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• 498 St Symmachus begins his reign as Pope replacing Anastasius II
• 845 845 : the first King of all Brittany, Nominoe defeats the Frankish king Charles the Bald at the Battle of Ballon near Redon.
• 1220 Frederick II crowned Holy Roman Emperor in Rome by Pope Honorius III
• 1346 Street fights in Utrecht, Hollandsgezinde Gunterlingen statements
• 1542 Spain delegates "New Laws" against slavery in America
• 1573 The Brazilian city of Niterói is founded.
• 1574 Discovery of the Juan Fernández Islands off Chile.
• 1683 Purcell's "Welcome to All the Pleasures" premieres in London
• 1699 Treaty of Preobrasjensku Denmark/Russia/Saksen/Poland divide Sweden
• 1707 Prince Johan Willem Friso sworn in as viceroy of Friesland
• 1714 King Karel XII leaves Turkish captivity to return to Sweden
• 1794 Strasbourg Alsace-Lorraine, prohibits circumcision & wearing of beards
• 1809 Peregrine Williamson of Baltimore patents a steel pen
• 1842 Mount St Helens in Washington erupts
• 1851 Opera "La Perle Du Brésil" is produced (Paris)
• 1861 Battle of Ft McRee, FL
• 1864 American Civil War Battle at Griswoldville, Georgia, ends after 650 casualties
• 1864 Union General O Howard orders plunderers be shot to death
• 1872 Franz Grillparzer's "Die Judin von Toledo" premieres in Prague
• 1884 T Thomas Fortune starts NY Freeman (NY Age) newspaper
• 1886 Victoria Street Cable Tram route begins in Melbourne, Australia
• 1898 Opera "Iris" premieres (Rome)
• 1899 -23] Battle at Willow Grange, Natal (British vs Boer army)
• 1900 Paul Kruger, exiled President of the Boer Republic of South Africa, is given a popular welcome when he lands at Marseilles, France
• 1906 Peter Stolypin, Prime Minister of Russia, introduces agrarian reforms allowing peasants to withdraw from the communes and take their share of land for private ownership
• 1908 1st US-Japanese baseball game Reach All-Americans defeat Waseda U, 5-0
• 1910 Arthur Knight patents steel shaft golf clubs
• 1914 Ypres, Belgium, burned by German bombing
• 1914 Indian troops take Basra in Mesopotamia
• 1917 NHL forms with Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Maroons, Toronto Arenas, Ottawa Senators & Quebec Bulldogs; National Hockey Association disbands
• 1918 Grand Duke Frederik II, the last Grand Duke of Baden, resigns
• 1918 King Albert I's triumphant procession through Brussels
• 1918 Marshal Józef Pilsudski becomes 1st President (dictator) of Poland
• 1918 Polish forces attack Jewish community of Lemberg (Lvov)
• 1919 15,000 men are cremated at Domela Newenhouse, Amsterdam
• 1919 Labor conference committee in US urges 8-hour work day & 48-hour week
• 1924 Britain orders Egyptians out of Sudan
• 1926 Imperial Conference ends, giving autonomy inside British Commonwealth
• 1927 1st snowmobile patent granted to Carl Eliason (Sayner Wisc)
• 1927 George Gershwin's "Funny Face" premieres in NYC.
• 1930 1st Irish Sweepstake run
• 1930 1st US football game broadcast to England (Harvard 13, Yale 0)
• 1930 Elijah Muhammad forms Nation of Islam in Detroit
• 1930 8th College Football Crab Bowl Classic: Navy beats Maryland 6-0 in Annapolis
• 1931 Ferde Grofe's "Grand Canyon Suite" premieres
• 1932 Pump patented that computes quantity & price delivered
• 1934 "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town" 1st heard on Eddie Cantor's show
• 1935 Flying boat "China Clipper" takes off from Alameda, California, carrying 100,000 pieces of mail on 1st trans-Pacific airmail flight.
• 1940 500 students in Delft demonstrate against nazis
• 1941 British cruiser Devonshire sinks German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis
• 1941 NZ troops conquer Ft Capuzzo Libya
• 1942 Gen-major Rodins 26th Pantser corp recaptures Ostrov
• 1943 France officially recognises the independence of Lebanon, releasing the imprison Lebanese government
• 1943 RAF begins air bombing of Berlin
• 1943 US troops land on Abemada, Gilbert Island
• 1944 Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry occupies Hoven at Geilenkirchen
• 1945 "Day before Spring" opens at National Theater NYC for 167 performances
• 1945 Jim Benton, Cleveland end, gains 303 yards (NFL record)
• 1950 7,021 see lowest NBA score, Ft Wayne Pistons 19, Minneapolis Lakers 18
• 1950 79 die in a train crash in Richmond Hills NY
• 1952 As' Harry Byrd selected AL Rookie of Year
• 1954 Humane Society (US) forms in Washington DC
• 1955 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• 1957 Simon & Garfunkel appear on "American Bandstand" as "Tom & Jerry"
• 1959 AFL's 1st draft - NY Titans choice George Izo, QB, Notre Dame
• 1959 Boston Patriots enters AFL
• 1960 French National Meeting decide to build own nuclear weapons
• 1961 Frank Robinson is 1st to win MVPs in both major leagues
• 1964 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Mary Mills Miss Gulf Coast Golf Invitational
• 1964 WITF TV channel 33 in Harrisburg-Hershey, PA (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 1965 "Man of La Mancha" opens at ANTA Wash Sq Theater NYC for 2329 performances.
• 1966 32nd Heisman Trophy Award: Steve Spurrier, Florida (QB)
• 1967 BBC unofficially bans "I Am the Walrus" by Beatles
• 1967 Silver hits record $2.17 an ounce in New York
• 1967 UN Sec council passes resolut 242-Israel must give back occupied land
• 1967 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• 1968 1st interracial TV kiss (Star Trek-Kirk & Uhura)
• 1968 Beatles release "Beatles" (White Album), their only double album
• 1968 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 1968 Terence O'Neill, then Northern Ireland Prime Minister, announced a package of reform measures granting concessions to the Catholic minority, in response to protest movement
• 1969 Isolation of a single gene announced by scientists at Harvard University
• 1970 20th NASCAR Sprint Cup: Bobby Isaac wins
• 1971 "Only Fools Are Sad" opens at Edison Theater NYC for 144 performances
• 1971 A member of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) is killed in a premature bomb explosion in Lurgan, County Armagh
• 1972 Belgium government of Eyskens resigns
• 1972 Flyers start Islanders on 15 game winless streak
• 1972 Pitts Penguins set NHL record for scoring fastest 5 goals (2:07)
• 1972 US ends 22 year travel ban to China
• 1973 The Italian Fascist organization Ordine Nuovo is disbanded.
• 1974 Lake Buena Vista Club opens
• 1974 Test Cricket debut of Gordon Greenidge & Viv Richards, at Bangalore
• 1974 UN General Assembly recognizes Palestine right to sovereignty
• 1975 Juan Carlos proclaimed king of Spain
• 1975 Drummuckavall Ambush: 3 British Army soldiers are killed and one captured when the Provisional Irish Republican Army attack a watchtower in South Armagh, North Ireland
• 1976 Algeria Constitution goes into effect
• 1976 Comic strip "Cathy" by Cathy Guisewhite debuts
• 1977 Regular Concorde passenger service between NY & Europe begins
• 1977 First three nodes of the ARPAnet are connected, in what would eventually become the Internet.
• 1980 Georgia tanker at Pilottown La, spills 1.3 million gallons of oil after an anchor chain caused a ship to leak
• 1981 "Marlowe" closes at Rialto Theater NYC after 48 performances
• 1981 69th CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Ottawa Rough Riders, 26-23
• 1981 Browns' QB Brian Sipe sets club record by being intercepted 6 times
• 1981 SD Charger Dan Fouts passes for 6 touchdowns vs Oakland (55-21)
• 1981 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• 1981 31st NASCAR Sprint Cup: Darrell Waltrip wins
• 1982 Columbia returns to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB, Texas
• 1986 Wayne Gretzky, Edmonton, became 13th NHLer to score 500 goals
• 1987 Patriots shutout Indianapolis 24-0
• 1987 Jack Sikma (Milwaukee) ends his NBA free throw streak of 51 games
• 1987 Two Chicago television stations are hijacked by an unknown pirate dressed as Max Headroom.
• 1987 37th NASCAR Sprint Cup: Dale Earnhardt wins
• 1989 Aneta Kreglicka of Poland, 24, crowned 39th Miss World
• 1989 Conjunction of Venus, Mars, Uranus, Neptune, Saturn & Moon
• 1989 Kirby Pucket signs record $3,000,000 per year Minnesota Twins contract
• 1989 US 63rd manned space mission STS 33 (Discovery 9) launches into orbit
• 1989 Eastern Airlines pilots & flight attendants end their strike, but most are not rehired.

• 1992 Sandra Volker swims world record 50m backstroke (28.57 sec)
• 1992 Washington Post reports Oregon Senator Bob Packwood sexually harassed 10 women
• 1993 "Laughter on the 23rd Floor" opens at Richard Rodgers NYC for 320 perf
• 1995 Rosemary West found guilty in England of killing 10 women
• 1995 Toy Story is released as the first feature-length film created completely using computer-generated imagery.
• 1995 OPEC states that it will roll over its current oil production quota of 25.42 million barrels per day.
• 1997 62nd Iron Bowl: Auburn beats Alabama 18-17 in Auburn
• 1998 86th CFL Grey Cup: Calgary Stampeders defeats Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 26-24
• 1998 48th NASCAR Sprint Cup: Jeff Gordon wins
• 1999 Elian Gonzalez, Cuban boy at the center of a heated 2000 controversy involving the governments of Cuba and the United States, and his mother are sighted off of Florida's coast by U.S. Coast Guard
• 2002 In Nigeria, more than 100 people are killed at an attack aimed at the contestants of the Miss World contest.
• 2003 In Tbilisi, Georgia, opponents of President Eduard Shevardnadze seize the parliament building and demand the president's resignation.
• 2003 5th Rugby World Cup: England beats Australia 20-17 at Sydney
• 2003 68th Iron Bowl: Auburn beats Alabama 28-23 in Auburn
• 2004 The Orange Revolution begins in Ukraine, resulting from the presidential elections..

• 2008 YouTube hosts the largest ever live broadcast, YouTube Live.
• 2012 6 attacks across Pakistan kill 37 people and injure 92
• 2012 2 people are killed and 120 injured after a 100-vehicle pile-up in dense fog in Texas
• 2013 Norwegian, Magnus Carlsen defeats  Viswanathan Anand to win the 2013 World Chess Championship.
• 2015 In Argentine elections Mauricio Macri (PRO) wins a narrow election victory over his left-wing opponent.
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