Events 314 -
Pope Miltiades ends his reign as the Pope of Roman Catholicism by dying in power.1158 -
Vladislav II becomes King of
Bohemia.1569 - First recorded
lottery in
England.1571 - Austrian nobility is granted
freedom of religion.
1693 - Mt.
Etna erupts in
Sicily,
Italy.
1759 - In
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the first American
life insurance company is incorporated.
1779 -
Ching-Thang Khomba crowned
King of
Manipur1787 -
William Herschel discovers Titania and
Oberon, two
moons of
Uranus.
1794 - Robert Forsythe, a
US Marshal was killed in
Augusta,
Georgia when trying to serve court papers, the first
US Marshal to die in action.
1805 -
Michigan Territory is created.
1861 -
Alabama secedes from the
United States.
1863 -
American Civil War:
Battle of Arkansas Post - General
John McClernand and Admiral
David Dixon Porter capture the
Arkansas River for the
Union.
1867 -
Benito Juárez becomes
Mexican president again.
1879 -
Anglo-Zulu War begins.
1880 - Total
solar eclipse blackens the sky of
San Francisco one day after the funeral of
Emperor Norton.
1902 -
Popular Mechanics magazine was published for the first time.
1908 -
Grand Canyon National Monument is created.
1912 -
Lawrence textile strike begins in
Lawrence,
Massachusetts.
1917 -
Kingsland Explosion Sabotage of munitions factory.
1919 -
Romania annexes
Transylvania.
1922 - First use of
insulin to treat
diabetes in a human patient.
1923 - Troops from
France and
Belgium occupy the
Ruhr area to force
Germany to pay its reparation payments.
1935 -
Amelia Earhart is the first woman to fly solo from
Hawaii to
California.
1942 -
Japan declares war on the
Netherlands and invades the
Netherlands East Indies.1942 - The
Japanese capture
Kuala Lumpur.
1943 - The
United States and
United Kingdom give up territorial rights in
China.
1946 -
Enver Hoxha declares the
People's Republic of
Albania with himself as dictator.
1949 - First recorded case of
snowfall in
Los Angeles, California.
1957 - The
African Convention is founded in
Dakar. And, Mass-Murder
Jack Gilbert Graham Was executied via the
Gas Chamber.
1962 - Eruption of the
Huascaran volcano in
Peru; 4,000 deaths.
1963 -
Please Please Me is released in the
United Kingdom by
The Beatles, with
Ask Me Why as the
B-side. It would be the first Beatles'
single to reach #1 (on most
record charts) in the UK.1963 - The
Whisky a Go Go night club in Los Angeles, the first
disco in the USA, is opened.
1964 -
United States Surgeon General Dr.
Luther Leonidas Terry, M.D., publishes a report saying that smoking may be hazardous to health. It is the first such statement ever made by the U.S. government.
1972 -
East Pakistan renames itself
Bangladesh.
1973 -
The Open University, Britain's distance-learning university, awards its first degrees.
1974 - The world's first surviving set of
sextuplets are born to Susan Rosenkowitz in
Cape Town,
South Africa.
1980 -
Nigel Short, 14, is the youngest
chess player to be awarded the degree of
International Master.
1982 - A cold snap sends temperatures to record lows in dozens of
cities throughout the
Midwestern United States.
1986 - The
Gateway Bridge, Brisbane in
Queensland,
Australia is officially opened.
1990 - 300,000 march in favor of
Lithuanian independence.
1993 - Launch episode of
WWE Raw which is still running
1994 -
Irish Government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the
IRA and its political arm
Sinn Féin 1996 -
Haiti becomes a member of the
Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1998 -
Sidi-Hamed massacre in
Algeria; over 100 people killed.
2001 - The
Federal Trade Commission approves the
merger of
AOL and
Time Warner to form AOL Time Warner.
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