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Events:C/P.
881 Pope John VIII crowns Charles the Fat, the King of Italy: Emperor
1429 English forces under Sir John Fastolf defend a supply convoy carrying rations to the army besieging Orleans from attack by the Comte de Clermont and Sir John Stewart of Darnley in the Battle of Rouvray (also known as the Battle of the Herrings).
1502 Vasco da Gama sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal, on his second voyage to India.
1541 Santiago, Chile is founded by Pedro de Valdivia.
1554 A year after claiming the throne of England for nine days, Lady Jane Grey is beheaded for treason.
1593 Japanese invasion of Korea: Approximately 3,000 Joseon defenders led by general Kwon Yul successfully repel more than 30,000 Japanese forces in the Siege of Haengju.
1689 The Convention Parliament declares that the flight to France in 1688 by James II, the last Roman Catholic British monarch, constitutes an abdication.
1733 Englishman James Oglethorpe founds Georgia, the 13th colony of the Thirteen Colonies, and its first city at Savannah (known as Georgia Day).
1771 Gustav III becomes the King of Sweden.
1816 The Teatro di San Carlo, the oldest working opera house in Europe, is destroyed by fire.
1817 An Argentine/Chilean patriotic army, after crossing the Andes, defeats Spanish troops on the Battle of Chacabuco.
1818 Bernardo O'Higgins formally approved the Chilean Declaration of Independence near Concepciσn, Chile.
1825 The Creek cede the last of their lands in Georgia to the United States government by the Treaty of Indian Springs, and migrate west.
1832 Ecuador annexes the Galαpagos Islands.
1851 Edward Hargraves announces that he has found gold in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia, starting the Australian gold rush.
1855 Michigan State University is established.
1894 Anarchist Ιmile Henry hurls a bomb into Paris's Cafe Terminus, killing one and wounding 20.
1909 The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded.
1909 New Zealand's worst maritime disaster of the 20th century happens when the SS Penguin, an inter-island ferry, sinks and explodes at the entrance to Wellington Harbour.
1912 The Xuantong Emperor, the last Emperor of China, abdicates.
1914 In Washington, D.C., the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.
1934 The Austrian Civil War begins.
1934 In Spain the national council of Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional-Sindicalista decides to merge the movement with the Falange Espaρola.
1935 USS Macon, one of the two largest helium-filled airships ever created, crashes into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California and sinks.
1946 World War II: Operation Deadlight ends after scuttling 121 of 154 captured U-boats.
1946 African American United States Army veteran Isaac Woodard is severely beaten by a South Carolina police officer to the point where he loses his vision in both eyes. The incident later galvanizes the Civil Rights Movement and partially inspires Orson Welles' film Touch of Evil.
1947 A meteor creates an impact crater in Sikhote-Alin, in the Soviet Union.
1961 U.S.S.R. launches Venera 1 towards Venus.
1968 Phong Nhi and Phong Nhat massacre.
1974 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1970, is exiled from the Soviet Union.
1990 Carmen Lawrence becomes the first female Premier in Australian history when she becomes Premier of Western Australia.
1992 The current Constitution of Mongolia comes into effect.
1994 Four men break into the National Gallery of Norway and steal Edward Munch's iconic painting The Scream.
1999 President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial.
2001 NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touchdown in the "saddle" region of 433 Eros becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.
2002 The trial of former President of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Miloević begins at the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague. He dies four years later before its conclusion.
2002 An Iran Air Tours Tupolev Tu-154 crashes in the mountains outside Khorramabad, Iran while descending for a landing at Khorramabad Airport, killing 119.
2004 The city of San Francisco, California begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in response to a directive from Mayor Gavin Newsom.
2009 Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashes into a house in Clarence Center, New York while on approach to Buffalo-Niagara International Airport, killing all on board and one on the ground.
End of C/P.
Events:C/P.
881 Pope John VIII crowns Charles the Fat, the King of Italy: Emperor
1429 English forces under Sir John Fastolf defend a supply convoy carrying rations to the army besieging Orleans from attack by the Comte de Clermont and Sir John Stewart of Darnley in the Battle of Rouvray (also known as the Battle of the Herrings).
1502 Vasco da Gama sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal, on his second voyage to India.
1541 Santiago, Chile is founded by Pedro de Valdivia.
1554 A year after claiming the throne of England for nine days, Lady Jane Grey is beheaded for treason.
1593 Japanese invasion of Korea: Approximately 3,000 Joseon defenders led by general Kwon Yul successfully repel more than 30,000 Japanese forces in the Siege of Haengju.
1689 The Convention Parliament declares that the flight to France in 1688 by James II, the last Roman Catholic British monarch, constitutes an abdication.
1733 Englishman James Oglethorpe founds Georgia, the 13th colony of the Thirteen Colonies, and its first city at Savannah (known as Georgia Day).
1771 Gustav III becomes the King of Sweden.
1816 The Teatro di San Carlo, the oldest working opera house in Europe, is destroyed by fire.
1817 An Argentine/Chilean patriotic army, after crossing the Andes, defeats Spanish troops on the Battle of Chacabuco.
1818 Bernardo O'Higgins formally approved the Chilean Declaration of Independence near Concepciσn, Chile.
1825 The Creek cede the last of their lands in Georgia to the United States government by the Treaty of Indian Springs, and migrate west.
1832 Ecuador annexes the Galαpagos Islands.
1851 Edward Hargraves announces that he has found gold in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia, starting the Australian gold rush.
1855 Michigan State University is established.
1894 Anarchist Ιmile Henry hurls a bomb into Paris's Cafe Terminus, killing one and wounding 20.
1909 The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded.
1909 New Zealand's worst maritime disaster of the 20th century happens when the SS Penguin, an inter-island ferry, sinks and explodes at the entrance to Wellington Harbour.
1912 The Xuantong Emperor, the last Emperor of China, abdicates.
1914 In Washington, D.C., the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.
1934 The Austrian Civil War begins.
1934 In Spain the national council of Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional-Sindicalista decides to merge the movement with the Falange Espaρola.
1935 USS Macon, one of the two largest helium-filled airships ever created, crashes into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California and sinks.
1946 World War II: Operation Deadlight ends after scuttling 121 of 154 captured U-boats.
1946 African American United States Army veteran Isaac Woodard is severely beaten by a South Carolina police officer to the point where he loses his vision in both eyes. The incident later galvanizes the Civil Rights Movement and partially inspires Orson Welles' film Touch of Evil.
1947 A meteor creates an impact crater in Sikhote-Alin, in the Soviet Union.
1961 U.S.S.R. launches Venera 1 towards Venus.
1968 Phong Nhi and Phong Nhat massacre.
1974 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1970, is exiled from the Soviet Union.
1990 Carmen Lawrence becomes the first female Premier in Australian history when she becomes Premier of Western Australia.
1992 The current Constitution of Mongolia comes into effect.
1994 Four men break into the National Gallery of Norway and steal Edward Munch's iconic painting The Scream.
1999 President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial.
2001 NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touchdown in the "saddle" region of 433 Eros becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.
2002 The trial of former President of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Miloević begins at the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague. He dies four years later before its conclusion.
2002 An Iran Air Tours Tupolev Tu-154 crashes in the mountains outside Khorramabad, Iran while descending for a landing at Khorramabad Airport, killing 119.
2004 The city of San Francisco, California begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in response to a directive from Mayor Gavin Newsom.
2009 Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashes into a house in Clarence Center, New York while on approach to Buffalo-Niagara International Airport, killing all on board and one on the ground.
End of C/P.