Events
1648 -
Eighty Years' War: The
Treaty of Münster signed, ending the conflict between the
Netherlands and
Spain.1649 - King
Charles I of England is beheaded.1661 -
Oliver Cromwell,
Lord Protector of the
Commonwealth of England is formally executed - after having been dead for two years.
1790 - The first boat specialized as a
lifeboat is tested on the
River Tyne.
1806 - The original
Lower Trenton Bridge (also called the Trenton Makes the World Takes Bridge), which spans the
Delaware River between
Morrisville, Pennsylvania and
Trenton, New Jersey, is opened.
1820 -
Edward Bransfield lands on the
Antarctic mainland.
1826 - The
Menai Suspension Bridge connecting the
Isle of Anglesey to the north West coast of
Wales was opened. The bridge was not the first suspension bridge, but was so much larger than anything previously built that it is considered the world's first modern suspension bridge.
1835 - In the first assassination attempt against a President, a mentally ill man named
Richard Lawrence attempts to
assassinate President Andrew Jackson in the
United States Capitol. Both of Lawrence's pistols misfire, and Jackson proceeds to beat his would-be assassin with his cane.
1841 - A fire destroys two-thirds of the then villa (now city) of
Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
1847 - Yerba Buena,
California is renamed
San Francisco.
1862 - The first
American ironclad warship, the
USS Monitor is launched.
1882 -
Franklin Delano Roosevelt,32nd
President Of The
United States,is born.
1889 -
Archduke Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, heir to the
Austro-Hungarian crown, was found dead with his mistress
Baroness Mary Vetsera in
Mayerling .
1900 -
United Kingdom forces fighting
Boers in
South Africa ask for reinforcements.
1911 - The destroyer
USS Terry makes the first
airplane rescue at sea saving the life of James McCurdy 10 miles from
Havana,
Cuba.1911 - The Canadian Naval Service becomes the
Royal Canadian Navy.
1913 -
House of Lords rejects
Irish Home Rule Bill.
1925 - Government of
Turkey throws
Patriarch Constantine VI out of
Istanbul.
1930 - the world's first
radiosonde is launched in
Pavlovsk,
USSR1933 -
Adolf Hitler is sworn in as
Chancellor of Germany.
1943 -
World War II: Second day of the
Battle of Rennell Island. U.S. cruiser Chicago is sunk and a U.S. destroyer is heavily damaged by Japanese torpedo bombers.1943 -
Holocaust in
Letychiv,
Ukraine:
German Gestapo commence mass shootings of Jews from
Letychiv Ghetto. 200 surviving
Jews from
Letychiv slave labor camp were ordered to undress and were shot with
machine-gun into a ravine. Some 7.000
Jews were murdered in
Letychiv.
1944 - World War II:
United States troops land on
Majuro.
1945 - The
Wilhelm Gustloff, overfilled with refugees, sinks in the
Baltic Sea after being torpedoed by a Soviet submarine, leading to the deadliest maritime disaster in known history, killing roughly 9,000 people.
1945 - World War II: 126 American Rangers and Filipino resistance liberate 500 prisoners from the Cabanatuan POW camp.
1945 - World War II: Hitler gives his last ever public address; the Radio address on the 12th anniversary of coming to power. (A subsequent address on
24 February was not read by Hitler.)
1948 -
Indian pacifist and leader
Mohandas Gandhi is assassinated by
Nathuram Godse, a
Hindu extremist.
1962 - Two of the high-wire
Flying Wallendas are killed when their famous seven-person pyramid collapses during a performance in
Detroit, Michigan.
1964 -
Ranger program:
Ranger 6 launched.
1968 -
Vietnam War: The
Tet Offensive begins when
Viet Cong forces launch a series of surprise attacks in
South Vietnam. Although an overall defeat for the Viet Cong, media coverage of the offensive would turn American public opinion against the war.
1969 -
The Beatles' last public performance, on the roof of
Apple Records in
London. The impromptu concert is broken up by the police.
1972 -
Bloody Sunday:
United Kingdom British Paratroopers kill fourteen
Roman Catholic civil rights /anti internment marchers in
Northern Ireland.1972 -
Pakistan withdraws from the
Commonwealth of Nations.
1975 - First
faroese stamp issued.
1979 -
Varig 707-323C freighter, flown by the same commander of
Flight 820, disappears over the ocean 30 minutes after taking off from
Tokyo.
1982 - Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program called "Elk Cloner."
1989 - The American
embassy in
Kabul,
Afghanistan closes.
1994 -
Péter Lékó becomes the youngest grand master in
chess.
1995 - Workers from the
National Institutes of Health announce the success of clinical trials testing the first preventive treatment for
sickle-cell disease.
1996 - Suspected leader of the
Irish National Liberation Army Gino Gallagher is killed while in line for his unemployment benefit.1996 -
Comet Hyakutake is discovered by Japanese amateur astronomer
Yuji Hyakutake.
2000 - Off the coast of
Ivory Coast,
Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes into the
Atlantic Ocean, killing 169.
2003 -
Belgium legally recognizes
same-sex marriage.
2007 -
Microsoft releases its next
operating system,
Windows Vista, and
Microsoft Office 2007.
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