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| 715 Constantine ended his reign as pope. | ||
| 1241 At the Battle of Liegnitz, Mongol armies defeated the Poles and the Germans. | ||
| 1388 Battle of Nefels; Glarius Swiss defeat Habsburg (Austrian) army | ||
| 1454 Milan/Venice signs peace of Lodi | ||
| 1474 Breisach land guardian Peter von Hagenbach throws out Walloon/Italians | ||
| 1483 Edward I (12) succeeds Edward IV as king of England | ||
| 1538 Danish king Christian III enters Schmalkaldische Union | ||
| 1555 Marcello Cervini elected Pope Marcellus II | ||
| 1609 Spain & Netherlands sign 12 Year Resistant Pact | ||
| 1621 Spain & Netherlands 12 Year Resistant Pact ends | ||
| 1667 The first public art exhibition was held at the Palais-Royale in Paris. | ||
| 1682 La Salle claimed lower Mississippi (Louisiana) for France. | ||
| 1691 French troops occupy Mons | ||
| 1770 Captain James Cook discovered Botany Bay (Australia). | ||
| 1783 Tippu Sahib drives out English from Bednore India | ||
| 1808 Mayor Wolters offers French king Louis Napoleon townhall as a palace | ||
| 1814 Elias Canneman (L) resigns as minister of Finance | ||
| 1829 Danzig (Gdansk) dike break flood kills 1,200 | ||
| 1831 Robert Jenkins loses an ear, starts war between Britain & Spain | ||
| 1833 The first tax-supported public library in the United States was established in Peterborough, New Hampshire. | ||
| 1838 The National Galley opened in London. | ||
| 1865 Robert E. Lee and 26,765 troops surrendered to U.S. Grant at Appomattox. | ||
| 1866 The Civil Rights Bill passed over President Andrew Johnson's veto. | ||
| 1869 The Hudson Bay Company ceded its territory to Canada. | ||
| 1870 The American Anti-Slavery Society dissolved. | ||
| 1872 Samuel R Percy patents dried milk | ||
| 1912 Titanic leaves Queenstown Ireland for NY | ||
| 1913 The Brooklyn Dodgers' Ebbets Field opened. | ||
| 1914 The first full-color film, "The World, The Flesh & the Devil," was shown in London. | ||
| 1917 Battle of Arras begins | ||
| 1918 Latvia proclaimed its independence. | ||
| 1927 Italy & US anarchists Sacco & Vanzetti given death sentences | ||
| 1928 Turkey passes separation of church & state | ||
| 1940 German cruiser Blcher torpedoed/capsizes in Oslofjord, 1,000 die | ||
| 1940 Germany invaded Norway and Denmark during World War II. | ||
| 1941 The PGA established the Golf Hall of Fame. | ||
| 1942 Battle of Bataan-US-Filipino forces overwhelmed by Japs at Bataan | ||
| 1944 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Orientals Ecclesiae | ||
| 1945 Battleship Admiral Scheer sinks British aircraft carrier | ||
| 1945 The Liberty ship at Bari, Italy, carrying aerial bombs exploded, killing 360 people. | ||
| 1947 Tornadoes struck west Texas and Oklahoma, killing 169 and injuring 1,300. | ||
| 1949 Corfu Channel & awards Britain damages | ||
| 1950 Bob Hope made his first TV appearance | ||
| 1952 Popular uprising in Bolivia | ||
| 1953 TV Guide published its first issue. | ||
| 1957 The Suez Canal was cleared for all shipping. | ||
| 1959 NASA names 1st 7 astronauts for Project Mercury | ||
| 1959 The Boston Celtics won their eighth consecutive NBA championship. | ||
| 1960 South African premier Verwoerd wounded in battle | ||
| 1963 Winston Churchill became the first honorary U.S. citizen, posthumously. | ||
| 1965 India & Pakistan engage in border fight | ||
| 1966 Sophia Loren married Carlo Ponti in Paris | ||
| 1967 The first Boeing 737 rolled out. | ||
| 1968 German DR adopts constitution | ||
| 1968 Martin Luther King Jr. was buried in Atlanta | ||
| 1970 Paul McCartney announced the official split of the Beatles. | ||
| 1972 USSR & Iraq sign friendship treaty | ||
| 1973 Netherlands recognizes North Vietnam | ||
| 1976 The United States and Russia agreed on the size of nuclear tests for peaceful use. | ||
| 1977 Communist party in Spain allowed legally after 40 years | ||
| 1980 Belgium's Marten's govt resigns | ||
| 1983 The sixth space shuttle mission, Challenger 1, returned to Earth. | ||
| 1986 "Dallas" announced it would revive the killed Bobby Ewing character. | ||
| 1987 Wayne Gretsky passed Jean Beliveau as the all-time hockey playoff scoring champ. | ||
| 1988 The United States imposed economic sanctions on Panama. | ||
| 1989 Mike Tyson strikes a parking attendant when asked to move his car | ||
| 1991 Georgia SSR votes to secede from USSR | ||
| 1992 John Major was elected prime minister of England. | ||
| 1992 US Fed court finds Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega guilty of drugs | ||
| 1992 William O Studeman, becomes deputy director of CIA | ||