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590 Emperor Maurice proclaims his son Theodosius as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
1027 Pope John XIX crowns Conrad II as Holy Roman Emperor.
1169 Saladin becomes the emir of Egypt.
1344 The Siege of Algeciras, one of the first European military engagements where gunpowder was used, comes to an end.
1351 Combat of the Thirty : Thirty Breton Knights call out and defeat thirty English Knights.
1484 William Caxton prints his translation of Aesop's Fables.
1552 Guru Amar Das becomes the Third Sikh Guru.
1636 Utrecht University is founded in the Netherlands.
1812 An earthquake destroys Caracas, Venezuela.
1812 A political cartoon in the Boston Gazette coins the term "gerrymander" to describe oddly shaped electoral districts designed to help incumbents win reelection.
1830 The Book of Mormon is published in Palmyra, New York.
1839 The first Henley Royal Regatta is held.
1881 Thessaly is freed and becomes part of Greece again.
1885 The Mιtis people of the District of Saskatchewan under Louis Riel begin the North-West Rebellion against Canada.
1913 Balkan War: Bulgarian forces capture Adrianople.
1915 Ice Hockey: The Vancouver Millionaires sweep the Ottawa Senators three-games-to-none to win the 1915 Stanley Cup Finals, the first championship played between the Pacific Coast Hockey Association and the National Hockey Association.
1917 World War I: First Battle of Gaza British troops are halted after 17,000 Turks block their advance.
1922 The German Social Democratic Party is founded in Poland.
1931 SwissAir is founded as the national airline of Switzerland.
1931 Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union is founded in Vietnam.
1934 The driving test is introduced in the United Kingdom.
1939 Spanish Civil War: Nationalists begin their final offensive of the war.
1942 World War II: The first female prisoners arrive at Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland.
1945 World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ends as the island is officially secured by American forces.
1958 The United States Army launches Explorer 3.
1958 The African Regroupment Party is launched at a meeting in Paris.
1967 Ten thousand people gather for one of many Central Park be-ins in New York City
1971 East Pakistan declares its independence from Pakistan to form the People's Republic of Bangladesh and the Bangladesh Liberation War begins.
1974 Gaura Devi leads a group of 27 women of Laata village, Henwalghati, Garhwal Himalayas, to form circles around trees to stop them being felled and giving rise to the Chipko Movement in India.
1975 The Biological Weapons Convention comes into force.
1978 Four days before the scheduled opening of Japan's Narita International Airport, a group of protestors destroys much of the equipment in the control tower with Molotov cocktails.
1979 Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin and Jimmy Carter sign the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty in Washington, D.C..
1982 A groundbreaking ceremony for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is held in Washington, D.C..
1991 Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay sign the Treaty of Asunciσn, establishing Mercosur, the South Common Market.
1991 Five South Korean boys, nicknamed the Frog Boys, disappear while hunting for frogs and are murdered in a case that remains unsolved.
1991 Local self-government is restored after three decades of centralized control in South Korea.
1995 The Schengen Treaty comes into effect.
1997 Thirty-nine bodies are found in the Heaven's Gate mass suicides.
1998 Oued Bouaicha massacre in Algeria: Fifty-two people are killed with axes and knives, 32 of them babies under the age of two.
1999 The "Melissa worm" infects Microsoft word processing and e-mail systems around the world.
1999 A jury in Michigan finds Dr. Jack Kevorkian guilty of second-degree murder for administering a lethal injection to a terminally ill man.
2005 The Taiwanese government calls on one million Taiwanese to demonstrate in Taipei, in opposition to the Anti-Secession Law of the People's Republic of China. Around 200,000 to 300,000 attend the demonstration.
2010 The ROKS Cheonan sinks off the west coast of South Korea near Baengnyeong Island in the Yellow Sea, killing 46 seamen.
Events:C/P.
590 Emperor Maurice proclaims his son Theodosius as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
1027 Pope John XIX crowns Conrad II as Holy Roman Emperor.
1169 Saladin becomes the emir of Egypt.
1344 The Siege of Algeciras, one of the first European military engagements where gunpowder was used, comes to an end.
1351 Combat of the Thirty : Thirty Breton Knights call out and defeat thirty English Knights.
1484 William Caxton prints his translation of Aesop's Fables.
1552 Guru Amar Das becomes the Third Sikh Guru.
1636 Utrecht University is founded in the Netherlands.
1812 An earthquake destroys Caracas, Venezuela.
1812 A political cartoon in the Boston Gazette coins the term "gerrymander" to describe oddly shaped electoral districts designed to help incumbents win reelection.
1830 The Book of Mormon is published in Palmyra, New York.
1839 The first Henley Royal Regatta is held.
1881 Thessaly is freed and becomes part of Greece again.
1885 The Mιtis people of the District of Saskatchewan under Louis Riel begin the North-West Rebellion against Canada.
1913 Balkan War: Bulgarian forces capture Adrianople.
1915 Ice Hockey: The Vancouver Millionaires sweep the Ottawa Senators three-games-to-none to win the 1915 Stanley Cup Finals, the first championship played between the Pacific Coast Hockey Association and the National Hockey Association.
1917 World War I: First Battle of Gaza British troops are halted after 17,000 Turks block their advance.
1922 The German Social Democratic Party is founded in Poland.
1931 SwissAir is founded as the national airline of Switzerland.
1931 Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union is founded in Vietnam.
1934 The driving test is introduced in the United Kingdom.
1939 Spanish Civil War: Nationalists begin their final offensive of the war.
1942 World War II: The first female prisoners arrive at Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland.
1945 World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ends as the island is officially secured by American forces.
1958 The United States Army launches Explorer 3.
1958 The African Regroupment Party is launched at a meeting in Paris.
1967 Ten thousand people gather for one of many Central Park be-ins in New York City
1971 East Pakistan declares its independence from Pakistan to form the People's Republic of Bangladesh and the Bangladesh Liberation War begins.
1974 Gaura Devi leads a group of 27 women of Laata village, Henwalghati, Garhwal Himalayas, to form circles around trees to stop them being felled and giving rise to the Chipko Movement in India.
1975 The Biological Weapons Convention comes into force.
1978 Four days before the scheduled opening of Japan's Narita International Airport, a group of protestors destroys much of the equipment in the control tower with Molotov cocktails.
1979 Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin and Jimmy Carter sign the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty in Washington, D.C..
1982 A groundbreaking ceremony for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is held in Washington, D.C..
1991 Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay sign the Treaty of Asunciσn, establishing Mercosur, the South Common Market.
1991 Five South Korean boys, nicknamed the Frog Boys, disappear while hunting for frogs and are murdered in a case that remains unsolved.
1991 Local self-government is restored after three decades of centralized control in South Korea.
1995 The Schengen Treaty comes into effect.
1997 Thirty-nine bodies are found in the Heaven's Gate mass suicides.
1998 Oued Bouaicha massacre in Algeria: Fifty-two people are killed with axes and knives, 32 of them babies under the age of two.
1999 The "Melissa worm" infects Microsoft word processing and e-mail systems around the world.
1999 A jury in Michigan finds Dr. Jack Kevorkian guilty of second-degree murder for administering a lethal injection to a terminally ill man.
2005 The Taiwanese government calls on one million Taiwanese to demonstrate in Taipei, in opposition to the Anti-Secession Law of the People's Republic of China. Around 200,000 to 300,000 attend the demonstration.
2010 The ROKS Cheonan sinks off the west coast of South Korea near Baengnyeong Island in the Yellow Sea, killing 46 seamen.