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Events
116
– Emperor
Trajan
sends
laureatae
to the
Roman Senate
at
Rome
on account of his victories and being conqueror of
Parthia
.
1249
–
Andrew of Longjumeau
is dispatched by
Louis IX of France
as his
ambassador
to meet with the
Khagan
of the
Mongol Empire
.
1270
–
Grand Duchy of Lithuania
defeats the
Livonian Order
in the
Battle of Karuse
.
1630
– Dutch forces led by
Hendrick Lonck
capture
Olinda
in what was to become part of
Dutch Brazil
.
1646
–
Battle of Torrington
, Devon – the last major battle of the first
English Civil War
.
1699
– First Leopoldine Diploma is issued by the
Holy Roman Emperor
, recognizing the
Greek Catholic
clergy enjoyed the same privileges as
Roman Catholic
priests in the
Principality of Transylvania
.
1742
–
Spencer Compton
,
Earl of Wilmington
, becomes
British Prime Minister
.
1804
–
First Barbary War
:
Stephen Decatur
leads a raid to burn the
pirate
-held frigate .
1852
–
Studebaker
Brothers wagon company, precursor of the automobile manufacturer, is established.
1862
–
American Civil War
: General
Ulysses S. Grant
captures
Fort Donelson
,
Tennessee
.
1866
–
Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington
becomes British
Secretary of State for War
.
1874
–
Silver Dollar
becomes legal US tender.
1881
– The
Canadian Pacific Railway
is incorporated by Act of Parliament at Ottawa (44th Vic., c.1).
1899
–
Iceland
's first football club,
Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur
, is founded.
1918
– The
Council of Lithuania
unanimously adopts the
Act of Independence
, declaring
Lithuania
an independent state.
1923
–
Howard Carter
unseals the
burial chamber
of
Pharaoh
Tutankhamun
.
1930
– The
Romanian Football Federation
joins
FIFA
.
1934
– The
Austrian Civil War
ends with the defeat of the
Social Democrats
and the
Republikanischer Schutzbund
.
1936
– Elections bring the
Popular Front
to power in Spain.
1937
–
Wallace H. Carothers
receives a United States
patent
for
nylon
.
1940
–
World War II
:
Altmark Incident
: The
German tanker Altmark
is boarded by sailors from the British
destroyer
. 299 British prisoners are freed.
1943
– World War II:
Red Army
troops re-enter
Kharkov
.
1943 – World War II: Insertion of
Operation Gunnerside
, Norway.
1945
– World War II: American forces
land on
Corregidor Island
in the
Philippines
.
1957
– The "
Toddlers' Truce
", a controversial
television
close down between 6.00 pm and 7.00 pm is abolished in the United Kingdom.
1959
–
Fidel Castro
becomes Premier of
Cuba
after dictator
Fulgencio Batista
was overthrown on
January 1
.
1960
– The U.S. Navy submarine begins
Operation Sandblast
, setting sail from
New London, Connecticut
, to begin the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
1961
–
Explorer program
:
Explorer 9
(S-56a) is launched.
1961 – The
DuSable Museum of African American History
is chartered.
1962
–
Flooding
in the coastal areas of West Germany kills 315 and destroys the homes of about 60,000 people.
1968
– In
Haleyville, Alabama
, the first
9-1-1
emergency telephone system goes into service.
1978
– The first computer
bulletin board system
is created (
CBBS
in
Chicago
).
1983
– The
Ash Wednesday bushfires
in
Victoria
and
South Australia
kill 75.
1985
–
Hezbollah
is founded.
1986
– The
Soviet
liner runs aground in the
Marlborough Sounds
, New Zealand.
1987
– The trial of
John Demjanjuk
, accused of being a
Nazi
guard dubbed "Ivan the Terrible" in
Treblinka extermination camp
, starts in
Jerusalem
.
1991
–
Nicaraguan
Contras
leader
Enrique Bermúdez
is assassinated in
Managua
.
1998
–
China Airlines Flight 676
crashes into a road and residential area near
Chiang Kai-shek International Airport
in
Taiwan
, killing all 196 aboard and seven more on the ground.
1999
– In
Uzbekistan
, a bomb explodes and gunfire is heard at the government headquarters in an apparent
assassination
attempt against
President
Islom Karimov
.
1999 – Across Europe,
Kurdish
rebels take over embassies and hold hostages after
Turkey
arrests one of their rebel leaders,
Abdullah Öcalan
.
2005
– The
Kyoto Protocol
comes into force, following its
ratification
by Russia.
2005 – The
National Hockey League
cancels
the entire 2004–2005 regular season and playoffs.
2006
– The last
Mobile army surgical hospital
(MASH) is decommissioned by the United States Army.
2013
– A
bomb blast
at a market in
Hazara Town
in
Quetta
,
Pakistan
kills more than 80 people and injures 190 others.
2015
– A
CSX
train
crashes
in
Mount Carbon, West Virginia
, resulting in large fires.
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