St. Augustine of Hippo is baptised |
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387 |
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, defeats the Protestants at Muhlberg |
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1547 |
Mary Queen of Scots (aged 16) marries the Dauphin of France, the future Charles II |
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1558 |
Boston News–Letter first published – the first regular newspaper in British colonial America |
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1704 |
George Stevenson dies after a bout with Jack Broughton in Taylor's Booth, Tottenham Court Road, London –
the first fighter to die as a direct result of a prize fight |
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1741 |
La Marseillaise – words and music – composed by Rouget de Lisle |
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1792 |
Robespierre issues the Declaration of Human Rights |
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1793 |
US Congress votes to establish the Library of Congress, Washington |
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1800 |
Ku Klux Klan formed |
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1866 |
The Russian Empire declares war on the Ottoman Empire |
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1877 |
Sharpshooter Annie Oakley is hired by Nate Salsbury to be a part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West (Show) |
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1885 |
Garrick Theatre, London, opens |
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1889 |
Actuary Society of America founded |
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1890 |
Joshua Slocum leaves Boston, Massachusetts in his sloop Spray, on the first solo circumnavigation |
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1895 |
Spain declares war on the USA |
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1898 |
Daily Express , founded by Sir Arthur Pearson, first published |
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1900 |
The Woolworth Building (a New York skyscraper) is opened |
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1913 |
Young Turks government of the Ottoman Empire orders the arrest of 235 political and intellectual leaders of the
Armenian community in Istanbul |
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1915 |
Easter rising, Dublin, begins (Easter Monday) |
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1916 |
Ernest Shackleton and five men of the Imperial Trans–Arctic Expedition launch a lifeboat from Elephant Island
to SouthGeorgia, to organise a rescue for the remaining crew of Endurance |
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1916 |
In signing the Treaty of Berlin, Germany and the Soviet Union each pledge neutrality in the event of an attack on
the other by a third party, for the next five years |
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1926 |
Nazis win many seats in the German elections |
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1932 |
Benny Rothman leads the mass trespass of Kinder Scout, which would lead to substantial reforms in UK land access law |
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1932 |
Robert Menzies becomes prime minister of Australia |
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1939 |
US forces liberate Dachau concentration camp |
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1945 |
Rationing of sweets and chocolates ends in Great Britain |
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1949 |
Winston Churchill is knighted |
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1953 |
The first Bandung Conference, in which 29 non–aligned nations of Asia and Africa condemned colonialism, racism,
and the Cold War, ends |
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1955 |
The Suez Canal is re–opened following the introduction of UN peacekeepers |
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1957 |
The Sky at Night , introduced by Patrick Moore, first broadcast |
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1957 |
Princess Alexandra marries Angus Ogilvy in Westminster Abbey |
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1963 |
The Pennine Way – Britain's first official long–distance footpath – is officially opened |
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1965 |
Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov becomes the first human to die on a space mission, as Soyuz I crashes when its
parachute fails to open |
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1967 |
Lerner and Loewe's musical Man of La Mancha first performed |
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1968 |
The Gambia is declared a republic |
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1970 |
China launches its first satellite |
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1970 |
Eight US servicemen die in a failed attempt to free 53 hostages from its embassy in Beirut (Operation Eagle Claw) |
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1980 |
Herbert von Karajan, chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, resigns due to ill health |
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1989 |
Space shuttle Discovery launched, carrying the Hubble telescope |
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1990 |
Gruinard Island, off the west coast of Scotland, is officially declared free of anthrax, after being quarantined for
48 years |
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1990 |
London's Bishopsgate area is devastated by an IRA bomb |
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1993 |
A nail bomb explodes in Brick Lane in London's East End |
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1999 |
Tariq Aziz, former foreign minister and deputy prime minister of Iraq, surrenders to US forces in Baghdad |
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2003 |
US economic sanctions on Libya, imposed in 1986, are lifted in recognition of its co–operation in eliminating
weapons of mass destruction |
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2004 |
Three explosions in the Egyptian resort of Dahab, Sinai, leave at least 23 dead and 150 wounded |
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2006 |
1,129 people lose their lives, and 2,500 others are injured, when a building collapses near Dhaka (Bangladesh) |
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2013 |