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Events:C/P.
363 Roman Emperor Julian moves from Antioch with an army of 90,000 to attack the Sassanid Empire, in a campaign which would bring about his own death.
1046 Naser Khosrow begins the seven-year Middle Eastern journey which he will later describe in his book Safarnama.
1279 The Livonian Order is defeated in the Battle of Aizkraukle by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
1496 King Henry VII of England issues letters patent to John Cabot and his sons, authorising them to explore unknown lands.
1616 Nicolaus Copernicus's book, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium is banned by the Catholic Church
1766 Antonio de Ulloa, the first Spanish governor of Louisiana, arrives in New Orleans.
1770 Boston Massacre: Five Americans, including Crispus Attucks, and a boy, are killed by British troops in an event that would contribute to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War (also known as the American War of Independence) five years later. At a subsequent trial the soldiers are defended by John Adams.
1811 Peninsular War: A French force under the command of Marshal Victor is routed while trying to prevent an Anglo-Spanish-Portuguese army from lifting the Siege of Cαdiz in the Battle of Barrosa.
1824 First Anglo-Burmese War: The British officially declare war on Burma.
1836 Samuel Colt makes the first production-model revolver, the .34-caliber.
1850 The Britannia Bridge across the Menai Strait between the Isle of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales is opened.
1860 Parma, Tuscany, Modena and Romagna vote in referendums to join the Kingdom of Sardinia.
1868 Mefistofele, an opera by Arrigo Boito receives its premiθre performance at La Scala.
1872 George Westinghouse patents the air brake.
1906 Moro Rebellion: United States Army troops bring overwhelming force against the native Moros in the First Battle of Bud Dajo, leaving only six survivors.
1912 Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, employing them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.
1931 The British Viceroy of India, Governor-General Edward Frederick Lindley Wood and Mohandas Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) sign an agreement envisaging the release of political prisoners and allowing salt to be freely used by the poorest members of the population.
1933 Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a "bank holiday", closing all U.S. banks and freezing all financial transactions.
1933 Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party receives 43.9% at the Reichstag elections. This later allows the Nazis to pass the Enabling Act and establish a dictatorship.
1940 Members of Soviet politburo sign an order for the execution of 25,700 Polish intelligentsia, including 14,700 Polish POWs, known also as the Katyn massacre.
1943 First flight of Gloster Meteor jet aircraft in the United Kingdom.
1944 World War II: The Red Army begins the UmanBotoşani Offensive in western Ukrainian SSR.
1946 Winston Churchill uses the phrase "Iron Curtain" in his speech at Westminster College, Missouri.
1946 Hungarian Communists and Social Democrats co-found the Left Bloc.
1960 Cuban photographer Alberto Korda took his iconic photograph of Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara.
1965 March Intifada: A Leftist uprising erupts in Bahrain against British colonial presence.
1966 BOAC Flight 911 crashes on Mount Fuji, Japan, killing 124.
1970 The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations.
1974 Yom Kippur War: Israeli forces withdraw from the west bank of the Suez Canal.
1975 First meeting of the Homebrew Computer Club
1978 The Landsat 3 is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
1979 Soviet probes Venera 11, Venera 12 and the American solar satellite Helios II all are hit by "off the scale" gamma rays leading to the discovery of soft gamma repeaters.
1979 America's Voyager 1 spacecraft has its closest approach to Jupiter, 172,000 miles.
1981 The ZX81, a pioneering British home computer, is launched by Sinclair Research and would go on to sell over 1.5 million units around the world.
1982 Soviet probes Venera 14 landed on Venus.
1984 6,000 miners in the United Kingdom begin their strike at Cortonwood Colliery.
1988 The Constitution of Turks and Caicos Islands is restored and revised.
1999 Paul Okalik is elected first Premier of Nunavut.
2003 In Haifa, 17 Israeli civilians are killed by a Hamas suicide bomb in the Haifa bus 37 massacre.
End of C/P.
Events:C/P.
363 Roman Emperor Julian moves from Antioch with an army of 90,000 to attack the Sassanid Empire, in a campaign which would bring about his own death.
1046 Naser Khosrow begins the seven-year Middle Eastern journey which he will later describe in his book Safarnama.
1279 The Livonian Order is defeated in the Battle of Aizkraukle by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
1496 King Henry VII of England issues letters patent to John Cabot and his sons, authorising them to explore unknown lands.
1616 Nicolaus Copernicus's book, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium is banned by the Catholic Church
1766 Antonio de Ulloa, the first Spanish governor of Louisiana, arrives in New Orleans.
1770 Boston Massacre: Five Americans, including Crispus Attucks, and a boy, are killed by British troops in an event that would contribute to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War (also known as the American War of Independence) five years later. At a subsequent trial the soldiers are defended by John Adams.
1811 Peninsular War: A French force under the command of Marshal Victor is routed while trying to prevent an Anglo-Spanish-Portuguese army from lifting the Siege of Cαdiz in the Battle of Barrosa.
1824 First Anglo-Burmese War: The British officially declare war on Burma.
1836 Samuel Colt makes the first production-model revolver, the .34-caliber.
1850 The Britannia Bridge across the Menai Strait between the Isle of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales is opened.
1860 Parma, Tuscany, Modena and Romagna vote in referendums to join the Kingdom of Sardinia.
1868 Mefistofele, an opera by Arrigo Boito receives its premiθre performance at La Scala.
1872 George Westinghouse patents the air brake.
1906 Moro Rebellion: United States Army troops bring overwhelming force against the native Moros in the First Battle of Bud Dajo, leaving only six survivors.
1912 Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, employing them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.
1931 The British Viceroy of India, Governor-General Edward Frederick Lindley Wood and Mohandas Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) sign an agreement envisaging the release of political prisoners and allowing salt to be freely used by the poorest members of the population.
1933 Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a "bank holiday", closing all U.S. banks and freezing all financial transactions.
1933 Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party receives 43.9% at the Reichstag elections. This later allows the Nazis to pass the Enabling Act and establish a dictatorship.
1940 Members of Soviet politburo sign an order for the execution of 25,700 Polish intelligentsia, including 14,700 Polish POWs, known also as the Katyn massacre.
1943 First flight of Gloster Meteor jet aircraft in the United Kingdom.
1944 World War II: The Red Army begins the UmanBotoşani Offensive in western Ukrainian SSR.
1946 Winston Churchill uses the phrase "Iron Curtain" in his speech at Westminster College, Missouri.
1946 Hungarian Communists and Social Democrats co-found the Left Bloc.
1960 Cuban photographer Alberto Korda took his iconic photograph of Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara.
1965 March Intifada: A Leftist uprising erupts in Bahrain against British colonial presence.
1966 BOAC Flight 911 crashes on Mount Fuji, Japan, killing 124.
1970 The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations.
1974 Yom Kippur War: Israeli forces withdraw from the west bank of the Suez Canal.
1975 First meeting of the Homebrew Computer Club
1978 The Landsat 3 is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
1979 Soviet probes Venera 11, Venera 12 and the American solar satellite Helios II all are hit by "off the scale" gamma rays leading to the discovery of soft gamma repeaters.
1979 America's Voyager 1 spacecraft has its closest approach to Jupiter, 172,000 miles.
1981 The ZX81, a pioneering British home computer, is launched by Sinclair Research and would go on to sell over 1.5 million units around the world.
1982 Soviet probes Venera 14 landed on Venus.
1984 6,000 miners in the United Kingdom begin their strike at Cortonwood Colliery.
1988 The Constitution of Turks and Caicos Islands is restored and revised.
1999 Paul Okalik is elected first Premier of Nunavut.
2003 In Haifa, 17 Israeli civilians are killed by a Hamas suicide bomb in the Haifa bus 37 massacre.
End of C/P.