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Events:C/P.
161 Emperor Antoninus Pius dies and is succeeded by his adoptive sons Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus.
238 Roman subjects in Africa revolt against Maximinus Thrax and elect Gordian I as emperor.
321 Emperor Constantine I decrees that the dies Solis Invicti (sun-day) is the day of rest in the Empire.
1277 Stephen Tempier, bishop of Paris, condemns 219 philosophical and theological theses.
1799 Napoleon Bonaparte captures Jaffa in Palestine and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000 Albanian captives.
1814 Emperor Napoleon I of France wins the Battle of Craonne.
1827 Brazil marines unsuccessfully attack the temporary naval base of Carmen de Patagones, Argentina.
1827 Shrigley Abduction: Ellen Turner is abducted by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, a future politician in colonial New Zealand.
1850 Senator Daniel Webster gives his "Seventh of March" speech endorsing the Compromise of 1850 in order to prevent a possible civil war.
1862 American Civil War: Union forces defeat Confederate troops at Pea Ridge in northwestern Arkansas.
1876 Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the telephone.
1886 The City of Lαbrea in Amazonas, Brazil is founded. Today, the town is the seat of the Territorial Prelature of Lαbrea.
1900 The German liner SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse becomes the first ship to send wireless signals to shore.
1902 Second Boer War: In the Battle of Tweebosch, a Boer commando led by Koos de la Rey inflicts the biggest defeat upon the British since the beginning of the war
1912 Roald Amundsen announces that his expedition had reached the South Pole on December 14, 1911.
1914 Prince William of Wied arrives in Albania to begin his reign.
1936 World War II (Prelude to): In violation of the Locarno Pact and the Treaty of Versailles, Germany reoccupies the Rhineland.
1945 World War II: American troops seize the Ludendorff Bridge over the Rhine River at Remagen.
1950 Cold War: The Soviet Union issues a statement denying that Klaus Fuchs served as a Soviet spy.
1951 Korean War: Operation Ripper United Nations troops led by General Matthew Ridgeway begin an assault against Chinese forces.
1965 Bloody Sunday: A group of 600 civil rights marchers are forcefully broken up in Selma, Alabama.
1968 Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnamese military begin Operation Truong Cong Dinh to root out Viet Cong forces from the area surrounding Mỹ Tho.
1985 The song "We Are the World" has its international release.
1986 Challenger Disaster: Divers from the USS Preserver locate the crew cabin of Challenger on the ocean floor.
1989 Iran and the United Kingdom break diplomatic relations after a row over Salman Rushdie and his controversial novel.
1994 Copyright Law: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that parodies of an original work are generally covered by the doctrine of fair use.
2006 The terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba coordinates a series of bombings in Varanasi, India.
2007 The British House of Commons votes to make the upper chamber, the House of Lords, 100% elected.
2009 The Real Irish Republican Army kills two British soldiers and two civilians, the first British military deaths in Northern Ireland since The Troubles.
2009 The Kepler space observatory, designed to discover Earth-like planets orbiting other stars, is launched.
End of C/P.
Events:C/P.
161 Emperor Antoninus Pius dies and is succeeded by his adoptive sons Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus.
238 Roman subjects in Africa revolt against Maximinus Thrax and elect Gordian I as emperor.
321 Emperor Constantine I decrees that the dies Solis Invicti (sun-day) is the day of rest in the Empire.
1277 Stephen Tempier, bishop of Paris, condemns 219 philosophical and theological theses.
1799 Napoleon Bonaparte captures Jaffa in Palestine and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000 Albanian captives.
1814 Emperor Napoleon I of France wins the Battle of Craonne.
1827 Brazil marines unsuccessfully attack the temporary naval base of Carmen de Patagones, Argentina.
1827 Shrigley Abduction: Ellen Turner is abducted by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, a future politician in colonial New Zealand.
1850 Senator Daniel Webster gives his "Seventh of March" speech endorsing the Compromise of 1850 in order to prevent a possible civil war.
1862 American Civil War: Union forces defeat Confederate troops at Pea Ridge in northwestern Arkansas.
1876 Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the telephone.
1886 The City of Lαbrea in Amazonas, Brazil is founded. Today, the town is the seat of the Territorial Prelature of Lαbrea.
1900 The German liner SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse becomes the first ship to send wireless signals to shore.
1902 Second Boer War: In the Battle of Tweebosch, a Boer commando led by Koos de la Rey inflicts the biggest defeat upon the British since the beginning of the war
1912 Roald Amundsen announces that his expedition had reached the South Pole on December 14, 1911.
1914 Prince William of Wied arrives in Albania to begin his reign.
1936 World War II (Prelude to): In violation of the Locarno Pact and the Treaty of Versailles, Germany reoccupies the Rhineland.
1945 World War II: American troops seize the Ludendorff Bridge over the Rhine River at Remagen.
1950 Cold War: The Soviet Union issues a statement denying that Klaus Fuchs served as a Soviet spy.
1951 Korean War: Operation Ripper United Nations troops led by General Matthew Ridgeway begin an assault against Chinese forces.
1965 Bloody Sunday: A group of 600 civil rights marchers are forcefully broken up in Selma, Alabama.
1968 Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnamese military begin Operation Truong Cong Dinh to root out Viet Cong forces from the area surrounding Mỹ Tho.
1985 The song "We Are the World" has its international release.
1986 Challenger Disaster: Divers from the USS Preserver locate the crew cabin of Challenger on the ocean floor.
1989 Iran and the United Kingdom break diplomatic relations after a row over Salman Rushdie and his controversial novel.
1994 Copyright Law: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that parodies of an original work are generally covered by the doctrine of fair use.
2006 The terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba coordinates a series of bombings in Varanasi, India.
2007 The British House of Commons votes to make the upper chamber, the House of Lords, 100% elected.
2009 The Real Irish Republican Army kills two British soldiers and two civilians, the first British military deaths in Northern Ireland since The Troubles.
2009 The Kepler space observatory, designed to discover Earth-like planets orbiting other stars, is launched.
End of C/P.