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Events:C/P.
920 Romanos I is crowned co-emperor of the underage Emperor Constantine VII.
942 Assassination of William I of Normandy.
1398 Sultan Nasir-u Din Mehmud's armies in Delhi are defeated by Timur.
1538 Pope Paul III excommunicates Henry VIII of England.
1577 Francis Drake sails from Plymouth, England, on a secret mission to explore the Pacific Coast of the Americas for English Queen Elizabeth I.
1583 Cologne War: Forces under Ernest of Bavaria defeats the troops under Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg at the Siege of Godesberg.
1586 Emperor Go-Yozei becomes Emperor of Japan.
1600 Marriage of Henry IV of France and Marie de' Medici.
1718 Great Britain declares war on Spain.
1777 France formally recognizes the United States of America.
1790 Discovery of the Aztec calendar stone.
1807 France issues the Milan Decree, which confirms the Continental System.
1812 War of 1812: U.S. forces attack a friendly Lenape village in the Battle of the Mississinewa.
1819 Simσn Bolνvar declares the independence of the Republic of Gran Colombia in Angostura (now Ciudad Bolνvar in Venezuela).
1837 Fire in the Winter Palace of Saint Petersburg occurred.
1862 American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant issues General Order No. 11, expelling Jews from Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky.
1865 First performance of the Unfinished Symphony by Franz Schubert.
1903 The Wright Brothers make their first powered and heavier-than-air flight in the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
1907 Ugyen Wangchuck is crowned first King of Bhutan
1918 Culmination of the Darwin Rebellion as some 1000 demonstrators march on Government House in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia.
1919 Uruguay becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1926 Antanas Smetona assumes power in Lithuania as the 1926 coup d'ιtat is successful.
1927 Indian revolutionary Rajendranath Lahiri was hanged to death in Gonda jail of U.P. in India 2 days before the scheduled date.
1928 Indian revolutionaries Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar and Shivaram Rajguru assassinate British police officer James Saunders in Lahore, Punjab to avenge the death of Lala Lajpat Rai at the hands of the police. The three were executed in 1931.
1935 First flight of the Douglas DC-3 airplane.
1939 World War II: Battle of the River Plate The Admiral Graf Spee is scuttled by Captain Hans Langsdorff outside Montevideo.
1941 World War II: Japanese forces land in Northern Borneo.
1944 World War II: Battle of the Bulge Malmedy massacre American 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion POWs are shot by Waffen-SS Kampfgruppe Peiper.
1947 First flight of the Boeing B-47 Stratojet strategic bomber.
1950 The F-86 Sabre's first mission over Korea.
1957 The United States successfully launches the first Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
1960 Troops loyal to Haile Selassie I in Ethiopia crush the coup that began December 13, returning power to their leader upon his return from Brazil. Haile Selassie absolves his son of any guilt.
1960 1960 Munich Convair 340 crash: 20 passengers and crew on board as well as 32 people on the ground are killed.
1967 Prime Minister of Australia Harold Holt disappears while swimming near Portsea, Victoria and is presumed drowned.
1969 The SALT I talks begin.
1969 Project Blue Book: The United States Air Force closes its study of UFOs, stating that sightings are generated as a result of "A mild form of mass hysteria, Individuals who fabricate such reports to perpetrate a hoax or seek publicity, psychopathological persons, and misidentification of various conventional objects."
1970 Polish 1970 protests: In Gdynia soldiers fire at workers emerging from trains, killing dozens.
1973 Terrorism: 30 passengers are killed in an attack by Palestinian terrorists on Rome's Leonardo da Vinci Airport.
1981 Brigadier General James L. Dozier is abducted by the Red Brigade in Verona, Italy.
1983 The IRA bombs Harrods Department Store in London, killing six people.
1989 The first episode of television series The Simpsons, "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire", airs in the United States.
1989 Romanian Revolution: Protests continue in Timişoara with rioters breaking into the Romanian Communist Party's District Committee building and attempting to set it on fire.
1989 Fernando Collor de Mello defeats Luiz Inαcio Lula da Silva in the second round of the Brazilian presidential election, becoming the first democratically elected President in almost 30 years.
1997 The United Kingdom commences its Firearms (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 1997, which extends the state's gun ban to include all handgunswith the exception of antique and show weapons.
2002 Second Congo War: The Congolese parties of the Inter Congolese Dialogue sign a peace accord which makes provision for transitional governance and legislative and presidential elections within two years.
2003 The Soham murder trial ends at the Old Bailey in London, with Ian Huntley found guilty of two counts of murder. His girlfriend Maxine Carr is found guilty of perverting the course of justice.
2003 SpaceShipOne flight 11P, piloted by Brian Binnie, makes its first supersonic flight.
2005 Anti-WTO protesters riot in Wan Chai, Hong Kong
2005 Jigme Singye Wangchuck abdicate the throne as King of Bhutan.
2009 MV Danny F II sinks off the coast of Lebanon, resulting in the deaths of 44 people and over 28,000 animals.
2010 Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire.This act became the catalyst for the Tunisian Revolution. The success of the Tunisian protests sparked protests in several other Arab countries.
End of C/P.
Events:C/P.
920 Romanos I is crowned co-emperor of the underage Emperor Constantine VII.
942 Assassination of William I of Normandy.
1398 Sultan Nasir-u Din Mehmud's armies in Delhi are defeated by Timur.
1538 Pope Paul III excommunicates Henry VIII of England.
1577 Francis Drake sails from Plymouth, England, on a secret mission to explore the Pacific Coast of the Americas for English Queen Elizabeth I.
1583 Cologne War: Forces under Ernest of Bavaria defeats the troops under Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg at the Siege of Godesberg.
1586 Emperor Go-Yozei becomes Emperor of Japan.
1600 Marriage of Henry IV of France and Marie de' Medici.
1718 Great Britain declares war on Spain.
1777 France formally recognizes the United States of America.
1790 Discovery of the Aztec calendar stone.
1807 France issues the Milan Decree, which confirms the Continental System.
1812 War of 1812: U.S. forces attack a friendly Lenape village in the Battle of the Mississinewa.
1819 Simσn Bolνvar declares the independence of the Republic of Gran Colombia in Angostura (now Ciudad Bolνvar in Venezuela).
1837 Fire in the Winter Palace of Saint Petersburg occurred.
1862 American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant issues General Order No. 11, expelling Jews from Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky.
1865 First performance of the Unfinished Symphony by Franz Schubert.
1903 The Wright Brothers make their first powered and heavier-than-air flight in the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
1907 Ugyen Wangchuck is crowned first King of Bhutan
1918 Culmination of the Darwin Rebellion as some 1000 demonstrators march on Government House in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia.
1919 Uruguay becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1926 Antanas Smetona assumes power in Lithuania as the 1926 coup d'ιtat is successful.
1927 Indian revolutionary Rajendranath Lahiri was hanged to death in Gonda jail of U.P. in India 2 days before the scheduled date.
1928 Indian revolutionaries Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar and Shivaram Rajguru assassinate British police officer James Saunders in Lahore, Punjab to avenge the death of Lala Lajpat Rai at the hands of the police. The three were executed in 1931.
1935 First flight of the Douglas DC-3 airplane.
1939 World War II: Battle of the River Plate The Admiral Graf Spee is scuttled by Captain Hans Langsdorff outside Montevideo.
1941 World War II: Japanese forces land in Northern Borneo.
1944 World War II: Battle of the Bulge Malmedy massacre American 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion POWs are shot by Waffen-SS Kampfgruppe Peiper.
1947 First flight of the Boeing B-47 Stratojet strategic bomber.
1950 The F-86 Sabre's first mission over Korea.
1957 The United States successfully launches the first Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
1960 Troops loyal to Haile Selassie I in Ethiopia crush the coup that began December 13, returning power to their leader upon his return from Brazil. Haile Selassie absolves his son of any guilt.
1960 1960 Munich Convair 340 crash: 20 passengers and crew on board as well as 32 people on the ground are killed.
1967 Prime Minister of Australia Harold Holt disappears while swimming near Portsea, Victoria and is presumed drowned.
1969 The SALT I talks begin.
1969 Project Blue Book: The United States Air Force closes its study of UFOs, stating that sightings are generated as a result of "A mild form of mass hysteria, Individuals who fabricate such reports to perpetrate a hoax or seek publicity, psychopathological persons, and misidentification of various conventional objects."
1970 Polish 1970 protests: In Gdynia soldiers fire at workers emerging from trains, killing dozens.
1973 Terrorism: 30 passengers are killed in an attack by Palestinian terrorists on Rome's Leonardo da Vinci Airport.
1981 Brigadier General James L. Dozier is abducted by the Red Brigade in Verona, Italy.
1983 The IRA bombs Harrods Department Store in London, killing six people.
1989 The first episode of television series The Simpsons, "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire", airs in the United States.
1989 Romanian Revolution: Protests continue in Timişoara with rioters breaking into the Romanian Communist Party's District Committee building and attempting to set it on fire.
1989 Fernando Collor de Mello defeats Luiz Inαcio Lula da Silva in the second round of the Brazilian presidential election, becoming the first democratically elected President in almost 30 years.
1997 The United Kingdom commences its Firearms (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 1997, which extends the state's gun ban to include all handgunswith the exception of antique and show weapons.
2002 Second Congo War: The Congolese parties of the Inter Congolese Dialogue sign a peace accord which makes provision for transitional governance and legislative and presidential elections within two years.
2003 The Soham murder trial ends at the Old Bailey in London, with Ian Huntley found guilty of two counts of murder. His girlfriend Maxine Carr is found guilty of perverting the course of justice.
2003 SpaceShipOne flight 11P, piloted by Brian Binnie, makes its first supersonic flight.
2005 Anti-WTO protesters riot in Wan Chai, Hong Kong
2005 Jigme Singye Wangchuck abdicate the throne as King of Bhutan.
2009 MV Danny F II sinks off the coast of Lebanon, resulting in the deaths of 44 people and over 28,000 animals.
2010 Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire.This act became the catalyst for the Tunisian Revolution. The success of the Tunisian protests sparked protests in several other Arab countries.
End of C/P.