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Events:C/P.
474 Zeno crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
1555 Bishop of Gloucester John Hooper is burned at the stake.
1621 Gregory XV becomes Pope, the last Pope elected by acclamation.
1775 American Revolutionary War: The British Parliament declares Massachusetts in rebellion.
1788 The Habsburg Empire joins the Russo-Turkish War in the Russian camp.
1825 After no presidential candidate receives a majority of electoral votes in the election of 1824, the United States House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams President of the United States.
1849 New Roman Republic established
1861 American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected the Provisional President of the Confederate States of America by the Confederate convention at Montgomery, Alabama.
1870 President Ulysses S. Grant signs a joint resolution of Congress establishing the U.S. Weather Bureau.
1889 President Grover Cleveland signs a bill elevating the United States Department of Agriculture to a Cabinet-level agency.
1895 William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball.
1900 The Davis Cup competition is established.
1904 RussoJapanese War: Battle of Port Arthur concludes.
1913 A group of meteors is visible across much of the eastern seaboard of North and South America, leading astronomers to conclude the source had been a small, short-lived natural satellite of the Earth.
1920 Under the terms of the Spitsbergen Treaty, international diplomacy recognizes Norwegian sovereignty over Arctic archipelago Svalbard, and designates it as demilitarized.
1922 Brazil becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1934 The Balkan Entente is formed.
1942 World War II: Top United States military leaders hold their first formal meeting to discuss American military strategy in the war.
1942 Year-round Daylight saving time is re-instated in the United States as a wartime measure to help conserve energy resources.
1943 World War II: Allied authorities declare Guadalcanal secure after Imperial Japan evacuates its remaining forces from the island, ending the Battle of Guadalcanal.
1945 World War II: The Battle of the Atlantic HMS Venturer sinks U-864 off the coast of Fedje, Norway, in a rare instance of submarine-to-submarine combat.
1945 World War II: A force of Allied aircraft unsuccessfully attacked a German destroyer in Fψrdefjorden, Norway.
1950 Second Red Scare: Senator Joseph McCarthy accuses the United States Department of State of being filled with Communists.
1951 Geochang massacre: Korean War
1959 The R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile, becomes operational at Plesetsk, USSR.
1964 The Beatles make their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing before a "record-busting" audience of 73 million viewers.
1965 Vietnam War: The first United States combat troops are sent to South Vietnam.
1969 First test flight of the Boeing 747.
1971 The Sylmar earthquake hits the San Fernando Valley area of California.
1971 Satchel Paige becomes the first Negro League player to be voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1971 Apollo program: Apollo 14 returns to Earth after the third manned moon landing.
1973 Biju Patnaik of the Pragati Legislature Party is elected leader of the opposition in the state assembly in Orissa, India.
1975 The Soyuz 17 Soviet spacecraft returns to Earth.
1991 Voters in Lithuania vote for independence.
1995 Space Shuttle astronauts Bernard A. Harris, Jr. and Michael Foale become the first African American and first Briton, respectively, to perform spacewalks.
1996 The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares the end to its 18 month ceasefire and explodes a large bomb in London's Canary Wharf.
2001 The American submarine USS Greeneville accidentally strikes and sinks the Ehime-Maru, a Japanese training vessel operated by the Uwajima Fishery High School.
End of C/P.
Events:C/P.
474 Zeno crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
1555 Bishop of Gloucester John Hooper is burned at the stake.
1621 Gregory XV becomes Pope, the last Pope elected by acclamation.
1775 American Revolutionary War: The British Parliament declares Massachusetts in rebellion.
1788 The Habsburg Empire joins the Russo-Turkish War in the Russian camp.
1825 After no presidential candidate receives a majority of electoral votes in the election of 1824, the United States House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams President of the United States.
1849 New Roman Republic established
1861 American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected the Provisional President of the Confederate States of America by the Confederate convention at Montgomery, Alabama.
1870 President Ulysses S. Grant signs a joint resolution of Congress establishing the U.S. Weather Bureau.
1889 President Grover Cleveland signs a bill elevating the United States Department of Agriculture to a Cabinet-level agency.
1895 William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball.
1900 The Davis Cup competition is established.
1904 RussoJapanese War: Battle of Port Arthur concludes.
1913 A group of meteors is visible across much of the eastern seaboard of North and South America, leading astronomers to conclude the source had been a small, short-lived natural satellite of the Earth.
1920 Under the terms of the Spitsbergen Treaty, international diplomacy recognizes Norwegian sovereignty over Arctic archipelago Svalbard, and designates it as demilitarized.
1922 Brazil becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1934 The Balkan Entente is formed.
1942 World War II: Top United States military leaders hold their first formal meeting to discuss American military strategy in the war.
1942 Year-round Daylight saving time is re-instated in the United States as a wartime measure to help conserve energy resources.
1943 World War II: Allied authorities declare Guadalcanal secure after Imperial Japan evacuates its remaining forces from the island, ending the Battle of Guadalcanal.
1945 World War II: The Battle of the Atlantic HMS Venturer sinks U-864 off the coast of Fedje, Norway, in a rare instance of submarine-to-submarine combat.
1945 World War II: A force of Allied aircraft unsuccessfully attacked a German destroyer in Fψrdefjorden, Norway.
1950 Second Red Scare: Senator Joseph McCarthy accuses the United States Department of State of being filled with Communists.
1951 Geochang massacre: Korean War
1959 The R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile, becomes operational at Plesetsk, USSR.
1964 The Beatles make their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing before a "record-busting" audience of 73 million viewers.
1965 Vietnam War: The first United States combat troops are sent to South Vietnam.
1969 First test flight of the Boeing 747.
1971 The Sylmar earthquake hits the San Fernando Valley area of California.
1971 Satchel Paige becomes the first Negro League player to be voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1971 Apollo program: Apollo 14 returns to Earth after the third manned moon landing.
1973 Biju Patnaik of the Pragati Legislature Party is elected leader of the opposition in the state assembly in Orissa, India.
1975 The Soyuz 17 Soviet spacecraft returns to Earth.
1991 Voters in Lithuania vote for independence.
1995 Space Shuttle astronauts Bernard A. Harris, Jr. and Michael Foale become the first African American and first Briton, respectively, to perform spacewalks.
1996 The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares the end to its 18 month ceasefire and explodes a large bomb in London's Canary Wharf.
2001 The American submarine USS Greeneville accidentally strikes and sinks the Ehime-Maru, a Japanese training vessel operated by the Uwajima Fishery High School.
End of C/P.