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1340 English king Edward III proclaimed king of France | |
| 1531 Lisbon hit by Earthquake; about 30,000 die | ||
| 1654 Portuguese troops conquer last Dutch base on Recife | ||
| 1666 France declares war on England & Munster | ||
| 1689 Jean Racine's "Esther," premieres in Saint-Cyr | ||
| 1699 Venice, Poland & Austria sign peace treaty with Turkey | ||
| 1736 Stanislaw Lesczynski flees Polish throne | ||
| 1748 England, Netherlands, Austria & Sardinia sign anti-French treaty | ||
| Ugo Foscolo, Italian poet | 1784 In a letter to his daughter, Benjamin Franklin expressed unhappiness over the eagle as the symbol of America. He wanted the turkey. | |
| 1778 Ugo Foscolo, Italian poet (Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis) was born | ||
| 1788 Capt Arthur Phillip hoists English flag on Botany Bay, New South Wales | ||
| 1797 Russia, Prussia & Austria sign treaty | ||
| 1802 Congress passed an act calling for a library to be established within the U.S. Capitol. |
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| 1841 Britain formally occupied Hong Kong, which the Chinese had ceded to the British. | ||
| 1871 British Rugby Union forms | ||
| 1875 Electric dental drill is patented by George F Green | ||
| 1885 Muhammad Ahmed ("Mahdi") rebels conquer Khartoum | ||
| 1886 Karl Benz patents 1st auto with burning motor | ||
| 1887 Battle of Dogali: Abyssinian Emperor John IV defeats Italians | ||
| 1905 Han Yong-woon [Bongwan, Manhae] (1879-1944) ordained a monk in Korea | ||
| 1905 World's largest diamond, the 3,106-carat Cullinan, is found | ||
| 1910 Heavy rains cause floods in Paris | ||
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1911 The Richard Strauss opera "Der Rosenkavalier" premiered in Dresden, Germany. | |
| 1914 600 Dutch textile workers go on strike | FRANCIS WHEATLEY |
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| 1915 Rocky Mountain National Park, Colo established | "Capt Arthur Phillip" Oil 1786 |
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| 1929 Indian National Congress proclaims goal for India's independence | (State Library of NSW Z ML 124) |
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| 1931 Hungary-Austria sign peace treaty | ||
| 1939 Franco conquers Barcelona | ||
| 1940 Nazi's forbid Polish Jews to travel on trains | ||
| 1942 The first American expeditionary force to go to Europe during World War II went ashore in Northern Ireland. | ||
| 1942 Italian supreme command demands dismissal of German marshal Rommel | ||
| 1945 Soviet forces reach Auschwitz concentration camp | ||
| 1947 KLM Dakota crashes near Copenhagen, 22 die | ||
| 1950 India becomes a republic ceaseing to be a British dominion | ||
| 1956 7th Winter Olympic games open in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy | ||
| 1956 Porkkala military base returned to Finland by USSR | ||
| 1957 India annexes Kashmir | ||
| 1958 H Laskow replaces Moshe Dayan on as Israeli minister of Defense | ||
| 1959 Italy govt of Fanfani resigns | ||
| 1962 The United States launched Ranger 3 to land scientific instruments on the moon, but the probe missed its target by some 22,000 miles. | ||
| 1968 Israeli submarine Dakar crashes in Mediterranean Sea, 69 die | ||
| 1971 Dutch 2nd Chamber accept law against limitation of war crimes | ||
| 1972 Stewardess Vesna Vulovic survives 10,160m fall without parachute | ||
| 1973 Belgium govt of Leburton forms | ||
| 1976 Belgium catholic elite start amnesty campaign for war criminals | ||
| 1978 Strikers riot in Tunisia, killing about 40 | ||
| 1986 Yoweri Museveni's rebel army conquerors Kampala Uganda | ||
| 1990 Annular eclipse visible over Antarctica & South Atlantic | ||
| 1993 Former Czechoslovak President Vaclav Havel was elected president of the new Czech Republic. | ||
| 1998 President Clinton denied having an affair with a former White House intern, telling reporters, "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky." | ||
