Events
904 -
Sergius III comes out of retirement to take over the
papacy from the deposed
antipope Christopher.1595 -
William Shakespeare's play
Romeo and Juliet is probably first performed.1676 -
Feodor III becomes
Tsar of
Russia.
1814 -
France defeats
Russia and
Prussia in the
Battle of Brienne.
1834 - US President
Andrew Jackson orders first use of federal soldiers to suppress a
labor dispute.
1845 - "
The Raven" by
Edgar Allan Poe is published in the
New York Evening Mirror.
1850 -
Henry Clay introduces the
Compromise of 1850 to the
U.S. Congress.
1856 - Queen
Victoria institutes the
Victoria Cross.
1861 -
Kansas admitted as the 34th
U.S. state.
1863 -
Bear River Massacre.
1886 -
Karl Benz patents the first successful
gasoline-driven
automobile.
1891 -
Liliuokalani is proclaimed Queen of
Hawaii, its last monarch.
1900 - The
American League is organized in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with 8 founding teams.
1916 -
World War I:
Paris is first bombed by
German zeppelins.
1929 -
The Seeing Eye guide dog organization in the
United States, is formed.
1936 -
The first inductees into the
Baseball Hall of Fame are announced.
1943 - The first day of the
Battle of Rennell Island, U.S. cruiser Chicago is torpedoed and heavily damaged by Japanese bombers.
1944 -
USS Missouri the last battleship commissioned by the
US Navy is launched.1944 -
World War II: The
Battle of Cisterna takes place in central
Italy.1944 - World War II: About 38 men, women, and children die in the
Koniuchy massacre in
Poland.
1958 - Police capture
Charles Starkweather in
Wyoming.
1959 -
Sleeping Beauty, an animated feature produced by
Walt Disney based upon a
fairy tale, is released.
1963 -
First inductees into the
Pro Football Hall of Fame are announced.
1964 -
Olympic Games:
Winter Olympic Games -
The IX Olympic Winter Games open in
Innsbruck,
Austria.1964 -
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is released in the United States.
1966 - The first of 608 performances of
Sweet Charity opens at the
Palace Theatre, New York.
1978 -
Sweden outlaws
aerosol sprays due to their harmful effect on the
ozone layer, becoming the first
nation to enact such a
ban.
1979 -
Brenda Ann Spencer wounds 9 people and kills 2 in a shooting spree at Cleveland Elementary School in
San Diego, California.
1986 -
Yoweri Museveni is sworn in as
President of
Uganda.
1995 -
Super Bowl XXIX: The
San Francisco 49ers defeat the
San Diego Chargers 49-26 and become the first
NFL team to win five
Super Bowl titles.
1996 - President
Jacques Chirac announces a "definitive end" to
French nuclear testing.1996 -
La Fenice,
Venice's opera house, is destroyed by fire.
1998 - In
Birmingham, Alabama, a bomb explodes at an
abortion clinic, killing one and severely wounding another. Serial bomber
Eric Robert Rudolph is suspected as the culprit.
2001 - Thousands of student protesters in
Indonesia storm parliament and demand that
President Abdurrahman Wahid resign due to alleged involvement in corruption scandals.
2002 - In his
State of the Union Address,
United States President George W. Bush describes "regimes that sponsor
terror" as an
Axis of Evil, in which he includes
Iraq,
Iran and
North Korea.
2004 -
Cannabis and
cannabis resin downgraded from Class B in
United Kingdom2005 - The first direct commercial flights from the mainland
China (from
Guangzhou) to
Taiwan since 1949 arrived in
Taipei. Shortly afterwards, a
China Airlines carrier landed in
Beijing.
2006 - Sheikh
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah is sworn in as the Emir of
Kuwait.
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