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Events
506
–
Alaric II
, eighth king of the
Visigoths
promulgates the
Breviary of Alaric
(
Breviarium Alaricianum
or
Lex Romana Visigothorum
), a collection of "
Roman law
".
962
–
Translatio imperii
:
Pope John XII
crowns
Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor
, the first
Holy Roman Emperor
in nearly 40 years.
1032
–
Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor
becomes King of
Burgundy
.
1141
– The
Battle of Lincoln
, at which King
Stephen
is defeated and captured by the allies of
Empress Matilda
.
1207
–
Terra Mariana
, comprising present-day
Estonia
and
Latvia
, is established.
1461
–
Wars of the Roses
: The
Battle of Mortimer's Cross
is fought in
Herefordshire
, England.
1536
– Spaniard
Pedro de Mendoza
founds
Buenos Aires
,
Argentina
.
1542
– Portuguese forces under
Cristóvão da Gama
capture a Muslim-occupied hill fort in northern
Ethiopia
in the
Battle of Baçente
.
1653
–
New Amsterdam
(later renamed The City of New York) is incorporated.
1709
–
Alexander Selkirk
is rescued after being shipwrecked on a desert island, inspiring the book
Robinson Crusoe
by
Daniel Defoe
.
1848
–
Mexican–American War
: The
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
is signed.
1848 –
California Gold Rush
: The first ship with
Chinese
immigrants arrives in
San Francisco
.
1868
– Pro-Imperial forces
captured
Osaka Castle
from the
Tokugawa shogunate
and burned it to the ground.
1876
– The
National League of Professional Baseball Clubs
of
Major League Baseball
is formed.
1887
– In
Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania
the first
Groundhog Day
is observed.
1899
– The Australian Premiers' Conference held in
Melbourne
decides to locate Australia's capital city,
Canberra
, between Sydney and
Melbourne
.
1901
– Funeral of
Queen Victoria
.
1913
–
Grand Central Terminal
is opened in New York City.
1914
–
Charlie Chaplin
's first film appearance,
Making a Living
premieres.
1920
– The
Tartu Peace Treaty
is signed between
Estonia
and Russia.
1920 – France occupies
Memel
.
1922
–
Ulysses
by
James Joyce
is published.
1925
–
Serum run to Nome
:
Dog sleds
reach
Nome, Alaska
with
diphtheria
serum, inspiring the
Iditarod
race.
1933
– Working as maids, the sisters
Christine and Léa Papin
murder their employer's wife and daughter in
Le Mans
, France. The case is the subject of a number of French films and plays.
1934
– The
Export-Import Bank of the United States
is incorporated.
1935
–
Leonarde Keeler
tests the first
polygraph machine
.
1942 – The
Osvald Group
is responsible for the first, active event of
anti-Nazi resistance
in Norway, to protest the
inauguration
of
Vidkun Quisling
.
1943
–
World War II
: The
Battle of Stalingrad
comes to an end when
Soviet
troops accept the surrender of the last German troops in the city.
1957
–
Iskander Mirza
of Pakistan lays the foundation-stone of the
Guddu Barrage
.
1959
–
Dyatlov Pass incident
1964
–
Hasbro
launched
G.I. Joe
1966
– Pakistan suggests a six-point agenda with
Kashmir
after the
Indo-Pakistani War of 1965
.
1971
–
Idi Amin
replaces
President
Milton Obote
as leader of
Uganda
.
1971 – The international
Ramsar Convention
for the conservation and sustainable utilization of
wetlands
is signed in
Ramsar, Mazandaran
,
Iran
.
1972
– The British
embassy
in
Dublin
is destroyed in protest at
Bloody Sunday
.
1976
– The
Groundhog Day gale
hits the north-eastern United States and south-eastern Canada.
1980
– Reports surface that the
FBI
is targeting allegedly corrupt
Congressmen
in the
Abscam
operation.
1982
–
Hama massacre
: The government of
Syria
attacks the town of
Hama
.
1987
– After the 1986
People Power Revolution
, the
Philippines
enacts a new
constitution
.
1988
–
Auntie Anne's
is founded by
Anne F. Beiler
in
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
1989
–
Soviet war in Afghanistan
: The last
Soviet
armoured column leaves
Kabul
.
1990
–
Apartheid
:
F. W. de Klerk
announces
the unbanning of the
African National Congress
and promises to release
Nelson Mandela
.
2000
– First
digital cinema
projection in Europe (Paris) realized by Philippe Binant with the DLP CINEMA technology developed by
Texas Instruments
.
2004
– Swiss
tennis
player
Roger Federer
becomes the
No. 1 ranked men's singles player
, a position he will hold for a record 237 weeks.
2007
– The worst
flooding
in Indonesia in 300 years begins.
2012
– The ferry
MV Rabaul Queen
sinks off the coast of
Papua New Guinea
near the
Finschhafen District
, with an estimated 300 people missing.
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