Events1481 - Battle of Westbroek -
Holland defeats troops of
Utrecht.
1606 - First Performance of
William Shakespeare's
King Lear1620 -
Elizabeth Báthory's crimes are uncovered.1620 -
Pilgrim Fathers land at what becomes
New Plymouth in
Massachusetts.
1776 -
American Revolutionary War: The British are defeated in the
Battle of Trenton.
1790 -
Louis XVI of France gives his public assent to
Civil Constitution of the Clergy during the
French Revolution.
1792 - The final trial of
Louis XVI of France begins in
Paris.
1793 -
Battle of Geisberg:
French defeat
Austrians.1793 - The wedding of Prince
Friedrich Ludwig of Prussia and
Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz takes place.
1805 -
Austria and
France signed the
Treaty of Pressburg.
1806 - Battles of
Pultusk and
Golymin:
Russian forces hold
French forces under
Napoleon.
1811 - A theater fire in
Richmond, Virginia kills the
Governor of Virginia George William Smith and the president of the First National Bank of Virginia
Abraham B. Venable.
1825 - Several
Imperial Russia army officers lead circa 3000
soldiers on the Senate Square in the failed
Decembrist uprising.1825 - The
Erie Canal opens.
1848 - The
Phi Delta Theta fraternity is founded.
1860 - The first ever inter-club
football match takes place between
Hallam F.C. and
Sheffield F.C. at the
Sandygate Road ground in
Sheffield,
England.
1861 -
American Civil War:
Confederate diplomatic envoys
James M. Mason and
John Slidell are freed by the
United States government, thus heading off a possible war between the United States and
Britain.
1862 -
American Civil War: The
Battle of Chickasaw Bayou begins.1862 - Four nuns who were volunteer
nurses on board
USS Red Rover were the first female nurses on a
U.S. Navy hospital ship.1862 - The largest mass-hanging in US history took place in
Mankato, Minnesota, killing 39.
1870 - The 12.8-km long
Fréjus Rail Tunnel through the Alps is completed.
1898 -
Marie and
Pierre Curie announce the isolation of
radium.
1906 -
The Story of the Kelly Gang is released, widely considered to be the world's first
feature film.
1908 -
Jack Johnson becomes the first
African American heavyweight boxing champion by defeating
Tommy Burns in
Sydney,
Australia.
1916 -
Joseph Joffre is made
Marshal of France.
1919 -
Babe Ruth sold to the
Yankees.
1925 - The
Communist Party of India is founded.1925 -
Turkey adopts the
Gregorian Calendar.
1931 -
Phi Iota Alpha, the oldest existing
Latino fraternity is founded.
1933 - The
Nissan Motor Company is organized in
Tokyo,
Japan.1933 -
FM radio is patented.
1943 -
World War II: The German warship
Scharnhorst sinks off the coast of North Cape in
Norway after being attacked by the
Royal Navy late the previous evening.
1944 - The play
The Glass Menagerie by
Tennessee Williams is first publicly performed.1944 -
World War II:
U.S. troops repulse
German forces at
Bastogne.
1945 -
CFP franc and
CFA franc are created.
1946 - The
Flamingo Hotel opens in
Las Vegas.
1947 - Twenty-six inches of
snow falls in 16 hours in
New York City.
1948 -
Cardinal Mindszenty is arrested in
Hungary and accused of treason and conspiracy.
1966 - The first
Kwanzaa is celebrated by
Maulana Karenga, the chair of
Black Studies at
California State University, Long Beach.
1973 -
Comet Kohoutek reaches
perihelion but is not such a display as expected.1973 -
Soyuz 13 lands on
earth after a week in orbit.
1974 -
Salyut 4 is launched.
1975 - The
Tupolev Tu-144 goes into service in
Soviet Union.
1976 - The
Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist-Leninist) is founded.
1979 -
Soviet Special forces troops take over presidential palace in
Kabul,
Afghanistan.1979 - Opening night of the
Concerts for the People of Kampuchea at the
Hammersmith Odeon; a benefit concert for the citizens of
Cambodia who were victims of dictator
Pol Pot1980 -
Aeroflot puts the
Ilyushin Il-86 into service.
1982 -
TIME magazine's
Man of the Year was for the first time given to a non-human, the
personal computer.
1986 - The first long-running American television
soap opera,
Search for Tomorrow, airs its final episode after thirty-five years on the air.
1988 - The
Nanjing Anti-African protests in
Nanjing, the
People's Republic of China begin.
1991 -
Supreme Soviet meets and formally dissolves the
USSR.
1996 - Start of the
largest strike in
South Korean history.1996 - The
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification goes into force.
1997 - The Soufriere Hills volcano on the island of
Montserrat explodes, creating a small
tsunami offshore.
1998 -
Iraq announced its intention to fire upon
U.S. and
British warplanes that patrol the northern and southern
no-fly zones.1998 - Severe gales over
Ireland, northern
England, and southern
Scotland cause widespread disruption and widespread power outages in
Northern Ireland and southern
Scotland.
1999 - Severe weather in
France kills over 100 people and causes extensive damage to property and trees and the French national power grid (see
Lothar).
2002 - French
Raelian scientist Brigitte Boisselier says
Clonaid has delivered the first of a supposed five
clone babies through
cesarean section.
2003 - A strong magnitude 6.6
earthquake devastates southeast
Iranian city of
Bam, killing tens of thousands and destroying the citadel of
Arg-é Bam.
2004 - An
earthquake measuring 9.3 on the
Richter magnitude scale creates a
tsunami causing devastation in
Sri Lanka,
India,
Indonesia,
Thailand,
Malaysia, The
Maldives and many other areas around the rim of the
Indian Ocean, killing more than 200,000.
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