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Events:C/P.
694 Egica, a king of the Visigoths of Hispania, accuses Jews of aiding Muslims, sentencing all Jews to slavery.
1282 Pope Martin IV excommunicates King Peter III of Aragon.
1313 Louis the Bavarian defeats his cousin Frederick I of Austria at the Battle of Gamelsdorf.
1330 Battle of Posada, Wallachian Voievode Basarab I defeats the Hungarian army in an ambush
1456 Ulrich II of Celje (Slovene: Ulrik Celjski, German Ulrich von Cilli, Hungarian: Cillei Ulrik), last prince of Celje principality, is assassinated in Belgrade.
1492 Peace of Etaples between Henry VII and Charles VIII.
1494 The Family de' Medici are expelled from Florence.
1520 More than 50 people are sentenced and executed in the Stockholm Bloodbath
1620 Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower sight land at Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
1688 The Glorious Revolution: William of Orange captures Exeter.
1697 Pope Innocent XII founds the city of Cervia.
1720 The synagogue of Yehudah he-Hasid is burned down by Arab creditors, leading to the expulsion of the Ashkenazim from Jerusalem.
1729 Spain, France and Great Britain sign the Treaty of Seville.
1764 Mary Campbell, a captive of the Lenape during the French and Indian War, is turned over to forces commanded by Colonel Henry Bouquet.
1780 American Revolutionary War: In the Battle of Fishdam Ford a force British and Loyalist troops fail in a surprise attack against the South Carolina Patriot militia under Brigadier General Thomas Sumter.
1791 Foundation of the Dublin Society of United Irishmen.
1793 William Carey reaches the Hooghly River.
1799 Napoleon Bonaparte leads the Coup d'ιtat of 18 Brumaire ending the Directory government, and becoming one of its three Consuls (Consulate Government).
1822 The Action of 9 November 1822 between USS Alligator and a squadron of piratical schooners off the coast of Cuba.
1848 Robert Blum, a German revolutionary, is executed in Vienna.
1851 Kentucky marshals abduct abolitionist minister Calvin Fairbank from Jeffersonville, Indiana, and take him to Kentucky to stand trial for helping a slave escape.
1857 The Atlantic founded in Boston.
1861 The first documented football match in Canada is played at University College, University of Toronto.
1862 American Civil War: Union General Ambrose Burnside assumes command of the Army of the Potomac, after George B. McClellan is removed.
1867 Tokugawa Shogunate hands power back to the Emperor of Japan, starting the Meiji Restoration.
1872 The Great Boston Fire of 1872.
1887 The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
1888 Jack the Ripper kills Mary Jane Kelly, his last known victim.
1906 Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country. He did so to inspect progress on the Panama Canal.
1907 The Cullinan Diamond is presented to King Edward VII on his birthday.
1913 The Great Lakes Storm of 1913, the most destructive natural disaster ever to hit the lakes, destroys 19 ships and kills more than 250 people.
1914 SMS Emden sunk by HMAS Sydney in the Battle of Cocos.
1917 Joseph Stalin enters the provisional government of Bolshevik Russia.
1918 Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates after the German Revolution, and Germany is proclaimed a Republic.
1923 In Munich, Germany, police and government troops crush the Beer Hall Putsch in Bavaria. The failed coup is the work of the Nazis.
1935 The Congress of Industrial Organizations is founded in Atlantic City, New Jersey by eight trade unions belonging to the American Federation of Labor.
1937 Japanese troops take control of Shanghai, China.
1938 Nazi German diplomat Ernst vom Rath dies from the fatal gunshot wounds of Jewish resistance fighter Herschel Grynszpan, an act which the Nazis used as an excuse to instigate the 1938 national pogrom, also known as Kristallnacht.
1940 Warsaw is awarded the Virtuti Militari.
1947 India forcibly annexes Junagadh from Pakistan.
1953 Cambodia becomes independent from France.
1960 Robert McNamara is named president of Ford Motor Co., the first non-Ford to serve in that post. A month later, he quit to join the newly-elected John F. Kennedy administration.
1963 At Miike coal mine, Miike, Japan, an explosion kills 458, and hospitalises 839 with carbon monoxide poisoning. Also, in Japan, a three-train disaster occurs in Yokohama, kills more than 160 people.
1965 Several U.S. states and parts of Canada are hit by a series of blackouts lasting up to 13 hours in the Northeast Blackout of 1965.
1965 Catholic Worker member Roger Allen LaPorte, protesting against the Vietnam War, sets himself on fire in front of the United Nations building.
1967 Apollo program: NASA launches the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft atop the first Saturn V rocket from Cape Kennedy, Florida.
1967 First issue of Rolling Stone Magazine is published.
1970 Vietnam War: The Supreme Court of the United States votes 6 to 3 against hearing a case to allow Massachusetts to enforce its law granting residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war.
1979 Nuclear false alarm: the NORAD computers and the Alternate National Military Command Center in Fort Ritchie, Maryland detected purported massive Soviet nuclear strike. After reviewing the raw data from satellites and checking the early warning radars, the alert is cancelled.
1985 Garry Kasparov, 22, of the Soviet Union becomes the youngest World Chess Champion by beating Anatoly Karpov, also of the Soviet Union.
1989 Cold War: Fall of the Berlin Wall. Communist-controlled East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall allowing its citizens to travel to West Germany. This key event led to the eventual reunification of East and West Germany.
1993 Stari most, the "old bridge" in Bosnian Mostar built in 1566, collapses after several days of bombing.
1994 The chemical element Darmstadtium is discovered.
1998 A US federal judge ordered 37 US brokerage houses to pay 1.03 billion USD to cheated NASDAQ investors to compensate for price-fixing. This is the largest civil settlement in United States history.
1998 Capital punishment in the United Kingdom, already abolished for murder, is completely abolished for all remaining capital offences.
2005 The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
2005 Suicide bombers attacked three hotels in Amman, Jordan, killing at least 60 people.
2007 The German Bundestag passes the controversial data retention bill mandating storage of citizens' telecommunications traffic data for six months without probable cause
End of C/P.
Events:C/P.
694 Egica, a king of the Visigoths of Hispania, accuses Jews of aiding Muslims, sentencing all Jews to slavery.
1282 Pope Martin IV excommunicates King Peter III of Aragon.
1313 Louis the Bavarian defeats his cousin Frederick I of Austria at the Battle of Gamelsdorf.
1330 Battle of Posada, Wallachian Voievode Basarab I defeats the Hungarian army in an ambush
1456 Ulrich II of Celje (Slovene: Ulrik Celjski, German Ulrich von Cilli, Hungarian: Cillei Ulrik), last prince of Celje principality, is assassinated in Belgrade.
1492 Peace of Etaples between Henry VII and Charles VIII.
1494 The Family de' Medici are expelled from Florence.
1520 More than 50 people are sentenced and executed in the Stockholm Bloodbath
1620 Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower sight land at Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
1688 The Glorious Revolution: William of Orange captures Exeter.
1697 Pope Innocent XII founds the city of Cervia.
1720 The synagogue of Yehudah he-Hasid is burned down by Arab creditors, leading to the expulsion of the Ashkenazim from Jerusalem.
1729 Spain, France and Great Britain sign the Treaty of Seville.
1764 Mary Campbell, a captive of the Lenape during the French and Indian War, is turned over to forces commanded by Colonel Henry Bouquet.
1780 American Revolutionary War: In the Battle of Fishdam Ford a force British and Loyalist troops fail in a surprise attack against the South Carolina Patriot militia under Brigadier General Thomas Sumter.
1791 Foundation of the Dublin Society of United Irishmen.
1793 William Carey reaches the Hooghly River.
1799 Napoleon Bonaparte leads the Coup d'ιtat of 18 Brumaire ending the Directory government, and becoming one of its three Consuls (Consulate Government).
1822 The Action of 9 November 1822 between USS Alligator and a squadron of piratical schooners off the coast of Cuba.
1848 Robert Blum, a German revolutionary, is executed in Vienna.
1851 Kentucky marshals abduct abolitionist minister Calvin Fairbank from Jeffersonville, Indiana, and take him to Kentucky to stand trial for helping a slave escape.
1857 The Atlantic founded in Boston.
1861 The first documented football match in Canada is played at University College, University of Toronto.
1862 American Civil War: Union General Ambrose Burnside assumes command of the Army of the Potomac, after George B. McClellan is removed.
1867 Tokugawa Shogunate hands power back to the Emperor of Japan, starting the Meiji Restoration.
1872 The Great Boston Fire of 1872.
1887 The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
1888 Jack the Ripper kills Mary Jane Kelly, his last known victim.
1906 Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country. He did so to inspect progress on the Panama Canal.
1907 The Cullinan Diamond is presented to King Edward VII on his birthday.
1913 The Great Lakes Storm of 1913, the most destructive natural disaster ever to hit the lakes, destroys 19 ships and kills more than 250 people.
1914 SMS Emden sunk by HMAS Sydney in the Battle of Cocos.
1917 Joseph Stalin enters the provisional government of Bolshevik Russia.
1918 Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates after the German Revolution, and Germany is proclaimed a Republic.
1923 In Munich, Germany, police and government troops crush the Beer Hall Putsch in Bavaria. The failed coup is the work of the Nazis.
1935 The Congress of Industrial Organizations is founded in Atlantic City, New Jersey by eight trade unions belonging to the American Federation of Labor.
1937 Japanese troops take control of Shanghai, China.
1938 Nazi German diplomat Ernst vom Rath dies from the fatal gunshot wounds of Jewish resistance fighter Herschel Grynszpan, an act which the Nazis used as an excuse to instigate the 1938 national pogrom, also known as Kristallnacht.
1940 Warsaw is awarded the Virtuti Militari.
1947 India forcibly annexes Junagadh from Pakistan.
1953 Cambodia becomes independent from France.
1960 Robert McNamara is named president of Ford Motor Co., the first non-Ford to serve in that post. A month later, he quit to join the newly-elected John F. Kennedy administration.
1963 At Miike coal mine, Miike, Japan, an explosion kills 458, and hospitalises 839 with carbon monoxide poisoning. Also, in Japan, a three-train disaster occurs in Yokohama, kills more than 160 people.
1965 Several U.S. states and parts of Canada are hit by a series of blackouts lasting up to 13 hours in the Northeast Blackout of 1965.
1965 Catholic Worker member Roger Allen LaPorte, protesting against the Vietnam War, sets himself on fire in front of the United Nations building.
1967 Apollo program: NASA launches the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft atop the first Saturn V rocket from Cape Kennedy, Florida.
1967 First issue of Rolling Stone Magazine is published.
1970 Vietnam War: The Supreme Court of the United States votes 6 to 3 against hearing a case to allow Massachusetts to enforce its law granting residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war.
1979 Nuclear false alarm: the NORAD computers and the Alternate National Military Command Center in Fort Ritchie, Maryland detected purported massive Soviet nuclear strike. After reviewing the raw data from satellites and checking the early warning radars, the alert is cancelled.
1985 Garry Kasparov, 22, of the Soviet Union becomes the youngest World Chess Champion by beating Anatoly Karpov, also of the Soviet Union.
1989 Cold War: Fall of the Berlin Wall. Communist-controlled East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall allowing its citizens to travel to West Germany. This key event led to the eventual reunification of East and West Germany.
1993 Stari most, the "old bridge" in Bosnian Mostar built in 1566, collapses after several days of bombing.
1994 The chemical element Darmstadtium is discovered.
1998 A US federal judge ordered 37 US brokerage houses to pay 1.03 billion USD to cheated NASDAQ investors to compensate for price-fixing. This is the largest civil settlement in United States history.
1998 Capital punishment in the United Kingdom, already abolished for murder, is completely abolished for all remaining capital offences.
2005 The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
2005 Suicide bombers attacked three hotels in Amman, Jordan, killing at least 60 people.
2007 The German Bundestag passes the controversial data retention bill mandating storage of citizens' telecommunications traffic data for six months without probable cause
End of C/P.