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Events:C/P.
1095 On the last day of the Council of Clermont, Pope Urban II appoints Bishop Adhemar of Le Puy and Count Raymond IV of Toulouse to lead the First Crusade to the Holy Land.
1443 Skanderbeg and his forces liberate Kruja in Middle Albania and raise the Albanian flag.
1520 After navigating through a strait at the southern end of South America, three ships under the command of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan reach the Pacific Ocean, becoming the first Europeans to sail from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific.
1582 In Stratford-upon-Avon, William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway pay a £40 bond for their marriage license.
1627 The PolishLithuanian Commonwealth Navy has its greatest and last victory in the Battle of Oliva.
1660 At Gresham College, 12 men, including Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, and Sir Robert Moray decide to found what is later known as the Royal Society.
1666 At least 3000 men of the Scottish Royal Army led by Tam Dalyell of the Binns defeat about 900 Covenanter rebels in the Battle of Rullion Green.
1729 Natchez Indians massacre 138 Frenchmen, 35 French women, and 56 children at Fort Rosalie, near the site of modern-day Natchez, Mississippi.
1785 The Treaty of Hopewell is signed.
1811 Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73, premieres at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig.
1814 The Times in London is for the first time printed by automatic, steam powered presses built by the German inventors Friedrich Koenig and Andreas Friedrich Bauer, signaling the beginning of the availability of newspapers to a mass audience.
1821 Panama Independence Day: Panama separates from Spain and joins Gran Colombia.
1843 Ka Lā Hui: Hawaiian Independence Day The Kingdom of Hawaii is officially recognized by the United Kingdom and France as an independent nation.
1862 American Civil War: In the Battle of Cane Hill, Union troops under General John Blunt defeat General John Marmaduke's Confederates.
1885 Bulgarian victory in the Serbo-Bulgarian War preserves the Unification of Bulgaria.
1893 Women vote in a national election for the first time: the New Zealand general election.
1895 The first American automobile race takes place over the 54 miles from Chicago's Jackson Park to Evanston, Illinois. Frank Duryea wins in approximately 10 hours.
1905 Irish nationalist Arthur Griffith founds Sinn Fιin as a political party with the main aim of establishing a dual monarchy in Ireland.
1907 In Haverhill, Massachusetts, scrap-metal dealer Louis B. Mayer opens his first movie theater.
1909 Sergei Rachmaninoff makes the debut performance of his Piano Concerto No. 3, considered to be one of the most technically challenging piano concertos in the standard classical repertoire.
1910 Eleftherios Venizelos, leader of the Liberal Party, wins the Greek elections again.
1912 Albania declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire.
1914 World War I: Following a war-induced closure in July, the New York Stock Exchange re-opens for bond trading.
1917 The Estonian Provincial Assembly declares itself the sovereign power of Estonia.
1918 Bukovina votes for the union with the Kingdom of Romania.
1919 Lady Astor is elected as a Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. She is the first woman to sit in the House of Commons. (Countess Markievicz, the first to be elected, refused to sit.)
1920 Irish War of Independence: Kilmichael Ambush - The Irish Republican Army ambush a convoy of British Auxiliaries and kill seventeen.
1925 The Grand Ole Opry begins broadcasting in Nashville, Tennessee as WSM Barn Dance.
1942 In Boston, Massachusetts, a fire in the Cocoanut Grove nightclub kills 491 people.
1943 World War II: Tehran Conference U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin meet in Tehran, Iran to discuss war strategy.
1958 Chad, the Republic of the Congo, and Gabon become autonomous republics within the French Community.
1960 Mauritania becomes independent of France.
1964 Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 4 probe toward Mars.
1964 Vietnam War: National Security Council members agree to recommend that U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson adopt a plan for a two-stage escalation of bombing in North Vietnam.
1965 Vietnam War: In response to U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson's call for "more flags" in Vietnam, Philippines President Elect Ferdinand Marcos announces he will send troops to help fight in South Vietnam.
1966 Michel Micombero overthrows the monarchy of Burundi and makes himself the first president.
1971 Fred Quilt, a leader of the Tsilhqot'in First Nation is severely beaten by Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers; he dies two days later.
1971 Wasfi al-Tal, Prime Minister of Jordan, is assassinated by the Black September unit of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
1972 Last executions in Paris, of the Clairvaux Mutineers, Roger Bontems and Claude Buffet, guillotined at La Sante Prison. (Bontems had been found innocent of murder by the court, but as Buffet's accomplice is condemned to death anyway.) The chief executioner is Andre Obrecht.
1975 East Timor declares its independence from Portugal.
1979 Air New Zealand Flight 901, a DC-10 operated sightseeing flight over Antarctica, crashes into Mount Erebus, killing all 257 people on board.
1980 IranIraq War: Operation Morvarid Over 70% of Iraqi Navy was destroyed by Iranian Navy in The Persian Gulf. The Iranian Navy's Day.
1981 Our Lady of Kibeho: Schoolchildren in Kibeho, Rwanda, experience the first of a series of Marian apparitions.
1987 South African Airways Flight 295 crashes into the Indian Ocean, killing all 159 people on-board.
1989 Cold War: Velvet Revolution In the face of protests, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia announces it will give up its monopoly on political power.
1991 South Ossetia declares independence from Georgia.
2002 Suicide bombers blow up an Israeli-owned hotel in Mombasa, Kenya; their colleagues fail in their attempt to bring down Arkia Israel Airlines Flight 582 with surface-to-air-missiles.
End of C/P.
Events:C/P.
1095 On the last day of the Council of Clermont, Pope Urban II appoints Bishop Adhemar of Le Puy and Count Raymond IV of Toulouse to lead the First Crusade to the Holy Land.
1443 Skanderbeg and his forces liberate Kruja in Middle Albania and raise the Albanian flag.
1520 After navigating through a strait at the southern end of South America, three ships under the command of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan reach the Pacific Ocean, becoming the first Europeans to sail from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific.
1582 In Stratford-upon-Avon, William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway pay a £40 bond for their marriage license.
1627 The PolishLithuanian Commonwealth Navy has its greatest and last victory in the Battle of Oliva.
1660 At Gresham College, 12 men, including Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, and Sir Robert Moray decide to found what is later known as the Royal Society.
1666 At least 3000 men of the Scottish Royal Army led by Tam Dalyell of the Binns defeat about 900 Covenanter rebels in the Battle of Rullion Green.
1729 Natchez Indians massacre 138 Frenchmen, 35 French women, and 56 children at Fort Rosalie, near the site of modern-day Natchez, Mississippi.
1785 The Treaty of Hopewell is signed.
1811 Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73, premieres at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig.
1814 The Times in London is for the first time printed by automatic, steam powered presses built by the German inventors Friedrich Koenig and Andreas Friedrich Bauer, signaling the beginning of the availability of newspapers to a mass audience.
1821 Panama Independence Day: Panama separates from Spain and joins Gran Colombia.
1843 Ka Lā Hui: Hawaiian Independence Day The Kingdom of Hawaii is officially recognized by the United Kingdom and France as an independent nation.
1862 American Civil War: In the Battle of Cane Hill, Union troops under General John Blunt defeat General John Marmaduke's Confederates.
1885 Bulgarian victory in the Serbo-Bulgarian War preserves the Unification of Bulgaria.
1893 Women vote in a national election for the first time: the New Zealand general election.
1895 The first American automobile race takes place over the 54 miles from Chicago's Jackson Park to Evanston, Illinois. Frank Duryea wins in approximately 10 hours.
1905 Irish nationalist Arthur Griffith founds Sinn Fιin as a political party with the main aim of establishing a dual monarchy in Ireland.
1907 In Haverhill, Massachusetts, scrap-metal dealer Louis B. Mayer opens his first movie theater.
1909 Sergei Rachmaninoff makes the debut performance of his Piano Concerto No. 3, considered to be one of the most technically challenging piano concertos in the standard classical repertoire.
1910 Eleftherios Venizelos, leader of the Liberal Party, wins the Greek elections again.
1912 Albania declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire.
1914 World War I: Following a war-induced closure in July, the New York Stock Exchange re-opens for bond trading.
1917 The Estonian Provincial Assembly declares itself the sovereign power of Estonia.
1918 Bukovina votes for the union with the Kingdom of Romania.
1919 Lady Astor is elected as a Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. She is the first woman to sit in the House of Commons. (Countess Markievicz, the first to be elected, refused to sit.)
1920 Irish War of Independence: Kilmichael Ambush - The Irish Republican Army ambush a convoy of British Auxiliaries and kill seventeen.
1925 The Grand Ole Opry begins broadcasting in Nashville, Tennessee as WSM Barn Dance.
1942 In Boston, Massachusetts, a fire in the Cocoanut Grove nightclub kills 491 people.
1943 World War II: Tehran Conference U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin meet in Tehran, Iran to discuss war strategy.
1958 Chad, the Republic of the Congo, and Gabon become autonomous republics within the French Community.
1960 Mauritania becomes independent of France.
1964 Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 4 probe toward Mars.
1964 Vietnam War: National Security Council members agree to recommend that U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson adopt a plan for a two-stage escalation of bombing in North Vietnam.
1965 Vietnam War: In response to U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson's call for "more flags" in Vietnam, Philippines President Elect Ferdinand Marcos announces he will send troops to help fight in South Vietnam.
1966 Michel Micombero overthrows the monarchy of Burundi and makes himself the first president.
1971 Fred Quilt, a leader of the Tsilhqot'in First Nation is severely beaten by Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers; he dies two days later.
1971 Wasfi al-Tal, Prime Minister of Jordan, is assassinated by the Black September unit of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
1972 Last executions in Paris, of the Clairvaux Mutineers, Roger Bontems and Claude Buffet, guillotined at La Sante Prison. (Bontems had been found innocent of murder by the court, but as Buffet's accomplice is condemned to death anyway.) The chief executioner is Andre Obrecht.
1975 East Timor declares its independence from Portugal.
1979 Air New Zealand Flight 901, a DC-10 operated sightseeing flight over Antarctica, crashes into Mount Erebus, killing all 257 people on board.
1980 IranIraq War: Operation Morvarid Over 70% of Iraqi Navy was destroyed by Iranian Navy in The Persian Gulf. The Iranian Navy's Day.
1981 Our Lady of Kibeho: Schoolchildren in Kibeho, Rwanda, experience the first of a series of Marian apparitions.
1987 South African Airways Flight 295 crashes into the Indian Ocean, killing all 159 people on-board.
1989 Cold War: Velvet Revolution In the face of protests, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia announces it will give up its monopoly on political power.
1991 South Ossetia declares independence from Georgia.
2002 Suicide bombers blow up an Israeli-owned hotel in Mombasa, Kenya; their colleagues fail in their attempt to bring down Arkia Israel Airlines Flight 582 with surface-to-air-missiles.
End of C/P.