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Events:C/P.
717 Battle of Vincy between Charles Martel and Ragenfrid.
1152 Annulment of the marriage of King Louis VII of France and Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine.
1188 Emperor Antoku accedes to the throne of Japan.
1413 Henry V becomes King of England.
1556 In Oxford, Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer is burned at the stake.
1788 A fire in New Orleans leaves most of the town in ruins.
1800 With the church leadership driven out of Rome during an armed conflict, Pius VII is crowned Pope in Venice with a temporary papal tiara made of papier-mβchι.
1801 The Battle of Alexandria is fought between British and French forces near the ruins of Nicopolis in Egypt.
1804 Code Napolιon is adopted as French civil law.
1814 Napoleonic Wars: Austrian forces repel French troops in the Battle of Arcis-sur-Aube.
1821 Greek War of Independence: First revolutionary act in the monastery of Agia Lavra, Kalavryta.
1844 The Bahα'ν calendar begins. This is the first day of the first year of the Bahα'ν calendar. It is annually celebrated by members of the Bahα'ν Faith as the Bahα'ν New Year or Nαw-Rϊz.
1857 An earthquake in Tokyo, Japan kills over 100,000.
1871 Otto von Bismarck is appointed Chancellor of the German Empire.
1871 Journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his trek to find the missionary and explorer David Livingstone.
1913 Over 360 are killed and 20,000 homes destroyed in the Great Dayton Flood in Dayton, Ohio.
1918 World War I: The first phase of the German Spring Offensive, Operation Michael, begins.
1919 The Hungarian Soviet Republic is established becoming the first Communist government to be formed in Europe after the October Revolution in Russia.
1921 The New Economic Policy is implemented by the Bolshevik Party in response to the economic failure as a result of War Communism.
1925 Syngman Rhee is removed from office after being impeached as the President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea.
1928 Charles Lindbergh is presented with the Medal of Honor for the first solo trans-Atlantic flight.
1933 Construction of Dachau, the first Nazi concentration camp, is completed.
1935 Shah Reza Pahlavi formally asks the international community to call Persia by its native name, Iran, which means 'Land of the Aryans.'
1937 Ponce Massacre: 18 people and a 7-year-old girl in Ponce, Puerto Rico, are gunned down by a police squad acting under orders of US-appointed Governor, Blanton C. Winship.
1943 Wehrmacht officer Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff plots to assassinate Adolf Hitler by using a suicide bomb, but the plan falls through. Von Gersdorff is able to defuse the bomb in time and avoid suspicion.
1945 World War II: British troops liberate Mandalay, Burma.
1945 World War II: Operation Carthage British planes bomb Gestapo headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark. They also hit a school and 125 civilians are killed.
1945 World War II: Bulgaria and the Soviet Union successfully complete their defense of the north bank of the Drava River as the Battle of Drava concludes.
1946 The Los Angeles Rams sign Kenny Washington, making him the first African American player in the American football since 1933.
1952 Alan Freed presents the Moondog Coronation Ball, the first rock and roll concert, in Cleveland, Ohio.
1960 Apartheid: Massacre in Sharpeville, South Africa: Police open fire on a group of unarmed black South African demonstrators, killing 69 and wounding 180.
1963 Alcatraz, a federal penitentiary on an island in San Francisco Bay, closes.
1964 In Copenhagen, Denmark, Gigliola Cinquetti wins the ninth Eurovision Song Contest for Italy singing "Non ho l'etΰ" ("I'm not old enough").
1965 Ranger program: NASA launches Ranger 9 which is the last in a series of unmanned lunar space probes.
1965 Martin Luther King, Jr. leads 3,200 people on the start of the third and finally successful civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
1968 Battle of Karameh in Jordan between Israeli Defense Forces and Fatah.
1970 The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by Mayor of San Francisco Joseph Alioto.
1980 US President Jimmy Carter announces a United States boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow to protest the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan.
1980 On the season finale of the soap opera Dallas, the infamous character J.R. Ewing is shot by an unseen assailant, leading to the catchphrase "Who shot J.R.?"
1989 Sports Illustrated reports allegations tying baseball player Pete Rose to baseball gambling.
1990 Namibia becomes independent after 75 years of South African rule.
1994 The last episode of the Australian TV series Mother and Son was broadcast.
1999 Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon.
2006 Immigrant workers constructing the Burj Khalifa and a new terminal of Dubai International Airport riot causing $1M in damage.
End of C/P.
Events:C/P.
717 Battle of Vincy between Charles Martel and Ragenfrid.
1152 Annulment of the marriage of King Louis VII of France and Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine.
1188 Emperor Antoku accedes to the throne of Japan.
1413 Henry V becomes King of England.
1556 In Oxford, Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer is burned at the stake.
1788 A fire in New Orleans leaves most of the town in ruins.
1800 With the church leadership driven out of Rome during an armed conflict, Pius VII is crowned Pope in Venice with a temporary papal tiara made of papier-mβchι.
1801 The Battle of Alexandria is fought between British and French forces near the ruins of Nicopolis in Egypt.
1804 Code Napolιon is adopted as French civil law.
1814 Napoleonic Wars: Austrian forces repel French troops in the Battle of Arcis-sur-Aube.
1821 Greek War of Independence: First revolutionary act in the monastery of Agia Lavra, Kalavryta.
1844 The Bahα'ν calendar begins. This is the first day of the first year of the Bahα'ν calendar. It is annually celebrated by members of the Bahα'ν Faith as the Bahα'ν New Year or Nαw-Rϊz.
1857 An earthquake in Tokyo, Japan kills over 100,000.
1871 Otto von Bismarck is appointed Chancellor of the German Empire.
1871 Journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his trek to find the missionary and explorer David Livingstone.
1913 Over 360 are killed and 20,000 homes destroyed in the Great Dayton Flood in Dayton, Ohio.
1918 World War I: The first phase of the German Spring Offensive, Operation Michael, begins.
1919 The Hungarian Soviet Republic is established becoming the first Communist government to be formed in Europe after the October Revolution in Russia.
1921 The New Economic Policy is implemented by the Bolshevik Party in response to the economic failure as a result of War Communism.
1925 Syngman Rhee is removed from office after being impeached as the President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea.
1928 Charles Lindbergh is presented with the Medal of Honor for the first solo trans-Atlantic flight.
1933 Construction of Dachau, the first Nazi concentration camp, is completed.
1935 Shah Reza Pahlavi formally asks the international community to call Persia by its native name, Iran, which means 'Land of the Aryans.'
1937 Ponce Massacre: 18 people and a 7-year-old girl in Ponce, Puerto Rico, are gunned down by a police squad acting under orders of US-appointed Governor, Blanton C. Winship.
1943 Wehrmacht officer Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff plots to assassinate Adolf Hitler by using a suicide bomb, but the plan falls through. Von Gersdorff is able to defuse the bomb in time and avoid suspicion.
1945 World War II: British troops liberate Mandalay, Burma.
1945 World War II: Operation Carthage British planes bomb Gestapo headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark. They also hit a school and 125 civilians are killed.
1945 World War II: Bulgaria and the Soviet Union successfully complete their defense of the north bank of the Drava River as the Battle of Drava concludes.
1946 The Los Angeles Rams sign Kenny Washington, making him the first African American player in the American football since 1933.
1952 Alan Freed presents the Moondog Coronation Ball, the first rock and roll concert, in Cleveland, Ohio.
1960 Apartheid: Massacre in Sharpeville, South Africa: Police open fire on a group of unarmed black South African demonstrators, killing 69 and wounding 180.
1963 Alcatraz, a federal penitentiary on an island in San Francisco Bay, closes.
1964 In Copenhagen, Denmark, Gigliola Cinquetti wins the ninth Eurovision Song Contest for Italy singing "Non ho l'etΰ" ("I'm not old enough").
1965 Ranger program: NASA launches Ranger 9 which is the last in a series of unmanned lunar space probes.
1965 Martin Luther King, Jr. leads 3,200 people on the start of the third and finally successful civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
1968 Battle of Karameh in Jordan between Israeli Defense Forces and Fatah.
1970 The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by Mayor of San Francisco Joseph Alioto.
1980 US President Jimmy Carter announces a United States boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow to protest the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan.
1980 On the season finale of the soap opera Dallas, the infamous character J.R. Ewing is shot by an unseen assailant, leading to the catchphrase "Who shot J.R.?"
1989 Sports Illustrated reports allegations tying baseball player Pete Rose to baseball gambling.
1990 Namibia becomes independent after 75 years of South African rule.
1994 The last episode of the Australian TV series Mother and Son was broadcast.
1999 Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon.
2006 Immigrant workers constructing the Burj Khalifa and a new terminal of Dubai International Airport riot causing $1M in damage.
End of C/P.