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Events:C/P.
1002 English king Ζthelred II orders the killing of all Danes in England, known today as the St. Brice's Day massacre.
1160 Louis VII of France marries Adele of Champagne.
1642 First English Civil War: Battle of Turnham Green the Royalist forces withdraw in the face of the Parliamentarian army and fail to take London.
1775 American Revolutionary War: Patriot revolutionary forces under Col. Ethan Allen attack Montreal, Quebec, defended by British General Guy Carleton.
1841 James Braid first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism, which leads to his study of the subject he eventually calls hypnotism.
1851 The Denny Party lands at Alki Point, the first settlers in what would become Seattle, Washington.
1864 The new Constitution of Greece is adopted.
1887 Bloody Sunday clashes in central London.
1901 The 1901 Caister Lifeboat Disaster.
1916 Prime Minister of Australia Billy Hughes is expelled from the Labor Party over his support for conscription.
1918 Allied troops occupy Constantinople, the capital of the Ottoman Empire.
1927 The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicle tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City.
1941 World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal is torpedoed by U-81, sinking the following day.
1942 World War II: Naval Battle of Guadalcanal U.S. and Japanese ships engage in an intense, close-quarters surface naval engagement during the Battle of Guadalcanal.
1947 The Soviet Union completes development of the AK-47, one of the first proper assault rifles.
1950 General Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, President of Venezuela, is assassinated in Caracas.
1954 Great Britain defeats France to capture the first ever Rugby League World Cup in Paris in front of around 30,000 spectators.
1956 The United States Supreme Court declares Alabama laws requiring segregated buses illegal, thus ending the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
1965 The SS Yarmouth Castle burns and sinks 60 miles off Nassau with the loss of 90 lives.
1966 In response to Fatah raids against Israelis near the West Bank border, Israel launches an attack on the village of As-Samu.
1969 Vietnam War: Anti-war protesters in Washington, D.C. stage a symbolic March Against Death.
1970 Bhola cyclone: A 150-mph tropical cyclone hits the densely populated Ganges Delta region of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), killing an estimated 500,000 people in one night. This is regarded as the 20th century's worst natural disaster.
1971 The American space probe, Mariner 9, becomes the first spacecraft to orbit another planet successfully, swinging into its planned trajectory around Mars.
1982 Ray Mancini defeats Duk Koo Kim in a boxing match held in Las Vegas, Nevada. Kim's subsequent death (on November 17) leads to significant changes in the sport.
1982 The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C. after a march to its site by thousands of Vietnam War veterans.
1985 The volcano Nevado del Ruiz erupts and melts a glacier, causing a lahar (volcanic mudslide) that buries Armero, Colombia, killing approximately 23,000 people.
1985 Xavier Suarez is sworn in as Miami, Florida's first Cuban-born mayor.
1988 Mulugeta Seraw, an Ethiopian law student in Portland, Oregon is beaten to death by members of the Neo-Nazi group East Side White Pride.
1990 In Aramoana, New Zealand, David Gray shoots dead 13 people, in what becomes known as the Aramoana Massacre.
1992 The High Court of Australia rules in Dietrich v The Queen that although there is no absolute right to have publicly funded counsel, in most circumstances a judge should grant any request for an adjournment or stay when an accused is unrepresented.
1994 In a referendum voters in Sweden decide to join the European Union.
1995 A truck-bomb explodes outside of a US-operated Saudi Arabian National Guard training center in Riyadh, killing five Americans and two Indians. A group called the Islamic Movement for Change claims responsibility.
2000 Philippine House Speaker Manuel B. Villar, Jr. passes the articles of impeachment against Philippine President Joseph Estrada.
2001 War on Terrorism: In the first such act since World War II, US President George W. Bush signs an executive order allowing military tribunals against foreigners suspected of connections to terrorist acts or planned acts on the United States.
2002 Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq agrees to the terms of the UN Security Council Resolution 1441.
2002 The oil tanker Prestige sinks off the Galician coast and causes a huge oil spill
End of C/P
Events:C/P.
1002 English king Ζthelred II orders the killing of all Danes in England, known today as the St. Brice's Day massacre.
1160 Louis VII of France marries Adele of Champagne.
1642 First English Civil War: Battle of Turnham Green the Royalist forces withdraw in the face of the Parliamentarian army and fail to take London.
1775 American Revolutionary War: Patriot revolutionary forces under Col. Ethan Allen attack Montreal, Quebec, defended by British General Guy Carleton.
1841 James Braid first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism, which leads to his study of the subject he eventually calls hypnotism.
1851 The Denny Party lands at Alki Point, the first settlers in what would become Seattle, Washington.
1864 The new Constitution of Greece is adopted.
1887 Bloody Sunday clashes in central London.
1901 The 1901 Caister Lifeboat Disaster.
1916 Prime Minister of Australia Billy Hughes is expelled from the Labor Party over his support for conscription.
1918 Allied troops occupy Constantinople, the capital of the Ottoman Empire.
1927 The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicle tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City.
1941 World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal is torpedoed by U-81, sinking the following day.
1942 World War II: Naval Battle of Guadalcanal U.S. and Japanese ships engage in an intense, close-quarters surface naval engagement during the Battle of Guadalcanal.
1947 The Soviet Union completes development of the AK-47, one of the first proper assault rifles.
1950 General Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, President of Venezuela, is assassinated in Caracas.
1954 Great Britain defeats France to capture the first ever Rugby League World Cup in Paris in front of around 30,000 spectators.
1956 The United States Supreme Court declares Alabama laws requiring segregated buses illegal, thus ending the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
1965 The SS Yarmouth Castle burns and sinks 60 miles off Nassau with the loss of 90 lives.
1966 In response to Fatah raids against Israelis near the West Bank border, Israel launches an attack on the village of As-Samu.
1969 Vietnam War: Anti-war protesters in Washington, D.C. stage a symbolic March Against Death.
1970 Bhola cyclone: A 150-mph tropical cyclone hits the densely populated Ganges Delta region of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), killing an estimated 500,000 people in one night. This is regarded as the 20th century's worst natural disaster.
1971 The American space probe, Mariner 9, becomes the first spacecraft to orbit another planet successfully, swinging into its planned trajectory around Mars.
1982 Ray Mancini defeats Duk Koo Kim in a boxing match held in Las Vegas, Nevada. Kim's subsequent death (on November 17) leads to significant changes in the sport.
1982 The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C. after a march to its site by thousands of Vietnam War veterans.
1985 The volcano Nevado del Ruiz erupts and melts a glacier, causing a lahar (volcanic mudslide) that buries Armero, Colombia, killing approximately 23,000 people.
1985 Xavier Suarez is sworn in as Miami, Florida's first Cuban-born mayor.
1988 Mulugeta Seraw, an Ethiopian law student in Portland, Oregon is beaten to death by members of the Neo-Nazi group East Side White Pride.
1990 In Aramoana, New Zealand, David Gray shoots dead 13 people, in what becomes known as the Aramoana Massacre.
1992 The High Court of Australia rules in Dietrich v The Queen that although there is no absolute right to have publicly funded counsel, in most circumstances a judge should grant any request for an adjournment or stay when an accused is unrepresented.
1994 In a referendum voters in Sweden decide to join the European Union.
1995 A truck-bomb explodes outside of a US-operated Saudi Arabian National Guard training center in Riyadh, killing five Americans and two Indians. A group called the Islamic Movement for Change claims responsibility.
2000 Philippine House Speaker Manuel B. Villar, Jr. passes the articles of impeachment against Philippine President Joseph Estrada.
2001 War on Terrorism: In the first such act since World War II, US President George W. Bush signs an executive order allowing military tribunals against foreigners suspected of connections to terrorist acts or planned acts on the United States.
2002 Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq agrees to the terms of the UN Security Council Resolution 1441.
2002 The oil tanker Prestige sinks off the Galician coast and causes a huge oil spill
End of C/P