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0013 - Tiberius' triumphant procession through Rome after siege of Germany
1271 - Henry III, King of England (1216-71, Provisions of Oxford), dies
1380 - French King Charles VI declares no taxes for ever
1532 - Pizarro captures Incan emperor Atahualpa after victory at Cajamarca
1572 - Don Frederiks troops occupy/plunder Zutphen
1632 - Battle at Lutzen: Sweden beats imperial armies under Von Wallenstein
1632 - Gustavus II Adolphus, King of Sweden, dies in battle at 37
1676 - First colonial prision organized, Nantucket, Massachusetts
1677 - French troops occupy Freiburg
1683 - Hendrik Casimir II of Nassau-Dietz marries Henri�tte Amalia
1700 - Monarch of Brandenburg becomes king of Prussia
1763 - English journalist John Wilkes injured at duel
1764 - Native Americans surrender to British in Indian War of Chief Pontiac
1771 - West Indian Company and Amsterdam divide up Suriname
1776 - First gun salute - for US Andrea Doria at Ft St Eustatius
1776 - British troops captured Fort Washington during American Revolution
1797 - Frederik Willem II, King of Prussia (1786-97), dies at 53
1798 - Kentucky becomes first state to nullify an act of Congress
1801 - First edition of New York Evening Post
1805 - Battle at Schoengrabern: Russian army stop French
1808 - Mustapha IV, Sultan of Turkey (1807-08), dies at 29
1811 - Earthquake in Missouri caused the Mississippi River to flow backwards
1824 - NY City's Fifth Avenue opens for business
1835 - Charles Darwins voyage published in Cambridge Philosophical Society
1841 - Life preservers made of cork are patented by Napoleon Guerin (NYC)
1841 - N E Guerin of NY patents cork-filled life preserver
1856 - Amsterdam post office at Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal opens
1863 - Battle of Campbell's Station Tennessee, 492 casualities
1864 - Confederate retreat at Lovejoy, Georgia
1864 - Union General William T Sherman begins march to sea during Civil War
1870 - Spanish Cortes selects King Amadeus I
1875 - Battle at Gundet: Ethiopian emperor Yohannes beats Egyptians
1875 - William Bonwill, patents dental mallet to impact gold into cavities
1882 - British HMS Flirt fire at and destroy Abari village in Niger
1894 - 6,000 Armenians massacred by Turks in Kurdistan
1894 - French capt Henri Decoeurs troops reach Nikki West Africa
1901 - 3 autos race on Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn, fastest speed achieved by Henry Fournier who drives a mile in 51 4/5 seconds
1905 - Neth/Russ Count Witte becomes premier of Russia
1907 - Oklahoma becomes 46th state
1908 - Arturo Tuscanini begins conducting NY's Metropolitan Opera
1909 - EVV Eindhoven soccer team forms
1914 - Federal Reserve System formally opens
1914 - Pope Benedict XV calls for peace
1916 - USSR La Satannaya ammunitions factory explodes, killing 1,000
1917 - British occupy Tel Aviv and Jaffa
1918 - Hungarian People's Republic declared
1919 - Admiral Horthy conquerors Budapest from B�la Kuns Soviet Republic
1920 - First postage stamp meter is set in Stamford Conn
1922 - Pope Pius XI calls on Belgian people to unite
1922 - Turkish kalief/sultan Mehmed VI asks British army for help
1924 - Cleveland Bulldogs lose to Frankford Yellowjackets, ends 31-game undefeated streak (NFL and major-league football record)
1925 - American Association for Advancement of Atheism forms (NY)
1926 - NY Rangers first game, beat Montreal Maroons 1-0
1933 - Brazilians president Getulio Vargas names himself dictator
1933 - Roosevelt establishes diplomatic relations with USSR
1935 - Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart's musical "Jumbo," premieres in NYC
1936 - German air force begins bombing of Madrid
1938 - K B Regiment refuses round-table conference in East-India
1939 - Al Capone freed from Alcatraz jail
1939 - German U-boat torpedoes tanker Sliedrecht near Ireland
1941 - German troops conquer Kertsh (probably)
1942 - Assault of US B-17 Flying Fortresses on airport at Sidi Ahmed
1944 - US 9th division and first Army attacks at Geilenkirchen
1945 - Yeshiva College (Univesity), chartered in NY, first US Jewish College
1947 - 15,000 demonstrate in Brussels against mild sentence of nazis
1948 - Operation Magic Carpet - first plane from Yemen carrying Jews to Israel
1950 - Egyptian king Faruk demands departure of all British troops
1950 - UN gets US government approval to issue postage stamps
1950 - US President Truman proclaims emergency crisis caused by communist threat
1952 - Papagos' Greek Concentratie wins Greeks parliamentary election
1955 - First speed-boat to exceed 200 mph (322 kph) (D M Campbell)
1955 - Johnny Cash made his first chart appearance with "Cry Cry Cry"
1955 - KLM orders 8 DC-8's
1955 - Sultan Sidi Mohammed Ben Yussuph V returns to Morocco
1957 - Celtic Bill Russell sets NBA record of 49 rebounds beat Phila 111-89
1957 - Ed Gein butchers last victim
1957 - Okla's NCAA win streak ends at 47 after losing to Notre Dame 7-0
1960 - NL batting champion Dick Groat wins MVP
1961 - Great Britain limits immigration from Commonwealth countries
1962 - Kuwait adopts constitution (first, Islamitic)
1962 - Wilt Chamberlain of NBA SF Warriors scores 73 points vs NY Knicks
1963 - Toledo, OH newspaper strike began
1963 - Touch-tone telephone introduced
1964 - Radio CJCX Sydney Nova Scotia (Canada) starts shortwave transmission
1964 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1965 - Venera 3 launched, first to land on another planet (crashes into Venus)
1965 - Walt Disney launches Epcot Center: Prototype Community of Tomorrow
1966 - Dr Sam Sheppard freed after 9 years in jail, by a jury
1966 - Pirates outfielder Roberto Clemente is named NL MVP
1969 - 1968 massacre of civilians at Mylai S Vietnam, by US is first reported
1973 - John Lennon releases "Mind Games" album
1973 - President Nixon authorizes construction of Alaskan pipeline
1973 - Skylab 4 launched into Earth orbit
1974 - First intentional interstellar radio message sent, Arecibo telescope towards M 41, a cluster of stars some 25,000 light years away
1974 - John Lennon's only solo #1 "Whatever Gets You Through the Night"
1974 - Milwaukee Bucks lose their 11th straight NBA game (team record)
1975 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Jacksonville Ladies Golf Open
1976 - Ren� Levesque's "Parti Qu�b��ois" wins elections in Quebec
1976 - Rick Barry (SF), ends then longest NBA free throw streak of 60
1977 - Rod Carew wins AL MVP award
1978 - Major Indoor Soccer League holds its first draft
1979 - Paul McCartney releases "Wonderful Christmas"
1980 - Tampa Bay Buccaneer QB Doug Williams throws for 486 yards
1981 - Dennis Lillee kicked Javed Miandad, who waved his bat at Dennis
1981 - Luke marries Laura on General Hospital (16 million watch)
1982 - 5th Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 5-lands at Edwards AFB
1982 - Aggrement reached ending 57 day football strike
1982 - Space Shuttle Columbia completes its first operational flight
1984 - 14th Shuttle Mission (51A) -Discovery 2- lands at Kennedy Center
1984 - Houston blocks 20 Denver shots tying NBA regulation game record
1984 - Imran Khan makes his first appearance for NSW Cricket
1984 - John Lennon releases "Every Man has a Woman Who Loves Him"
1987 - Actress Lisa Bonet marries singer Lenny Kravitz
1987 - Paul McCartney releases "Once Upon a Long Ago"
1988 - Benazir Bhutto wins first free Pakistani elections in 11 years
1988 - Estonia declares sovereignty in internal affairs
1988 - Jose Canseco is first unanimous AL MVP since Reggie Jackson
1988 - Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto's PPP wins parliamentary election
1988 - Robin Givens sues Mike Tyson for $125 million for libel
1989 - 6 Jesuit priests are killed by El Salvadorian troops
1989 - South African President FW de Klerk announces scrapping of Separate Amenities Act
1990 - Manuel Noriega claims US denied him a fair trial
1993 - James Carrey files for divorce from Melissa
1993 - Russian President Yeltsin shuts Lenin museum
1993 - Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Arcangues, Brocco, Cardmania, Hollywood Wildcat, Kotashaan, Lure, Phone Chatter at Belmont
1995 - Attorney General Janet Reno announces she has Parkinson disease
1995 - Queen Mother Elizabeth undergoes hip surgery
1996 - 18th ACE Cable Awards: HBO wins 28 awards
1997 - CFL Grey Cup: Toronto beats Saskatchawan, 47-23
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