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Events
161
– Emperor
Antoninus Pius
dies and is succeeded by his adoptive sons
Marcus Aurelius
and
Lucius Verus
.
238
– Roman subjects in the province of
Africa
revolt against
Maximinus Thrax
and elect
Gordian I
as emperor.
321
– Emperor
Constantine I
decrees that the
dies
Solis Invicti
(
sun-day
) is the day of rest in the Empire.
1277
–
Stephen Tempier
, bishop of Paris, condemns 219 philosophical and theological theses.
1573
– A peace treaty is signed between the
Ottoman Empire
and the
Republic of Venice
, ending the
Ottoman–Venetian War (1570–73)
and leaving
Cyprus
in Ottoman hands.
1799
–
Napoleon Bonaparte
captures
Jaffa
in
Palestine
and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000
Albanian
captives.
1814
– Emperor Napoleon I of France wins the
Battle of Craonne
.
1827
–
Brazilian
marines
unsuccessfully attack the temporary naval base of
Carmen de Patagones
,
Argentina
.
1827 –
Shrigley abduction
: Ellen Turner is
abducted
by
Edward Gibbon Wakefield
, a future
politician
in colonial New Zealand.
1850
–
Senator
Daniel Webster
gives his "Seventh of March" speech endorsing the
Compromise of 1850
in order to prevent a possible
civil war
.
1862
–
American Civil War
:
Union
forces defeat
Confederate
troops at the
Pea Ridge
in northwestern
Arkansas
.
1876
–
Alexander Graham Bell
is granted a
patent
for an
invention
he calls the "
telephone
".
1900
– The German liner becomes the first ship to send
wireless
signals to shore.
1902
–
Second Boer War
: In the
Battle of Tweebosch
, a
Boer
commando led by
Koos de la Rey
inflicts the biggest defeat upon the British since the beginning of the war.
1912
–
Roald Amundsen
announces that his expedition had reached the
South Pole
on
December 14
,
1911
.
1914
–
Prince William of Wied
arrives in
Albania
to begin his reign as King.
1936
– Prelude to
World War II
: In violation of the
Locarno Pact
and the
Treaty of Versailles
, Germany
reoccupies the Rhineland
.
1945
– World War II: American troops seize the
Ludendorff Bridge
over the
Rhine
river at
Remagen
.
1950
–
Cold War
: The
Soviet Union
issues a statement denying that
Klaus Fuchs
served as a
Soviet
spy.
1951
– Korean War:
Operation Ripper
–
United Nations
troops led by
General
Matthew Ridgway
begin an assault against Chinese forces.
1965
–
Bloody Sunday
: a group of 600
civil rights
marchers is brutally attacked by state and local police in
Selma, Alabama
.
1968
–
Vietnam War
: The United States and
South Vietnamese military
begin
Operation Truong Cong Dinh
to root out
Viet Cong
forces from the area surrounding
Mỹ Tho
.
1971
–
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
delivers his
historic speech
at
Suhrawardy Udyan
.
1985
– The song "
We Are the World
" receives its international release.
1986
–
Challenger Disaster
: Divers from the locate the crew cabin of
Challenger
on the ocean floor.
1987
–
Lieyu Massacre
:
Taiwanese military
massacre of 19 unarmed
Vietnamese
refugees
at Donggang,
Lieyu, Kinmen
.
1989
–
Iran
and the United Kingdom break diplomatic relations after a row over
Salman Rushdie
and his controversial novel,
The Satanic Verses
.
2006
– The terrorist organisation
Lashkar-e-Taiba
coordinates a
series of bombings
in
Varanasi
, India.
2007
– The
British House of Commons
votes to make the upper chamber, the
House of Lords
, 100 lected.
2009
– The
Real Irish Republican Army
kills
two British soldiers and two civilians at Massereene Barracks, the first British military deaths in
Northern Ireland
since the end of
The Troubles
.
2009 – The
Kepler
space observatory
, designed to discover
Earth-like planets
orbiting other stars, is launched.
2014
– The
opening ceremony
for the
2014 Winter Paralympics
take place in
Sochi
,
Russia
.
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