Events1355 - The
St. Scholastica's Day riot breaks out in
Oxford,
England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days.1542 - Queen
Catherine Howard of
England is confined in the
Tower of London to be
executed three days later for treason (
adultery).1567 - An explosion destroys the
Kirk o' Field house in
Edinburgh,
Scotland. The second husband of
Mary Queen of Scots,
Lord Darnley is found strangled, in what many believe to be an
assassination.
1763 -
French and Indian War: The
1763 Treaty of Paris ends the war and
France cedes
Quebec to
Great Britain.
1798 -
Louis Alexandre Berthier invaded
Rome, on
February 15 proclaimed a
Roman Republic and then on
February 20 take
Pope Pius VI as a prisoner.
1814 -
Napoleonic Wars:
Battle of Champaubert1840 - Queen
Victoria of the United Kingdom marries
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
1846 -
First Anglo-Sikh War:
Battle of Sobraon - British defeat Sikhs in final battle of the war
1863 - The world-famous dwarfs
General Tom Thumb and
Lavinia Warren get married in
New York City.
1870 - The
YWCA is founded (
New York City).
1897 - Freedom of religion in
Madagascar1920 -
Jozef Haller de Hallenburg performs
symbolic wedding of Poland to the sea, celebrating restitution of
Polish access to open sea.
1923-
Texas Tech University was founded as Texas Technilogical College in
Lubbock, TX.
1929 - Msgr.
Stephen Alencastre,
SS.CC., dedicates the beautiful
Romanesque church of
Saint Patrick in
Honolulu.
1931 -
New Delhi becomes the capital of
India.
1933 - The
New York City-based Postal Telegraph Company introduces the first
singing telegram. 1933 - In round 13 of a
boxing match at
New York City's
Madison Square Garden,
Primo Carnera knocks out
Ernie Schaaf, killing him.
1940 - The first
Tom and Jerry cartoon "
Puss Gets the Boot" premiers.
1947 -
Italy cedes most of
Venezia Giulia to
Yugoslavia.
1949 -
Arthur Miller's play
Death of a Salesman premiered in New York City.
1954 -
President Dwight Eisenhower warns against
United States intervention in
Vietnam.
1962 - Captured
American spy pilot
Francis Gary Powers is exchanged for captured
Soviet spy
Rudolf Abel.
1964 - The aircraft carrier
HMAS Melbourne collides with the destroyer
HMAS Voyager off the south coast of
New South Wales,
Australia.
1967 - The
25th Amendment to the United States Constitution ratified.
1981 - A fire at the
Las Vegas Hilton hotel-
casino kills eight and injures 198.
1989 -
Ron Brown is elected chairman of the
Democratic National Committee becoming the first
African American to lead a major
American political party.
1996 - The
IBM supercomputer
Deep Blue defeats
Garry Kasparov for the first time.
1998 - A
college dropout becomes the first person to be convicted of a
hate crime committed in
cyberspace. 1998 - Voters in
Maine repeal a
gay rights law passed in
1997 becoming the first
U.S. state to abandon that law.
2003 -
France and
Belgium break the
NATO procedure of silent approval concerning the timing of protective measures for
Turkey in case of a possible war with
Iraq.
2005 -
FBI invades the houses of pro-independence members in
Puerto Rico and attacks media members reporting the event.
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