Events
46 BC -
Julius Caesar defeats the combined army of
Pompeian followers and
Numidians under
Metellus Scipio and
Juba at
Thapsus.337 -
Julius I is elected
pope.
1685 -
James II of England and VII of Scotland becomes
King upon the death of his brother
Charles II.
1778 -
American Revolutionary War: In
Paris the
Treaty of Alliance and the
Treaty of Amity and Commerce are signed by the
United States and
France signaling official recognition of the new republic.
1788 -
Massachusetts becomes the sixth state to ratify the
United States Constitution.
1815 -
New Jersey grants the first
American railroad charter to a
John Stevens.
1817 - The
Argentinian San Martín crosses the Andes with an army in order to liberate
Chile from Spanish rule.
1819 - Sir
Thomas Stamford Raffles founds
Singapore.
1820 - The first 86
African American immigrants sponsored by the
American Colonization Society started a
settlement in present-day
Liberia.
1840 - Signing of the
Treaty of Waitangi, founding document of
New Zealand.
1843 - The first
minstrel show in the
United States The
Virginia Minstrels opens (
Bowery Amphitheatre in
New York City).
1862 -
American Civil War:
Ulysses S. Grant gives the
United States its first victory of the war, by capturing
Fort Henry, Tennessee, known as the
Battle of Fort Henry.
1899 -
Spanish-American War: The
Treaty of Paris (1898), a
peace treaty between the
United States and
Spain is ratified by the
United States Senate.
1900 - The international arbitration court at
The Hague is created when the
Netherlands'
Senate ratifies an
1899 peace conference decree.
1922 -
Achille Ratti becomes
Pope Pius XI.1922 - The
Washington Naval Treaty was signed in
Washington, DC, limiting the
naval armaments of
United States,
Britain,
Japan,
France, and
Italy.
1933 - The
20th Amendment to the United States Constitution goes into effect.
1934 -
February 6, 1934 political crisis in France. The
far right leagues rally in front of the
Palais Bourbon, an attempted
coup against the
Third Republic.
1936 -
Olympic Games:
Winter Olympic Games -
IV Olympic Winter Games open in
Garmisch-Partenkirchen,
Germany.
1951 - The Broker, a
Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train derails near
Woodbridge Township, New Jersey. The accident kills 85 people and injures over 500 more. The wreck is one of the worst rail disasters in American history.
1952 -
Elizabeth II becomes
Queen upon the death of her father
George VI. At the exact moment of
succession, she was in a
treehouse at the
Treetops Hotel in
Kenya.
1952 -
Elizabeth II is proclaimed Queen of Canada at
Rideau Hall,
Ottawa,
Ontario.
1958 -
Bobby Charlton survived the
Munich air disaster in
Germany, which killed eight of his teammates with
Manchester United F.C..
1959 -
Jack Kilby of
Texas Instruments filed the first
patent for an
integrated circuit.1959 - At
Cape Canaveral,
Florida, the first successful test firing of a
Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished.
1971 -
Apollo program:
Apollo 14 Mission -
Alan Shepard becomes the first person to hit a golf ball on the Moon.
1978 - The
Blizzard of 1978, one of the worst
Nor'easters in
New England history, hit the region, with sustained winds of 65 mph and snowfall of 4" an hour.
1992 - The
Saami people of the
Nordic countries have an official day celebrating their existence.
1996 - A Birgen Air
Boeing 757 crashes into the
Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of
Dominican Republic killing 189.
1998 -
Washington National Airport is renamed
Ronald Reagan National Airport.
1998 - In
Corsica, the prefect
Claude Erignac is assasinated in
Ajaccio, presumably by
Yvan Colonna.
2004 - In
Russia, a suicide-attack in a
Moscow metro kills 40 commuters, and injures a hundred and twenty-nine. The blast is blamed on
Chechen separatist groups.
2006 - The
Conservative Party of Canada becomes a minority
government in Canada's Parliament, replacing the
Liberals after 13 years in power.
Stephen Harper becomes the 22nd
Prime Minister of Canada.
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