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Events:C/P.
380 Theodosius I makes his adventus, or formal entry, into Constantinople.
1227 Polish Prince Leszek I the White is assassinated at an assembly of Piast dukes at Gąsawa.
1429 Joan of Arc unsuccessfully besieges La Charitι.
1542 Battle of Solway Moss: The English army defeats the Scots.
1642 Abel Tasman becomes the first European to discover the island Van Diemen's Land (later renamed Tasmania).
1835 The Texas Provincial Government authorizes the creation of a horse-mounted police force called the Texas Rangers (which is now the Texas Ranger Division of the Texas Department of Public Safety).
1850 Danish troops defeat a Schleswig-Holstein force in the town of Lottorf, Schleswig-Holstein.
1859 Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species, the anniversary of which is sometimes called "Evolution Day"
1863 American Civil War: Battle of Lookout Mountain Near Chattanooga, Tennessee, Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant capture Lookout Mountain and begin to break the Confederate siege of the city led by General Braxton Bragg.
1906 The Canton Bulldogs-Massillon Tigers Betting Scandal, the first major scandal in professional American football.
1922 Author and Irish Republican Army member Robert Erskine Childers is executed by an Irish Free State firing squad for illegally carrying a revolver.
1932 In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens.
1935 The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its second congress.
1940 World War II: Slovakia becomes a signatory to the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis Powers.
1941 World War II: The United States grants Lend-Lease to the Free French.
1943 World War II: The USS Liscome Bay is torpedoed near Tarawa and sinks, killing 650 men.
1944 World War II: Bombing of Tokyo The first bombing raid against the Japanese capital from the east and by land is carried out by 88 American aircraft.
1950 The "Storm of the Century", a violent snowstorm, paralyzes the northeastern United States and the Appalachians, bringing winds up to 100 mph and sub-zero temperatures. Pickens, West Virginia, records 57 inches of snow. 323 people die as a result of the storm.
1962 The West Berlin branch of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany forms a separate party, the Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin.
1963 Lee Harvey Oswald is murdered by Jack Ruby in the basement of Dallas police department headquarters. The shooting happens to be broadcast live on television.
1963 Vietnam War: Newly sworn-in US President Lyndon B. Johnson confirms that the United States intends to continue supporting South Vietnam both militarily and economically.
1965 Joseph Dιsirι Mobutu seizes power in the Congo and becomes President; he rules the country (which he renames Zaire in 1971) for over 30 years, until being overthrown by rebels in 1997.
1966 Bulgarian TABSO Flight 101 crashes near Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, killing all 82 people on board.
1969 Apollo program: The Apollo 12 command module splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second manned mission to the Moon.
1971 During a severe thunderstorm over Washington state, a hijacker calling himself Dan Cooper (AKA D. B. Cooper) parachutes from a Northwest Orient Airlines plane with $200,000 in ransom money. He has never been found.
1973 A national speed limit is imposed on the Autobahn in Germany because of the 1973 oil crisis. The speed limit lasted only four months.
1974 Donald Johanson and Tom Gray discover the 40% complete Australopithecus afarensis skeleton, nicknamed "Lucy" (after The Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"), in the Awash Valley of Ethiopia's Afar Depression.
1992 A China Southern Airlines domestic flight in the People's Republic of China, crashes, killing all 141 people on-board.
End of C/P.
Events:C/P.
380 Theodosius I makes his adventus, or formal entry, into Constantinople.
1227 Polish Prince Leszek I the White is assassinated at an assembly of Piast dukes at Gąsawa.
1429 Joan of Arc unsuccessfully besieges La Charitι.
1542 Battle of Solway Moss: The English army defeats the Scots.
1642 Abel Tasman becomes the first European to discover the island Van Diemen's Land (later renamed Tasmania).
1835 The Texas Provincial Government authorizes the creation of a horse-mounted police force called the Texas Rangers (which is now the Texas Ranger Division of the Texas Department of Public Safety).
1850 Danish troops defeat a Schleswig-Holstein force in the town of Lottorf, Schleswig-Holstein.
1859 Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species, the anniversary of which is sometimes called "Evolution Day"
1863 American Civil War: Battle of Lookout Mountain Near Chattanooga, Tennessee, Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant capture Lookout Mountain and begin to break the Confederate siege of the city led by General Braxton Bragg.
1906 The Canton Bulldogs-Massillon Tigers Betting Scandal, the first major scandal in professional American football.
1922 Author and Irish Republican Army member Robert Erskine Childers is executed by an Irish Free State firing squad for illegally carrying a revolver.
1932 In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens.
1935 The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its second congress.
1940 World War II: Slovakia becomes a signatory to the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis Powers.
1941 World War II: The United States grants Lend-Lease to the Free French.
1943 World War II: The USS Liscome Bay is torpedoed near Tarawa and sinks, killing 650 men.
1944 World War II: Bombing of Tokyo The first bombing raid against the Japanese capital from the east and by land is carried out by 88 American aircraft.
1950 The "Storm of the Century", a violent snowstorm, paralyzes the northeastern United States and the Appalachians, bringing winds up to 100 mph and sub-zero temperatures. Pickens, West Virginia, records 57 inches of snow. 323 people die as a result of the storm.
1962 The West Berlin branch of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany forms a separate party, the Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin.
1963 Lee Harvey Oswald is murdered by Jack Ruby in the basement of Dallas police department headquarters. The shooting happens to be broadcast live on television.
1963 Vietnam War: Newly sworn-in US President Lyndon B. Johnson confirms that the United States intends to continue supporting South Vietnam both militarily and economically.
1965 Joseph Dιsirι Mobutu seizes power in the Congo and becomes President; he rules the country (which he renames Zaire in 1971) for over 30 years, until being overthrown by rebels in 1997.
1966 Bulgarian TABSO Flight 101 crashes near Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, killing all 82 people on board.
1969 Apollo program: The Apollo 12 command module splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second manned mission to the Moon.
1971 During a severe thunderstorm over Washington state, a hijacker calling himself Dan Cooper (AKA D. B. Cooper) parachutes from a Northwest Orient Airlines plane with $200,000 in ransom money. He has never been found.
1973 A national speed limit is imposed on the Autobahn in Germany because of the 1973 oil crisis. The speed limit lasted only four months.
1974 Donald Johanson and Tom Gray discover the 40% complete Australopithecus afarensis skeleton, nicknamed "Lucy" (after The Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"), in the Awash Valley of Ethiopia's Afar Depression.
1992 A China Southern Airlines domestic flight in the People's Republic of China, crashes, killing all 141 people on-board.
End of C/P.