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362
–
Athanasius
returns to
Alexandria
.
1245
–
Thomas
, the first known
Bishop of Finland
, is granted resignation after confessing to torture and
forgery
.
1437
–
James I of Scotland
is assassinated.
1440
– The
Prussian Confederation
is formed.
1543
–
Battle of Wayna Daga
– A combined army of
Ethiopian
and Portuguese troops defeats a Muslim army led by
Ahmed Gragn
.
1613
–
Mikhail I
is unanimously elected
Tsar
by a
national assembly
, beginning the
Romanov dynasty
of
Imperial Russia
.
1804
– The first self-propelling
steam locomotive
makes its outing at the
Pen-y-Darren Ironworks
in Wales.
1808
– Without a previous declaration of war, Russian troops cross the border to Sweden at Abborfors in eastern Finland, thus beginning the
Finnish War
, in which Sweden will lose the eastern half of the country (i.e. Finland) to Russia.
1828
– Initial issue of the
Cherokee Phoenix
is the first periodical to use the
Cherokee syllabary
invented by
Sequoyah
.
1842
– John Greenough is granted the first U.S. patent for the
sewing machine
.
1848
–
Karl Marx
and
Friedrich Engels
publish
The Communist Manifesto
.
1862
–
American Civil War
:
Battle of Valverde
is fought near
Fort Craig
in
New Mexico Territory
.
1874
– The
Oakland Daily Tribune
publishes its first edition.
1878
– The first
telephone directory
is issued in
New Haven, Connecticut
.
1885
– The newly completed
Washington Monument
is dedicated.
1896
– An Englishman raised in Australia,
Bob Fitzsimmons
, fought an Irishman,
Peter Maher
, in an American promoted event which technically took place in Mexico, winning the
1896 World Heavyweight Championship
in
boxing
.
1913
–
Ioannina
is incorporated into the
Greek state
after the
Balkan Wars
.
1916
–
World War I
: In France, the
Battle of Verdun
begins.
1918
– The last
Carolina parakeet
dies in captivity at the
Cincinnati Zoo
.
1919
– German socialist
Kurt Eisner
is
assassinated
. His death results in the establishment of the
Bavarian Soviet Republic
and parliament and government fleeing
Munich
, Germany.
1921
–
Constituent Assembly
of the
Democratic Republic of Georgia
adopts the country's first constitution.
1921 –
Reza Shah
takes control of Tehran during a
successful coup
1925
–
The New Yorker
publishes its first issue.
1937
– The
League of Nations
bans foreign national "
volunteers
" in the
Spanish Civil War
.
1945
–
World War II
: Japanese
kamikaze
planes sink the escort carrier and damage the .
1947
– In New York City,
Edwin Land
demonstrates the first "
instant camera
", the
Polaroid Land Camera
, to a meeting of the
Optical Society of America
.
1948
–
NASCAR
is incorporated.
1952
– The British government, under
Winston Churchill
, abolishes
identity cards
in the UK to "set the people free".
1952 – The
Bengali Language Movement
protests occur at the
University of Dhaka
in
East Pakistan
(now
Bangladesh
).
1958
– The
peace symbol
, commissioned by
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
in protest against the
Atomic Weapons Research Establishment
, is designed and completed by
Gerald Holtom
.
1965
–
Malcolm X
is assassinated at the
Audubon Ballroom
in New York City.
1971
– The
Convention on Psychotropic Substances
is signed at
Vienna
.
1972
– United States President
Richard Nixon
visits the People's Republic of China to normalize
Sino-American relations
.
1972 – The
Soviet
unmanned
spaceship
Luna 20
lands on the Moon.
1973
– Over the
Sinai Desert
, Israeli
fighter aircraft
shoot down
Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114
jet killing 108.
1974
– The last Israeli soldiers leave the west bank of the
Suez Canal
pursuant to a truce with
Egypt
.
1975
–
Watergate scandal
: Former
United States Attorney General
John N. Mitchell
and former
White House
aides
H. R. Haldeman
and
John Ehrlichman
are sentenced to prison.
1986
–
Shigeru Miyamoto
starts the Legend of Zelda franchise
Legend of Zelda
1995
–
Steve Fossett
lands in
Leader, Saskatchewan
, Canada becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a
balloon
.
2013
– At least 17 people are dead and 119 injured following
several bombings
in the
Indian
city of
Hyderabad
.
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