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Events:C/P.
314 Silvester I begins his reign as Pope of the Catholic Church, succeeding Pope Miltiades.
1504 France cedes Naples to Aragon.
1606 Gunpowder Plot: Guy ****es is executed for his plotting against Parliament and James I of England.
1747 The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Lock Hospital.
1814 Gervasio Antonio de Posadas becomes Supreme Director of Argentina.
1846 After the Milwaukee Bridge War, Juneautown and Kilbourntown unify as the City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
1848 John C. Fremont is court-martialed for mutiny and disobeying orders.
1849 Corn Laws are abolished in the United Kingdom (following legislation in 1846).
1862 Alvan Graham Clark discovers the white dwarf star Sirius B, a companion of Sirius, through an 18.5-inch (47 cm) telescope now located at Northwestern University.
1865 American Civil War: The United States Congress passes the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, abolishing slavery, submitting it to the states for ratification.
1865 American Civil War: Confederate General Robert E. Lee becomes general-in-chief.
1867 Maronite nationalist leader Youssef Karam leaves Lebanon on board a French ship bound for Algeria
1876 The United States orders all Native Americans to move into reservations.
1891 The first attempt at a Portuguese republican revolution breaks out in the northern city of Porto.
1900 Datu Muhammad Salleh is assassinated in Kampung Teboh, Tambunan, ending the Mat Salleh Rebellion
1915 World War I: Germany is the first to make large-scale use of poison gas in warfare in the Battle of Bolimσw against Russia.
1917 World War I: Germany announces that its U-boats will resume unrestricted submarine warfare after a two-year hiatus.
1918 A series of accidental collisions on a misty Scottish night leads to the loss of two Royal Navy submarines with over a hundred lives, and damage to another five British warships.
1919 The Battle of George Square takes place in Glasgow, Scotland.
1929 The Soviet Union exiles Leon Trotsky.
1930 3M begins marketing Scotch Tape.
1942 World War II: Allied forces are defeated by the Japanese at the Battle of Malaya and retreat to the island of Singapore.
1943 German Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus surrenders to the Soviets at Stalingrad, followed 2 days later by the remainder of his Sixth Army, ending one of World War II's fiercest battles.
1944 World War II: American forces land on Kwajalein Atoll and other islands in the Japanese-held Marshall Islands.
1944 World War II: During Anzio campaign 1st Ranger Battalion (Darby's Rangers) is destroyed behind enemy lines in a heavily outnumbered encounter at Battle of Cisterna, Italy.
1945 US Army private Eddie Slovik is executed for desertion, the first such execution of an American soldier since the Civil War.
1945 World War II: About 3,000 inmates from the Stutthof concentration camp are forcibly marched into the Baltic Sea at Palmnicken (now Yantarny, Russia) and executed.
1946 Yugoslavia's new constitution, modeling the Soviet Union, establishes six constituent republics (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia).
1950 President Harry S. Truman announces a program to develop the hydrogen bomb.
1953 A North Sea flood causes over 1,800 deaths in the Netherlands.
1957 Eight people on the ground in Pacoima, California are killed following the mid-air collision between a Douglas DC-7 airliner and a Northrop F-89 Scorpion fighter jet.
1958 Explorer program: Explorer 1 The first successful launch of an American satellite into orbit.
1958 James Van Allen discovers the Van Allen radiation belt.
1961 Project Mercury: Mercury-Redstone 2 Ham the Chimp travels into outer space.
1966 The Soviet Union launches the unmanned Luna 9 spacecraft as part of the Luna program.
1968 Viet Cong attack the United States embassy in Saigon, and other attacks, in the early morning hours, later grouped together as the Tet Offensive.
1968 Nauru gains independence from Australia.
1971 Apollo program: Apollo 14 Astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell, aboard a Saturn V, lift off for a mission to the Fra Mauro Highlands on the Moon.
1971 The Winter Soldier Investigation, organized by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War to publicize war crimes and atrocities by Americans and allies in Vietnam, begin in Detroit, Michigan.
1990 The first McDonald's in the Soviet Union opens in Moscow.
1995 President Bill Clinton authorizes a $20 billion loan to Mexico to stabilize its economy.
1996 An explosives-filled truck rams into the gates of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka in Colombo, Sri Lanka killing at least 86 and injuring 1,400.
1996 Comet Hyakutake is discovered by Japanese amateur astronomer Yuji Hyakutake.
2000 Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crash: An MD-83, experiencing horizontal stabilizer problems, crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Point Mugu, California, killing all 88 aboard.
2001 In the Netherlands, a Scottish court convicts Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi and acquits another Libyan citizen for their part in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988.
2003 The Waterfall rail accident occurs near Waterfall, New South Wales, Australia.
2007 Suspects are arrested in Birmingham in the UK, accused of plotting the kidnap, holding and eventual beheading of a serving Muslim British soldier in Iraq.
2009 In Kenya, at least 113 people are killed and over 200 injured following an oil spillage ignition in Molo, days after a massive fire at a Nakumatt supermarket in Nairobi killed at least 25 people.
End of C/P.
Events:C/P.
314 Silvester I begins his reign as Pope of the Catholic Church, succeeding Pope Miltiades.
1504 France cedes Naples to Aragon.
1606 Gunpowder Plot: Guy ****es is executed for his plotting against Parliament and James I of England.
1747 The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Lock Hospital.
1814 Gervasio Antonio de Posadas becomes Supreme Director of Argentina.
1846 After the Milwaukee Bridge War, Juneautown and Kilbourntown unify as the City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
1848 John C. Fremont is court-martialed for mutiny and disobeying orders.
1849 Corn Laws are abolished in the United Kingdom (following legislation in 1846).
1862 Alvan Graham Clark discovers the white dwarf star Sirius B, a companion of Sirius, through an 18.5-inch (47 cm) telescope now located at Northwestern University.
1865 American Civil War: The United States Congress passes the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, abolishing slavery, submitting it to the states for ratification.
1865 American Civil War: Confederate General Robert E. Lee becomes general-in-chief.
1867 Maronite nationalist leader Youssef Karam leaves Lebanon on board a French ship bound for Algeria
1876 The United States orders all Native Americans to move into reservations.
1891 The first attempt at a Portuguese republican revolution breaks out in the northern city of Porto.
1900 Datu Muhammad Salleh is assassinated in Kampung Teboh, Tambunan, ending the Mat Salleh Rebellion
1915 World War I: Germany is the first to make large-scale use of poison gas in warfare in the Battle of Bolimσw against Russia.
1917 World War I: Germany announces that its U-boats will resume unrestricted submarine warfare after a two-year hiatus.
1918 A series of accidental collisions on a misty Scottish night leads to the loss of two Royal Navy submarines with over a hundred lives, and damage to another five British warships.
1919 The Battle of George Square takes place in Glasgow, Scotland.
1929 The Soviet Union exiles Leon Trotsky.
1930 3M begins marketing Scotch Tape.
1942 World War II: Allied forces are defeated by the Japanese at the Battle of Malaya and retreat to the island of Singapore.
1943 German Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus surrenders to the Soviets at Stalingrad, followed 2 days later by the remainder of his Sixth Army, ending one of World War II's fiercest battles.
1944 World War II: American forces land on Kwajalein Atoll and other islands in the Japanese-held Marshall Islands.
1944 World War II: During Anzio campaign 1st Ranger Battalion (Darby's Rangers) is destroyed behind enemy lines in a heavily outnumbered encounter at Battle of Cisterna, Italy.
1945 US Army private Eddie Slovik is executed for desertion, the first such execution of an American soldier since the Civil War.
1945 World War II: About 3,000 inmates from the Stutthof concentration camp are forcibly marched into the Baltic Sea at Palmnicken (now Yantarny, Russia) and executed.
1946 Yugoslavia's new constitution, modeling the Soviet Union, establishes six constituent republics (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia).
1950 President Harry S. Truman announces a program to develop the hydrogen bomb.
1953 A North Sea flood causes over 1,800 deaths in the Netherlands.
1957 Eight people on the ground in Pacoima, California are killed following the mid-air collision between a Douglas DC-7 airliner and a Northrop F-89 Scorpion fighter jet.
1958 Explorer program: Explorer 1 The first successful launch of an American satellite into orbit.
1958 James Van Allen discovers the Van Allen radiation belt.
1961 Project Mercury: Mercury-Redstone 2 Ham the Chimp travels into outer space.
1966 The Soviet Union launches the unmanned Luna 9 spacecraft as part of the Luna program.
1968 Viet Cong attack the United States embassy in Saigon, and other attacks, in the early morning hours, later grouped together as the Tet Offensive.
1968 Nauru gains independence from Australia.
1971 Apollo program: Apollo 14 Astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell, aboard a Saturn V, lift off for a mission to the Fra Mauro Highlands on the Moon.
1971 The Winter Soldier Investigation, organized by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War to publicize war crimes and atrocities by Americans and allies in Vietnam, begin in Detroit, Michigan.
1990 The first McDonald's in the Soviet Union opens in Moscow.
1995 President Bill Clinton authorizes a $20 billion loan to Mexico to stabilize its economy.
1996 An explosives-filled truck rams into the gates of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka in Colombo, Sri Lanka killing at least 86 and injuring 1,400.
1996 Comet Hyakutake is discovered by Japanese amateur astronomer Yuji Hyakutake.
2000 Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crash: An MD-83, experiencing horizontal stabilizer problems, crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Point Mugu, California, killing all 88 aboard.
2001 In the Netherlands, a Scottish court convicts Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi and acquits another Libyan citizen for their part in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988.
2003 The Waterfall rail accident occurs near Waterfall, New South Wales, Australia.
2007 Suspects are arrested in Birmingham in the UK, accused of plotting the kidnap, holding and eventual beheading of a serving Muslim British soldier in Iraq.
2009 In Kenya, at least 113 people are killed and over 200 injured following an oil spillage ignition in Molo, days after a massive fire at a Nakumatt supermarket in Nairobi killed at least 25 people.
End of C/P.