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421 Constantius III becomes co-Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
1238 The Mongols burn the Russian city of Vladimir.
1250 Seventh Crusade: Crusaders engage Ayyubid forces in the Battle of Al Mansurah.
1347 The Byzantine civil war of 13411347 ends with a power-sharing agreement between John VI Kantakouzenos and John V Palaiologos.
1575 Universiteit Leiden is founded, and given the motto Praesidium Libertatis.
1587 Mary, Queen of Scots, is executed on suspicion of having been involved in the Babington Plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I.
1601 Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, rebels against Queen Elizabeth I the revolt is quickly crushed.
1693 The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia is granted a charter by King William III and Queen Mary II.
1726 The Supreme Privy Council is established in Russia.
1807 Battle of Eylau Napoleon defeats Russians under General Bennigsen and the Prussians under L'Estocq
1817 Las Heras crosses the Andes with an army to join San Martνn and liberate Chile from Spain.
1837 Richard Johnson becomes the first Vice President of the United States chosen by the United States Senate.
1855 The Devil's Footprints mysteriously appear in southern Devon.
1856 Barbu Dimitrie Ştirbei abolishes slavery in Wallachia.
1865 In the United States, Delaware voters reject the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and vote to continue the practice of slavery. (Delaware finally ratifies the amendment on February 12, 1901.)
1879 Sandford Fleming first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute.
1879 The England cricket team led by Lord Harris is attacked during a riot during a match in Sydney.
1885 The first government-approved Japanese immigrants arrived in Hawaii.
1887 The Dawes Act authorizes the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal land and divide it into individual allotments.
1904 Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise torpedo attack by the Japanese at Port Arthur, China starts the Russo-Japanese War.
1910 The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce.
1915 D.W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles.
1922 President Warren G. Harding introduces the first radio in the White House.
1924 Capital punishment: The first state execution in the United States by gas chamber takes place in Nevada.
1942 World War II: Japan invades Singapore.
1945 World War II: The United Kingdom and Canada commence Operation Veritable to occupy the west bank of the Rhine.
1946 The first portion of the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, the first serious challenge to the popularity of the Authorized King James Version, is published.
1948 The formal creation of the Korean People's Army of North Korea is announced.
1949 Cardinal Mindszenty of Hungary is sentenced for treason.
1950 The Stasi, the secret police of East Germany, is established.
1952 Elizabeth II is proclaimed Queen of the United Kingdom.
1955 The Government of Sindh, Pakistan, abolishes the Jagirdari system in the province. One million acres (4000 km2) of land thus acquired is to be distributed among the landless peasants.
1960 Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom issues an Order-in-Council, stating that she and her family would be known as the House of Windsor, and that her descendants will take the name "Mountbatten-Windsor".
1960 The first eight brass star plaques are installed in the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1962 Charonne massacre. Nine trade unionists are killed by French police at the instigation of Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon, then chief of the Paris Prefecture of Police.
1963 Travel, financial and commercial transactions by United States citizens to Cuba are made illegal by the John F. Kennedy administration.
1963 The First full Color Television program in the World, publicly advertised, is broadcast in Mexico City by XHGC-TV, Channel 5, due to technical breakthrough advances made by Mexican Engineer Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena.
1963 The regime of Prime Minister of Iraq, Brigadier General Abdul-Karim Qassem is overthrown by the Ba'ath Party.
1965 Eastern Air Lines Flight 663 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean and explodes, killing everyone aboard.
1968 American civil rights movement: The Orangeburg massacre: An attack on black students from South Carolina State University who are protesting racial segregation at the town's only bowling alley, leaves three or four dead in Orangeburg, South Carolina.
1969 Allende meteorite falls near Pueblito de Allende, Chihuahua, Mexico.
1971 The NASDAQ stock market index opens for the first time.
1971 South Vietnamese ground troops launch an incursion into Laos to try to cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail and stop communist infiltration.
1974 After 84 days in space, the crew of Skylab 4, the last crew to visit American space station Skylab, returns to Earth.
1974 Military coup in Upper Volta.
1978 Proceedings of the United States Senate are broadcast on radio for the first time.
1981 Twenty-one association football spectators are trampled to death at Karaiskakis Stadium in Neo Faliro, Greece, after a football match between Olympiacos F.C. and AEK Athens FC.
1983 The Melbourne dust storm hits Australia's second largest city. The result of the worst drought on record and a day of severe weather conditions, a 320 metres (1,050 ft) deep dust cloud envelops the city, turning day to night.
1986 Hinton train collision: Twenty-three people are killed when a VIA Rail passenger train collides with a 118-car Canadian National freight train near the town of Hinton, Alberta, west of Edmonton. It is the worst rail accident in Canada until the Lac-Mιgantic, Quebec derailment in 2013 which killed forty-seven people.
1993 General Motors sues NBC after Dateline NBC allegedly rigs two crashes intended to demonstrate that some GM pickups can easily catch fire if hit in certain places. NBC settles the lawsuit the next day.
1996 The U.S. Congress passes the Communications Decency Act.
1996 The massive Internet collaboration "24 Hours in Cyberspace" takes place.
2010 A freak storm in the Hindukush mountains of Afghanistan triggers a series of at least 36 avalanches, burying over two miles of road, killing at least 172 people and trapping over 2,000 travelers.
2013 A blizzard disrupts transportation and leaves hundreds of thousands of people without electricity in the Northeastern United States and parts of Canada.
2014 A hotel fire in Medina, Saudi Arabia kills 15 Egyptian pilgrims with 130 also injured.
Events:C/P.
421 Constantius III becomes co-Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
1238 The Mongols burn the Russian city of Vladimir.
1250 Seventh Crusade: Crusaders engage Ayyubid forces in the Battle of Al Mansurah.
1347 The Byzantine civil war of 13411347 ends with a power-sharing agreement between John VI Kantakouzenos and John V Palaiologos.
1575 Universiteit Leiden is founded, and given the motto Praesidium Libertatis.
1587 Mary, Queen of Scots, is executed on suspicion of having been involved in the Babington Plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I.
1601 Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, rebels against Queen Elizabeth I the revolt is quickly crushed.
1693 The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia is granted a charter by King William III and Queen Mary II.
1726 The Supreme Privy Council is established in Russia.
1807 Battle of Eylau Napoleon defeats Russians under General Bennigsen and the Prussians under L'Estocq
1817 Las Heras crosses the Andes with an army to join San Martνn and liberate Chile from Spain.
1837 Richard Johnson becomes the first Vice President of the United States chosen by the United States Senate.
1855 The Devil's Footprints mysteriously appear in southern Devon.
1856 Barbu Dimitrie Ştirbei abolishes slavery in Wallachia.
1865 In the United States, Delaware voters reject the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and vote to continue the practice of slavery. (Delaware finally ratifies the amendment on February 12, 1901.)
1879 Sandford Fleming first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute.
1879 The England cricket team led by Lord Harris is attacked during a riot during a match in Sydney.
1885 The first government-approved Japanese immigrants arrived in Hawaii.
1887 The Dawes Act authorizes the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal land and divide it into individual allotments.
1904 Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise torpedo attack by the Japanese at Port Arthur, China starts the Russo-Japanese War.
1910 The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce.
1915 D.W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles.
1922 President Warren G. Harding introduces the first radio in the White House.
1924 Capital punishment: The first state execution in the United States by gas chamber takes place in Nevada.
1942 World War II: Japan invades Singapore.
1945 World War II: The United Kingdom and Canada commence Operation Veritable to occupy the west bank of the Rhine.
1946 The first portion of the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, the first serious challenge to the popularity of the Authorized King James Version, is published.
1948 The formal creation of the Korean People's Army of North Korea is announced.
1949 Cardinal Mindszenty of Hungary is sentenced for treason.
1950 The Stasi, the secret police of East Germany, is established.
1952 Elizabeth II is proclaimed Queen of the United Kingdom.
1955 The Government of Sindh, Pakistan, abolishes the Jagirdari system in the province. One million acres (4000 km2) of land thus acquired is to be distributed among the landless peasants.
1960 Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom issues an Order-in-Council, stating that she and her family would be known as the House of Windsor, and that her descendants will take the name "Mountbatten-Windsor".
1960 The first eight brass star plaques are installed in the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1962 Charonne massacre. Nine trade unionists are killed by French police at the instigation of Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon, then chief of the Paris Prefecture of Police.
1963 Travel, financial and commercial transactions by United States citizens to Cuba are made illegal by the John F. Kennedy administration.
1963 The First full Color Television program in the World, publicly advertised, is broadcast in Mexico City by XHGC-TV, Channel 5, due to technical breakthrough advances made by Mexican Engineer Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena.
1963 The regime of Prime Minister of Iraq, Brigadier General Abdul-Karim Qassem is overthrown by the Ba'ath Party.
1965 Eastern Air Lines Flight 663 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean and explodes, killing everyone aboard.
1968 American civil rights movement: The Orangeburg massacre: An attack on black students from South Carolina State University who are protesting racial segregation at the town's only bowling alley, leaves three or four dead in Orangeburg, South Carolina.
1969 Allende meteorite falls near Pueblito de Allende, Chihuahua, Mexico.
1971 The NASDAQ stock market index opens for the first time.
1971 South Vietnamese ground troops launch an incursion into Laos to try to cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail and stop communist infiltration.
1974 After 84 days in space, the crew of Skylab 4, the last crew to visit American space station Skylab, returns to Earth.
1974 Military coup in Upper Volta.
1978 Proceedings of the United States Senate are broadcast on radio for the first time.
1981 Twenty-one association football spectators are trampled to death at Karaiskakis Stadium in Neo Faliro, Greece, after a football match between Olympiacos F.C. and AEK Athens FC.
1983 The Melbourne dust storm hits Australia's second largest city. The result of the worst drought on record and a day of severe weather conditions, a 320 metres (1,050 ft) deep dust cloud envelops the city, turning day to night.
1986 Hinton train collision: Twenty-three people are killed when a VIA Rail passenger train collides with a 118-car Canadian National freight train near the town of Hinton, Alberta, west of Edmonton. It is the worst rail accident in Canada until the Lac-Mιgantic, Quebec derailment in 2013 which killed forty-seven people.
1993 General Motors sues NBC after Dateline NBC allegedly rigs two crashes intended to demonstrate that some GM pickups can easily catch fire if hit in certain places. NBC settles the lawsuit the next day.
1996 The U.S. Congress passes the Communications Decency Act.
1996 The massive Internet collaboration "24 Hours in Cyberspace" takes place.
2010 A freak storm in the Hindukush mountains of Afghanistan triggers a series of at least 36 avalanches, burying over two miles of road, killing at least 172 people and trapping over 2,000 travelers.
2013 A blizzard disrupts transportation and leaves hundreds of thousands of people without electricity in the Northeastern United States and parts of Canada.
2014 A hotel fire in Medina, Saudi Arabia kills 15 Egyptian pilgrims with 130 also injured.