Events672 - Death of
Saint Chad, whose feast day this is.962 -
Translatio imperii:
Pope John XII crowns
Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, the first
Holy Roman Emperor in nearly 40 years.
1032 -
Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor becomes King of
Burgundy.1119 -
Callixtus II becomes
Pope.1509 - Battle of Diu takes place near
Diu,
India, between
Portugal and
Turkey.1536 -
Spaniard Pedro de Mendoza founds
Buenos Aires,
Argentina. 1542 -
Portuguese under
Christovão da Gama capture a
Moslem-occupied hillfort in northern
Ethiopia in the
Battle of Baçente.1653 -
New Amsterdam (later renamed
New York City) is incorporated.
1709 -
Alexander Selkirk is rescued from shipwreck on a desert island, inspiring the book
Robinson Crusoe by
Daniel Defoe.
1790 - The
U.S. Supreme Court convenes for the first time after an unsuccessful attempt on
February 1.
1812 -
Russia establishes a fur trading colony at
Fort Ross, along the
California coast.
1848 -
Mexican-American War: The
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed ending the war.1848 -
California Gold Rush: The first ship with
Chinese emigrants seeking fortune in
California's gold country arrive in
San Francisco.
1876 - The
National League of Professional Baseball Clubs of
Major League Baseball is formed.
1878 -
Greece declares war on
Turkey.
1880 - The first electric
streetlight is installed in
Wabash, Indiana.
1882 - The
Knights of Columbus are formed in
New Haven, Connecticut.
1887 - In
Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania the first
Groundhog Day is observed.
1899 - The
Australian Premiers' Conference held in
Melbourne decides to locate
Australia's capital (
Canberra) between
Sydney and
Melbourne.
1901 - The Funeral of
Queen Victoria.
1920 -
Tartu Peace Treaty signed between
Estonia and
Russia.1920 -
France occupies
Memel.
1925 -
Serum run to Nome:
Dog sleds reach
Nome, Alaska with
diphtheria serum, inspiring the
Iditarod race.
1933 -
Adolf Hitler dissolves the
German Parliament.
1935 - The
polygraph machine is tested for the first time.
Leonard Keeler conducts the experiment in
Portage, Wisconsin.
1940 -
Frank Sinatra debuts with the
Tommy Dorsey orchestra.
1943 -
World War II: The last
German forces surrender to the
Soviets after the
Battle of Stalingrad.
1945 - World War II:
President Franklin D. Roosevelt and
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill leave to meet with
Soviet leader
Joseph Stalin at the
Yalta Conference.
1952 - A
tropical storm forms north of
Cuba and moves northeast making landfall in
Florida. It is the earliest reported formation of a tropical storm on record in the
Atlantic basin.
1957 - President
Iskander Mirza of
Pakistan lays the foundation-stone of the
Guddu Barrage across river
Indus near
Sukkur.
1966 -
Pakistan suggests a six-point agenda with
Kashmir dispute as number one item for the proposed Indo-Pak ministerial talks after
1965 war.
1967 - The
American Basketball Association is formed.
1971 - After a coup in
Uganda,
Idi Amin replaces
President Milton Obote as leader.
1972 - The
British embassy in
Dublin is destroyed in protest over
Bloody Sunday.
1974 - The
F-16 Fighting Falcon flies for the first time.
1976 -
Groundhog Day gale of 1976 hits the north-eastern
United States and south-eastern
Canada.
1980 -
Abscam: Reports surface that
FBI personnel were targeting members of the
U.S. Congress in a
sting operation. 1980 - Founding congress of the
Revolutionary Communist Party of Turkey.
1982 -
Hama Massacre: The government of
Syria attacks the town of
Hama and kills thousands of people.
1989 -
Soviet war in Afghanistan: The last
Soviet Union armored column leaves
Kabul, ending nine years of military occupation.1989 - Satellite television service
Sky Television plc launched in the Europe.
1990 -
Apartheid: In
South Africa President F.W. de Klerk allows the
African National Congress to legally function again and promises to set
Nelson Mandela free.
1998 - A
Cebu Pacific Air DC-9-32 crashes into a mountain near
Cagayan de Oro,
Philippines, killing 104.
2002 - Wedding of Crown Prince
Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands to the Argentinean born
Máxima Zorreguieta in Amsterdam.2002 - Foundation of
Eurodoc, the European Council for Doctoral Candidates and Junior Researchers, in
Girona (Spain).
2006 - An aging
Egyptian passenger ferry carrying more than 1,400 people sinks in the
Red Sea off the Saudi coast.
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