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Events:C/P.
69 The Roman Senate declares Vespasian as Roman emperor, the last in the Year of Four Emperors.
1140 Conrad III of Germany besieged Weinsberg.
1598 Battle of Curalaba: The revolting Mapuche, led by cacique Pelentaru, inflict a major defeat on Spanish troops in southern Chile.
1620 Plymouth Colony: William Bradford and the Mayflower Pilgrims land on what is now known as Plymouth Rock in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
1826 American settlers in Nacogdoches, Mexican Texas, declare their independence, starting the Fredonian Rebellion.
1832 EgyptianOttoman War: Egyptian forces decisively defeat Ottoman troops at the Battle of Konya.
1844 The Rochdale Pioneers commence business at their cooperative in Rochdale, England, starting the Cooperative movement.
1861 Medal of Honor: Public Resolution 82, containing a provision for a Navy Medal of Valor, is signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln.
1872 Challenger expedition: HMS Challenger, commanded by Captain George Nares, sails from Portsmouth.
1879 World premiθre of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen.
1883 The first Permanent Force cavalry and infantry regiments of the Canadian Army are formed: The Royal Canadian Dragoons and The Royal Canadian Regiment.
1907 The Chilean Army commits a massacre of at least 2,000 striking saltpeter miners in in Iquique, Chile.
1910 An underground explosion at the Hulton Bank Colliery No. 3 Pit in Over Hulton, Westhoughton, England, kills 344 miners.
1913 Arthur Wynne's "word-cross", the first crossword puzzle, is published in the New York World.
1919 American anarchist Emma Goldman is deported to Russia.
1937 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the world's first full-length animated feature, premieres at the Carthay Circle Theater.
1941 World War II: A formal treaty of alliance between Thailand and Japan is signed in the presence of the Emerald Buddha in Wat Phra Kaew.
1946 An 8.1 Mw earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Nankaidō, Japan, kill over 1,300 people and destroy over 38,000 homes.
1962 Rondane National Park is established as Norway's first national park.
1967 Louis Washkansky, the first man to undergo a heart transplant, dies in Cape Town, South Africa, after living for 18 days after the transplant.
1968 Apollo program: Apollo 8 launched from the Kennedy Space Center, placing its crew on a lunar trajectory for the first visit to another celestial body by humans.
1969 The Gay Activists Alliance is formed in New York City.
1969 The United Nations adopts the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
1973 The Geneva Conference on the Arab-Israeli conflict opens.
1979 Lancaster House Agreement: An independence agreement for Rhodesia is signed in London by Lord Carrington, Sir Ian Gilmour, Robert Mugabe, Joshua Nkomo, Bishop Abel Muzorewa and S.C. Mundawarara.
1988 A bomb explodes on board Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, killing 270.
1992 A Dutch DC-10, flight Martinair MP 495, crashes at Faro Airport, killing 56 people.
1994 Mexican volcano Popocatepetl, dormant for 47 years, erupts gases and ash.
1995 The city of Bethlehem passes from Israeli to Palestinian control.
1999 The Spanish Civil Guard intercepts a van loaded with 950 kg of explosives that ETA intended to use to blow up Torre Picasso in Madrid.
2004 Iraq War: A suicide bomber killed 22 at the forward operating base next to the main U.S. military airfield at Mosul, the single deadliest suicide attack on American soldiers.
End of C/P.
Events:C/P.
69 The Roman Senate declares Vespasian as Roman emperor, the last in the Year of Four Emperors.
1140 Conrad III of Germany besieged Weinsberg.
1598 Battle of Curalaba: The revolting Mapuche, led by cacique Pelentaru, inflict a major defeat on Spanish troops in southern Chile.
1620 Plymouth Colony: William Bradford and the Mayflower Pilgrims land on what is now known as Plymouth Rock in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
1826 American settlers in Nacogdoches, Mexican Texas, declare their independence, starting the Fredonian Rebellion.
1832 EgyptianOttoman War: Egyptian forces decisively defeat Ottoman troops at the Battle of Konya.
1844 The Rochdale Pioneers commence business at their cooperative in Rochdale, England, starting the Cooperative movement.
1861 Medal of Honor: Public Resolution 82, containing a provision for a Navy Medal of Valor, is signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln.
1872 Challenger expedition: HMS Challenger, commanded by Captain George Nares, sails from Portsmouth.
1879 World premiθre of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen.
1883 The first Permanent Force cavalry and infantry regiments of the Canadian Army are formed: The Royal Canadian Dragoons and The Royal Canadian Regiment.
1907 The Chilean Army commits a massacre of at least 2,000 striking saltpeter miners in in Iquique, Chile.
1910 An underground explosion at the Hulton Bank Colliery No. 3 Pit in Over Hulton, Westhoughton, England, kills 344 miners.
1913 Arthur Wynne's "word-cross", the first crossword puzzle, is published in the New York World.
1919 American anarchist Emma Goldman is deported to Russia.
1937 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the world's first full-length animated feature, premieres at the Carthay Circle Theater.
1941 World War II: A formal treaty of alliance between Thailand and Japan is signed in the presence of the Emerald Buddha in Wat Phra Kaew.
1946 An 8.1 Mw earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Nankaidō, Japan, kill over 1,300 people and destroy over 38,000 homes.
1962 Rondane National Park is established as Norway's first national park.
1967 Louis Washkansky, the first man to undergo a heart transplant, dies in Cape Town, South Africa, after living for 18 days after the transplant.
1968 Apollo program: Apollo 8 launched from the Kennedy Space Center, placing its crew on a lunar trajectory for the first visit to another celestial body by humans.
1969 The Gay Activists Alliance is formed in New York City.
1969 The United Nations adopts the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
1973 The Geneva Conference on the Arab-Israeli conflict opens.
1979 Lancaster House Agreement: An independence agreement for Rhodesia is signed in London by Lord Carrington, Sir Ian Gilmour, Robert Mugabe, Joshua Nkomo, Bishop Abel Muzorewa and S.C. Mundawarara.
1988 A bomb explodes on board Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, killing 270.
1992 A Dutch DC-10, flight Martinair MP 495, crashes at Faro Airport, killing 56 people.
1994 Mexican volcano Popocatepetl, dormant for 47 years, erupts gases and ash.
1995 The city of Bethlehem passes from Israeli to Palestinian control.
1999 The Spanish Civil Guard intercepts a van loaded with 950 kg of explosives that ETA intended to use to blow up Torre Picasso in Madrid.
2004 Iraq War: A suicide bomber killed 22 at the forward operating base next to the main U.S. military airfield at Mosul, the single deadliest suicide attack on American soldiers.
End of C/P.