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Events
480
–
Odoacer
, first
King of Italy
, occupies
Dalmatia
. He later establishes his political power with the co-operation of the
Roman Senate
.
536
–
Gothic War
: The Byzantine general
Belisarius
enters Rome unopposed; the
Gothic
garrison flee the capital.
730
–
Battle of Marj Ardabil
: The
Khazars
annihilate an
Umayyad
army and kill its commander,
Al-Jarrah Ibn Abdallah Al-Hakami
.
1425
– The
Catholic University of Leuven
is founded.
1531
–
The Virgin of Guadalupe
first appears to
Juan Diego
at
Tepeyac, Mexico City
.
1775
–
American Revolutionary War
: British troops lose the
Battle of Great Bridge
, and leave
Virginia
soon afterward.
1793
– New York City's first daily
newspaper
, the
American Minerva
, is established by
Noah Webster
.
1824
– Patriot forces led by General
Antonio José de Sucre
defeat a Royalist army in the
Battle of Ayacucho
, putting an end to the
Peruvian War of Independence
.
1835
–
Texas Revolution
: The
Texian Army
captures
San Antonio, Texas
.
1851
– The first
YMCA
in North America is established in
Montreal
.
1856
– The
Iranian
city of
Bushehr
surrenders to occupying British forces.
1861
–
American Civil War
: The
Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War
is established by the
U.S. Congress
.
1872
– In Louisiana,
P. B. S. Pinchback
becomes the first
African-American
governor of a U.S. state.
1875
– The
Massachusetts Rifle Association
, "America's Oldest Active Gun Club", is founded.
1897
– Activist
Marguerite Durand
founds the
feminist
daily newspaper
La Fronde
in Paris.
1905
– In France, the
law separating church and state
is passed.
1911
– A
mine explosion
near
Briceville, Tennessee
, kills 84 miners despite rescue efforts led by the
United States Bureau of Mines
.
1917
–
World War I
: Field Marshal
Allenby
captures
Jerusalem
,
Palestine
.
1922
–
Gabriel Narutowicz
is elected the first president of Poland.
1931
– The
Constituent Cortes
approves a
constitution
which establishes the
Second Spanish Republic
.
1935
–
Walter Liggett
, American newspaper editor and muckraker, is killed in a gangland murder.
1935 – The
Downtown Athletic Club Trophy
, later renamed the
Heisman Trophy
, is awarded for the first time. The winner is halfback
Jay Berwanger
of the
University of Chicago
.
1937
–
Second Sino-Japanese War
:
Battle of Nanking
:
Japanese
troops under the command of Lt. Gen.
Asaka Yasuhiko
launch an assault on the
Chinese
city of
Nanjing
(Nanking).
1940
–
World War II
:
Operation Compass
: British and Indian troops under the command of Major-General
Richard O'Connor
attack
Italian
forces near
Sidi Barrani
in
Egypt
.
1941
– World War II: The
Republic of China
,
Cuba
,
Guatemala
, and
the Philippine Commonwealth
, declare war on
Germany
and
Japan
.
1941 – World War II: The American
19th Bombardment Group
attacks Japanese ships off the coast of
Vigan
,
Luzon
.
1946
– The "
Subsequent Nuremberg trials
" begin with the "
Doctors' trial
", prosecuting physicians and officers alleged to be involved in
Nazi human experimentation
and
mass murder under the guise of euthanasia
.
1946 – The
Constituent Assembly of India
meets for the first time to write the
Constitution of India
.
1948
– The
Genocide Convention
is adopted.
1950
–
Cold War
:
Harry Gold
is sentenced to 30 years in jail for helping
Klaus Fuchs
pass information about the
Manhattan Project
to the
Soviet Union
. His testimony is later instrumental in the prosecution of
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
.
1953
–
Red Scare
:
General Electric
announces that all
communist
employees will be discharged from the company.
1956
–
Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 810
, a
Canadair North Star
, crashes near
Hope, British Columbia
, Canada, killing all 62 people on board.
1958
– The
John Birch Society
is founded in the United States.
1958 –
United Nations Security Council Resolution 131
is adopted.
1960
– The first episode of
Coronation Street
, the world's longest-running television
soap opera
, is broadcast in the United Kingdom.
1961
–
Tanganyika
becomes independent from Britain.
1962
– The
Petrified Forest National Park
is established in
Arizona
.
1965
–
Kecksburg UFO incident
: A fireball is seen from Michigan to Pennsylvania; witnesses report something crashing in the woods near Pittsburgh. In 2005 NASA admits that it examined the object.
1965 –
A Charlie Brown Christmas
, first in a series of
Peanuts
television specials, debuts on
CBS
.
1966
–
Barbados
joins the
United Nations
.
1968
–
Douglas Engelbart
gave what became known as "
The Mother of All Demos
", publicly debuting the
computer mouse
,
hypertext
, and the bit-mapped
graphical user interface
using the
oN-Line System (NLS)
.
1969
– U.S. Secretary of State
William P. Rogers
proposes
his plan
for a ceasefire in the
War of Attrition
; Egypt and Jordan accept it over the objections of the
PLO
, which leads to
civil war in Jordan
in September 1970.
1971
– The
United Arab Emirates
join the
United Nations
.
1971 –
Indo-Pakistani War
: The
Indian Air Force
executes
an airdrop
of
Indian Army
units, bypassing Pakistani defences.
1973
– British and Irish authorities sign the
Sunningdale Agreement
in an attempt to establish a power-sharing
Northern Ireland Executive
and a cross-border
Council of Ireland
.
1979
– The eradication of the
smallpox
virus
is certified, making smallpox the first and to date only human disease driven to extinction.
1987
–
Israeli–Palestinian conflict
: The
First Intifada
begins in the
Gaza Strip
and
West Bank
.
1988
– The
Michael Hughes Bridge
in
Sligo
, Ireland, is officially opened.
2003
– A
blast
in the center of Moscow kills six people and wounds several more.
2008
– The
Governor of Illinois
,
Rod Blagojevich
, is arrested by federal officials for crimes including attempting to sell the
U.S. Senate
seat being vacated by
President-elect
Barack Obama
.
2012
– A
plane crash
in Mexico kills 7 people.
2013
– At least seven are dead and 63 are injured following a
train accident
near Bintaro,
Indonesia
.
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