Events 871 - Battle of Ashdown -
Ethelred of Wessex defeats a
Danish invasion army. 1297 -
Monaco gains its independence.1499 -
Louis XII of France marries
Anne of Brittany.
1734 - Premiere of
George Frideric Handel's
Ariodante at the
Royal Opera House,
Covent Garden.
1746 -
Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies
Stirling.
1790 -
George Washington delivers the first
State of the Union Address address in
New York City.
1806 -
Cape Colony becomes a
British colony.
1811 - Unsuccessful slave revolt led by
Charles Deslandes in
St. Charles and
St. James, Louisiana.
1815 -
War of 1812:
Battle of New Orleans -
Andrew Jackson leads
American forces in victory over the
British.
1838 -
Alfred Vail demonstrates a
telegraph using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of
Morse code).
1863 -
American Civil War:
Second Battle of Springfield 1863 -
Yorkshire County Cricket Club is founded at the
Adelphi Hotel in
Sheffield,
England.
1867 -
African American men granted the right to vote in the
District of Columbia.
1877 -
Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle with the
United States Cavalry at
Wolf Mountain (
Montana Territory).
1889 -
Herman Hollerith receives a patent for his electric
tabulating machine.
1900 -
United States President William McKinley places
Alaska under military rule.
1906 - A landslide in
Haverstraw, New York, kills 20 people due to the excavation of clay along the
Hudson River.
1908 - A train collision occurs in the
Park Avenue Tunnel in
New York City killing 17 people, injuring 38 and leading to increased demand for electric trains.
1912 - The
African National Congress was founded.
1916 -
World War I: Allied forces withdraw from
Gallipoli.
1918 -
President Woodrow Wilson announces his "
Fourteen Points" for the aftermath of
World War I.
1920 - The
Czechoslovak Hussite Church was founded by Dr.
Karel Farský.
1922 - The
Social Democratic Youth League of Norway is founded.
1926 -
Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud becomes the King of
Hejaz and renames it
Saudi Arabia.
1935 - Arthur C. Hardy patents the
spectrophotometer.
1940 -
World War II: Britain
introduces food rationing.
1953 -
René Mayer becomes Prime Minister of
France.
1956 -
Operation Auca: Five
U.S. missionaries are killed by the
Huaorani of
Ecuador shortly after making contact with them.
1959 - Conquest of
Cuba by
Fidel Castro is completed with the conquest of
Santiago de Cuba.
1961 - In
France, a
referendum supports
Charles de Gaulle's policies in
Algeria.
1962 -
Leonardo da Vinci's
Mona Lisa is exhibited in the
United States for the first time (
National Gallery of Art in
Washington, D.C.).1962 -
Harmelen train disaster kills 93 people in
The Netherlands.
1964 - President
Lyndon B. Johnson declares a "
War on Poverty" in the
United States.
1973 - Soviet space mission
Luna 21 is launched.1973 -
Watergate scandal: The trial of seven men accused of illegal entry into
Democratic Party headquarters at
Watergate begins.
1975 -
Ella Grasso becomes
Governor of Connecticut, becoming the first woman to serve as a Governor in the
United States who did not succeed her husband.
1979 - The tanker Betelgeuse explodes in
Bantry Bay,
Ireland (
The Betelgeuse incident).
1982 -
AT&T agrees to
divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions.
1989 -
Kegworth air disaster kills 47 people in
Leicestershire,
England.1989 - Beginning of Japanese
Heisei era.
1994 -
Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov on
Soyuz TM-18 leaves for
Mir. He will stay on the
space station until
March 22,
1995, for a record 437 days in space.
1996 - An
Antonov 32 cargo turboprop powered plane crashes into the central market in
Kinshasa,
Zaire killing more than 350 people.
2002 -
United States President George W. Bush signs into law the controversial
No Child Left Behind Act.
2004 -
RMS Queen Mary 2, the largest
passenger ship ever built, was christened by her namesake's granddaughter,
Queen Elizabeth II.
2006 - A magnitude 6.9
earthquake epicentered just off the Greek island of
Kythira hits much of the country and is felt throughout the entire eastern
Mediterranean Sea.2006 - Exercise Northstar V, a large scale civil defence exercise, is held in Singapore and contains 4 MRT Stations and
Toa Payoh Bus Interchange.
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