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Events:C/P.
235 Maximinus Thrax is proclaimed emperor. He is the first foreigner to hold the Roman throne.
1208 Michael IV Autoreianos is appointed Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
1600 The Link๖ping Bloodbath takes place on Maundy Thursday in Link๖ping, Sweden.
1602 The Dutch East India Company is established.
1616 Sir Walter Raleigh is freed from the Tower of London after 13 years of imprisonment.
1760 The "Great Fire" of Boston, Massachusetts, destroys 349 buildings.
1815 After escaping from Elba, Napoleon enters Paris with a regular army of 140,000 and a volunteer force of around 200,000, beginning his "Hundred Days" rule.
1848 Revolutions of 1848 in the German states: King Ludwig I of Bavaria abdicates.
1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin is published.
1861 An earthquake completely destroys Mendoza, Argentina.
1883 The Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property is signed.
1888 The premiere of the very first Romani language operetta is staged in Moscow, Russia.
1913 Sung Chiao-jen, a founder of the Chinese Nationalist Party, is wounded in an assassination attempt and dies 2 days later.
1914 In New Haven, Connecticut, the first international figure skating championship takes place.
1916 Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity.
1922 The USS Langley (CV-1) is commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier.
1923 The Arts Club of Chicago hosts the opening of Pablo Picasso's first United States showing, entitled Original Drawings by Pablo Picasso, becoming an early proponent of modern art in the United States.
1933 Giuseppe Zangara is executed in Florida's electric chair for fatally shooting Anton Cermak in an assassination attempt against President-Elect Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1942 World War II: General Douglas MacArthur, at Terowie, South Australia, makes his famous speech regarding the fall of the Philippines, in which he says: "I came out of Bataan and I shall return".
1948 With a Musicians Union ban lifted, the first telecasts of classical music in the United States, under Eugene Ormandy and Arturo Toscanini, are given on CBS and NBC.
1951 Fujiyoshida, a city located in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, in the center of the Japanese main island of Honshū is founded.
1952 The United States Senate ratifies a peace treaty with Japan.
1956 Tunisia gains independence from France.
1964 The precursor of the European Space Agency, ESRO (European Space Research Organization) is established per an agreement signed on June 14, 1962.
1974 Ian Ball attempts, but fails, to kidnap Her Royal Highness Princess Anne and her husband Captain Mark Phillips in The Mall, outside Buckingham Palace, London.
1980 The Radio Caroline ship, Mi Amigo founders in a gale off the English coast.
1985 Libby Riddles becomes the first woman to win the 1,135-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
1985 Canadian paraplegic athlete and humanitarian Rick Hansen begins his circumnavigation of the globe in a wheelchair in the name of spinal cord injury medical research.
1987 The Food and Drug Administration approves the anti-AIDS drug, AZT.
1988 Eritrean War of Independence: Having defeated the Nadew Command, the Eritrean People's Liberation Front enters the town of Afabet, victoriously concluding the Battle of Afabet.
1990 Ferdinand Marcos's widow, Imelda Marcos, goes on trial for bribery, embezzlement, and racketeering.
1993 An IRA bomb explodes, killing two children in Warrington, Northwest England.
1995 A sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway kills 12 and wounds 1,300 persons.
1999 Legoland California, the only Legoland outside of Europe, opens in Carlsbad, California.
2000 Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, a former Black Panther once known as H. Rap Brown, is captured after murdering Georgia sheriff's deputy Ricky Kinchen and critically wounding Deputy Aldranon English.
2003 2003 invasion of Iraq: In the early hours of the morning, the United States and three other countries begin military operations in Iraq.
2006 Over 150 Chadian soldiers are killed in eastern Chad by members of the rebel UFDC. The rebel movement sought to overthrow Chadian president Idriss Deby.
2012 A Tornado, generally rare in Australia, forms over Magnetic Island and hits Townsville, Queensland with wind gusts of up to 180km/hr.
End of C/P.
Events:C/P.
235 Maximinus Thrax is proclaimed emperor. He is the first foreigner to hold the Roman throne.
1208 Michael IV Autoreianos is appointed Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
1600 The Link๖ping Bloodbath takes place on Maundy Thursday in Link๖ping, Sweden.
1602 The Dutch East India Company is established.
1616 Sir Walter Raleigh is freed from the Tower of London after 13 years of imprisonment.
1760 The "Great Fire" of Boston, Massachusetts, destroys 349 buildings.
1815 After escaping from Elba, Napoleon enters Paris with a regular army of 140,000 and a volunteer force of around 200,000, beginning his "Hundred Days" rule.
1848 Revolutions of 1848 in the German states: King Ludwig I of Bavaria abdicates.
1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin is published.
1861 An earthquake completely destroys Mendoza, Argentina.
1883 The Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property is signed.
1888 The premiere of the very first Romani language operetta is staged in Moscow, Russia.
1913 Sung Chiao-jen, a founder of the Chinese Nationalist Party, is wounded in an assassination attempt and dies 2 days later.
1914 In New Haven, Connecticut, the first international figure skating championship takes place.
1916 Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity.
1922 The USS Langley (CV-1) is commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier.
1923 The Arts Club of Chicago hosts the opening of Pablo Picasso's first United States showing, entitled Original Drawings by Pablo Picasso, becoming an early proponent of modern art in the United States.
1933 Giuseppe Zangara is executed in Florida's electric chair for fatally shooting Anton Cermak in an assassination attempt against President-Elect Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1942 World War II: General Douglas MacArthur, at Terowie, South Australia, makes his famous speech regarding the fall of the Philippines, in which he says: "I came out of Bataan and I shall return".
1948 With a Musicians Union ban lifted, the first telecasts of classical music in the United States, under Eugene Ormandy and Arturo Toscanini, are given on CBS and NBC.
1951 Fujiyoshida, a city located in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, in the center of the Japanese main island of Honshū is founded.
1952 The United States Senate ratifies a peace treaty with Japan.
1956 Tunisia gains independence from France.
1964 The precursor of the European Space Agency, ESRO (European Space Research Organization) is established per an agreement signed on June 14, 1962.
1974 Ian Ball attempts, but fails, to kidnap Her Royal Highness Princess Anne and her husband Captain Mark Phillips in The Mall, outside Buckingham Palace, London.
1980 The Radio Caroline ship, Mi Amigo founders in a gale off the English coast.
1985 Libby Riddles becomes the first woman to win the 1,135-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
1985 Canadian paraplegic athlete and humanitarian Rick Hansen begins his circumnavigation of the globe in a wheelchair in the name of spinal cord injury medical research.
1987 The Food and Drug Administration approves the anti-AIDS drug, AZT.
1988 Eritrean War of Independence: Having defeated the Nadew Command, the Eritrean People's Liberation Front enters the town of Afabet, victoriously concluding the Battle of Afabet.
1990 Ferdinand Marcos's widow, Imelda Marcos, goes on trial for bribery, embezzlement, and racketeering.
1993 An IRA bomb explodes, killing two children in Warrington, Northwest England.
1995 A sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway kills 12 and wounds 1,300 persons.
1999 Legoland California, the only Legoland outside of Europe, opens in Carlsbad, California.
2000 Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, a former Black Panther once known as H. Rap Brown, is captured after murdering Georgia sheriff's deputy Ricky Kinchen and critically wounding Deputy Aldranon English.
2003 2003 invasion of Iraq: In the early hours of the morning, the United States and three other countries begin military operations in Iraq.
2006 Over 150 Chadian soldiers are killed in eastern Chad by members of the rebel UFDC. The rebel movement sought to overthrow Chadian president Idriss Deby.
2012 A Tornado, generally rare in Australia, forms over Magnetic Island and hits Townsville, Queensland with wind gusts of up to 180km/hr.
End of C/P.