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Events:C/P.
307 After divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine marries Fausta, the daughter of the retired Roman Emperor Maximian.
627 Battle of the Trench: Muhammad undergoes a 14-day siege at Medina (Saudi Arabia) by Meccan forces under Abu Sufyan.
1146 Bernard of Clairvaux preaches his famous sermon in a field at V้zelay, urging the necessity of a Second Crusade. Louis VII is present, and joins the Crusade.
1492 Queen Isabella of Castille issues the Alhambra Decree, ordering her 150,000 Jewish and Muslim subjects to convert to Christianity or face expulsion.
1561 The city of San Crist๓bal, Tแchira is founded.
1717 A sermon on "The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ" by Benjamin Hoadly, the Bishop of Bangor, provokes the Bangorian Controversy.
1774 American Revolutionary War: The Kingdom of Great Britain orders the port of Boston, Massachusetts closed pursuant to the Boston Port Act.
1822 The massacre of the population of the Greek island of Chios by soldiers of the Ottoman Empire following an attempted rebellion, depicted by the French artist Eug่ne Delacroix.
1854 Commodore Matthew Perry signs the Treaty of Kanagawa with the Japanese government, opening the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American trade.
1866 The Spanish Navy bombs the harbor of Valparaํso, Chile.
1877 The family with samurai antecedents that responded to the Saigō army in Ōita Nakatsu, rebels.
1885 The United Kingdom establishes a protectorate over Bechuanaland.
1889 The Eiffel Tower is officially opened.
1899 Malolos, capital of the First Philippine Republic, was captured by American forces.
1901 1901 Black Sea earthquake.
1903 Richard Pearse allegedly makes a powered flight in an early aircraft.
1906 The Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (later the National Collegiate Athletic Association) is established to set rules for college sports in the United States.
1909 Serbia accepts Austrian control over Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1909 Construction of the ill fated RMS Titanic begins.
1910 Six North Staffordshire Pottery towns federate to form modern Stoke-on-Trent.
1913 The Vienna Concert Society rioted during a performance of modernist music by Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, Alexander von Zemlinsky, and Anton von Webern, causing a premature end to the concert due to violence; this concert became known as the Skandalkonzert.
1917 The United States takes possession of the Danish West Indies after paying $25 million to Denmark, and renames the territory the United States Virgin Islands.
1918 Massacre of ethnic Azerbaijanis is committed by allied armed groups of Armenian Revolutionary Federation and Bolsheviks. Nearly 12,000 Azerbaijani Muslims are killed.
1918 Daylight saving time goes into effect in the United States for the first time.
1921 The Royal Australian Air Force is formed.
1930 The Motion Picture Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in film, in the U.S., for the next thirty-eight years.
1931 An earthquake destroys Managua, Nicaragua, killing 2,000.
1931 TWA Flight 599 crashes near Bazaar, Kansas, killing eight, including University of Notre Dame head football coach Knute Rockne.
1933 The Civilian Conservation Corps is established with the mission of relieving rampant unemployment in the United States.
1942 World War II: Japanese forces invade Christmas Island, then a British possession.
1945 World War II: a defecting German pilot delivers a Messerschmitt Me 262A-1, the world's first operational jet-powered fighter aircraft, to the Americans, the first to fall into Allied hands.
1949 The Dominion of Newfoundland joins the Canadian Confederation and becomes the 10th Province of Canada.
1951 Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau.
1957 Elections to the Territorial Assembly of the French colony Upper Volta are held. After the elections PDU and MDV form a government.
1958 In the Canadian federal election, the Progressive Conservatives, led by John Diefenbaker, win the largest percentage of seats in Canadian history, with 208 seats of 265.
1959 The 14th Dalai Lama, crosses the border into India and is granted political asylum.
1964 A coup d'้tat in Brazil establishes a military government, under the aegis of general Castelo Branco.
1966 The Soviet Union launches Luna 10 which later becomes the first space probe to enter orbit around the Moon.
1970 Explorer 1 re-enters the Earth's atmosphere after 12 years in orbit.
1979 The last British soldier leaves the Maltese Islands. Malta declares its Freedom Day (Jum il-Helsien).
1980 The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad operates its final train after being ordered to liquidate its assets because of bankruptcy and debts owed to creditors.
1985 The first WrestleMania, the biggest wrestling event from the WWE (then the WWF), takes place in Madison Square Garden in New York.
1986 Six metropolitan county councils are abolished in England.
1990 Approximately 200,000 protestors take to the streets of London to protest against the newly introduced Poll Tax.
1991 Georgian independence referendum, 1991: Nearly 99 percent of the voters support the country's independence from the Soviet Union.
1992 The USS Missouri, the last active United States Navy battleship, is decommissioned in Long Beach, California.
1994 The journal Nature reports the finding in Ethiopia of the first complete Australopithecus afarensis skull.
1995 End of the US military campaign in Somalia
2004 Iraq War in Anbar Province: In Fallujah, Iraq, four American private military contractors working for Blackwater USA, are killed after being ambushed.
Events:C/P.
307 After divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine marries Fausta, the daughter of the retired Roman Emperor Maximian.
627 Battle of the Trench: Muhammad undergoes a 14-day siege at Medina (Saudi Arabia) by Meccan forces under Abu Sufyan.
1146 Bernard of Clairvaux preaches his famous sermon in a field at V้zelay, urging the necessity of a Second Crusade. Louis VII is present, and joins the Crusade.
1492 Queen Isabella of Castille issues the Alhambra Decree, ordering her 150,000 Jewish and Muslim subjects to convert to Christianity or face expulsion.
1561 The city of San Crist๓bal, Tแchira is founded.
1717 A sermon on "The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ" by Benjamin Hoadly, the Bishop of Bangor, provokes the Bangorian Controversy.
1774 American Revolutionary War: The Kingdom of Great Britain orders the port of Boston, Massachusetts closed pursuant to the Boston Port Act.
1822 The massacre of the population of the Greek island of Chios by soldiers of the Ottoman Empire following an attempted rebellion, depicted by the French artist Eug่ne Delacroix.
1854 Commodore Matthew Perry signs the Treaty of Kanagawa with the Japanese government, opening the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American trade.
1866 The Spanish Navy bombs the harbor of Valparaํso, Chile.
1877 The family with samurai antecedents that responded to the Saigō army in Ōita Nakatsu, rebels.
1885 The United Kingdom establishes a protectorate over Bechuanaland.
1889 The Eiffel Tower is officially opened.
1899 Malolos, capital of the First Philippine Republic, was captured by American forces.
1901 1901 Black Sea earthquake.
1903 Richard Pearse allegedly makes a powered flight in an early aircraft.
1906 The Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (later the National Collegiate Athletic Association) is established to set rules for college sports in the United States.
1909 Serbia accepts Austrian control over Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1909 Construction of the ill fated RMS Titanic begins.
1910 Six North Staffordshire Pottery towns federate to form modern Stoke-on-Trent.
1913 The Vienna Concert Society rioted during a performance of modernist music by Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, Alexander von Zemlinsky, and Anton von Webern, causing a premature end to the concert due to violence; this concert became known as the Skandalkonzert.
1917 The United States takes possession of the Danish West Indies after paying $25 million to Denmark, and renames the territory the United States Virgin Islands.
1918 Massacre of ethnic Azerbaijanis is committed by allied armed groups of Armenian Revolutionary Federation and Bolsheviks. Nearly 12,000 Azerbaijani Muslims are killed.
1918 Daylight saving time goes into effect in the United States for the first time.
1921 The Royal Australian Air Force is formed.
1930 The Motion Picture Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in film, in the U.S., for the next thirty-eight years.
1931 An earthquake destroys Managua, Nicaragua, killing 2,000.
1931 TWA Flight 599 crashes near Bazaar, Kansas, killing eight, including University of Notre Dame head football coach Knute Rockne.
1933 The Civilian Conservation Corps is established with the mission of relieving rampant unemployment in the United States.
1942 World War II: Japanese forces invade Christmas Island, then a British possession.
1945 World War II: a defecting German pilot delivers a Messerschmitt Me 262A-1, the world's first operational jet-powered fighter aircraft, to the Americans, the first to fall into Allied hands.
1949 The Dominion of Newfoundland joins the Canadian Confederation and becomes the 10th Province of Canada.
1951 Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau.
1957 Elections to the Territorial Assembly of the French colony Upper Volta are held. After the elections PDU and MDV form a government.
1958 In the Canadian federal election, the Progressive Conservatives, led by John Diefenbaker, win the largest percentage of seats in Canadian history, with 208 seats of 265.
1959 The 14th Dalai Lama, crosses the border into India and is granted political asylum.
1964 A coup d'้tat in Brazil establishes a military government, under the aegis of general Castelo Branco.
1966 The Soviet Union launches Luna 10 which later becomes the first space probe to enter orbit around the Moon.
1970 Explorer 1 re-enters the Earth's atmosphere after 12 years in orbit.
1979 The last British soldier leaves the Maltese Islands. Malta declares its Freedom Day (Jum il-Helsien).
1980 The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad operates its final train after being ordered to liquidate its assets because of bankruptcy and debts owed to creditors.
1985 The first WrestleMania, the biggest wrestling event from the WWE (then the WWF), takes place in Madison Square Garden in New York.
1986 Six metropolitan county councils are abolished in England.
1990 Approximately 200,000 protestors take to the streets of London to protest against the newly introduced Poll Tax.
1991 Georgian independence referendum, 1991: Nearly 99 percent of the voters support the country's independence from the Soviet Union.
1992 The USS Missouri, the last active United States Navy battleship, is decommissioned in Long Beach, California.
1994 The journal Nature reports the finding in Ethiopia of the first complete Australopithecus afarensis skull.
1995 End of the US military campaign in Somalia
2004 Iraq War in Anbar Province: In Fallujah, Iraq, four American private military contractors working for Blackwater USA, are killed after being ambushed.