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Events:C/P.
38 BC Octavian divorces his wife Scribonia and marries Livia Drusilla, ending the fragile peace between the Second Triumvirate and Sextus Pompey.
395 Emperor Theodosius I dies in Milan, the Roman Empire is re-divided into an eastern and a western half. The Eastern Roman Empire is centered in Constantinople under Arcadius, son of Theodosius, and the Western Roman Empire in Mediolanum under Honorius, his brother, at the age of 10.
1287 King Alfonso III of Aragon invades Minorca.
1377 Pope Gregory XI moves the Papacy back to Rome from Avignon.
1524 Giovanni da Verrazzano sets sail westward from Madeira to find a sea route to the Pacific Ocean.
1562 France recognizes the Huguenots under the Edict of Saint-Germain.
1595 Henry IV of France declares war on Spain.
1608 Emperor Susenyos of Ethiopia surprises an Oromo army at Ebenat; his army reportedly kills 12,000 Oromo at the cost of 400 men.
1648 England's Long Parliament passes the Vote of No Addresses, breaking off negotiations with King Charles I and thereby setting the scene for the second phase of the English Civil War.
1773 Captain James Cook and his crew become the first Europeans to sail below the Antarctic Circle.
1781 American Revolutionary War: Battle of Cowpens Continental troops under Brigadier General Daniel Morgan defeat British forces under Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton at the battle in South Carolina.
1799 Maltese patriot Dun Mikiel Xerri, along with a number of other patriots, is executed.
1811 Mexican War of Independence: In the Battle of Calderσn Bridge, a heavily outnumbered Spanish force of 6,000 troops defeats nearly 100,000 Mexican revolutionists.
1852 The United Kingdom recognizes the independence of the Boer colonies of the Transvaal.
1873 A group of Modoc warriors defeats the United States Army in the First Battle of the Stronghold, a part of the Modoc War.
1885 A British force defeats a large Dervish army at the Battle of Abu Klea in the Sudan.
1893 The Citizen's Committee of Public Safety, led by Lorrin A. Thurston, overthrows the government of Queen Liliuokalani of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
1899 The United States takes possession of Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean.
1903 El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico becomes part of the United States National Forest System as the Luquillo Forest Reserve.
1904 Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard receives its premiere performance at the Moscow Art Theatre.
1912 Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen.
1913 Raymond Poincarι is elected President of France.
1917 The United States pays Denmark $25 million for the Virgin Islands.
1918 Finnish Civil War: The first serious battles take place between the Red Guards and the White Guard.
1929 Popeye the Sailor Man, a cartoon character created by Elzie Segar, first appears in the Thimble Theatre comic strip.
1929 Inayatullah Khan, king of the Emirate of Afghanistan abdicates the throne after only three days into his reign.
1941 Franco-Thai War: French forces inflict a decisive victory over the Royal Thai Navy.
1944 World War II: Allied forces launch the first of four battles with the intention of breaking through the Winter Line and seizing Rome, an effort that would ultimately take four months and cost 105,000 Allied casualties.
1945 World War II: Soviet forces capture the almost completely destroyed Polish city of Warsaw.
1945 The Nazis begin the evacuation of the Auschwitz concentration camp as Soviet forces close in.
1945 Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg is taken into Soviet custody while in Hungary; he is never publicly seen again.
1946 The UN Security Council holds its first session.
1949 The Goldbergs, the first sitcom on American television, first airs.
1950 The Great Brinks Robbery 11 thieves steal more than $2 million from an armored car Company's offices in Boston, Massachusetts.
1961 U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers a televised farewell address to the nation three days before leaving office, in which he warns against the accumulation of power by the "military-industrial complex".
1961 Former Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba is murdered in circumstances suggesting the support and complicity of the governments of Belgium and the United States.
1966 A B-52 bomber collides with a KC-135 Stratotanker over Spain, dropping three 70-kiloton nuclear bombs near the town of Palomares and another one into the sea in the Palomares incident.
1969 Black Panther Party members Bunchy Carter and John Huggins are killed during a meeting in Campbell Hall on the campus of UCLA.
1977 Convicted murderer Gary Gilmore is executed by a firing squad in Utah, ending a ten-year moratorium on capital punishment in the United States.
1981 President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos lifts martial law eight years and five months after declaring it.
1982 "Cold Sunday" - in the United States temperatures fell to their lowest levels in over 100 years in numerous cities.
1983 The tallest department store in the world, Hudson's, flagship store in downtown Detroit closes due to high cost of operating.
1989 Cleveland School massacre: Patrick Purdy opens fire with an assault rifle at the Cleveland Elementary School playground in Stockton, California, killing five children and wounding 29 others and one teacher before taking his own life.
1991 Gulf War: Operation Desert Storm begins early in the morning. Iraq fires 8 Scud missiles into Israel in an unsuccessful bid to provoke Israeli retaliation.
1991 Harald V becomes King of Norway on the death of his father, Olav V.
1992 During a visit to South Korea, Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa apologizes for forcing Korean women into sexual slavery during World War II.
1994 1994 Northridge earthquake: A magnitude 6.7 earthquake hits Northridge, California.
1995 The Great Hanshin earthquake: A magnitude 7.3 earthquake hits near Kobe, Japan, causing extensive property damage and killing 6,434 people.
1996 The Czech Republic applies for membership of the European Union.
1997 A Delta 2 carrying a GPS2R satellite explodes 13 seconds after launch, dropping 250 tons of burning rocket remains around the launch pad.
1998 Lewinsky scandal: Matt Drudge breaks the story of the Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky affair on his website The Drudge Report.
2001 U.S. President Bill Clinton posthumously raises Meriwether Lewis' rank from Lieutenant to Captain.
2002 Mount Nyiragongo erupts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, displacing an estimated 400,000 people.
2007 The Doomsday Clock is set to five minutes to midnight in response to North Korea nuclear testing.
2008 British Airways Flight 38 crash lands just short of London Heathrow Airport in England with no fatalities. It is the first complete hull loss of a Boeing 777.
2010 Rioting begins between Muslim and Christian groups in Jos, Nigeria, resulting in at least 200 deaths.
End of C/P.
Events:C/P.
38 BC Octavian divorces his wife Scribonia and marries Livia Drusilla, ending the fragile peace between the Second Triumvirate and Sextus Pompey.
395 Emperor Theodosius I dies in Milan, the Roman Empire is re-divided into an eastern and a western half. The Eastern Roman Empire is centered in Constantinople under Arcadius, son of Theodosius, and the Western Roman Empire in Mediolanum under Honorius, his brother, at the age of 10.
1287 King Alfonso III of Aragon invades Minorca.
1377 Pope Gregory XI moves the Papacy back to Rome from Avignon.
1524 Giovanni da Verrazzano sets sail westward from Madeira to find a sea route to the Pacific Ocean.
1562 France recognizes the Huguenots under the Edict of Saint-Germain.
1595 Henry IV of France declares war on Spain.
1608 Emperor Susenyos of Ethiopia surprises an Oromo army at Ebenat; his army reportedly kills 12,000 Oromo at the cost of 400 men.
1648 England's Long Parliament passes the Vote of No Addresses, breaking off negotiations with King Charles I and thereby setting the scene for the second phase of the English Civil War.
1773 Captain James Cook and his crew become the first Europeans to sail below the Antarctic Circle.
1781 American Revolutionary War: Battle of Cowpens Continental troops under Brigadier General Daniel Morgan defeat British forces under Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton at the battle in South Carolina.
1799 Maltese patriot Dun Mikiel Xerri, along with a number of other patriots, is executed.
1811 Mexican War of Independence: In the Battle of Calderσn Bridge, a heavily outnumbered Spanish force of 6,000 troops defeats nearly 100,000 Mexican revolutionists.
1852 The United Kingdom recognizes the independence of the Boer colonies of the Transvaal.
1873 A group of Modoc warriors defeats the United States Army in the First Battle of the Stronghold, a part of the Modoc War.
1885 A British force defeats a large Dervish army at the Battle of Abu Klea in the Sudan.
1893 The Citizen's Committee of Public Safety, led by Lorrin A. Thurston, overthrows the government of Queen Liliuokalani of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
1899 The United States takes possession of Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean.
1903 El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico becomes part of the United States National Forest System as the Luquillo Forest Reserve.
1904 Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard receives its premiere performance at the Moscow Art Theatre.
1912 Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen.
1913 Raymond Poincarι is elected President of France.
1917 The United States pays Denmark $25 million for the Virgin Islands.
1918 Finnish Civil War: The first serious battles take place between the Red Guards and the White Guard.
1929 Popeye the Sailor Man, a cartoon character created by Elzie Segar, first appears in the Thimble Theatre comic strip.
1929 Inayatullah Khan, king of the Emirate of Afghanistan abdicates the throne after only three days into his reign.
1941 Franco-Thai War: French forces inflict a decisive victory over the Royal Thai Navy.
1944 World War II: Allied forces launch the first of four battles with the intention of breaking through the Winter Line and seizing Rome, an effort that would ultimately take four months and cost 105,000 Allied casualties.
1945 World War II: Soviet forces capture the almost completely destroyed Polish city of Warsaw.
1945 The Nazis begin the evacuation of the Auschwitz concentration camp as Soviet forces close in.
1945 Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg is taken into Soviet custody while in Hungary; he is never publicly seen again.
1946 The UN Security Council holds its first session.
1949 The Goldbergs, the first sitcom on American television, first airs.
1950 The Great Brinks Robbery 11 thieves steal more than $2 million from an armored car Company's offices in Boston, Massachusetts.
1961 U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers a televised farewell address to the nation three days before leaving office, in which he warns against the accumulation of power by the "military-industrial complex".
1961 Former Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba is murdered in circumstances suggesting the support and complicity of the governments of Belgium and the United States.
1966 A B-52 bomber collides with a KC-135 Stratotanker over Spain, dropping three 70-kiloton nuclear bombs near the town of Palomares and another one into the sea in the Palomares incident.
1969 Black Panther Party members Bunchy Carter and John Huggins are killed during a meeting in Campbell Hall on the campus of UCLA.
1977 Convicted murderer Gary Gilmore is executed by a firing squad in Utah, ending a ten-year moratorium on capital punishment in the United States.
1981 President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos lifts martial law eight years and five months after declaring it.
1982 "Cold Sunday" - in the United States temperatures fell to their lowest levels in over 100 years in numerous cities.
1983 The tallest department store in the world, Hudson's, flagship store in downtown Detroit closes due to high cost of operating.
1989 Cleveland School massacre: Patrick Purdy opens fire with an assault rifle at the Cleveland Elementary School playground in Stockton, California, killing five children and wounding 29 others and one teacher before taking his own life.
1991 Gulf War: Operation Desert Storm begins early in the morning. Iraq fires 8 Scud missiles into Israel in an unsuccessful bid to provoke Israeli retaliation.
1991 Harald V becomes King of Norway on the death of his father, Olav V.
1992 During a visit to South Korea, Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa apologizes for forcing Korean women into sexual slavery during World War II.
1994 1994 Northridge earthquake: A magnitude 6.7 earthquake hits Northridge, California.
1995 The Great Hanshin earthquake: A magnitude 7.3 earthquake hits near Kobe, Japan, causing extensive property damage and killing 6,434 people.
1996 The Czech Republic applies for membership of the European Union.
1997 A Delta 2 carrying a GPS2R satellite explodes 13 seconds after launch, dropping 250 tons of burning rocket remains around the launch pad.
1998 Lewinsky scandal: Matt Drudge breaks the story of the Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky affair on his website The Drudge Report.
2001 U.S. President Bill Clinton posthumously raises Meriwether Lewis' rank from Lieutenant to Captain.
2002 Mount Nyiragongo erupts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, displacing an estimated 400,000 people.
2007 The Doomsday Clock is set to five minutes to midnight in response to North Korea nuclear testing.
2008 British Airways Flight 38 crash lands just short of London Heathrow Airport in England with no fatalities. It is the first complete hull loss of a Boeing 777.
2010 Rioting begins between Muslim and Christian groups in Jos, Nigeria, resulting in at least 200 deaths.
End of C/P.