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331 BC Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela.
959 Edgar the Peaceable becomes king of all England.
1189 Gerard de Ridefort, grandmaster of the Knights Templar since 1184, is killed in the Siege of Acre.
1553 Coronation of Queen Mary I of England.
1787 Russians under Alexander Suvorov defeat the Turks at Kinburn.
1791 First session of the French Legislative Assembly.
1795 Belgium is conquered by France.
1800 Spain cedes Louisiana to France via the Treaty of San Ildefonso.
1811 The first steamboat to sail the Mississippi River arrives in New Orlιans, Louisiana.
1814 Opening of the Congress of Vienna, intended to redraw Europe's political map after the defeat of Napolιon the previous spring.
1827 Russo-Persian War: The Russian army under Ivan Paskevich storms Yerevan, ending a millennium of Muslim domination in Armenia.
1829 South African College is founded in Cape Town, South Africa; it will later separate into the University of Cape Town and the South African College Schools.
1832 Texian political delegates convened at San Felipe de Austin to petition for changes in the governance of Mexican Texas.
1843 The News of the World tabloid begins publication in London.
1847 German inventor and industrialist Werner von Siemens founds Siemens AG & Halske.
1854 The watch company founded in 1850 in Roxbury by Aaron Lufkin Dennison relocates to Waltham, Massachusetts, to become the Waltham Watch Company, a pioneer in the American system of watch manufacturing.
1880 John Philip Sousa becomes leader of the United States Marine Band.
1880 First electric lamp factory is opened by Thomas Edison.
1887 Balochistan is conquered by the British Empire.
1890 Yosemite National Park is established by the U.S. Congress.
1891 In the U.S. state of California, Stanford University opens its doors.
1898 The Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration is founded under the name k.u.k. Exportakademie.
1903 Baseball: The Boston Americans play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series.
1905 Frantiek Pavlνk is killed in a demonstration in Prague, inspiring Leo Janαček to the piano composition 1. X. 1905.
1908 Ford puts the Model T car on the market at a price of US$825.
1910 Los Angeles Times bombing: A large bomb destroys the Los Angeles Times building in downtown Los Angeles, California, killing 21.
1918 World War I: Arab forces under T. E. Lawrence, also known as "Lawrence of Arabia" capture Damascus.
1920 Sir Percy Cox lands in Basra to assume his responsibilities as high commissioner in Iraq.
1928 The Soviet Union introduces its First Five-Year Plan.
1931 The George Washington Bridge linking New Jersey and New York opens.
1936 Francisco Franco is named head of the Nationalist government of Spain.
1937 The Japanese city Handa is founded in Aichi Prefecture.
1938 Germany annexes the Sudetenland.
1939 After a one-month Siege of Warsaw, hostile Nazi forces enter the city.
1940 The Pennsylvania Turnpike, often considered the first superhighway in the United States, opens to traffic.
1942 USS Grouper torpedoes Lisbon Maru not knowing she is carrying British PoWs from Hong Kong
1942 First flight of the Bell XP-59 "Aircomet".
1943 World War II: Naples falls to Allied soldiers.
1946 Nazi leaders are sentenced at Nuremberg Trials.
1946 Daegu October Incident occurs in Allied occupied Korea.
1946 Mensa International is founded in the United Kingdom.
1947 The North American F-86 Sabre flies for the first time.
1949 The People's Republic of China is established and declared by Mao Zedong.
1957 First appearance of In God We Trust on U.S. paper currency.
1958 NASA is created to replace NACA.
1959 The 10th anniversary of the People's Republic of China is celebrated with pomp across the country.
1960 Nigeria gains independence from the United Kingdom.
1961 The United States Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) is formed, becoming the country's first centralized military espionage organization.
1961 East and West Cameroon merge to form the Federal Republic of Cameroon.
1962 First broadcast of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
1964 The Free Speech Movement is launched on the campus of University of California, Berkeley.
1964 Japanese Shinkansen ("bullet trains") begin high-speed rail service from Tokyo to Osaka.
1965 General Suharto puts down an apparent coup attempt by the 30 September Movement in Indonesia.
1966 West Coast Airlines Flight 956 crashes with eighteen fatalities and no survivors 5.5 miles south of Wemme, Oregon. This accident marks the first loss of a DC-9.
1968 The Guyanese government takes over the British Guiana Broadcasting Service (BGBS).
1969 Concorde breaks the sound barrier for the first time.
1971 Walt Disney World opens near Orlando, Florida, United States.
1971 The first brain-scan using x-ray computed tomography (CT or CAT scan) is performed at Atkinson Morley Hospital in Wimbledon, London.
1975 The Seychelles gain internal self-government. The Ellice Islands split from Gilbert Islands and take the name Tuvalu.
1975 Thrilla in Manila: Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Frazier in a boxing match in Manila, Philippines.
1978 Tuvalu gains independence from the United Kingdom.
1978 The Voltaic Revolutionary Communist Party is founded.
1979 Pope John Paul II begins his first pastoral visit to the United States.
1979 The MTR, the rapid transit railway system in Hong Kong, opens.
1979 The United States returns sovereignty of the Panama canal to Panama.
1982 Helmut Kohl replaces Helmut Schmidt as Chancellor of Germany through a Constructive Vote of No Confidence.
1982 EPCOT Center opens at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida, United States.
1982 Sony launches the first consumer compact disc player (model CDP-101).
1985 The Israeli Air Force bombs Palestine Liberation Organization Headquarters in Tunis.
1987 The Whittier Narrows earthquake shakes the San Gabriel Valley, registering as magnitude 5.9.
1989 Denmark introduces the world's first legal modern same-sex civil union called "registered partnership".
1991 The Siege of Dubrovnik begins.
1992 Cartoon Network begins broadcasting.
1994 Palau gains independence from the United Nations (trusteeship administered by the United States of America).
2009 The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom takes over the judicial functions of the House of Lords.
2012 A ferry collision off the coast of Hong Kong kills 38 people and injures 102 others.
Events:C/P.
331 BC Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela.
959 Edgar the Peaceable becomes king of all England.
1189 Gerard de Ridefort, grandmaster of the Knights Templar since 1184, is killed in the Siege of Acre.
1553 Coronation of Queen Mary I of England.
1787 Russians under Alexander Suvorov defeat the Turks at Kinburn.
1791 First session of the French Legislative Assembly.
1795 Belgium is conquered by France.
1800 Spain cedes Louisiana to France via the Treaty of San Ildefonso.
1811 The first steamboat to sail the Mississippi River arrives in New Orlιans, Louisiana.
1814 Opening of the Congress of Vienna, intended to redraw Europe's political map after the defeat of Napolιon the previous spring.
1827 Russo-Persian War: The Russian army under Ivan Paskevich storms Yerevan, ending a millennium of Muslim domination in Armenia.
1829 South African College is founded in Cape Town, South Africa; it will later separate into the University of Cape Town and the South African College Schools.
1832 Texian political delegates convened at San Felipe de Austin to petition for changes in the governance of Mexican Texas.
1843 The News of the World tabloid begins publication in London.
1847 German inventor and industrialist Werner von Siemens founds Siemens AG & Halske.
1854 The watch company founded in 1850 in Roxbury by Aaron Lufkin Dennison relocates to Waltham, Massachusetts, to become the Waltham Watch Company, a pioneer in the American system of watch manufacturing.
1880 John Philip Sousa becomes leader of the United States Marine Band.
1880 First electric lamp factory is opened by Thomas Edison.
1887 Balochistan is conquered by the British Empire.
1890 Yosemite National Park is established by the U.S. Congress.
1891 In the U.S. state of California, Stanford University opens its doors.
1898 The Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration is founded under the name k.u.k. Exportakademie.
1903 Baseball: The Boston Americans play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series.
1905 Frantiek Pavlνk is killed in a demonstration in Prague, inspiring Leo Janαček to the piano composition 1. X. 1905.
1908 Ford puts the Model T car on the market at a price of US$825.
1910 Los Angeles Times bombing: A large bomb destroys the Los Angeles Times building in downtown Los Angeles, California, killing 21.
1918 World War I: Arab forces under T. E. Lawrence, also known as "Lawrence of Arabia" capture Damascus.
1920 Sir Percy Cox lands in Basra to assume his responsibilities as high commissioner in Iraq.
1928 The Soviet Union introduces its First Five-Year Plan.
1931 The George Washington Bridge linking New Jersey and New York opens.
1936 Francisco Franco is named head of the Nationalist government of Spain.
1937 The Japanese city Handa is founded in Aichi Prefecture.
1938 Germany annexes the Sudetenland.
1939 After a one-month Siege of Warsaw, hostile Nazi forces enter the city.
1940 The Pennsylvania Turnpike, often considered the first superhighway in the United States, opens to traffic.
1942 USS Grouper torpedoes Lisbon Maru not knowing she is carrying British PoWs from Hong Kong
1942 First flight of the Bell XP-59 "Aircomet".
1943 World War II: Naples falls to Allied soldiers.
1946 Nazi leaders are sentenced at Nuremberg Trials.
1946 Daegu October Incident occurs in Allied occupied Korea.
1946 Mensa International is founded in the United Kingdom.
1947 The North American F-86 Sabre flies for the first time.
1949 The People's Republic of China is established and declared by Mao Zedong.
1957 First appearance of In God We Trust on U.S. paper currency.
1958 NASA is created to replace NACA.
1959 The 10th anniversary of the People's Republic of China is celebrated with pomp across the country.
1960 Nigeria gains independence from the United Kingdom.
1961 The United States Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) is formed, becoming the country's first centralized military espionage organization.
1961 East and West Cameroon merge to form the Federal Republic of Cameroon.
1962 First broadcast of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
1964 The Free Speech Movement is launched on the campus of University of California, Berkeley.
1964 Japanese Shinkansen ("bullet trains") begin high-speed rail service from Tokyo to Osaka.
1965 General Suharto puts down an apparent coup attempt by the 30 September Movement in Indonesia.
1966 West Coast Airlines Flight 956 crashes with eighteen fatalities and no survivors 5.5 miles south of Wemme, Oregon. This accident marks the first loss of a DC-9.
1968 The Guyanese government takes over the British Guiana Broadcasting Service (BGBS).
1969 Concorde breaks the sound barrier for the first time.
1971 Walt Disney World opens near Orlando, Florida, United States.
1971 The first brain-scan using x-ray computed tomography (CT or CAT scan) is performed at Atkinson Morley Hospital in Wimbledon, London.
1975 The Seychelles gain internal self-government. The Ellice Islands split from Gilbert Islands and take the name Tuvalu.
1975 Thrilla in Manila: Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Frazier in a boxing match in Manila, Philippines.
1978 Tuvalu gains independence from the United Kingdom.
1978 The Voltaic Revolutionary Communist Party is founded.
1979 Pope John Paul II begins his first pastoral visit to the United States.
1979 The MTR, the rapid transit railway system in Hong Kong, opens.
1979 The United States returns sovereignty of the Panama canal to Panama.
1982 Helmut Kohl replaces Helmut Schmidt as Chancellor of Germany through a Constructive Vote of No Confidence.
1982 EPCOT Center opens at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida, United States.
1982 Sony launches the first consumer compact disc player (model CDP-101).
1985 The Israeli Air Force bombs Palestine Liberation Organization Headquarters in Tunis.
1987 The Whittier Narrows earthquake shakes the San Gabriel Valley, registering as magnitude 5.9.
1989 Denmark introduces the world's first legal modern same-sex civil union called "registered partnership".
1991 The Siege of Dubrovnik begins.
1992 Cartoon Network begins broadcasting.
1994 Palau gains independence from the United Nations (trusteeship administered by the United States of America).
2009 The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom takes over the judicial functions of the House of Lords.
2012 A ferry collision off the coast of Hong Kong kills 38 people and injures 102 others.