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Events:C/P.
12 BC The Roman Emperor Augustus is named Pontifex Maximus, incorporating the position into that of the Emperor
961 Byzantine conquest of Chandax by Nikephoros Phokas, end the Emirate of Crete
1454 Thirteen Years' War: Delegates of the Prussian Confederation pledge allegiance to King Casimir IV of Poland who agrees to commit his forces in aiding the Confederation's struggle for independence from the Teutonic Knights.
1521 Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Guam.
1788 The First Fleet arrives at Norfolk Island in order to found a convict settlement.
1820 The Missouri Compromise is signed into law by President James Monroe. The compromise allows Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state, brings Maine into the Union as a free state, and makes the rest of the northern part of the Louisiana Purchase territory slavery-free.
1834 York, Upper Canada is incorporated as Toronto.
1836 Texas Revolution: Battle of the Alamo After a thirteen day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, the 187 Texas volunteers, including frontiersman Davy Crockett and colonel Jim Bowie, defending the Alamo are killed and the fort is captured.
1857 The Supreme Court of the United States rules in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case.
1869 Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
1882 The Serbian kingdom is re-founded.
1899 Bayer registers "Aspirin" as a trademark.
1902 Real Madrid C.F. was founded.
1921 Portuguese Communist Party is founded as the Portuguese Section of the Communist International.
1930 International Unemployment Day demonstrations globally initiated by the Comintern
1943 Norman Rockwell published Freedom from Want in the The Saturday Evening Post with a matching essay by Carlos Bulosan as part of the Four Freedoms series.
1945 World War II: Cologne is captured by American Troops.
1946 Ho Chi Minh signs an agreement with France which recognizes Vietnam as an autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union.
1951 The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins.
1953 Georgy Malenkov succeeds Joseph Stalin as Premier of the Soviet Union and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1957 Ghana becomes the first Sub-Saharan country to gain independence from the British
1962 Ash Wednesday Storm of 1962 begins on the mid-Atlantic coast of the United States.
1964 Nation of Islam's Elijah Muhammad officially gives boxing champion Cassius Clay the name Muhammad Ali.
1964 Constantine II becomes King of Greece.
1965 Premier Tom Playford of South Australia loses power after 27 years in office.
1967 Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States.
1968 The first of the East L.A. walkouts take place at several high schools.
1968 Three black males are executed by Rhodesia, the first executions since UDI, prompting international condemnation.
1970 An explosion at the Weather Underground safe house in Greenwich Village kills three.
1975 For the first time the Zapruder film of the assassination of John F. Kennedy is shown in motion to a national TV audience by Robert J. Groden and Dick Gregory.
1975 Algiers Accord: Iran and Iraq announce a settlement of their border dispute.
1981 After 19 years of presenting the CBS Evening News, Walter Cronkite signs off for the last time.
1983 The first United States Football League game is played.
1987 The British ferry MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes in about 90 seconds killing 193.
1988 Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers are killed by Special Air Service on the territory of Gibraltar in the conclusion of Operation Flavius.
1990 Ed Yielding and Joseph T. Vida set the transcontinental speed record flying a SR-71 Blackbird from Los Angeles to Virginia in 64 minutes, averaging 2,124 mph.
1992 The Michelangelo computer virus begins to affect computers.
2008 A suicide bomber kills 68 people (including first responders) in Baghdad on the same day that a gunman kills eight students in Jerusalem.
Events:C/P.
12 BC The Roman Emperor Augustus is named Pontifex Maximus, incorporating the position into that of the Emperor
961 Byzantine conquest of Chandax by Nikephoros Phokas, end the Emirate of Crete
1454 Thirteen Years' War: Delegates of the Prussian Confederation pledge allegiance to King Casimir IV of Poland who agrees to commit his forces in aiding the Confederation's struggle for independence from the Teutonic Knights.
1521 Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Guam.
1788 The First Fleet arrives at Norfolk Island in order to found a convict settlement.
1820 The Missouri Compromise is signed into law by President James Monroe. The compromise allows Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state, brings Maine into the Union as a free state, and makes the rest of the northern part of the Louisiana Purchase territory slavery-free.
1834 York, Upper Canada is incorporated as Toronto.
1836 Texas Revolution: Battle of the Alamo After a thirteen day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, the 187 Texas volunteers, including frontiersman Davy Crockett and colonel Jim Bowie, defending the Alamo are killed and the fort is captured.
1857 The Supreme Court of the United States rules in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case.
1869 Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
1882 The Serbian kingdom is re-founded.
1899 Bayer registers "Aspirin" as a trademark.
1902 Real Madrid C.F. was founded.
1921 Portuguese Communist Party is founded as the Portuguese Section of the Communist International.
1930 International Unemployment Day demonstrations globally initiated by the Comintern
1943 Norman Rockwell published Freedom from Want in the The Saturday Evening Post with a matching essay by Carlos Bulosan as part of the Four Freedoms series.
1945 World War II: Cologne is captured by American Troops.
1946 Ho Chi Minh signs an agreement with France which recognizes Vietnam as an autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union.
1951 The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins.
1953 Georgy Malenkov succeeds Joseph Stalin as Premier of the Soviet Union and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1957 Ghana becomes the first Sub-Saharan country to gain independence from the British
1962 Ash Wednesday Storm of 1962 begins on the mid-Atlantic coast of the United States.
1964 Nation of Islam's Elijah Muhammad officially gives boxing champion Cassius Clay the name Muhammad Ali.
1964 Constantine II becomes King of Greece.
1965 Premier Tom Playford of South Australia loses power after 27 years in office.
1967 Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States.
1968 The first of the East L.A. walkouts take place at several high schools.
1968 Three black males are executed by Rhodesia, the first executions since UDI, prompting international condemnation.
1970 An explosion at the Weather Underground safe house in Greenwich Village kills three.
1975 For the first time the Zapruder film of the assassination of John F. Kennedy is shown in motion to a national TV audience by Robert J. Groden and Dick Gregory.
1975 Algiers Accord: Iran and Iraq announce a settlement of their border dispute.
1981 After 19 years of presenting the CBS Evening News, Walter Cronkite signs off for the last time.
1983 The first United States Football League game is played.
1987 The British ferry MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes in about 90 seconds killing 193.
1988 Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers are killed by Special Air Service on the territory of Gibraltar in the conclusion of Operation Flavius.
1990 Ed Yielding and Joseph T. Vida set the transcontinental speed record flying a SR-71 Blackbird from Los Angeles to Virginia in 64 minutes, averaging 2,124 mph.
1992 The Michelangelo computer virus begins to affect computers.
2008 A suicide bomber kills 68 people (including first responders) in Baghdad on the same day that a gunman kills eight students in Jerusalem.