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326 The old St. Peter's Basilica is consecrated.
401 The Visigoths, led by king Alaric I, cross the Alps and invade northern Italy.
1105 Maginulfo is elected the Antipope as Sylvester IV.
1180 Phillip II becomes king of France.
1210 Pope Innocent III excommunicates Holy Roman Emperor Otto IV
1302 Pope Boniface VIII issues the Papal bull Unam sanctam (One Faith).
1307 William Tell shoots an apple off his son's head.
1421 A seawall at the Zuiderzee dike in the Netherlands breaks, flooding 72 villages and killing about 10,000 people. This event will be known as Sint-Elisabethsvloed.
1493 Christopher Columbus first sights the island now known as Puerto Rico.
1494 French King Charles VIII occupies Florence, Italy
1601 Tiryaki Hasan Pasha, provincial governor of Ottoman Empire, utterly defeats Habsburg forces, commanded by Ferdinand the Archduke of Austria during the Siege of Nagykanizsa.
1626 St. Peter's Basilica is consecrated.
1686 Charles Francois Felix operates on King Louis XIV of France's anal fistula after practicing the surgery on several peasants.
1730 Frederick II (known as Frederick the Great), King of Prussia, is granted a royal pardon and released from confinement.
1803 The Battle of Vertiθres, the last major battle of the Haitian Revolution, is fought, leading to the establishment of the Republic of Haiti, the first black republic in the Western Hemisphere.
1809 In a naval action during the Napoleonic Wars, French frigates defeat British East Indiamen in the Bay of Bengal.
1812 Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Krasnoi ends in French defeat, but Marshal of France Michel Ney's leadership leads to him becoming known as "the bravest of the brave".
1863 King Christian IX of Denmark decides to sign the November constitution that declares Schleswig to be part of Denmark. This is seen by the German Confederation as a violation of the London Protocol and leads to the GermanDanish war of 1864.
1865 Mark Twain's short story The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is published in the New York Saturday Press.
1883 American and Canadian railroads institute five standard continental time zones, ending the confusion of thousands of local times.
1903 The HayBunau-Varilla Treaty is signed by the United States and Panama, giving the United States exclusive rights over the Panama Canal Zone.
1904 General Esteban Huertas steps down after the government of Panama fears he wants to stage a coup.
1905 Prince Carl of Denmark becomes King Haakon VII of Norway.
1909 Two United States warships are sent to Nicaragua after 500 revolutionaries (including two Americans) are executed by order of Josι Santos Zelaya.
1916 World War I: First Battle of the Somme in France, British Expeditionary Force commander Douglas Haig calls off the battle which started on July 1, 1916.
1918 Latvia declares its independence from Russia.
1926 George Bernard Shaw refuses to accept the money for his Nobel Prize, saying, "I can forgive Alfred Nobel for inventing dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize".
1928 Release of the animated short Steamboat Willie, the first fully synchronized sound cartoon, directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, featuring the third appearances of cartoon characters Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse. This is also considered by the Disney corporation to be Mickey's birthday.
1929 1929 Grand Banks earthquake: off the south coast of Newfoundland in the Atlantic Ocean, a Richter magnitude 7.2 submarine earthquake, centered on Grand Banks, breaks 12 submarine transatlantic telegraph cables and triggers a tsunami that destroys many south coast communities in the Burin Peninsula.
1930 Soka Kyoiku Gakkai, a Buddhist association later renamed Soka Gakkai, is founded by Japanese educators Tsunesaburo Makiguchi and Josei Toda.
1938 Trade union members elect John L. Lewis as the first president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations.
1940 World War II: German leader Adolf Hitler and Italian Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano meet to discuss Benito Mussolini's disastrous invasion of Greece.
1943 World War II Battle of Berlin: 440 Royal Air Force planes bomb Berlin causing only light damage and killing 131. The RAF loses nine aircraft and 53 air crew.
1944 The Popular Socialist Youth is founded in Cuba
1947 The Ballantyne's Department Store fire in Christchurch, New Zealand, kills 41; it is the worst fire disaster in the history of New Zealand.
1949 The Iva Valley Shooting occurs after the coal miners of Enugu in Nigeria go on strike over withheld wages; 21 miners are shot dead and 51 are wounded by police under the supervision of the British colonial administration of Nigeria.
1961 United States President John F. Kennedy sends 18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam.
1963 The first push-button telephone goes into service.
1970 U.S. President Richard Nixon asks the U.S. Congress for $155 million in supplemental aid for the Cambodian government.
1978 In Jonestown, Guyana, Jim Jones led his Peoples Temple cult to a mass murder-suicide that claimed 918 lives in all, 909 of them in Jonestown itself, including over 270 children. Congressman Leo J. Ryan is murdered by members of the Peoples Temple hours earlier.
1987 Iran-Contra Affair: the U.S. Congress issues its final report on the Iran-Contra Affair.
1987 King's Cross fire: in London, 31 people die in a fire at the city's busiest underground station, King's Cross St Pancras.
1988 War on Drugs: U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill into law allowing the death penalty for drug traffickers.
1991 Shiite Muslim kidnappers in Lebanon release Anglican Church envoys Terry Waite and Thomas Sutherland.
1991 After an 87-day siege, the Croatian city of Vukovar capitulates to the besieging Yugoslav People's Army and allied Serb paramilitary forces.
1993 In the United States, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is ratified by the House of Representatives.
1993 In South Africa, 21 political parties approve a new constitution, expanding voting rights and ending white minority rule.
1999 In College Station, Texas, 12 are killed and 27 injured at Texas A&M University when the 59-foot-tall (18 m) Aggie Bonfire, under construction for the annual football game against the University of Texas, collapses at 2:42am.
2002 Iraq disarmament crisis: United Nations weapons inspectors led by Hans Blix arrive in Iraq.
2003 In the United Kingdom, the Local Government Act 2003, repealing controversial anti-gay amendment Section 28, becomes effective.
2003 The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court rules 4 to 3 in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health that the state's ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional and gives the state legislature 180 days to change the law making Massachusetts the first state in the United States to grant marriage rights to same-sex couples.
Events:C/P.
326 The old St. Peter's Basilica is consecrated.
401 The Visigoths, led by king Alaric I, cross the Alps and invade northern Italy.
1105 Maginulfo is elected the Antipope as Sylvester IV.
1180 Phillip II becomes king of France.
1210 Pope Innocent III excommunicates Holy Roman Emperor Otto IV
1302 Pope Boniface VIII issues the Papal bull Unam sanctam (One Faith).
1307 William Tell shoots an apple off his son's head.
1421 A seawall at the Zuiderzee dike in the Netherlands breaks, flooding 72 villages and killing about 10,000 people. This event will be known as Sint-Elisabethsvloed.
1493 Christopher Columbus first sights the island now known as Puerto Rico.
1494 French King Charles VIII occupies Florence, Italy
1601 Tiryaki Hasan Pasha, provincial governor of Ottoman Empire, utterly defeats Habsburg forces, commanded by Ferdinand the Archduke of Austria during the Siege of Nagykanizsa.
1626 St. Peter's Basilica is consecrated.
1686 Charles Francois Felix operates on King Louis XIV of France's anal fistula after practicing the surgery on several peasants.
1730 Frederick II (known as Frederick the Great), King of Prussia, is granted a royal pardon and released from confinement.
1803 The Battle of Vertiθres, the last major battle of the Haitian Revolution, is fought, leading to the establishment of the Republic of Haiti, the first black republic in the Western Hemisphere.
1809 In a naval action during the Napoleonic Wars, French frigates defeat British East Indiamen in the Bay of Bengal.
1812 Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Krasnoi ends in French defeat, but Marshal of France Michel Ney's leadership leads to him becoming known as "the bravest of the brave".
1863 King Christian IX of Denmark decides to sign the November constitution that declares Schleswig to be part of Denmark. This is seen by the German Confederation as a violation of the London Protocol and leads to the GermanDanish war of 1864.
1865 Mark Twain's short story The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is published in the New York Saturday Press.
1883 American and Canadian railroads institute five standard continental time zones, ending the confusion of thousands of local times.
1903 The HayBunau-Varilla Treaty is signed by the United States and Panama, giving the United States exclusive rights over the Panama Canal Zone.
1904 General Esteban Huertas steps down after the government of Panama fears he wants to stage a coup.
1905 Prince Carl of Denmark becomes King Haakon VII of Norway.
1909 Two United States warships are sent to Nicaragua after 500 revolutionaries (including two Americans) are executed by order of Josι Santos Zelaya.
1916 World War I: First Battle of the Somme in France, British Expeditionary Force commander Douglas Haig calls off the battle which started on July 1, 1916.
1918 Latvia declares its independence from Russia.
1926 George Bernard Shaw refuses to accept the money for his Nobel Prize, saying, "I can forgive Alfred Nobel for inventing dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize".
1928 Release of the animated short Steamboat Willie, the first fully synchronized sound cartoon, directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, featuring the third appearances of cartoon characters Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse. This is also considered by the Disney corporation to be Mickey's birthday.
1929 1929 Grand Banks earthquake: off the south coast of Newfoundland in the Atlantic Ocean, a Richter magnitude 7.2 submarine earthquake, centered on Grand Banks, breaks 12 submarine transatlantic telegraph cables and triggers a tsunami that destroys many south coast communities in the Burin Peninsula.
1930 Soka Kyoiku Gakkai, a Buddhist association later renamed Soka Gakkai, is founded by Japanese educators Tsunesaburo Makiguchi and Josei Toda.
1938 Trade union members elect John L. Lewis as the first president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations.
1940 World War II: German leader Adolf Hitler and Italian Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano meet to discuss Benito Mussolini's disastrous invasion of Greece.
1943 World War II Battle of Berlin: 440 Royal Air Force planes bomb Berlin causing only light damage and killing 131. The RAF loses nine aircraft and 53 air crew.
1944 The Popular Socialist Youth is founded in Cuba
1947 The Ballantyne's Department Store fire in Christchurch, New Zealand, kills 41; it is the worst fire disaster in the history of New Zealand.
1949 The Iva Valley Shooting occurs after the coal miners of Enugu in Nigeria go on strike over withheld wages; 21 miners are shot dead and 51 are wounded by police under the supervision of the British colonial administration of Nigeria.
1961 United States President John F. Kennedy sends 18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam.
1963 The first push-button telephone goes into service.
1970 U.S. President Richard Nixon asks the U.S. Congress for $155 million in supplemental aid for the Cambodian government.
1978 In Jonestown, Guyana, Jim Jones led his Peoples Temple cult to a mass murder-suicide that claimed 918 lives in all, 909 of them in Jonestown itself, including over 270 children. Congressman Leo J. Ryan is murdered by members of the Peoples Temple hours earlier.
1987 Iran-Contra Affair: the U.S. Congress issues its final report on the Iran-Contra Affair.
1987 King's Cross fire: in London, 31 people die in a fire at the city's busiest underground station, King's Cross St Pancras.
1988 War on Drugs: U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill into law allowing the death penalty for drug traffickers.
1991 Shiite Muslim kidnappers in Lebanon release Anglican Church envoys Terry Waite and Thomas Sutherland.
1991 After an 87-day siege, the Croatian city of Vukovar capitulates to the besieging Yugoslav People's Army and allied Serb paramilitary forces.
1993 In the United States, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is ratified by the House of Representatives.
1993 In South Africa, 21 political parties approve a new constitution, expanding voting rights and ending white minority rule.
1999 In College Station, Texas, 12 are killed and 27 injured at Texas A&M University when the 59-foot-tall (18 m) Aggie Bonfire, under construction for the annual football game against the University of Texas, collapses at 2:42am.
2002 Iraq disarmament crisis: United Nations weapons inspectors led by Hans Blix arrive in Iraq.
2003 In the United Kingdom, the Local Government Act 2003, repealing controversial anti-gay amendment Section 28, becomes effective.
2003 The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court rules 4 to 3 in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health that the state's ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional and gives the state legislature 180 days to change the law making Massachusetts the first state in the United States to grant marriage rights to same-sex couples.