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1131
–
Canute Lavard
was murdered at Haraldsted,
Denmark
by his cousin
Magnus
, which led to the civil war in Denmark (1131–34).
1325
–
Alfonso IV
becomes King of
Portugal
.
1558
–
France
takes
Calais
, the last continental possession of
England
.
1566
–
Pope Pius V
is elected.
1608
– Fire destroys
Jamestown, Virginia
.
1610
–
Galileo Galilei
makes his first observation of the four
Galilean moons
:
Ganymede
,
Callisto
,
Io
and
Europa
, although he is not able to distinguish the last two until the following day.
1782
– The first American commercial bank, the
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 modern
Italian flag
is first used.
1835
– drops anchor off the
Chonos Archipelago
.
1894
–
William Kennedy Dickson
receives a
patent
for
motion picture film
.
1904
– The
distress signal
"
CQD
" is established only to be replaced two years later by "
SOS
".
1919
–
Montenegrin
guerrilla fighters
rebel
against the planned annexation of Montenegro by
Serbia
, but fail.
1920
– The
New York State Assembly
refuses to seat five duly elected
Socialist
assemblymen.
1922
–
Dáil Éireann
ratifies the
Anglo-Irish Treaty
by a 64–57 vote.
1927
– The first transatlantic
telephone
service is established from
New York, New York
to
London, United Kingdom
.
1931
–
Guy Menzies
flies the first solo non-stop
trans-Tasman
flight (from
Australia
to
New Zealand
) in 11 hours and 45 minutes, crash-landing on New Zealand's
west coast
.
1935
–
Benito Mussolini
and French
Foreign minister
Pierre Laval
sign the
Franco-Italian Agreement
.
1940
–
Winter War
: The Finnish 9th Division
stops and completely destroys
the overwhelming Soviet forces on the Raate-Suomussalmi road.
1942
–
World War II
: The
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
.
1948
–
Kentucky Air National Guard
pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while
in pursuit of
a supposed
UFO
.
1954
–
Georgetown-IBM experiment
: The first public demonstration of a
machine translation
system, is held in New York at the head office of
IBM
.
1955
– Contralto
Marian Anderson
becomes the first person of color to perform at the
Metropolitan Opera
in
Giuseppe Verdi
's
Un ballo in maschera
.
1959
– The United States recognizes the new
Cuban
government of
Fidel Castro
.
1960
– The
Polaris missile
is test launched.
1968
–
Surveyor Program
:
Surveyor 7
, the last spacecraft in the Surveyor series, lifts off from
launch complex 36A
,
Cape Canaveral
.
1970
– The
Punjab Legislative Council (Abolition) Act, 1969
comes into effect.
1973
–
Mark Essex
fatally shoots ten people and wounds 13 others at
Howard Johnson's
Hotel in
New Orleans, Louisiana
, before being shot to death by police officers.
1979
–
Third Indochina War
:
Cambodian–Vietnamese War
:
Phnom Penh
falls to the advancing
Vietnamese
troops, driving out
Pol Pot
and the
Khmer Rouge
.
1980
– U.S. President
Jimmy Carter
authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out the
Chrysler
Corporation.
1984
–
Brunei
becomes the sixth member of the
Association of Southeast Asian Nations
(ASEAN).
1985
–
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
launches
Sakigake
, Japan's first
interplanetary spacecraft
and the first deep
space probe
to be launched by any country other than the United States or the Soviet Union.
1989
– Prince
Akihito
is crowned emperor of Japan after the death of his father,
Hirohito
1990
– The interior of the
Leaning Tower of Pisa
is closed to the public for safety reasons.
1991
–
Roger Lafontant
, former leader of the
Tonton Macoute
in
Haiti
under
François Duvalier
, attempts a
coup d'état
, which ends in his arrest.
1993
– The Fourth Republic of Ghana is inaugurated with
Jerry Rawlings
as President.
1993 –
Bosnian War
: The
Bosnian Army
executes a
surprise attack
on the village of Kravica in
Srebrenica
.
1999
– The Senate trial in the
impeachment
of U.S. President
Bill Clinton
begins.
2010
– Muslim gunmen in
Egypt
open fire
on a crowd of
Coptic Christians
, killing eight of them and one Muslim bystander.
2012
– A
hot air balloon
crashes
near
Carterton, New Zealand
, killing all 11 people on board.
2015
– Two gunmen commit
a mass shooting
at the offices of
Charlie Hebdo
in
Paris
, killing twelve people and injuring another eleven.
2015 – A car bomb
explodes
outside a police college in the
Yemeni
capital
Sana'a
with at least 38 people reported dead and more than 63 injured.
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