Events
1295 BCE - The coronation of
Ramses II, on whose face the sun's rays fall each year in
Abu Simbel temple.1281 -
Martin IV becomes
Pope.1288 -
Nicholas IV becomes
Pope.1495 - King
Charles VIII of France enters
Naples to claim the city's throne.
1632 -
Galileo's
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is published.
1744 -
War of the Austrian Succession: The
Battle of Toulon begins.
1819 - By the
Adams-Onís Treaty,
Spain sells
Florida to the
United States for five million
U.S. dollars.
1847 -
Mexican-American War: The
Battle of Buena Vista - 5,000
American troops drive off 15,000
Mexican.
1853 - The
Washington University is founded in
St. Louis as Eliot Seminary.
1855 - The
Pennsylvania State University is founded.
1856 - The
Republican Party opens its first national meeting in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1865 -
Tennessee adopts a new
constitution that abolishes
slavery.
1876 -
Johns Hopkins University is founded in
Baltimore, Maryland.
1879 - In
Utica, New York,
Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of 5 and 10-cent
Woolworth stores.
1882 -
Serbian kingdom refounded.
1889 -
President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting
North Dakota,
South Dakota,
Montana and
Washington as
U.S. states.
1904 -
UK recognises the
South Orkney Islands as part of
Argentina, in
1908 claims them again.
1915 -
World War I:
Germany institutes
unrestricted submarine warfare.
1920 - In Emeryville, new york, the first
dog race track to employ an imitation
rabbit opens.
1923 - The
United States begins the first transcontinental
air mail route.
1924 -
Calvin Coolidge becomes the first
President of the United States to deliver a
radio broadcast from the
White House.
1942 -
World War II:
President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders
General Douglas MacArthur out of the
Philippines as
American defense collapses.
1943 - Members of
White Rose are executed in
Nazi Germany.
1944 - American aircraft bombard the Dutch towns of
Nijmegen,
Arnhem,
Enschede and
Deventer by mistake, resulting in 800 dead in
Nijmegen alone.
1948 - Communist coup in
Czechoslovakia1958 -
Egypt and
Syria join to form the
United Arab Republic.
1959 -
Lee Petty wins the first
Daytona 500.
1969 - The last time all four
Beatles were together for a recording session.
1973 -
Cold War: Following
United States President Richard Nixon's
visit to the
People's Republic of China, the two countries agree to establish liaison offices.
1974 -
Organization of the Islamic Conference (
OIC) summit conference starts in
Lahore, Pakistan. Thirty-seven countries are attending. Twenty-two heads of state and government participate. 1974 -
Samuel Byck tries and fails to assassinate
U.S. President Richard Nixon.
1979 - Independence of
Saint Lucia from the
United Kingdom.
1980 - The
United States ice hockey team defeats the
Soviet Union team at the
1980 Winter Olympic Games in an upset dubbed the "
Miracle on Ice".
1986 - Start of the
1986 EDSA Revolution in the
Philippines.
1994 -
Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged by the
United States Department of Justice with spying for the
Soviet Union.
1997 - In
Roslin,
Scotland, scientists announce that an adult
sheep named
Dolly had been successfully
cloned.
2002 -
Angolan political and rebel leader
Jonas Savimbi is killed in a military ambush.2002 - A
MH-47E Chinook helicopter crashes into the ocean near the
Philippines, killing all 10 aboard.
2006 - At least six men stage
Britain's
biggest robbery ever, stealing £53m (about $92.5 million or €78 million) from a Securitas depot in
Tonbridge,
Kent.
2007 -
Norwegian cross country skiers Jens Arne Svartedal and
Astrid Jacobsen become the first ever gold medalists of an indoor and a nighttime
nordic skiing event at a
World Championship or
Winter Olympic level by winning their respective men's and women's individual sprint finals in
Sapporo,
Japan.
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