, Scotland and Ireland as well as claiming the title King of France.
1782 Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1794 The United States Government establishes a permanent navy and authorizes the building of six frigates.
1794 Denmark and Sweden form a neutrality compact.
1809 Peninsular War: A combined Franco-Polish force defeats the Spanish in the Battle of Ciudad-Real.
1812 Hugh McGary Jr. established what is now Evansville, Indiana on a bend in the Ohio River.
1814 War of 1812: In central Alabama, U.S. forces under General Andrew Jackson defeat the Creek at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.
1836 Texas Revolution: Goliad massacre Antonio Lσpez de Santa Anna orders the Mexican army to kill about 400 Texas POWs at Goliad, Texas.
1846 Mexican-American War: Siege of Fort Texas.
1851 First reported sighting of the Yosemite Valley by Europeans.
1854 Crimean War: The United Kingdom declares war on Russia.
1871 The first international rugby football match, when Scotland defeat England in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.
1881 Rioting takes place in Basingstoke in protest against the daily vociferous promotion of Teetotalism by the Salvation Army.
1884 A mob in Cincinnati, Ohio, attacks members of a jury who had returned a verdict of manslaughter in a clear case of murder, and then over the next few days would riot and destroy the courthouse.
1886 Famous Apache warrior, Geronimo, surrenders to the U.S. Army, ending the main phase of the Apache Wars.
1890 A tornado strikes Louisville, Kentucky, killing 76 and injuring 200.
1899 Emilio Aguinaldo led Filipino forces for the only time during the Philippine-American War at the Battle of Marilao River.
1910 A fire during a barn-dance in Φkφritσfόlpφs, Hungary, kills 312.
1915 Typhoid Mary, the first healthy carrier of disease ever identified in the United States, is put in quarantine, where she would remain for the rest of her life.
1918 Bessarabia joins the Kingdom of Romania.
1938 Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Taierzhuang takes place.
1941 World War II: Yugoslavian Air Force officers topple the pro-axis government in a bloodless coup.
1943 World War II: Battle of the Komandorski Islands In the Aleutian Islands the battle begins when United States Navy forces intercept Japanese attempting to reinforce a garrison at Kiska.
1945 World War II: Operation Starvation, the aerial mining of Japan's ports and waterways begins. Argentina declares war on the Axis Powers.
1948 The Second Congress of the Workers Party of North Korea is convened.
1958 Nikita Khrushchev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union.
1963 Beeching Axe: Dr. Richard Beeching issues a report calling for huge cuts to the United Kingdom's rail network.
1964 The Good Friday Earthquake, the most powerful earthquake in U.S. history at a magnitude of 9.2 strikes South Central Alaska, killing 125 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of Anchorage.
1975 Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.
1976 The first 4.6 miles of the Washington Metro subway system opens.
1977 Tenerife airport disaster: Two Boeing 747 airliners collide on a foggy runway on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, killing 583 (all 248 on KLM and 335 on Pan Am). 61 survived on the Pan Am flight. This is the worst aviation accident in history.
1980 The Norwegian oil platform Alexander L. Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212.
1980 Silver Thursday: A steep fall in silver prices, resulting from the Hunt Brothers attempting to corner the market in silver, led to panic on commodity and futures exchanges.
1981 The Solidarity movement in Poland stages a warning strike, in which at least 12 million Poles walk off their jobs for four hours.
1986 A car bomb explodes at Russell Street Police HQ in Melbourne, killing 1 police officer and injuring 21 people.
1990 The United States begins broadcasting TV Martν, an anti-Castro propaganda network, to Cuba.
1993 Jiang Zemin is appointed President of the People's Republic of China.
1993 Italian former minister and Christian Democracy leader Giulio Andreotti is accused of mafia allegiance by the tribunal of Palermo.
1998 The Food and Drug Administration approves Viagra for use as a treatment for male impotence, the first pill to be approved for this condition in the United States.
2000 A Phillips Petroleum plant explosion in Pasadena, Texas kills 1 and injures 71.
2002 Passover Massacre: A Palestinian suicide bomber kills 29 people partaking of the Passover meal in Netanya, Israel.
2004 HMS Scylla (F71), a decommissioned Leander class frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall, the first of its kind in Europe.
2009 Situ Gintung, an artificial lake in Indonesia, fails, killing at least 99 people.
2009 A suicide bomber kills at least 48 at a mosque in the Khyber Agency of Pakistan.
Events:C/P.
196 BC Ptolemy V ascends to the throne of Egypt.
1309 Pope Clement V imposes excommunication, interdiction, and a general prohibition of all commercial intercourse against Venice, which had unjustly seized on Ferrara, a fief of the Patrimony of Peter.
1329 Pope John XXII issues his In Agro Dominico condemning some writings of Meister Eckhart as heretical.
1613 The first English child born in Canada at Cuper's Cove, Newfoundland to Nicholas Guy.
1625 Charles I becomes King of England, Scotland and Ireland as well as claiming the title King of France.
1782 Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1794 The United States Government establishes a permanent navy and authorizes the building of six frigates.
1794 Denmark and Sweden form a neutrality compact.
1809 Peninsular War: A combined Franco-Polish force defeats the Spanish in the Battle of Ciudad-Real.
1812 Hugh McGary Jr. established what is now Evansville, Indiana on a bend in the Ohio River.
1814 War of 1812: In central Alabama, U.S. forces under General Andrew Jackson defeat the Creek at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.
1836 Texas Revolution: Goliad massacre Antonio Lσpez de Santa Anna orders the Mexican army to kill about 400 Texas POWs at Goliad, Texas.
1846 Mexican-American War: Siege of Fort Texas.
1851 First reported sighting of the Yosemite Valley by Europeans.
1854 Crimean War: The United Kingdom declares war on Russia.
1871 The first international rugby football match, when Scotland defeat England in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.
1881 Rioting takes place in Basingstoke in protest against the daily vociferous promotion of Teetotalism by the Salvation Army.
1884 A mob in Cincinnati, Ohio, attacks members of a jury who had returned a verdict of manslaughter in a clear case of murder, and then over the next few days would riot and destroy the courthouse.
1886 Famous Apache warrior, Geronimo, surrenders to the U.S. Army, ending the main phase of the Apache Wars.
1890 A tornado strikes Louisville, Kentucky, killing 76 and injuring 200.
1899 Emilio Aguinaldo led Filipino forces for the only time during the Philippine-American War at the Battle of Marilao River.
1910 A fire during a barn-dance in Φkφritσfόlpφs, Hungary, kills 312.
1915 Typhoid Mary, the first healthy carrier of disease ever identified in the United States, is put in quarantine, where she would remain for the rest of her life.
1918 Bessarabia joins the Kingdom of Romania.
1938 Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Taierzhuang takes place.
1941 World War II: Yugoslavian Air Force officers topple the pro-axis government in a bloodless coup.
1943 World War II: Battle of the Komandorski Islands In the Aleutian Islands the battle begins when United States Navy forces intercept Japanese attempting to reinforce a garrison at Kiska.
1945 World War II: Operation Starvation, the aerial mining of Japan's ports and waterways begins. Argentina declares war on the Axis Powers.
1948 The Second Congress of the Workers Party of North Korea is convened.
1958 Nikita Khrushchev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union.
1963 Beeching Axe: Dr. Richard Beeching issues a report calling for huge cuts to the United Kingdom's rail network.
1964 The Good Friday Earthquake, the most powerful earthquake in U.S. history at a magnitude of 9.2 strikes South Central Alaska, killing 125 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of Anchorage.
1975 Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.
1976 The first 4.6 miles of the Washington Metro subway system opens.
1977 Tenerife airport disaster: Two Boeing 747 airliners collide on a foggy runway on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, killing 583 (all 248 on KLM and 335 on Pan Am). 61 survived on the Pan Am flight. This is the worst aviation accident in history.
1980 The Norwegian oil platform Alexander L. Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212.
1980 Silver Thursday: A steep fall in silver prices, resulting from the Hunt Brothers attempting to corner the market in silver, led to panic on commodity and futures exchanges.
1981 The Solidarity movement in Poland stages a warning strike, in which at least 12 million Poles walk off their jobs for four hours.
1986 A car bomb explodes at Russell Street Police HQ in Melbourne, killing 1 police officer and injuring 21 people.
1990 The United States begins broadcasting TV Martν, an anti-Castro propaganda network, to Cuba.
1993 Jiang Zemin is appointed President of the People's Republic of China.
1993 Italian former minister and Christian Democracy leader Giulio Andreotti is accused of mafia allegiance by the tribunal of Palermo.
1998 The Food and Drug Administration approves Viagra for use as a treatment for male impotence, the first pill to be approved for this condition in the United States.
2000 A Phillips Petroleum plant explosion in Pasadena, Texas kills 1 and injures 71.
2002 Passover Massacre: A Palestinian suicide bomber kills 29 people partaking of the Passover meal in Netanya, Israel.
2004 HMS Scylla (F71), a decommissioned Leander class frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall, the first of its kind in Europe.
2009 Situ Gintung, an artificial lake in Indonesia, fails, killing at least 99 people.
2009 A suicide bomber kills at least 48 at a mosque in the Khyber Agency of Pakistan.