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Events:C/P.
63 BC Cicero gave the fourth and final Catiline Orations.
663 Fourth Council of Toledo takes place.
771 Charlemagne becomes the sole King of the Franks after the death of his brother Carloman.
1082 Ramon Berenguer II, Count of Barcelona is assassinated.
1408 Emir Edigu of Golden Horde reaches Moscow.
1484 Pope Innocent VIII issues the Summis desiderantes, a papal bull that deputizes Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger as inquisitors to root out alleged witchcraft in Germany and leads to one of the most oppressive witch hunts in European history.
1492 Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola, now Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
1496 King Manuel I of Portugal issues a decree of expulsion of "heretics" from the country.
1590 Niccolς Sfondrati becomes Pope Gregory XIV.
1746 Revolt in Genoa against Spanish rule.
1757 Seven Years' War: Battle of Leuthen Frederick II of Prussia leads Prussian forces to a decisive victory over Austrian forces under Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine.
1766 In London, James Christie holds his first sale.
1775 At Fort Ticonderoga, Henry Knox begins his historic transport of artillery to Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1776 At The College of William and Mary, Phi Beta Kappa is founded and becomes the first American College Fraternity.
1815 Foundation of Maceiσ in Brazil.
1831 Former US President John Quincy Adams takes his seat in the House of Representatives.
1847 Jefferson Davis is elected to the US senate, his first political post.
1848 California Gold Rush: In a message before the U.S. Congress, US President James K. Polk confirms that large amounts of gold had been discovered in California.
1865 Chincha Islands War: Peru allies with Chile against Spain.
1876 Brooklyn Theater Fire kills at least 278 people in Brooklyn, NY.
1914 The Italian Parliament proclaims the neutrality of the country.
1920 Dimitrios Rallis forms a government in Greece.
1932 German-born Swiss physicist Albert Einstein is granted an American visa.
1933 Prohibition in the United States ends: Utah becomes the 36th U.S. state to ratify the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution, thus establishing the required 75% of states needed to enact the amendment (this overturned the 18th Amendment which had made the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcohol illegal in the United States).
1934 Abyssinia Crisis: Italian troops attack Wal Wal in Abyssinia, taking four days to capture the city.
1936 The Soviet Union adopts a new constitution and the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic is established as a full Union Republic of the USSR.
1941 World War II: In the Battle of Moscow Georgy Zhukov launches a massive Soviet counter-attack against the German army, with the biggest offensive launched against Army Group Centre.
1941 World War II: Great Britain declares war on Finland, Hungary and Romania.
1943 World War II: U.S. Army Air Force begins attacking Germany's secret weapons bases in Operation Crossbow.
1944 World War II: Allied troops occupy Ravenna.
1945 Flight 19 is lost in the Bermuda Triangle.
1952 Great Smog of 1952: A cold fog descends upon London, combining with air pollution and killing at least 12,000 in the weeks and months that follow.
1955 The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merge and form the AFL-CIO.
1955 E.D. Nixon and Rosa Parks lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
1957 Sukarno expels all Dutch people from Indonesia.
1958 Subscriber Trunk Dialling (STD) is inaugurated in the UK by Queen Elizabeth II when she speaks to the Lord Provost in a call from Bristol to Edinburgh.
1958 The Preston bypass, the UK's first stretch of motorway, opens to traffic for the first time. It is now part of the M6 and M55 motorways.
1964 Vietnam War: For his heroism in battle earlier in the year, Captain Roger Donlon is awarded the first Medal of Honor of the war.
1974 In American football, the Birmingham Americans would win what would eventually be the only World Bowl in World Football League history.
1976 The United Nations General Assembly adopts Pakistan's resolution on security of non-Nuclear States.
1977 Egypt breaks diplomatic relations with Syria, Libya, Algeria, Iraq and South Yemen. The move is in retaliation for the Declaration of Tripoli against Egypt.
1978 The Soviet Union signs a "friendship treaty" with the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
1979 Sonia Johnson is formally excommunicated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for her outspoken criticism of the church concerning the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
1983 Dissolution of the Military Junta in Argentina.
1983 ICIMOD is established and inaugurated with its headquarters in Kathmandu, Nepal, and legitimised through an Act of Parliament in Nepal in the same year.
1993 The mayor of Wien (Vienna), Helmut Zilk, is wounded by a letter bomb.
1995 The Sri Lankan government announces the conquest of Tamil stronghold of Jaffna.
2005 The Lake Tanganyika earthquake causes significant damage, mostly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
2005 The Civil Partnership Act comes into effect in the United Kingdom, and the first civil partnership is registered there.
2006 Commodore Frank Bainimarama overthrows the government in Fiji.
2007 Westroads Mall massacre: A gunman opens fire with a semi-automatic rifle at an Omaha, Nebraska mall, killing eight people before taking his own life.
End of C/P.
Events:C/P.
63 BC Cicero gave the fourth and final Catiline Orations.
663 Fourth Council of Toledo takes place.
771 Charlemagne becomes the sole King of the Franks after the death of his brother Carloman.
1082 Ramon Berenguer II, Count of Barcelona is assassinated.
1408 Emir Edigu of Golden Horde reaches Moscow.
1484 Pope Innocent VIII issues the Summis desiderantes, a papal bull that deputizes Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger as inquisitors to root out alleged witchcraft in Germany and leads to one of the most oppressive witch hunts in European history.
1492 Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola, now Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
1496 King Manuel I of Portugal issues a decree of expulsion of "heretics" from the country.
1590 Niccolς Sfondrati becomes Pope Gregory XIV.
1746 Revolt in Genoa against Spanish rule.
1757 Seven Years' War: Battle of Leuthen Frederick II of Prussia leads Prussian forces to a decisive victory over Austrian forces under Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine.
1766 In London, James Christie holds his first sale.
1775 At Fort Ticonderoga, Henry Knox begins his historic transport of artillery to Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1776 At The College of William and Mary, Phi Beta Kappa is founded and becomes the first American College Fraternity.
1815 Foundation of Maceiσ in Brazil.
1831 Former US President John Quincy Adams takes his seat in the House of Representatives.
1847 Jefferson Davis is elected to the US senate, his first political post.
1848 California Gold Rush: In a message before the U.S. Congress, US President James K. Polk confirms that large amounts of gold had been discovered in California.
1865 Chincha Islands War: Peru allies with Chile against Spain.
1876 Brooklyn Theater Fire kills at least 278 people in Brooklyn, NY.
1914 The Italian Parliament proclaims the neutrality of the country.
1920 Dimitrios Rallis forms a government in Greece.
1932 German-born Swiss physicist Albert Einstein is granted an American visa.
1933 Prohibition in the United States ends: Utah becomes the 36th U.S. state to ratify the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution, thus establishing the required 75% of states needed to enact the amendment (this overturned the 18th Amendment which had made the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcohol illegal in the United States).
1934 Abyssinia Crisis: Italian troops attack Wal Wal in Abyssinia, taking four days to capture the city.
1936 The Soviet Union adopts a new constitution and the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic is established as a full Union Republic of the USSR.
1941 World War II: In the Battle of Moscow Georgy Zhukov launches a massive Soviet counter-attack against the German army, with the biggest offensive launched against Army Group Centre.
1941 World War II: Great Britain declares war on Finland, Hungary and Romania.
1943 World War II: U.S. Army Air Force begins attacking Germany's secret weapons bases in Operation Crossbow.
1944 World War II: Allied troops occupy Ravenna.
1945 Flight 19 is lost in the Bermuda Triangle.
1952 Great Smog of 1952: A cold fog descends upon London, combining with air pollution and killing at least 12,000 in the weeks and months that follow.
1955 The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merge and form the AFL-CIO.
1955 E.D. Nixon and Rosa Parks lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
1957 Sukarno expels all Dutch people from Indonesia.
1958 Subscriber Trunk Dialling (STD) is inaugurated in the UK by Queen Elizabeth II when she speaks to the Lord Provost in a call from Bristol to Edinburgh.
1958 The Preston bypass, the UK's first stretch of motorway, opens to traffic for the first time. It is now part of the M6 and M55 motorways.
1964 Vietnam War: For his heroism in battle earlier in the year, Captain Roger Donlon is awarded the first Medal of Honor of the war.
1974 In American football, the Birmingham Americans would win what would eventually be the only World Bowl in World Football League history.
1976 The United Nations General Assembly adopts Pakistan's resolution on security of non-Nuclear States.
1977 Egypt breaks diplomatic relations with Syria, Libya, Algeria, Iraq and South Yemen. The move is in retaliation for the Declaration of Tripoli against Egypt.
1978 The Soviet Union signs a "friendship treaty" with the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
1979 Sonia Johnson is formally excommunicated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for her outspoken criticism of the church concerning the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
1983 Dissolution of the Military Junta in Argentina.
1983 ICIMOD is established and inaugurated with its headquarters in Kathmandu, Nepal, and legitimised through an Act of Parliament in Nepal in the same year.
1993 The mayor of Wien (Vienna), Helmut Zilk, is wounded by a letter bomb.
1995 The Sri Lankan government announces the conquest of Tamil stronghold of Jaffna.
2005 The Lake Tanganyika earthquake causes significant damage, mostly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
2005 The Civil Partnership Act comes into effect in the United Kingdom, and the first civil partnership is registered there.
2006 Commodore Frank Bainimarama overthrows the government in Fiji.
2007 Westroads Mall massacre: A gunman opens fire with a semi-automatic rifle at an Omaha, Nebraska mall, killing eight people before taking his own life.
End of C/P.