Events 1325 -
Alfonso IV becomes King of
Portugal.1558 -
France takes
Calais, the last continental possession of
England.1566 -
Pius V becomes
Pope.1598 -
Boris Godunov seizes the throne of
Russia.
1608 - Fire destroys
Jamestown, Virginia.
1610 -
Galileo Galilei observes the four largest moons of
Jupiter for the first time. He named them and in turn the four are called the
Galilean moons.
1735 -
Hieronimus de Salis marries hon. Mary ffane, at St. Margaret's Westminster.
1782 - The first American commercial bank,
Bank of North America, opens.
1785 -
Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and
American
John Jeffries travel from
Dover,
England, to
Calais,
France, in a gas
balloon.
1797 - The current
flag of Italy is first used.
1835 -
HMS Beagle anchors off the
Chonos Archipelago.
1894 -
W.K. Dickson receives a
patent for
motion picture film.
1904 - The
distress signal "
CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "
SOS."
1922 -
Dáil Éireann ratifies the
Anglo-Irish Treaty by a 64-57 vote.
1924 -
George Gershwin completes
Rhapsody in Blue.1924 - The
International Hockey Federation (FIH) is founded in
Paris by seven member states:
Austria,
Belgium,
Czechoslovakia,
France,
Hungary,
Spain, and
Switzerland.
1927 - First transatlantic
telephone call -
New York City to
London.1927 - The
Harlem Globetrotters play their first game.
1935 -
Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister
Pierre Laval sign the
Franco–Italian Agreement.
1942 -
World War II: Siege of the
Bataan Peninsula begins.
1945 -
World War II:
British General
Bernard Montgomery holds a press conference in which he claims credit for victory in the
Battle of the Bulge.
1950 - A fire at the Mercy Hospital in
Davenport, Iowa, kills 41 people.
1953 -
President Harry Truman announces that the
United States has developed a
hydrogen bomb.
1954 -
Georgetown-IBM experiment, the first public demonstration of a
machine translation system, is held in New York at the head office of IBM.
1959 - The
United States recognizes the new
Cuban government of
Fidel Castro.
1972 -
Iberia Airlines Caravelle 6-R crashed into Mont San Jose on approach to
Ibiza Airport killing all 104 on board.
1979 -
Phnom Penh fell to the advancing
Vietnamese troops, driving out
Pol Pot and the
Khmer Rouge.
1980 - President
Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out
Chrysler Corporation.
1984 -
Brunei becomes the sixth member of the
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
1990 - The
Leaning Tower of Pisa is closed to the public due to safety concerns.
1993 - The
Fourth Republic of
Ghana is inaugurated with
Jerry Rawlings as President.
1999 - The
impeachment trial of
President Bill Clinton begins.
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