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• 1066 King Harald of England crowned
• 1099 Henry V crowned German king
• 1205 Philip of Swabia becomes King of the Romans.
• 1227 Ferrand of Portugal freed from the Louvre
• 1322 Stephen Uros III becomes King of Serbia
• 1352 French King Jean II introduces Order of the Star
• 1355 Charles I of Bohemia is crowned with the Iron Crown of Lombardy
• 1449 Byzantine Emperor Constantine XI is crowned at Mistra.
• 1453 Emperor Frederik III becomes archduke of Austria
• 1494 The first Mass in the New World is celebrated at La Isabela, Hispaniola.
• 1497 Jews are expelled from Graz in Styria, Austria
• 1579 Artois/Hainault/Dowaai sign pro-Spanish Union of Arras
• 1579 The Union of Atrecht is signed
• 1661 The Fifth Monarchists unsuccessfully attempt to seize control of London.
• 1681 1st recorded boxing match (Duke of Albemarle's butler vs his butcher)
• 1690 Joseph I, later Holy Roman Emperor and son of Emperor Leopold I, becomes King of the Romans.
• 1720 The Committee of Inquiry on the South Sea Bubble publishes its findings.
• 1745 Bonnie Prince Charlies army draws to Glasgow
• 1773 Massachusetts slaves petition legislature for freedom
• 1781 Battle of Jersey (Island in UK)
• 1784 Turkey & Russia sign treaty in Constantinople
• 1857 Patent for reducing zinc ore granted to Samuel Wetherill, Penn
• 1861 Florida troops seize Federal arsenal at Apalachicola
• 1861 NYC mayor proposes NY become a free city, trading with N & S
• 1870 The inauguration of the Musikverein (Vienna).
• 1873 Pope Pius IX encyclical "On the Church in Armenia"
• 1873 US Congress begins investigating Crédit Mobilier scandal
• 1880 Record snow cover in Seattle - 120 cm
• 1883 Ontario Rugby Football Union forms
• 1887 `Abd-allah II of Harar opens the Battle of Chelenqo with an attack on the camp of the Shewan army of Negus Menelik II.
• 1893 Great Northern Railway connects Seattle with east coast
• 1896 1st US women's 6-day bicycle race starts, Madison Square Garden
• 1896 Cecil Rhodes resigns as premier of Cape colony
• 1898 1st telephone message from a submerged submarine, by Simon Lake
• 1900 Boers attack at Ladysmith, about 1,000 killed or injured
• 1900 Maurice Ravel's "Albaradode Gracioso" premieres in Paris
• 1903 Dutch Press museum opens in Amsterdam
• 1906 Maurice Ravel's "Miroirs" premieres in Paris
• 1942 Bob Feller, enlists in Navy & reports for duty to Norfolk Virginia
• 1942 Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to schedule a flight around the world ("Pacific Clipper").
• 1946 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Quemadmodum
• 1946 Vietnam holds its first ever general election
• 1947 Ray Lindwall smashes 100 v England in MCG Test
• 1947 Pan American Airlines offers a round-the-world-ticket, the first commercial airline to do so
• 1950 "Happy as Larry" opens at Coronet Theater NYC for 3 performances
• 1950 Britain recognizes Communist government of China
• 1951 "Pardon Our French" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 100 performances
• 1951 Indianapolis beats Rochester 75-73 in NBA-record 6 overtimes
• 1951 Ganghwa massacre: Hundreds of South Korean communist sympathisers are slaughtered
• 1953 WKBN TV channel 27 in Youngstown, OH (CBS) begins broadcasting
• 1953 The first Asian Socialist Conference opens in Burma
• 1956 KGNS TV channel 8 in Laredo, TX (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
• 1956 Federal court bars former Little League Commissioner Carl Stotz from forming a rival group
• 1957 Yeshiva Kol Ya'ackov opens in Moscow Russia
• 1958 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to E. E. Cummings
• 1958 Gibson patents Flying V Guitar
• 1958 WIPR TV channel 6 in San Juan, PR (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 1963 "Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom" with Marlin Perkins begins on NBC
• 1963 "Oliver!" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 774 performances
• 1964 Charlie Finlay announces he wants to move KC A's to Louisville
• 1964 Rolling Stones' 1st tour as headline act (with Ronettes)
• 1965 Geoff Boycott takes 3-47 against South Africa, his best Test bowling
• 1967 "Milton Berle Show" last airs on ABC-TV
• 1967 KHTV TV channel 39 in Houston, TX (IND) begins broadcasting
• 1967 2 homemade buses collided on a mountain road in Terpate, Philippines plunging off a cliff, killing 84, injuring 140
• 1967 United States Marine Corps and ARVN troops launch "Operation Deckhouse Five" in the Mekong River delta.
• 1968 Beatles' "Magical Mystery Tour" album goes #1 & stays #1 for 8 weeks
• 1968 Dr N E Shumway performs 1st US adult cardiac transplant operation
• 1968 Surveyor 7 (last of series) launched by US for soft-landing on Moon
• 1969 Supremes release "I'm Livin' In Shame"
• 1969 WLIW TV channel 21 in Garden City, NY (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 1971 Berkeley chemists announces 1st synthetic growth hormones
• 1971 Cecil Partee elected president pro tem of Illinois state senate
• 1972 US female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn
• 1972 US male Figure Skating championship won by Kenneth Shelley
• 1972 Vladimir Bukovski is exiled from USSR
• 1973 "Schoolhouse Rock" premieres on ABC-TV with Multiplication Rock
• 1974 "CBS Mystery Theater" premieres on radio
• 1974 United Kingdom begins three-day work week during energy crisis
• 1974 In response to the 1973 energy crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly four months early in the United States.
• 1975 "AM America" premieres on ABC-TV with Bill Beutel as host
• 1975 "Wheel Of Fortune" debuts on NBC-TV
• 1975 1000 Led Zeppelin fans, waiting overnight inside the lobby of the Boston Garden for tickets to the group's February 4th gig to go on sale, cause a riot and an esimated $30,000 damage
• 1976 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
• 1980 Phil Flyers set NHL record of 35 straight games without a defeat
• 1980 The beginning of the first GPS epoch.
• 1980 AFC Championship Game: Pittsburgh Steelers beat Houston Oilers 27-13
• 1980 NFC Championship Game: Los Angeles Rams beat Tampa Bay Buccaneers 9-0
• 1981 50th hat trick in Islander history-John Tonelli scored 5 goals
• 1984 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 41 B mission
• 1984 Last day of Test cricket for Chappell, Marsh & Lillee
• 1985 AFC Championship Game: Miami Dolphins beat Pittsburgh Steelers 45-28
• 1985 NFC Championship Game: San Francisco 49ers beat Chicago Bears 23-0
• 1986 British Defense Secretary Michael Heseltine resigns after the 'Westland affair'
• 1986 Impala Platinum fires 20,000 black mine workers in Johannesburg
• 1986 Last day in Test cricket for Bob Holland
• 1986 STS 61-C scrubbed at T-31sec because of liquid oxygen valve problem
• 1987 100th US Congress convenes
• 1987 Astronomers at University of California see 1st sight of birth of a galaxy
• 1990 NY Lotto pays $35 million to one winner (#s are 18-25-26-32-42-44)
• 1991 "Gypsy" closes at St James Theater NYC after 477 performances
• 1991 "Real Life With Jane Pauley" premieres on NBC-TV
• 1991 Jorge Serrano Elias elected president of Guatemala
• 1991 Qian Hong swims female world record 50m butterfly (27.30 sec)
• 1992 NY Yankees sign free agent Danny Tartabul
• 1992 Robert Schenkkan's "Kentucky Cycle" premieres in LA
• 1992 Shane Warne takes 1-150 in his 1st Test innings
• 1992 The US Government urges doctors to stop using silicone breast implants, outlining the health effects
• 1992 Zviad Gamskahurdia, the President of Georgia, flees the country because of the military coup
• 1993 Bill Wyman announces he will leave Rolling Stones
• 1993 Jean Mueller discovers comet Mueller/1993a
• 1993 Last day of Test cricket for Greg Matthews
• 1993 55 Kashmiri civilians are killed in Sopore, Jammu and Kashmir by Indian Border Security Force units
• 1994 "The Government Inspector" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 37 performances
• 1994 Dow-Jones hits record 3803.88
• 1994 Ice skater Nancy Kerrigan is attacked by Tonya Harding's bodyguard
• 1994 Yat Weiju swims world record 50m butterfly stroke (26.44)
• 1994 Zhong Weiju swims world record 25m pool (26.44)
• 1995 A chemical fire in an apartment complex in Manila, Philippines, leads to the discovery of plans for Project Bojinka, a mass-terrorist attack.
• 1996 Record £42 million ($65.2 million) British lottery won by 3 people (2-3-4-13-42-44)
• 1997 "It's a Slippery Slope" closes at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC
• 1998 Barry Switzer resigns as Dallas Cowboy coach
• 1998 Don Sutton selected to Baseball Hall of Fame
• 2000 The flu outbreak in Britain puts pressure on NHS
• 2000 The last Pyrenean ibex is found dead after being crushed by a tree
• 2002 Daniel Bedingfield returns to No.1 on the UK singles chart for the second time with Gotta Get Thru This
• 2004 Costas Simitis announces his resignation as president of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement in Greece.
• 2005 Mississippi Civil Rights Workers Murders: Edgar Ray Killen is arrested as a suspect for the 1964 murders of three Civil Rights workers.
• 2009 Israel begins an assault on the Gaza Strip
• 2012 A suicide bomber blows himself up at a police station in Damascus, Syria, killing 26 people and wounding 63
• 2013 10 people are killed by a US drone attack in South Waziristan, Pakistan
• 2013 The NHL reaches an agreement to end a 113 day lockout
• 2014 Zach Johnson wins the 2014 PGA Tournament of Champions
• 2014 Truce begins between Free Syrian Army and forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad in northern Damascus
• 2014 16th BCS National Championship: #1 Florida State beats #2 Auburn, 34-31
• 2015 Randy Johnson, Pedro Martínez, John Smoltz and Craig Biggio are inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame
• 2016 North Korea states that they have successfully tested a thermonuclear weapon
• 2016 "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" breaks North American box office record, passing the $760.5m taken by "Avatar"